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APRO Closes Strategic Seed Funding Led by YZi Labs’ EASY Residency
DealsOct 27, 2025

APRO Closes Strategic Seed Funding Led by YZi Labs’ EASY Residency

APRO, a decentralized oracle network, closed a strategic early-stage funding round led by YZi Labs via its EASY Residency program, with participation from Gate Labs, WAGMI Venture and TPC Ventures. Early backers Polychain Capital and Franklin Templeton also participated. The...

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Adaptam Therapeutics Raises €3M Pre-Seed Round Led by Criteria Bio Ventures
DealsOct 27, 2025

Adaptam Therapeutics Raises €3M Pre-Seed Round Led by Criteria Bio Ventures

Adaptam Therapeutics, a San Sebastián-based biotech focused on cancer immunotherapies targeting immunosuppressive myeloid cells, closed a €3M (~$3.5M) pre-seed financing round led by Criteria Bio Ventures. Representatives from Criteria Bio Ventures joined Adaptam's board as part of the transaction.

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Crusoe Raises $1.375B Series E at >$10B Valuation
DealsOct 27, 2025

Crusoe Raises $1.375B Series E at >$10B Valuation

Crusoe completed an initial closing of a $1.375 billion Series E round, valuing the AI factory company at over $10 billion. The round was co-led by Valor Equity Partners and Mubadala Capital with participation from multiple growth investors.

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XNRGY Climate Systems Secures Growth Equity From Decarbonization Partners, CI and Activate Capital
DealsOct 27, 2025

XNRGY Climate Systems Secures Growth Equity From Decarbonization Partners, CI and Activate Capital

XNRGY Climate Systems received undisclosed growth equity financing from Decarbonization Partners (BlackRock/Temasek JV), Climate Investment (CI) and Activate Capital to support expansion of its sustainable liquid and air-cooling technologies and control systems. The funding amount was not disclosed; company will...

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Augmentus Secures Strategic Investment From Applied Ventures
DealsOct 27, 2025

Augmentus Secures Strategic Investment From Applied Ventures

Singapore-based AI-robotics firm Augmentus has received a strategic investment from Applied Ventures, the VC arm of Applied Materials. The funding will support Augmentus’ no-code AI-powered robotics and automation platform; financial terms were not disclosed.

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PodPlay Technologies Closes $8M Series A Led by Frontier Growth
DealsOct 27, 2025

PodPlay Technologies Closes $8M Series A Led by Frontier Growth

PodPlay Technologies, a NYC-based vertical SaaS for participatory sports venues and spin-off from PingPod, closed an $8M Series A round led by Frontier Growth. Frontier partner Dave Pandullo will join PodPlay’s board; proceeds will fund engineering, sales and customer-success expansion.

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SavvyMoney Secures $225M Minority Investment to Accelerate Growth
DealsOct 27, 2025

SavvyMoney Secures $225M Minority Investment to Accelerate Growth

SavvyMoney, a Dublin, CA-based provider of financial wellness and growth solutions, received a $225M minority investment co-led by PSG and Canapi Ventures, with continued investment from Spectrum Equity. The company will use the funds to accelerate its product roadmap and...

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Sequoia Capital Launches $950M in New Early-Stage Funds
DealsOct 27, 2025

Sequoia Capital Launches $950M in New Early-Stage Funds

Sequoia Capital announced two new early-stage funds totaling $950M: a $750M Series A-focused early-stage fund and a $200M seed fund to back founders at the earliest stages amid the AI-driven valuation surge.

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Turtle Raises $5.5M Additional Funding, Bringing Total to $11.7M
DealsOct 27, 2025

Turtle Raises $5.5M Additional Funding, Bringing Total to $11.7M

Turtle, a Zug-based on-chain liquidity distribution protocol, raised an additional $5.5M in funding, bringing its total capital raised to $11.7M. The round included participation from numerous crypto and institutional backers.

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Overfuel Secures Growth Investment From Recurring Capital Partners
DealsOct 27, 2025

Overfuel Secures Growth Investment From Recurring Capital Partners

Overfuel, an Indianapolis-based high-performance website platform for dealership sales, received a strategic growth investment from Recurring Capital Partners. The undisclosed financing will fund AI-driven product innovation, strategic acquisitions, and leadership expansion to support scaling.

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Redwood Materials Closes $350M Series E Led by Eclipse
DealsOct 27, 2025

Redwood Materials Closes $350M Series E Led by Eclipse

Redwood Materials has closed a $350 million Series E funding round led by Eclipse with participation from strategic investor NVentures. The capital will accelerate energy storage deployment, refining and materials production capacity, and expansion of engineering and operations teams.

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Honey Health Raises $7.8M Seed Led by Pelion Ventures
DealsOct 27, 2025

Honey Health Raises $7.8M Seed Led by Pelion Ventures

Honey Health, an AI-driven back office platform for healthcare organizations, raised $7.8M in a seed round led by Pelion Ventures with participation from Streamlined, Burst Capital, and 8-Bit Capital. The company will deploy specialized AI agent teams to automate administrative...

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Uniphore Closes $260M Series F to Accelerate Its Business AI Platform
DealsOct 27, 2025

Uniphore Closes $260M Series F to Accelerate Its Business AI Platform

Uniphore announced the close of a $260 million Series F round to accelerate innovation on its Business AI Cloud and deepen its ecosystem. Strategic tech investors including NVIDIA, AMD, Snowflake and Databricks participated alongside NEA, March Capital, BNF Capital, National...

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GammaTime Raises $14M Seed to Launch Premium Micro‑drama Streaming
DealsOct 27, 2025

GammaTime Raises $14M Seed to Launch Premium Micro‑drama Streaming

GammaTime has raised $14 million in a Seed round led by vgames and Pitango, with participation from Alexis Ohanian, Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian and Traverse Ventures. The Los Angeles-based micro-drama streaming startup uses predictive AI and audience testing to optimize...

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Clerq Raises $21M, Including $12M Series A Led by 645 Ventures
DealsOct 27, 2025

Clerq Raises $21M, Including $12M Series A Led by 645 Ventures

Clerq, a New York fintech payments platform for high‑ticket transactions, has raised $21M in new capital, including a $12M Series A led by 645 Ventures with participation from FirstMark Capital, Fika Ventures, Commerce Ventures, Dash Fund, Friedkin and Yossi Levi.

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Insignia Capital Group Closes Fund III at over $500M
DealsOct 27, 2025

Insignia Capital Group Closes Fund III at over $500M

Insignia Capital Group, a Walnut Creek-based growth-focused private equity firm, has closed its third fund at over $500 million with participation from existing and a small number of new limited partners. Kirkland & Ellis acted as legal counsel and M2O...

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Mercor Raises $350M Series C at $10B Valuation Led by Felicis
DealsOct 27, 2025

Mercor Raises $350M Series C at $10B Valuation Led by Felicis

Mercor, a San Francisco startup connecting AI labs with experts, raised $350M in a Series C round valuing the company at $10 billion. The round was led by Felicis with participation from Benchmark, General Catalyst and Robinhood Ventures; proceeds will...

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LangChain Raises $125M Series B at $1.25B Valuation
DealsOct 27, 2025

LangChain Raises $125M Series B at $1.25B Valuation

LangChain, a developer platform for building AI agents, has raised $125 million in a Series B at a $1.25 billion valuation. The round was led by IVP and included CapitalG, ServiceNow Ventures, Workday Ventures, Cisco Investments, Datadog, Databricks and others.

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CipherOwl Raises $15M Seed to Power AI-Native Crypto Compliance
DealsOct 27, 2025

CipherOwl Raises $15M Seed to Power AI-Native Crypto Compliance

CipherOwl announced a $15 million seed financing to build its AI-native intelligence layer for institutional cryptocurrency compliance. The round was co-led by General Catalyst and Flourish Ventures with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Sancus Ventures, Enlight Capital, OKX Ventures, AME Cloud...

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WorkHero Raises $5M Seed Round Led by Navitas Capital
DealsOct 27, 2025

WorkHero Raises $5M Seed Round Led by Navitas Capital

WorkHero, a Boston-based AI-powered back office for small HVAC contractors, raised $5M in a seed round led by Navitas Capital with participation from Workshop Ventures, York IE and strategic angels. The company will use proceeds to expand engineering and product...

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Accel and Prosus Launch Co-Investment Partnership to Back Early-Stage Indian Startups
DealsOct 26, 2025

Accel and Prosus Launch Co-Investment Partnership to Back Early-Stage Indian Startups

Accel and Prosus announced a new co-investment partnership to back Indian startups from formation, with Prosus matching Accel’s initial checks. The program will co-invest checks ranging from $100,000 to $1,000,000 targeting founders building large-scale solutions across sectors including automation, energy...

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SecondWave Systems Expands Series A with New Investment From Sectoral Asset Management
DealsOct 24, 2025

SecondWave Systems Expands Series A with New Investment From Sectoral Asset Management

SecondWave Systems, a clinical-stage medical device company developing ultrasound-based treatments for inflammatory disorders, expanded its Series A financing with a new investment led by Sectoral Asset Management joining existing backers. The syndicate includes Treo Ventures, Scientific Health Development, and the...

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Neolix Raises Over $600M in Series D Led by Stone Venture
DealsOct 24, 2025

Neolix Raises Over $600M in Series D Led by Stone Venture

Neolix, a Beijing-based provider of L4 autonomous delivery (RoboVan) solutions, raised over USD 600 million in a Series D round led by UAE-based Stone Venture with participation from Gaocheng Capital, CITIC Capital, CDH, Sparkedge Capital, Beijing AI Fund, Legend Capital,...

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Chainguard Raises $280M Growth Round From General Catalyst’s CVF
DealsOct 24, 2025

Chainguard Raises $280M Growth Round From General Catalyst’s CVF

Chainguard secured $280 million in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund to accelerate its open-source security offerings and meet rising enterprise demand. The round follows a Series D earlier in April and brings Chainguard's fundraising over the past...

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VitVio Raises $8M Seed Round Led by Bek Ventures
DealsOct 24, 2025

VitVio Raises $8M Seed Round Led by Bek Ventures

VitVio, a Boston-based AI platform that coordinates operating room staff and reduces surgical administrative load, closed an $8M seed funding round led by Bek Ventures with participation from LDV Capital and other early backers. The round brings VitVio’s total funding...

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Shuttle Raises $6M Seed to Accelerate AI-Enabled Cloud Infrastructure
DealsOct 24, 2025

Shuttle Raises $6M Seed to Accelerate AI-Enabled Cloud Infrastructure

Shuttle, a San Francisco-based AI-enabled cloud infrastructure platform, raised $6M to support its code-to-cloud developer platform. The round was backed by Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital, Thomas Dohmke, Calvin French‑Owen and senior leaders from OpenAI, Deel and Confluent.

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Veritas Prime Secures $31.5M Minority Investment From Carrick Capital Partners
DealsOct 24, 2025

Veritas Prime Secures $31.5M Minority Investment From Carrick Capital Partners

Veritas Prime, a provider of SAP SuccessFactors and payroll technology solutions, received a $31.5M minority investment from Carrick Capital Partners to accelerate its BPaaS offerings and strengthen its SAP S/4 Finance practice.

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Crusoe Raises $1.375B in Series E Led by Valor Equity Partners and Mubadala Capital
DealsOct 24, 2025

Crusoe Raises $1.375B in Series E Led by Valor Equity Partners and Mubadala Capital

Crusoe announced the initial closing of a $1.375 billion Series E round at a valuation north of $10B. The oversubscribed round was co-led by Valor Equity Partners and Mubadala Capital, with participation from a broad syndicate including Fidelity, Founders Fund,...

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Natural Raises $9.8M Seed Round to Build Agentic Payments Infrastructure
DealsOct 24, 2025

Natural Raises $9.8M Seed Round to Build Agentic Payments Infrastructure

San Francisco-based fintech Natural raised $9.8M in a seed round to build infrastructure for agentic payments. The round was co-led by Abstract and Human Capital with participation from Forerunner Ventures, Terrain, Restive Ventures, Genius Ventures and several prominent tech founders...

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Overfuel Secures Growth Investment From Recurring Capital Partners
DealsOct 24, 2025

Overfuel Secures Growth Investment From Recurring Capital Partners

Overfuel, a high-performance website platform for auto dealerships, announced a strategic growth investment from Recurring Capital Partners to accelerate AI-driven product innovation, pursue strategic acquisitions, and scale its leadership team.

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Linen Cloud Secures Strategic Investment From Enterprise Tech Leaders
DealsOct 24, 2025

Linen Cloud Secures Strategic Investment From Enterprise Tech Leaders

Linen Cloud, an intelligent sales planning platform for enterprise revenue teams, raised a strategic investment round led by a network of CIOs, CTOs and enterprise technology leaders. Backers include Steven Birdsall (CRO, Alteryx) and Lenin Gali (Chief Business Officer, Atomicwork);...

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FFL Partners Invests in Janus RX to Support Expansion
DealsOct 24, 2025

FFL Partners Invests in Janus RX to Support Expansion

Janus RX, a behavioral pharmacy based in Montgomery, Ala., received an undisclosed investment from private equity firm FFL Partners to expand operations and development efforts. The funding will support the company’s growth initiatives under CEO Daniel Mims.

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FieldFlo Raises $35M Growth Round From Mainsail Partners
DealsOct 24, 2025

FieldFlo Raises $35M Growth Round From Mainsail Partners

FieldFlo, a provider of project and safety management software for specialty subcontractors, raised $35 million in growth capital from Mainsail Partners to accelerate product innovation and support operational, safety, and compliance needs across North America.

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Polyembo Closes New Funding Round Led by Multinational Strategic Investor
DealsOct 24, 2025

Polyembo Closes New Funding Round Led by Multinational Strategic Investor

Polyembo, a private medical device company developing vascular embolization technologies, closed a new funding round led by a multinational strategic investor to advance product development and regulatory clearances. Financial terms and investor identity were not disclosed.

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CourtReserve Secures $54M Growth Investment From Mainsail Partners
DealsOct 24, 2025

CourtReserve Secures $54M Growth Investment From Mainsail Partners

CourtReserve, a club management SaaS platform, received a $54M strategic growth investment from Mainsail Partners to accelerate product development, expand integrations, enhance customer support, and grow its North American market presence. The funding will be used to scale the company’s...

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Generation Lab Raises $11M Seed Round Led by Accel
DealsOct 23, 2025

Generation Lab Raises $11M Seed Round Led by Accel

Generation Lab, a San Francisco-based longevity science company, closed an $11M seed round led by Accel with participation from Samsung Next, Zone2, Aoki Labs, BYL Ventures, and Markham Valley Ventures, bringing total funding to $15M.

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Darwin AI Raises $15M Series A Led by Insight Partners
DealsOct 23, 2025

Darwin AI Raises $15M Series A Led by Insight Partners

Tel Aviv-based Darwin AI raised $15M in a Series A round led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors UpWest and Resolute Ventures. The funding will support the company's mission to help governments deploy AI safely and at scale;...

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Darwin AI Raises $15M Series A Led by Insight Partners
DealsOct 23, 2025

Darwin AI Raises $15M Series A Led by Insight Partners

Darwin AI announced a $15 million Series A round led by Insight Partners with participation from existing investors UpWest and Resolute Ventures. The funding will support Darwin's public-sector AI governance and deployment products; Brenda Harvey will join the company's board.

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Moberg Analytics Raises $600K Seed Round Led by Ben Franklin Technology Partners
DealsOct 23, 2025

Moberg Analytics Raises $600K Seed Round Led by Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Moberg Analytics, a Philadelphia-based advanced brain monitoring and critical care informatics startup, raised $600K in a seed round led by Ben Franklin Technology Partners ($250K). The round included participation from Overbrook Capital, MVP Capital Partners and other private investors and...

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Janta Power Raises $5.5M Seed Round Led by MaC Venture Capital
DealsOct 23, 2025

Janta Power Raises $5.5M Seed Round Led by MaC Venture Capital

Janta Power, a Dallas-based developer of 3D photovoltaic tower systems, closed a $5.5M seed financing to commercialize and scale its high-density solar tower technology. The round was led by MaC Venture Capital with participation from Collab Capital.

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Elevara Medicines Raises $70M Series A to Advance RA and Inflammatory Disease Program
DealsOct 23, 2025

Elevara Medicines Raises $70M Series A to Advance RA and Inflammatory Disease Program

Elevara Medicines, a London-based clinical-stage biotech focused on rheumatoid arthritis and chronic inflammatory diseases, closed a $70M Series A financing co-led by Forbion and Sofinnova Partners with participation from Monograph Capital. The company will use the proceeds to fund its...

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Keycard Raises $38M Across Seed and Series A to Secure Identity for AI Agents
DealsOct 23, 2025

Keycard Raises $38M Across Seed and Series A to Secure Identity for AI Agents

Keycard, a San Francisco-based identity and access platform for AI agents, raised $38M in combined Seed and Series A financing. Andreessen Horowitz and Boldstart Ventures co-led an $8M seed round, while Acrew Capital led a $30M Series A, with participation...

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Pila Energy Raises $4M Seed Round Led by R7 Partners
DealsOct 23, 2025

Pila Energy Raises $4M Seed Round Led by R7 Partners

Pila Energy, a San Francisco maker of plug-in mesh home batteries, raised $4M in a seed round led by R7 Partners with participation from Toyota Ventures, Refactor Capital, GS Futures and other strategic backers. The company will use the funds...

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Redwood Materials Raises $350M Series E to Expand Energy Storage Business
DealsOct 23, 2025

Redwood Materials Raises $350M Series E to Expand Energy Storage Business

Redwood Materials raised $350 million in a Series E round led by Eclipse with a strategic investment from Nvidia’s NVentures to grow its energy storage business and expand refining and materials production. The round values the company at about $6...

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Rightcharge Raises £1.6M Seed Round Led by Soulmates Ventures
DealsOct 23, 2025

Rightcharge Raises £1.6M Seed Round Led by Soulmates Ventures

London-based Rightcharge, which simplifies fleet EV charging payments, raised £1.6M in a seed round led by Soulmates Ventures with participation from Blackwood Ventures, Unruly Capital and Purple Ventures. The funding will support European expansion and a partnership with Octopus Electroverse.

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Wolf Games Raises $9M Series A Led by Main Street Advisors
DealsOct 23, 2025

Wolf Games Raises $9M Series A Led by Main Street Advisors

Wolf Games, a Los Angeles-based generative entertainment company, closed a $9M Series A round led by Main Street Advisors with participation from executives Maverick Carter and Tom Werner, artist Rashid Johnson, and existing backers Dick Wolf, Jimmy Iovine and Paul...

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Roller Raises $50M Growth Round Led by Insight Partners with J.P. Morgan Participating
DealsOct 23, 2025

Roller Raises $50M Growth Round Led by Insight Partners with J.P. Morgan Participating

Roller, an Austin-based venue management platform, raised US$50M in a growth funding round led by existing investor Insight Partners with participation from J.P. Morgan. The company will use the proceeds to accelerate AI innovation, expand its financial services suite and...

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Riff Raises $16M Series A Led by Northzone
DealsOct 23, 2025

Riff Raises $16M Series A Led by Northzone

Riff (formerly Databutton), an Oslo-based platform enabling operators to build and launch high-impact applications, raised $16M in a Series A round led by Northzone. Existing investors Skyfall Ventures, Maki.vc, Sondo Capital and Global Founders Capital also participated, bringing total funding...

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Chainguard Raises $280M Growth Financing From General Catalyst CVF
DealsOct 23, 2025

Chainguard Raises $280M Growth Financing From General Catalyst CVF

Chainguard, an open source software provider based in Kirkland, WA, raised $280M in growth financing led by General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund. The company will use proceeds to scale go-to-market efforts and invest in product and engineering for long-term growth.

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