Zenzap, founded by Guy Weiss with co-founders Noam Neumann and Jonatan Bien, has raised $44 million from Bessemer, Lightspeed, The Garage and individual backers including Wix president Nir Zohar. The startup builds a private, IT-compliant messaging app with embedded AI meant to replace consumer tools like WhatsApp and iMessage for business communication. This marks Weiss's first time raising outside capital after previously bootstrapping and selling StuccoMedia in 2015.
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· 2026-10-14
EliseAI, an AI startup automating administrative work for housing and healthcare companies, raised $350 million in a round that doubled its valuation to $4 billion from its Series E last August. The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Ventures. The company says its software is used in one of every six US apartments and recently surpassed $200 million in annual recurring revenue.
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· 2026-09-29
Bessemer Venture Partners announced it has closed $5.75 billion across two new funds aimed at investing across the AI stack, splitting the capital into $1.75 billion for seed and early-stage deals and $4 billion for growth-stage startups. The firm says it has already deployed $3 billion into more than 260 AI-native companies since 2022, spanning compute, infrastructure, foundation models, dev tools and agentic technology.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-23
Perceptron, a startup founded by former Meta FAIR researchers Armen Aghajanyan and Akshat Shrivastava, has released Isaac 0.5, a vision model built to help robots perceive and navigate physical settings like warehouses and factories. The model is open-weight, meaning its parameters and training data are publicly inspectable, and the company recently closed a $21 million round led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-08-26
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