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Assort Health raised $120M Series C at a $1.2B valuation for healthcare voice/workflow agents, Taktile closed $110M Series C led by Goldman Sachs for regulated-finance decisioning, and smaller rounds went to Coval ($28M, agent testing) and Seltz ($12.5M, agent-native web search), all per Tech Startups. The through-line: capital is flowing to agents that make real decisions in regulated, revenue-critical workflows, not to horizontal model labs. The infrastructure around agents (testing, search, decisioning) is funding up alongside the agents themselves.
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