Venture Capital

Wander: $50 Million Series B Raised For Vacation Rental Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Wander is a company aiming to address problems with the short-term rental market that announced a $50 million Series B funding round, co-led by QED Investors and Fifth Wall with participation from Redpoint Ventures, Uncork, Starwood, and Breyer Capital and many other returning and new investors.

Chalk: $50 Million Series A Raised At $500 Million Valuation For AI Inference Data Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Chalk, a data platform for AI inference, announced that it has raised a $50 million Series A at a $500 million valuation. Felicis led the round with participation from Triatomic Capital and existing investors General Catalyst, Unusual Ventures, and Xfund.

Creatify: $15.5 Million Series A Raised For AI Ad Agent For Video Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Creatify, an AI platform that powers high-performance video advertising, announced $15.5 million in Series A funding, co-led by WndrCo and Kindred Ventures. The funding round brings Creatify’s total funding to $23 million, with early investors including NFDG, Millennium New Horizons, Creator Ventures, and Leadout Capital.

Joby Aviation: $250 Million Closed For Growing Electric Air Taxi Business

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Joby Aviation, a company that is developing electric air taxis for commercial passenger service, announced the closing of the first $250 million tranche of a previously announced strategic investment from Toyota. This funding marks a significant milestone in strengthening the long-term collaboration between the two companies and supports their shared vision for the future of air mobility.

SemperVirens Venture Capital: Accelerator Program Launched To Help Startups Grow

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

SemperVirens Venture Capital, a venture firm investing in companies shaping the future of health, wealth, and work, announced the launch of the SemperVirens Accelerator — which is a founder-focused initiative designed to help early-stage startups sharpen their distribution strategy, connect with industry leaders, and scale faster by engaging directly with commercial decision makers across healthcare, benefits and work ecosystems.

Interactly AI: Pre-Seed Funding Raised For Healthcare Administration Automation Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Interactly AI announced the closing of a pre-seed funding round to support the growth of its multimodal AI platform for healthcare administration. Nava Davuluri (CEO) and Shiva Chaitanya (CTO) co-founded Interactly AI to address the pressing challenges of healthcare administration by streamlining both front- and back-office workflows, empowering providers to deliver more efficient and patient-focused care.

Portless: $18 Million Raised For Transforming Global E-Commerce

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Portless, a U.S.-based global e-commerce fulfillment company, announced the closing of its latest funding round at $18 million. The funding round was led by Commerce Ventures, with participation from eGateway Capital, Ground Up Ventures, and FJ Labs. This funding will advance Portless's mission to transform the direct-to-consumer (DTC) industry by addressing critical pain points for U.S. and European brands navigating rising tariffs, regulatory changes, and supply chain inefficiencies.

Harper Court Ventures: $25 Million Fund I Launches To Invest In University Of Chicago Ecosystem

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

MFV Partners, a deep technology venture capital firm, announced the launch of Harper Court Ventures Fund I, a new $25 million early-stage fund focused on identifying, investing in, and scaling transformative startups from the University of Chicago ecosystem. Harper Court Ventures Fund I will focus on pre-seed and seed-stage companies that utilize breakthrough research and innovation originating from UChicago labs, the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation's comprehensive programs, faculty and student ventures, and the extensive UChicago alumni network.

R1: Investment Raised From Khosla Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

R1 (an industry leader in managing and intelligently automating healthcare revenue management with over 20 years of experience) announced an investment from Khosla Ventures. The funding follows the launch of R37, R1’s enterprise-grade AI lab developed in partnership with Palantir, which is dedicated to strengthening the financial health of providers through core agentic AI applications.

Unbound: $4 Million Raised For Helping Enterprises With AI Tools

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Unbound announced it has raised $4 million. This oversubscribed seed round was led by Race Capital, with participation from Wayfinder Ventures, Y Combinator, Massive Tech Ventures. The round also included Alpha Square Group, Northside Ventures, Liquid2, Pioneer Fund, Scale Asia Ventures, SBXI and notable angels including Ram Shriram (founding board member at Google), Dr. Trishan Panch (CSO LuminHealth), Dr. John Brownstein (Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children’s hospital), Taro Fukuyama (CEO, Fond), Eli Brown (CEO, Guilded, acquired by Roblox), Chris Siakos (CEO Sinefa, acquired by Palo Alto Networks), Joe Vadakkan (CISO, Ex- CRO), Zain Rizavi (Cloudflare, Ridge VC), Finbarr Taylor (CEO, Shogun) alongside other silicon valley and cybersecurity veterans.

TruTechnologies: Significant Growth Investment Raised From LLR

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

LLR Partners announced a strategic growth investment in TruTechnologies, a provider of real-time clinical trial oversight. LLR’s growth capital and value creation resources will be dedicated to helping TruTechnologies’ expansion as it transforms how pharmaceutical companies, together with clinical research organizations and research sites, oversee, monitor, and manage biological samples and study workflows throughout the clinical trial lifecycle.

Valeas Capital Buying Majority Stake In TicketManager

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

TicketManager, a leader in event ticket and guest management solutions for the corporate enterprise, announced Valeas Capital Partners (a growth-oriented private-equity firm) has acquired a majority stake in the company. Under the terms of the deal, Valeas is committing $110 million to support TicketManager’s strategic growth plans. TicketManager Co-Founder and CEO Tony Knopp and COO Ken Hanscom will retain a minority interest in the company.

Rillet: $25 Million Series A Raised For AI-Based ERP Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Rillet, an AI-native ERP (enterprise resource planning) platform, announced $25 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital. This funding round includes existing investors First Round Capital, Creandum, Susa Ventures and top angels, such as former NetSuite CFO, Ron Gill and Lee Kirkpatrick, former Twilio CFO.

Endurosat: €43 Million Raised For Satellite Constellations-As-A-Service Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

EnduroSat, a leading provider of satellite constellations-as-a-service, today announced a €43 million investment led by Founders Fund.

Clear Current: Over $4 Million Secured For Launching AI-Based Virtual Energy Manager for Enterprises

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Clear Current, which is the first AI platform to offer a comprehensive virtual energy manager for enterprise businesses, announced it has secured over $4 million in an oversubscribed Seed Round. Rho Ignition led the round, with participation from Coreline Ventures and Avesta Fund.

Strive Asset Management Signs $750 Million Investment To Advance Alpha-Generating Bitcoin Treasury Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Strive Asset Management and Asset Entities announced the signing of a $750 million private investment in public equity (PIPE), with an additional $750 million in potential financing available upon the exercise of warrants, which could increase total potential proceeds to $1.5 billion. Upon the closing of the deals, the proceeds are expected to support the company's first wave of Bitcoin acquisitions, to set up Strive Asset Management as the first Bitcoin treasury company focused on long-term Bitcoin outperformance through the implementation of alpha-generating strategies along with the company's plans to implement known beta strategies used by incumbent Bitcoin treasury corporations.

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.