Startups

Newronika: €13.6 Million (Series B) Closed For Advanced Deep Brain Stimulation Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 13, 2025

Newronika, a leader in advanced deep brain stimulation, announced the closing of its €13.6 million Series B funding round. This funding was led by new investor Fondazione ENEA Tech e Biomedical, with additional participation from existing investors Indaco Venture Partners SGR, Innogest SGR, Wille Finance, TNBT Capital, and F3F.

EnCharge AI: $100 Million (Series B) Raised For Developing Analog In-Memory-Computing AI Chips

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 13, 2025

EnCharge AI, a company developing first-of-its-kind analog in-memory-computing AI chips, announced it has raised over $100 million in Series B funding. Tiger Global led this round and the new financial investors included Maverick Silicon, Capital TEN, SIP Global Partners, Zero Infinity Partners, CTBC VC, Vanderbilt University, Morgan Creek Digital, and others. Previous investors participating in the Series B round include RTX Ventures, Anzu Partners, Scout Ventures, AlleyCorp, ACVC, and S5V.

Helicore Biopharma: $65 Million (Series A) Raised For Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Peptide Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 13, 2025

Helicore Biopharma, a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing first-in-class glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (GIP) antagonists for obesity and related conditions, announced its emergence from stealth mode with $65 million in Series A financing. This funding round was co-led by founding investor Versant Ventures and by OrbiMed, with participation from Longitude Capital and Wellington Management.

Stellaromics: $80 Million (Series B) Raised For Advancing 3D Spatial Biology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Stellaromics, a pioneer in 3D spatial biology that spun out of the laboratories of Karl Deisseroth (Stanford University) and Xiao Wang (MIT and Broad Institute), announced today the completion of a Series B funding round at $80 million. This round, led by Catalyst4 with participation from Stanford University Ventures, will support the development and commercialization of Pyxa, Stellaromics’ groundbreaking 3D spatial biology platform.

iVeena: $3 Million (Series B-2) Raised For Accelerating Development Of IVMED-85 For Myopia

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

iVeena Delivery Systems - a biopharmaceutical company advancing IVMED-85 to treat pediatric myopia - announced that it has closed its fully subscribed Series B-2 financing of $3 million.

Miist Therapeutics: $7 Million (Seed) Raised For Creating Instant-Acting Medicine

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Miist Therapeutics, a physics-based developer of inhaled medicines, announced $7 million in seed funding from investors including Refactor Capital, 1517 Fund, Freeflow Ventures, Entrepreneur First, and California Innovation Fund. And Miist has clinically validated its approach and is currently advancing two assets: MST-01 for the treatment of smoking addiction and MST-02 for the treatment of migraine. The Phase 1 results for MST-01 demonstrate the speed of Miist’s therapies, with patients achieving 92% symptom relief in only 2 minutes post-dosing.

RepScrubs Raises Funding From Pittco

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Pittco Management announced an equity investment in Prescient Logistics (doing business as RepScrubs) through a special purpose entity formed and managed by Rockmont Partners Management.

GetWhys: $2.75 Million (Seed) To Advance AI-Based Customer Insights Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

GetWhys announced $2.75 million in seed funding to accelerate the growth of its AI-based customer insights platform. The funding round was led by Next Frontier Capital, with participation from Tuesday Capital and Capital Eleven. This funding brings GetWhys' total funding to $3.5 million and will expand the engineering team, fuel product development, and support customer growth.

Digital Harmonic Raises Investment from Caladan Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Digital Harmonic, a leader in advanced video, signal, and image processing technologies, announced a strategic investment from Caladan Capital, led by Victor L. Vescovo, who is an accomplished private investor with over 30 years of experience in defense, aerospace, and electronics industries. This funding will accelerate Digital Harmonic’s growth and innovation across several vertical industries, including Media & Entertainment, Healthcare, and National Security.

Fay: $50 Million (Series B) Raised At $500 Million Valuation For Nutritional Therapy Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Fay, a leader in digital nutritional therapy, announced a $50 million Series B funding round led by Goldman Sachs at a $500 million valuation. And existing investors General Catalyst and Forerunner also participated in the round.

Astra Security: Funding Raised To Simplify Cybersecurity With Pentesting

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Astra Security, a security platform with continuous vulnerability scanning and pentests, announced the closing of a growth capital round—led by Emergent Ventures, with participation from the Neon Fund, Better Capital, Blume Ventures, and PointOne Capital.

Little Otter: $9.5 Million Raised For Whole-Family Mental Health Care Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Little Otter, an innovator in digital whole-family mental health care, announced it has raised $9.5 million in a strategic funding round led by top-tier impact investors, including Pivotal Ventures, Torch Capital, Springbank, CRV, Next Legacy, G9, Gratitude Railroad, and Carrie Walton Penner's Fiore Ventures. This round brings total funding to date to $36.35 million and solidifies Little Otter’s position as a defining leader in the rapidly growing family mental health market.

Bourque Logistics: Over $100 Million Growth Financing Raised From Sixth Street

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Bourque Logistics (a leader in rail logistics systems) and Sixth Street announced that Bourque has closed a $100+ million financing from Sixth Street. This growth financing supports Bourque's recently announced acquisition of AllTranstek, which combines the respective rail fleet logistics and asset management expertise of Bourque and AllTranstek into a comprehensive solution for the rail industry.

Epicore Biosystems: $26 Million (Series B) Raised To Advance Sweat-Sensing Wearables Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Epicore Biosystems - a digital health solutions leader developing advanced sweat-sensing wearables - announced that it has raised $26 million in Series B funding led by the Steele Foundation for Hope (SFFH).

Nirmata: $9.6 Million Raised For Expanding AI-Based Policy-As-Code Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Nirmata, a leader in cloud-native security policy automation and governance solutions, announced a $9.6 million funding round led by Peak XV Surge (formerly Sequoia Capital India & SEA). Dallas Venture Capital, Dreamit Ventures, and existing investors Z5 Capital and Uncorrelated Ventures participated as well.