Issue #61 • December 16, 2025
Hi Seedradar Squad! This week, the focus is on sustainable infrastructure and the next evolution of enterprise automation. Highland Electric Fleets secured major backing to accelerate the nationwide rollout of electric buses, pushing the green transition into high gear.
Simultaneously, Nvidia expanded the open-source landscape with a new family of efficient models designed for complex reasoning. Plus, we spotlight Serval, a newly minted unicorn that is replacing clunky IT tickets with an AI platform powered by "vibe coding."
📈 Important News of the Week!
• Highland Electric Fleets secured $150 million in new equity financing from Aiga Capital Partners to scale its Electrification-as-a-Service platform, expanding electric bus and fleet deployments across more U.S. cities, ahead of major 2026 rollout plans. - Read More
• Nvidia launched the Nemotron 3 series of open-source AI models aimed at cost-efficient, high-performance tasks such as coding, writing, and long-range reasoning. The rollout includes an immediately available Nemotron 3 Nano model, with larger variants arriving in early 2026. - Read More
• Broadcom reported fourth-quarter revenue of $18.0 billion, a 28% increase driven by AI infrastructure spending. Despite the beat, shares slid on Friday, December 12th, as guidance for the upcoming quarter signaled continued margin pressures in its custom silicon unit. - Read More
•Bloomberg reported that private spending on AI data center construction is outpacing transportation infrastructure projects, potentially straining labor and capital resources. The surge in data center builds reflects enormous growth in AI workloads requiring massive compute and energy infrastructure. - Read More
🌱 The Next Big Thing: Our Startup Pick!
🎯 This Week's Emerging Star: Serval
Serval is a San Francisco startup revolutionizing how enterprises handle internal operations. Founded by Jake Stauch and Alex McLeod, they are replacing clunky legacy IT systems with an AI-native platform. Their breakthrough "vibe coding" technology allows administrators to build complex automation workflows simply by describing them in plain English.
Everyone knows that waiting on help desk tickets kills productivity, and that’s exactly what Serval is fixing. Fresh off a $75M Sequoia-led round that values the company at $1 billion, they are betting that AI agents can autonomously resolve over 50% of support requests. It is a mission that could finally let the back office run itself, making Serval a company to watch closely.
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