🧾 Execo Brings Agentic AI to Procurement Workflows

Execo, a New York-based enterprise AI startup, has raised an undisclosed bridge round led by Unlock Partners to accelerate go-to-market growth and expand profitability. The company builds agentic AI systems for contract and supplier management, and now counts over 100 enterprise clients globally.

🛸 Agentic AI for contracts and supply chains
• Automates contract lifecycle management and supplier performance workflows
• Focused on risk mitigation, cost reduction, and supply chain resilience
• Combines generative AI with human-in-the-loop design for ROI and compliance

📊 Growing team, global footprint
• 500 employees across six countries, including teams in Europe and Asia
• Serving Fortune 500 and mid-market companies in procurement-heavy sectors
• Unlock’s Patrick Cao (ex-Tokopedia President) joins the board to support scaling

🧭 Strategic push toward profitability
• Bridge funding supports GTM acceleration and revenue per employee expansion
• Positioning as “the enterprise-grade AI layer” for procurement operations
• Prioritizing sustainable growth before next institutional raise

Execo’s disciplined, applied approach gives it an edge in turning language models into enterprise utility.

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🎙️ Clearspeed Uses Voice AI to Detect Risk in Seconds

Clearspeed, the San Diego-based voice analytics startup, has raised a $60M Series D led by Align Private Capital, with participation from IronGate Capital, Bravo Victor, KBW Ventures, and retired General David Petraeus. The company’s AI listens not to what you say, but how you say it — flagging risk across sectors from insurance to defense.

🛡️ Fast, language-agnostic risk scoring
• Analyzes vocal stress, cadence, and hesitation in 60+ languages — without using speech content
• Classifies high- vs low-risk individuals in real time for claims, security, or fraud workflows
• Delivered as a lightweight API that integrates into existing calls and systems

📈 Dual-use traction across industries
• Trusted by U.S. military, insurers, banks, and government agencies
• Customers report 30× ROI, 2× faster claims decisions, and 40% more instant payouts
• Now active in over a dozen markets with growing demand in the UK, Middle East, and LatAm

🎯 Scaling trust infrastructure for speech
• Originally built for defense vetting, now expanding to enterprise security and customer screening
• Align’s Anna Nekoranec joins the board; Petraeus calls it “outsized value” for vetting and ops
• Plans to double headcount, enhance real-time speed, and deepen commercial integrations

As AI moves beyond text, Clearspeed is turning voice into a trusted signal — helping organizations assess risk in seconds, not days.

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🏦 Digital Asset Is Tokenizing Wall Street’s Core Infrastructure

Digital Asset, the New York–based blockchain infrastructure firm, has raised $135M in a fresh funding round backed by Goldman Sachs, Citadel Securities, BNP Paribas, Virtu, and DTCC. The round was led by Tradeweb and DRW’s VC arm to accelerate adoption of the Canton Network, a privacy-preserving blockchain for regulated finance.

🔗 Institutional-grade blockchain for real-world assets
• Canton enables atomic settlement and tokenization of assets like bonds, repos, and funds
• Built for compliance and privacy — unlike public chains — using Digital Asset’s Daml smart contract language
• Positioned as a “network of networks” for interoperable, institutional finance

📊Trillions already flowing through the system
• Live since 2024, Canton supports trillions in tokenized assets across finance and trading
• Used by Tier 1 players including Goldman, Deutsche Börse, DTCC, and now Citadel
• Designed to allow asset managers, custodians, and banks to build compliant blockchain applications

🎯 Building the infrastructure layer for tokenized finance
• Digital Asset CEO Yuval Rooz says the raise “cements blockchain’s transformative promise”
• New funding to onboard more financial institutions and asset classes
• Strategic push as Wall Street shifts from blockchain pilots to production-scale adoption

Digital Asset is quietly becoming the plumbing layer for the next generation of financial markets.

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⚡️ Senra Automates the Wiring Behind Aerospace, EVs & Medical Devices

Senra Systems, a Redondo Beach–based startup founded by ex-SpaceX engineers, has raised a $25M Series A to modernize wire harness design and manufacturing. The round was led by CIV (founded by Figma’s Dylan Field) with backing from General Catalyst, Sequoia, Founders Fund, a16z, 8VC, and others.

🛸 Smarter software for physical wiring
• “Amp” is Senra’s custom design platform replacing Excel, Visio, and PDFs in complex wiring workflows
• Enables rapid design, simulation, and error detection — built for high-regulation industries
• Paired with Senra’s assembly-as-a-service model to deliver harnesses 3× faster

🚀 Serving aerospace, defense, and deep tech
• Already shipping to customers like Anduril and other defense, aviation, EV, and medical firms
• Automates critical wiring that powers planes, satellites, robots, and medical equipment
• U.S.-based manufacturing in Redondo Beach supports fast, secure turnaround for strategic sectors

⚙️ Rewiring industrial manufacturing at scale
• Founders Jordan Black and Ben Shanahan aim to modernize a $350B+ global harness industry
• Funding will expand factory capacity and launch Amp to more enterprise design teams
• Board and backers bring top-tier tech and defense experience to scale adoption

While others chase frontier tech, Senra is quietly modernizing a mission-critical backbone of hardware — and turning wiring into a software-native, on-demand service.

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