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Nov 3, 2026

Syncere raises $11M pre-seed for its Lume robot lamp, now priced 80% above its April preorder

a16z Speedrun led an $11 million pre-seed in Syncere, maker of the laundry-folding Lume floor lamp. Since preorders opened in April, Lume's starting price has risen from $1,499 to $2,699 and a software fee has been added.

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Oct 29, 2026

Embodied AI & Foundation Models

Bleu Robotics raises €5 million to teach factory humanoids a task from about 10 demonstrations

Paris-based Bleu Robotics, founded by two Inria humanoid researchers and a former Renault assembly manager, raised a €5 million pre-seed round co-led by Contrarian Ventures and OVNI Capital. Its software skips pre-training and learns from tracked object positions, a bet that stops working where objects can't be tracked.

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