Leads for today: New Funding Rounds

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January 02, 2026

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Here are your fresh leads from today’s business news. We scan the headlines. You cash the commissions.

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🧑‍💼 New executive hires suddenly with budgets to spend
💰 Fresh funding rounds that unlock buying cycles
🔗 Direct contact links so you can strike first

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Lemon Slice (San Francisco, CA) — $10.5M Seed for AI that turns a single photo into interactive, conversational video; launching Lemon Slice‑2 avatar API and embeddable widget. (lemonslice.com)

Outreach:
  • Andrew Weitz (Co-Founder)
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjweitz

Celljevity — Quiet longevity upstart reports 1,000+ patients treated over seven years with zero serious adverse events using a small‑molecule epigenetic reprogramming therapy, and is preparing FDA/EU submissions—positioning it as a data‑rich counterpoint to heavily funded rivals. (celljevity.life)

Outreach:
  • Diederik Reijt (Co Founder & CEO, Celljevity)
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/diederik-van-der-reijt-1546115

BriefCatch (Washington, DC) — $6M Series A for its legal-writing platform, accelerating AI-assisted drafting, team expansion, and security. (briefcatch.com)

Outreach:
  • Darren Schleicher (Chief Sales Officer)
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/darren-schleicher-59822a1

Traini (Palo Alto, CA) — $7.5M funding to launch an AI “Cognitive Smart Collar” for human–dog emotion translation and accelerate R&D and market expansion. (traini.app)

Outreach:
  • Pengcheng Hong (Co-Founder)
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pengcheng-jason-hong-a4b269224

Vibranium Labs (New York, NY) — $4.6M Seed to scale its agentic AI SRE (Vibe AI) that proactively detects, triages, and resolves IT incidents for on-call teams. (vibraniumlabs.ai)

Outreach:
  • Tanny Kang (Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer)
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-tanny-kang

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