TrustList daily digest · Funding and deals

Tuesday, 20 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 deals8

1Funding news
Town raises $108m Series B at a $1bn valuation for team AI assistants
Forerunner and Menlo co-led the round four months after a $55 million Series A; Town says paying teams are up ninefold since July, and each employee gets an assistant that works with colleagues' assistants.
2Funding news
Daytona raises $60m at a $1bn valuation to run computers for AI agents
FirstMark Growth leads the Series B, taking total funding to $91 million; Daytona says revenue has grown about 25 times since January and customers include Meta, Cohere, Writer and n8n.
3Funding news
Blackwall raises $100m at a $2.2bn valuation for hosts' traffic security
AVP leads the Estonian company's Series C weeks after it was valued at €1 billion; its bot, DDoS and firewall layer runs inside hosting providers' own infrastructure and is resold under their brands.
4Funding news
Plinto raises €2.9m to put AI agents on financial controls
People Ventures and Emblem back the Copenhagen company, whose founders helped build Peakon, sold to Workday for over $700 million; its agents check orders, invoices and payments as they happen.
5Funding news
XRlabs raises $8.4m seed to put AI software in operating rooms
Playground Global leads the London company's round, Eka Ventures joins, and former Medtronic chief executive Omar Ishrak becomes chair; its software has been used in more than 100 operations.
6Funding news
Dream Labs raises a $90m seed to sell a robot brain through an API
B Capital and Kindred Ventures lead the round for the San Francisco company founded this year by former leads of NVIDIA's GR00T research; its Dream-1 model drives robot arms costing $2,000 to $10,000.
7Funding news
Linkener raises €7.5m from Alantra's Klima fund for energy software
The Valencia company, which says it serves more than 2,000 business customers and 10,000 supply points, will also use the round to buy complementary technology and service firms.
8Funding news
Dapta raises $6m to sell AI sales agents to Spanish-speaking founders
Chingona Ventures leads the seed round; Dapta says about 4,000 businesses join each week, its revenue run-rate has passed $4 million and it has paying customers in 26 countries.

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