Clarity Pediatrics CEO and co-founder Christina LaMontagne and CMO and co-founder Dr. Alesandro Larrazabal. (Modern Healthcare Illustration/Clarity Pediatrics)

​​Over 1,600 pediatricians in California and Texas are already referring commercial and Medicaid patients to Clarity for comprehensive virtual ADHD and anxiety care.

SAN FRANCISCO--Clarity Pediatrics, the emerging telehealth leader reimagining pediatric chronic care, announced today that it has raised $14.5M in Series A funding. The funding round was led by Jackson Square Ventures and welcomed new investors City Light Capital, MassMutual Catalyst Fund II, GingerBread Capital, Scrub Capital, and Operator Collective. Existing investors, including Rethink Impact, Maverick Ventures, and Homebrew, also participated.

This investment supports Clarity Pediatrics’ planned launch of obesity services in early 2026, further development of their innovative virtual clinic platform, and continued geographic expansion to serve even more American families.

“Obesity is the fastest growing pediatric chronic condition in the US today, quadrupling in prevalence over the last 40 years. The prevalence of pediatric obesity is higher in Black and Hispanic children, especially those from low-income families covered by Medicaid,” shared Dr. Alesandro Larrazabal, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Clarity Pediatrics. “As a pediatrician-led organization, we're committed to equipping providers and families with evidence-based solutions that improve both access and outcomes for all children with chronic conditions. Our expansion into pediatric obesity care with this funding is the next step in this journey.”

​Over 40% of school-aged kids and adolescents manage at least one ongoing chronic condition such as asthma, obesity, or behavioral and learning challenges. Yet the demand for pediatric specialists far exceeds availability, creating widespread ripple effects for families, schools, and communities. Limited insurance coverage and long wait times further compound the problem, leaving millions of children without timely, essential care. Clarity Pediatrics addresses this pediatric chronic care gap through an innovative model that integrates personalized support, expert multi-specialty care teams, and convenient, fully insured telehealth appointments to ensure children receive the comprehensive, continuous care they need.

Clarity’s innovative care model — proven effective in ADHD and anxiety care and now poised to drive meaningful impact in pediatric obesity — delivers care grounded in the most substantial evidence from the American Academy of Pediatrics clinical guidelines. Because chronic conditions require multi-specialty expertise, families are supported throughout their treatment journey by pediatricians and specialists working at the top of their license. The model emphasizes engaging, family-centered group care, which has been shown to improve outcomes.

“Every pediatrician I have spoken with says the same thing: Clarity is delivering the gold standard of care for chronic pediatric conditions that families simply cannot access anywhere else,” said Victor Echevarria, Managing Director at Jackson Square Ventures. “That kind of direct feedback from front-line clinicians was practically all I needed to know to invest. Clarity is not offering point solutions or standalone therapy. They are building a true pediatric specialty platform that brings behavioral therapy, behavioral parent coaching, and medical oversight together in one place. Their commitment to clinical excellence, not shortcuts, is what sets them apart and what will change the trajectory of health for millions of children.”

“89% of parents who participate in our group behavioral programs said Clarity had a ‘large’ impact on their lives, and 3 in 4 families report that challenging child behaviors improved after only 8 weeks,” said CEO and co-founder Christina LaMontagne. “With a focus on early intervention and long-term support, Clarity aims to reduce symptoms, suffering, and overall healthcare costs, ultimately putting children on a healthier path for life.”

About Clarity Pediatrics
Clarity Pediatrics is transforming the pediatric specialty care journey through groundbreaking research initiatives and direct care delivery. Their tech-enabled, virtual care model is built on American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) guidelines and brings the best of evidence-based specialty care into every home. Recommended by pediatricians and trusted by parents, Clarity Pediatrics’ innovative care model provides personalized support, an expert multi-specialty care team, and convenient telehealth appointments - all covered by insurance. Starting with ADHD, and with plans for additional chronic conditions and national expansion, Clarity serves patients in California and Texas. The company is backed by Jackson Square Ventures, Rethink Impact, Homebrew, Maverick Ventures, City Light Capital, and MassMutual Catalyst Fund. Learn more at www.claritypediatrics.com.

About Jackson Square Ventures
Jackson Square Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco. Since 2011, JSV has invested nearly $700 million in software and marketplace companies, with a portfolio that includes DocuSign, Upwork, Strava, Seismic, Artera, Cornershop, Jackbox Games, and Roo.

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DataLane, the identity graph for local businesses, today announced a $22.5 million Series A led by Amplify Partners with participation from Harry Stebbings, founder of 20VC, Basis Set, Mischief, and others.

​DataLane is building the first highly accurate identity platform for every local business in America — a LinkedIn for the offline economy — so companies like DoorDash, Square, Paychex, and Motorola can find, verify, and reach real business owners with unmatched precision.

Small businesses account for 43% of U.S. GDP, and 20+ million local businesses still operate almost entirely offline. Reaching these businesses has long been one of the most complex “last-mile” challenges in commerce. Although global spending on sales software exceeds $100 billion a year, data on local businesses is shockingly inaccurate: wrong addresses, outdated owners, missing storefronts. DataLane created the first platform that fixes this: a ‘LinkedIn for the offline economy’ that maps every physical business. Now these businesses have verified owner info, accurate addresses, and operational details to achieve accuracy and coverage never before possible.
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“With 99% of GTM tools designed for selling to office workers, companies have been left with broken systems for reaching local businesses,” said David Patterson-Cole, co-founder and CEO of DataLane. “The challenge has never been a lack of information; it’s that the data was too messy for traditional systems to interpret. Step changes in entity resolution capabilities allowed us to build an AI engine capable of transforming messy local business data into a structured dataset that gives enterprises real-time clarity on where and how to grow.”

At the core of DataLane’s technology is a continuously updated identity graph powered by more than two billion real-time data points, the most accurate and comprehensive account-intelligence layer for the local economy. DataLane’s AI autonomously extracts, dedupes, verifies, and connects information from hundreds of sources, then delivers structured intelligence into systems like Salesforce and Snowflake. This gives enterprises a unified, accurate view of the businesses most relevant to their products and growth strategies.

“At DoorDash, we are committed to serving the unique needs of businesses in local communities,” said Jack Momeyer, Senior Director at DoorDash. “DataLane’s capabilities ensure we quickly and efficiently engage the local businesses that will benefit most from our solutions. We’re excited to work together to help merchants across the United States reach new customers with DoorDash.”

“We’ve backed some of the most transformational data and AI companies over the past decade, including Datadog, dbt, Hightouch, and Temporal. We’re excited to continue that trend by leading DataLane’s Series A,” said Mike Dauber, General Partner at Amplify Partners. “DataLane’s secret sauce is in their ability to create a proprietary data layer that maps the tens of millions of local businesses in the US.”

The DataLane founding team includes AI leaders from Meta, Uber, and Microsoft, bringing deep expertise in large-scale data systems and applied machine learning. This Series A will support product development, expand the company’s AI and engineering teams, and fuel its broader go-to-market expansion. With this round, DataLane has raised $27 million to date, including a seed led by Basis Set.

About DataLane
DataLane is building the first accurate identity graph for every local business in America — a LinkedIn for the offline economy — so companies like DoorDash, Square, and Paychex can find, verify, and reach more than 20M real business owners with unmatched precision. DataLane’s identity graph maps more than 2 billion data points to create a real-time understanding of true decision-makers with verified owner info, accurate addresses, and operational details. Founded by AI leaders from Meta, Uber, and Microsoft, DataLane has raised $27 million to date from Amplify Partners, Harry Stebbings, founder of 20VC, Mischief, Basis Set, and others. For more information, visit: www.datalane.com.

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Dux, a Tel Aviv, Israel- and NYC-based provider of an agentic exposure management platform built for the speed of AI-driven cyberattacks, raised $9m in seed funding.

The round was led by Redpoint, TLV Partners, and Maple Capital, with participation from cybersecurity executives from CrowdStrike, Okta, and Armis.
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The company intends to use the funds to expand its R&D team in Tel Aviv, grow its U.S. go-to-market organization, and accelerate the development of the platform’s agentic capabilities across exploitability analysis, lightweight mitigation, and continuous exposure management.

Founded by Or Latovitz, Amit Nir, and Nadav Geva, Dux provides an agentic exposure management platform that uses AI-workers to perform continuous exploitability analysis, surface control-based mitigations, and accelerate remediation across the entire environment.

Dux’s AI-workers continuously analyze exploitability across the entire environment, determining whether existing controls already block a potential attack path, surfacing lightweight mitigations that can eliminate risk faster than a full patch, and routing targeted remediation to identified owners only when necessary.

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Adaptive Security today announced it has raised an $81 million Series B funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from NVentures (NVIDIA's venture capital arm), OpenAI Startup Fund, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Abstract Ventures, Capital One Ventures, and Citi Ventures. The investment is Adaptive's third financing announcement this year and brings the firm's total capital raised to $146.5 million.

​In April, the Company announced a $43 million Series A led by OpenAI Startup Fund and Andreessen Horowitz, making it OpenAI's first and only cybersecurity investment. The OpenAI Startup Fund later led an additional $12 million follow-on investment announced in September.

Adaptive's rapid fundraising activity reflects rising investor and customer concern over AI-powered cyber threats. In less than one year since its public launch in January 2025, Adaptive has grown to more than 500 enterprise customers and reports a world-class NPS score of 94. Customers include PayPal, Xerox, Bose, the National Hockey League, the Professional Golfers' Association, Figma, Ramp, Vimeo, TaylorMade Golf, and Perplexity, among others.

AI Impersonation Threats Accelerate
Adaptive was founded by Brian Long and Andrew Jones after they saw AI-enabled impersonation move quickly from a niche risk to a practical problem for companies, employees, and consumers. The two entrepreneurs, who previously founded and grew Attentive to $500 million in annual revenue, started the company because legacy security training was not built for cutting-edge generative AI deception.

"Over the past year, we have watched AI impersonations evolve from experimental to everyday," said Brian Long, CEO and co-founder of Adaptive Security. "A few seconds of audio or a short video clip is now enough for anyone to generate a convincing clone. That shift forces organizations to prepare for scenarios where even familiar voices, faces, or messages can no longer be taken at face value."

Social engineering accounts for more than 95% of successful cyber breaches and traditionally comes through email. In recent years, malicious activity over phone calls, text messages, and video chat has surged. Deepfake incidents increased 17-fold from 2023 to 2024, with more than 100,000 occurring in the U.S. alone. In 2025, Adaptive reported a rise in AI deepfake activity and said more than half of its customer discussions included reports of deepfake incidents. These incidents affect employees across all levels of an organization and increasingly affect consumers through cloned voices, fabricated videos, and personalized scams.

Deepfake Phishing Simulations and AI Security Awareness
The company uses AI to simulate deepfake and impersonation scenarios across voice calls, text messages, video and email. These simulations identify where existing controls are likely to break down and provide individualized training based on employee responses. The platform also includes automated threat triage and AI-driven executive risk scoring to help organizations identify their most exposed teams and processes.
"Our task is to give organizations clarity in a landscape that is changing extremely quickly," Long said. "The threat is evolving in real time. Our responsibility is to move at least as fast."
Leading AI Companies and Investors Support Adaptive's Approach to Next-Gen Security
With support from NVIDIA, Adaptive is advancing efforts to secure AI systems and protect the people who work with them. OpenAI Startup Fund's continued participation reflects growing attention among leading AI researchers to the security and safety implications of generative models. Together, the investors point to a widening consensus that AI impersonation is becoming a mainstream risk for businesses and consumers.
"Brian and Andrew have been longtime members of the Bain Capital Ventures portfolio spanning TapCommerce, Attentive and now Adaptive, and we have deep conviction in their ability to build and scale category-defining products," said Enrique Salem, partner at Bain Capital Ventures. "The surge in AI-enabled threat vectors has elevated human-layer security to a board-level priority, and Adaptive is emerging as the platform organizations rely on to stay ahead of these threats. We are proud to support this team as they tackle one of the most important challenges facing businesses and consumers today."

About Adaptive Security
Adaptive Security is the leading provider of AI-powered social engineering prevention solutions, specializing in protection against deepfake personas, AI-driven phishing, and multi-channel social engineering threats. By combining advanced AI simulations, real-time risk assessment, and security awareness training, Adaptive empowers organizations to proactively defend against emerging cyber threats.

For more information, visit www.adaptivesecurity.com

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Soverli, a Zurich, Switzerland-based cybersecurity company, raised USD 2.6m in pre-seed funding.

​The pre-seed round was led by Founderful, with participation from the ETH Zurich Foundation, Venture Kick, and other figures in cybersecurity. 

The company intends to use the funds to grow its engineering team, bring its techonology to more smartphone models, strengthen integrations with mobile device management systems, and scale partnerships with OEMs.

Led by Ivan Puddu (CEO) and Moritz Schneider (CTO), Soverli is a cybersecurity company providing a patent-pending platform that packs multiple fully isolated phones into one device. By enabling independent operating systems to run in parallel on the same smartphone alongside Android and iOS, Soverli helps enterprises, governments, financial institutions, and every consumer combine security, user freedom, and modern app ecosystems.

Developed over more than four years of research at ETH Zurich, its patent-pending methodology enables multiple operating systems (OS) to run in isolation – simultaneously – on a single device. This turns every commercial phone into sovereign infrastructure.

The first application is built for mission-critical communication. Long term, the company aims to set a new standard for how software is layered on phones, making true digital sovereignty available to everyone on every commercial smartphone.

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