Morning VC Brief丨2025.07.25

Week30 Highlights丨Vanta, Reka, Nudge, Asylon, Delve, Slingshot AI, AIUC, Magentic

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eric gu
July 25, 2025

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01. Venture News

1/ AI-powered Trust Management Platform Vanta raised $150M Series D

  • Product: Comprehensive trust management platform that helps businesses earn and prove trust through automated compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR), vendor risk management, continuous security monitoring, and AI-powered questionnaire automation

  • Highlight: Serves 12,000+ companies, monitors 200M+ assets continuously, manages 1.5M employees and 33,000 vendors, handles 10M Trust Center views, and processes 1.7B vulnerabilities remediated within SLA

  • Investor: Wellington Management (Lead), Sequoia, J.P. Morgan, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator

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2/ Multimodal AI Research Platform Reka raised $110M

  • Product: Ultra-efficient multimodal AI models and platforms including Reka Flash (video, image, text, audio understanding), Reka Vision (video/image interpretation and search), and Reka Research (agentic AI for web and document analysis)

  • Highlight: Develops market-leading models at fraction of industry costs through efficient training infrastructure, serves enterprise clients like Shutterstock and Turing Video, performs on par with world-leading model developers using orders of magnitude lower compute demands

  • Investor: NVIDIA, Snowflake

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3/ Non-invasive Brain Interface Platform Nudge raised $100M Series A

  • Product: Whole brain interface platform based on non-invasive focused ultrasound technology that can stimulate and image the brain with millimeter precision for treating neurological and psychiatric disorders without surgery

  • Highlight: Built and tested Nudge Zero, first human-ready system three months ago; currently conducting daily research studies on people

  • Investor: Thrive Capital (Co-lead), Greenoaks

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4/ Robotic Security-as-a-Service Platform Asylon raised $26M Series B

  • Product: Robotic security platform offering DroneDogs (modified Boston Dynamics Spot robots for guard work), autonomous drones with battery-changing robotic arms, and Guardian command-and-control software for facility security and surveillance

  • Highlight: Founded in 2015 by MIT aerospace engineers, serves Fortune 500 clients including Ford, has systems deployed in 15 states

  • Investor: Insight Partners(Lead), Veteran Ventures Capital, Allegion Ventures

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5/ AI Compliance Automation Platform Delve Raises $32M Series A at $300M

  • Product: Agents that automate compliance busywork (e.g., screenshotting and spreadsheet filling), freeing time for innovation

  • Highlight: Profitable with doubled quarterly revenue; serves 500+ fast-growing companies (e.g., Lovable, Bland, WisprFlow)

  • Investor: Insight Partners (Lead), CISOs, AI operators

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6/ AI Psychology Pioneer Slingshot AI raised $40M Series A

  • Product: World's first foundation model for psychology, designed to enhance self-awareness and human connections (unlike general chatbots)

  • Highlight: Unique therapeutic approach: Focuses on empowering users rather than providing direct answers

  • Investor: Andreessen Horowitz(Lead)

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7/ AI Underwriting Startup AIUC raised $15M Seed

  • Product: Combines audits, standards, and insurance to help enterprises confidently adopt AI technology

  • Investor: NFDG (Lead), Emergence

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8/ AI Supply Chain Platform Magentic Raised $5.5M Seed

  • Product: Builds AI teammates called Mages that hunt down and deliver millions in savings for global manufacturers and producers

  • Highlight: Projects $10-20 million annual savings recovery; state-of-the-art agentic technology for autonomous operation

  • Investor: Sequoia Capital, First Momentum

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