Morning VC Brief丨2026.04.24

Week17 Highlights丨Reliable Robotics, Omni Analytics, NeoCognition, AcuityMD, 10x Science, GRAI, BuildForever, Sooth Labs

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April 24, 2026

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1/ Autonomous Aircraft Systems Reliable Robotics raised $160M

Product: Develop the Reliable Autonomy System (RAS) — the first FAA-certifiable system enabling fully automated operation of an aircraft, designed to work on any aircraft, in any airspace, without requiring changes to existing infrastructure
Highlight: Over 200 system commitments secured from commercial and military customers; selected for the U.S. DOT's eIPP advanced aviation pilot program
Investors: Nimble Partners (Lead), Eclipse, Lightspeed, Coatue
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2/ Business Intelligence Platform Omni Analytics raised $120M Series C at $1.5B

Product: Build an AI-native analytics platform with a semantic layer that enables anyone — not just data teams — to self-serve trusted answers from enterprise data via natural language
Highlight: ARR grew 4x over the last year; Supports embedded analytics, AI agents, and governed data workflows across dashboards, spreadsheets, and SQL
Investor: ICONIQ (Lead), Theory Ventures, First Round Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and GV
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3/ Self-Learning AI Agent Lab NeoCognition raised $40M Seed

Product: Build self-learning AI agents that continuously learn the structure, workflows, and constraints of enterprise environments to specialize into domain experts
Highlight: Current agents complete tasks correctly only ~50% of the time NeoCognition's "world model" approach targets this reliability gap
Investor: Cambium Capital and Walden Catalyst Venture (Lead), Vista Equity Partners
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4/ MedTech AI Commercial Platform AcuityMD raised $80M Series C at ~$955M

Product: Build an AI platform for MedTech commercial teams, combining real-world healthcare data (claims, FDA filings, government records) into a proprietary knowledge graph to help sales reps
Highlights: helped customers identify over $34B in pipeline; trusted by 400+ MedTech companies
Investors: StepStone (Lead), Benchmark, Redpoint Ventures, ICONIQ
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5/ Geopolitical & Market Event Prediction AI Lab Sooth Labs raised $50M at $335M

Product: Build AI models that predict the probability of specific geopolitical and market events, offering these capabilities to enterprise clients
Highlights: backed by high-profile AI luminaries — Yann LeCun and Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean
Investors: Felicis (Lead)
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6/ Drug Candidate Characterization Platform 10x Science raised $4.8M Seed

Product: Build an AI platform combining deterministic chemistry/biology algorithms with AI agents to interpret mass spectrometry data — accelerating the characterization of drug candidates for biopharma companies seeking regulatory compliance
Highlights: Founded by biochemists David Roberts and Andrew Reiter, alongside serial founder Vishnu Tejas — all alumni of Nobel laureate Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi's Stanford lab
Investors: Initialized Capital(Lead), Y Combinator, Civilization Ventures, and Founder Factor
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Product: Build AI-powered social music apps that let users remix, restyle, and share tracks — not generate music from scratch — with a "derivatives pipeline" and real-time audio systems that preserve the identity of original tracks while enabling transformation, creating new royalty streams for artists and labels
Highlights: Targeting Gen Z and Gen Alpha users who discover music through social culture
Investors: Khosla Ventures and Inovo VC(Lead), Tensor Ventures, Tiny.VC, Flyer One Ventures, a16z Scout Fund
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8/ Inbox AI BuildForever raised $9.5M

Product: "Extra" — first inbox designed around the user's life; works on the user's behalf to manage email and communications
Highlights: Founding team includes former OpenAI, Snap, Apple, and Pinterest leadership
Investors: Felicis, Abstract, Elad Gil, A*, SV Angel
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