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Healthleap raised $38 million (an $8M seed round co-led by Sequoia and First Round, and a $30M Series A led by Hummingbird) to expand its platform that uses language models and EHR data to surface inpatients who may have undiagnosed conditions such as malnutrition and delirium; the company says it’s deployed in more than 50 hospitals and sells outcome-based, bed-count contracts claiming 5x+ ROI.
Flow Engineering, a San Francisco startup that builds AI agents to automate hardware design workflows, raised $50 million in a Series B at a $750 million valuation. The round was co-led by Antonio Gracias’s Valar Equity Partners and Gavin Baker’s Atreides Management; Sequoia and former Sequoia partner Roelof Botha also participated and Botha joined Flow’s board. Flow lists customers including Anduril, Rivian, Joby Aviation, GM PPU, RV Tech and Stoke Space.
Instinct confirmed a $1 billion Series C led by investors including Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue, valuing the SMS-based personal AI agent startup at $10 billion after launching its invite-only service in August 2026. The company touts features that let the agent act via its own phone/computer (calls, bookings, purchases), but has faced privacy-policy scrutiny and now competes directly with Meta’s Muse; Instinct has not disclosed user metrics.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, while promoting investment in Greece in San Francisco, said he does not yet have answers to many AI policy questions. He highlighted Greece’s investments in digital infrastructure — including an HPE-supported supercomputer in Lavrio and an OpenAI education pilot — discussed a proposed social‑media ban for under‑15s, voiced concern about AI’s effects on learning and jobs, and noted welcomed data‑center projects by Microsoft and AWS.
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