Industry Ventures

Vertical AI platforms are transforming how work gets done in nearly every industry, from legal to financial services, combining AI with enterprise context and domain-specific workflows to solve problems horizontal tools simply can’t. Life sciences needs the same transformation. Specialization is essential in life sciences. But it has widened the gap between expert intent and the technical execution required to act on it. Fewer people can bridge the two, and context breaks down at every handoff. Work queues up. Context gets lost. What’s needed is a vertical AI platform purpose-built for life sciences, one that bridges life sciences questions with the data, tools, and institutional knowledge to answer them. That’s the platform we’ve been building at Manifold. And today, I’m excited to share that we’ve raised a $18M Series B, led by Reach Capital, with participation from SilverArc Capital, Industry Ventures, and our existing investors TQ Ventures and Calibrate Ventures. This new round will allow us to accelerate progress on the Agent OS, a key part of our platform to enable AI agents to operate more effectively on data, use tools, and reason with institutional knowledge. Many thanks to our customers, partners, team members, and investors for belief in us and our mission. This is just the beginning. See the first comment for a deeper look at the problem, the category, and the future we’re building.

I’m thrilled to share that Feroot Security today announced a $14 million Series A 🎉, led by True Ventures, Preface Ventures, Industry Ventures, with participation from existing investors including Y Combinator, and many others. I’m proud to say that we’ve built the industry’s premiere privacy and security platform that helps some of the world’s best brands to keep their websites, web apps and mobile applications secure and compliant. Here's what we're solving: Companies face 50+ privacy laws. Their websites leak data through third-party scripts they don't know exist. A misplaced tracking pixel can cost millions in settlements, not to mention immense reputation damage. A comprised JavaScript code can leak sensitive PII, PHI and Credit card data. Manual compliance audits take months and security checks miss the majority of exploits. We built AI agents that perform full site scans in seconds and find violations before audits do. They work while compliance teams and security teams can sleep or get other priorities done! The funding goes toward three things: engineering, adding new AI capabilities that let even smaller teams protect enterprise-scale operations, and global expansion. Here’s some context on what Feroot AI has accomplished and how we got here: Our research exposed data leaks on websites people use every day, including healthcare, e-commerce, banking, and government organizations. We testified before Congress. Our TikTok analysis influenced federal legislation. Our DeepSeek investigation made headlines in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg , CNBC, NBC News, Fox News Media, The Associated Press, CNN, and many others. Thank you to the entire Feroot team, that helped us get to this point. I also want to express appreciation to the Legendary CISOs, CPOs and security teams who have been so generous in sharing their wisdom and recommendations with us! Thanks to investors who saw this market before it was obvious. Thanks to customers 💌 who pushed us to think bigger about always-on compliance and brining AI to GRC and AppSec! We’re hiring. If you're working on problems at the intersection of security, compliance, and AI, we’d love to talk to you! #GRC #privacy #cybersecurity #AI #compliance #funding #startup #seriesA #

We raised an $80M Series A. Thank you to our new investors, partners, and stellar team for supporting this powerful milestone. Here's what's next: 🎯 Purpose - the time is now to upgrade our power infrastructure. Critical power users like AI datacenters need solutions to build ultra-dense compute at scales never before seen. The grid needs to keep up with a new era of demand growth. Amperesand's Medium Voltage SST is the answer. 💪 People - Amperesand continues to grow an exceptional global team of the best and brightest leaders in energy technology. We're aiming for 100 people by early next year across lively offices in Singapore, San Francisco, and Reno. 📈 Proof - the future of critical power infrastructure is here. We're bringing 30MW of SSTs into the real world with critical power customers. AI datacenters and the world's largest ports we will accelerate time to power with a radically compact, grid-friendly, and reliable power conversion solution. 🏭 Production - we're standing up advanced manufacturing in Reno, Nevada to build our SSTs at scale leveraging secure, short lead-time, and tariff optimized supply chains. Thank you to Walden Catalyst Ventures Temasek for leading this round to support our vision of unlocking the future of critical power growth with medium voltage SSTs. Thank you to new investors Industry Ventures, Acclimate Ventures, SG Growth Capital. Thank you to our steadfast supporters Xora Innovation, Material Impact, TDK Ventures, Foothill Ventures since the beginning in 2023. Thank you to Katie Fehrenbacher for covering our announcement! Link 👇 #criticalpower #SST #powerinfrastructure #AIinfrastructure #fundraising #energytechnology