AI Startups Draw Fresh Funding Across Biology, Chip Design, Business Tools and Drones

Agentrys raised $24.5 million to automate chip design using AI agents, Ventureburn reported. The total combines a $19.1 million oversubscribed seed round led by Etna Labs and a $5.4 million pre-seed round led by MediaTek. Founded by Mark Ren, the company is building what it calls Agentic Design Automation (ADA), which embeds autonomous agents into existing engineering environments and works across commercial EDA tools and internal software. Agentrys has demonstrated an autonomous multi-agent workflow for a 32-bit CPU, moving from specification through sign-off-clean GDS layout. The new capital will fund recruitment, tooling and customer engagements.

AI business platform in Bengaluru

Runable raised $21 million in Series A funding to expand its AI platform for building and running businesses, according to Ventureburn. The round was co-led by Susquehanna Venture Capital and Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Together Fund and Array VC. The Bengaluru-based company was founded in 2025 by Umesh Kumar and Saksham Sarda and has grown to roughly 1.5 million users with a team of 15. The company said annualised revenue reached $2 million within three weeks of launch. Its platform can build websites, apps, internal tools and pitch decks, and handle operations such as market analysis, customer support and marketing campaigns across channels including ChatGPT Ads, Meta, Google, LinkedIn and TikTok.

Long-endurance drones

SiFly Aviation, based in Santa Clara, raised $20 million in a Series A led by Shield Capital, with participation from Qudit, BBK Capital, Alumni Ventures and others, Ventureburn reported. The company develops long-endurance electric aircraft, and its flagship Q12 combines vertical take-off with long-distance flight for uses including public safety, infrastructure inspection and agriculture. SiFly says the Q12 can fly four times longer and travel up to 10 times farther than leading enterprise drones, and it supports payloads up to 10 pounds. The aircraft completed a flight of 3 hours, 11 minutes and 54 seconds, earning a Guinness World Record for the longest flight by an electric multirotor aircraft in its weight class. The funding will support increased production to meet a customer backlog.