Chicago-based Thrixel secured $3M in inception funding to advance its AI platform that generates hierarchical, part-structured 3D assets usable by coding agents in engines like Unity and Unreal.

Pivot Energy closed a $173 million term loan facility for a portfolio of 51 community scale solar projects totaling 135 MWdc across six U.S. states.

Melius, a New York-based AI platform for creative work, announced $25 million in total funding. This consists of a $5 million seed round led by General Catalyst and a $20 million Series A led by CRV.

Avarra has raised $17 million in Series A funding, led by Duration Ventures, to expand its AI avatar platform for upskilling and supporting go to market teams.

Authors First, a New York City-based “book to screen” studio and distribution platform, emerged from stealth, after raising over $10 million in seed funding.

Clockwork.io closed a $31 million funding round to scale its fault tolerance software that prevents GPU downtime in large AI training, inference, and reinforcement learning clusters.

Walapay’s $4.6 million seed round led by Generative Ventures, strengthens the New York-based company’s position as an API-first global payments infrastructure provider.

Overlord Labs raised an oversubscribed $4.35M seed extension to advance its GENESIS battery intelligence chip.

AMP closed $70 million in project debt financing to construct a new AI powered sortation facility and organics to biochar system in Portsmouth, Virginia.

OuterSignal secured a $22 million Series A, co-led by Long Journey Ventures and Abstract Ventures, to scale its AI platform that enriches customer data for true one to one personalization across consumer brands.