Joyce Shen’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, March 9, 2026
📌 Musings and Readings
“Germany’s Neura Robotics to raise €1B from Tether to build AI humanoid army” (Link)
“Startup Making AI Chips More Power-Efficient Raises $500 Million” (Link)
“Cybersecurity Heavyweights Launch JetStream with $34M Seed Round to Bring Governance to Enterprise AI” (Link)
“Amazon launches AI-enabled platform to automate healthcare administrative tasks” (Link)
“Apple Music to add Transparency Tags to distinguish AI music” (Link)
“News Corp is essentially an AI ‘input company’, chief executive says, after US$150m deal with Meta” (Link)
👏 Deals
Turgo.ai, a NYC-based company developing a marketing automation platform, has raised $1m in pre-seed funding.
PatientDesk.ai, a CA-based company providing a front-desk automation platform for healthcare and dental practices, has raised $1m in pre-seed funding.
Shearwater Aerospace, a Canada-based aerospace software company looking to optimize mission planning, weather-aware routing, and multi-drone coordination, has raised $3m in seed funding.
Mecademic, a Canada-based robotics company designing and manufacturing ultra-compact, high-precision industrial robot arms, has raised $21m CAD in funding.
Sherpas, a MO-based company building an operating system for financial advisors, has raised $3.2m in seed funding.
Kris@Work, a CA-based company building go-to-market tools and workflows to help sales and revenue teams automate tasks and drive pipeline growth, has raised $3m in seed funding.
Neural Earth, a Miami, FL-based geospatial AI company developing a risk intelligence platform combining satellite imagery and environmental data analytics, has raised $9.3m in seed funding.
Elly, a NYC-based hiring platform, has raised $8m in funding.
Callosum, a London, UK-based AI infrastructure company developing systems to optimize AI models and workloads, has raised $10.25m in funding.
Gambit Security, an Israel-based cybersecurity company helping enterprises continuously to assess and improve their cyber resilience and recovery readiness, has raised $61m in seed and series A funding.
Outpost Bio, a London-based biotech startup developing a platform that combines automated lab experiments with machine learning to model drug interactions with the human microbiome, has raised $3.5m in pre-seed funding.
Plurio, a CA-based martech startup automating performance marketing, has raised $3.5m in funding.
Inhouse, a CA-based legal tech company offering an AI-powered platform that helps businesses draft and review legal documents, has raised $5m in seed funding.
IntelliGRC, a VA-based company providing a SaaS platform to automate cybersecurity governance, risk, and compliance processes, has raised $3.5m in seed funding.
Devotion, a NYC–based startup helping brands to discover, manage, and scale creator and influencer marketing campaigns across social media, has raised $4m in seed funding.
Fig Security, a NYC and Israel-based security operations resilience company providing a platform to ensure security operations work reliably, has raised $38m in seed and series A funding.
Worldscape.ai, a WA-based company building a platform to unify distributed data and simulations, providing real-time geospatial intelligence and decision support for defense, government, and enterprise sectors, has raised an undisclosed seed funding.
Reclaim Security, a NYC-based cybersecurity company offering an AI-powered platform to automatically identify, prioritize, and remediate security exposures, has raised $20m in series A funding.
Vor Systems, a Seattle-based company developing a solution to streamline analysis, organization, and execution of renewable energy M&A, financing, and capital-raising transactions, has raised $3m in pre-seed funding.
AgriPass, an Israel-based AgTech company developing a robotic systems for precise, chemical-free weed control, helping farms reduce labor and promote sustainable agriculture, has raised $7.5m in seed funding.
