Trust Is Earned in the Recovery
Your Thursday VC Breakfast Rundown
Today’s companies didn’t make this list because they were perfect. They made it because they handled imperfection well. Danny Meyer calls it out clearly in Setting the Table: the road to success is paved not with flawless execution, but with mistakes well handled. That’s the moment when loyalty is won. When culture becomes visible. When trust goes from idea to action.
The founders behind today’s companies get that. They know you can’t control every outcome, but you can control the response. And in a world of speed, scale, and pressure, the ability to recover fast, honestly, and with integrity is more valuable than any shortcut to growth.
You’ll see it in how these teams move, how they apologize, how they adapt, how they follow through when something falls short. They don’t flinch. They don’t spin. They fix. And in doing so, they build not just customers, but believers.
Mistakes are part of the journey. Recovery is part of the brand. The way you handle the hard parts, openly, quickly, and with care, is what people remember. It’s what turns first-time users into loyal customers, and early believers into lifelong advocates. That’s what today’s companies have mastered.
Liquet Medical Inc. closed an oversubscribed Seed round led (Virginia Venture Partners) to take its Versus™ Catheter to clinical validation. John Schindler and Derek Hall are reshaping pulmonary embolism treatment with a bilateral, real-time hemodynamics system the FDA already cleared. No more guesswork, just surgical precision at the speed of crisis response.
Levelpath raised $55M+ Series B (Battery Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Benchmark) pushing total funding to $100M. Alex Yakubovich and Stan Garber, fresh off their $540M Scout RFP exit, built an AI-native procurement engine that turns enterprise red tape into real-time intelligence. This is procurement rebuilt from scratch, and finally ready for the Fortune 500.
Bedrock Research secured Seed funding (Colorado ONE Funds) to fuse fractured sensing systems into actionable insights. Kevin LaTourette and his Lockheed Martin-born squad are turning SAR, OSINT, and thermal into a global AI layer that catches threats before they spiral. This isn’t surveillance, it’s situational awareness at speed.
Siemens AG just dropped $5.1B to acquire Dotmatics and anchor its position at the center of the life sciences R&D stack. Siemens CEO Roland Busch and Dotmatics CEO Thomas Swalla aren’t just connecting platforms, they’re stitching together a new industrial backbone for scientific discovery. With $300M+ expected revenue, this isn’t just an exit, it’s infrastructure for the next era of drug discovery
Enquire AI secured $3M in convertible notes (Teneo Ventures, Aiera, Turkish Informatics Foundation). Cenk Sidar and Barry Hurewitz are fusing speed with substance to deliver real-time enterprise intelligence in minutes, not months. When decision intelligence becomes your edge, Enquire is already there.
Remark raised $16M Series A (Inspired Capital, Stripe, Neo). Theo Satloff built a commerce layer that feels more human than chatbot, driving 28% conversion and 130% NDR for top retail brands. This isn’t personalization, it’s AI-powered product instinct trained by 60,000+ product experts.
Liftoff Mobile secured a minority investment (General Atlantic) at a $4.3B valuation to fuel global expansion of its mobile marketing platform. Jeremy Bondy and the founding team turned Cortex into a predictive AI engine powering 3B users and 1M+ apps with 23% lower CPIs. It’s not just ads, it’s monetization infrastructure at planetary scale.
Metafide locked in $3.275M (The DIY Fund, Blockchain Founders Fund, Cogitent Ventures) to launch SURGE, an AI-powered trading arena that merges instinct and machine intelligence. Francis Speiser is making predictive trading feel like eSports, competitive, accurate, and instantly addictive. It’s not just gamified, it’s the next evolution of fintech.
Argon AI landed $5.5M Seed (Crosslink Capital, Wireframe Ventures, Y Combinator). Samy Danesh and Cyrus Jia are eliminating dashboard fatigue with AI agents that surface insights from Veeva Systems, Snowflake, and SharePoint in seconds. This is how biopharma finally breaks its own bottlenecks.
Savvy Wealth raised $72M Series B (Industry Ventures, Vestigo Ventures, Thrive Capital) to modernize how financial advisors operate at scale. Ritik Malhotra built a platform with $2.2B AUM and a 90% cut in ops workload using real-time AI across compliance, onboarding, and portfolio strategy. It’s not robo, it’s wealth management with real leverage.
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