Taya

Top 10 Pre-seed to Series A funding rounds of the week: ⚫ AI ⚫ 🔶 1. Scanner, a startup that connects AI agents to organizations' security data lakes to enable interactive threat hunting, raised a $22 million Series A round. → Investors: Sequoia Capital, CRV, Mantis VC → Founded by: Cliff Crosland 🔶 2. Taya, a startup that offers an AI-powered necklace that captures short voice notes for personal reflection, raised a $5 million seed round. → Investors: MaC Venture Capital, Female Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz → Founded by: Elena Wagenmans 🔶 3. Crafting, a startup that creates infrastructure for building and operating AI agents and agent-based applications, raised a $5.5 million seed round. → Investors: Mischief, WndrCo → Founded by: Sumeet Vaidya ⚫ Healthtech ⚫ 🔶 4. Translucent, a startup whose AI platform consolidates operational, clinical, and financial data, raised a $27 million Series A round. → Investors: GV, NEA, and others → Founded by: Jack O'Hara 🔶 5. Nyad, a startup that designs an AI-powered decision-support platform that helps wastewater treatment operators, raised a $1.3 million pre-seed round. → Investors: Boost VC, Draper Associates, and others → Founded by: Virginia Szepietowski ⚫ Fintech ⚫ 🔶 6. Axiom Trust Company, a startup that uses AI to process trust documents and support trust administration, raised an $11.8 million pre-seed round. → Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Wischoff Ventures, and others → Founded by: David Meister 🔶 7. Denki (YC F25), a startup that uses AI to automate evidence collection and documentation for financial audits, raised a $4.1 million round. → Investors: Base10 Partners, Shine Capital, and others → Founded by: Felipe Jin Li and David Jin Li ⚫ Security ⚫ 🔶 8. Jazz, a startup building a data loss prevention platform that analyzes how organizational data moves and identifies potential data leak risks, raised a $61 million seed round. → Investors: Glilot Capital Partners, Team8, and others → Founded by: Ido Livneh 🎷 ⚫ CleanTech ⚫ 🔶 9. Vor Systems, a startup that reviews and organizes transaction documents to help teams analyze complex renewable energy deals using AI, raised a $3 million pre-seed round. → Investors: Gigascale Capital, Virta Ventures → Founded by: Victor Shao, Guillaume Nozière, and John Bragg ⚫ Robotics ⚫ 🔶 10. Mirai Robotics, a startup that provides autonomous vehicles and robotics systems for surveillance, monitoring, and patrol operations in maritime environments, raised a $4.2 million pre-seed round. → Investors: Primo Ventures, Techshop, 40Jemz Ventures → Founded by: Luciano Belviso, Luca Mascaro, and Davide Dattoli Zhang Join the weekly EverythingStartups newsletter for more on where early-stage capital is flowing + tech insights across USA, Europe, and Israel: https://linktr.ee/ivelinad #startups #fundraising #funding #founders #venturecapital #VC

Most AI wearables today record the room without asking. They capture your conversations and the people around you. No one at the table agreed to that. After interviewing hundreds of people, it’s clear. Consumers want the end of the surveillance era and they want to be in the moment. We’ve raised a $5M seed round led by MaC Venture Capital, Female Founders Fund, and a16z speedrun, to build a different kind of AI wearable. Taya is jewelry first. Surveillance never. Directional mics and voice isolation capture just you. Single-player mode. Your thoughts, your voice, on your terms. Privacy isn't a feature. It's an architectural decision. Read the @TechCrunch exclusive in the comments! 👇 If you want presence without surveillance, pre-order today. Andrew Chen Sam Shank Andrew Lee Joshua Lu Jonathan Lai Samira Behrouzan Macy Mills Lester Chen Alec Daughtry Jordan Mazer Jordan Carver Bella Nazzari Adrian Fenty Dela Adedze Brian Freeman Marco Marinucci Jordan Greene Zabreen Khan Madison Jacox Molly Fowler Jason Zhu Chris Thach Frank Nuovo Sc.D Kory W. Mathewson Sophia Zhao Erik Bruckner Anu Duggal Layla Alexander Arne Lang-Ree Giles Lowe Torence Lu Itbaan Nafi Roman Scott

You've tried journaling. You've tried voice memos. You've tried notes apps. This is the version that actually stays with you. Pre-order now. #Taya #AIJewelry #Wearables #Journaling #Jewelry

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been talking to everyone who pre-ordered Taya. Not surveys. Real conversations, directly between customers, myself, and the team. I want to understand why someone decides to wear a piece of tech. What makes them reach for it every morning. What would make them stop. One person sent an email last Friday that I’ve read every day since. She’s an exec. Her husband is a founder. Two toddlers. She told us managing all of it is a massive emotional and cognitive problem. She didn’t have time for a call, but she took the time to write. Customer stories like that are why we are building Taya. You can run all the surveys you want. But nothing replaces sitting across from someone and hearing what their life actually looks like. What breaks down. What they wish existed. This is what #buildinginpublic looks like. Talking to people. Listening. Letting their lives shape what we make. 🤍 (2/100) *** 👋🏻 I'm Elena, and I'm building Taya -- a voice AI wearable that's jewelry first, and technology second. Follow me here on LinkedIn for updates as I build in public, and check out Taya's website here: https://vist.ly/4s7mc

I've been building Taya for 195 days now, and I’ve felt inspired by other founders to “build in public.” Sharing pieces of the journey. The design decisions. The philosophy behind why we're building jewelry, not gadgets. The moments that shaped how I think about wearable AI. But I want to go deeper. For the next 100 updates, I'm committing to sharing more of what actually happens behind the scenes. The unglamorous parts. The decisions that don't make it into launch posts. The manufacturing realities. The customer conversations that completely shift our roadmap. Not the highlight reel. The actual work. I've learned so much from founders who've shared their journeys openly. The messy middle. The pivots no one saw coming. The small wins that felt huge at the time. That's what I want to contribute back. Some posts will be tactical. Some will be reflective. All of them will be honest. If you're building something, I hope this is useful. If you're curious about what it takes to bring a product from concept to reality, I'm excited to share it with you. Learn more about what I'm building at Taya here: tayanecklace.com #buildinginpublic