Startups

Traceloop: $6.1 Million Secured For Making AI Agents Production-Ready

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Pallet: $27 Million Series B Raised For Logistics AI Workforce Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Pallet, which is the company behind CoPallet, the AI workforce for logistics, announced a $27 million Series B round led by General Catalyst, with continued support from Bain Capital Ventures, Activant Capital, and Bessemer Venture Partners. Dan Lewis (CPO at Microsoft, co-founder at Convoy), Amit Agarwal (former President at Datadog), Girish Rishi (former CEO at BlueYonder), Michael Capellas (former CEO at Compaq), Matt McKinney (CEO at Loop), and Aatish Nayak (Head of Product at Harvey) participated in this funding round.

Blues: $25 Million Raised For Advancing Cloud Connected Intelligent Products

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

Blues, an Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity solutions company, announced the closing of its latest $25 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Blues has previously raised $66 million in funding.

Clair: $23 Million Series B Raised For Earned Wage Access Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

Clair, a pioneering fintech company offering Earned Wage Access (EWA), originated by national bank Pathward, announced that it has raised $23.2 million in its Series B led by its Seed round lead investor Upfront Ventures, with participation from existing investors including Thrive Capital.

TrustCloud: $15 Million Raised For AI-Native Security Assurance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

TrustCloud, an AI-native security assurance platform for hybrid enterprises, announced it has raised $15 million in strategic funding led by ServiceNow Ventures, with participation from Cisco Investments, Presidio Ventures, OpenView Venture Partners, Tola Capital, and existing investors.

Firehawk Aerospace: Strategic Investment Raised For Advanced Energetics And Propulsion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

Firehawk Aerospace, a defense technology leader specializing in advanced energetics and propulsion technologies, announced that it has received a pivotal land grant and capital investment from the State of Oklahoma and federal leaders, including Governor Kevin Stitt, U.S. Representative Tom Cole, U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin, and Representative Trey Caldwell.

Vontive Reveals $150 Million Securitization With Citi As Equity Investor

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

Vontive, a technology company standardizing the business-purpose mortgage, announced an equity investment from Citi. Vontive also launched a $150 million securitization, VNTV 2025-RTL1.

DreamPark: $1.1 Million Seed Raised For Advancing Downloadable XR Theme Park

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

DreamPark, the creator of the world’s largest downloadable mixed reality (XR) theme park, announced it raised $1.1 million in seed funding led by Long Journey Ventures, with participation from Founders Inc.

Deccan AI: Funding Raised From Prosus

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

Deccan AI, a company specializing in pristine data for AI model training and evaluation, announced that it has raised funding from Prosus Ventures. The funding will advance product development, expand the team, and fuel market expansion.

Rhino: $15 Million Series A Closed For Scaling Federated AI Across Regulated Industries

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 31, 2025

Rhino Federated Computing, a leading platform for federated AI collaboration, announced the closing of an oversubscribed $15 million Series A funding round led by AlleyCorp. And all existing institutional investors participated, including LionBird, Fusion Fund, Arkin Digital Health, Qiming Venture Partners USA, Telus Global Ventures, and Keren Maccabi, as well as new investors Wilson’s Bird Capital, Mr. Frank Sica, and Gaingels. The funding round brings Rhino FCP’s total funding to over $30 million to date.

David: $75 Million Series A Raised To Build Tools For Increasing Muscle

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 31, 2025

David, a brand that designs tools to increase muscle and decrease fat, announced it closed a $75 million Series A funding round, led by Greenoaks with the participation of Valor Equity Partners.

Empathy: $72 Million Series C Raised For Transforming How The World Manages Tough Moments

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 31, 2025

Empathy, a leading technology company transforming how the world plans for and manages life’s toughest moments, announced a $72 million Series C fundraise led by Adams Street Partners with participation from General Catalyst, Index Ventures, Entrée Capital, Brewer Lane Ventures, SemperVirens, Latitude, and LionTree, bringing total capital raised to $162 million.

Flip: $28 Million Series A Extension Secured For Helping Deskless Workers

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 31, 2025

Flip announced a $28 million Series A extension. Existing investors, including LEA Partners, HV Capital, Notion Capital, and Roland Berger, led the round.

Rhizome: $6.5 Million Seed Round Closed For Climate Resilience Planning Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 31, 2025

Rhizome, a leading climate resilience planning platform for the power grid, announced the closing of a $6.5 million oversubscribed seed funding round led by Base10 Partners. Base10 is joined in the Seed round by first-time Rhizome investors in MCJ and CLAI. And they join Convective Capital, El Cap, Streetlife Ventures, Stepchange, and Everywhere in closing out the oversubscribed round, all of whom also participated in prior Rhizome fundraises.

Rivan: £10 Million Raised To Build Energy Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 31, 2025

Rivan, a company enabling energy security through synthetic fuels, announced it has raised £10 million in funding led by Plural, with participation from 20VC, NFDG (Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross), and prominent angel investors Patrick and John Collison (Stripe).