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Radical Ventures

Venture capital funding AI-focused deep-tech startups

Overview

Radical Ventures is a venture capital firm that funds entrepreneurs applying deep tech, especially machine learning and AI, to transform large industries. Its product works by providing early and growth-stage funding, strategic guidance, and access to a global network to help portfolio companies scale. It differentiates itself with a strong emphasis on deep-tech and AI, global ambitions, and a multi-city network across Toronto, San Francisco, London, and New York. Its goal is to accelerate the growth of deep-technology ventures into enduring, globally scaled companies.

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Rated A on Competitive Edge
Rated A on Growth Potential
Rated B on Differentiation

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11-50

Company Stage

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Total Funding

$9.2B

Headquarters

Toronto, Canada

Founded

2017

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What believers are saying

  • Mantic’s September 18, 2026 seed round showed Radical can source frontier-AI winners early.
  • Institutional LPs like CPP Investments and BMO validate Radical’s brand and recruiting power.
  • Late-stage checks up to $250 million give Radical direct access to Canada’s best AI scaleups.

What critics are saying

  • Breakouts Fund’s trillion-dollar obsession demands outlier exits; one bad vintage damages decades of performance.
  • Mantic’s forecasting tools face model commoditization, especially if OpenAI, Google, or xAI replicate them.
  • Canada’s capital gap remains; if U.S. giants hoover talent, Radical becomes a feeder, not a franchise.

What makes Radical Ventures unique

  • Radical Ventures backed Cohere, Waabi, and Mantic, spanning foundation models through late-stage scaleups.
  • September 15, 2026 Breakouts Fund raised over $1 billion from PSP, CPP, HOOPP, TD, BMO.
  • Jordan Jacobs built Canada’s largest AI-only platform, with $2.5 billion AUM and late-stage firepower.

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Company News

The SaaS News
Oct 30th, 2026
SpendRule raises $4M seed.

SpendRule raises $4M seed. SpendRule raises $4 million in a seed round led by Mark Cuban's Radical Investments to scale its AI-driven contract enforcement platform for health systems. Updated October 30, 2026 SpendRule, based in Dallas, Texas, is an AI-powered contract enforcement platform that helps health systems and businesses ensure billing aligns with contracted terms. The company successfully raised $4 million in a seed funding round, bringing its total funding raised to $6 million. Investors. The round was led by Radical Investments, the venture firm of Mark Cuban, with additional participation from Zeal Capital Partners. SpendRule use of funds. SpendRule plans to use the new capital to deepen its work with healthcare systems, invest in product development and engineering, and expand its contract enforcement technology to serve a wider range of businesses and industries. About SpendRule. Founded in 2026, SpendRule was co-founded by co-CEOs Joseph Akintolayo and Chris Heckler. The company provides a decision layer between contracts and payments by using AI to read contract terms, audit invoices for discrepancies, and automate the recovery of overpayments for organizations managing complex vendor agreements. Funding details. Company: SpendRule Raised: $4M Round: Seed Funding Date: October 29, 2026 Lead Investor: Radical Investments Additional Investors: Zeal Capital Partners Software Category: AI, Fintech, Healthcare IT Source: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/10/29/3391418/0/en/spendrule-raises-4-million-with-backing-from-mark-cuban-to-build-the-decision-layer-between-contracts-and-payments.html Updated October 30, 2026

GlobeNewswire
Oct 29th, 2026
SpendRule raises $4 million with backing from Mark Cuban to build the decision layer between contracts and payments.

SpendRule raises $4 million with backing from Mark Cuban to build the decision layer between contracts and payments. Seed round led by Mark Cuban's Radical Investments, with participation from Zeal Capital Partners, will expand SpendRule's work with health systems and support broader applications of its contract enforcement technology. DALLAS, Oct. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - SpendRule, an AI contract enforcement platform that ensures health systems pay exactly what their purchased services contracts say, today announced a $4 million seed funding round led by Mark Cuban's Radical Investments, with participation from Zeal Capital Partners. The round brings SpendRule's total funding raised to $6 million. The new funding will allow SpendRule to deepen its work with health systems, invest further in product development and engineering and bring the same contract enforcement technology built for complex healthcare contracts to a broader range of businesses. "Companies spend all this time negotiating contracts, but what's the point if nobody checks whether they're getting what they paid for? That's the problem SpendRule is solving," said Mark Cuban. SpendRule has $2.91 billion in annual contracted purchased services spend across 2,187 business relationships as it builds infrastructure for businesses and AI agents. The platform connects negotiated terms to actual transactions and the evidence needed to enforce them, helping organizations prevent overpayments, recover money they're owed and protect the value of what they negotiated. As AI agents increasingly buy, approve and pay on companies' behalf, SpendRule provides the decision layer they need to understand what each contract allows and act accordingly. "Every company makes commitments it can't monitor, enforce or keep current," said Joseph Akintolayo, co-founder and co-CEO of SpendRule. "SpendRule turns agreements and policies into deterministic decision systems that actually run: they check what was billed, chase what's missing and prove the result. With one instruction, 'activate ongoing verification for this agreement,' finance teams can put any contract under continuous enforcement. Our ambition is to become the infrastructure that makes commercial agreements work across companies, software platforms and AI agents." SpendRule was built first for hospital purchased services, one of the most complex contract environments, where health systems manage thousands of vendors and sophisticated contracts covering categories such as staffing, facilities, maintenance, environmental services, security and IT. The platform checks charges against the applicable contract terms and shows the clause and calculation behind each finding. When a discrepancy is identified, both the customer and vendor can work within SpendRule from the same evidence. "Nurses, techs and the people who keep the building running aren't the cost problem. Paying more than you agreed to is," said Chris Heckler, co-founder and co-CEO of SpendRule. "Every dollar lost to a billing mismatch is a dollar that didn't go to care. This gives health systems another place to find margin without cutting patient care." SpendRule is trusted by leading health systems such as OSF HealthCare, Kettering Health, MemorialCare and MUSC Health. Click here for the press release document and founder images by SpendRule. About SpendRule SpendRule is an AI company that makes sure organizations pay what their contracts say. SpendRule reads every term of a contract, checks each invoice against it, flags overcharges with the evidence to back them up and drafts the credit request, so companies stop overpaying and recover what they're owed. Health systems use SpendRule today across $2.91 billion in annual purchased services spend and 2,187 business relationships. As AI agents begin buying, approving and paying on companies' behalf, SpendRule is building the layer that tells them what every agreement actually allows. SpendRule was founded in 2025 and is based in Dallas. Learn more at SpendRule.com.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Oct 25th, 2026
EDGAR Filing Documents for 0001792825-21-000001

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Vietnam.vn
Oct 12th, 2026
Ex-Google engineers' AI startup Discovery Loop seeks $50B valuation a month after launch

Discovery Loop, an AI startup founded by four former Google engineers, is seeking a valuation of up to $50 billion just over a month after launching, Business Insider reports. Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le left Google on August 5 to start the company. Weeks ago, it was seeking to raise $1 billion at a valuation of around $10 billion. Its first round was led by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, with Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, and Doerr Capital taking part. Google also invested early and agreed to provide computing power for the first year. Investors are betting on elite teams, as with Safe Superintelligence and Thinking Machines Lab, which raised large sums before launching products. Dean says he ended up as chief executive officer because "everyone's pointing to me.

FileHippo
Oct 5th, 2026
Carney forms AI advisory council.

Carney forms AI advisory council. By Norzahra Baharum October 5, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney has named a 13-person National Council on Artificial Intelligence to advise the federal government on its national AI strategy and safety issues. The council includes prominent AI researchers and investors, such as LawZero scientific director Yoshua Bengio and Veeda AI CEO Sanja Fidler. The council will advise Carney and the federal government on issues including economic competitiveness, AI uptake, digital infrastructure, and AI research. Patrick Pichette, the former venture capitalist and tech executive, is among the members. National AI strategy. Ottawa launched an updated national AI strategy in June, setting a target of increasing business adoption from 12 per cent to 60 per cent by 2034. The government has pledged hundreds of millions of dollars for startups developing the technology and firms deploying it. The new advisory council includes Jordan Jacobs, managing partner of Toronto-based Radical Ventures, which is raising a US$4-billion late-stage fund. Another member is John Graham, CEO of the $863-billion Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Council members. The council also includes Canadian business executives and researchers based in the U.S. The domestic members are concentrated in Ontario and Quebec. Of the three national AI institutes, only Montreal-based Mila has a seat on the council, via CEO Valérie Pisano. Thomas Pitfield, Carney's principal secretary, is another member. He said at an event hosted by Canada 2020, a think tank he previously co-founded, that Ottawa's AI strategy outlines "a shared mission" to adopt AI and trust each other to become a powerhouse in the space. Previous advisory groups. Ottawa has assembled several other groups of private sector leaders to advise it on AI in recent years. In September 2025, AI Minister Evan Solomon named a 28-member task force to provide input on the AI strategy update. Council members who were also on the task force include Pichette and Ajay Agrawal. The Innovation Department also has had an Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence since 2019. In March 2025, the department refreshed the council with a stronger industry focus, including executives from Cohere, AltaML, and Canadian Tire. Full council membership. The full, 13-person National Council on Artificial Intelligence includes Ajay Agrawal, Yoshua Bengio, Sanja Fidler, John Graham, Gillian Hadfield, Jordan Jacobs, Eric Lamarre, and Patrick Pichette. The council will play a significant role in shaping Canada's national AI strategy and ensuring the safe and secure development of AI technology.

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