Startups

Synapse Analytics Raises $13 Million Series A Led By Partech For AI Decisioning Platform For Financial Institutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2026

Synapse Analytics has raised $13 million in Series A funding to expand its agentic AI decisioning infrastructure for banks and other regulated financial institutions. Partech led the round, with additional participation from Algebra Ventures and Silicon Badia. The financing brings Synapse Analytics’ total capital raised since inception to $17 million.

Mantic Raises $25 Million To Scale AI Forecasting Platform For Hedge Funds And Decision-Making

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2026

Mantic has raised $25 million to scale its AI-powered forecasting technology, with the financing led by Radical Ventures and participation from Balderton, Thinking Machines Lab, DRW, FT Ventures from the Financial Times, M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, Episode 1 Ventures and Charlie Songhurst.

Notes.fm Raises $5 Million To Expand Music Royalty Collection, Publishing And Distribution Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2026

Notes.fm has raised $5 million from a group of prominent artists, music executives, managers and strategic investors as the music royalty technology company expands a platform designed to help independent artists identify, collect and manage all of the money they are owed. The financing includes participation from Benny Blanco, Zach Bryan and his managers Stefan Max and Danny Kang, Tainy, Blake Slatkin, Mt. Joy frontman Matt Quinn, WME Group Executive Chairman Ari Emanuel, Chord Music founder Sam Hendel and longtime Atlantic Records chief and 26.2 founder Julie Greenwald.

Expertise AI Raises $3.2 Million Seed Round To Expand AI Sales And Customer Support Agents For Traditional Industries

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2026

Expertise AI has raised $3.2 million in seed funding to expand its AI agent platform for sales and customer support, with the company focusing on bringing AI automation to businesses in traditional industries. The round was led by UpHonest Capital, with participation from Amino, Welight, UpScaleX, and Altair, according to an announcement from Expertise AI founder and CEO Hao Sheng.

Helios AI Raises $3 Million From W23 Global And Launches Hunger Exposure Index For Food Security Risk

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2026

Helios AI has raised a $3 million strategic financing round from W23 Global as the company expands its technology for analyzing food security, climate and geopolitical risks across global agricultural markets.

Verily Health Secures Investment From NVIDIA And CU Healthcare Innovation Fund To Expand Precision Health AI Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2026

Verily Health has secured new investment from NVIDIA and existing backer CU Healthcare Innovation Fund II as the precision health technology company expands its data and artificial intelligence platform. The financing extends Verily’s March fundraising. The company did not disclose the size of the additional investments. Verily’s existing investors also include Alphabet, Series X Capital and UCHealth.

Ride Therapeutics Secures Up To $7.3 Million From Cystic Fibrosis Foundation For AI-Designed Genetic Medicine Delivery

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2026

Ride Therapeutics has secured a strategic investment commitment of up to $7.3 million from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to advance its Molecular Logistics platform for delivering genetic medicines to the lung.

One Biosciences Secures €3.3 Million To Develop AI-Powered Single-Cell Diagnostic For Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2026

One Biosciences and Institut Curie have secured €3.3 million through France 2030’s i-Démo program to accelerate development of what they aim to commercialize as the first single-cell diagnostic platform for guiding treatment decisions in triple-negative breast cancer.

Magentic Raises $18 Million Series A To Expand AI Digital Workers For Global Manufacturers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 19, 2026

Magentic has raised $18 million in Series A funding to expand its AI digital workers across procurement, supply chain and industrial operations. Felicis led the round, with existing investors Sequoia Capital and The Westly Group also participating. The financing comes approximately one year after Magentic launched.

dtcpay Raises $25 Million Series A As SBI Group Backs Regulated Stablecoin Payments Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 19, 2026

dtcpay has completed a $25 million Series A round, adding Japan's SBI Group as a strategic investor as the Singapore-based payments company expands its regulated stablecoin infrastructure internationally. Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India led the initial tranche in April 2026. SBI Group is participating through SBI Ventures Asset and the SBI-NTU-Kyobo Digital Innovation Fund, with additional participation from Genedant Capital and existing investor Kwee Liong Tek.

Raindrop Raises Series A Funding For AI Agent Reliability Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 19, 2026

Raindrop has raised a Series A led by CRV, bringing its total funding to $50 million as the company expands technology designed to detect failures in autonomous AI agents. Existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Y Combinator participated alongside lead researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic and Thinking Machines. Raindrop is already being used by customers including Vercel, Framer, Clay and Fortune 100 enterprises.

Tempo Therapeutics Raises $14.5 Million To Advance Regenerative Tissue Technology Toward Commercialization

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 19, 2026

Tempo Therapeutics has closed an oversubscribed $14.5 million financing round to advance its Microporous Annealed Particle regenerative technology through potential regulatory clearance and commercialization.