Startups

Helical Fusion: $5.5 Million Series A Extension Raised To Advance Commercial Fusion Power Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Helical Fusion, a Tokyo-based developer of next-generation clean energy technologies, has closed a $5.5 million Series A Extension round, bringing the company’s cumulative fundraising to $38 million. The new capital expands the company’s investor base through participation from Ecrowd NEXT, a fund tailored for individual investors, as well as multiple corporate and individual backers.

Tracktile: $1.25 Million Seed Round Raised To Advance AI Operating System For Food And Beverage Manufacturers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Tracktile, a Canadian AI software company focused on modernizing operations for small and medium-sized food and beverage manufacturers, has secured a $1.25 million Seed investment to accelerate the development and expansion of its AI-powered Operating System. The funding round was led by BDC Seed Venture Fund and Island Capital Partners, with participation from Graphite Ventures, marking a significant step in Tracktile’s plan to bring enterprise-grade intelligent manufacturing tools to underserved operators across North America.

Multifactor: $15 Million Seed Funding Raised To Advance Post-Quantum Account-Sharing Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Multifactor, a post-quantum security platform designed to safeguard online accounts for both humans and AI agents, has secured a $15 million seed round amid accelerating demand for provably secure, shareable account access. The financing was led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Y Combinator, Taurus Ventures, Honeystone Ventures, Flex Capital, Pioneer Fund, Ritual Capital, Liquid2 Ventures, and several prominent operators in security, AI, and enterprise software, including Mohan and Padma Warrior, Gokul Rajaram, and Mathilde Collin.

Modo Energy: £25 Million Series B To Expand Global Electrification Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Modo Energy has secured £25 million in Series B financing to accelerate the global rollout of its data and valuation platform for electrification assets. The round was led by Molten Ventures, with additional participation from ETF Partners, MMC Ventures, and Fred. Olsen Limited.

Orq.ai: €5 Million Seed Funding Closed To Advance Enterprise AI Agent Deployment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Orq.ai has raised €5 million in an oversubscribed seed round to accelerate the development and adoption of production-grade AI agents across global enterprises. The round was led by seed + speed Ventures and Galion exe, with continued participation from Curiosity VC, Spacetime, XO Ventures, xdeck ventures, Waves Capital, and GoldenEggCheck. The new investment brings Orq.ai’s total funding to €7.3 million since its launch in 2022.

Ripple Foods: $17 Million In New Funding Raised And Becky O’Grady Named As CEO

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Ripple Foods has secured $17 million in new financing and appointed longtime board member Becky O'Grady as its new Chief Executive Officer, marking a significant leadership and capital infusion milestone for the Emeryville-based company. The funding round includes new participation from Material Impact and Rich Products Ventures, joined by continued support from S2G Ventures, Prelude Ventures, Fall Line Capital, Euclidean Capital, Tao Capital Partners, and Tim Koogle.

Siren: Strategic Investment Raised From Elastic

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Siren has secured a strategic investment from Elastic, expanding a decade-long collaboration focused on real-time search, AI technologies, and cross-agency investigative capabilities. The investment strengthens the companies’ unified platform, which is designed to help national security, law enforcement, compliance, and financial crime teams detect threats and resolve investigations more efficiently.

Quanta: $15 Million Series A Raised And Prism Real-Time Finance Platform Launched

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Quanta has secured a $15 million Series A round led by Accel, with participation from Operator Collective, Naval Ravikant, Designer Fund, Basecase, and several notable operators, including Akshay Kothari of Notion, Claire Hughes Johnson of Stripe, and Huey Lin of Affirm. The company also announced the launch of Prism, a new agentic reporting layer built on top of Quanta’s real-time accounting infrastructure.

YUV: $12 Million Series A Raised For Beauty Technology Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 5, 2025

YUV, a beauty-technology company founded by industry veteran and serial entrepreneur Francisco Gimenez, has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Nineyards Equity. The company is aiming to modernize one of the beauty sector’s largest and least digitized categories: professional hair coloring.

pH7 Technologies Secures $25.6 Million Series B To Advance Commercial Critical Metals Extraction

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 5, 2025

pH7 Technologies has raised an initial $25.6 million in Series B financing to scale its next-generation critical-minerals extraction platform, positioning the Vancouver-based company for broader commercial deployments across the global mining sector. The round was led by Fine Structure Ventures, with BHP Ventures joining as a strategic investor.

Helmet Security: $9 Million Raised To Advance Protection For Agentic AI Communications

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 5, 2025

Helmet Security has secured $9 million in funding from SYN Ventures and WhiteRabbit Ventures, positioning the company to expand its end-to-end security platform built for the fast-growing agentic AI ecosystem.

Oxzo: $25 Million Raised From S2G To Accelerate Global Expansion In Aquaculture Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 5, 2025

Oxzo has received a US$25 million strategic investment from S2G Investments, marking one of the company’s most significant milestones as it accelerates its expansion across the global aquaculture sector. The investment, which adds to existing support from Fiordo Austral and Altis, positions Oxzo to broaden its presence beyond its core markets of Chile, Norway, and Canada and bring its patented oxygenation technologies to additional international regions.

Connectbase Secures Investment From EAM And Acquires Cloud Age

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 5, 2025

Connectbase announced a significant expansion of its platform with the acquisition of Cloud Age, a SaaS provider of telecom invoice automation and spend management serving more than 1,700 global vendors. The deal strengthens Connectbase’s position as the Operating System for transacting across the global connectivity ecosystem by unifying discovery, quoting, spend intelligence, and automation within a single end-to-end workflow. The company also revealed a new growth investment from Equality Asset Management, which will support the Cloud Age acquisition and accelerate Connectbase’s global expansion and continued platform innovation.

Track Titan Raises $5 Million Seed Round To Expand Simracing Coaching Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 5, 2025

Track Titan has raised a $5 million seed round co-led by Partech and Game Changers Ventures, with additional participation from Sequel. Existing backers Axel Springer and Porsche also invested in the round.

UpTerra: New CEO Appointed And Investment Secured From Generation Food Rural Partners Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 4, 2025

UpTerra has appointed Stephen Birch as its new Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and has also secured a strategic investment from Big Idea Ventures’ Generation Food Rural Partners (GFRP) Fund. The announcement marks a significant step for the agricultural water-innovation company as it scales its technology across the United States.

Antares: $96 Million Raised To Advance Nuclear Microreactor Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 4, 2025

Antares, a rapidly growing advanced nuclear energy startup, has secured $96 million in Series B financing to accelerate development of its compact nuclear microreactor platform. The round was led by Shine Capital, with participation from Alt Capital, Caffeinated, FiftyThree Stations, Industrious, and others. The financing includes $71 million in new equity and $25 million in debt earmarked for equipment, factory expansion, and uranium procurement.

Mujin: $233 Million Closed To Scale Its Intelligent Robotics Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 4, 2025

Mujin, the Tokyo- and Atlanta-based automation technology company, has closed $233 million in the first tranche of its Series D round to speed global deployment of MujinOS, its intelligent robotics operating system. The raise includes $133 million in equity led by NTT Group with co-lead Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), and participation from Mitsubishi HC Capital Realty and Salesforce Ventures, alongside $100 million in debt financing from leading Japanese financial institutions.

Curative: $150 Million Series B At $1.275 Billion Raised To Accelerate AI-Driven Health Insurance Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 4, 2025

Curative has secured more than $150 million in Series B funding as the company pushes to scale its $0-out-of-pocket health insurance model and expand nationally. The new raise values the Austin-based insurer at $1.275 billion, marking its official arrival as a health-tech unicorn.

Lyric Bio: $6.6 Million Seed Funding Closed To Advance Donor-Derived Therapeutics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 4, 2025

Lyric Bio, a San Carlos–based biomanufacturing startup spun out of Prellis Biologics, has raised $6.6 million in oversubscribed seed financing to scale its next-generation production platform for donor-derived therapeutics. The round was led by The Venture Collective, with participation from Black Diamond Ventures, Draper Associates, Lucas Venture Group, Meiji Seika Pharma, SOSV, and other investors.

Nada: $10 Million Series A Raised To Scale Its Home Equity Investment Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 4, 2025

Nada has raised $10 million in Series A funding to accelerate the expansion of its home equity investment platform. The round was led by Interlock Partners, with participation from LiveOak Ventures and Riverwalk Capital Partners, alongside an expanded venture debt facility from Nomura Strategic Ventures.

LizzyAI: $5 Million Seed Funding Raised To Transform AI-Driven Job Interviews

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 4, 2025

LizzyAI, a New York-based AI-native interviewing platform, has raised $5 million in seed funding led by NEA, with participation from Speedinvest and Zero Prime Ventures. The company plans to use the capital to expand engineering and go-to-market teams, deepen product integrations, and advance its adaptive interview engine.

Curi Bio: $10 Million Series B Closed To Scale Human-Relevant Preclinical Platforms

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 4, 2025

Curi Bio has secured a $10 million Series B round led by Seoul-based contract research organization DreamCIS, funding that will accelerate the expansion of the company’s integrated human-relevant preclinical discovery platform. The investment deepens a strategic partnership aimed at improving the predictiveness of early-stage drug development and reducing clinical trial failure rates.

Pine: $25 Million Series Raised A To Expand AI Agent For Consumer Digital Chores

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 3, 2025

Pine has raised $25 million in Series A funding to scale its AI-powered agent designed to handle consumers’ digital chores, from negotiating bills to resolving service issues. The round was led by Fortwest Capital and will support the company’s push to advance its autonomous “ask-and-it’s-done” agent, which makes calls, handles emails and interacts with software on behalf of users.

Volve Capital: €9 Million Fund Closed To Back Day-Zero Tech Founders Across Benelux And DACH

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 3, 2025

Amsterdam-based Volve Capital has closed its first fund at €9 million, targeting pre-seed startups across the Benelux and DACH regions. Founded in 2024 by Dutch entrepreneurs Joost Bijlsma and Maurits Hovius, the firm focuses on “day-zero” founders and provides both capital and hands-on operational support across tech, data, GTM, marketing, operations, and finance.

Saporo: €7 Million Series A Raised To Scale Graph-Native Identity Security Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 3, 2025

Saporo has raised €7 million in Series A funding to accelerate the expansion of its graph-native identity security platform as demand for hybrid identity hardening continues to surge. The round was led by TIN Capital with participation from G+D Ventures, CDP Venture Capital’s Corporate Partners I – ServiceTech fund, XAnge, Lightbird VC, and Session VC, with Trachet advising on the transaction.

Axoltis Pharma: €18 Million Closed To Advance Phase 2 ALS Candidate NX210c

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 3, 2025

Axoltis Pharma has closed an €18 million Series A round to accelerate development of NX210c, its Phase 2 neurodegenerative-disease candidate for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). The raise will be deployed in two tranches, with the second contingent on Phase 2 SEALS trial results expected in Q2 2026.

Mirror Security: $2.5 Million In Pre-Seed Funding Raised To Advance AI Encryption Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 3, 2025

Mirror Security has raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding in a round led by Sure Valley Ventures and Atlantic Bridge, marking a significant milestone in the company’s push to expand its encrypted AI security platform. The Dublin-based startup is developing technology to protect sensitive data and secure large-scale artificial intelligence systems, as organizations face rising pressure to adopt AI responsibly and mitigate risks associated with data exposure and model manipulation.

Castik Capital To Buy Majority Stake In Interact Software To Accelerate Global Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 3, 2025

Funds managed by Castik Capital have agreed to acquire a majority stake in Interact Software from Unicorn Asset Management, Octopus Ventures, Perwyn Advisors, the former Chairman, the Executive management, and other minority shareholders. The investment is designed to accelerate Interact’s push to become the core operating system for the enterprise employee experience, with a focus on product expansion and targeted M&A.

Kalshi Hits $11 Billion Valuation With $1 Billion Series E As Prediction Markets Go Mainstream

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 3, 2025

Kalshi, a regulated prediction-market exchange turning real-world events into a new financial asset class, has raised $1 billion in Series E funding at an $11 billion valuation. The round was led by Paradigm, with participation from Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Meritech Capital, IVP, ARK Invest, Anthos Capital, CapitalG, and Y Combinator.

Eon: $300 Million At $4 Billion Valuation Raised To Unlock Backup Data As The Next Big Frontier For Enterprise AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 2, 2025

Eon, the fast-growing cloud infrastructure company turning dormant backups into live AI-ready data, has raised $300 million in Series D funding led by Elad Gil. The round brings Eon’s total funding to $500 million, less than two years after launch, and triples its valuation to $4 billion. Existing backers Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greenoaks, and BOND also returned, alongside Affinity, Omri Casspi, Vine Ventures, and others—marking one of the largest infrastructure financings of the year.