Startups

Autobooks: $40 Million Investment Raised From Runway Growth Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 9, 2025

Runway Growth Capital announced a recently originated $40 million senior secured term loan to Autobooks, a financial technology innovator providing integrated payment, invoicing, and accounting solutions specifically tailored for small and medium-sized businesses.

Alt Mobility: Investment Raised From Beyond Capital Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 9, 2025

Beyond Capital Ventures (BCV) announced a recent investment in Alt Mobility. Alt Mobility is a full-stack electric vehicle as a service (EVaaS) company that specializes in integrated leasing and asset management of EVs for commercial fleets. BCV joins Alt Mobility's cap table and other differentiated investors, including Shell Ventures, Eurazeo, and EV2 Ventures.

Kouper: $10 Million Raised For Health Technology Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 9, 2025

Kouper, a health technology platform designed to transform care transitions, emerged from stealth with $10 million in funding from General Catalyst, 25Madison, and CVS Health Ventures. The company’s goal is to support the millions of patients transitioning across healthcare settings annually in the US. This funding also included several prominent healthcare angel investors and will be used to grow further and develop the Kouper team and product.

Valarian: $20 Million Raised For Isolation And Compartmentalized Infrastructure Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 8, 2025

Valarian, which is the company behind ACRA, a platform for enforced isolation and compartmentalized infrastructure, emerged from stealth, with $7 million in strategic funding. This brings the company’s total seed funding to $20 million.

HAYA Therapeutics: $65 Million Series A Closed To Deliver Precision RNA-Guided Medicines

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 8, 2025

HAYA Therapeutics - a biotechnology company pioneering precision RNA-guided regulatory genome targeting therapeutics that reprogram disease-driving cell states for rare, common, chronic and age-related diseases - announced that the company has raised $65 million in Series A funding. The funding round was led by Sofinnova Partners and Earlybird Venture Capital, with participation from Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly), ATHOS, +ND Capital, Alexandria Venture Investments, and LifeLink Ventures, with additional support from existing investors Apollo Health Ventures, Longview Ventures (an affiliate of Broadview Ventures), 4see ventures, BERNINA Bioinves,t and Schroders Capital.

mPower Technology: Over $21 Million Series B Raised For Solar Power Solutions For Space

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 8, 2025

mPower Technology, a leading provider of solar power solutions for space, announced it has raised over $21 million in Series B funding led by Razor's Edge Ventures and joined by Shield Capital.

UW-Madison Company Ubicept Raises $1 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 8, 2025

Ubicept—a company with technology developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has been selected as one of two winners in the inaugural TitletownTech Startup Draft. As a result, the company secured a $1 million investment from the Green Bay–based VC firm.

EdgeRunner: $12 Million Series A Funding Raised For On-Device AI Agents For Military And Enterprise

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 8, 2025

EdgeRunner AI, a leader in domain-specific, air-gapped, on-device AI agents for military and enterprise, announced the closing of its $12 million Series A fundraise. This funding round was led by Madrona Ventures with participation from seed lead Four Rivers Ventures and joined by new investors HP Tech Ventures and Alumni Ventures. This brings EdgeRunner AI’s total funding to $17.5 million.

ChurchSpace: $1.2 Million Raised And HQ Moving To Detroit

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 8, 2025

ChurchSpace announced closing a $1.2 million oversubscribed funding round, led by Black Ops Ventures, with additional participation from Dug Song of Minor Capital and Michigan Rise. The company is also relocating its national headquarters from Houston, Texas, to Detroit, Michigan, to deepen its goal of activating underutilized sacred spaces for modern-day community use.

Atlas: $155 Million Seed Financing And Acquisition Of Assets From Twist Bioscience

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 8, 2025

Atlas Data Storage - a technology company building end-to-end DNA data storage - announced the closing of a $155 million seed financing and the acquisition of technology assets from Twist Bioscience. The seed funding investors are ARCH Venture Partners, Deerfield Management, Bezos Expeditions, Tao Capital Partners, Rsquared VC, Earth Foundry, In-Q-Tel (IQT), and other undisclosed investors.

Alta Resource Technologies: $10 Million Seed Raised For Scaling Protein-Based Minerals Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 8, 2025

Alta Resource Technologies, a pioneer in using advanced biochemistry to transform mineral separation, announced that it has expanded its Series Seed funding to $10 million with the close of an additional $4.4 million investment. The Seed 2 funding was co-led by DCVC and Voyager Ventures with participation from Orion Industrial Ventures and In-Q-Tel (IQT), the not-for-profit strategic investor for the U.S. national security community and America’s allies. Along with the private capital, Alta has received grant support from federal partners and the State of Colorado.

Nuevocor: $45 Million Series B Raised For Clinical Development Of Novel Mechanobiology-Centered Therapy For Cardiomyopathy

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 8, 2025

Nuevocor, a Singapore-headquartered IND-stage biotechnology company developing cures for cardiomyopathies driven by aberrant mechanobiology, announced the completion of a $45 million Series B financing. Kurma Partners and Angelini Ventures co-led the funding round, which was significantly participated in by existing investors EDBI, ClavystBio, and Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund, along with Highlight Capital and SEEDS Capital.

Doppel: $35 Million Series B Raised For AI-Based Social Engineering Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 7, 2025

Doppel, an AI-based social engineering defense platform, announced a Series B funding round following a year of rapid growth following its Series A, bringing the total amount raised to $54.4 million. The Series B funding round of $35 million was at a $205 million valuation. It was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, additional first-time Doppel investors 9Yards Capital and Sozo Ventures, and repeat investors a16z, South Park Commons, Strategic Cyber Ventures, Script Capital, and Sabrina Hahn.

QCDx: $7 Million Raised For Advancing Liquid Biopsy Innovations

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 7, 2025

QCDx - a diagnostics company specializing in the detection and characterization of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) - announced the closing of $7 million in new financing. This funding features $5.3 million in intermediate term debt under a credit facility and the conversion of $1.7 million in existing convertible notes into equity.

Stately Bio: $12 Million Closed For Developing Regenerative Medicines With Cellular Imaging Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 7, 2025

Stately Bio, a company developing cell therapies using an ML-based live-cell imaging platform, announced $12 million in seed funding led by AIX Ventures, with participation from Dimension Capital, Foothill Ventures, Village Global, Caffeinated Capital, Mitsui Global Investment, BoxOne Ventures, Axial VC, Jeff Dean (Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind), Jeremy Wertheimer (co-founder of ITA Software), and Tom Berry (co-founder of Carbon Health).

CHAOS Industries: $275 Million Series C Raised To Build Defense And National Security Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 7, 2025

CHAOS Industries, a technology company building the next generation of defense and national security systems, announced that it has raised $275 million in Series C funding to support the next phase of its commercial growth and development. The Series C funding round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and co-led by Accel, with participation from StepStone Group, Overmatch Ventures, Tru Arrow Partners, and Valor Equity Partners. The Series C round brings the total funding raised by the company since inception to $490 million.

Fullscript: Expanded Investment Raised From HGGC And Snapdragon

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 7, 2025

Fullscript, a leading healthcare platform powering whole person care, announced an expanded investment from HGGC (a middle-market private equity firm) and Snapdragon Capital Partners to support the next growth phase.

Trilobio: $8 Million Closed For Whole Lab Automation For Biologists

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 6, 2025

Trilobio, a company building the fully automated robotic lab-in-a-box for biologists, announced it has raised a $8 million seed investment. Initialized Capital led the oversubscribed round, which included participation from Argon Ventures and Lowercarbon Capital.

CNaught: $4.5 Million Secured For De-Risking Carbon Credits For Buyers

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 6, 2025

CNaught, a platform making carbon credits more secure and scalable, announced $4.5 million in seed funding led by Bow Capital, with participation from FJ Labs, Silence VC, Karman Ventures, and Marketplace Capital.

FoodHealth Company: $7.5 Million Series A Closed For Expanding Nutrition Transparency

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 6, 2025

FoodHealth Company, a nutrition intelligence company formerly known as bitewell, announced it has raised $7.5 million in an oversubscribed Series A. The funding round was co-led by Reach Capital and Ulu Ventures, with participation from Supply Change Capital, ReThink Food, and support existing investors from Refinery Ventures, Mudita, Antler, and other returning investors.

Agree.com: $7.2 Million Seed Funding Raised For Invoicing And Payments Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 6, 2025

Agree, an all-in-one invoicing and payments platform, announced it has raised a $7.2 million seed round led by Tyler Hogge at Pelion Venture Partners, with significant participation from Blank Ventures and notable angel investor Gokul Rajaram.

Statsig: $100 Million Series C Raised At $1.1 Billion Valuation For Transforming Product Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 6, 2025

Statsig, a platform for data-driven product development, announced it has raised $100 million in Series C funding at a $1.1 billion valuation. The funding round was led by ICONIQ Growth, with participation from existing investors Sequoia and Madrona.

AI Fund: $190 Million Fund II Closed To Co-Found AI Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 6, 2025

AI Fund, a venture studio founded by renowned AI entrepreneur Andrew Ng, today announced the successful closing of its second fund, raising about $190 million in an oversubscribed round.

Gestalt Diagnostics: $7.5 Million Series A Raised For Expanding AI-Based Pathology Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2025

Gestalt, an innovator in AI-based digital pathology solutions, announced the completion of a $7.5 million Series A financing. The funding round was led by Cowles Ventures, TVF Funds, Inland Imaging Investments, KickStart Funds, and angel investors from the Pacific Northwest.

Blooming Health: $26 Million Series A Closed To Advance Social Care Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2025

Blooming Health, a social care technology platform, announced it has raised $26 million in a Series A funding round led by global software investor Insight Partners. Existing investors Afore Capital, Crossbeam Venture Partners, and Metrodora Ventures participated.

P-1 AI: $23 Million Raised For Building Engineering AGI For Physical Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2025

P-1 AI is a company known for building Archie, an AI agent aimed at cognitive automation of tasks that human engineers perform today when designing physical systems. The company also revealed a $23 million seed funding round. The Investors in P-1 AI’s seed round, led by Radical Ventures and included Village Global, Schematic Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, and several angels, including Jeff Dean, Peter Welinder (VP Product, OpenAI), and Bob van Luijt (Co-Founder and CEO, Weaviate), among others.

Omada: Investment Raised From GRO And Kirk Kapital

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2025

Omada—a leader of Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) software—announced a new phase in its partnership with existing investor GRO. Together with Kirk Kapital, Omada will take a majority ownership position to support its continued expansion and innovation.

Dawn Health: €11.5 Million Raised For Scaling Pharma Digital Health Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2025

Dawn Health, a leader in digital health, announced it has secured a €11.5 million funding round from its existing investors, Chr. Augustinus Fabrikker, the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO), and Trifork.

TTV Capital: Lynne Laube And Rachel Hamilton Named As Venture Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2025

TTV Capital, an early-stage fintech venture capital firm, announced that Lynne Laube and Rachel Hamilton have joined as venture partners. And in these roles, Laube and Hamilton will provide strategic counsel to TTV Capital's portfolio companies based on their decades of experience scaling early-stage fintech companies.

True Anomaly: $260 Million Raised For Building Space Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2025

True Anomaly announced its $260 million fundraising effort. The Series C funding was led by Accel, with participation from Meritech Capital and existing investors Eclipse, Riot Ventures, Menlo Ventures, 645 Ventures, ACME Capital, Space VC, Champion Hill Ventures, and Narya. Stifel Bank is providing debt capital.