Run date: May 13, 2026

Criteria: AI companies that raised < $15M in the last 12 months (May 2025 – May 2026)

Note: Compiled from public press releases, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, BusinessWire, FinSMEs, Crunchbase News, and other funding trackers. LinkedIn URLs for founders are best-guess matches from public profiles aligning with the founder's name and current role — verify each before outreach. This run focuses on companies not covered in Runs 1–6.

1. Era (US) – $11M Seed

• Date: April 2026
• HQ: US
• What they do: Software platform powering next-gen AI gadgets (smart rings, pendants, glasses). Builds infrastructure layer for AI hardware rather than the hardware itself. Founders previously worked at Humane on AI orchestration.
• Investors: Abstract Ventures and BoxGroup (co-leads on $9M seed), Collaborative Fund, Mozilla Ventures. Earlier $2M pre-seed from Topology Ventures and Betaworks. Angels include Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, iPhone keyboard creator Ken Kocienda, former Rabbit CPO ShaoBo Z.
• Founders:
  • Liz Dorman, Co-founder & CEO — formerly Humane / HP. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizdorman/
  • Alex Ollman, Co-founder & CTO — formerly HP agentic frameworks. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexollman/
  • Megan Gole, Co-founder & CPO. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/megangole/
• Company links:
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/era-computer/
• News coverage:
  • TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/era-computer-raises-11m-to-build-a-software-platform-for-ai-gadgets/
  • TechFundingNews: https://techfundingnews.com/era-11m-funding-ai-hardware-intelligence-infrastructure/
  • The AI Insider: https://theaiinsider.tech/2026/04/29/era-raises-11m-to-build-ai-infrastructure-for-next-gen-smart-devices/

2. General Analysis (US) – $10M Seed

• Date: April 2026
• HQ: San Francisco, CA
• What they do: Security infrastructure for agentic AI. Helps enterprises deploy AI agents safely through adversarial evaluation and defensive tooling. In March 2026, its adversarial agent convinced 50 live customer service AI agents to give away $10M+ in fabricated perks in ~3 minutes per target.
• Investors: Altos Ventures (lead), 645 Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Y Combinator, plus strategic investors and angels.
• Founders:
  • Rez Havaei, Co-founder — previously AI researcher at Cohere and NVIDIA. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rezhavaei/
  • Maximilian Li, Co-founder — AI safety researcher from Harvard. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximilianli/
  • Rex Liu, Co-founder — machine learning researcher at Caltech. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rex-liu/
• Company links:
  • Website: https://generalanalysis.com
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/general-analysis/