Startups

Dyna Robotics: $23.5 Million (Seed) Closed To Bring Embodied AI Into The Real World

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 27, 2025

Dyna Robotics announced a $23.5 million seed round, which was co-led by CRV and First Round Capital. The funding will be used to bring embodied AI into the real world with cost-effective and easy to deploy robots for businesses of all sizes.

Mendel: $35 Million (Series B) Raised For Latin America-Based Travel Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 27, 2025

Mendel—Latin America’s leading enterprise spend management platform—announced the closing of a $35 million Series B round led by Base10 Partners. PayPal Ventures participated, and existing investors Infinity Ventures, Industry Ventures, and Hi.vc supported Mendel. Endeavor Catalyst is also investing.

Capital Markets Gateway: $30 Million (Series C) Raised For Transforming Equity Capital Markets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 26, 2025

Capital Markets Gateway (CMG) - a financial technology firm transforming the equity capital markets (ECM) - announced it recently closed a strategic $30 million Series C funding round, led by StageDotO with participation from existing investors. And CMG is backed by Bank of America, Barclays, Citi, Fidelity Investments, Franklin Templeton, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Canada, Shea Ventures and UBS.

Charm Security: $8 Million (Seed) Closed For AI-Based Customer Security Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 26, 2025

Charm Security - an AI-based customer security platform - announced its launch from stealth. And the company secured $8 million in seed funding led by Team8.

Navina: $55 Million (Series C) Raised For AI-Based Clinical Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 26, 2025

Navina, a leader in AI-based clinical intelligence, announced the completion of a $55 million Series C funding round, bringing the total funding to $100 million. The funding round was led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with participation from existing investors, including Vertex Ventures Israel, Grove Ventures, and ALIVE.

Styx Intelligence: $2.7 Million (Seed) Secured For Expanding AI-Based Digital Risk Protection

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 25, 2025

Styx Intelligence (Styx) announced the closing of its oversubscribed $2.7 million Seed round. The funding was led by BDC's Seed Venture Fund, with participation from FRAMEWORK Venture Partners, Top Down Ventures, and Sprout Fund. This deal marks a significant milestone in the company's journey to help organizations protect their digital footprint, reputation, and digital assets.

AMBOSS: €240 Million Raised For Medical Education Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 25, 2025

AMBOSS, a leading resource for medical education and clinical decision-making in Germany and the US, closed a €240 million funding round with new long-term investors, supporting the exploration of additional international markets and the expansion of its offering to nurses and other health care professionals.

CoLab Software: C$5.6 Million Raised For Collaboration Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 25, 2025

CoLab Software, a Newfoundland and Labrador-based software company, announced it has raised C$5.6 million in funding from Hibernia and Hebron Projects to grow local AI talent and product capabilities.

AirHelp: Significant Minority Investment Raised From Abry Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 25, 2025

AirHelp - a global leader in air passenger rights and compensation claims management - announced a significant minority investment from Abry Partners, a North American private equity firm. Abry will be buying a minority stake in AirHelp through a secondary investment, allowing AirHelp to return capital to its long-time supportive shareholders.

Ridango: Strategic Growth Investment Raised From Bregal Milestone

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 25, 2025

Bregal Milestone, a European software growth private equity firm, announced a majority strategic growth investment in Ridango, a global provider of mission-critical public transportation software. This investment is made in partnership with founder Erki Lipre and the Ridango management team. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Mission Clean Energy: Strategic Investment Raised From Ørsted

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 25, 2025

Mission Clean Energy announced a strategic investment from Ørsted, a leader in clean energy. This partnership marks a major milestone in Mission's development of utility-scale solar and battery energy storage projects across the US.

Susa Ventures: $175 Million Fund V Closed For Helping Seed-Stage Founders

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 24, 2025

Chad Byers, General Partner and Co-founder at Susa Ventures, announced that the firm launched a $175 million fund to help seed-stage founders launch and scale companies. Since 2013, the firm has been dedicated to pre-seed and seed-stage company building.

Noble Gas Systems: $4.2 Million (Series B) Secured For Developing Hydrogen Gas Storage Vessels

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 24, 2025

Noble Gas Systems - a developer and manufacturer of conformable high-pressure hydrogen gas storage vessels - announced it raised $4.2 million in this initial closing of Series B funding. The funds were provided by AP Ventures, which supported Noble Gas in its Series A Funding, with participation from new investors ALIAD (Air Liquide Venture Capital) and NOVA by Saint-Gobain.

Tempero Bio: $70 Million (Series B) Closed To Advance TMP-301 Into Phase 2 Trials For Substance Use Disorders

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 24, 2025

Tempero Bio - a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing transformative treatments for substance use disorders - announced the closing of a $70 million Series B financing. The funding was led by 8VC with participation from Aditum Bio, Khosla Ventures, and other investors.

Aura: $140 Million (Series G) Raised For AI-Based Safety Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 24, 2025

Aura, a leading AI-based online safety solution for individuals and families, announced its Series G funding round closing. Ten Eleven Ventures and Madrone Capital led the round, which included new investor AT&T Ventures. Existing investors Accel, Warburg Pincus, and General Catalyst also participated.

BuildOps: $127 Million (Series C) Closed At $1 Billion For Commercial Contractor Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 21, 2025

BuildOps, an all-in-one platform exclusively for modern commercial contractors, announced that it has raised $127 million in Series C funding led by Meritech Capital Partners. This advances the company to unicorn status with a valuation of $1 billion.

SkySpecs: $20 Million Raised For Renewable Energy Asset Health Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 21, 2025

SkySpecs, a leader in renewable energy asset health management, autonomous drone inspections, and tech-enabled software solutions, announced it raised $20 million in strategic growth capital led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with additional participation from key renewable energy investors including Statkraft and Equinor Ventures. This funding validates the confidence in SkySpecs' market leadership and its ability to drive innovation and scalability worldwide.

Weatherford Capital: Fund II Closed At $300 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 21, 2025

Private investment firm Weatherford Capital announced a $300 million close of Weatherford Capital Fund II. Consistent with Fund I's strategy, Fund II sustained a similar thesis, emphasizing investments in experienced values-based leaders operating growth-oriented companies in technology, financial services, and business and consumer services.

Stable Sea: $3.5 Million Secured For Global Stablecoin Offramping

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 21, 2025

Stable Sea, a stablecoin liquidity and orchestration company facilitating stablecoin offramping to global markets, announced a $3.5 million funding round led by Kindred Ventures with participation from Ludlow Ventures, DFS Lab, The Venture Dept. and The Fintech Fund. This funding will be used to further Stable Sea's mission of providing efficient, cost-effective and compliant stablecoin offramping solutions.

Quantexa: $175 Million (Series F) Raised At $2.6 Billion Valuation For Decision Intelligence Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 21, 2025

Quantexa, a leader in Decision Intelligence (DI) solutions for the public and private sectors, announced that it has completed a $175 million Series F investment round led by Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG). This latest funding round values the company at $2.6 billion. This milestone is driving Quantexa’s progress against its mission to help enterprises and government agencies across multiple markets stay ahead in the race for AI-driven DI.

Brainomix: £14 Million (Series C) Closed For Advancing AI Imaging In Healthcare

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 21, 2025

Brainomix, a company pioneering AI-based imaging tools in stroke and lung fibrosis, announced the completion of a £14 million ($18 million) Series C investment round. The funding round was co-led by prominent healthtech investors that include existing investors, Parkwalk Advisors, the UK's largest growth EIS fund manager, and the Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund (BIVF), along with new investor Hostplus via the IP Group Hostplus Innovation Fund. Hostplus is a leading Australian industry superannuation (pension) fund with over AUD$120 billion in funds under management. LifeSci Capital supported the funding round.

Sibel Health: $30 Million (Series C) Secured By Northwestern University Spinout For Advanced Monitoring Solutions For Patients

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 21, 2025

Sibel Health, a medical technology spinout of Northwestern University, announced the closing of $30 million in new equity financing and its 7th FDA 510(k) clearance. The equity funding was led by Sibel's existing investors, the Steele Foundation for Hope and Dräger, to accelerate the commercial deployment of the ANNE One monitoring platform.