TrustList daily digest · Funding and deals

Thursday, 8 October 2026

Funding and deals: the stories TrustList published on this day, each in a line of our own. Open a story for the whole piece and its sources.

Funding and deals10

1Funding news
Vinci raises $250m Series B for AI chip and hardware simulation
The Palo Alto company came out of stealth in December 2025 with a $46m seed and Series A, and says its model runs simulations up to 1,000 times faster than conventional tools.
2Funding news
Vesta raises $30m Series B for AI agents in mortgage origination
The San Francisco software maker says revenue is up more than 12 times in a year and that about 40% of tasks completed on its platform are now handled by AI agents.
3Funding news
GMI Cloud raises $223M Series B for GPU cloud capacity
A separate $445 million credit facility led by CTBC brings the total to $668 million. The company says contracted recurring revenue is over nine times its year-end 2025 level.
4Funding news
Rein Security raises $25m Series A to secure AI agents at runtime
Total funding reaches $35m. Rein says revenue has grown eightfold and its customer count fivefold since a January 2026 launch, with Lemonade and Dun & Bradstreet among its users.
5Funding news
Mecka AI raises $60M Series B to supply robot training data
Its $60 million Series A came in two parts, the first $25 million last November. The company says run-rate revenue passed $100 million in June.
6Funding news
TODAY raises €2.8m seed for AI agents serving financial advisors
The Copenhagen and Berlin start-up, founded in 2024 by two former CLARK, Funding Circle and Billie leaders, says more than 3,500 advisers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland already use it.
7Funding news
Manus parent Butterfly Effect raises over $500m after Meta deal ends
Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the round, the first since the AI agent maker's $2 billion sale to Meta was unwound. Existing backers Tencent, HSG and ZhenFund joined.
8Funding news
EliseAI raises $350m at a $4bn valuation led by a16z and Bessemer
The company says its software reaches 6.5 million apartment units and has passed $200 million in annual recurring revenue. The announcement does not name the funding stage.
9Funding news
Healthleap raises $38m in seed and Series A for hospital AI
The San Francisco company, founded in 2022 by siblings Josiah and Jemima Meyer, starts with malnutrition screening and plans to add heart failure, pressure ulcers and hospital-acquired infections.
10Funding news
Comparables.ai raises $6m seed to widen its M&A search platform
Earlier funding was small: an EU grant, a $700k pre-seed and Business Finland money. The company says a Big Four firm is extending its use to more than ten countries.

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