Joyce Shen’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, May 25, 2026
📌 Musings and Readings
“Venture Capitalist John Doerr Says AI Is the Biggest Tech ‘Tsunami’ Ever” (Link)
“Former Citadel quants raised $78M for the AI operating system Wall Street’s wealth managers” (Link)
“Using Artificial Intelligence to Estimate Traffic to Improve Planning and Access to Colorado’s Public Lands” (Link)
“UC Berkeley Law School bans most AI use following plagiarism issues” (Link)
“New Anthropic-, Blackstone-backed AI services firm acquires Fractional AI” (Link)
👏 Deals
Hacktron, a CA–based cybersecurity startup automating code reviews and offensive security testing has raised $2.9m in pre-seed funding.
Shyld AI, a CA-based healthcare startup building systems that leverage edge AI and robotics to automate clinical workflows and infection control, has raised $13.4m in seed funding.
Edumentors, a London, UK-based company offering an AI-enabled online tutoring platform, has raised over $4m in funding.
Leadbay, a CA–based providing an AI-powered B2B lead generation platform, has raised $4.3m in seed funding.
Scope AI, a London, UK-based workflow startup modernizing the testing, inspection, and certification industry, has raised over $20m in funding.
Rely, a Portland, ME-based reliability engineering startup automating incident investigation and root-cause analysis for software teams, has raised $4.5m in seed funding.
Century Health, a NYC-based healthcare startup building a real-world evidence platform that structures and analyzes EHR data, has raised $5m in seed funding.
Blank Bio, a CA-based biotech startup building machine learning tools to accelerate protein design and synthetic biology workflows, has raised $7.2m in seed funding.
Hellbender, a Pittsburgh, PA-based physical AI infrastructure startup building edge computer vision and robotics systems for real-time perception, has raised $12.5m in seed funding.
Tribal, a NYC-based startup building the context layer for enterprise AI, enabling autonomous agents to understand, navigate, and safely operate across enterprise systems, has raised $10m in seed funding.
Imperagen, a Manchester, UK-based biotech company using AI-driven protein engineering to design and optimize novel enzymes, has raised $5m in seed funding.
LawX, a Berlin, Germany-based company building an AI-powered operating system for law firms and notaries, has raised €7.5m in seed funding.
AVIAN, a Zurich, Switzerland-based industrial AI startup building AI-powered thermal monitoring systems, has raised $2.6m in pre-seed funding.
Shatterdome Energy, a CA-based energy trading and intelligence startup building the AI-powered trading and operating system for modern power markets, has raised $3.5m in pre-seed funding.
The Path, a CA-based company developing an AI-powered mental health and coaching solution, has raised $14.3m in Seed funding.