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Prediction Markets Startup Kalshi Raises $300M at $5B Valuation
DealsOct 10, 2025

Prediction Markets Startup Kalshi Raises $300M at $5B Valuation

Kalshi raised $300 million in a growth-stage funding round that values the prediction markets startup at about $5 billion, announced 2025-10-10. The round follows rival Polymarket's recent backing by NYSE-linked financing.

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Expedition Therapeutics Raises $165M Series A Led by Sofinnova Investments and Novo Holdings
DealsOct 10, 2025

Expedition Therapeutics Raises $165M Series A Led by Sofinnova Investments and Novo Holdings

Expedition Therapeutics, a San Francisco biotech developing therapies for inflammatory and respiratory diseases, raised $165M in a Series A round led by Sofinnova Investments and Novo Holdings. Additional investors include Forbion, Dawn Biopharma (KKR), Adage, Balyasny, Logos Capital, Sanofi Ventures...

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IndiGOtech Secures Strategic Investment From Passkey to Fuel EV Mobility Expansion
DealsOct 10, 2025

IndiGOtech Secures Strategic Investment From Passkey to Fuel EV Mobility Expansion

indiGOtech, a Boston-based smart mobility company led by CEO Will Graylin, received a strategic investment from Passkey to expand operations and development of its purpose-built EVs and intelligent charging stations. The undisclosed investment will support growth and product development initiatives.

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Flyntlok Raises $36M Growth Round Led by Mainsail Partners
DealsOct 10, 2025

Flyntlok Raises $36M Growth Round Led by Mainsail Partners

Flyntlok, an Anchorage-based provider of a cloud-based heavy equipment dealer management system, raised $36M in a growth investment round led by Mainsail Partners. The company will use the proceeds to expand customer success and service offerings for dealers.

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Duos Raises $130M Growth Equity to Expand AI-Powered Digital Health Platform
DealsOct 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...

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Expedition Therapeutics Raises $165M in Oversubscribed Series A
DealsOct 10, 2025

Expedition Therapeutics Raises $165M in Oversubscribed Series A

Expedition Therapeutics closed an oversubscribed and upsized $165 million Series A financing to advance its biotech programs. The round was announced on 2025-10-10; investors were not specified in the article.

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375ai Raises $10M Led by Delphi Ventures, Strobe Capital and HackVC
DealsOct 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.

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Search Party Raises $3.5M Seed Round Led by Fuse
DealsOct 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.

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Unikraft Raises $6M Seed Round Led by Heavybit
DealsOct 10, 2025

Unikraft Raises $6M Seed Round Led by Heavybit

Unikraft, a millisecond-native scalable cloud platform, has raised $6 million in a seed funding round led by Heavybit. The capital will support product development and go-to-market expansion.

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Navan Files Updated IPO to Raise up to ~$960M and Pursue $6.45B Valuation
DealsOct 10, 2025

Navan Files Updated IPO to Raise up to ~$960M and Pursue $6.45B Valuation

Corporate travel management company Navan (formerly TripActions) filed updated S-1 documents aiming to sell 30M shares (plus 7M insider shares) with a $24–$26 range, which at the high end would raise about $960M and value the company at $6.45B. The...

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Yendo Raises $50M Series B for Vehicle-Secured Credit Card
DealsOct 10, 2025

Yendo Raises $50M Series B for Vehicle-Secured Credit Card

Yendo, developer of the first vehicle‑secured credit card, raised $50 million in a Series B funding round announced from Dallas. The capital will support growth and product expansion for its vehicle-secured lending solution.

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N8n Raises $180M Series C at $2.5B Valuation to Scale AI-Driven Automation
DealsOct 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...

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Onos Health Raises $6.3M to Advance Healthcare AI for Behavioral Health
DealsOct 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.

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Vulcan Technologies Raises $10.9M Seed to Power AI Reg‑Tech for Governments and Legal Teams
DealsOct 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.

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Pimly Raises $2.25M Seed Round Led by High Alpha to Expand Salesforce-Native Product Cloud
DealsOct 10, 2025

Pimly Raises $2.25M Seed Round Led by High Alpha to Expand Salesforce-Native Product Cloud

Pimly secured $2.25M in a strategic seed funding round led by High Alpha to accelerate development and go-to-market for its Salesforce-native Product Cloud. The capital will fund product development and expansion targeting enterprise catalogs across Commerce, Sales, and Service.

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Save Raises Series A Led by BNP Paribas
DealsOct 9, 2025

Save Raises Series A Led by BNP Paribas

Save, a Houston-based fintech led by CEO Michael Nelskyla, closed a Series A round led by BNP Paribas with participation from Natixis Corporate and Investment Banking and Pacer Financial. The undisclosed round will fund expansion of operations and product development.

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FurtherAI Raises $25M Series A Led by Andreessen Horowitz
DealsOct 9, 2025

FurtherAI Raises $25M Series A Led by Andreessen Horowitz

FurtherAI, a San Francisco-based provider of an AI platform for insurance, raised $25M in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Nexus Venture Partners, Y Combinator and others. The funding brings total raised to $30M and...

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Focal Raises $5M Seed to Expand AI Productivity Platform for Financial Advisors
DealsOct 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.

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Routefusion Secures $26.5M Series A Led by PeakSpan Capital
DealsOct 9, 2025

Routefusion Secures $26.5M Series A Led by PeakSpan Capital

Routefusion, an Austin-based financial infrastructure provider, closed a $26.5M Series A round led by PeakSpan Capital with participation from Silverton Partners, bringing total funding to $40.7M. PeakSpan’s Justin Kelly will join Routefusion’s board; proceeds will support the company’s growth and...

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Odys Aviation Raises $26M Series A to Advance Hybrid‑Electric VTOLs
DealsOct 9, 2025

Odys Aviation Raises $26M Series A to Advance Hybrid‑Electric VTOLs

Odys Aviation, a dual-use company developing hybrid-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, closed a $26M Series A funding round to advance its aircraft development and commercialization efforts. The round was announced on 2025-10-09.

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Knapsack Raises $10M Series A Led by Builders VC to Fuel AI-Native Product Engine
DealsOct 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...

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Search Party Raises $3.5M Seed Round Led by Fuse
DealsOct 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.

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DevAlly Raises €2M Pre-Seed to Help Companies Comply with EU Accessibility Rules
DealsOct 9, 2025

DevAlly Raises €2M Pre-Seed to Help Companies Comply with EU Accessibility Rules

DevAlly, founded by a Battlefield alum, raised €2 million in a pre-seed funding round to build tools helping companies meet Europe's new accessibility law. The capital will support product development and go-to-market efforts targeting businesses navigating regulatory requirements.

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Vulcan Technologies Secures $10.9M Seed Round Led by General Catalyst and Cubit Capital
DealsOct 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,...

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Echelon Raises $4.75M Seed to Deploy AI Agents for ServiceNow Implementations
DealsOct 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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Spellbook Raises $50M Series B to Expand Legal AI Contract Tools
DealsOct 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...

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Alec’s Ice Cream Raises $11M Series A Led by Imaginary Ventures
DealsOct 9, 2025

Alec’s Ice Cream Raises $11M Series A Led by Imaginary Ventures

Petaluma-based Alec’s Ice Cream raised $11M in a Series A round led by Imaginary Ventures, with participation from Great Circle Ventures, Altelan Capital, DAYBREAKER, Dr. Anthony Guston, and Monique Volz (Ambitious Kitchen). The company will use the funds to expand...

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Nilo Therapeutics Raises $101M Series A Led by The Column Group, DCVC Bio and Lux Capital
DealsOct 9, 2025

Nilo Therapeutics Raises $101M Series A Led by The Column Group, DCVC Bio and Lux Capital

Nilo Therapeutics, a NYC-based biotech focused on harnessing neural circuits to restore immune homeostasis, closed a $101M Series A. The round was led by The Column Group, DCVC Bio and Lux Capital, with participation from the Gates Foundation and Alexandria...

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Mentium Raises $3.2M Seed Round Led by Lerer Hippeau
DealsOct 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...

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Echelon Raises $4.75M Seed Round Led by Bain Capital Ventures
DealsOct 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...

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Reflection Raises $2B Series B at $8B Valuation to Build Open-Source Superintelligence
DealsOct 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...

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Focal Raises $5M Seed Round Led by Distributed Ventures
DealsOct 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.

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Tigris Raises $25M to Expand Localized Distributed Data Storage Network
DealsOct 9, 2025

Tigris Raises $25M to Expand Localized Distributed Data Storage Network

Tigris raised $25 million to expand its network of localized data storage centers, serving as the storage layer for decentralized computing infrastructure. The funding will be used to grow its infrastructure footprint and support customers building distributed applications.

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AirStrip Secures $50M Growth Credit Commitment From OrbiMed, Plus Additional Preferred Stock Investment
DealsOct 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...

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Reflection Raises $2B at $8B Valuation to Build an Open Frontier AI Lab
DealsOct 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...

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Hoverfly Technologies Raises $20M Series B Led by Leonardo DRS
DealsOct 9, 2025

Hoverfly Technologies Raises $20M Series B Led by Leonardo DRS

Hoverfly Technologies, a Sanford, FL–based tethered drone systems provider for defense and security, closed a $20M Series B round led by existing investor Leonardo DRS (which invested $15M) alongside new partner Korea Robot Manufacturing (KRM). The funding will support the...

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Echelon Raises $4.75M Seed to Commercialize AI Platform for Enterprise IT
DealsOct 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...

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Datacurve Raises $15M to Take on Scale AI
DealsOct 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.

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BlastPoint Raises $10.6M in Growth Funding for AI Customer Intelligence Platform
DealsOct 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.

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Realm.Security Raises $15M Series A to Fund AI-Native Security Data Pipeline
DealsOct 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.

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HiOctave Launches with $15M Seed Round Led by Vinod Khosla
DealsOct 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.

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Neuronoff Closes Oversubscribed $4.5M Financing Round
DealsOct 8, 2025

Neuronoff Closes Oversubscribed $4.5M Financing Round

Clinical-stage medical device company Neuronoff has closed an oversubscribed $4.5M financing round to advance its clinical development. The round was announced by the company on 2025-10-08; participating investors were not disclosed.

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Coinflow Raises $25M Series A to Scale Next-Gen Payment Services
DealsOct 8, 2025

Coinflow Raises $25M Series A to Scale Next-Gen Payment Services

Chicago-based payment service provider Coinflow closed a $25 million Series A to advance its next-generation PSP offerings. The round will support product development and go-to-market expansion.

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Mindset Medical Secures Additional Financing From New and Existing Partners
DealsOct 8, 2025

Mindset Medical Secures Additional Financing From New and Existing Partners

Mindset Medical announced it has received additional financing from new and existing partners, according to a company release. Financial terms and participating investors were not disclosed.

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QuoteWell Raises Additional $12M to Expand Tech-Driven Wholesale Insurance Brokerage
DealsOct 8, 2025

QuoteWell Raises Additional $12M to Expand Tech-Driven Wholesale Insurance Brokerage

QuoteWell, an Austin-based tech-driven wholesale insurance brokerage, announced an additional $12 million in financing to support growth. The round is described as follow-on/additional financing; investor details were not provided in the report.

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Base Power Raises $1B Series C to Expand Home Battery Deployment
DealsOct 8, 2025

Base Power Raises $1B Series C to Expand Home Battery Deployment

Base Power raised $1 billion in a Series C round to expand beyond its Texas beachhead and build home batteries across the United States. The funding will support geographic expansion and increased domestic manufacturing and deployment.

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Splash Sports Raises $14.5M Series B to Expand Skill-Based Social Sports Gaming
DealsOct 8, 2025

Splash Sports Raises $14.5M Series B to Expand Skill-Based Social Sports Gaming

Splash Sports announced a $14.5M Series B round to fund growth of its skill-based social sports gaming platform. The round was disclosed by the company on 2025-10-08; investor details were not provided in the article.

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Base Power Secures $1B Series C Round
DealsOct 8, 2025

Base Power Secures $1B Series C Round

Austin-based Base Power raised $1 billion in a Series C financing round to fund its growth and operations. The announcement was published on 2025-10-08; specific investors and use of proceeds were not disclosed in the article.

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AiPrise Raises $12.5M Series A to Build Global Compliance OS
DealsOct 8, 2025

AiPrise Raises $12.5M Series A to Build Global Compliance OS

AiPrise, a San Francisco-based company building an operating system for global compliance, has raised $12.5 million in a Series A round to accelerate product development and go-to-market efforts. No lead investors were disclosed in the announcement.

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