Startups

Tyba: $13.9 Million (Series A) Raised For Improving Profitability Of Energy Storage Projects

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 7, 2025

Tyba, a leading energy storage optimization platform, announced $13.9 million in Series A funding led by Energize Capital. This funding round includes new investments from Pear VC, Mobilize Climate Capital, and Borusan Ventures and follow-on investments from Powerhouse, Wireframe, Virta, and Lorimer. This brings Tyba's total funding to $18.15 million.

Presto: $15 Million (Seed) Raised For EV Charging Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 7, 2025

Presto - an all-in-one EV charging platform - announced that it has raised $15 million in seed funding from Union Square Ventures, Congruent Ventures, Powerhouse Ventures, and Jetstream. And through Presto's app and APIs, fleets can find, charge, and pay for reliable on-the-go charging across thousands of Presto's partner public charging stations. This funding will be used to onboard new fleets, integrate more chargers, and add new features.

Freeze: $2.6 Million (Seed) Raised For Enhancing Cybersecurity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Freeze - a leading provider of proactive offensive security and attack surface protection solutions designed to prevent hackers from gaining the necessary information and resources to attack organizations and their teams - announced its $2.6 million seed funding round closing. This funding was led by angel investors, cybersecurity experts, and technology experts who recognize the growing need for innovative approaches to proactive offensive security, attack surface protection, and cybersecurity.

TrueFoundry: $19 Million (Series A) Raised To Transform AI Deployment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

TrueFoundry - a leading AI deployment and scaling platform - announced it raised $19 million in Series A funding, led by Intel Capital. And existing investors Eniac Ventures and Peak XV’s Surge (formerly Sequoia Capital India and SEA) participated along with new investor Jump Capital and several angel investors including Gokul Rajaram, Mohit Aron, and executives from Fortune 1000 companies. In connection with the financing, Avi Bharadwaj, Investment Director at Intel Capital, will join TrueFoundry’s board of directors.

Cognida.ai: $15 Million (Series A) Raised For Enterprise AI Adoption Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Cognida.ai, a leader in practical AI solutions for enterprises, announced the closing of its $15 million Series A funding round, led by Nexus Venture Partners. This funding validates Cognida.ai's unique approach to making AI implementation practical and financially impactful for enterprises, demonstrated through deployments at over 30 leading organizations.

Urban Sky: $30 Million (Series B) Raised To Enable Easy Access To The Stratosphere

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Urban Sky, a stratospheric platform company, announced it closed a $30 million Series B investment round. This funding round will be used to develop and commercialize a connected suite of products that will unlock the full value of the tactical stratosphere for military and commercial customers.

Swivl: Funding Raised From Decathlon Capital Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Swivl, a company focused on reflective technology for education and personal development, has secured a growth loan from Decathlon Capital Partners. This investment package will meet the growing demand for Swivl's Mirror and MirrorTalk solutions, enhance functionality, and support new development efforts that advance the company's mission of accelerating reflection for better learning and social-emotional outcomes.

Perspective AI: Self-Reflection Platform Company Raises $4 Million (Seed)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Perspective AI announced it emerged from stealth to announce a $4 million seed funding round led by Village Global, Array Ventures, Honeystone VC, Recursive Ventures, Darkmode VC, and prominent angel investors.

Hidden Level: $65 Million (Series C) Raised For Drone Detection Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Hidden Level - a leader in passive radar and radio frequency sensing technology for detecting and precisely locating drones and other threats - announced $65 million in Series C funding led by DFJ Growth with participation from Booz Allen Ventures, Revolution Growth, Costanoa Ventures, Washington Harbour Partners, Veteran Ventures, Founders Circle Capital, and others. This funding comes on the heels of the company's $35 million Series B - which closed only six months earlier. This brings the company's funding over the last year to $100 million, solidifying its position as a technology player in the rapidly evolving national security and critical infrastructure landscape.

PlantBaby: Seed Funding Raised At $20 Million Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

PlantBaby, a company focused on creating solutions in the plant-based nutrition space, announced the closing of its series seed equity financing round. This funding round was led by B2 Partners, a firm founded by seasoned investor Matt Behrens, at a post-money valuation of $20 million. B2 is joining the PlantBaby board, with additional support from Big Idea Ventures, Everywhere Ventures, X Factor Ventures, Women's Equity Lab Silicon Valley, and Babylist.

Suki: Healthcare AI Company Raises Funding From Zoom Ventures, Bringing Total To $168 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Suki, a leader in AI technology for healthcare, announced an investment from Zoom Ventures (the investment arm of the AI-first work platform and leading healthcare collaboration platform Zoom Communications). Suki will join Zoom Ventures' AI investment portfolio, which includes Anthropic and CoreWeave.

KODE Health: $27 Million (Series B) Raised For Medical Coding Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

KODE Health, which is the only on-demand medical coding platform that connects healthcare systems with certified medical coding professionals, announced that it raised $27 million in Series B funding led by Noro-Moseley Partners with participation from Mercury, FCA Venture Partners, Epsilon Innovation Fund and 111 West Capital.

Atombeam: $20 Million (Reg A+) Raised For Transforming How Data Is Used

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Atombeam, a company with technology that redefines how data is used, moved, stored and secured, today announced the closing of its recent Reg A+ funding round, with a total of $20 million raised. The funding round was hosted by StartEngine, which enables individual investors to gain an ownership stake in the company's transformative technology. Over 6,500 investors invested in Atombeam during this round. This funding brings Atombeam's total to $35 million.

Anchor: $20 Million (Series A) Secured For Autonomous Billing & Collections Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Anchor, a free-to-use Autonomous Billing & Collections platform, announced it raised a $20 million Series A funding round led by Mosaic General Partnership and Oren Zeev from Zeev Ventures. And existing investors, including Entrée Capital and Tal Ventures, participated, along with new investors Amy Banse, who will be joining Anchor's board and currently serves as a board member at Adobe and ON running, Tien Tzuo (founder and CEO of Zuora), former NBA superstar Andre Iguodala (via Mosaic General Partnership), and other industry leaders.

Cedar Money: $9.9 Million (Seed) Raised For Cross-Border Stablecoin Payments Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Cedar Money - a payments company that enables seamless cross-border money movement on stablecoins - announced a $9.9 million seed round led by QED Investors, with participation from North Island Ventures, Wischoff Ventures, Lattice, and Stellar. This funding will enable Cedar Money to accelerate its mission of transforming international money flows using cutting-edge payment infrastructure.

Closinglock: $34 Million (Series B) Raised For Protecting Real Estate Deals

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Closinglock, a fraud prevention technology provider for the real estate industry, announced it has closed a $34 million Series B funding round. This funding was led by Sageview Capital and supported by Headline and RWT Horizons.

Wingify: Majority Stake Raised From Everstone Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Singapore-based private equity firm Everstone Capital announced it acquired a majority stake in Wingify, a leading global provider of marketing technology SaaS product VWO. And this partnership includes a significant investment to accelerate VWO’s product innovation and international growth. This deal highlights Everstone’s focus on supporting two key technology sectors: SaaS and marketing technology across India and Southeast Asia.

Semperis: Cyber Resilience Company Surpasses $100 Million In ARR

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2025

According to venture capital firm Greylock Partners, cyber resilience company Semperis announced it surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), a milestone that fewer than one in every 1,000 venture-backed enterprise software companies achieve. Driving Semperis' rapid customer growth and ascension to centaur status is the company's comprehensive solution for enterprises combatting the ever-growing threat of identity-based attacks in Active Directory and Entra ID environments.

Nextworld: Enterprise Platform Company Raises $65 Million (Series F)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2025

Nextworld, a provider of enterprise platforms, announced the closing of a $65 million Series F funding round. The McVaney Investment Partnership led the round, which positions the company for significant growth this year as it continues to redefine how businesses build, extend, and optimize their technology stacks.

Semgrep: Application Security Company Raises $100 Million (Series D)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2025

Semgrep, a leading Application Security platform, announced $100 million in Series D funding led by Menlo Ventures. This round also included participation from existing investors including Felicis Ventures, Harpoon Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital. This funding round brings the company's total funding to $204 million.

ElevenLabs: AI Audio Company Raises $180 Million (Series C) At $3.3 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2025

ElevenLabs announced it has raised $180 million in Series C funding to make speech the new standard for digital interaction. This funding round was co-led by a16z and ICONIQ Growth, with additional new investors NEA, World Innovation Lab (WiL), Valor, Endeavor Catalyst Fund, and Lunate. And existing investors Sequoia Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Smash Capital, SV Angel, NFDG, BroadLight Capital are also increasing their support. The company is also further partnering with strategic investors, including Deutsche Telekom, LG Technology Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, NTT DOCOMO Ventures, and RingCentral Ventures. This latest funding values ElevenLabs at $3.3 billion, tripling its valuation from one year before and bringing the total funding to $281 million across four rounds since its founding in 2022.

Your.World: €800 Million Strategic Investment Raised From Ares And Carlyle

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2025

European online solutions provider Your.World announced that it has received €800 million in long-term partnership capital in the form of preferred equity from Ares Management Credit funds and Carlyle. Launched in 2016 by Strikwerda Investments, Your.World emerged as a leading European web hosting provider, online productivity, and managed IT services. And its growth has been driven by its serial acquirer model based on high quality, sustainable value creation and scalable M&A across verticals and geographies.

Motif: $46 Million Raised For Transforming AEC Software Industry

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2025

Motif, a company founded by design software experts Amar Hanspal and Brian Mathews, announced it secured $46 million in seed and Series A funding to develop a next-generation platform for buildings. The Series A funding round was led by Alphabet’s independent growth fund, CapitalG, and the previously undisclosed Seed round was led by Redpoint Ventures. Pre-seed venture firm Baukunst participated in both rounds.

Finout: FinOps-For-Enterprise Platform Raises $40 Million (Series C)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 4, 2025

Finout, a leading FinOps-for-enterprise platform, announced a $40 million Series C funding round. This round of funding was led by Insight Partners, with participation from Pitango, Team8, Red Dot Capital, and Maor Investments.

Harmonya Raises Funding From dunnhumby Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 4, 2025

Harmonya, an AI-based platform for product data enrichment, insights, and attribution serving CPG brands and retailers, announced a strategic investment from dunnhumby ventures and its existing investors Bright Pixel Capital and Team8. This funding reflects a shared commitment to advancing AI-driven solutions and enhancing value for the retail and consumer packaged goods ecosystem.

Oligo Security: $50 Million (Series B) Raised For Transforming Security For Modern Applications

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 4, 2025

Oligo Security, a leader in Application Detection and Response (ADR), announced $50 million in Series B funding led by Greenfield Partners, with participation from Red Dot Capital Partners, Strait Capital, and existing investors Ballistic Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and TLV Partners.

Smart Wires: $65 Million Growth Capital Raised For Transforming Electric Grid Capacity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 4, 2025

Smart Wires announced it raised $65 million to propel its growth and meet rising energy needs, driven by the appetite for electricity from data centers and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). This funding includes new investments from BP Energy Partners and significant Keystone Group contributions.

Meteomatics: $22 Million (Series C) Raised For Weather Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 4, 2025

Meteomatics, a weather intelligence and technology company enabling leading companies to forecast the weather’s impact on business accurately, announced its $22 million Series C funding round closing. Armira Growth led the funding round. And Klima (the Alantra Energy Transition fund) and Fortyone also participated in the round.

Triumvirate Environmental: Funding Raised From Berkshire Partners At $1.8 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 4, 2025

Triumvirate Environmental, a provider of environmental services, today announced a growth investment from Berkshire Partners, along with Triumvirate Environmental’s founder and CEO, John McQuillan, and the company’s team. And McQuillan and the team will remain in their current roles. The investment valued the business at $1.8 billion.

Riley AI: $3 Million (Seed) Raised For Product Insights Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 4, 2025

Riley AI, an AI-based product insights assistant, has launched from stealth with $3 million in seed funding led by Vertex Ventures US, with participation from NextView Ventures, Hyphen Capital, and leading product angel investors. The company designed the platform with 500+ community members of user researchers, designers, and product managers.