Startups

Ataraxis AI: $20.4 Million (Series A) Raised For Transforming Precision Medicine In Cancer Care

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Ataraxis AI, a leading AI precision medicine company, announced its $20.4 million Series A financing led by AIX Ventures with participation from Floating Point, Thiel Bio, Founders Fund, Bertelsmann Investments, and existing investors Giant Ventures and Obvious Ventures. The funding round also received backing from angel investors and healthcare pioneers, including Mario Schlosser (co-founder and former CEO of Oscar Health) and Ryan Fukushima (COO of Tempus), and others. And leading researchers from OpenAI and DeepMind also participated.

Liminal: $5.8 Million (Seed) Raised For AI In Gaming Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Liminal Experiences - a new UGC gaming startup dedicated to harnessing AI to enable human-centered creativity - has emerged from stealth with $5.8 million raised to date in seed funding. The funding comes from prestigious games industry backers, including BITKRAFT Ventures, Riot Games, and OTK Media Group, with participation from angel investors, including Marc Merrill, founder of Riot Games.

Good Job Games: $23 Million (Seed) Raised For Mobile Gaming Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Good Job Games, a rapidly growing mobile game company based in Türkiye, announced it has secured $23 million in a seed funding round led by Menlo Ventures and Tripledot co-founder Akin Babayigit’s new games fund Arcadia to build a legacy entertainment company for players of all ages. And Good Job Games raised the large seed financing with a proven track record of popular games, Zen Match, Wonder Blast and Match Villains.

GigaCrop: $4.5 Million (Pre-Seed) Secured For Advancing Photosynthesis For Boosted Crop Productivity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

GigaCrop announced it raised a $4.5 million pre-seed round of funding led by Playground Global.

SaySo: $4 Million Secured For Retail Clearance Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

SaySo is an end-to-end clearance solution and price optimization platform that emerged from stealth in late 2024 and immediately secured $4 million in seed funding, led by mobility VC firm UP.Partners.

Hawcx: $3 Million (Pre-Seed) Raised To Transform Passwordless Authentication

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Hawcx, an innovator in passwordless authentication, announced it has secured $3 million in pre-seed funding. The funding round was led by Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Engineering Capital, with participation from seed-stage fund Boldcap. This funding round will advance Hawcx’s efforts to accelerate product development, grow its team, and scale sales and marketing initiatives.

Cybereason: $120 Million Raised For Advancing EDR Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Cybereason, a leading global cybersecurity company, announced a $120 million investment led by SoftBank Corp., SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and Liberty Strategic Capital to advance the company's global growth fueled by its endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions and its consulting services, enhanced by a strategic partnership with Trustwave. Manish Narula will serve as the company's new CEO.

Reflection AI: $130 Million Secured For Building Superintelligent Autonomous Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Reflection AI has emerged from stealth mode, focusing on creating autonomous coding systems. The company has raised $25 million in a seed funding round led by Sequoia Capital and CRV and $105 million in a Series A funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and CRV.

Ditto: $82 Million (Series B) Secured At $462 Million Valuation To Advance Edge-Native Resolution

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Ditto, a mobile database with built-in edge device connectivity and resiliency, announced it has raised $82 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round. The funding round brings Ditto’s post-money valuation to $462 million. This latest round, led by Top Tier Capital Partners and Acrew Capital, also included participation from existing and new investors, including Thomas Tull's U.S. Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), True Ventures, Amity Ventures, Fundrise, Friends & Family Capital, Advance Venture Partners, and Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ).

Quamcore: $9 Million (Seed) Raised For Building First Scalable 1 Million Qubit Quantum Computer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

QuamCore, a company redefining quantum computing scalability, announced today its emergence from stealth with $9 million in seed funding. The funding was led by Viola Ventures and Earth & Beyond Ventures.

Aescape: $83 Million Raised For Wellness Robotics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Aescape, a lifestyle robotics company pioneering AI massage for personalized recovery, announced it has raised $83 million in a strategic round led by Valor Equity Partners. The round also saw participation from existing investors, including Alumni Ventures, and NBA Champion and All-Star Kevin Love. With this latest funding, Aescape’s total funding is now at $128 million, enabling the company to scale operations, expand into new markets, and grow its partnerships with global brands.

Osivax: €10 Million Raised For Developing Vaccines To Provide Protection Against Respiratory Viruses

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Osivax - a biopharmaceutical company developing vaccines to provide broad-spectrum protection against highly mutating respiratory viruses - announced the first closing of its Series B financing, raising €10 million from new and existing investors.

Sofinnova Partners: €1.2 Billion Raised For Advancing Next Wave Of Life Sciences Innovation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Sofinnova Partners - a leading European venture capital firm in life sciences based in Paris, London, and Milan - announced it had raised €1.2 billion across its platform of investment strategies over the past year, including over €1 billion secured in the last quarter.

Tandem PV: $50 Million Secured For Perovskite Solar Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Tandem PV, an innovator in American perovskite solar technology, today announced it has secured $50 million in Series A funding and debt, led by Eclipse, with participation from Constellation Energy, Planetary Technologies, Uncorrelated Ventures, Trellis Climate, Tom Werner (former CEO of SunPower), Stifel Bank, CSC Leasing, and other existing and new investors. This funding will enable Tandem PV to construct a commercial-scale manufacturing facility in the U.S., accelerating the adoption of its high-efficiency solar panels and allowing the U.S. to reduce its dependency on foreign manufacturers while increasing its energy security.

LlamaIndex: $19 Million (Series A) Raised For Enterprise-Grade Knowledge Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

LlamaIndex, an agent development platform for automating knowledge work over unstructured enterprise data, closed a $19 million Series A round of funding, led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from existing investor Greylock. This funding round brings the total to $27.5 million.

Alta: $7 Million (Seed) Closed For AI Revenue Workforce Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Alta, an AI-based revenue workforce solutions provider, announced today that it has raised a $7 million seed financing round and has launched out of stealth. The funding round was led by Entrée Capital and Target Global, with additional funding from angel investor Ben Lang and others. Gavin Patterson, former President and Chief Revenue Officer at Salesforce, Nir Goldstein, Operating Partner at Greenfield Partners, and Yoram Teitz, Partner at General Atlantic, serve as strategic advisors.

Lila Sciences: $200 Million (Seed) Raised For Scientific Superintelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Bioplatform innovation company Flagship Pioneering has unveiled Lila Sciences, a company building the world's first scientific superintelligence platform and fully autonomous labs for life, chemical, and materials sciences. Lila raised $200 million in committed seed capital from Flagship Pioneering, along with General Catalyst, March Capital, ARK Venture Fund, Altitude Life Science Ventures, Blue Horizon Advisors, State of Michigan Retirement System, Modi Ventures and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) to support the further development of the AI platform, autonomous labs, and infrastructure for rapid scaling.

Nirvana Insurance: $80 Million (Series C) Secured For Transforming Commercial Insurance With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Nirvana Insurance, a leading AI-based commercial trucking insurer, announced an $80 million Series C funding round, valuing the company at nearly $850 million. This funding round arrives after a momentous year for Nirvana, which exceeded $100 million in Premiums, more than doubling year over year. This funding round was led by General Catalyst with continued support from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Valor Equity Partners.

Netforce: €45 Million Raised For Law Enforcement Technology Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Netforce, a law enforcement technology development company, announced a strategic investment commitment of €45 million from GEM Global Yield LLC SCS - which is a $3.4 billion private equity and alternative investment group.

Garuda Therapeutics: $50 Million (Series A-1) Secured For Advancing Blood Stem Cell Therapies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Garuda Therapeutics - a biotechnology company creating off-the-shelf and HSC therapies for a multitude of blood disorders - announced the completion of an approximately $50 million Series A-1 funding round. Investors included OrbiMed, Northpond Ventures, and Cormorant Asset Management, with new strategic investment from Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd., a Japan-based Global Specialty Pharmaceutical Company.

Supergut: Gut Health Company Raises New Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Supergut, a leading gut health and GLP-1 nutrition brand, announced the closing of a significant minority growth investment. To support this next chapter, Tracey Warner Halama, former CEO of Vital Proteins and industry veteran, will join Supergut as CEO. This funding round was led by Full Frame Growth Partners. And other participants in the investment include Supergut founding investor Dave Friedberg via The Production Board along with Cultivian Sandbox, Strand Equity, Access Capital, Alpha Edison, LivWell Ventures, and Rocana Ventures. Full Frame Founder & Managing Partner Bader Alam will join the board of directors.

Mote: $7 Million Raised For Advancing Carbon-Negative Biomass-To-Energy Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Mote - a technology leader in carbon-negative energy production - announced the first closing of its Series A funding round, securing $7 million in investment led by Nella Next and Preston-Werner Ventures. The funding round also included Counteract and other strategic partners committed to advancing U.S. energy security. And this first phase is part of a targeted $15 million Series A funding round.

Swap: $40 Million (Series B) Raised For E-Commerce Operating System

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Swap, an e-commerce operating system (OS) that connects operations on one platform for e-commerce brands, announced a $40 million Series B led by ICONIQ Growth, with participation from prior lead investors Cherry Ventures, QED Investors, and 9900 Capital. With this funding, Swap will enhance its dominance in the U.K. market, accelerate expansion into the U.S. and EU, and open new regions, including Australia and Canada. Swap also plans to penetrate underserved verticals like beauty, home goods, and consumer technology.

Archipelo: $12 Million Raised For Developer Security Posture Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

San Francisco-based cybersecurity company Archipelo announced it emerged from stealth with $12 million in funding to launch a transformative approach to software security: Developer Security Posture Management (DevSPM). This funding includes a $4 million pre-seed and an $8 million seed round, led by Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Tai, David Weisburd (10X Capital), Gil Penchina, Ed Roman (Hack VC), Anima Anandkumar, Samsung NEXT, Nima Capital, and Sangha Capital.

Odeko: $126 Million (Series E) Raised For Empowering Independent Food Businesses

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Odeko, an all-in-one operation and technology partner for thousands of local coffee shops, cafes, and other food and beverage businesses, announced it has raised $126 million in Series E funding. The funding consists of $96 million in equity led by B Capital and a $30 million credit facility from Banc of California.

Nervonik: $13 Million (Series A) Raised For Improving Peripheral Nerve Stimulation For Chronic Pain Relief

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Nervonik - a medical device company developing an opioid-free peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) system – announced it has closed a $13 million Series A funding round. This funding round was led by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), with participation from Foothill Ventures, Correlation Ventures, and other investors. And this funding follows Nervonik's earlier $4.4 million in SAFE and convertible note financings from Shangbay Capital, Camford Capital, Joyance Partners, Life Science Angels, Seraph Group, and other investors.

Nitricity: $10 Million Closed For Organic Fertilizer Plant

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Nitricity, a California startup electrifying the production of nitrogen fertilizer, announced $10 million in project funding from a strategic mix of capital providers that includes Elemental Impact and Trellis Climate to build a first-of-its-kind (FOAK) organic fertilizer facility in Delhi, California.

CollegeNET: Majority Investment Raised From Rubicon

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

CollegeNET, a software solutions provider for higher education, announced it has secured a majority investment from Rubicon Technology Partners, a private equity firm specializing in middle-market enterprise software investments. And this partnership will help accelerate CollegeNET’s growth and drive continued product innovation across its core offerings. Plus, founder Jim Wolfston will continue to lead the business and remain a significant shareholder. The terms of the investment were not disclosed.

Celestial AI: $250 Million (Series C1) Raised For Transforming AI Infrastructure With Photonic Fabric

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 11, 2025

Celestial AI, creator of the Photonic Fabric optical interconnect technology platform, announced today that it has raised $250 million in its Series C1 funding round led by Fidelity Management & Research Company, bringing the total capital raised to date to more than $515 million. Along with Fidelity Management & Research Company, new investors include funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Maverick Silicon, Tiger Global Management and Lip-Bu Tan, and participation from existing investors including AMD Ventures, Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), Temasek, Temasek’s wholly-owned subsidiary Xora Innovation, Porsche Automobil Holding SE and The Engine Ventures.

Mews: $75 Million Raised For Hospitality Technology Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 11, 2025

Mews, a leading hospitality technology platform, announced it has raised $75 million. Tiger Global led the round, alongside existing investors Kinnevik, Battery Ventures, and Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives.