 OutcomesAI, a Boston, MA-based healthcare company building a new model of scalable nursing, raised $10m in seed financing.
The round was led by Santé Ventures. As part of the financing, Joe Cunningham, M.D., Founding Managing Director of Santé Ventures; Linda Finkel, Senior Advisor, AVIA; Dennis McWilliams, Managing Director at Santé Ventures; and Kevin White, Ph.D., Co-founder of Tempus AI, will join the Board of Directors, alongside Founder and CEO Kuldeep Singh Rajput. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate its commercial rollout, launch dedicated nursing service lines, and scale enterprise partnerships across health systems, virtual care providers, and pharma. OutcomesAI combines AI voice agents with licensed nurses to extend nursing capacity, reduce costs, and give patients access to care. Glia®, its AI engine purpose-built for nursing, combines AI voice agents that manage inbound and outbound patient calls with licensed OutcomesAI nurses delivering services like triage, virtual care, post-acute follow-up, and patient support programs. Voice agents capture symptoms, schedule visits, coordinate follow-ups, and provide education — all in multiple languages — while nurses are supported by AI productivity tools like real-time scribing and protocol guidance. In 2024, the company launched the OutcomesAI Collaboratory, bringing together five health systems and virtual care companies to validate Glia’s safety, accuracy, and clinical performance. Building on these results, OutcomesAI will publish real-world case studies demonstrating measurable ROI — including early findings where Glia reduced nurse workload by hundreds of hours per month while doubling patient-to-nurse ratios. source; FinSMEs  Planera, San Jose, CA-based visual collaborative scheduling for construction company, raised $8M in new funding.
Backers were Sorenson Capital, Sierra Ventures, Prudence, and Brick and Mortar Ventures, Zachry Construction Corporation, and other construction industry executives. The company intends to use the funds to expand adoption among contractors and subcontractors building new data center projects. Led by CEO Nitin Bhandari, Planera is a provider of visual, CPM-based construction scheduling solutions that improve project planning and management. It has established a dedicated service team with data center knowledge to support its customers in the segment. The company has also developed new AI tools to help these customers to identify potential project delays early and find opportunities to accelerate their project schedules. It is used by industry leaders including Balfour Beatty, Barton Malow, Big-D Construction, HITT Contracting, Ryan Companies, Skanska, and Zachry Construction. The raise, which followed its Series A in 2024, brought total funding to $26.5M. source; FinSMEs  by Sharon V
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 Invigilator, a South African-founded remote assessment platform provider, raised $11M in international equity funding.
The round was led by Kaltroco. The company intends to use the funds to advance its expansion in both the UK and the US. Founded in South Africa in 2020, and led by CEO Nicholas Riemer, Invigilator provides a platform that is already used by more than 100 institutions worldwide, supporting over 850,000 registered students and processing more than six million results across 75,000 assessments. Its secure, data-light architecture combines mobile and PC proctoring with live AI monitoring, AI assistance detection, identity verification, configurable authentication, and anti-plagiarism tools – all designed to protect assessment integrity while remaining inclusive and accessible. source; FinSMEs
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source; FinSMEs  Supabase, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a postgres development platform, raised $100M in Series E funding at a $5 Billion valuation.
The round was led by Accel and Peak XV with participation from Figma Ventures and others. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate its work on “Multigres”, an enterprise-scale version of its platform designed for large, data-intensive applications. Led by CEO Paul Copplestone, Supabase is a postgres development platform provider. Platforms like Lovable and Bolt use it, alongside more than 100,000 customers, from over 50% of the latest Y Combinator batch, to enterprises such as PwC, McDonald’s, and Github Next, allowing them to quickly spin up a backend that instantly updates itself with commands from AI. The round followed its Series D, bringing their total funding to over $500M. source; FinSMEs image source; TechCrunch |
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