Series A activity: Week of August 9, 2026

Data for Series A deals done worldwide (ex-China) where amount raised is greater than $8M and the company is not focused on therapeutics

Edgify raised $9 million from Mangrove Capital Partners, Rank Ventures on August 10, 2026. Edge AI computer-vision platform for grocery retailers. Edgify is based in London, United Kingdom. Website: www.edgify.ai

Padelcity raised $13.9 million from Compagnie des Alpes on August 10, 2026. Padel sports club operator building community around the sport. Padelcity is based in Munich, Germany. Website: www.padelcity.de

Axle raised $17.5 million from Base10 Partners on August 11, 2026. Open platform for consumer-permissioned insurance data verification. Axle is based in Atlanta, GA, United States. Website: www.axle.insure

Infinimmune raised $75 million from Playground Global, Regeneron Ventures on August 11, 2026. AI antibody discovery platform using human immune repertoires and language models. Infinimmune is based in Alameda, CA, United States. Website: www.infinimmune.com

River AI raised $1.1 billion from AMP PBC, General Catalyst on August 11, 2026. Personal AI workspace and model fine-tuning platform. River AI is based in Palo Alto, CA, United States. Website: www.river.ai

Silicon Data raised $30.5 million from Valor Atreides AI Fund on August 11, 2026. Independent benchmark and verification layer for GPU and compute markets. Silicon Data is based in New York, NY, United States. Website: www.silicondata.com

Trajectory raised $40 million from Sequoia Capital on August 11, 2026. Continual learning platform for AI-native companies. Trajectory is based in San Francisco, CA, United States. Website: www.trajectory.ai

Whif raised $10.6 million from BSK Investment, CRIT Ventures, Kakao Ventures, Kolon Investment, Mirae Asset Capital, Murex Partners, SCL Investment, We Ventures on August 11, 2026. AI character storytelling and interactive content platform. Whif is based in Seoul, South Korea. Website: www.whif.io

Baselayer raised $20 million from Koro Capital, M13 on August 12, 2026. AI platform that automates business risk assessment and B2B fraud checks. Baselayer is based in New York, NY, United States. Website: www.baselayerhq.com

Mindgard raised $30 million from Album VC on August 12, 2026. AI security testing to protect systems from emerging threats. Mindgard is based in London, United Kingdom. Website: www.mindgard.ai

Centricity raised $29.3 million from Global Brain, SMBC Asia Rising Fund on August 13, 2026. Digital private wealth management platform for investment professionals. Centricity is based in New Delhi, India. Website: www.centricity.co.in

Aligned Marketplace raised $20 million from Venrock on August 14, 2026. Personalized primary care marketplace for the workforce. Aligned Marketplace is based in New York, NY, United States. Website: www.alignedmarketplace.com

Princeton Critical Minerals raised $11 million from HAX on August 14, 2026. Cleantech lithium extraction and production from brine sources. Princeton Critical Minerals is based in Newark, NJ, United States. Website: www.pcmtech.com

Vals.ai raised $40 million from Andreessen Horowitz on August 14, 2026. Transparent model-evaluation platform for industry-specific AI tasks. Vals.ai is based in San Francisco, CA, United States. Website: www.vals.ai

Three Most Interesting Deals

River AI ($1.1B from AMP PBC, General Catalyst): River AI is building a personal AI workspace and model fine-tuning platform at a scale more often reserved for later-stage infrastructure. A $1.1B Series A co-led by General Catalyst and AMP, with NVIDIA, AMD Ventures, Temasek, and Y Combinator in the round, is one of the strongest capital signals this week that frontier-adjacent AI products are being financed like critical compute infrastructure rather than conventional early-stage software.

Trajectory ($40M from Sequoia Capital): Trajectory is building a continual-learning platform so AI-native companies can keep models improving after deployment instead of retraining from scratch. A $40M Series A led by Sequoia, with Bessemer, Radical Ventures, and angels including Jeff Dean and Fei-Fei Li, stands out because it bets on post-training learning as core infrastructure, not a research side project.

Vals.ai ($40M from Andreessen Horowitz): Vals.ai builds transparent evaluations for industry-specific AI tasks—the layer that tells enterprises whether a model actually works on their work. A $40M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $400M valuation, with 8VC, Pear, and Bloomberg Beta in the syndicate, highlights how model evaluation is becoming a real category as companies move from demos to production.

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