TrustList daily digest · Funding and deals

Thursday, 22 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
Cygrid raises €2.66m to stop risky actions by AI agents and tokens
Atlantic leads the pre-seed for the Berlin start-up founded in January 2026, whose platform maps human, machine and agent identities and blocks or rewrites actions before they run.
2Funding news
Azoma raises $11.2m Series A to get brands picked by AI shopping agents
The Toronto and London company, a 2023 Techstars graduate, follows a $4m seed from December 2025. It says revenue grew almost tenfold in a year and counts L'Oréal, Unilever and Mars as customers.
3Funding news
PataBid raises $2m pre-seed for AI estimating aimed at trade contractors
The Calgary company sells Quantify to electrical, mechanical, plumbing and fire protection contractors from $2,460 a year and plans to launch a conversational estimating agent in 2027.
4Funding news
Mach9 raises $34m Series A to turn road scans into engineering drawings
The Carnegie Mellon spin-out began by building scanning hardware and switched to AI CAD software about two years ago. It says nearly 100 customers, including Caltrans, now use it.
5Funding news
Firstwork raises $15m Series A for AI agents that onboard frontline staff
Earlybird leads the round for the 2024 start-up, whose agents handle right-to-work checks, documents and training for more than 150,000 frontline workers a month. Deel Ventures joins.
6Funding news
Ultra Security raises $10m seed to police what AI agents do
The Michigan start-up, founded in 2025 by Trustpage founder Chase Lee, sits between agents and their tools to enforce policy on every call. Ludlow Ventures and Detroit Venture Partners are among its backers.
7Funding news
Reduck raises $3m pre-seed so AI agents can run browser scripts
Daphni leads the round for the French-American start-up founded by the team behind Mithril Security and the LaVague web agent. Its library holds more than 1,200 scripts for over 250 websites.
8Funding news
Kaminashi raises ¥2.21bn Series C to link factory floor data to management
Incubate Fund leads the round for the Tokyo frontline software maker, taking its equity funding to about ¥6.1bn. A production results product launches in November and Kirin Group Logistics is the first Project Lux customer.
9Funding news
Flapping Airplanes raises a $1bn Series A for data-efficient AI models
The young AI lab says it spent a year building new GPU primitives to cut how much data models need. Index and Lux co-lead, nine months after a $180 million seed.
10Funding news
Weflayr raises $2.5m pre-seed to route AI calls to the best model
13books Capital leads the round for the Station F start-up from former Mangopay chief executive Romain Mazeries, which benchmarks models on a customer's own traffic and routes each request within approved limits.

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