Startups

Kriya: $320 Million Series D Closed For Advancing Gene Therapy Pipeline

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 18, 2025

Kriya Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing gene therapies for chronic illnesses, has announced the completion of a $320 million Series D funding round. This substantial investment was co-led by Patient Square Capital and Premji Invest, with additional support from well-known investors in the life sciences and technology sectors, including Peter Thiel, Narya Capital, The T1D Fund, and other long-term backers.

Adaptive Security: Additional OpenAI Investment Brings Series A To $55 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 18, 2025

Adaptive Security, a company focused on preventing social engineering attacks powered by artificial intelligence, has announced an additional investment from the OpenAI Startup Fund. This new funding brings the total raised in its Series A round to $55 million.

Dig Energy: $5 Million Raised To Transform Geothermal Heating And Cooling

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 18, 2025

Dig Energy has raised $5 million in venture capital to move its innovative geothermal drilling technology from testing into real-world pilot installations. Azolla Ventures and Avila VC led this funding round. Several other investors also joined the round, including Conifer Infrastructure Partners, Suffolk Technologies, Mercator Partners, Koa Labs, and early backers Baukunst and Drew Scott. In addition to financial support, Dig has received recognition and assistance from programs like Suffolk Technologies' BOOST accelerator and the U.S. Department of Energy's EPIC Prize.

Arch: $52 Million Series B Raised For Simplifying Private Market Investing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 17, 2025

Arch has secured $52 million in a Series B round led by Oak HC/FT, with participation from Menlo Ventures, Craft Ventures, Quiet Capital, and other investors. This funding will support Arch’s plans to grow its team, enhance its technology, and deepen its focus on institutional investors, large private wealth groups, and established family offices that manage significant alternative assets.

Hoxton Ventures Enhances Transatlantic Reach With U.S. Expansion And Senior Hires

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 17, 2025

Hoxton Ventures is stepping up its support for Europe’s earliest-stage startups looking to grow in North America by adding seasoned leaders and opening a new base in Silicon Valley. The firm, long known for spotting and backing companies like Deliveroo and Darktrace before they became household names, is now placing Payton Dobbs in San Francisco, bringing fresh investor relations leadership and deep operating expertise to its London-based team.

CodeRabbit: $60 Million Series B Raised For AI Code Review Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 17, 2025

CodeRabbit has closed a $60 million Series B financing round led by Scale Venture Partners, with NVentures: NVIDIA Venture Capital, and returning investors CRV, Harmony Partners, Flex Capital, Engineering Capital, and Pelion Venture Partners also participating.

VeloSource: Strategic Investment Raised From Interlock Equity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 17, 2025

Interlock Equity has made a strategic investment in VeloSource, a staffing firm dedicated to connecting healthcare organizations with qualified temporary clinicians. This partnership will supply VeloSource with the capital needed to advance its growth, open new regional offices, broaden its coverage of medical specialties, and enhance its technology platform.

Tucker’s Farm (Annie Aesthetic): Series B Raised And $65 Million ARR Achieved

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 17, 2025

Annie Aesthetic Holdings, a medical-aesthetics platform incubated by Tucker’s Farm Corporation, has closed its Series B equity round—led by InterAlpen Partners with participation from Brookside Equity Partners—and simultaneously expanded its credit facility. The funding round builds on InterAlpen’s earlier Series A investment and coincides with Annie Aesthetic reaching a $65 million run-rate across a network of twelve leading U.S. medical-aesthetics brands.

Nutrium: $12 Million Series A Closed For Nutrition Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 17, 2025

Nutrium has closed a $12 million Series A financing round led by Vesalius Biocapital, with participation from Lince Capital, Indico Capital Partners, and Beta Capital. The funding arrives as the company’s all-in-one nutrition solution already serves millions of patients by connecting them to over 350,000 registered dietitians across more than 90 countries. This funding further cements Nutrium’s leadership in the corporate nutrition market.

Figure: Over $1 Billion Series C Raised At $39 Billion Valuation For Scaling Humanoid Robots

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 17, 2025

Figure announced it has secured more than $1 billion in committed capital through its Series C financing round, achieving a post-money valuation of $39 billion. Parkway Venture Capital led the investment, joined by Brookfield Asset Management, NVIDIA, Macquarie Capital, Intel Capital, Align Ventures, Tamarack Global, LG Technology Ventures, Salesforce, T-Mobile Ventures, and Qualcomm Ventures. The new funding will accelerate Figure’s mission to deploy autonomous, general-purpose humanoid robots powered by its AI system, Helix, into real-world settings at scale.

PayNearMe: $50 Million Series E Closed For Payment Experience Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 17, 2025

PayNearMe has closed a $50 million Series E financing led by Atlantic Vantage Point’s Growth Fund I. The new capital will accelerate the company’s expansion into new markets and fuel ongoing investment in products designed to simplify end-to-end payment workflows for non-commerce businesses and their customers.

Shelpful: $3 Million Seed Funding Raised For ADHD-Friendly Tasks App

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 17, 2025

Shelpful, which secured a $3 million Seed investment from Apollo Projects, has released an iOS app in the Apple App Store. This marks the company’s move beyond its WhatsApp-based HabitGPT service and brings its habit-building and task management tools into a native mobile environment.

AltrixBio: $5 Million Series A Closed For Developing Cardiometabolic Disease Treatment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 17, 2025

AltrixBio has secured $5 million in an initial Series A financing to advance its lead candidate, AJN 003 (LuCI), into human clinical trials for type 2 diabetes and related metabolic diseases. This oral therapy is designed to recreate the metabolic benefits of bariatric surgery without invasive procedures.

Nofence: Over $35 Million Series B Secured For Virtual Fencing Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 17, 2025

Nofence has closed its Series B funding round with over €30 million (more than $35 million), making it the most significant agtech investment in Europe in 2025. Lead investor European Circular Bioeconomy Fund was joined by Capagro, Nysnø Climate Investments, Climate Innovation Capital, and Speedinvest, while existing backers Sandwater, Momentum, and Ferd also increased their commitments. This new funding reflects strong confidence in Nofence’s ability to reshape livestock management through sustainable technology.

MetalBear: $12.5 Million Seed Secured For Kubernetes Development Solution

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 17, 2025

MetalBear has closed a $12.5 million seed financing led by TLV Partners, with additional backing from TQ Ventures, MTF, Netz Capital, and notable angel investors, including the co-founder of Sentry and the creator of OpenTelemetry. This funding comes as enterprises struggle with a growing disconnect between local code development and the complex cloud environments their applications ultimately run in.

Chestnut Carbon: Series B Now At $250 Million Following New Raise

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 17, 2025

Chestnut Carbon has secured an additional $90 million from its existing investor, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, boosting its Series B round to a total of $250 million. Earlier this year, the company announced $160 million in Series B funding, and this latest investment underscores growing confidence in Chestnut’s work to remove carbon through new forest growth.

AllRock Bio: $50 Million Series A Raised For Advancing Lead Clinical Program For Pulmonary Hypertension

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 17, 2025

AllRock Bio has secured $50 million in a Series A funding round led by Versant Ventures and Westlake BioPartners. This funding will support the company as it moves its lead drug candidate, ROC-101, into Phase 2 clinical trials later this year. ROC-101 is designed to address two life-threatening forms of pulmonary hypertension that currently have limited treatment options and poor long-term survival rates.

Eve Security: $3 Million Seed Funding Raised For Helping Keep AI Agents Safe

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 17, 2025

Eve Security has secured $3 million in seed funding to launch EveGuard, a new platform designed to keep AI agents safe when they interact with a company’s most critical systems. The round was led by LiveOak Ventures and included support from Tau Ventures. With this backing, Eve Security is rolling out features that automate security monitoring and policy enforcement for AI applications, handling everything from financial data to human resources records.

WorkFusion: $45 Million Secured To Power AI Agents In Financial Crime Compliance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2025

WorkFusion has raised $45 million in a new funding round led by Georgian, a growth-stage investor specializing in AI innovation. WorkFusion’s investors in this round include Serengeti Asset Management, Nokia Growth Partners, Teralys Capital, Hawk Equity, Chubb INA Holdings, Declaration Partners, SVB Innovation Credit Fund, Konrad Investments, and members of the company’s own leadership team. Their support reflects growing demand for solutions that can manage the complexity and scale of modern financial crime prevention.

ENTOUCH: $50 Million Raised For Energy Management Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2025

ENTOUCH has closed a $50 million financing round led by Respida Capital, marking a significant milestone for the energy management provider. This new capital comes on the heels of another record year for ENTOUCH, underscoring strong market demand for its platform and positioning the company for its next stage of expansion.

Enginius.ai: Investment Raised From CerraCap Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2025

CerraCap Ventures has announced a strategic investment in Enginius.ai. This rapidly growing AI company is focused on transforming the way engineering teams work by delivering highly specialized, secure, and precise AI tools designed explicitly for technical environments.

Spara: $15 Million Seed Funding Secured For Transforming Inbound Sales

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2025

Spara, a new enterprise‑grade platform designed to transform how businesses handle inbound sales, has launched with a $15 million seed funding round. The investment was led by Radical Ventures and Inspired Capital, with participation from XYZ Ventures, FJ Labs, Remarkable Ventures, and a group of strategic angel investors from leading technology companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Databricks, and G2.

Doctronic: $20 Million Series A Raised To Advance Personalized AI Doctor Tech

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2025

Doctronic, a healthcare technology company built entirely around artificial intelligence, has announced that it has raised 20 million dollars in Series A funding. The investment round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with additional backing from Union Square Ventures, Tusk Ventures, Mantis VC, Seven Stars, and several well-known figures in the AI and healthcare fields, including Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Jay Desai, and Scott Belsky.

Stan Store Partners: Strategic Investment Raised From Gary Vaynerchuk

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2025

Stan Store, an all-in-one platform designed to help Creators monetize their work, has announced a new partnership with entrepreneur, investor, and digital marketing leader Gary Vaynerchuk. As part of the collaboration, Vaynerchuk is also becoming an investor in the company, further accelerating Stan Store’s mission to make entrepreneurship accessible to every Creator.

Pathwork: $3.5 Million Seed Funding Raised To Transform Insurance Distribution

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2025

Pathwork, an autonomous distribution platform designed to modernize the $160 billion life and health insurance market, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by Costanoa, with additional participation from Logos Fund, American Family Ventures, Meridian Ventures, and several well-known industry angel investors. This investment will help Pathwork accelerate the adoption of its platform among brokers and insurance carriers nationwide.

Jumpmind: Strategic Investment Raised From Lone View Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2025

Jumpmind, a leader in retail technology solutions, has announced that Lone View Capital, a private equity firm specializing in technology and software investments, has acquired a controlling stake in the company. This strategic investment is aimed at fueling Jumpmind’s continued growth and innovation in the rapidly evolving retail technology sector.

Pascal AI Labs: $3.1 Million Raised To Advance Autonomous Investment Research Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2025

Pascal AI Labs, a rapidly growing technology company focused on transforming how investment research is conducted, has announced the close of a $3.1 million seed funding round. The funding was led by Kalaari Capital, with additional participation from Norwest, Infoedge Ventures, Antler, and several prominent angel investors.

OMNIA Partners: Investment Secured From CapitalG To Advance Group Purchasing Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2025

OMNIA Partners, the largest experienced group purchasing organization serving both public and private sectors in the United States, has announced a new investment from CapitalG, the independent growth fund of Alphabet.

Ridge Biotechnologies: $25 Million Seed Funding Raised To Advance Precision Enzyme And Drug Design

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2025

Ridge Biotechnologies, a new entrant in the biotech sector focused on precision enzyme engineering and targeted drug design, has emerged from stealth with $25 million in seed financing. The oversubscribed round was led by Sutter Hill Ventures, which also incubated the company, with participation from Overlap Holdings and other investors.

UConn: New Records Set In Innovation, Patents, and Startup Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2025

The University of Connecticut has reached new heights in technology commercialization and startup development, achieving record-breaking results in the 2025 fiscal year despite a challenging national environment for entrepreneurship. These accomplishments reflect years of strategic planning, expanded outreach, and a growing culture of innovation across the university.