Deals•Oct 13, 2025
HOOTL Raises $6.5M Series A Led by 5IR Funds
HOOTL (DBA of RIIG Technology, Inc.), an AI-native healthcare automation company, raised $6.5 million in a Series A round led by 5IR Funds. The capital will accelerate product development, regulatory readiness, and market expansion to deliver real-time claim validation and reduce claim denials for providers.
FinSMEs
Deals•Oct 13, 2025
Reflection AI Secures $2B Funding to Challenge DeepSeek
Reflection AI announced a $2 billion fundraising round on Oct 13 2025 to accelerate its competition with DeepSeek in the United States. The round underscores the startup’s ambition to expand its AI capabilities, though investors were not disclosed.
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Deals•Oct 13, 2025
HOOTL Raises $6.5M Series A Led by 5IR Funds to Scale AI Healthcare Automation
HOOTL, an AI-first startup focused on automating healthcare insurance processing, raised $6.5M in a Series A round led by 5IR Funds. The capital will accelerate product development and scaling of secure, scalable automation solutions for healthcare payers and providers.
VC News Daily
Deals•Oct 13, 2025
ClaimSorted Raises $13.3M Seed Round Led by Atomico
ClaimSorted, an AI-driven claims TPA for insurers, raised $13.3M in a seed round led by Atomico with participation from Eurazeo, Y Combinator, firstminute capital, and Start Ventures Capital. The capital will accelerate product development, global expansion, and partnerships with insurers.
FinSMEs
Deals•Oct 10, 2025
HavocAI Raises $85M to Advance Maritime Autonomous Systems
HavocAI, a Providence-based developer of maritime autonomous systems, has secured $85 million in new capital to accelerate development and commercialization of its autonomous maritime technologies. The financing was announced on 2025-10-10; investor details were not disclosed.
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Deals•Oct 10, 2025
N8n Raises $180M Series C at $2.5B Valuation to Scale AI-Driven Automation
Berlin-based AI business automation startup n8n raised $180M in a Series C round at a $2.5 billion post-money valuation. The round was led by Accel with participation from Meritech, Redpoint, Evantic, Visionaries Club, NVentures, T.Capital, Felicis Ventures, Sequoia, Highland Europe...
FinSMEs
Deals•Oct 10, 2025
Duos Raises $130M Growth Equity to Expand AI-Powered Digital Health Platform
Duos, an AI-powered digital health platform for member activation and benefits execution, secured a $130M strategic growth equity investment to accelerate platform innovation, enhance AI capabilities, and expand go-to-market operations. The round was led by FTV Capital with participation from...
FinSMEs
Deals•Oct 10, 2025
Together AI Raised $305M Earlier This Year to Scale Its Enterprise Inference Platform
Together AI, the enterprise AI company behind the ATLAS adaptive speculator, raised $305 million earlier in 2025 to support customer adoption and platform growth. The funding underpins its work on inference optimizations and enterprise deployments.
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Deals•Oct 10, 2025
HavocAI Raises $85M Growth Round Led by Strategic and VC Backers
HavocAI, a Providence, RI-based developer of maritime autonomous systems, raised $85M in a growth-stage funding round that significantly increased its valuation and brought total capital raised to nearly $100M. New investors included B Capital, In-Q-Tel, Lockheed Martin, Hanwha, Taiwania, Vanderbilt...
FinSMEs
Deals•Oct 10, 2025
Vulcan Technologies Raises $10.9M Seed to Power AI Reg‑Tech for Governments and Legal Teams
Austin-based Vulcan Technologies raised a $10.9M seed round to commercialize its AI-driven regulatory drafting and compliance platform for government agencies and legal professionals. The funding will support product development and go-to-market expansion.
VC News Daily
Deals•Oct 10, 2025
Onos Health Raises $6.3M to Advance Healthcare AI for Behavioral Health
Onos Health, a San Francisco-based healthcare AI company focused on helping health plans manage behavioral health, announced $6.3M in venture funding. The round will support product development and growth into payer-focused behavioral health solutions.
VC News Daily
Deals•Oct 10, 2025
Bondu Raises $5.3M Seed Round Led by Makers Fund to Scale AI Toy Business
San Francisco-based AI toy maker bondu raised $5.3M in a Seed round led by Makers Fund with participation from Samsung Ventures, Boost VC and Founders Inc. The company will use the proceeds to expand operations and further develop its emotionally...
FinSMEs
Deals•Oct 10, 2025
Prezent Raises $30M to Fund Acquisitions, Beginning with Founder’s Other Company
Enterprise-focused AI presentation startup Prezent has raised $30 million to pursue acquisitions of AI services firms, including an initial deal with the founder’s other company. The round follows a prior $20M raise and is earmarked to accelerate growth through M&A.
TechCrunch AI
Deals•Oct 10, 2025
375ai Raises $10M Led by Delphi Ventures, Strobe Capital and HackVC
Los Angeles-based edge data intelligence company 375ai raised $10M in a funding round led by Delphi Ventures, Strobe Capital and HackVC to expand its edge data intelligence network and deliver real-time insights for AI models, cities, enterprises and governments.
FinSMEs
Deals•Oct 10, 2025
Search Party Raises $3.5M Seed Round Led by Fuse
Search Party, a San Francisco startup building generative engine optimization technology, emerged from stealth with a $3.5 million seed financing led by Fuse. The round will support product development and go-to-market efforts for the AI-driven search optimization company.
VC News Daily
Deals•Oct 9, 2025
Search Party Raises $3.5M Seed Round Led by Fuse
Search Party, a San Francisco startup focused on generative engine optimization (GEO), raised $3.5M in a funding round led by Fuse to expand operations and development. The round will support growth under CEO Brandon Brown and CTO Ryan Brown.
FinSMEs
Deals•Oct 9, 2025
Knapsack Raises $10M Series A Led by Builders VC to Fuel AI-Native Product Engine
Knapsack, a Portland-based intelligent product engine for AI-native digital product creation, raised $10M in a Series A round led by Builders VC with participation from Crosslink Capital, Epic Ventures, Mana Venture, and Lorimer Ventures. The company will use the proceeds...
FinSMEs
Deals•Oct 9, 2025
Focal Raises $5M Seed to Expand AI Productivity Platform for Financial Advisors
Focal, an AI-powered productivity platform for financial advisors, has secured a $5 million seed funding round to accelerate product development and go-to-market efforts. The company aims to enhance advisor workflows using generative AI and scale its B2B offering.
VC News Daily
Deals•Oct 9, 2025
Focal Raises $5M Seed Round Led by Distributed Ventures
Focal, a San Francisco-based AI-powered productivity platform for financial advisors, raised $5M to accelerate development of meeting automation, performance coaching and back-office workflow tools. The round was led by Distributed Ventures with participation from Wischoff Ventures and others.
FinSMEs
Deals•Oct 9, 2025
Spellbook Raises $50M Series B to Expand Legal AI Contract Tools
Spellbook, a Toronto-based provider of legal AI for transactional law, raised $50M in a Series B round led by Keith Rabois at Khosla Ventures. The company will use the funds to build out a data-driven contract review tool delivering realtime...
FinSMEs
Deals•Oct 9, 2025
Atlassian Acquires The Browser Company for $610M
Software giant Atlassian acquired The Browser Company for $610 million. The deal, announced prior to this article, brings the AI-powered Dia browser under Atlassian as Dia becomes widely available on macOS.
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Deals•Oct 9, 2025
Reflection Raises $2B Series B at $8B Valuation to Build Open-Source Superintelligence
Reflection, a Brooklyn-based open-source superintelligence lab, raised $2B in a Series B round at an $8B valuation. Lead and participating backers include NVIDIA, Disruptive, B Capital, Citi, DST, Hillspire, Eric Yuan, GIC, 1789 Capital and existing investors CRV, Lightspeed and...
FinSMEs
Deals•Oct 9, 2025
Echelon Raises $4.75M Seed Round Led by Bain Capital Ventures
Echelon, a San Francisco-based AI platform automating enterprise IT implementations and managed services, raised $4.75M in a Seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures. Additional participants included angels and executives from Anthropic, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Meta, Atlassian and PagerDuty. Funds will...
FinSMEs
Deals•Oct 9, 2025
Mentium Raises $3.2M Seed Round Led by Lerer Hippeau
Mentium, an Austin-based AI-native platform building digital workers for freight brokerages and logistics, raised $3.2M in a Seed round led by Lerer Hippeau with participation from Matchstick Ventures, Tower Research Capital, Antler, MBA Ventures, and angel Michael Witte. The funding...
FinSMEs
Deals•Oct 9, 2025
Datacurve Raises $15M to Take on Scale AI
Datacurve raised $15 million to fund growth of its bounty-hunter dataset labeling platform aimed at competing with Scale AI. The capital will be used to scale operations and attract skilled engineers to complete hard-to-source datasets.
TechCrunch AI
Deals•Oct 9, 2025
Echelon Raises $4.75M Seed to Commercialize AI Platform for Enterprise IT
Echelon, an AI platform automating enterprise IT implementations, development, operations and managed services, emerged from stealth and raised $4.75M in seed funding to accelerate product development and go-to-market. The round was announced on 2025-10-09; investors were not disclosed in the...
VC News Daily
Deals•Oct 9, 2025
Reflection Raises $2B at $8B Valuation to Build an Open Frontier AI Lab
Reflection has raised $2 billion at an $8 billion valuation to expand from autonomous coding agents into an open-source frontier AI lab positioned against closed western labs and Chinese rivals like DeepSeek. The funding will support scaling research and platform...
TechCrunch AI
Deals•Oct 9, 2025
AirStrip Secures $50M Growth Credit Commitment From OrbiMed, Plus Additional Preferred Stock Investment
AirStrip, an enterprise AI healthcare technology company, secured a $50M growth credit facility from OrbiMed, which also made an additional preferred stock (equity) investment in the company. The equity amount was not disclosed; funds will be used to accelerate AirStrip's...
FinSMEs
Deals•Oct 9, 2025
Echelon Raises $4.75M Seed to Deploy AI Agents for ServiceNow Implementations
Echelon, an AI startup automating enterprise ServiceNow implementations, announced a $4.75M seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures as it exits stealth. The funding will accelerate development of its domain-specific AI agents that replace costly consulting teams and speed up...
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Deals•Oct 9, 2025
Vulcan Technologies Secures $10.9M Seed Round Led by General Catalyst and Cubit Capital
Vulcan Technologies, an Austin-based reg-tech startup using advanced AI for regulatory drafting and compliance, raised $10.9M in a Seed round led by General Catalyst and Cubit Capital. The round included participation from Trevor Rees-Jones, SV Angel, A*, Liquid 2 Ventures,...
FinSMEs
Deals•Oct 8, 2025
Quilter Raises $25M Series B Led by Index Ventures to Scale Autonomous PCB Layout AI
Quilter, which demonstrated fully autonomous PCB layout using physics-driven AI, raised $25 million in a Series B round led by Index Ventures. The funding will support product development and commercialization of its AI-driven PCB layout technology.
VC News Daily
Deals•Oct 8, 2025
OpenAI Acquires Jony Ive’s Hardware Startup Io for $6.5B
OpenAI completed a $6.5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive’s hardware startup Io, announced in May and referenced during OpenAI’s Dev Day. The deal brings Ive’s design expertise into OpenAI’s effort to build a family of AI-powered devices.
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Deals•Oct 8, 2025
Realm.Security Raises $15M Series A to Fund AI-Native Security Data Pipeline
Realm.Security, an AI-native Security Data Pipeline Platform (SDPP) based in Boston, announced a $15 million Series A funding round to advance its security data and AI capabilities. The round will support product development and go-to-market expansion.
VC News Daily
Deals•Oct 8, 2025
HiOctave Launches with $15M Seed Round Led by Vinod Khosla
HiOctave, an AI software company based in San Francisco, announced its launch and a $15M financing round led by investor Vinod Khosla. The funding will support product development and go-to-market activities.
VC News Daily
Deals•Oct 8, 2025
Glue Raises $20M Series A for Agentic Team Chat Platform
Glue, a San Francisco-based platform for agentic team chat, announced a $20M Series A funding round to scale its product and go-to-market. The round was disclosed on 2025-10-08; investor details were not provided in the article.
VC News Daily
Deals•Oct 8, 2025
BlastPoint Raises $10.6M in Growth Funding for AI Customer Intelligence Platform
BlastPoint, an AI-driven customer intelligence platform based in Pittsburgh, secured $10.6 million in growth-stage funding to expand its offering and scale operations. The announcement did not disclose participating investors or specific use of proceeds beyond growth initiatives.
VC News Daily
Deals•Jul 15, 2025
Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2B Seed Round at $12B Valuation
Thinking Machines Lab, co-founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, raised a $2 billion seed round at a reported $12 billion valuation. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
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Deals•Nov 5, 2024
Mitra Chem Raises over $80M in Funding Round
Mitra Chem, a lithium‑ion battery materials startup, announced it has raised more than $80 million from investors including Social Capital, General Motors and Alpha Wave Ventures. The capital will accelerate AI‑driven battery material development and help shorten the lab‑to‑production timeline.
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