Capital sprinted toward “systems that act”: monster frontier-lab checks, enterprise automation that touches revenue, and infrastructure that makes open models usable in production.

Let’s take a look further:

Apple just secretly added Starlink satellite support to iPhones through iOS 18.3.

One of the biggest potential winners? Mode Mobile.

Mode’s EarnPhone already reaches 490M+ users that have earned over $1B, and that’s before global satellite coverage. With SpaceX eliminating "dead zones," Mode's earning technology can now reach billions more in unbanked and rural populations worldwide.

Their global expansion is perfectly timed, and investors like you still have a chance to invest in their pre-IPO offering at $0.52/share.

With their recent 32,481% revenue growth and newly reserved Nasdaq ticker, Mode is one step closer to a potential IPO.

Secure your shares in Mode Mobile at $0.52/share

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^{Mode Mobile recently received their ticker reservation with Nasdaq ($MODE), indicating an intent to IPO in the next 24 months. An intent to IPO is no guarantee that an actual IPO will occur.}

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Ineffable Intelligence – $1.1B (Seed) – London, UK
Frontier lab building “learning-from-experience” AI systems (a bet that next-gen RL-style training will out-compete pure internet-scale text).

Aidoc – $150M (Series E) – New York, NY
Clinical AI that flags urgent findings in imaging so hospitals triage faster (FDA-cleared workflow automation where seconds matter).

Hightouch – $150M (Series D) – San Francisco, CA
Agentic marketing platform that turns warehouse data into personalized campaigns at scale (because “right message, right user” is now an API problem).

Netomi – $110M (Series C) – San Mateo, CA
AI customer service agents that resolve real issues (the fastest path to ROI is shrinking human handle-time without nuking CSAT).

JuliaHub – $65M (Series B) – Cambridge, MA
Agentic AI for industrial digital twins and simulation (making engineering iteration loops dramatically cheaper and faster).

Casa – $27M (Series A) – San Francisco, CA
AI + ops layer that “runs your house” with proactive maintenance and human pros (turning homeownership into a managed-service subscription).

Featherless.ai – $20M (Series A) – Singapore
Serverless inference for 30,000+ open models (a “pick a model, ship the feature” layer without owning GPUs).

PS: Check out our full list here!

Dex (Seed)
Recruiting is the ultimate bottleneck market: if Dex nails signal > noise for AI talent, it becomes a compounding advantage for every hiring manager who can’t wait 90 days.

Featherless.ai (Series A)
Open-model usage is exploding, but infra friction kills momentum—Featherless is positioning as the “one API” layer teams can standardize on without vendor lock-in vibes.

Ineffable Intelligence (Seed)
Yes, it’s a mega-seed, but the why matters: training that learns by interaction is the clearest attempt yet to leapfrog “more data, more params” as the only play. Also founded by former Google DeepMind researcher.

M&A Pulse: Buyers are paying to own the bottlenecks: inference efficiency, enterprise delivery, and defensible robotics IP

The Pentagon says GenAI.mil has already been used by 1.3M+ Defense Department personnel (in five months) as it signs new agreements with leading AI companies.

See you next week.

Until then: ship fast, raise smart, stay curious.

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