Startups

Outmin: €4 Million Raised For Scaling AI Bookkeeping

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 4, 2025

Outmin, an intelligent bookkeeping company that automates financial data production and eliminates manual data entry, announced a €4 million funding round led by Praetura Ventures via its Praetura EIS Growth Fund and NPIF II – Praetura Equity Finance - which is managed by Praetura as part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II.

Volare: €26 Million Raised For Advancing Insect Protein Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 3, 2025

Finnish biotech company Volare announced the closing of a €26 million funding round to build Volare 01 – which is a facility set to become the most efficient protein production plant in the world and to advance its unique technology.

ClickHouse: $350 Million Series C Raised For Columnar Database Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 3, 2025

ClickHouse - a leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI/ML - announced it has raised $350 million in Series C funding. The funding round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from new investors BOND, IVP, Battery Ventures, and Bessemer Venture Partners, as well as existing investors including Index Ventures, Lightspeed, GIC, Benchmark, Coatue, FirstMark, and Nebius.

ProteinQure: $11 Million Series A Raised For Computational Peptide Therapeutics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 3, 2025

ProteinQure, a computational peptide therapeutics company, announced the closing of an $11 million Series A financing round. The funding round was led by Tom Williams of Heron Rock Fund, with participation from Golden Ventures, Kensington Capital, and select returning investors. This brings ProteinQure’s total funding to $16 million across seed and Series A rounds.

Heron Power: $38 Million Series A Raised For Energy Infrastructure Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 3, 2025

Energy infrastructure company Heron Power announced that it raised $38 million in Series A funding led by Capricorn Investment Group’s Technology Impact Fund, with participation from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Energy Impact Partners, Gigascale Capital, Powerhouse Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, and former Tesla CFO Zach Kirkhorn. This funding round brings the total raised by Heron Power to $43 million.

Dojo: $190 Million Raised For Payments Technology Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Dojo, a leading UK payments technology provider, announced it has secured an investment of $190 million from Vitruvian Partners. The funding marks the first equity raise in Dojo’s history.

Javara: Series C Raised For Delivering Clincal Trial Access At Point Of Care

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Javara, a leading integrated research organization (IRO) that delivers clinical trials at the point of care through strategic partnerships with healthcare organizations, announced it has secured significant growth investment in Series C funding from existing and new community-based investors.

AssistIQ: $11.5 Million Secured For Helping Hospitals Manage Supply Chains

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

AssistIQ, an AI company utilizing computer vision to transform how hospitals manage surgical and procedural supply chains, announced it has closed an $11.5 million Series A round led by Battery Ventures, with participation from return investor Tamarind Hill.

Conduit: $36 Million Series A Secured For Cross-Border Payments Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Wander: $50 Million Series B Raised For Vacation Rental Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Wander is a company aiming to address problems with the short-term rental market that announced a $50 million Series B funding round, co-led by QED Investors and Fifth Wall with participation from Redpoint Ventures, Uncork, Starwood, and Breyer Capital and many other returning and new investors.

Chalk: $50 Million Series A Raised At $500 Million Valuation For AI Inference Data Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Chalk, a data platform for AI inference, announced that it has raised a $50 million Series A at a $500 million valuation. Felicis led the round with participation from Triatomic Capital and existing investors General Catalyst, Unusual Ventures, and Xfund.

Creatify: $15.5 Million Series A Raised For AI Ad Agent For Video Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Creatify, an AI platform that powers high-performance video advertising, announced $15.5 million in Series A funding, co-led by WndrCo and Kindred Ventures. The funding round brings Creatify’s total funding to $23 million, with early investors including NFDG, Millennium New Horizons, Creator Ventures, and Leadout Capital.

SemperVirens Venture Capital: Accelerator Program Launched To Help Startups Grow

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

SemperVirens Venture Capital, a venture firm investing in companies shaping the future of health, wealth, and work, announced the launch of the SemperVirens Accelerator — which is a founder-focused initiative designed to help early-stage startups sharpen their distribution strategy, connect with industry leaders, and scale faster by engaging directly with commercial decision makers across healthcare, benefits and work ecosystems.

Interactly AI: Pre-Seed Funding Raised For Healthcare Administration Automation Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Interactly AI announced the closing of a pre-seed funding round to support the growth of its multimodal AI platform for healthcare administration. Nava Davuluri (CEO) and Shiva Chaitanya (CTO) co-founded Interactly AI to address the pressing challenges of healthcare administration by streamlining both front- and back-office workflows, empowering providers to deliver more efficient and patient-focused care.

Portless: $18 Million Raised For Transforming Global E-Commerce

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Portless, a U.S.-based global e-commerce fulfillment company, announced the closing of its latest funding round at $18 million. The funding round was led by Commerce Ventures, with participation from eGateway Capital, Ground Up Ventures, and FJ Labs. This funding will advance Portless's mission to transform the direct-to-consumer (DTC) industry by addressing critical pain points for U.S. and European brands navigating rising tariffs, regulatory changes, and supply chain inefficiencies.

R1: Investment Raised From Khosla Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

R1 (an industry leader in managing and intelligently automating healthcare revenue management with over 20 years of experience) announced an investment from Khosla Ventures. The funding follows the launch of R37, R1’s enterprise-grade AI lab developed in partnership with Palantir, which is dedicated to strengthening the financial health of providers through core agentic AI applications.

Unbound: $4 Million Raised For Helping Enterprises With AI Tools

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Unbound announced it has raised $4 million. This oversubscribed seed round was led by Race Capital, with participation from Wayfinder Ventures, Y Combinator, Massive Tech Ventures. The round also included Alpha Square Group, Northside Ventures, Liquid2, Pioneer Fund, Scale Asia Ventures, SBXI and notable angels including Ram Shriram (founding board member at Google), Dr. Trishan Panch (CSO LuminHealth), Dr. John Brownstein (Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children’s hospital), Taro Fukuyama (CEO, Fond), Eli Brown (CEO, Guilded, acquired by Roblox), Chris Siakos (CEO Sinefa, acquired by Palo Alto Networks), Joe Vadakkan (CISO, Ex- CRO), Zain Rizavi (Cloudflare, Ridge VC), Finbarr Taylor (CEO, Shogun) alongside other silicon valley and cybersecurity veterans.

TruTechnologies: Significant Growth Investment Raised From LLR

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

LLR Partners announced a strategic growth investment in TruTechnologies, a provider of real-time clinical trial oversight. LLR’s growth capital and value creation resources will be dedicated to helping TruTechnologies’ expansion as it transforms how pharmaceutical companies, together with clinical research organizations and research sites, oversee, monitor, and manage biological samples and study workflows throughout the clinical trial lifecycle.

Rillet: $25 Million Series A Raised For AI-Based ERP Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Rillet, an AI-native ERP (enterprise resource planning) platform, announced $25 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital. This funding round includes existing investors First Round Capital, Creandum, Susa Ventures and top angels, such as former NetSuite CFO, Ron Gill and Lee Kirkpatrick, former Twilio CFO.

Endurosat: €43 Million Raised For Satellite Constellations-As-A-Service Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

EnduroSat, a leading provider of satellite constellations-as-a-service, today announced a €43 million investment led by Founders Fund.

Clear Current: Over $4 Million Secured For Launching AI-Based Virtual Energy Manager for Enterprises

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Clear Current, which is the first AI platform to offer a comprehensive virtual energy manager for enterprise businesses, announced it has secured over $4 million in an oversubscribed Seed Round. Rho Ignition led the round, with participation from Coreline Ventures and Avesta Fund.

Traceloop: $6.1 Million Secured For Making AI Agents Production-Ready

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Pallet: $27 Million Series B Raised For Logistics AI Workforce Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Pallet, which is the company behind CoPallet, the AI workforce for logistics, announced a $27 million Series B round led by General Catalyst, with continued support from Bain Capital Ventures, Activant Capital, and Bessemer Venture Partners. Dan Lewis (CPO at Microsoft, co-founder at Convoy), Amit Agarwal (former President at Datadog), Girish Rishi (former CEO at BlueYonder), Michael Capellas (former CEO at Compaq), Matt McKinney (CEO at Loop), and Aatish Nayak (Head of Product at Harvey) participated in this funding round.

Blues: $25 Million Raised For Advancing Cloud Connected Intelligent Products

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

Blues, an Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity solutions company, announced the closing of its latest $25 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Blues has previously raised $66 million in funding.

Clair: $23 Million Series B Raised For Earned Wage Access Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

Clair, a pioneering fintech company offering Earned Wage Access (EWA), originated by national bank Pathward, announced that it has raised $23.2 million in its Series B led by its Seed round lead investor Upfront Ventures, with participation from existing investors including Thrive Capital.

TrustCloud: $15 Million Raised For AI-Native Security Assurance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

TrustCloud, an AI-native security assurance platform for hybrid enterprises, announced it has raised $15 million in strategic funding led by ServiceNow Ventures, with participation from Cisco Investments, Presidio Ventures, OpenView Venture Partners, Tola Capital, and existing investors.

Firehawk Aerospace: Strategic Investment Raised For Advanced Energetics And Propulsion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

Firehawk Aerospace, a defense technology leader specializing in advanced energetics and propulsion technologies, announced that it has received a pivotal land grant and capital investment from the State of Oklahoma and federal leaders, including Governor Kevin Stitt, U.S. Representative Tom Cole, U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin, and Representative Trey Caldwell.

Vontive Reveals $150 Million Securitization With Citi As Equity Investor

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

Vontive, a technology company standardizing the business-purpose mortgage, announced an equity investment from Citi. Vontive also launched a $150 million securitization, VNTV 2025-RTL1.

DreamPark: $1.1 Million Seed Raised For Advancing Downloadable XR Theme Park

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

DreamPark, the creator of the world’s largest downloadable mixed reality (XR) theme park, announced it raised $1.1 million in seed funding led by Long Journey Ventures, with participation from Founders Inc.

Deccan AI: Funding Raised From Prosus

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

Deccan AI, a company specializing in pristine data for AI model training and evaluation, announced that it has raised funding from Prosus Ventures. The funding will advance product development, expand the team, and fuel market expansion.