Startups

Google Announces AI Futures Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2025

Today, Google announced the AI Futures Fund. This new program will invest in and collaborate with startups that want to bring their innovative ideas to market using Google DeepMind's latest AI models. With this fund, Google will work closely with companies in various stages of growth while also providing access to Google’s advanced resources, expertise, and early iterations of the company’s latest AI models like Gemini.

Aztec Group: Minority Investment Raised From Warburg Pincus

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 11, 2025

Aztec Group, an international fund and corporate services provider to the alternative investments industry, announced the completion of its strategic partnership with global growth investor Warburg Pincus.

Hilo: $42 Million Series B Raised For Blood Pressure Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 11, 2025

Hilo (previously known as Aktiia), a blood pressure intelligence platform, announced an oversubscribed $42 million (over CHF 34 million) Series B funding round, co-led by Earlybird Health and Wellington Partners, with new investors Kfund and naturalX Health Ventures, and participation from existing investors redalpine, Khosla Ventures, Molten Ventures, Translink Capital, and Verve Ventures. The funding, which has brought the total financing above $100 million, will accelerate the company's mission to manage the world's blood pressure.

Redaptive: $650 Million Credit Facility Deal Signed With CDPQ And Nuveen

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 11, 2025

Redaptive, a leading Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) provider, announced the closing of a $650 million (C$903 million) credit facility from CDPQ, a global investment group, and Nuveen (the investment manager of TIAA). This deal strengthens Redaptive's ability to scale its innovative platform, meet accelerating customer demand, and deliver measurable business value through energy efficiency, renewable generation, and data-driven building performance.

Qlik: Significant Investment Raised For AI-Based Enterprise Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 11, 2025

Qlik, a leader in data integration, data quality, analytics, and AI, announced the closing of a previously disclosed significant minority investment led by a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA). As part of the deal, Thoma Bravo, remains Qlik’s majority owner and has made a new equity investment alongside ADIA. And a group of institutional investors have also co-invested. Originally signed in November 2024, the transaction has now received all necessary regulatory approvals.

Campus Ink: Strategic Investment Raised From High Street

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 11, 2025

Campus Ink is a company that has emerged as a leader in collegiate merchandise and NIL monetization. It utilizes technology to transform how student-athletes build their brands and generate income. High Street Equity Partners has invested in Campus Ink.

Wonder Raises $600 Million To Expand The Mission Of Super Mealtime App

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 11, 2025

Wonder founder and CEO Marc Lore announced that the company has raised $600 million in additional funding to expand and further its goal of creating the super app for mealtime. This funding included participation from major existing shareholders, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Accel, GV (Google Ventures), Forerunner, and further investment from strategic investors, including Amex Ventures.

Koala Health: $20 Million Series B Raised For Transforming Chronic Pet Medication Delivery

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 11, 2025

Koala Health, a pet health company focused on transforming the healthcare experience, announced the closing of a $20 million Series B funding round led by Valspring Capital.

SimpleClosure: $15 Million Series A Raised To Simplify Shutting Down A Business

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 11, 2025

SimpleClosure, a company that builds a platform for shutting down a startup, announced it has raised $15 million in Series A funding. TTV Capital led the funding, which includes participation from existing investors Infinity Ventures, Anthemis Global, Foxe Capital, and Vera Equity, new investors The LegalTech Fund and Carta, and additional angels. This new funding round brings SimpleClosure’s total funding to over $20 million.

Tobin Scientific: $65 Million Raised For Advancing Life Sciences Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 11, 2025

Tobin Scientific, a provider of cGMP storage, biorepository services, and specialized logistics for the life sciences industry, announced that it has closed a significant capital raise to support its next growth phase. Denali Growth Partners and Truck 9 Partners led this minority growth equity investment, and Eastern Bank provided a comprehensive financing package to support Tobin Scientific's growth plans.

Carta Healthcare: $18.25 Million Series B1 Funding Raised For Advancing Clinical Data Abstraction

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 11, 2025

Carta Healthcare, a provider of AI-based clinical data abstraction, announced it has secured $18.25 million in Series B1 financing. The funding was led by UPMC Enterprises, with participation from new strategic investors, including MemorialCare Innovation Fund, Rex Health Ventures (the investment fund for the UNC Health), Tampa General Hospital Ventures and support from existing investors Memorial Hermann Health System, Frist Cressey Ventures, Storm Ventures, Paramark Ventures, CU Healthcare Innovation Fund, and Mass General Brigham Ventures.

Wonderskin: $50 Million Series A Raised For Advancing Retail Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 11, 2025

Wonderskin, an innovative beauty brand behind TikTok's viral peel-off Wonder Blading Lip Stain Masque and many other tech-infused cosmetic products, announced it has secured a $50 million minority investment in its Series A funding round. The funding round was led by Insight Partners, a top-tier global venture capital and private equity firm known for backing high-growth companies like Shopify, Quince, Prose, The Farmer's Dog, and others.

PAQ Therapeutics: $39 Million Series B Raised To Address KRAS-Driven Cancers With High Unmet Need

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 11, 2025

PAQ Therapeutics, a biotechnology company that is developing best- and first-in-class KRAS degraders for patients with lethal cancers lacking effective treatment options, today announced the completion of its $39 million Series B funding. The Series B funding round was co-led by Bayland Capital and MRL Ventures Fund (MRLV), with participation from Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. (JJDC), LAV Fund, BioTrack Capital, and existing investor Sherpa Health Partners.

Inductive Bio: $25 Million Series A Closed To Transform Small Molecule Drug Discovery

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 11, 2025

Inductive Bio, a company democratizing AI models to transform small molecule drug discovery, announced that it has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Obvious Ventures with participation from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health, Lux Capital, S32, Character, and Amino Collective, alongside angel investors including Oren Etzioni, Jeff Hammerbacher, Malay Gandhi, and Jakob Uszkoreit.

OX Security: $60 Million Series B Raised For Application Security Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 11, 2025

OX Security, a leader in Application Security, announced $60 million in Series B funding. The round was led by DTCP and included IBM Ventures, Microsoft, Swisscom Ventures, Evolution Equity Partners, and Team8. The company recently hit $10 million in sales and more than tripled its customer base over the past year.

Sett: $27 Million Series A Secured For Gaming-Focused Agentic AI Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 9, 2025

Sett, an Agentic AI platform for mobile gaming studios, announced it has emerged from stealth with a $15 million Series A funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, along with Saga VC, F2 Venture Capital, Vgames, and gaming kingpin Akin Babayigit (Arcadia Gaming Advisors, Tripledot).

AcquireROI: Funding Secured From Decathlon Capital Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 9, 2025

AcquireROI, a provider of performance-driven talent acquisition and recruitment marketing solutions headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, announced it has secured a growth loan from Decathlon Capital Partners.

Glide: $15 Million Series A Raised For Embedded Fintech Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 9, 2025

Glide, an embedded fintech platform helping traditional financial institutions compete in a digital-first world, announced a $15 million Series A funding round. Acrew Capital led the round, which was also participated in by Pear VC, Pathlight Capital, and strategic angels including Claire Hughes Johnson (former COO of Stripe), Paul Williamson (former CRO of Plaid), and Arash Ferdowsi (co-founder of Dropbox).

Clarium: $27 Million Series A Raised For Scaling AI-Based Healthcare Supply Chain Resiliency Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 9, 2025

Clarium, a market-leading AI-powered healthcare supply chain resiliency platform, announced a $27 million Series A funding round from Northzone. Existing investors, including General Catalyst, AlleyCorp, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Texas Medical Center Ventures, and 1984 Ventures, participated in the round, which brings Clarium's total funding to date to $43 million.

Jozu: $4 Million Raised For Scaling Enterprise AI Orchestration Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 9, 2025

Jozu, a company building enterprise-grade orchestration tools for AI applications, announced it has raised $4 million in seed funding. HalfCourt Capital led the round, which also included Mozilla Ventures, BrightSpark, AlleyCorp, Sentiero, and Union Bay Partners.

Amilia: $35 Million Secured For Advancing Innovation In The Recreation & Membership Industry

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 9, 2025

Amilia, a provider of management software and payment solutions for the community and recreation industries, announced it has raised $35 million to advance its next phase of growth and innovation. Vertu Capital led the funding round with additional participation from Amilia's current investors, Export Development Canada (EDC), the Canadian Business Growth Fund (CBGF), and Investissement Québec (IQ).

Una Software: $4.4 Million Seed Funding Raised For FP&A Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 9, 2025

Una Software, a company redefining Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) with AI-based performance-driven planning, announced it will unveil its latest product innovations soon.

Autobooks: $40 Million Investment Raised From Runway Growth Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 9, 2025

Runway Growth Capital announced a recently originated $40 million senior secured term loan to Autobooks, a financial technology innovator providing integrated payment, invoicing, and accounting solutions specifically tailored for small and medium-sized businesses.

Alt Mobility: Investment Raised From Beyond Capital Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 9, 2025

Beyond Capital Ventures (BCV) announced a recent investment in Alt Mobility. Alt Mobility is a full-stack electric vehicle as a service (EVaaS) company that specializes in integrated leasing and asset management of EVs for commercial fleets. BCV joins Alt Mobility's cap table and other differentiated investors, including Shell Ventures, Eurazeo, and EV2 Ventures.

Kouper: $10 Million Raised For Health Technology Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 9, 2025

Kouper, a health technology platform designed to transform care transitions, emerged from stealth with $10 million in funding from General Catalyst, 25Madison, and CVS Health Ventures. The company’s goal is to support the millions of patients transitioning across healthcare settings annually in the US. This funding also included several prominent healthcare angel investors and will be used to grow further and develop the Kouper team and product.

Valarian: $20 Million Raised For Isolation And Compartmentalized Infrastructure Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 8, 2025

Valarian, which is the company behind ACRA, a platform for enforced isolation and compartmentalized infrastructure, emerged from stealth, with $7 million in strategic funding. This brings the company’s total seed funding to $20 million.

HAYA Therapeutics: $65 Million Series A Closed To Deliver Precision RNA-Guided Medicines

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 8, 2025

HAYA Therapeutics - a biotechnology company pioneering precision RNA-guided regulatory genome targeting therapeutics that reprogram disease-driving cell states for rare, common, chronic and age-related diseases - announced that the company has raised $65 million in Series A funding. The funding round was led by Sofinnova Partners and Earlybird Venture Capital, with participation from Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly), ATHOS, +ND Capital, Alexandria Venture Investments, and LifeLink Ventures, with additional support from existing investors Apollo Health Ventures, Longview Ventures (an affiliate of Broadview Ventures), 4see ventures, BERNINA Bioinves,t and Schroders Capital.

mPower Technology: Over $21 Million Series B Raised For Solar Power Solutions For Space

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 8, 2025

mPower Technology, a leading provider of solar power solutions for space, announced it has raised over $21 million in Series B funding led by Razor's Edge Ventures and joined by Shield Capital.

UW-Madison Company Ubicept Raises $1 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 8, 2025

Ubicept—a company with technology developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has been selected as one of two winners in the inaugural TitletownTech Startup Draft. As a result, the company secured a $1 million investment from the Green Bay–based VC firm.

EdgeRunner: $12 Million Series A Funding Raised For On-Device AI Agents For Military And Enterprise

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 8, 2025

EdgeRunner AI, a leader in domain-specific, air-gapped, on-device AI agents for military and enterprise, announced the closing of its $12 million Series A fundraise. This funding round was led by Madrona Ventures with participation from seed lead Four Rivers Ventures and joined by new investors HP Tech Ventures and Alumni Ventures. This brings EdgeRunner AI’s total funding to $17.5 million.