Today's Venture Capital Pulse
Clip secures $500M to accelerate consumer wallet rollout
Mexican fintech Clip raised $500 million, pushing its valuation above $2.5 billion. The new capital will fund the rollout of a consumer‑focused wallet and broaden its financial‑services platform. Investors were not disclosed and the round remains under review.
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By the numbers: Francisco Partners raises $18B for new tech funds
Redpine Raises €6.8m to Give AI Agents Access to Non-Public Data
Stockholm‑based Redpine closed a €6.8 million (≈$7.4 million) seed round led by NordicNinja, with Luminar Ventures and Node.vc participating. The startup offers an API that lets AI agents tap premium, non‑public data—especially scientific archives—through a pay‑per‑token model, positioning itself as a data‑licensing middleman. Founded by ex‑Antler partner Anders Hammarbäck and former Spotify engineer David Österdahl, Redpine already works with leading AI labs and biotech firm AsedaSciences and has angel investors from OpenAI and Perplexity. The funding will fund global expansion and platform development.
D.A. Davidson Advises Literati Sale to Trustbridge Partners in $40 Million EdTech Deal
D.A. Davidson & Co. served as exclusive financial advisor to Texas‑based EdTech firm Literati in its sale to global growth equity firm Trustbridge Partners. The transaction backs a company that generated nearly $40 million in revenue and reaches 2.5 million students, underscoring...
Eclipse Capital Raises $1.3B to Reshore Manufacturing and Back Startups
Eclipse Capital announced the close of a $1.3 billion fund aimed at reshoring U.S. manufacturing and strengthening supply chains. Backed primarily by universities and foundations, the fund will target robotics, automation and other physical‑industry innovations, signaling a shift toward venture capital...
Startup Revenue Metrics Are Ambiguous; Trust Them Less
I find myself trusting founder revenue metrics less than at any point since I started investing. That includes 2021, which should tell you something. Only 1% to 2% of startups ever reach $100M in revenue. The headlines make it feel like...
SereactAI Secures $110M Series B, More Airstreet News Tomorrow
after today’s tasty $110m series b for @sereactai, we’re proud to bring you more banger news from @airstreet companies tmrw :)
Selftalk Raises €270K to Scale Moldovan Mental‑Health Platform to $1.1M ARR
Selftalk, a Moldovan mental‑health startup, closed a €270,000 seed round and set a goal of $1.09 million in annual recurring revenue while supporting 100 teams. The funding follows a bootstrapped return to Moldova and a pivot toward data‑driven organizational psychology.
Chinese Funds Create US‑friendly Structures for Non‑sensitive Investments
Chinese early stage funds are increasingly offering a fundraising structure that appeals to US investors wary of American compliance restrictions but keen to grow exposure to non-sensitive sectors in China https://t.co/FHpOwEpW0O @echowonghk
Ardian to Launch New Secondaries Fund After $30 Billion 2025 Raise
Ardian is preparing to raise its next secondary‑market fund after securing a record $30 billion of commitments in 2025. The firm has begun informal talks with investors and expects to make a formal pitch later this year or early 2027, underscoring...
German Robotics Startup Sereact Secures $110 Million Series B for AI‑Driven Robots
German AI robotics firm Sereact announced a $110 million Series B funding round, led by venture capital firm Headline and joined by Bullhound Capital, Felix Capital and Daphni. The capital will accelerate development of its consequence‑predicting AI platform, positioning the startup...
Female Founders Highlight Hidden Barriers In Securing Investment
Female founders Debbie Gilbert and Michelle Leong are raising about $310,000 for Leanier, a habit‑building productivity app, after investing $87,000 of their own money. Their experience reflects a broader issue: in 2025, just 3% of global venture capital went to...
Startup Equity Adventure Game Turns SAFE Fundraising Into Interactive Lesson
A free, web‑based game launched on Hacker News walks founders through a simulated SAFE round, showing how valuation caps and ownership percentages play out. By turning the most common early‑stage financing tool into a playable scenario, the game aims to...
Betterness Closes $2.5M Seed Round
Betterness announced the close of a $2.5 M seed round and the public launch of Bett‑i, a voice‑first AI life‑coaching system. The round was backed by notable investors including Martin Varsavsky and Justin Stone, and added an advisory board spanning health‑tech,...
Nervonik Announces $52.5M Series B Financing
Nervonik, a clinical‑stage medical‑device firm focused on peripheral nerve stimulation, announced the close of a $52.5 million Series B round. The financing was led by Amzak Health and attracted participation from Elevage Medical Technologies, U.S. Venture Partners, Lumira Ventures, Foothill Ventures, and...
TriFetch Scores $1.9M Pre-Seed Round
TriFetch, a San Francisco‑based health‑tech startup, announced a $1.9 million pre‑seed financing round. The round was led by Nexus Venture Partners with participation from angel investors affiliated with Google, Hipprocratic, Mercor and MIT. The capital will be used to scale its...
Serif Biomedicines Raises $50 Million
Flagship Pioneering announced the creation of Serif Biomedicines, a new biotech focused on Modified DNA therapeutics. The company emerges after five years of platform development. Flagship pledged an initial $50 million to fund the launch. The venture positions Serif to pursue...
Orkes Inks $60M Series B Financing
Orkes, a platform for agents and durable workflow orchestration, announced a $60 million Series B financing round. The round was led by AVP with participation from Prosperity7 Ventures and existing backers Nexus Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, and Vertex Ventures US. The funding...
Kashable Secures $60M Series C to Boost Responsible Credit
@getkashable, a fintech that provides access to “socially responsible” credit and financial wellness programs for employees as a voluntary benefit, has secured $60M in a Series C funding round led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives’ Sustainable Investing. To date, the company has...
Adapt Cash Burn Quickly, Like F1 Braking Late
Every startup should run cash like a Formula One car. Full speed on the straight. Brake as late and hard as possible into the curve. The danger does not come from a high burn rate - but from not being able...
Botswana Tech Fund Sees Opportunity Where African Venture Capital Rarely Flows
The Botswana Tech Fund, anchored by billionaire Stephen Lansdown, has secured £10 million ($13.5 million) to invest in under‑funded Southern African startups. Its multi‑stage approach combines a pre‑seed accelerator offering £100 k ($135 k) cheques to about 100 companies over five years with growth‑stage...
Faraday Future Lands $45 Million in Funding
Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. announced a $45 million financing round with an unnamed U.S. institutional investor. The deal delivers $15 million upfront and places the remaining $30 million in a controlled deposit, to be released in installments upon meeting specific milestones. The...
Exclusive: Morphing Machines Raises ₹42 Cr To Close Series A Round At ₹80 Cr
Indian semiconductor startup Morphing Machines announced the close of its Series A round at ₹80 Cr (approximately $10.7 million), adding a fresh ₹42 Cr ($4.4 million) from Hero Enterprise Partner Ventures, Colossa Ventures and Navam Capital. The funding brings the total Series A capital to about...
Europe’s Startup Boom Shatters Funding Records
i'm German. Europe's startup ecosystem is MOONING right now the record for the largest seed round in european history just got broken twice in a row and the largest series c in european history just happened ...all in the past 2 months > largest seed...
EU Grants and a €1M Fund Boost Moldovan Startups Ahead of 2026 Summit
EU‑backed programs, including a €1 million fund from the EU4Innovation East project, are accelerating Moldova’s tech ecosystem, which now hosts over 300 startups that generated €39.5 million in revenue and attracted €15 million in investment in 2025. The support sets the stage for...
Serenity Power Announces $1 Million Pre-Seed Investment
Serenity Power, a Canadian cleantech startup developing solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), closed a CAD 1.16 million (~US$0.86 million) pre‑seed round led by Avatar Ventures. The oversubscribed raise builds on earlier CAD 900 k (~US$0.66 million) of non‑dilutive grants and will fund the first commercial prototype,...
Eclipse Raises $1.3B to Reshore Manufacturing, Strengthen Supply Chains
Eclipse Capital announced a $1.3 billion raise across two funds—$720 million for Fund VI and $591 million for Early Growth Fund III—aimed at backing startups that apply physical AI, robotics, and advanced manufacturing technologies. The capital boost lifts Eclipse’s assets under management to $10 billion, reinforcing...
Elegoo Raises Additional $70M in B+ Round
Elegoo, a leading Chinese desktop 3D‑printer maker, announced a B+ financing round of about US$70 million, bringing its total raised capital to roughly US$100 million. The round was led by several Chinese investment firms, with DJI notably absent this time. The influx...
Early Financing Terms Can Steal Your Exit Payout
Getting a $150 million acquisition offer after 6 years of building sounds like the dream. For one founder I know, it was the moment he found out how little of it was actually his. He'd built a B2B marketplace over 6...
Ineffable Intelligence Launches with Record-Breaking $1.1B Seed Round
Ineffable Intelligence emerged from stealth with a record‑breaking $1.1 billion seed round, valuing the startup at $5.1 billion. Founded by DeepMind veteran David Silver, the company aims to build a “superlearner” that discovers knowledge autonomously using reinforcement learning. The fundraising was co‑led...
Vermont – Capital Program Summary
Vermont’s State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) portfolio totals $57.9 million, split among a loan participation program and two equity‑venture capital tracks. The Vermont Economic Development Authority (VEDA) administers the loan program and the equity‑funds vehicle, while the Center on Rural...
Vinted Is Already Worth 8 Billion Euros
Vinted secured an €880 million ($960 million) funding round, lifting its valuation to €8 billion (about $8.7 billion). The Lithuanian‑based second‑hand marketplace reported a 38% revenue jump to €1.1 billion ($1.2 billion) in 2025 and a GMV of €10.8 billion ($11.8 billion). Net profit reached €62 million ($68 million), and...
Verda Bets $117M on AI Cloud as Workloads Fragment Across Platforms
Finland‑based AI infrastructure firm Verda secured $117 million in equity and debt financing to accelerate platform development and expand into the US, Europe and Asia. The funding backs Verda’s niche strategy of serving high‑intensity AI training and inference workloads that demand...
Fathom Therapeutics Scores $47 Million Series A
Fathom Therapeutics, previously known as Atommap Corp., announced an oversubscribed $47 million Series A round. The financing was led by Sutter Hill Ventures with participation from Chemistry, Alexandria Venture Investments, and NY Ventures. Fathom leverages quantum chemistry and artificial intelligence to design...
From First Angel to $4B Spinout: Boomi’s Evolution
Boomi was my first Angel investment. We were their customer at Half dot com in 2000 and used their system to send / receive inventory and orders with sellers. Then eBay signed up. Acquired by Dell in 2010 then spun...
Small Features Can Evolve Into Industry‑Changing Startups
I took a break from recording The Pitch Show to record a new episode of The Learning Corner by Precursor Ventures . This week, Mia and I found a few articles that our team found interesting, and we wanted to...
VVARDIS Announces Investment From Apollo —Achieves Unicorn Status
vVARDIS Holding AG announced a strategic minority investment from Apollo‑managed funds, propelling the Swiss dental‑med tech firm into unicorn status with a valuation north of $1 billion. The capital will finance the next phase of global commercial expansion for its Curodont™...
Altman Concealed Ownership of OpenAI Startup Fund, Misled Congress
Scam Altman didn’t tell the OpenAI board that he OWNED the OpenAI Startup Fund. Altman lied in congressional testimony that he didn’t have financial gain from OpenAI.
Vinted's Series E Sparked Europe‑wide Marketplace Expansion
1/ When @LightspeedVP led @Vinted's Series E in 2019, the company was a fast-growing C2C marketplace concentrated in a handful of European markets. Six years later, the vision has taken shape across Europe. https://t.co/xMzAYhneP4
Audion Raises $15m for US Expansion & Global Scaling of AI-Based ‘Performance Audio’ Tool
Audion announced a $15 million Series B round led by Elevation Capital, Founders Future and Bpifrance to fund its U.S. launch and accelerate its Audion AI platform. The AI‑driven tool automates audience targeting, creative generation and continuous optimisation for audio ads, positioning audio...
Dignio Investment Signals Remote Care International Expansion
Summa Equity, through its Fund III vehicle, has invested in Norwegian health‑tech firm Dignio to accelerate the company’s remote‑care platform. Dignio provides an integrated digital solution that combines remote patient monitoring, telehealth visits, and automated medication dispensing for home‑based care....
WHOOP’s $575 Million Raise Signals the Global Interest in Health Wearables
WHOOP announced a $575 million Series G round that lifts its valuation to $10.1 billion, nearly triple its 2021 level. The capital, led by Collaborative Fund and joined by investors such as Qatar Investment Authority, Mubadala, Abbott and the Mayo Clinic, will fund...
Otto Secures $500K to Launch AI-Powered Chief of Staff for Sales
Otto, the voice‑first CRM startup founded by Omkar Pandharkame, closed a $500,000 seed round led by Backfuture VC, Quadri Ventures, BAG Collective and OneSixOne Ventures after winning SaaStock USA 2026’s Global Pitch Competition. The capital will fund its AI‑driven “self‑driving”...
HrFlow.ai Raises $7M Pre‑Series A to Build AI Infrastructure for Global Labor Market
HrFlow.ai closed a $7 million pre‑Series A round led by 115K and EmergingTech Ventures, bringing its total funding to $10 million. The capital will fund a global rollout of its AI‑driven hiring platform and the launch of a next‑generation product suite. The...
A New Playbook for Founders Navigating Uncertainty in MENA
Funding in the MENA startup ecosystem slowed sharply in Q1 2026, dropping more than 20% to roughly $941 million as geopolitical tensions heightened. Investors, including sovereign wealth funds, are pulling back, turning a previously growth‑driven market into one defined by delayed...
Investor Focus: Simplyhealth Ventures
Simplyhealth Ventures, the investment arm of UK health‑cash‑plan insurer Simplyhealth, backs early‑stage healthtech firms directly from the group’s balance sheet. It focuses on Series A companies that have proven product‑market fit and can scale consumer‑centred solutions, such as PocDoc’s at‑home...
EBay Rival Vinted Valued at €8 Billion in Share Transaction
Online resale platform Vinted completed a secondary share sale that places its valuation at €8 billion, roughly $9.4 billion. The transaction involved €880 million ($1.0 billion) of shares sold, led by private‑equity firm EQT Growth with new investors Schroders Capital and Teachers’ Venture Growth....
Sereact Taps Headline to Lead $110m Series B, Plots US Expansion
Stuttgart‑based robotics firm Sereact announced a $110 million Series B round led by Headline, with participation from Bullhound Capital, Felix Capital and Daphni. The funding brings total capital raised to over $140 million and will finance the development of Cortex 2, an upgraded vision‑language‑action...
Google Once Again Ramps up Funding for Anthropic
Google announced a new investment of up to $40 billion in Anthropic, delivering $10 billion in cash immediately and pledging an additional $30 billion tied to performance milestones. The deal builds on prior commitments of $2 billion in 2023 and $1 billion in 2025, plus...
Decoding DPIIT’s ₹10,000 Cr Startup India Fund Of Funds 2.0 Guidelines
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has launched a second Startup India Fund of Funds (FoF 2.0) with a corpus of ₹10,000 crore (≈ $1.2 billion) to channel capital into SEBI‑registered Category I and II AIFs. SIDBI will act as the implementation agency, while a Venture...
Qendra Gets €162K to Scale Quantum Computing Systems
Zurich‑based Qendra has secured €162,000 (approximately $178,000) in seed funding from Venture Kick to accelerate its quantum‑control platform. The startup builds on ETH Zurich’s trapped‑ion research, aiming to simplify and synchronize lasers, cameras, and other hardware in quantum experiments. By delivering...
Fathom Therapeutics Secures $47M Series A for AI‑Physics Drug Discovery
Exclusive: Fathom Therapeutics, formerly Atommap, has raised a $47M Series A, building a pipeline with its strategy of blending AI and physics approaches to drug discovery: https://t.co/iAlmJwCQK7