Startups

Moso: Shop-To-Earn Platform Company Raises $2 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 29, 2024

Moso, a shop-to-earn platform that seamlessly merges online shopping with cryptocurrency, announced the successful completion of its $2 million seed funding round. This funding round attracted investment from prominent backers like Symbolic Capital, Dao5, Coinlist, Polygon Ventures, and several strategic angels.

Wheelhouse: Minority Investment Raised From Alignment Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 29, 2024

Wheelhouse, an independent content and talent platform, announced its first outside capital raise. The funding round was led by investment firm Alignment Growth and will enable Wheelhouse to build an infrastructure that brings in industry-leading talent and accelerates growth via strategic acquisitions. As part of the deal, Alignment Growth Partner Jeff Bewkes joins the Wheelhouse Board of Directors.

Movement Labs: Blockchain Development Company Raises $38 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 29, 2024

Movement Labs, a blockchain development team, announced it has secured $38 million in a Series A financing round led by Polychain Capital. The funding round will support the company's mission to bring Facebook's Move Virtual Machine to Ethereum, address smart contract vulnerabilities, and enhance transaction throughput.

Cerevance: $47 Million Closed To Develop Precision Novel Therapeutics For Central Nervous System Diseases

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 29, 2024

Cerevance, a company focused on developing precision novel therapeutics for central nervous system (CNS) diseases, announced an initial closing of its Series B-1 Extension financing round that will add $47 million to the $51 million previously raised, bringing the total Series B-1 raise to $98 million.

PinkDx: $40 Million Secured To Impact The Health Of Women

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 29, 2024

PinkDx, an early-stage company focused on positively impacting the health of women throughout their life journey, has launched with $40 million in Series A funding. The funding was co-led by Catalio Capital Management, LP, and The Production Board. And other investors include Mountain Group Partners, Byers Capital and Mayo Clinic.

neurocare: Personalized Mental Healthcare Company Secures €16 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 29, 2024

TVM Capital Healthcare, a specialist healthcare private equity firm based in Dubai and Singapore, announced a €16 million investment into Munich-headquartered neurocare, which is a leading innovator in personalized mental health care that is offering solutions to empower clinicians to deliver the best care to their patients.

Treefera: AI-Enabled Data Management Company Raises $12 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 29, 2024

Treefera, an AI-enabled data management platform focused on bringing transparency and accuracy to nature-based asset reporting like carbon credits and supply chain sustainability, announced a $12 million Series A funding round led by AlbionVC. This funding round comes only seven months after the announcement of the company’s $2.2 million pre-seed funding round.

CARV: Gaming And AI Data Layer Company Closes $10 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 29, 2024

CARV, a modular data layer for gaming and AI, announced a $10 million Series A funding round on the heels of its recent strategic funding round. With this new funding round from industry leaders, CARV will double down on building the most significant modular data layer for gaming and AI, maximizing data innovation.

Log10: $7.2 Million Closed To Help Developers Build LLM-Powered Applications

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 29, 2024

Log10, a company proven to help developers build and scale more accurate LLM-powered applications, announced it has raised $7.2 million in seed funding. The seed funding round was led by TQ Ventures and Quiet Capital with participation from Essence Venture Capital.

Transcripta Bio: $10 Million Raised To Speed Up Drug Discovery With Lower Risk

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 29, 2024

Transcripta Bio, a company focused on drug discovery at unprecedented speed and scale, with lower risk and higher certainty across multiple diseases in parallel, announced its launch with $10 million in funding.

UserHub: $3.2 Million Closed To Help SaaS Companies With Monetization Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 29, 2024

UserHub, a startup that wants to make modern and scalable monetization capabilities attainable for software businesses of all sizes, announced it raised $3.2 million in funding. This funding round was led by Berlin-based venture capital company 468 Capital. And other notable investors include Plaid founder Zach Perret’s Mischief Capital, Tokyo Black, GTMfund, Lorimer Ventures, Nomad Cap, and Alumni Ventures.

Growcer: $3 Million Secured To Help Grow Food With Modular Vertical Farms

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 29, 2024

The Growcer, a Canadian company enabling anyone to grow food year-round with its modular vertical farms, announced it raised $3 million to accelerate its strong growth. This funding round was led by strategic investors Modern Niagara, Jeff Westeinde, and former Farm Boy Co-CEO Jeff York.

Decarbonization Partners: $1.4 Billion Closed For Partners Fund I

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 29, 2024

Decarbonization Partners, a partnership between BlackRock and Temasek focused on investing in next-generation companies that support the acceleration of decarbonization and the transition to a net-zero economy, announced the final closing of $1.4 billion for its inaugural late-stage venture capital and growth private equity investment fund, The Decarbonization Partners Fund I. This surpasses the fundraising target of $1 billion.