TrustList daily digest · Funding and deals

Thursday, 15 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
Tamr raises $21m growth equity led by Volition Capital
Tamr, spun out of MIT research in 2013, says its SaaS revenue more than doubled in its last fiscal year. Old Mutual is the only customer the release names.
2Funding news
Scanntech raises $180m Series F for Latin American retail sales data
Founded in Uruguay in 1992, the company reads ticket-level sales straight from shop tills. Partners Group co-led, and Warburg Pincus, IFC and Endeavor keep their stakes.
3Funding news
Zenzap raises $44m Series A to put AI agents in work chat
Lightspeed leads with Bessemer after three years in stealth. Zenzap says thousands of businesses in the US, UK and Australia already use its messaging app daily.
4Funding news
ACIMUS raises ¥65m for AI that builds BIM models from plain language
Link Capital led the Tokyo startup's seed round, with Incubate Fund and JR East Startup, which also signed a business alliance after trials on station buildings. ACIMUS was founded in September 2024.
5Funding news
Harmonic Security raises $50m Series B to govern workplace AI use
Total funding reaches $76m, the company says, with more than 90 staff across San Francisco and London. Crosspoint Capital Partners led; the earlier Series A was $17.5m.
6Funding news
Modal raises $750m Series D as AI compute run rate passes $1bn
Accel led the round at a $15.75 billion post-money valuation, five months after Modal's Series C. Its Sandboxes product alone runs at $300 million a year, and a London office has opened.
7Funding news
Ocean raises about ¥500m for Japan tax-free refund platform
The Tokyo company, founded in May 2024, is building for the November 2026 switch of Japan duty-free shopping to a refund system. Ocean Tax Refund is its product.
8Funding news
Labelbox raises over $100m Series E after turning profitable
Infinitum Partners led a mix of equity and a credit facility at a stated $1.25 billion pre-money valuation. The 2018 company now sells training environments to AI labs and managed agents to enterprises.
9Funding news
Elevatry raises €3m pre-seed for AI agents in strategic procurement
Bayern Kapital, the consultancy H&Z and six business angels back the Munich start-up, whose platform went live on 28 September. Its chief executive founded riskmethods, later sold to Sphera.
10Funding news
AZOO raises ¥490m in total for its WASIMIL hotel operating system
The Kyoto company, founded in January 2020, says its hotel OS joins more than 15 functions on one data foundation, and it is now building AI agents for back-office work.

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