Startups

Ropes: $3.1 Million (Seed) For Scaling AI-Driven Skills-Based Hiring

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Ropes, an AI-based platform transforming how engineering talent is evaluated, announced it has raised $3.1 million in seed funding. The seed funding round, led by GSV Ventures with participation from Box Group, will advance the company's goal of bridging the gap between technical assessment and real-world performance.

vopemed: C$2.29 Million (Pre-Seed) Closed For Transforming Surgical Visualization With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Vopemed (Vope Medical), a medical technology startup enhancing surgical vision with AI-powered image clarification, announced it has secured an oversubscribed $2.29 million pre-seed funding round to accelerate the development of its technology and clinical validation. This funding round marks a significant milestone in vopemed's vision of empowering surgical teams with next-generation tools for safer, more efficient surgeries.

Opsera: $20 Million (Series B) Secured For AI-Based DevOps Platform Innovation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Opsera, an AI-based DevOps platform trusted by many companies, announced it has raised $20 million in Series B funding, led by Prosperity7 with participation from Hitachi Ventures. This funding round represents a breakout year with several product releases that position Opsera as one of the market's most flexible and intelligent AI-powered DevOps platforms for all apps and teams.

Cyberhaven: $100 Million (Series D) Raised At $1 Billion Valuation For AI-Based Data Security Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Cyberhaven, a leader in AI-based data security, announced $100 million in Series D funding, led by StepStone Group and new investors Schroders and Industry Ventures, to advance its growth and cement its position as the leader in AI-based data protection.

Flagship: $3.75 Million (Seed) Raised For Visual Merchandising Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Flagship announced its expansion into the US market with one of the largest and fastest-growing U.S. performance apparel brands and several significant retail partnerships, including Mejuri and Mad Happy. The company also recently closed a $3.75 million seed funding round led by Coreline and Veridical Ventures, with participation from Tidal Ventures and Macdoch Ventures.

Hi Auto: $15 Million (Series A) Secured For Scaling Conversational AI For Quick-Service Restaurant Drive-Thrus

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Hi Auto, a startup pioneering AI-based voice technology for the quick-service restaurant (QSR) industry, has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Delek Motors, the Zisapel Family, Vasuki Tech Fund, and a publicly traded strategic investor from the restaurant sector. This new funding round, which brings Hi Auto's total capital raised to $23 million, also included participation from Allied Group, Goldbell Investments, and the Meir Barel Group. Along with the funding, Hi Auto has secured a $4 million credit line to support its growth and expansion efforts.

Runtime Ventures: $32 Million Debut Fund Launches For Seed Stage Cybersecurity Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Runtime Ventures, a VC fund focused exclusively on seed-stage cybersecurity investments, announced the launch of its debut fund, with a capital commitment of $32 million. Runtime Ventures is dedicated to supporting and nurturing innovative pre-seed and seed-stage cybersecurity startups.

Phonic: $4 Million Raised For Speech-To-Speech Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Phonic, an end-to-end speech-to-speech platform for building lifelike conversational voice agents, announced a $4 million funding raise from leading investors including Lux Capital and visionary leaders in the AI space including the founders of Replit (Amjad Masad), Hugging Face (Clem Delangue), Applied Intuition (Qasar Younis), and Modal (Erik Bernhardsson).

VulnCheck: $12 Million (Series A) To Address Demand For Exploit Intelligence Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Exploit intelligence company VulnCheck announced a $12 million Series A funding round led by Ten Eleven Ventures. Existing investors, including Sorenson Capital and In-Q-Tel(IQT), participated. And the latest investment brings VulnCheck's total funding raised to nearly $20 million.

FirstPartyCapital Raises Strategic Funding From DoubleVerify

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

FirstPartyCapital (FPC), an early-stage venture capital firm specialising in adtech, martech, and digital media, announced a strategic investment from DoubleVerify, a leading software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics.

StrategiQ: £3 Million Investment Raised For Communications And Marketing Agency

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

StrategiQ, a rapidly growing strategic communications and marketing agency, announced a significant £3 million investment in growth to advance its goal of becoming a leading force in the creative services industry.

HyperSciences: $1.7 Million Phase 2 SBIR Contract Award Received

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

HyperSciences, a leader in advanced hypersonic propulsion and projectile technologies, announced it has been awarded a $1.7M Phase 2 SBIR (Small Business Industry Research) contract with the U.S. Department of Defense as a follow-on to its 2018-2019 NASA SBIR Phase 1 contract.

Actively AI: $22.5 Million Secured For Maximize Revenue For Sales Teams

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Actively AI, a company that applies AI reasoning for revenue teams, announced it has raised $17.5 million in Series A funding led by Bain Capital Ventures. And First Round Capital, which led their previously unannounced $5 million seed round, also participated. Plus, prominent angel investors include Jason Boehmig, co-founder and CEO at Ironclad; Ali Rowghani, former Y Combinator managing partner and Twitter COO; and Frederic Kerrest, vice chairman and co-founder at Okta. With this funding round, Actively has raised $22.5 million to date.

SandboxAQ: Over $450 Million (Series E) Raised For Enterprise Quantitative AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

SandboxAQ, a leader in enterprise quantitative AI, announced the addition of Ray Dalio, Horizon Kinetics, BNP Paribas, Google, and NVIDIA to its Series E funding round that raised over $450 million. These investments emphasize the confidence in SandboxAQ's vision and the transformative power of its Large Quantitative Models (LQMs), which are transforming how enterprises leverage AI to address complex scientific and quantitative challenges.

Tower MSA Partners: Strategic Investment Raised From Ambler Brook

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

Tower MSA Partners - a leading national provider of Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) compliance technology and settlement services to self-insured enterprises, insurance carriers, and third-party administrators - announced that it received a significant growth investment from Ambler Brook.

Redpanda: $100 Million (Series D) Raised For Agentic AI Service for the Enterprise

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

Redpanda announced it has closed $100 million in Series D funding led by GV, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners. With this latest funding round, Redpanda is now valued at $1 billion, with a total of $265 million raised.

restor3d: $38 Million Raised For 3D Printed Patient Specific Musculoskeletal Implants

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

restor3d - a leader in 3D-printed and personalized orthopedic implant care - announced the completion of capital raising efforts totaling $38 million. These funding rounds included participation from both existing and new private investors, including Summers Value Partners.

Moneta Ventures: Over $250 Million Raised For Investing In Seed & Series A Startups

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

Moneta Ventures, which is dual-headquartered in Sacramento, CA, and Austin, TX, has raised over $250 million for its third fund. The firm invests in Seed and Series A enterprise software companies.

Dalma: €20 Million (Series B) Raised For Pet Insurance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

Dalma announced a €20 million Series B funding round led by Breega. This funding round is supported by its existing investors, Northzone and Anterra Capital along with Bpifrance's Digital Venture 3 fund—dedicated to innovative technology companies in the digital sector—and Breega, a leading investor in the insurance industry, both of which are joining the company's capital.

Pillar VC: $175 Million Fund IV Closed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

Pillar VC recently announced its $175 million Fund IV, bringing the firm’s total assets under management to more than $500 million. And Pillar VC is also introducing three new Venture Partners, and four new Founding Pillars, a group of CEOs who have built highly successful companies; they are co-

HeroWear: Exoskeleton Company Raises $5 Million (Series A)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

HeroWear, a private startup specializing in occupational exosuit solutions, announced $5 million of Series A funding from White Road Investments. The company is partnering with Engage to accelerate its work with top enterprises.

Solace: $60 Million (Series B) Raised For Digital Health Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

Solace, a digital health platform that connects patients with expert health advocates, announced it has closed a $60 million Series B funding round. Menlo Ventures led this funding round with participation from existing backers Craft Ventures, Inspired Capital, and Torch Capital, and new investor SignalFire.

AttoTude: $50 Million (Series B) Raised For THz Technology For AI And Hyperscale Data Center Applications

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

AttoTude, a company focused on groundbreaking THz interconnect technology for AI and hyperscale data center applications, announced it has raised $50 million in Series B funding led by Mayfield and joined by The Westly Group, with participation from existing investors Sutter Hill Ventures, Canaan Partners, and Wing Venture Capital. This round brings AttoTude's total funding to $91 million, following its $30 million Series A in 2024 and $11 million seed round earlier that year.

Hydrolix: $80 Million (Series C) Raised For Data Lake Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

Portland-based Hydrolix announced the closing of an $80 million Series C investment round, led by QED Investors, joined by Blumberg Capital, Frontline Ventures, Pruven Capital and Sozo Ventures, along with existing investors that include Akamai, AV8 Ventures, Ericsson Ventures, Nava Ventures, Oregon Venture Fund, S3 Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures and Wing Venture Capital. And Chuckie Reddy, QED partner and head of growth investments, will join the Hydrolix board as a director.

Equal Parts: $10 Million Raised To Launch Next-Gen Insurance Agency

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

Equal Parts, a next-generation insurance agency combining the power of traditional relationship-based distribution with best-in-class AI technology, announced it has launched with $10 million in acquisition capital led by Equal Ventures and Max Ventures, the company announced today. And Equal Parts’ goal is to build a new model for independent insurance agencies amid a decade-long flood of consolidation by traditional private equity firms.

Atomic: $10 Million Raised For Financial Connectivity Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

Atomic, a market leader in growing account primacy and enabling financial connectivity that drives action, announced a $10 million strategic investment with participation from Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, and F.N.B. Corporation. This funding round affirms Atomic’s position as a trusted partner for financial services across various use cases. And the funding will be used to further innovation and expansion.

EVident Battery: $3.2 Million (Seed) Raised For EV Battery Pack Inspection Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

EVident Battery, a leader in sustainable and advanced battery technology, announced the closing of a $3.2 million seed funding round. This funding will support the company's mission to accelerate the development of next-generation battery inspection solutions that address the uncertainty of EV battery pack health in the aftermarket and quality optimization in the battery pack manufacturing process.

Nerdio: $500 Million (Series C) Raised At Over $1 Billion Valuation To Transform How Organizations Deploy Microsoft Cloud Technologies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

Nerdio, an automated End-User Computing (EUC) platform transforming how organizations deploy and manage Microsoft cloud technologies, recently announced it has signed a definitive agreement for a $500 million minority investment from General Atlantic with participation from Lead Edge Capital and StepStone. Upon the closing of the deal, this funding will quadruple Nerdio's valuation in just two years to $1+ billion.

Simply.TV: Majority Growth Investment Raised From Summit Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

Simply.TV, a video metadata provider, announced the acquisition of Red Bee Media’s Content Discovery Business. This move accelerates Simply.TV’s global expansion strengthens its position in the U.S. market. In connection with this deal, Simply.TV has secured a majority growth equity investment from Summit Partners, marking the company’s first institutional funding.

Emovid: Seed Funding Raised For Advancing Authentic Business Communication

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

Emovid, a platform built to enable unified and asynchronous video, text, and audio communication for businesses, announced its seed funding round closing, bringing total funding to nearly $7 million. The seed funding round was led by o-kaisha Investments, the investment arm of the Oki Family Office (Scott Oki led the first billion dollars worth of sales for Microsoft).