Led by Khosla Ventures, the financing follows the release of Circulate’s trial study, the first of its kind to demonstrate the effectiveness of TPE in improving healthspan and reducing biological age

NOVATO, Calif., July 2, 2025 — Circulate Health, a longevity startup dedicated to harnessing the potential of therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) to advance human healthspan and lifespan, announced today that it raised $12 million in a seed funding led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Seaside Ventures and CSC Ventures.

A patented method of therapeutic plasma exchange uses a procedure that separates, removes, and replaces a patient’s plasma to treat inflammation, improve healthspan, and address certain chronic diseases. Circulate has been operating in stealth for the past three years, studying the benefits of TPE and its ability to improve human healthspan and address the hallmarks of again, while partnering with clinics to deliver TPE across the country and soon internationally.

Circulate was founded based on scientific research from world-renowned geroscientist Eric Verdin, MD, who is a co-founder of Circulate and CEO of the Buck Institute of Research on Aging. In partnership with the Buck Institute and led by scientific advisor David Furman PhD, Circulate recently published a clinical trial that found TPE combined with intravenous immunoglobin (IVIG) reduced patients’ biological age by an average of 2.6 years, as measured by multi-omics biomarkers.

“We have been immensely dedicated to our research and delivering the highest quality medical care to patients and clinic partners in order to further address healthspan, and the hallmarks of aging,” said Brad Younggren, MD, CEO and co-founder of Circulate. “Khosla Ventures’ investment into our work truly demonstrates the power of and potential for the work we’re doing. We plan to use these additional funds to expand our clinic network across the country and internationally, and provide greater access to those seeking access to a therapy shown to improve biomarkers and biological clocks.”

“We incubated Circulate to explore whether a safe, well-understood therapy like TPE could counter the deleterious effects of aging, and offer broader health benefits like potentially removing microplastics from the body,” said Alex Morgan of Khosla Ventures. “Early clinical results are promising, and we’re excited to continue backing the team as they work to make TPE more accessible to more people.”

Circulate scientific advisory board also includes Matt Kaeberlein PhD and Alex Aravanis MD PhD, both providing additional expertise and strategic guidance.

Circulate Health already has 24 partner clinics, across 8 states, and the Circulate Network is expected to grow to over 50 clinics by the end of 2025 in the U.S. and abroad.

Clinicians and patients can learn more about Circulate at www.circulate.health.

About Circulate Health
Circulate Health is pioneering technologies to improve healthspan and reduce biological age.

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NEW YORK, July 1, 2025 — Metafide, an innovative startup combining human intuition and cutting-edge artificial intelligence to revolutionize financial trading, announced today $3.275 million in new funding. The capital will fuel the growth and market launch of SURGE, a gamified predictive trading platform designed to harness collective human expertise and advanced AI neural networks to accurately forecast market movements, particularly in volatile conditions.

Further amplifying its reach, Metafide has secured a strategic go-to-market partnership with DogeOS—the leading application layer for Dogecoin, an asset boasting a $25 billion market capitalization. Alex Hoffman, Head of Ecosystem, DogeOS on the excitement of partnering with such an innovative project said, “Metafide is building the kind of infrastructure this industry has been missing: fast, intelligent, and built for real participation. Their approach to predictive finance aligns perfectly with where we see the market going, and we’re proud to support a team turning data, intuition, and execution into a unified system that actually works.”

Led by serial entrepreneur Frank Speiser, known for multiple successful exits and pioneering AI-focused ventures, Metafide introduces a new paradigm where financial markets meet competitive gaming. SURGE hosts short-interval predictive trading competitions that allow users to compete for tangible rewards, blending AI-driven insights with human strategic skill to enhance market prediction accuracy.

The round was spearheaded by Payton Jonson at DIY Fund, based in Atlanta, GA. Additional funding was secured from a prominent consortium of venture capital and blockchain-focused investors, including Blockchain Founder’s Fund (BFF), Cogitent, Comma3 Ventures, IBC Group, Plassa Capital, London Real Ventures, Sweep Ventures, Ethos Capital, and DChained Capital. Notable angel investors Stephen Burnazian, John Tuminello, Lax Pichappan, Hern Kim, and others participated.

“Our goal with SURGE is to democratize market forecasting by combining the analytical depth of AI with the irreplaceable strategic insight of human traders on a global scale,” said CEO Frank Speiser.

The SURGE platform has already generated significant momentum, capturing attention as a winner at the prestigious Mantle AI Fest competition, growing its waitlist to over 110,000 eager users, and currently onboarding an initial set of testers from a community that has rapidly scaled to more than 120,000 participants.

To secure a place on the SURGE waitlist and apply for early access, interested users can visit: https://surge.metafide.io

About Metafide

Metafide is reshaping financial trading through a pioneering platform that merges AI-driven neural networks with human judgment in competitive, gamified settings. Committed to improving market accuracy and user engagement, Metafide’s flagship SURGE competitions empower traders and enthusiasts alike to contribute directly to predictive market insights.

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With funding co-led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures, Genesis will develop breakthrough physical AI infrastructure to power the era of generalist robotics and automate all physical labor

PARIS and PALO ALTO, Calif., July 1, 2025 — Genesis AI, a global physical AI research lab and full-stack robotics company, emerged from stealth today with a mission to unlock unlimited physical labor. The company is building a universal robotics foundation model (RFM) and a horizontal robotics platform, raising $105 million co-led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures, with participation from Bpifrance, HSG, and visionary leaders Eric Schmidt and Xavier Niel.

Physical labor contributes an estimated $30-40 trillion to the Global GDP, yet over 95% of it remains unautomated due to the limitations of current automation solutions. Today’s robotic systems, such as industrial arms, rely on brittle, rigid, and overfitted software stacks. These systems are narrow in scope, costly to deploy, and challenging to scale. Genesis aims to revolutionize the next generation of general-purpose robots by unlocking unprecedented robustness, flexibility, and cost efficiency – ultimately automating all physical labor.

Genesis brings a data-centric, full-stack approach to physical AI – building a scalable and universal data engine that unifies high-fidelity physics simulation, multimodal generative modeling, and large-scale real robot data collection. Its simulation stack, developed entirely in-house, will generate rich synthetic data at scale, together with a more efficient and scalable real-world data collection system. This dual engine of synthetic and real data bridges historically siloed domains to collect the largest-scale, most diverse, and highest quality data to train RFMs.

“General-purpose robots powered by physical AI will define the next major chapter of human history. While digital AI has made extraordinary progress, physical AI – the intelligence that allows machines to perceive, understand, and interact with the real world – has lagged behind,” said Zhou Xian, CEO of Genesis. “We’re here to change that. By building on the foundations laid by existing digital AI models, we’re bringing human-level intelligence into the physical world. Genesis’s unique approach by fueling digital AI knowledge to drive the emergence of physical AI will deliver unmatched capability, scalability, and cost-efficiency to unlock unlimited physical labor. With 75% of global companies struggling to fill jobs, physical AI is more essential than ever.”

Founded by top academic and industry technical talents from Mistral AI, Nvidia, Google, CMU, MIT, Stanford, Columbia and UMD, with deep expertise across the full stack of physics simulation, graphics, robotics, and large-scale AI model training and deployment, Genesis is well-positioned to rapidly execute its vision through a differentiated approach to physical AI. The company also plans to open-source components of its data engine and foundation model to empower developers, researchers, and partners to build on its breakthroughs and accelerate progress across the broader field of physical AI.

“Even in the most ‘automated’ industries today, the robot-to-human ratio rarely exceeds 1:30, due to the long tail of tasks requiring dexterity, cognition, mobility, and real-world reasoning that current robots simply can’t handle,” said Eclipse Partner, Charly Mwangi. “General-purpose robotics is the breakthrough we’ve been waiting for and stands to impact trillions in labor value across sectors. Genesis has the vision, strategy, and world-class team to define the era of physical AI in order to unlock unlimited physical labor through general-purpose robotics.”

“Physical AI has yet to scale like LLMs because collecting and aligning real-world data can be operationally complex,” said Kanu Gulati of Khosla Ventures. “Genesis is taking a full-stack approach by integrating best-in-class simulation data with real-world robotics data in a continuous, closed-loop system. Owning the entire data pipeline in-house gives them a unique data advantage. We’re excited to back Genesis early as they work to build a universal foundation model for robotics.”

To learn more about Genesis or explore career opportunities to help define the future of robotics, please visit genesis-ai.company.

About Genesis
Genesis is a global physical AI research lab and full-stack robotics company pioneering the world’s first universal robotics foundation model and horizontal robotics platform. With a mission to unlock unlimited physical labor, Genesis empowers the deployment of general-purpose robots to perform the essential physical work that underpins the global economy.

About Eclipse
With ~$5 billion in assets under management, Eclipse is a team of operators and investors partnering with exceptional companies from ideation to all stages of growth to unlock solutions to age-old physical industry problems through the intersection of bits and atoms and the rise of physical AI. For more information, visit www.eclipse.capital.

About Khosla
Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investments in artificial intelligence, financial services, healthcare, consumer, enterprise, and sustainability sectors. It is known for making early capital investments in startups such as OpenAI, Instacart, Affirm, DoorDash, and Block.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 1, 2025 — Colorado ONE Fund, a venture arm of ONE Funds, has announced a seed investment in Bedrock Research, a Highlands Ranch, Colorado-based startup pioneering AI-powered global remote sensing and monitoring.

Bedrock Research is transforming how organizations monitor the world by fusing and analyzing data from optical and SAR imagery, AIS, thermal sensors, full-motion video, open-source feeds, analyst reports, and more. Its robust data fusion engine then applies AI-powered anomaly detection and semantic annotation to pinpoint meaningful signals in real time before they escalate into high-risk situations. With growing traction across defense, energy, and infrastructure sectors, Bedrock enables decision-makers to shift from reactive to anticipatory action with speed, clarity, and confidence.

“Bedrock fills an important gap in U.S. defense and intelligence capabilities,” said Kevin O’Neil, Founder and CEO of ONE Funds. “Their technical innovation and exceptional team align strongly with our investment thesis. We are excited to support their continued growth and real-world impact both nationally and globally.”

Unlike traditional systems that require months to configure, Bedrock’s model can be rapidly customized and delivered within days or weeks—empowering customers to respond swiftly in dynamic operational environments.

“It’s critical to help our customers adapt to a constantly shifting world,” said Kevin LaTourette, CEO of Bedrock Research. “Today, they might be looking for a needle in a haystack. Tomorrow, they could be tracking a single snowflake in a blizzard. Our solution is designed to cut through the noise and highlight what truly matters.”

About Bedrock Research

Bedrock Research builds AI-powered solutions for real-time remote sensing and geospatial intelligence. By fusing sensor-agnostic data streams and applying anomaly detection and semantic understanding, Bedrock accelerates decision-making across energy, supply chain, humanitarian, environmental, and defense domains. Learn more at www.bedrockresearch.ai.

About ONE Funds
Founded in 2023, ONE Funds focuses on impact investing in the defense sector. With a unique ecosystem, ONE Funds connects defense technology innovators with government leadership, applying a strategic consortium model to grow small businesses. Boasting 250 years of cumulative defense experience, ONE Funds invests in aerospace and national defense technologies to deliver strong returns while advancing critical security innovations. As part of ONE Funds, Colorado ONE Fund partners with the Colorado Venture Capital Authority (VCA) to back early-stage, high-impact technologies supporting national defense. Learn more at www.onefunds.com.

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Breakthrough software addresses critical energy bottleneck challenging America’s AI infrastructure leadership

WASHINGTON, July 1, 2025 — Emerald AI announced its official launch, unveiling the results of its first commercial demonstration and $24.5 million in seed funding led by Radical Ventures, with participation from NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), AMPLO, CRV, and Neotribe. Emerald AI is also backed by an array of notable individual investors, including Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean, former Secretary of State John Kerry, former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, AI pioneer Professor Fei-Fei Li, and Kleiner Perkins Chairman John Doerr.

The company’s breakthrough AI software addresses an emerging challenge: the electric power system must keep up with AI’s soaring energy demand. New US data centers seek 50-100 GW of additional power by 2030, but the deep deficit in available power grid interconnections will stunt AI innovation and U.S. competitiveness. Without new solutions, the North American grid reliability regulator has warned that this increased demand challenges power system stability, while massive investments to build electricity infrastructure over the coming decades raise energy prices for American communities.

“We’re at a critical inflection point as exponential growth of AI computing pressures our electrical infrastructure,” said Emerald AI founder and CEO Dr. Varun Sivaram. “To unshackle AI technology progress from power constraints, Emerald AI transforms data centers from grid liabilities into flexible assets, enabling grid operators to swiftly interconnect AI, bolster reliability and energy security, and more efficiently harness the massive spare capacity on today’s grids.”

Emerald AI has assembled a world-class team led by Dr. Sivaram, a former Fortune 500 C-suite energy executive, senior U.S. diplomat, Rhodes Scholar, and physicist. The leadership team also includes Boston University Professor Ayse Coskun, a pioneer in flexible AI and high-performance computing, Shayan Sengupta, who brings two decades of hyperscale cloud and AI leadership from industry giants like Amazon and Intel, and Aroon Vijaykar, former energy executive at Sunrun and chief executive of AEE Solar.

The Emerald AI Conductor software platform orchestrates AI workloads in real-time, enabling data centers to dynamically adjust their energy consumption and support grid stability while assuring acceptable AI compute performance. By intelligently managing energy consumption through software, AI data centers can bypass grid interconnection queues that can stretch 7-10 years or more.

“Emerald AI’s approach accelerates AI deployment while simultaneously enhancing grid reliability and shielding consumers from escalating energy costs,” said former Secretary of Commerce and Emerald AI Advisor Gina Raimondo. “Enabling faster innovation without putting additional strain on our existing power systems is critical for maintaining America’s competitive edge in AI development.” 

“AI is driving unprecedented demand for energy. Without a solution to flexibly service that demand, innovation slows,” said John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins Chairman. “Emerald AI’s technology can unlock up to 100 GW of untapped grid capacity by harnessing the infrastructure we already have. Emerald AI’s transformational software turns AI data centers from grid stressors to grid supporters.”

The implications extend far beyond technology. “America cannot win the AI race without sufficient power,” said former Secretary of State John Kerry. “Emerald AI’s software delivers immediate impact that unlocks further AI innovation while best utilizing today’s electricity resources.”

Emerald AI’s technology is already proving effective in major, real-world demonstrations. Today, Emerald AI released results of a first-of-its-kind demonstration as part of EPRI’s DCFlex Initiative in Phoenix, Arizona alongside partners including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), NVIDIA, EPRI, and the regional power utility Salt River Project (SRP). Emerald AI’s Conductor platform demonstrated that an AI compute cluster of GPUs in a commercial data center can reduce power consumption by 25% for 3 hours as a precise response to critical periods of grid stress such as a summer system peak load event, while assuring acceptable customer performance for AI workloads. Alongside its partners, Emerald AI is preparing for even larger-scale demonstrations in Phoenix and around the country.

“The next 6-12 months will determine the gold standard for grid-responsive computing, and we’re confident Emerald AI is uniquely positioned to set that standard,” shared Rob Toews, Radical Ventures Partner.

Emerald AI, a member of the NVIDIA Inception program for startups, is also backed by BCG Chairman Rich Lesser, Google Chief Sustainability Officer Kate Brandt, Three Cairns co-founder Mark Gallogly, Galvanize Co-Chair Tom Steyer, Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller, Weights and Biases CEO Lukas Biewald, and other distinguished investors.

About Emerald AI

Emerald AI is the pioneer in AI-driven compute orchestration, transforming energy-intensive data centers into intelligent grid assets. Its AI-powered Conductor platform enables data centers to dynamically adjust power consumption by orchestrating AI workloads, such as training, fine-tuning, and inference, across networks of data centers in real-time. For more information, visit www.emeraldai.co.

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NEW YORK, July 1, 2025 — The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) provides a daily pre-market update directly from the NYSE Trading Floor. Access today’s NYSE Pre-market update for market insights before trading begins. 

Kristen Scholer delivers the pre-market update on July 1st

• Stocks are fractionally lower Tuesday morning after the S&P 500 ended the first half of 2025 with a record close. The major averages are coming off a winning session, sparked by Canada walking back its digital sales tax ahead of market open.
• Investors will continue to pay close attention to trade developments out of Washington D.C., with the 90-day postponement of the White House’s latest reciprocal tariffs set to expire next week.
• The New York Stock Exchange reported an industry-leading $60 billion in total capital raised during the first half of 2025, up nearly 50% compared to the same period last year.
• The New York Stock Exchange also led the industry with an additional $165 billion added to its community’s total market cap. The NYSE listed the largest IPO by capital raised with Venture Global (NYSE: VG) and the IPO with the best price performance in Circle (NYSE: CRCL).

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Ralliant Corporation (NYSE: RAL) celebrates its debut as a public company

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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 1, 2025 — Wisq, the leader in Agentic HR and maker of the world’s first AI HR Generalist, today announced a $15 million funding round from existing investors Norwest Venture Partners, Shasta Ventures, and True Ventures. The raise accelerates Wisq’s mission to lead the era of Agentic HR — reinventing the way HR works, to be both AI-first and more human than ever before.

As part of the announcement, Wisq is also unveiling HRLM, the first large language model built specifically for the high-stakes, nuanced, and policy-bound world of enterprise HR. HRLM is optimized for accuracy, compliance, and speed across areas like HR service delivery, policy interpretation and enforcement, performance management, employee relations, risk assessment and more — at a dramatically lower cost than general-purpose reasoning models. Designed to power Wisq’s AI HR Generalist, Harper, HRLM delivers the speed, accuracy, and grounding necessary to meet the needs of enterprise HR teams.

“The future of AI in HR isn’t a chatbot. It’s a colleague,” said Jim Barnett, Wisq’s CEO and Co-Founder. “We built HRLM because HR requires better than general-purpose AI — and because the work HR does is too important to be handled generically.”

To anchor this launch, Wisq is also introducing Hurdle, the industry’s first benchmark designed to evaluate AI performance on HR-specific activities like employee relations, performance feedback, and policy interpretation. HRLM performs at parity on Hurdle with the most advanced reasoning models available — including OpenAI o3 and others — while operating faster, and at a fraction of the cost.

Wisq is already proving what happens when AI doesn’t just automate HR — it elevates it.

“AI First & Deeply Human — that’s the way forward for HR,” said Barnett. “And Wisq is building the agentic platform, the team, and now the LLM to make it real.”

The funding will support continued AI and platform development, as well as expansion of Wisq’s engineering and go-to-market teams.

For more information, visit www.wisq.com

About Wisq: Wisq is the Agentic HR Platform behind the world’s first AI HR Generalist and HR Language Model (HRLM). Leading enterprises use Wisq to transform HR operations with AI Agents—automating service delivery, reducing HR operations workloads by 80%+, improving employee experience, and unlocking hours of strategic capacity. Founded in 2022 by the team behind Glint, Wisq has raised $55M from leading venture capital firms Norwest Venture Partners, Shasta Ventures, and True Ventures.

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STOCKHOLM, July 1, 2025 — Partinc, a European investment company with offices in Stockholm and Amsterdam, has in June closed two new follow-on investment rounds for promising SaaS, Service as a Software, companies ProptechOS and Seidat.

ProptechOS investment to strengthen growth opportunities

The funding round for ProptechOS, the SaaS platform, was initiated and led by existing investors, including Partinc and Vasakronan.

ProptechOS is a Swedish software company that, with its operating system, streamlines all data handling within properties. With ProptechOS’s strong momentum and increasing market potential, the new investment significantly strengthens the company’s position and enables it to capitalize on growth opportunities in the coming years.

“Partinc made its initial investment in ProptechOS at the end of 2023. Since then, the company has developed very well, and with this investment from existing partners, the company is allowed to further increase its scale-up”, said Per Nordling, Founder and Partner at Partinc.

Seidat funding aims to establish market leadership

The investment round for Seidat was led by Partinc and secured €1 million in seed funding from notable European investors. Seidat is a rising star in hospitality sales enablement technology. Earlier this year, the company merged with 360Visualizer, an immersive virtual tour platform specializing in hotel sales.

The merger has proven successful, and Partinc, together with the board, is now ready to accelerate the company’s growth. This investment will fuel its ambition to become the market leader in digital sales room solutions tailored specifically for hotel sales teams across Europe.

“This funding marks a pivotal step in our journey to redefine sales enablement within the hospitality sector,” said Kimmo Kaitala, Chief Executive Officer at Seidat. “The investments not only secure critical growth capital but also bring invaluable experience in scaling B2B SaaS companies internationally.”

In conclusion, Partinc continues to back promising SaaS companies through long-term partnerships. The follow-on investments in ProptechOS and Seidat reflect Partincs’s commitment to supporting high-performing teams with strong traction and clear market potential.

“We believe both ProptechOS and Seidat are on clear paths to becoming market leaders in their respective fields,” concludes Per Nordling. “Our role is to support them every step of the way and help them achieve that goal.”

Contact Information:

Per Nordling, Founder and Partner at Partinc
Email: [email protected], Phone: +46(0)733-50 79 21

Per Karlberg, Founder and CEO at ProptechOS AB
Email: [email protected], Phone: +46(0)704-93 23 61

Paulus Perkkiö, CEO of Seidat
Email: [email protected], Phone: +358 50 3249 248

About Partinc:

Partinc is a European investment company focusing on investments in SaaS and AI B2B companies that provide software services for business-to-business relationships. Partinc is an active investor that works closely with its portfolio companies. The company has offices in Sweden and the Netherlands. The company invests in the Nordics and in the Benelux. See also www.partincapital.com

For more information about ProptechOS, please visit https://proptechos.com
For more information about Seidat, please visit https://www.seidat.com

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