The energy transition needs lithium, cobalt, copper, and rare earths — at industrial scale. The trouble is that finding them is slow, manual, and risky. Lithosquare flips that. Founded in 2024 by mining engineer Aymeric Préveral-Etcheverry, the Paris startup uses geology AI to compress mineral exploration from months to days — a 10x speedup on the analysis that decides whether a site is worth developing. Already working with mining companies across the US, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Just raised $25M co-led by World Fund and Kindred Capital, with Daphni and Omnes Capital joining. Plans to open a US office and double headcount to 40 this year.

Real estate development today still runs on PowerPoints, Excel sheets, and weeks of back-and-forth with architects. Davis is rebuilding the entire feasibility-to-design pipeline as one AI workflow. Their proprietary model — Gaudi-1 — auto-generates floor plans, volumetrics, and site analyses that respect real-world zoning and financial constraints. CEO Mehdi Rais grew up in a family of architects. CTO Amine Chraibi is a generative-models researcher from École Polytechnique. They just raised $5.5M pre-seed led by Heartcore Capital and Balderton, with angels from SpaceMaker, Black Forest Labs, Hugging Face, Supabase, and Cleo. The pitch: compress real estate development from months to days.

Hospitals run on hundreds of disconnected workflows — refill requests, referrals, lab notifications, care-gap follow-ups. Each tiny task is the entire job for some unlucky human, every day, forever. XCaliber Health wants to replace that with one agentic operating system that handles the busywork while keeping humans on the critical decisions. Already running at scale: 8 million chart updates and 160,000 EHR updates daily across 700,000 patients. The patient navigator agent for prescription refills alone saves providers 6 hours of manual work per day. Just raised $6.5M led by ManchesterStory with Benhamou Global Ventures and Arka Venture Labs.

Caitlin Leksana is a former BCG consultant and mechanical engineer. Timmy Galvin is an MIT-trained former nuclear submarine officer. Together they built Fazeshift — autonomous AI agents that run end-to-end accounts receivable. The least glamorous job in finance, finally automated. 12x revenue growth in 12 months. The platform automates more than 90% of manual AR tasks across dozens of enterprise customers — including 8 unicorns: Sigma Computing, Snyk, Meter, Clipboard Health, and others. Just raised $17M Series A led by F-Prime, with Gradient (Google's early-stage AI fund), Y Combinator, Wayfinder, Pioneer, and Ritual doubling down.

The former CEO of Twitter is back — and his second act is the search layer for AI agents. Parag Agrawal founded Parallel after leaving Twitter in 2022. The company builds web search APIs purpose-built for AI agents — the infrastructure that lets autonomous systems read, parse, and reason about the open web. 100,000+ developers are already building on it, from AI-native startups to regulated enterprises. Just raised $100M Series B at a $2B valuation led by Sequoia — five months after their last big round. Total funding now $230M.

Astranis builds MicroGEO satellites — small, dedicated geostationary spacecraft that connect a country, a region, or a single customer to the internet. They already operate 5 satellites in orbit, hold a $1B+ commercial backlog, and run a 153,000 sq ft facility with 500 engineers in Northern California. CEO John Gedmark just closed a $300M Series E at a $2.8B valuation, plus a $155M debt facility — bringing total raised to $1.2B+. The round was co-led by Snowpoint Ventures and Franklin Templeton, with a16z, BlackRock, Baillie Gifford, and Fidelity participating. The pivot: dual-track production for commercial customers and the Pentagon, with retired General John Hyten now chairing the strategic advisory board.