Today's Venture Capital Pulse
Ramp projects $1.4 billion ARR as it gears up for IPO
Fintech startup Ramp says it will reach a $1.4 billion annual recurring revenue run rate this quarter, up from the $1 billion reported in September. The company cites a 70% year‑over‑year increase in its customer base and expects about $125 million in free cash flow for the year.
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By the numbers: Beeline Medicines raises $300M Series A
Baba Emerges From Stealth with $6.5M to Launch Medicare Advocacy Platform
Baba, a patient‑advocacy startup for seniors, announced its emergence from stealth with a $6.5 million seed round led by General Catalyst. The platform blends dedicated nurses and social‑workers with an AI companion to resolve insurance denials, scheduling gaps, and other operational breakdowns in Medicare and Medicare Advantage care. Baba’s advisory board features MIT economist Jon Gruber, and the company is launching a clinical study with Johns Hopkins to measure health‑outcome improvements.
ElastixAI Scored $18M in Seed Funding.
ElastixAI announced an $18 million seed round, backing its mission to cut the high costs of generative‑AI inference. The Seattle‑based startup was founded by former Apple and Meta machine‑learning researchers. Its flagship software converts off‑the‑shelf FPGA servers into high‑efficiency AI supercomputers....
Autodesk Invests $200M in AI Startup
Autodesk announced a $200 million investment in World Labs, marking the largest startup deal in its history. The funding pushes World Labs' total capital to $1 billion and backs its Marble platform, which creates 3D environments from images, video, or text. Autodesk...
Heron Power Snares $140 Million Series B
Heron Power announced a $140 million Series B round to launch gigawatt‑scale production of solid‑state transformers for data centers and the electric grid. The round, led by Andreessen Horowitz’s American Dynamism Fund and Breakthrough Energy Ventures, follows a $38 million Series A raised in...
ZaiNar Emerges From Stealth With $100M Funding
ZaiNar has emerged from nine years of stealth with a Physical AI platform that transforms any wireless network into a continuous, low‑power sensing system, eliminating the need for satellites, cameras, or dedicated beacons. The technology provides precise, real‑time location data...
Why Venture Capital Is Moving Into African Solar Microgrids
Venture capital in Africa is pivoting from fintech to solar microgrid projects as investors chase more predictable, asset‑backed returns. After a fintech boom between 2016‑2021, market saturation, rising customer‑acquisition costs and tighter regulation have eroded margins. Solar microgrids, backed by...
NationGraph Raises $18M in Series A Funding
NationGraph, an AI-native intelligence platform helping businesses win government contracts, announced an $18 million Series A round. The financing was led by Menlo Ventures and included Perplexity’s Fund, XYZ Venture Capital, Reach Capital, and several angels. The capital brings the company’s total...
Founders Beware: ROFR Clauses Can Block Future Exits
For minority investors to include protective provisions within their purchase agreements is common practice, but one provision that founders should be particularly aware of is the right of first refusal (ROFR). A ROFR clause places an obligation on the company...
Patientdesk AI Raises $1M Pre-Seed Backed by Y Combinator to Modernize Dental Front Desks
Patientdesk AI, a Y Combinator W26 startup, secured a $1 million pre‑seed round led by Y Combinator and E2VC to build an AI‑powered front‑desk system for dental practices. The platform automates the entire patient intake flow—answering calls, qualifying prospects, scheduling appointments,...
Billionaire Alan Howard’s Crypto Incubator WebN Closes Down
WebN Group, the blockchain incubator backed by billionaire Alan Howard, is shutting down after seeding a portfolio that includes KAIO, Twinstake, TruFin and Geometry. The venture studio also received backing from Nomura’s Laser Digital and has moved several staff members...
60 Million Reasons to Pay Attention: The Investment Thesis Behind Chamber Cardio’s Series A
Chamber Cardio announced a $60 million Series A round in February 2026, led by Frist Cressey Ventures and backed by General Catalyst, Optum Ventures, Healthworx and other investors. The startup offers a two‑sided platform that connects payers with cardiology practices, embedding workflow‑native AI...
Have Hard-Won Scaling Lessons to Share? Take the Stage at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026
TechCrunch is calling seasoned founders, investors, and operators to speak at its Founder Summit 2026 in Boston on June 9. The event will host over 1,000 founders and investors, featuring 30‑minute, discussion‑only roundtables where speakers share real scaling experiences without slides....
Launch Festival Returns: Free 3‑Minute Pitch for Early‑Stage Founders
LAUNCH FESTIVAL is back… March 16 & 17 in San Francisco This is the demo-or-die format I created for TechCrunch50 back in the day. 3 minutes to pitch your vision to a panel of investors and founders Always free for...
Guidde Raises $50M in Series B Funding
Guidde, an Israeli AI‑driven digital adoption platform, announced a $50 million Series B round. The financing was led by PSG Equity and included strategic investors monday.com, Norwest, Entrée Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, and Inkberry Ventures. The capital will accelerate the company’s global rollout...
TBD Raises $3M in Funding
TBD, a New York‑based prediction‑market protocol provider, announced a $3 million funding round. The round was led by CMT Digital and ParaFi, with participation from Jump Crypto. The capital will be deployed to scale operations and accelerate development of its verified...
Rowspace Raises $50M in Seed and Series A Funding
Rowspace, a San Francisco‑New York AI platform for institutional financial data, announced a combined $50 million raise across seed and Series A rounds. The Series A was co‑led by Sequoia and Emergence Capital, while the seed round was also led by Sequoia with...
Pivot to AI Secures Enterprise Deals, Fuels Growth
In this episode of Founder Firesides, @sdianahu talks with Ali Akhtar and Armen Forget of @LetterAICo, who just announced their $40M Series B. After pivoting during YC, they landed enterprise customers like Lenovo in the batch and expanded rapidly. They discuss...
Brainomix Raises £18.8m for AI Stroke and Lung Tools
Brainomix announced a £18.8 million Series C extension, adding £4.8 million to accelerate its AI‑driven imaging platforms. The capital will fund rapid US deployment of Brainomix 360 Stroke, which automates acute stroke assessment, and E‑Lung, a CT‑based tool for fibrosing lung disease. The company, already...
The 8 Most Active NYC Venture Capital Firms in 2025
The analysis identifies the eight most active venture capital firms headquartered in New York City during 2025, based on the number of investments they made in NYC‑based startups across all stages. It counts only deals where the target company is...
Elly Debuts AI-Native Hiring Platform and Raises $8M
Elly launched an AI-native hiring platform and closed an $8 million funding round led by Sorenson Capital, with Atomic and Next Wave Capital participating. The platform consolidates sourcing, interviewing, and applicant tracking into a single AI-driven system, automatically capturing interview insights...
PorterShed Launches Virtual Accelerator Programme with MyBertie.AI, Supported by the Western Development Commission
PorterShed has launched a six‑week virtual accelerator, “Get PSSF Ready with PorterShed x Bertie,” to help West Irish tech founders craft competitive applications for Enterprise Ireland’s Pre‑Seed Start Fund. The pilot, beginning 23 March, pairs PorterShed’s mentorship and launch track with...
Y Combinator Grad and AI Insurance Brokerage Harper Raises $47M
Harper, an AI‑native insurance brokerage founded by Y Combinator alumnus Dakotah Rice, announced a $46.8 million Series A and seed round led by Emergence Capital. Launched in 2024, the platform automates underwriting, routing, and document collection, enabling it to process over 1,000 policies...
Kinfolk Closes $7M Seed Round for AI-Driven HR Platform
London‑based Kinfolk announced a $7.2 million seed round led by AlbionVC, bringing its total capital to $8.5 million. The startup offers an AI‑native HR workforce‑operations platform that combines agentic AI, Slack/Teams integration, request management, lifecycle automation, and analytics. Kinfolk positions the solution...
SolveAI Raises $50M to Help Employees Build Their Own Enterprise Software
London‑based SolveAI announced a $50 million funding round – $45 million Series A led by GV and a $5 million pre‑seed from Accel – to scale its AI‑driven no‑code platform. The solution lets employees across functions generate fully compliant enterprise applications using natural‑language prompts,...
Wootzwork Nets $6.6 Mn To Scale Global OEM Manufacturing
Wootzwork, an enterprise services startup that offers end‑to‑end custom fabrication, closed a $6.6 million Series A round led by Z47, bringing its total funding close to $10 million. The capital will fund expansion of its global engineering and programme teams and scale manufacturing...
UK Self-Driving Startup Wayve Closes US$1.5bn Funding Round
Wayve announced a $1.5 billion Series D funding round that lifts its valuation to $8.6 billion, bringing total capital raised to $2.5 billion. The round is led by Eclipse Ventures, Balderton Capital and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and includes first‑time OEM investors Mercedes‑Benz, Stellantis and...
Rebound in Deals over $100m Lifted European RegTech Funding by 51% YoY in 2025
European RegTech funding jumped 51% year‑over‑year in 2025, reaching $1.1 billion. The market closed with 122 deals, a 10% increase over 2024 but still 55% below the 2021 peak. Large‑ticket rounds resurfaced, with deals over $100 million contributing $117.2 million after none in...
University of Oxford Spinout Brainomix Takes Total Funding to £18.8 Million in Support of US Expansion
Oxford‑spun AI medical‑imaging firm Brainomix announced a £18.8 million total Series C raise, including a £4.8 million tranche aimed at accelerating its US rollout. The capital will fund enhancements to its Brainomix 360 Stroke platform and the e‑Lung CT‑biomarker system for pulmonary fibrosis. CEO...
Healthcare Platform Gut Clinic Raises $1 Mn in Seed Round
Gut Clinic, a gastro‑metabolic health platform founded in 2024, secured $1 million (≈₹9 crore) in a seed round backed by more than 15 investors. The capital will fund new outpatient centres, upgraded clinical systems, and expanded diagnostic services across India’s $197 billion preventive...
Secfix Raises $12M Series A to Build End-to-End Security Compliance Platform
Munich‑based Secfix closed an oversubscribed $12 million Series A round led by Alstin Capital, with Bayern Kapital and existing backer neosfer participating. The funding will accelerate Secfix’s European expansion and the development of its AI‑native automation and CISO‑as‑a‑Service capabilities. Secfix’s platform automates...
Bajaj Finserv’s $1 Billion Push Into Alternatives:
Bajaj Finserv is launching a $1 billion alternative‑investment platform under Bajaj Alternate Investment Management, targeting four verticals—private equity/venture capital, liquid alternatives, listed equity, and real estate. The firm plans to raise roughly ₹1,500‑₹2,000 crore per strategy within the next 18‑24 months, with...
VCs Hit Jackpot as FMCG Giants Go on D2C Acquisition Spree
Venture capital firms such as Fireside Ventures, Eight Roads Ventures and Peak XV have secured multi‑bagger exits by selling stakes in Indian D2C brands to FMCG conglomerates. USV Pharma’s Rs 1,583 crore purchase of Wellbeing Nutrition, Hindustan Unilever’s Rs 824 crore acquisition of Oziva and its...
Wayve Raises $1.5B, Pivots to Universal AI Licensing
Another major milestone in @wayve_ai's history. Proud to say we’ve secured $1.5 billion Series D investment at $8.6 billion valuation. We started a decade ago with a contrarian technical thesis: that self-driving is an AI problem, and Embodied AI will enable...
Guard Your Cap Table: Success Attracts Detractors
Founders, know that even if you build a world class product and achieve an outcome most can only dream of, there will still be people that try to tear you down. Be very careful with who you allow onto your...
Comp Raises $17.5M Series A Round
Brazilian HR‑tech startup Comp announced a $17.5 million Series A round led by Khosla Ventures, marking the Silicon Valley firm’s first investment in Brazil. The round also included Kaszek, Canary, Abstract Ventures and Endeavor Catalyst. Comp’s AI‑driven platform aggregates real‑time salary data...
Investors Value TAM Growth and Adjacent Market Expansion
Thomas Laffont of Coatue doesn’t care about the size of your TAM. He cares about how the TAM is growing, and what adjacent TAMs you can grow into. Example - Uber grew the Taxi market then moved into...
Rare Glimpse Into Secretive Thrive's Performance Data
got my hands on Thrive's performance. secretive firm so this provides a rare snapshot of how they're doing https://t.co/5dbvPfrUF1
Battery Ventures Leads $40M Round for Letter AI
Letter AI announced a $40 million Series B round led by Battery Ventures, closing just four months after its last raise. The Chicago‑based startup introduced Letter Compass, a real‑time deal‑enablement tool that pulls content, learning, CRM data, and interaction history...
Alfred Lin Joins Rowspace CEO After Sequoia‑Led $50M Funding
Alfred Lin is coming on the show today with Rowspace CEO Michael Manapat. Sequoia led Rowspace's $50M debut round. https://t.co/SkBI6J8BJB @Alfred_Lin @mlmanapat
NEXUS Panelists: Lack of Exits, Compressed PE Returns Complicating LP-GP Dynamics
At the NEXUS 2026 conference, private‑equity executives highlighted that a slowdown in exits and tighter returns are straining the traditional LP‑GP relationship. Mike Lazorik of Texas TRS warned that alignment “has never been more complicated” as limited partners push for...
VC Carry Is a Lottery; Startup Equity Beats It
I’ve never seen more Junior VC talent leave VC for tech startups than right now. And it makes sense. 65% of VC investments never return 1x capital. The carry math is tough: GPs don’t see a dollar of carry until LPs get their...
Funding the Rebellion: Backing Bold, Humanity‑scale Innovators
If you're solving massive problems for humanity and making people feel uncomfortable along the way... We should probably talk. I want to fund the wild, weird, and unconventional. As my son puts it, “We want to fund the rebellion.” Today, it looks like investing...
Basis Secures $100M Series B for AI Accounting Agents
Basis secured $100 million in a Series B round, valuing the AI accounting platform at $1.15 billion. The funding, led by Accel with participation from GV, Khosla Ventures and a roster of tech luminaries, will accelerate development of more sophisticated autonomous...
Pylon Secures $51M Series B for AI‑Native B2B Support
In this episode of Founder Firesides, @harjtaggar talks to the founders of @usepylon - @marty_kausas, @advith_c, and @rengrenghello - who recently raised a $51M Series B. Pylon is an AI-native customer support platform built for B2B companies. It helps support, success,...
Now's the Perfect Time to Launch a Contrarian Fund
Perfect. Never been a better time for me to start a fund. Contrarian, just how I like it! 🤣
Biotech Embraces Data‑Driven Mornings, Gains Afternoons
I love that biotech has returned to the "data in the morning, raise in the afternoon" way of living its best life. $VIR $PVLA
It Takes About Two Years to Raise Capital
The average GP spends 2 years raising capital. Rough time to be an emerging fund manager.
AdSense for AI: Koala Labs Unlocks New Monetization Channels
There is no consumer AI wave without new monetization channels for consumer AI businesses. @koahlabs is AdSense for AI. In 13 months, they've processed 170M queries and 35M native ad impressions. @nicoleahjohnson led the seed last year and we've now invested again...
AI Cuts Development Costs, Distribution Remains Challenging
AI is makes software cheaper to build, but not easier to distribute This is the core conflict for years to come
SPAC IPO of $
I hadn't realized that $OWL came public via SPAC. It's now right back to its original price. Turns out it was all priced in. EMH undefeated https://t.co/Q6eyG9hYLM