, an AI-driven law startup aiming to function as a “digital law firm” for private market investors, raised $4 million in seed funding to streamline legal processes for investment funds and startups. The round was led by Flybridge Capital Partners with participation from legal industry veteran Neil Barsky.

Founded in 2021 by attorney Jen Berrent, Covenant’s platform leverages multiple AI models (with strict privacy and security controls) to review and summarize complex documents—like limited partnership agreements for venture funds—in a fraction of the usual time. The fresh capital will support the expansion of Covenant’s operations and further development of its suite of AI-powered legal tools, as the company launches new features such as an AI-assisted “Most Favored Nation” contract analysis tool for investors.

Rwazi, a market intelligence startup that gathers real-time consumer data in emerging markets, has secured $12 million in Series A funding led by Bonfire Ventures. The U.S.-based company (founded in 2021 by Joseph Rutakangwa and Eric Sewankambo) built an AI-powered platform that gives businesses visibility into consumer behavior across 190+ countries.

Rwazi’s approach—collecting “zero-party” data voluntarily shared by consumers—has attracted clients like Coca-Cola, Visa, and Nestlé seeking insights beyond what traditional surveys provide. The new funding (Rwazi’s first since a $4 million seed round in 2022) brings its total raised to about $16 million and will be used to scale the startup’s AI analytics co-pilot, hire additional engineers, and enhance its real-time decision-making tools for a growing global customer base.

Zip Security, a New York-based cybersecurity startup, raised $13.5 million in a Series A round to help companies without dedicated security teams automate their IT protection and compliance. Ballistic Ventures led the investment, joined by Silver Buckshot, Mantis VC, General Catalyst, Human Capital, and BoxGroup. Zip’s all-in-one platform automates tasks like cloud identity management, device monitoring, and audit preparation, enabling small and mid-sized businesses in regulated sectors to stay secure and “audit-ready” with far less manual effort.

The startup will use the new funding to expand its engineering and sales teams, build integrations with more third-party security tools, and extend its reach in industries such as finance and healthcare. With this Series A, Zip Security’s total funding rises to about $21 million to date.

Little Sesame, a Washington, D.C.-based food startup known for its organic hummus, has closed an $8.5 million Series A funding round to scale up its rapidly growing grocery business. The funding was led by InvestEco Capital, with participation from Watchfire Ventures, Santatera Capital, Beliade Consumer Partners, and other strategic investors from the food industry.

Little Sesame began as a local restaurant in 2018 and pivoted to packaged hummus during the pandemic; its retail sales have since exploded with over 100% year-on-year growth, including placement in more than 1,000 stores such as Whole Foods, Wegmans, and Giant. With the new capital, the company is constructing a 23,000-square-foot production facility that will boost output by 400% (to about 400,000 lbs of hummus per week). The funds will also support new product lines (like a hummus for kids) and initiatives to source regeneratively grown organic chickpeas from American farms, as Little Sesame ramps up national distribution.

IntuigenceAI, a Berkeley-based startup, emerged from stealth with $10 million in seed financing to launch “IntuiAI,” described as the world’s first superintelligent AI engineering platform. The round was led by Innovation Endeavors with participation from Recursive Ventures and Think+. IntuigenceAI’s mission is to alleviate the shortage of human engineers in heavy industries by using AI “synthetic engineers” to automate complex industrial workflows.

Founded by former Microsoft executive Moe Tanabian, the startup has developed specialized AI agents that have demonstrated expert-level performance on professional engineering exams and are already being piloted by Fortune 100 companies to handle time-consuming maintenance and design tasks. The fresh capital will fuel product development and enterprise deployments of IntuiAI across sectors like energy, chemicals, and manufacturing, where it aims to compress months of engineering work into hours.

Trupeer, a San Francisco-based AI startup, has raised $3 million in seed funding to automate the creation of professional software demo videos from simple screen recordings. Trupeer’s platform uses artificial intelligence to turn raw screen captures into polished, tutorial videos within seconds, complete with AI-generated voice narration, human-like avatar presenters, smart zooms, subtitles, and translations in 50+ languages.

The investment was led by RTP Global with participation from Salesforce Ventures (after Trupeer won Salesforce’s AI Pitch competition) and a network of over 20 Fortune 500 CIOs and CTOs as angel investors. Already adopted by more than 10,000 teams for onboarding, support, and training content, Trupeer will use the funds to expand its product capabilities – including tools to create videos from documents and integrations with enterprise knowledge platforms – as it strives to become an AI-powered “shared brain” for organizational product knowledge.

HaloTech, a Madrid-based industrial safety startup, has secured €10 million (about $10.8 million) in a growth funding round to scale its AI- and IoT-powered workplace safety platform. The company’s flagship HALO device uses artificial intelligence to monitor industrial environments and prevent accidents, aiming to revolutionize safety in factories and construction sites.

The undisclosed investors backing this round valued HaloTech at roughly a €100 million pre-money valuation. HaloTech plans to use the funds to ramp up manufacturing of its safety devices (including opening new production facilities in Spain, the U.S., and Brazil) and to enhance its AI analytics platform as it expands into international markets.

Unify, a San Francisco-based startup providing an AI-native platform for sales and marketing teams, raised $40 million in a Series B round to help companies accelerate their go-to-market growth. The funding was led by Battery Ventures, with participation from high-profile backers including the OpenAI Startup Fund, Thrive Capital, Emergence Capital, and Capital49.

Unify’s platform employs intelligent AI agents to identify high-intent prospects, personalize outreach at scale, and automate repetitive sales tasks, allowing human sales reps to focus on closing deals rather than chasing leads. Coming just nine months after its Series A, this latest round brings Unify’s total funding to roughly $52 million, which will fuel the expansion of its operations and product development as the company positions itself as an essential AI layer for enterprise sales teams.

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