Startups

Trilobio: $8 Million Closed For Whole Lab Automation For Biologists

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 6, 2025

Trilobio, a company building the fully automated robotic lab-in-a-box for biologists, announced it has raised a $8 million seed investment. Initialized Capital led the oversubscribed round, which included participation from Argon Ventures and Lowercarbon Capital.

CNaught: $4.5 Million Secured For De-Risking Carbon Credits For Buyers

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 6, 2025

CNaught, a platform making carbon credits more secure and scalable, announced $4.5 million in seed funding led by Bow Capital, with participation from FJ Labs, Silence VC, Karman Ventures, and Marketplace Capital.

FoodHealth Company: $7.5 Million Series A Closed For Expanding Nutrition Transparency

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 6, 2025

FoodHealth Company, a nutrition intelligence company formerly known as bitewell, announced it has raised $7.5 million in an oversubscribed Series A. The funding round was co-led by Reach Capital and Ulu Ventures, with participation from Supply Change Capital, ReThink Food, and support existing investors from Refinery Ventures, Mudita, Antler, and other returning investors.

Agree.com: $7.2 Million Seed Funding Raised For Invoicing And Payments Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 6, 2025

Agree, an all-in-one invoicing and payments platform, announced it has raised a $7.2 million seed round led by Tyler Hogge at Pelion Venture Partners, with significant participation from Blank Ventures and notable angel investor Gokul Rajaram.

Statsig: $100 Million Series C Raised At $1.1 Billion Valuation For Transforming Product Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 6, 2025

Statsig, a platform for data-driven product development, announced it has raised $100 million in Series C funding at a $1.1 billion valuation. The funding round was led by ICONIQ Growth, with participation from existing investors Sequoia and Madrona.

AI Fund: $190 Million Fund II Closed To Co-Found AI Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 6, 2025

AI Fund, a venture studio founded by renowned AI entrepreneur Andrew Ng, today announced the successful closing of its second fund, raising about $190 million in an oversubscribed round.

Gestalt Diagnostics: $7.5 Million Series A Raised For Expanding AI-Based Pathology Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2025

Gestalt, an innovator in AI-based digital pathology solutions, announced the completion of a $7.5 million Series A financing. The funding round was led by Cowles Ventures, TVF Funds, Inland Imaging Investments, KickStart Funds, and angel investors from the Pacific Northwest.

Blooming Health: $26 Million Series A Closed To Advance Social Care Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2025

Blooming Health, a social care technology platform, announced it has raised $26 million in a Series A funding round led by global software investor Insight Partners. Existing investors Afore Capital, Crossbeam Venture Partners, and Metrodora Ventures participated.

P-1 AI: $23 Million Raised For Building Engineering AGI For Physical Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2025

P-1 AI is a company known for building Archie, an AI agent aimed at cognitive automation of tasks that human engineers perform today when designing physical systems. The company also revealed a $23 million seed funding round. The Investors in P-1 AI’s seed round, led by Radical Ventures and included Village Global, Schematic Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, and several angels, including Jeff Dean, Peter Welinder (VP Product, OpenAI), and Bob van Luijt (Co-Founder and CEO, Weaviate), among others.

Omada: Investment Raised From GRO And Kirk Kapital

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2025

Omada—a leader of Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) software—announced a new phase in its partnership with existing investor GRO. Together with Kirk Kapital, Omada will take a majority ownership position to support its continued expansion and innovation.

Dawn Health: €11.5 Million Raised For Scaling Pharma Digital Health Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2025

Dawn Health, a leader in digital health, announced it has secured a €11.5 million funding round from its existing investors, Chr. Augustinus Fabrikker, the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO), and Trifork.

TTV Capital: Lynne Laube And Rachel Hamilton Named As Venture Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2025

TTV Capital, an early-stage fintech venture capital firm, announced that Lynne Laube and Rachel Hamilton have joined as venture partners. And in these roles, Laube and Hamilton will provide strategic counsel to TTV Capital's portfolio companies based on their decades of experience scaling early-stage fintech companies.

True Anomaly: $260 Million Raised For Building Space Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2025

True Anomaly announced its $260 million fundraising effort. The Series C funding was led by Accel, with participation from Meritech Capital and existing investors Eclipse, Riot Ventures, Menlo Ventures, 645 Ventures, ACME Capital, Space VC, Champion Hill Ventures, and Narya. Stifel Bank is providing debt capital.

Peek: Series A Raised For Virtual Leasing Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2025

Peek, a virtual leasing platform that helps property managers and owners accelerate the leasing process and reduce vacancy loss, announced that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding. The funding round was led by Moneta Ventures, with participation from Timber Grove Ventures and other existing investors.

Blacksmith: $3.5 Million Raised For High-Performance CI Cloud Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2025

Blacksmith, a high-performance CI cloud designed to compete with industry giants in an AI world, announced $3.5 million in seed funding led by GV (Google Ventures) and Y Combinator, with participation from angel investors including Spencer Kimball, CEO of Cockroach Labs; Peter Mattis, CTO of Cockroach Labs; and Rich Aberman, Co-Founder of WePay by J.P. Morgan.

Smith Point Capital: Over $360 Million Raised For Inaugural Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2025

Smith Point Capital Management—an operator-led venture capital firm shaping the intelligent enterprise—announced the final closing of its inaugural fund, Smith Point Capital Fund I. With over $360 million in aggregate commitments, Smith Point Capital Fund I exceeded its target of $300 million.

Sevii: Pre-Seed Funding Raised For Autonomous Agentic AI Defense Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 4, 2025

Sevii, a cybersecurity innovator working on a next-generation autonomous agentic AI defense platform, announced the closing of its pre-seed funding round. Overline led the round, which also included 10VC and SaaS Ventures.

Scamnetic: $13 Million Closed For AI Scam Detection Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 4, 2025

Scamnetic, a company focused on protecting individuals and businesses from digital threats using advanced AI technology, announced it received $13 million in series A funding. Roo Capital led the round, which 1st and Main Growth Partners, SaaS Ventures, and Riptide Ventures also joined. This series A funding round brings the total investment in Scamnetic to $16 million.

SquareX: $20 Million Raised For Transforming Browser Detection and Response

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 4, 2025

SquareX, a pioneer in Browser Detection and Response (BDR), announced it closed a $20 million in Series A funding led by SYN Ventures, a leading venture capital firm focused on cybersecurity investments, with participation from existing investor Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital SEA).

CND Life Sciences: $13.5 Million Series A Closed For Neurodiagnostics Innovations

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 4, 2025

CND Life Sciences announced that it has raised $13.5 million in its Series A equity financing round, with $8.6 million in its most recent Series A3 offering. CND's latest Series A3 round included funding from existing investor groups like Cambrian Capital Partners, Tanis Ventures, Lupo Labs, Top Corner Capital, HonorHealth, Triana, Gold Bench Capital, and BlueStone Ventures, and from new investors Labcorp, MBX Capital, and Vilas Ventures.

SETWorks: Strategic Investment Raised From Polaris Growth Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 4, 2025

SETWorks, a software provider for disability service agencies and human services providers, announced it has secured a strategic growth investment from Polaris Growth Fund (PGF). Launched in the early 2000s, SETWorks offers industry-leading software and services built specifically for the disability services sector, empowering organizations to spend more time impacting the lives of the individuals they serve.

Axibo: $12 Million Raised For Developing Humanoid Robots

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 4, 2025

Axibo - a Waterloo-based robotics innovator known for its 4D volumetric capture technologies and serving customers like Netflix and Apple - announced a $12 million funding round. This funding includes $11 million from prominent external investors and $1 million from Axibo's founders, Anoop Gadhrri, Sohaib Al-Emara, and Reiner Schmidt, whose passion for robotics started in 2019 with their university's first autonomous vehicle.

Persona: $200 Million Raised At $2 Billion Valuation For Agentic AI Verified Identity Layer

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 4, 2025

Persona, a leading verified identity platform, announced a $200 million Series D funding round, bringing the company's valuation to $2 billion. The funding round was co-led by Founders Fund and Ribbit Capital, with participation from existing investors including BOND, Coatue, First Round Capital, Index Ventures, and Chemistry.

CIV Launched With $210 Million Fund To Invest In Companies Reshaping Industries

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 4, 2025

CIV, an investment firm focused on backing and building transformative companies that transform critical industries, announced the closing of its inaugural CIV Fund One. This fund has been oversubscribed, with over $210 million in commitments.

Mivium: $5 Million Raised For Semiconductor Material Science Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 2, 2025

Mivium, a leading innovator in semiconductor material science, announced the completion of a $5 million equity financing round through Equifund Crowd Funding Portal. This brings Mivium's total funding to $6.34+ million, advancing the company's mission to deliver high-purity, wide-bandgap materials such as GaN (gallium nitride) to the global market.

Zucara Therapeutics: $25 Million Series B Closed For Diabetes Life Sciences Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 2, 2025

Zucara Therapeutics - a diabetes life sciences company developing ZT-01, which is the first once-daily therapeutic to prevent hypoglycemia (low blood glucose levels) in people with diabetes - announced that it has completed the second and final closing of its $25 million Series B funding.

dub: $30 Million Series A Closed For Scaling Copy-Trading Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 2, 2025

Copy trading app company dub announced a Series A funding round of $30 million, co-led by Notable Capital and Neo, with participation from Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners, Peak6 Strategic Capital, and Correlation Ventures. This funding includes a $5.5 million venture debt facility provided by Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a division of First Citizens Bank. This funding comes just one year after launching from stealth and surpassing 1 million downloads and dub has now raised a total of $47 million.

Astronomer: $93 Million Series D Raised For DataOps Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 2, 2025

Astronomer (the company behind Astro, a leading unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow) announced it has secured $93 million in Series D funding led by Bain Capital Ventures, along with Salesforce Ventures and existing investors including Insight, Meritech, and Venrock, with Bosch Ventures seeking to participate.

Epicore Biosystems: Series B Expanded To $32 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 2, 2025

Epicore Biosystems - a digital health solutions leader developing advanced sweat-sensing wearables - announced an additional $6 million in Series B funding, bringing its total Series B raise to $32 million. The follow-on funding round includes new backing from a San Francisco-based investor and several marquee angel investors, along with continued support from Alumni Ventures and Joyance Partners.

Omnidian: Over $87 Million Raised For Tranforming Renewable Energy Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 2, 2025

Omnidian, a provider of comprehensive protection and performance plans for residential and commercial solar and energy storage systems, announced it has secured over $87 million in funding commitment led by B Capital (a global multi-stage investment firm with a strategic partnership with the Boston Consulting Group). This funding also included participation from existing Omnidian investors Activate Capital, Liberty Mutual Investments, National Grid Partners, and WIND Ventures, and new investors like B Capital, Marunouchi Innovation Partners, BNP Paribas Solar Impulse Venture Fund, Citi Impact Fund, and Alumni Ventures.