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Aptera (SEV) raises .3M through warrant exercise

Aptera (SEV) raises $6.3M through warrant exercise

Solar EV startup Aptera Motors just added some fresh funding to its development journey via warrant exercise. The funding is made possible by a public offering that began in January. It’s been ten days since our favorite (and only) SEV startup announced it had rolled its first solar electric vehicle off its validation assembly line in Southern California. That progress was made possible by a direct listing on the Nasdaq in 2025. In January, Aptera announced it had completed a $9 million equity raise led by institutional investors with the option to receive additional gross proceeds if certain warrants are exercised. At the time, Aptera co-founder and co-CEO Chris Anthony stated that the equity raise was “very intentional.” He added that if all related warrants are converted, Aptera’s total gross proceeds from the raise could reach $18 million. Less than two months later, some of those warrants are already being exercised to keep Aptera’s solar EV validation process funded, but this heightens the risk of diluting its stock. Advertisement – scroll for more content Source: Aptera …

Manufact raises .3M as MCP becomes the ‘USB-C for AI’ powering ChatGPT and Claude apps

Manufact raises $6.3M as MCP becomes the ‘USB-C for AI’ powering ChatGPT and Claude apps

For decades, software companies designed their products for a single type of customer: a human being staring at a screen. Every button, menu, and dashboard existed to translate a person’s intention into a machine’s action. But a small startup based in San Francisco and Zurich believes that era is ending — and that the future belongs to companies that build software not for people, but for the artificial intelligence agents that increasingly act on their behalf. Manufact, a three-person company that emerged from Y Combinator’s Summer 2025 batch, announced in February that it raised $6.3 million in seed funding led by Peak XV, the venture capital firm formerly known as Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia, which now manages more than $10 billion in assets. Liquid 2 Ventures, Ritual Capital, Pioneer Fund, and Y Combinator also participated in the round, alongside angel investors including the co-founder and chief operating officer of Supabase. The company’s thesis is deceptively simple and potentially enormous: as AI agents take over more of the work that humans perform inside software …

Bolna nabs .3M from General Catalyst for its India-focused voice orchestration platform

Bolna nabs $6.3M from General Catalyst for its India-focused voice orchestration platform

Industry reports and the growth of voice model companies in the Indian market suggest that there is a growing demand for voice AI solutions in the country. Voice is a popular medium for communication among people and businesses in India. That’s why enterprises and startups are eager to use voice AI to be more efficient at customer support, sales, customer acquisition, hiring, and training. But recognizing market demand is one thing — proving businesses will pay is another. Y Combinator rejected the application from Bolna, a voice orchestration startup built by Maitreya Wagh and Prateek Sachan, five times before finally accepting it into the fall 2025 batch, skeptical that the founders could turn interest into revenue. “When we were applying for Y Combinator, the feedback we got was, ‘great to see that you have a product that can create realistic voice agents, but Indian enterprises are not going to pay, and you are not going to make money out of this,’” Wagh told TechCrunch. The startup applied with the same idea for the fall batch …