Startups

Liongard Buying Darklight’s Vulnerability Prioritization Platform Cyio

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 13, 2025

Liongard, a leader in Attack Surface Management (ASM), announced the acquisition of the Darklight Cyio platform, an AI-based cyber risk solution that applies real-time threat intelligence and business context to risk prioritization.

Kargo: $18 Million Raised To Transform Inventory Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 13, 2025

Kargo, a leader in industrial AI technology, announced an $18.4 million investment led by Matter Venture Partners, with participation from previous investors Sozo Ventures and Founders Fund, and existing customers and new strategic investors Lineage and Armada Supply Chain Solutions.

Shield Technology Partners Launches With Over $100 Million In Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 13, 2025

Shield Technology Partners (STP) announced its launch, with initial funding of over $100 million from Thrive Holdings and ZBS Partners. STP is an AI-based managed IT service platform that transforms technology services through investment in innovation and a commitment to exceptional customer service.

bolttech: $147 Million Series C Closed At $2.1 Billion Valuation For Insurance Technology Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 13, 2025

bolttech, which is one of the fast-growing global insurtech companies, announced the addition of Sumitomo Corporation (one of Japan’s largest trading houses) and Iberis Capital (a leading private equity and venture capital manager in Portugal) as strategic investors.

Signify Bio: $15 Million Raised For Creating Personalized Medicines

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 13, 2025

Signify Bio, which is a pioneering biotechnology company harnessing the human body for the production of in situ protein therapeutics, announced an oversubscribed $15 million initial financing.

Muon Space: $146 Million Series B Raised For Scaling Satellite Constellations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Muon Space, a provider of end-to-end space systems specializing in mission-optimized satellite constellations, announced the closing of its oversubscribed $89.5 million Series B1 round, bringing total Series B funding to $146 million. The new funding round features $44.5 million in equity and $45 million in credit facilities, following the company's initial Series B close in August 2024. The B1 round was led by Congruent Ventures and included existing investors Activate Capital, Acme Capital, Costanoa Ventures, and Radical Ventures. Plus, Muon also welcomed new investor ArcTern Ventures to the syndicate.

Autonomize AI: $28 Million Series A Raised For Healthcare And Life Sciences Agentic Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Autonomize AI, a pioneer in AI-driven healthcare solutions, announced that it raised $28 million in Series A funding, bringing total capital raised to $32 million to date. Valtruis, The Cigna Group Ventures, Tau Ventures, and other strategic investors led the round. Plus, Asset Management Ventures, ATX Venture Partners, and Capital Factory are some of the company’s existing investors who also participated.

Vine Financial: Seed Funding Secured To Make Commercial Lending More Efficient

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Vine Financial, a commercial lending accelerator for banks and credit unions, has secured seed funding and assembled its board of directors.

Meter: $170 Million Series C Raised For Enterprise Internet Infrastructure Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Meter, a provider of internet infrastructure solutions for the enterprise, today announced it raised $170 million in a Series C funding round led by Hemant Taneja at General Catalyst, with new and existing investors like Baillie Gifford, Lachy Groom, J.P. Morgan, Microsoft, Sequoia Capital, Tishman Speyer, WndrCo, and 53 Stations.

Landbase: $30 Million Secured For Helping Businesses Find Customers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Landbase, an agentic AI company transforming how businesses grow, today announced it has raised $30 million in Series A funding. The funding round was co-led by Sound Ventures (the AI-focused fund co-founded by Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary) and returning investor Picus Capital. The funding round also included strong participation from other existing backers, including 8VC, A*, Firstminute Capital, and TheGP.

Volantis: $9 Million Seed Funding Raised For Advancing Photonically Integrated Computers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Volantis, a semiconductor startup developing photonically integrated computers for the AI era, today emerged from stealth and announced a $9 million seed funding round. The round includes backing from Alex Wang (Scale AI) and Trevor Blackwell (Y Combinator). Sam Altman backed Volantis in April 2022, betting on the need for foundational breakthroughs in computing long before today’s AI infrastructure limitations became apparent.

VectorWave: $2.5 Million Raised For Transforming Electromagnetic Spectrum

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

VectorWave announced $2.5 million in seed funding led by prominent dual-use investor J2 Ventures and Coalition Ventures.

Olyzon: $5 Million Raised For Advancing Agentic AI Platform For CTV Advertising

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Agentic CTV advertising platform Olyzon announced a $5 million seed extension round led by Cassius Capital, with continued participation from Ventech, Eurazeo, and strategic angels including Greg Coleman (former President of Criteo), Tom O'Regan (former CEO of Madison Logic), Cédric Mao (founder of Epic12), and Christophe Parcot (former executive at Ogury, Teads, and Yahoo). The funding round included $3.8 million in equity, which was complemented by non-dilutive funding from Bpifrance and a consortium of banking partners.

Paytient: $40 Million Raised For Advancing Market Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Paytient, a healthcare payments company helping people better access and afford care, announced it has secured $40 million from Trinity Capital. This facility will support Paytient's expansion into large group employer-sponsored plans, alternative health plans, the ACA marketplace, and Medicare, as plan-embedded out-of-pocket affordability or cost-smoothing solutions are becoming standard in health plan benefits.

Chckvet: Pre-Seed Funding Raised For Vet Clinic Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Chckvet, a fully integrated online scheduling, client communication, and analytics software for veterinary clinics, announced a Pre-Seed funding round.

Trucordia: $1.3 Billion Funding Raised At $5.7 Billion Valuation From Carlyle

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Trucordia announced that it will receive a $1.3 billion strategic investment from Carlyle’s Global Credit platform. The deal will reduce Trucordia’s leverage and simplify its governance structure by repurchasing units from existing minority investors.

Filament Syfter: $4.8 Million Series A Raised For Data Engine For Private Market Dealmakers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Filament Syfter, a leading AI-enabled data engine purpose-built for private market dealmakers, announced it has raised $4.8 million in a Series A funding round led by FINTOP Capital.

Flank: $10 Million Raised For Scaling Autonomous Legal Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Flank, a Berlin-based company that is building an autonomous AI legal agent for enterprise teams, announced a $10 million funding round led by global software investor Insight Partners, with continued participation from Gradient Ventures, the Seed fund designed for founders in AI, as well as 10x Founders and HV Capital.

Thread AI: $20 Million Series A Secured For Enterprise AI Workflow Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Thread AI, a leader in composable AI infrastructure, announced it has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Greycroft, with participation from Index Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Plug-and-Play, Meritech Capital, and Homebrew.

Uptick: Strategic Growth Investment Raised From PSG

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Uptick, a job management software for fire, safety, security, and field service professionals, announced a strategic growth investment from PSG. And PSG's investment aims to support Uptick's commitment to product innovation and continued global expansion, with a focus on accelerating growth in North America.

SWTCH Energy: Strategic Investment Raised For EV Charging Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

SWTCH Energy, a leading provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions, announced it has secured a strategic $4 million investment from Constellation Technology Ventures (CTV). This funding expands SWTCH’s Series B funding to $31.2 million, building on the momentum of its initial $27.2 million raise.

Impart Security: $12 Million Series A Raised For Application Detection And Response Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Impart Security announced the general availability of the industry's first Application Detection and Response Engineering Platform, trusted by security teams to build autonomous workflows for production environments. This launch is accompanied by a $12 million Series A funding round led by Madrona Ventures, with participation from CRV and 8-Bit Capital.

Plug And Play: $50 Million Closed For Fintech & AI Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 11, 2025

Plug and Play, which is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, announced the closing of its $50 million Fintech & AI Fund with nine institutional investors. Plug and Play runs nine funds in total.

Farsight: $16 Million Secured For Automating Financial Workflows

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 11, 2025

Farsight, a pioneering technology company transforming workflows and insights at financial institutions, has announced a Series A fundraise, raising $16 million in capital. This funding round was led by SignalFire, with participation from RRE Ventures, Link Ventures and K5 Ventures as well as contributions from many strategic angel investors at firms including Blackstone, Oaktree, Searchlight, Bank of America and more.

SpliceBio: $135 Million Series B Secured For Advancing Lead Program SB-007

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 11, 2025

SpliceBio, a clinical-stage genetic medicines company pioneering Protein Splicing to address diseases caused by mutations in large genes, announced the closing of a $135 million Series B financing co-led by new investors EQT Life Sciences and Sanofi Ventures, with participation from Roche Venture Fund, and all existing investors New Enterprise Associates, UCB Ventures, Ysios Capital, Gilde Healthcare, Novartis Venture Fund, and Asabys Partners.

Atraverse Medical: $29 Million Secured For Advancing Commercialization Of HOTWIRE

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 11, 2025

Atraverse Medical, a medical device company pioneering next-generation transseptal access technology, announced the closing of a $29.4 million follow-on financing to advance growth.

Wealthbox: $200 Million Secured For Advancing Financial CRM Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 11, 2025

Wealthbox, a CRM software platform for financial advisors, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement for a $200 million strategic majority investment from Sixth Street Growth.

Trustible: $4.6 Million Seed Funding Raised For AI Governance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 11, 2025

Trustible, a leading AI governance platform that enables safe and compliant AI adoption, today announced a $4.6 million Seed Series financing round. The round was led by Lookout Ventures, with participation from the Office of Eric Schmidt, Tau Ventures, Inner Loop Capital, Alumni Ventures, FoundersX, former Deloitte CIO Larry Quinlan, former Relativity CEO Mike Gamson, and former Washington DC Mayor Adrian Fenty, alongside existing investors Harlem Capital, Vamos Ventures, and JHH VC.

Glean: $150 Million Series F Raised At $7.2 Billion Valuation For Advancing Enterprise AI Agent Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 11, 2025

Glean announced it has raised $150 million in Series F funding at a $7.2 billion valuation, advancing the company's mission to transform how enterprises unlock their collective knowledge through AI. The funding round was led by Wellington Management, with participation from new investors including Khosla Ventures, Bicycle Capital, Geodesic Capital, and Archerman Capital; and existing investors including Altimeter, Capital One Ventures, Citi, Coatue, DST Global, General Catalyst, ICONIQ, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Latitude Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, and Sequoia Capital.

Fabriq: $25 Million Raised For Advancing Lean Manufacturing Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 11, 2025

Fabriq, the Lean Daily Management (LDM) SaaS platform that empowers frontline manufacturing teams, announced that it has closed a $25 million growth equity investment led by Expedition Growth Capital, alongside its existing investor OSS Ventures.