Startups

VIA: $28 Million (Series B) Raised For Accelerating Data & Identity Protection Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Via Science announced it has raised a $28 million Series B investment to accelerate its high-security, easy-to-implement data and identity protection platform for governments and enterprises. And VIA restricted this highly oversubscribed round to the most experienced and commercially relevant new investors, including Bosch Ventures (lead), BMW i Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, and Sentinel Global. The new investors joined Westly Group and selected existing investors to make up the minority investment.

Soluna: $5 Million In Non-Dilutive Debt Financing Raised From Galaxy Digital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Soluna Holdings - a developer of green data centers for intensive computing applications, including Bitcoin mining and AI - announced that it has successfully closed a $5 million loan facility with Galaxy Digital, a financial services and investment management innovator in the digital asset and blockchain technology sectors.

Madison Scientific: $7 Million (Seed) Raised To Develop Electro-Mechanical Solutions For Patients With Neurologic Conditions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Madison Scientific (MadSci) - a private medical device company developing smart electro-mechanical solutions for patients with neurologic conditions - announced it has secured $7 million in a fully subscribed seed financing round. The funding round was co-led by WARF Ventures, the Isthmus Project, and a medical device entrepreneur/investor, with participation from other institutional investors, family offices, and angel investors. Funds will be used to grow the MadSci team, expand preclinical testing, and advance prototype development of the company's innovative SmartShunt Hydrocephalus Management System.

Level: $2.6 Million Raised And DeFi Yield Stablecoin Debuted

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Peregrine Exploration (a blockchain development and research company) announced the official debut of Level USD (lvlUSD), a stablecoin with DeFi-native yield, and an additional $2.6 million in strategic funding led by repeat investor Dragonfly to accelerate its mission to unlock permissionless finance. And Polychain also participated again, along with new investors, including Flowdesk, Echo syndicates Native Crypto (formerly known as Comfy Capital) and Feisty Collective by Path, and angel investors Sam Kazemian (Frax) and Albert Chon (Injective). The company has now raised a total of over $6 million.

GrubMarket: $50 Million (Series G) Raised At $3.5+ Billion Valuation For Food Supply Chain Industry AI Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

GrubMarket, an AI-powered technology enabler and digital transformer of the American food supply chain industry and the largest private food technology company in the US announced that it raised around $50 million in a significantly higher valuated Series G funding round from Liberty Street Funds, 3Spoke Capital, ROC Venture Group, Portfolia, Pegasus Tech Ventures, Joseph Stone Capital, and other unnamed participants. This funding round values GrubMarket at over $3.5 billion.

Featherless.ai: Investment Raised From Airbus Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Airbus Ventures announced it is investing in Featherless.ai, the leading serverless AI inference platform. And Featherless.ai’s innovation optimizes GPU utilization, eliminates costly downtime, and dramatically reduces operational costs, enabling Featherless.ai to offer AI inference at significantly lower costs.

Vista: Private Aviation Group Raises $600 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Vista, which is the world’s leading global private aviation group, has signed a definitive agreement for an equity investment of $600 million from a consortium of investors led by leading Asian investment firm RRJ Capital. This funding marks another significant milestone in Vista’s historic growth journey and validates the confidence in the group’s strategic vision and business model.

Popfly: $2 Million (Seed) Raised For Outdoor Creator Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Popfly, a platform and team of experts helping brands and creators work seamlessly together, announced it has secured over $2 million in seed financing. Led by investor Rand Currier, early significant investor in ShopMy and other startups, the funding round saw participation from early TikTok leaders and founders of Meridian Link, Right Side Up, and Farmers Business Network.

Curevo: $110 Million (Series B) Raised For Advancing Amezosvatein Shingles

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Curevo Vaccine - a privately-held clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to developing varicella zoster virus (VZV) vaccines with improved tolerability - announcd the closing of a $110 million Series B round to advance the development of amezosvatein, its vaccine for shingles. Leading the round is new investor Medicxi (a European biotech-focused investment firm). And joining Medicxi is an international group of investment funds, including OrbiMed, HBM Healthcare Investments, and Sanofi Ventures along with existing investors RA Capital Management, Janus Henderson Investors, Adjuvant Capital, and founding investor GC Biopharma.

Lightkeeper: Growth Investment Raised From PSG

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Lightkeeper, a leading data, analytics, risk management, and reporting solutions provider for investment managers, announced a growth investment from PSG. This leading growth equity firm partners with software and technology-enabled services companies to drive transformational growth.

ResiQuant: $4 Million (Seed) Raised For Transforming How Property Carriers Scale In Regions Prone To Climate Risks

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

ResiQuant announced it closed a $4 million seed funding round led by LDV Capital, with participation from Foothill Ventures, Pear VC, Alumni Ventures, and several strategic angel investors. The funding will accelerate ResiQuant's mission to transform how property insurers assess and manage catastrophe risks, bringing much-needed stability to markets struggling with climate volatility and seismic hazards.

Gradial: $13 Million (Series A) Secured For Building AI Marketing Operations Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Gradial, an AI startup transforming enterprise marketing operations with AI agents, announced it has secured $13 million in Series A funding, bringing its total capital raised to nearly $20 million. The Series A funding round was led by Madrona and participated in by Pruven Capital, General Advance, Outsiders Fund, and DLA Piper.

360 Privacy: $36 Million Raised From FTV Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

360 Privacy, a leading digital executive protection platform, announced that it has secured a $36 million growth equity investment from FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity firm with a successful track record of investing across the enterprise technology landscape. And this investment will enable 360 Privacy to expand its engineering and revenue teams, accelerate technology and product innovation, and further enhance its ability to deliver customer service to safeguard organizations and their executives.

RedotPay: $40 Million (Series A) Secured For Crypto Payment Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

RedotPay, a leading crypto payment platform, announced the closing of a $40 million Series A funding round led by Lightspeed following a commitment in December 2024, with significant investments from HSG and Galaxy Ventures. The funding round also saw participation from DST Global Partners, Accel, Vertex Ventures (Temasek-backed VC), among other investors.

Maxion Therapeutics: £58 Million (Series A) Closed For Developing KnotBody Drugs For Ion Channel- And GPCR-Driven Diseases

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

Maxion Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing antibody-based KnotBody drugs for ion channel- and G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR)-driven diseases, announced that it has raised $72 million (£58 million) in a Series A financing. The funding reaffirms the potential of Maxion’s proprietary KnotBody technology and development pipeline and its opportunity to address significant global markets.

Nous Infosystems: Strategic Investment Raised From TA Associates

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

Leading global private equity firm TA Associates announced the completion of a strategic growth investment in Nous Infosystems, a global provider of AI-powered product and data engineering solutions to help drive digital transformation for its customers.

Occuspace: $6 Million Secured For Space Utilization Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

Real estate is known as the most significant and oldest asset class in the world, and one too often, which is being managed without data. And the inefficiency is notable, with an estimated 1 billion square feet of wasted space in the U.S. alone. By providing data on how property is used, Occuspace helps clients create smarter buildings that increase efficiency, reduce environmental footprints, and improve user experience.

Homeostasis: $1.2 Million Secured For Synthesizing Graphite From Waste Carbon Dioxide

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

Homeostasis, an advanced materials startup in Washington state, announced a $600,000 pre-seed fundraise, along with matching funds from the Washington Department of Commerce. The investments come from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, Kayak Ventures, and angel investors.

Qolab: Investment Raised From Applied Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

Qolab - a leading innovator in quantum computing hardware - announced an investment from Applied Ventures, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials. This Series A funding marks a significant milestone in the collaboration between Qolab and Applied Materials to accelerate the development and scalable manufacturing of superconducting qubits.

HITRUST: Cybersecurity Assurance Company Raises Growth Investment From Brighton Park

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

Brighton Park Capital announced a growth investment in HITRUST, a leader in information security assurance for risk management and compliance.

Adara Ventures: First Close Of €100 Million AV4 Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

Adara Ventures - which is a European venture capital firm specializing in early-stage deep tech investments - announced the first closing of its fourth flagship fund, AV4, targeting €100 million in capital commitments. And this new fund reinforces Adara’s commitment to delivering strong returns in strategic sectors, including cybersecurity, applied AI, digital infrastructure, hardware components, digital health, and space.

RetinaLogik: $1.1 Million Raised To Help Eye Care Professionals Perform Essential Tests

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

RetinaLogik - a Calgary-based company - announced it has successfully completed a $1.1 million funding round and has received Health Canada’s Class II medical device approval for its technology.

Latigo Biotherapeutics: $150 Million (Series B) Raised For Advancing Non-Opioid Pain Therapeutics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

Latigo Biotherapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing non-opioid pain treatments that target pain at its source, announced it has closed $150 million in a Series B financing. The proceeds from the financing will support the advancement of the company's highly selective Nav1.8 inhibitors currently in clinical development for the non-opioid treatment of pain and the development of Latigo's broader pipeline.

Laplace: $22 Million Raised For Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

Laplace Interventional, a Minnesota-based medical device company developing a transcatheter tricuspid valve technology, announced that it has completed its Series C financing led by a non-disclosed global strategic investor along with investments from Aphelion Capital, Engage Venture Partners, Unorthodox Ventures, JWC Venture and Features Capital. The company also announced the addition of Ned Scheetz, Founding Managing Partner at Aphelion Capital, to its Board of Directors.

Aryon Security: $9 Million (Seed) Secured For Transforming Cloud Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

Aryon Security announced it exited stealth with its Cloud Security Enforcement Platform, which is creating a transformative approach to enterprise cloud security that prevents cloud risks before they are deployed in production systems, which is an industry first. Created by alumni of the elite Matzov unit in the Israel Defense Forces, Aryon has raised $9 million in seed funding led by Viola Ventures and Blumberg Capital.

Cino: €3.5 Million Raised To Transform Shared Payments With Virtual Cards To Split Bills

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

Cino—a real-time shared payment app that finally lets people pay together in a seamless, single transaction—announced it has raised €3.5 million in seed funding led by Balderton Capital. Connect Ventures and leading angels, including Barney Hussey-Yeo (founder of Cleo), also participated. This funding will support Cino’s launch in the UK, which already has a growing waitlist, and continued growth across Europe.

Lumafield: $75 Million (Series C) Raised For X-Ray CT Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 16, 2025

Lumafield, a developer of industrial X-ray CT technology, announced it has closed a $75 million Series C funding round. This funding cements the company’s position as a leader in advanced manufacturing as the U.S. renews its focus on manufacturing supremacy and companies around the world reconfigure their supply chains in response to strategic threats. IVP led the round, which includes new investors G2 Venture Partners and Wellington Management along with existing investors Spark Capital, DCVC, Kleiner Perkins, Lux Capital, and Matter Venture Partners.

Accropeutics: $12 Million (Series B+) Closed For Developing Therapeutics For Immune Mediated Diseases

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 16, 2025

Accropeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering the development of novel therapeutics that target molecular mechanisms of regulated cell death for immune-mediated diseases, announced the closing of its $12 million Series B Plus financing. This funding round was led by Shenzhen Capital Group (SCGC), an existing investor, with participation from Morningside Ventures, also an existing investor, and new investors Leader Venture Investment (SZTI) and Hefei Sci-Tec Venture Capital (HFST).

Accenture Investing In OPAQUE For Advancing Confidential AI And Data Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 16, 2025

Accenture announced it has made a strategic investment in OPAQUE, a provider of a confidential AI platform that empowers organizations to run cloud-scale, general-purpose AI-based workloads using encrypted data and governed data sharing, with a focus on privacy, sovereignty, and compliance. This funding, made through Accenture Ventures, underscores Accenture’s commitment to accelerating AI adoption by helping enterprises unlock the full value of sensitive data.

MicroTransponder: $65 Million (Series F) Raised For Enhancing Vivistim Adoption For Chronic Stroke Recovery

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 16, 2025

MicroTransponder - which is one of the fastest-growing stroke companies - announced it is transforming the stroke continuum of care with its FDA-approved Vivistim Paired VNS System. The company also announced it has raised $75 million led by US Venture Partners (USVP) and the syndicate of current investors, Osage University Partners, Action Potential Venture Capital, GPG Ventures, The Vertical Group and Exceller Hunt Ventures, as well as two new investors, Gilde Healthcare and Longitude Capital.