Deals•Dec 16, 2025
Looma Secures $10M Series B to Accelerate National Retail Media Expansion
Looma, an in‑store retail media platform, announced a $10 million Series B round led by Staley Capital, complemented by a $3 million credit facility from Silicon Valley Bank. The funding will support rapid national rollout across thousands of retail locations, boosting its video‑screen network for brands at the point of purchase.
VC News Daily
Deals•Dec 16, 2025
Cellular Origins Secures $40M Series A Led by Johnson & Johnson Innovation
Cambridge‑based Cellular Origins announced a $40 million Series A round to scale its cell‑therapy manufacturing platform. The round was led by Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. with participation from Highland Europe, BGF, NYBC Ventures and TTP Group.
FinSMEs
Deals•Dec 16, 2025
DataLane Secures $22.5M Series A Funding
DataLane, the identity‑graph platform for local businesses, announced a $22.5 million Series A round led by Amplify Partners with participation from Harry Stebbings, Basis Set and Mischief. The funding will accelerate its mission to map every local business in the U.S. and enable partners...
VC News Daily
Deals•Dec 16, 2025
PsiThera Secures $47.5M Series A Led by Samsara Biocapital and Lightstone Ventures
Watertown‑based biotech PsiThera announced a $47.5 million Series A round to accelerate its protein‑state and computational‑intelligence drug platform. The round was led by Samsara Biocapital and Lightstone Ventures with participation from Roivant, YK Bioventures, Eurofarma Ventures and others.
FinSMEs
Deals•Dec 16, 2025
Vital Lyfe Secures $24M Seed Round Led by Interlagos and General Catalyst
California‑based water‑making startup Vital Lyfe announced a $24 million seed financing, including $18 million in equity and the remainder as debt. The round was led by Interlagos and General Catalyst with participation from Generational Partners, Cantos, Space VC and Also Capital, to...
FinSMEs
Deals•Dec 15, 2025
Unconventional AI Secures $475M Seed Round at $4.5B Valuation
San Diego‑based Unconventional AI announced a $475 million seed financing, valuing the startup at $4.5 billion. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Ventures, with participation from Lux Capital and DCVC.
VC News Daily
Deals•Dec 15, 2025
Mirelo Secures $41M Seed Funding Led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz
Berlin‑based AI startup Mirelo announced a $41 million seed round to fund its video‑to‑soundtrack technology. The round was led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Atlantic and several angel investors. The capital will accelerate product development and hiring...
TechCrunch AI
Deals•Dec 15, 2025
Gracia AI Secures $1.7M Seed Funding to Scale 4D Video Production
London‑based Gracia AI announced a $1.7 million seed round led by EWOR and a group of angel investors to expand its 4D Gaussian Splatting production platform for XR, VFX and gaming. The funding will accelerate the company’s cloud‑accelerated infrastructure and tooling...
Just AI News
Deals•Dec 15, 2025
Navier Secures $5.6M Seed Funding to Launch Autonomous Engineering Teams
San Francisco‑based Navier, which builds autonomous engineering teams for hardware design, announced a $5.6 million seed round as it emerges from stealth. The round was led by GV, with participation from HCVC and Y Combinator, supporting Navier’s AI‑driven engineering platform.
VC News Daily
Deals•Dec 15, 2025
Link Cell Therapies Secures $60M Series A Led by Johnson & Johnson Innovation
On December 15, 2025, oncology cell‑therapy startup Link Cell Therapies announced its official launch from stealth with a $60 million Series A round. The financing was led by Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc., and included participation from Samsara BioCapital,...
VC News Daily
Deals•Dec 15, 2025
First Voyage Secures $2.5M Seed Round to Launch AI Habit‑building Companion Momo
First Voyage announced a $2.5 million seed round led by a16z speedrun, SignalFire and True Global to expand its AI companion app Momo Self Care. The funding will support an Android launch and further AI enhancements, positioning the startup in the...
TechCrunch AI
Deals•Dec 15, 2025
Lightspeed Venture Partners Secures Record $9B Fundraise
Lightspeed Venture Partners announced on Monday that it has closed a $9 billion fundraising round, the largest in the firm’s history. The fresh capital will be allocated across six funds, including a $3.3 billion opportunity fund for follow‑on investments in AI‑focused portfolio...
TechCrunch Venture Feed
Deals•Dec 15, 2025
Axion Nets Secures $37M Series B Led by Salesforce Ventures
Axion, an AI-driven platform for manufacturing quality, announced a $37 million Series B funding round. The round was led by Salesforce Ventures with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners and Schneider Electric Ventures, bolstering its growth in the AI‑enabled manufacturing sector.
VC News Daily
Deals•Dec 15, 2025
PolyAI Secures $86M Series D Funding
PolyAI, a leader in enterprise conversational AI, announced a new Series D round raising $86 million. The round was co-led by Georgian, Hedosophia and Khosla Ventures, with participation from NVentures, British Business Bank, Citi Ventures, Squarepoint Ventures, Sands Capital, Zendesk...
VC News Daily
Deals•Dec 15, 2025
Octane Lending Secures $100M Series F Funding
Octane Lending announced the close of a $100 million Series F equity round to fuel growth and enable secondary share transfers. The round was led by Valar Ventures with participation from Upper90, Huntington Bank, Camping World, Good Sam, Holler‑Classic and...
VC News Daily
Deals•Dec 15, 2025
Chai Discovery Secures $130M Series B Led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst
San Francisco‑based AI firm Chai Discovery announced a $130 million Series B financing round, co‑led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst. The round also included participation from Thrive Capital, OpenAI, Dimension, Menlo Ventures, Lachy Groom, Yosemite, Neo, SV Angel, Emerson...
VC News Daily
Deals•Dec 12, 2025
SafeinHome Secures $25M Series D Funding Led by SEMCAP Health
SafeinHome announced the first close of its targeted $25 million Series D round, bringing its total funding to $67 million. The round was led by SEMCAP Health, with participation from existing investors, bolstering SafeinHome’s remote support services for individuals with intellectual and developmental...
VC News Daily
Deals•Dec 12, 2025
OpenAI Secures $1B Investment From Disney in New Licensing Deal
OpenAI announced a three‑year licensing agreement with Walt Disney that grants the studio’s iconic characters to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sora tools. As part of the deal, Disney will invest $1 billion in OpenAI, marking a major corporate venture funding round.
AI Business
Deals•Dec 12, 2025
Saviynt Raises $700M Series B Led by KKR, Valuation Hits $3B
Identity‑security platform Saviynt announced a $700 million Series B round, valuing the company at $3 billion. The round was led by KKR, underscoring strong investor appetite for AI‑driven security solutions.
Crunchbase News AI
Deals•Dec 12, 2025
Conveyd Secures £2.5M Seed Round Led by Eka Ventures
London‑based AI conveyancing platform Conveyd announced a £2.5 million seed round, led by Eka Ventures with participation from Portfolio Ventures, Founders Factory and several angel investors. The funding will accelerate development of AI agents to automate key stages of the conveyancing...
FinSMEs
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Stic Secures $10M Bridge Financing Led by Accretion Capital
Los Angeles‑based ad‑tech startup Stic announced a $10 million bridge financing round on Dec 11, 2025. The round was led by Accretion Capital with participation from entrepreneurs Phil Hellmuth, Adam Waheed and Chris Detert, providing capital to expand its driver‑powered OOH advertising platform.
VC News Daily
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Impulse Dynamics Secures $158M Funding Round to Accelerate HF Therapy Commercialization
Impulse Dynamics, a medical‑device firm focused on cardiac contractility modulation, announced a $158 million financing round. Backers including Sands Capital, Braidwell, Redmile, Perceptive, and Alger will help speed commercialization, expand product pipelines, and fund clinical trials. The round underscores strong investor...
FinSMEs
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Ritten Secures $35M Series B to Accelerate AI‑Powered Behavioral Health Platform
Ritten, a Philadelphia‑based AI‑driven behavioral health practice‑management platform, announced a $35 million Series B round led by Five Elms Capital, with participation from Threshold Ventures, 8VC and Bienville Capital. The funding will fuel AI workflow integration, expand customer support, and grow...
FinSMEs
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Double Secures $6.5M Series A Led by Album Ventures
Double, the NYC‑based close‑management platform for accounting firms, announced a $6.5 M Series A round led by Album Ventures with participation from Jack Altman and Y Combinator. The funding will accelerate product development, expand engineering and customer‑success teams, and grow its partner ecosystem.
FinSMEs
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Spoor Raises €8M Series A to Expand AI-Powered Bird Monitoring
Norwegian AI startup Spoor announced a recent €8 million ($9.3 million) Series A round led by SET Ventures, with participation from Ørstead Ventures and Superorganism. The funding will accelerate its computer‑vision platform for protecting birds around wind turbines and expand into new markets.
TechCrunch AI
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Disney Invests $1 Billion in OpenAI and Signs Three‑year Licensing Deal for Sora
The Walt Disney Company announced a three‑year licensing agreement with OpenAI for its Sora AI video tool and a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI. The deal grants Disney’s characters access to Sora while giving OpenAI a strategic corporate backer. The...
TechRadar
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Marble Secures $9M Seed Round to Launch AI-Powered Tax Research Tool
Marble, an AI startup for tax professionals, announced a $9 million seed funding round led by Susa Ventures with participation from MXV Capital and Konrad Capital. The capital will fuel the rollout of its free AI-driven tax research platform and...
VentureBeat
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Cyphlens Secures $3.8M Seed Round to Advance Visual Encryption Technology
Cyphlens, a New York‑based visual encryption startup, announced a $3.8 million seed round led by Salesforce Ventures, Motivate Ventures, DCG, ex/ante and Cambrian Ventures. The funding will fuel product expansion and development of new visual‑encryption solutions targeting AI‑driven phishing and enterprise...
FinSMEs
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Runware Secures $50M Series A Led by Dawn Capital to Accelerate Real‑Time Generative AI APIs
Runware announced a $50 million Series A round to boost its real‑time generative AI platform for developers. The round was led by Dawn Capital with participation from Insight Partners and a16z Speedrun, bringing total funding to $66 million. The capital will fund infrastructure...
TechCrunch Venture Feed
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Skydo Secures Over $10M Series A to Accelerate Global Payments Expansion
Bengaluru‑based cross‑border payments platform Skydo announced it has closed a Series A round of over $10 million, led by Susquehanna Asia Venture Capital with participation from Elevation Capital. The funding will fuel expansion into Latin America, Africa, SE Asia and the...
FinSMEs
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Double Secures $6.5M Series A Led by Album Ventures
Double, a modern close‑management platform for accounting firms, announced a $6.5 million Series A round on Dec 11, 2025. The round was led by Album Ventures with participation from Jack Altman, Y Combinator and several angel investors, bringing total capital raised to over $12.5 million.
VC News Daily
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Disco Pharmaceuticals Secures €36M Seed Funding
Disco Pharmaceuticals, a Cologne‑based biotech developing antibody‑drug conjugates, announced the close of a €36 million seed round. The financing was co‑led by Ackermans and van Haaren and NRW.Bank, with participation from Sofinnova Partners, AbbVie Ventures, M Ventures and Panakes Partners, and...
FinSMEs
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Prime Security Secures $20M Series A Funding Led by Scale Venture Partners
Prime Security announced a $20 million Series A round to accelerate its Agentic Product Security Platform. The round was led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from Foundation Capital, Flybridge Ventures, and individual investor Ofir Ehrlich. The capital will fund go‑to‑market expansion...
VC News Daily
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
401GO Secures $33M Series B Funding
401GO announced a $33 million Series B round led by Centana Growth Partners, with existing investors Next Frontier Capital, Rally Ventures and Impression Ventures participating. The funding will support the fintech’s fully‑owned 401(k) platform expansion and further development of its hybrid digital‑human...
VC News Daily
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Haven Energy Secures $40M Funding Led by Giant Ventures
Haven Energy announced a $40 million raise comprising an equity round led by Giant Ventures and a debt facility from Turtle Hill, with participation from several other investors. The capital will accelerate its grid‑modernization projects, expand its leasing model, and grow...
VC News Daily
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Vybe Secures $10M Seed Round Led by First Round Capital
Vybe, an AI‑powered internal‑tools platform, announced a $10 million seed round to accelerate its go‑to‑market. The round was led by First Round Capital and included participation from Y Combinator, Orange Collective, Pelion Ventures, Pioneer Fund and a slate of prominent angel investors.
Just AI News
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Stardust Solutions Secures $60M Funding Round to Advance Solar Geoengineering
Stardust Solutions, a solar geoengineering startup, announced a $60 million venture funding round, the largest ever for a geoengineering company. The capital will be used to scale its climate‑cooling technologies. The announcement appears in the December 11, 2025 edition of...
MIT Technology Review
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Harness Secures $240M Series E Funding, Valued at $5.5B
AI DevOps platform Harness announced a $240 million Series E round, pushing its post‑money valuation to $5.5 billion. The round was led by Goldman Sachs with participation from IVP, Menlo Ventures and Unusual Ventures, and includes a $40 million employee tender offer.
TechCrunch AI
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Subsense Secures Additional $10M Funding From Golden Falcon Capital
Subsense, a neurotechnology firm developing non‑surgical nanoparticle‑based brain‑computer interfaces, announced a fresh $10 million injection from Golden Falcon Capital, raising its total funding to $27 million. The new capital will accelerate R&D in nanoparticle sensing, biosafety, and hardware miniaturisation.
VC News Daily
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Fal Secures $140M Series D Led by Sequoia to Accelerate Real‑Time Generative AI Media
San Francisco‑based fal announced a $140 million Series D round to expand its real‑time generative‑media platform. The round was led by Sequoia with participation from Kleiner Perkins, NVentures, Alkeon Capital and a host of existing backers including a16z and Shopify Ventures.
VC News Daily
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Port Secures $100M Series C to Challenge Spotify’s Backstage
Port announced a $100 million Series C round led by General Atlantic, with participation from Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners and Team8, valuing the startup at $800 million. The funding will accelerate its AI‑driven developer portal platform that competes with Spotify’s Backstage. The round...
TechCrunch AI
Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Ritten Secures $35M Series B to Accelerate AI‑Powered Behavioral Health Platform
Ritten, an AI‑driven system of record for behavioral health providers, announced a $35 million Series B round led by Five Elms Capital, with participation from Threshold Ventures, 8VC, Bienville Capital and others. The funding will fuel expansion across mental health and addiction...
VC News Daily
Deals•Dec 10, 2025
Kodiaq Technologies Secures £850K Funding to Accelerate Organic Electrolyte Development
Cambridge spin‑out Kodiaq Technologies announced the close of an £850,000 funding round backed by more than twenty climate‑tech and deep‑tech investors. The capital will be used to speed up development of organic electrolytes for long‑duration flow batteries, with a larger...
FinSMEs
Deals•Dec 10, 2025
Channel3 Secures $6M Seed Round Led by Matrix
Channel3, a New York‑based provider of a connected product database, announced a $6 million seed round. The financing was led by Matrix with participation from Ludlow Ventures, Paul Graham, Sri Batchu and Matteo Franeschetti, and will fund engineering expansion and AI development.
FinSMEs
Deals•Dec 10, 2025
Melt&Marble Secures €7.3M Series A Led by Industrifonden
Swedish biotech Melt&Marble announced a €7.3 million Series A round to scale its precision‑fermentation platform for designer fats. The round was led by Industrifonden with participation from the European Innovation Council Fund, Beiersdorf, Valio and Chalmers.
FinSMEs
Deals•Dec 10, 2025
EpilepsyGTx Secures $33M Series A to Advance Gene Therapy for Epilepsy
London‑based biotech EpilepsyGTx announced a $33 million Series A round to fund its gene‑therapy pipeline for refractory epilepsy. The financing was led by XGEN Venture and the British Business Bank, with participation from an unnamed global biopharma partner.
FinSMEs
Deals•Dec 10, 2025
SuperCircle Secures $24M Series A Led by Foundry
SuperCircle, a full‑stack textile waste management platform serving top retail brands, announced a $24 million Series A round. The round was led by Foundry with participation from BBG Ventures, Renewal Fund and Elemental Impact, and will fund expansion of its AI‑powered...
VC News Daily
Deals•Dec 10, 2025
BrainChip Raises $25M to Accelerate Edge AI and Neuromorphic Chip Development
BrainChip Holdings Ltd. announced a $25 million capital raise to fund its Akida 2 platform, GenAI model capabilities, and new edge‑AI product launches ahead of CES. The funding will support chip and module development, expanding its presence in the growing neuromorphic‑computing market.
Just AI News
Deals•Dec 10, 2025
Fervo Energy Secures $462M Series E Funding Led by B Capital
Fervo Energy announced the closing of an oversubscribed $462 million Series E round, bringing its total funding to new heights. The round was led by new investor B Capital and included participation from AllianceBernstein, Atacama Ventures, Carbon Equity, Climate First,...
VC News Daily
Deals•Dec 10, 2025
Allonnia Secures Over $20M in Series A Extension, Total Funding Tops $100M
Boston‑based bio‑ingenuity firm Allonnia announced a Series A extension round that raised more than $20 million, pushing its cumulative funding above $100 million. The round was led by Viking Global Investors, Bison Ventures, General Atlantic, BHP Ventures and Pivotal Capital Partners.
VC News Daily