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January 29, 2026 - Deals
Lotus Health AI Secures $41 Million In Seed And Series A Funding From Kleiner Perkins And CRV
Leading investors just backed Lotus Health AI (@lotus) with $41M to prove a new model of primary care can work: an AI doctor powered by real doctors.
Able to diagnose, prescribe, and refer. Anytime, for free.
Not generic AI advice — a real medical practice.
Lotus uses medical AI to collapse the cost of care, make doctors 10x more productive, and cut unnecessary paperwork and insurance friction so world-class primary care can be free for patients.
The round was co-led by Kleiner Perkins (Annie Case, Mamoon Hamid) and CRV (Saar Gur), with additional backing from Joe Montana’s Liquid 2, Adidas Family Office’s LEADVC and a group of high-profile healthcare and technology founders and operators, including Jerry Murdock (Insight Venture Partners), Michael Ovitz (CAA), Aneesh Chopra (first CTO of the United States), Vivek Garipalli (Clover Health), Othman Laraki (Color Genomics), Travis May (Datavant), Julia Cheek (Everlywell), Adrian Aoun (Forward & Torch), Harpreet Rai (former CEO of Oura), Colin Evans (OpenAI), Jacob Reider (former CMO, U.S. HHS), Harjinder Sandhu (CTO at Microsoft), and Ian Shakil (Augmedix), alongside physicians from Harvard and Stanford.
FOUNDERS: KJ Dhaliwal (@kjdhaliwal), Zekka Nelson
INVESTORS: Kleiner Perkins, CRV and leading healthcare & tech founders
ROUND: Seed + Series A
AMOUNT: $41,000,000
HQ: San Francisco, CA
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View AllMavis Tire Express Services Acquires Pep Boys From Icahn Enterprises For $700 MillionIcahn Enterprises announced it will sell the Pep Boys auto-service chain to Mavis Tire Express Services for $700 million, marking investor Carl Icahn’s exit from the Pep Boys operating business roughly a decade after acquiring the company for about $1 billion. The deal includes nearly 800 Pep Boys locations and the brand’s operations, while Icahn Enterprises will retain certain real estate assets that were separated from the business through a sale-leaseback structure. The transaction will help Mavis expand its network to approximately 4,400 automotive service locations across the U.S. and Canada, strengthening its presence in the western U.S. The sale highlights the enduring value of automotive service real estate, with Icahn choosing to keep the underlying properties while monetizing the operating business.
SALE PRICE: $700,000,000
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SkyPilot Secures $20 Million Seed Round Led By Lux Capital For AI Compute PlatformSkyPilot, a new AI infrastructure startup co-founded by Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica, has emerged from stealth with a $20 million seed round led by Lux Capital. The company is building a cloud-agnostic AI compute platform that enables organizations to orchestrate AI workloads across hyperscalers, neoclouds, Kubernetes clusters, and various accelerator types through a unified control plane. Originally developed as an open-source project at UC Berkeley, SkyPilot aims to serve as a neutral layer for AI compute, helping teams avoid cloud vendor lock-in while optimizing access to compute resources. The funding will be used to expand product development, grow the engineering team, accelerate go-to-market efforts, and continue investing in the open-source SkyPilot framework.
FOUNDERS: Ion Stoica & Zongheng Yang
INVESTOR: Lux Capital
ROUND: Seed
AMOUNT: $20,000,000
HQ: San Francisco, California
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Genius AI Raises $44 Million In Series D Round Led By Lux Capital At $1.15 Billion ValuationGenius AI, a New York City-based AI company building technology that helps service businesses automate tasks like client communications, scheduling, marketing, and payments, has raised a $44 million Series D led by Lux Capital at a $1.15 billion valuation. The round also included participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Imaginary Ventures, L Catterton Growth Fund, 2048 Ventures, and StepStone Private Ventures, bringing the company’s total funding to more than $125 million. Led by CEO and co-founder Danielle Cohen-Shohet, Genius AI now powers more than 125,000 businesses across half of all U.S. ZIP codes, is approaching a $200 million revenue run rate, and says its platform has saved customers 112 million administrative hours while helping generate an additional $2 billion in revenue.
FOUNDERS: Danielle Cohen-Shohet & Leah Cohen-Shohet
INVESTORS: Lux Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Imaginary Ventures, L Catterton Growth Fund, 2048 Ventures & StepStone Private Ventures
ROUND: Series D
AMOUNT: $44,000,000
VALUATION: $1,150,000,000
HQ: New York City, New York
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