Joyce Shen’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, November 10, 2025
5-minute weekly must-read on data science and artificial intelligence news, funding, and research, curated by Joyce J. Shen.
📌 Musings and Readings
AI will lead one in four big UK businesses to cut staffing, research shows (Link)
Self-learning AI releases NFL picks, score predictions every Week 10 game (Link)
The state of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation (Link)
Introducing Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning (Link)
👏 Deals
WorkHero, a MA-based startup offering a back-office management services for small HVAC contractors to automate administrative tasks, has raised $5m in seed financing.
Wild Moose, a NYC–based company developing a solution for engineering and SRE teams during production incidents, has raised $7m in seed financing.
Honey Health, a CA–based startup developing AI agents to automate healthcare providers’ back-office workflows directly, has raised $7.8m in seed financing.
Spacial, a CA-based startup focused on converting architectural drawings into code-compliant, engineer-stamped structural and MEP plans, has raised $10m in seed financing.
Onfire, an Israeli startup building a revenue intelligence platform for technical buyers, has raised $20m in funding.
Grasp, a Stockholm, Sweden-based-based startup providing a solution that automates research and analytic workflows for investment banks and consultancies, has raised $7m in Series A financing.
Scavenger AI, a Frankfurt, Germany-based company developing AI-powered business intelligence, has raised €2.5m in seed financing.
Octonomy, a Cologne, German-based startup building AI systems to automate complex industrial service, has raised $20m in seed financing.
Liquid, a NYC-based company providing a non-custodial, mobile-first “financial super-app”, has raised $7.6m in seed financing.
Mimic Robotics, a Zurich, Switzerland-based robotics company developing dexterous robotic hands and AI models that enable robots to perform complex manual tasks, has raised $16m in financing.
AlphaBeta ETF, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based fintech company developing AI- and factor-driven quantitative investment strategies through its AlphaAccess platform, has raised $2.5m in financing.
HoloMD, a MD–based digital health company offering a clinician-supervised platform, has raised $7.6m in seed financing.
GitLaw, a CA-based company providing an AI-powered legal-tech platform, has raised $3m in pre-seed financing.
Mindsmith, a UT-based company developing a generative-AI eLearning platform, has raised $4.1m in seed financing.
Avallon, a NYC–based company building a solution that uses intelligent agents to streamline insurance claims operations, has raised $4.6 million in seed financing.