Recently Funded Startups

5 Recently Funded Startups (30th July–2nd August 2026)

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Five companies disclosed new capital raises to the SEC in the last 72 hours, according to Form D filings reviewed for this report. The range is wide: a six-month-old AI research lab founded by an ex-OpenAI VP just sold $432M of a $635M offering, a 15-year-old battery materials company closed $300M to scale U.S. manufacturing, and three biotech and genomics companies raised between $6M and $70M to push clinical and commercial programs forward. Together, the five filings disclose more than $840M in fresh capital. Here is who raised, how much, and why it matters.

At A Glance
Company Amount Raised Round Key Investors Date Founders Industry Headquarters
Core Automation $432M Growth Financing Nvidia, Spark Capital, Accel Jul 30, 2026 Jerry Tworek Artificial Intelligence San Francisco, CA
Sila Nanotechnologies $300M Growth Round Atreides Management, Sutter Hill Ventures Jul 31, 2026 Gene Berdichevsky Battery Materials Alameda, CA
Ratio Therapeutics $70M Series C Duquesne Family Office, Bristol Myers Squibb, Catalio Capital Jul 31, 2026 Jack Hoppin Radiopharmaceuticals Boston, MA
NextPoint Therapeutics $33.7M Growth Financing Undisclosed Jul 30, 2026 Ivan Cheung Immuno-Oncology Cambridge, MA
Genomenon $6M Growth Financing Undisclosed Jul 30, 2026 Mark Kiel Genomic AI Ann Arbor, MI

Core Automation

Founded: 2026

Core Automation CEO Jerry Tworek
$432M Growth Financing Funding Raised
Nvidia Lead Investor
Artificial Intelligence Industry
San Francisco, CA HQ
Why It Matters

Founded in January 2026 by ex-OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek alongside former Google Brain/Gemini pretraining lead Rohan Anil and ex-OpenAI Chief People Officer Julia Villagra, Core Automation is building what it calls "the world's most automated AI lab" — betting that continual-learning architectures, not bigger transformers, are the next unlock for frontier AI. Six months after launch, the 16-person team has already sold $432M of a $635M SEC offering, with Nvidia, Spark Capital and Accel among its earliest backers.

Best For: Investors and researchers tracking the post-transformer AI race, and enterprises anticipating a shift toward small teams operating with highly capable, continuously learning agents.

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16 Total employees
1500% 6m growth
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Jan 2026Feb 2026Mar 2026Apr 2026May 2026Jun 2026Jul 2026
0.3 years Median employee tenure
56% Business Development roles
25% Engineering roles
Key Roles Being Hired

No active roles listed on LinkedIn at this time — check the Core Automation jobs page for updates.

Sila Nanotechnologies

Founded: 2011

Sila Nanotechnologies team
$300M Growth Round Funding Raised
Sutter Hill Ventures Lead Investor
Battery Materials Industry
Alameda, CA HQ
Why It Matters

Sila just closed $300M to scale U.S. production of its silicon-carbon (Si/C) anode technology, Titan Silicon, at its Moses Lake, Washington plant. The round, co-led by Atreides Management and Sutter Hill Ventures with participation from 8VC, Bessemer Venture Partners, Matrix Partners and T. Rowe Price, pushes Sila's total funding past $1.3B and underlines investor appetite for domestic battery-materials manufacturing as EVs, AI data centers, drones and robotics all compete for next-gen battery capacity.

Best For: Automakers, consumer electronics OEMs and battery manufacturers looking for a drop-in silicon anode replacement that boosts energy density without re-engineering existing lithium-ion production lines.

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430 Total employees
10% 6m growth
5% 1y growth
5% 2y growth
500
375
250
125
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Jul 2024Dec 2024May 2025Oct 2025Mar 2026Jul 2026
2.8 years Median employee tenure
13% Operations roles (6m)
5% Business Dev. roles (6m)
Key Roles Being Hired
2 days ago Senior Project Manager, Capital Projects
DirectorOn-site
$160K-$210K
Alameda, CA
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10 days ago Staff Applied ML Engineer
Mid-SeniorOn-site
$151K-$177.5K
Alameda, CA
Apply
12 days ago Account Director, Japan
Mid-SeniorContract
Not disclosed
Tokyo, Japan
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Ratio Therapeutics

Founded: 2021

Ratio Therapeutics team at PanCAN PurpleStride
$70M Series C Funding Raised
Duquesne Family Office Lead Investor
Radiopharmaceuticals Industry
Boston, MA HQ
Why It Matters

Ratio closed a $70M Series C — with participation from Duquesne Family Office, Bristol Myers Squibb, Catalio Capital Management, Eli Lilly and Wasatch Group — to advance its lead radiotherapeutic, [Ac-225]RTX-2358, through the ATLAS study in advanced sarcomas and move a next-generation candidate into the clinic. The round brings Ratio's total raised past $240M as the radiopharmaceutical field enters a phase of clinical execution.

Best For: Oncology-focused biopharma partners and investors seeking exposure to targeted alpha-particle radiotherapeutics built on a proprietary chelation and targeting platform.

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83Total employees
11%6m growth
24%1y growth
93%2y growth
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75
50
25
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Jul 2024Dec 2024May 2025Oct 2025Mar 2026Jul 2026
1.8 yearsMedian employee tenure
50%Engineering roles (6m)
10%Business Dev. roles (6m)
Key Roles Being Hired
4 days ago Senior Radioanalytical Development Scientist
SeniorOn-site
$145K-$165K
Boston, MA
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17 days ago MS&T Engineer / Associate Scientist
MidOn-site
$90K-$130K
West Valley City, UT
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45 days ago Senior Director of Quality Control
Director+On-site
$205K-$240K
West Valley City, UT
Apply
$33.7M Growth Financing Funding Raised
Undisclosed Lead Investor
Immuno-Oncology Industry
Cambridge, MA HQ
Why It Matters

NextPoint's SEC filing shows $33.7M sold toward a $48.7M raise as the Cambridge biotech, led by CEO Ivan Cheung and CSO Tatiana Novobrantseva, advances its pipeline against the novel B7-H7/HHLA2 checkpoint — a pathway aimed at patients who don't respond to standard PD-1/L1 inhibitors. The company's lead antibody-drug conjugate candidate, NPX372, recently entered the clinic. The SEC filing does not disclose the participating investors.

Best For: Immuno-oncology investors looking for a differentiated checkpoint target and pharma partners seeking early access to a first-in-class B7-H7-directed pipeline.

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31Total employees
18%6m growth
21%1y growth
31%2y growth
50
37.5
25
12.5
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Jul 2024Dec 2024May 2025Oct 2025Mar 2026Jul 2026
3.3 yearsMedian employee tenure
22%Business Dev. roles (1y)
27%Research roles (1y)
Key Roles Being Hired

No active roles listed on LinkedIn at this time — check the NextPoint Therapeutics jobs page for updates.

Genomenon

Founded: 2014

Genomenon CEO Mike Klein
$6M Growth Financing Funding Raised
Undisclosed Lead Investor
Genomic AI Industry
Ann Arbor, MI HQ
Why It Matters

Genomenon, an Ann Arbor-based AI-driven genomic evidence company led by CEO Mike Klein and founder/CSO Mark Kiel, filed to raise $10M in growth capital, having already sold $6M. Its Mastermind platform mines over 39 million biomedical papers to surface real-world evidence used by 250+ diagnostic labs and 75 biopharma programs — recently helping expand FDA drug labels for Retevmo and Galafold. The SEC filing does not disclose the participating investors.

Best For: Diagnostic labs, biopharma clinical trial teams and rare-disease researchers who need regulatory-grade genomic evidence buried in the scientific literature, not just databases.

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135Total employees
1%6m growth
6%1y growth
13%2y growth
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100
50
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Jul 2024Dec 2024May 2025Oct 2025Mar 2026Jul 2026
2.7 yearsMedian employee tenure
10%Business Dev. roles (1y)
25%Sales roles (6m)
Key Roles Being Hired
10 days ago Part-Time Content Curator (Purdue/OSU area)
Part-TimeOn-site
10-30 hrs/wk
Fort Wayne, IN
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10 days ago University Content Acquisitions Specialist
On-DemandOn-site
Hourly
West Lafayette, IN
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Choosing the right company

Three of this week's five raises — Core Automation, Sila Nanotechnologies and Ratio Therapeutics — are growth-stage companies with $70M+ rounds and clear commercial traction, while NextPoint Therapeutics and Genomenon are smaller, earlier-stage raises tied to specific clinical or product milestones. For job seekers, Sila and Ratio currently have the most open roles and salary transparency. For investors, Core Automation's six-month trajectory from founding to a $432M raise is the outlier worth watching most closely, while Sila's $300M round reflects steadier, capital-intensive scale-up economics in battery manufacturing.