| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.09.2025 | Sophont: $9.22 Million Seed Funding Secured For Multimodal Medical AI | Sophont, a startup building foundation models that reason across pathology slides, brain scans, clinical notes, and lab results, has closed a $9.22 million seed financing. The round was led by Kindred Ventures with participation from Upfron... |
| 26.08.2025 | Nuro Secures $6 Billion Valuation in Major Autonomous Driving Push | Nuro, a leader in autonomous driving technology, has successfully closed a significant funding round. The company secured $203 million in Series E capital. This latest investment elevates Nuro's valuation to an impressive $6 billion. Indust... |
| 25.08.2025 | Nuro: $203 Million Series E Raised At $6 Billion Valuation For Advancing Autonomous Driving Technology | Nuro, a company known for its autonomous driving technology, has raised $203 million in Series E funding, valuing the company at $6 billion. Investors include Uber, NVIDIA, Baillie Gifford, Kindred Ventures, Icehouse Ventures, and Pledge Ve... |
| 21.08.2025 | Global Tech Investment Surges Across Key Sectors | Global tech investment accelerates innovation across diverse sectors. Autonomous driving, AI, and sustainable energy lead the charge. Grab invests in WeRide robotaxis. Foxconn backs Robocore’s service robots. Aalo Atomics secures $100M for ... |
| 21.08.2025 | Deals in brief: WeRide secures Grab’s backing for robotaxis, Foxconn invests in Robocore, seven China deals, and more | WeRide secures investment from Grab to scale autonomous mobility in Southeast Asia
WeRide, a Nasdaq-listed autonomous driving company, has announced an equity investment from Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading superapp. The deal, expected to cl... |
| 01.08.2025 | fal Raises $125M in Series C Led by Notable Investors | Existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Kindred Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Notable Capital, First Round Capital, Unusual Ventures and Village Global participated in the round, reinforcing fal’s role as the infrastructure la... |
| 31.07.2025 | AI Infrastructure Pioneer Fal Secures Massive Funding, Valued at $1.5 Billion | AI infrastructure firm fal secured $125 million in Series C funding, reaching a $1.5 billion valuation. This San Francisco-based leader in multimodal AI empowers enterprises. Its platform supports advanced audio, video, and image model gene... |
| 31.07.2025 | Американская компания fal в сфере ИИ-инфраструктуры привлекла $125 млн при оценке в $1,5 млрд | Раунд возглавил венчурный фонд Meritech Capital (США), при участии Salesforce Ventures (США, венчурное подразделение корпорации Salesforce, сфокусировано на облачных технологиях), Shopify Ventures (Канада, инвестиционное подразделение компа... |
| 31.07.2025 | AI infrastructure company fal raises $125 million, valuing company at $1.5 billion | AI infrastructure company fal raises $125 million, valuing company at $1.5 billion
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| 31.07.2025 | AI infrastructure company fal raises $125 million, valuing company at $1.5 billion | Synopsis
fal raised a $125 million Series C round valuing the company at $1.5 billion. Venture capital fund Meritech led the round with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Shopify Ventures and Google AI Futures fund.
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| 31.07.2025 | AI infrastructure company fal raises $125 million, valuing company at $1.5 billion | SAN FRANCISCO :Artificial intelligence infrastructure company fal raised a $125 million Series C round valuing the company at $1.5 billion, the company said Thursday.
Venture capital fund Meritech led the round with participation from Sales... |
| 28.07.2025 | Meta acquired Egyptian voice AI startup PlayAI | Meta, formerly Facebook, has acquired PlayAI, an Egyptian voice AI startup, as part of its strategy to compete with Google and OpenAI in the generative AI race.
Founded by Hammad Syed and Mahmoud Felfel, who had previously worked together o... |
| 18.06.2025 | Aethero: $8.4 Million Raised For Building Space-Based Computing Platform | Aethero, a defense-focused startup building space-grade computers and autonomous satellite platforms, announced $8.4 million in seed funding today. The company’s seed funding round is led by Kindred Ventures with participation from Neo, Gia... |
| 03.06.2025 | Creatify's $15.5M Funding: A New Era for Video Advertising | In the bustling tech landscape of Mountain View, California, a new player is shaking up the video advertising world. Creatify, an AI-driven platform, has just secured $15.5 million in Series A funding. This round was co-led by WndrCo and Ki... |
| 02.06.2025 | Creatify Crosses $9M ARR, Secures $15.5M to Launch AI Ad Platform | Creatify, the AI platform powering high-performance video advertising, announced $15.5 million in Series A funding co-led by WndrCo and Kindred Ventures. The round brings Creatify’s total funding to $23 million, with early investors includi... |
| 28.05.2025 | Creatify Raises $15.5M in Series A Funding | Creatify, a Mountain View, CA-based provider of an AI platform for video advertising, raised $15.5M in Series A funding.
The round was led by WndrCo and Kindred Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its dev... |
| 20.05.2025 | Adyton Secures $11 Million to Revolutionize Military Operations | In a world where speed and precision can mean the difference between victory and defeat, Adyton has emerged as a game-changer. The Dallas-based company recently secured $11 million in funding, a lifeline that promises to reshape how the U.S... |
| 18.05.2025 | Adyton: $11 Million Secured For Digitizing And Automating Operational Processes | Adyton announced $11 million in funding, led by Venrock with participation from Khosla Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Initialized Capital, Kindred Ventures, and Leblon Capital. The company also revealed a multi-year deal wort... |
| 15.05.2025 | Adyton Raises $11M in Funding | Adyton, a Dallas, TX-based provider of an operations kit digitizing and automating Department of Defense operations, raised $11M in funding.
The round was led by Venrock with participation from Khosla Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, Alumni Ven... |
| 13.05.2025 | The Rise of Lab-Grown Innovations: A New Era in Sustainable Production | In the world of biotechnology, two companies are making waves. Faircraft and Vivici are not just players; they are pioneers. Their recent moves signal a shift toward sustainable production. This is a game-changer for industries reliant on t... |
| 08.05.2025 | France’s Faircraft Secures VitroLabs’ Patent Portfolio Through US Asset Acquisition | French biotechnology company Faircraft has acquired key assets from VitroLabs, a California-based firm specializing in the development of lab-grown leather. The acquisition includes a portfolio of 30 patents and expands Faircraft’s intellec... |
| 06.05.2025 | Faircraft acquires VitroLabs assets in effort to dominate lab-grown leather market | French biotech Faircraft has announced acquired key assets from VitroLabs, a California-based startup also working to create lab-grown leather. The move is designed to fast-track the industrialisation of in vitro leather production, as the ... |
| 28.03.2025 | Stablecoin Offraming Firm Stable Sea Announces $3.5M Funding Round | Stable Sea, a stablecoin liquidity and orchestration company that facilitates stablecoin offramping to global markets, announced a $3.5 million funding round led by Kindred Ventures with participation from Ludlow Ventures, DFS Lab, The Vent... |
| 22.03.2025 | Stable Sea: $3.5 Million Secured For Global Stablecoin Offramping | Stable Sea, a stablecoin liquidity and orchestration company facilitating stablecoin offramping to global markets, announced a $3.5 million funding round led by Kindred Ventures with participation from Ludlow Ventures, DFS Lab, The Venture ... |
| 20.03.2025 | Tala Receives US$150M Debt Facility with Neuberger Berman | Tala, a Santa Monica, CA-based financial infrastructure company delivering accessible financial services, raised US$150M in Debt Facility with Neuberger Berman.
The company intends to allocate the amount to accelerate its reach, innovate fu... |
| 19.03.2025 | Tala Secures a US$150 Million Debt Facility with Neuberger Berman to Accelerate Growth in Mexico | Tala | Neuberger Berman
This facility marks Tala's largest capital markets transaction to date.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. and NEW YORK, March 19, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Tala, the global financial infrastructure company delivering the world's... |
| 14.03.2025 | Causal Labs: $6 Million (Seed) Raised For Building AI For Weather Prediction | Causal Labs, an AI company pioneering physics-based models to address civilization-scale challenges, announced it has raised $6 million in seed funding, led by Kindred Ventures with participation from Refactor, BoxGroup, Factorial, Otherwis... |
| 21.02.2025 | fal: $49 Million (Series B) Raised For AI-Based Media Creation Infrastructure Platform | fal, a leading infrastructure platform for AI-based media creation, announced it raised $49 million in Series B funding by Notable Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Kindred Ventures, ... |
| 12.02.2025 | Fal.ai secures $49M series B for AI video creation | Turkish mediatech startup Fal.ai has raised $49M in a Series B funding round led by Notable Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Kindred Ventures, and First Round. This brings Fal’s total funding ... |
| 15.01.2025 | Robeauté: Pioneering the Future of Neurosurgery with Microrobots | In the world of medicine, the brain is the final frontier. It holds the secrets to our thoughts, memories, and identities. Yet, when it comes to treating neurological disorders, the tools we use are often blunt instruments. Enter Robeauté, ... |
| 14.01.2025 | “Size of a grain of rice”: Robeauté raises €27.2 million to transform neurosurgery with microrobots | Robeauté, a Paris-based medtech startup developing neurosurgical microrobots, has announced the completion of a €27.2 million funding round to advance their microbot tech, initiate human trials in 2026, and establish operations in the US as... |
| 14.01.2025 | Robeauté raises $28M for neurosurgical microrobots for neurology, medicine's final frontier | French robotic medtech Robeauté has raised $28 million funding for its neurosurgical microrobots.
Neurological disorders are difficult to diagnose in the early stages when intervention can have the most impact.
Modern neurosurgery still rel... |
| 27.11.2024 | PlayAI: Voice AI Platform Company Raises $21 Million (Seed) | PlayAI, a voice AI platform advancing conversational AI, announced that it raised a $21 million Seed round led by Kindred Ventures and 500 Global with participation from Race Capital, Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Pioneer Fund, TRAC, and othe... |
| 26.11.2024 | Inversion closes $44M Series A round | Inversion Space, a startup looking to lead in logistics and delivery from above Earth’s atmosphere, has captured $44 million in Series A capital to support its development of a new autonomous re-entry vehicle and team expansion efforts.
Spa... |
| 26.11.2024 | PlayAI Secures $21 Mn Seed; Releases New Model for Gen AI Conversations | Just-released model that uses a conversation’s historical context to facilitate natural, human-like conversational experiences
PlayAI, the voice AI platform powering the future of conversational AI, announced that it has raised a $21 millio... |
| 24.11.2024 | Inversion Space Transportation Company Raises $44 Million (Series A) | Inversion—a company pioneering precision delivery on-demand from space to anywhere on Earth—announced a $44 million Series A funding round co-led by Spark Capital and Adjacent, with participation from Lockheed Martin Ventures, Kindred Ventu... |
| 22.11.2024 | Faircraft: Lab-Grown Leather Company Raises $15.8 Million | Faircraft, a pioneer of lab-grown leather utilizing unique and patented tissue engineering techniques, announced a $15.8 million funding round. The funding round was backed by internationally-renowned investment funds, including Kindred Ven... |
| 21.11.2024 | The Rise of Sustainable Innovation: Faircraft and ChapsVision Lead the Charge | In the heart of Paris, two startups are rewriting the rules of their respective industries. Faircraft and ChapsVision are not just companies; they are pioneers. They are reshaping the future with sustainable practices and cutting-edge techn... |
| 21.11.2024 | The Future of Food and Fashion: Innovations in Sustainability | In a world where sustainability is no longer optional, two companies are stepping up to the plate. Bel Group and Faircraft are leading the charge in their respective fields. They are not just responding to consumer demand; they are reshapin... |
| 21.11.2024 | Paris-based Faircraft raises €15 million to expand lab-grown leather production | Faircraft, a French startup focusing on lab-grown leather through cellular agriculture, has raised €15 million in a funding round led by investors including Kindred Ventures, Cap Horn, BPI, Alliance for Impact, and Entrepreneur First.
The c... |
| 21.11.2024 | French Cultivated Leather Startup Faircraft Secures €15M to Meet Demand for Ethical Materials | France’s Faircraft, a cultivated leather startup based in Paris, announces it has raised €15 million to expand its team and scale up operations to meet the increasing demand for sustainable materials.
Faircraft was founded in 2021 by CEO Ha... |
| 21.11.2024 | Faircraft Raises $15.8M in Funding | Faircraft, a Paris, France-based a provider of a lab-grown leather using patented tissue engineering techniques, $15.8M in funding.
Backers included Kindred Ventures, Cap Horn, BPI, Sake Bosch, Entrepreneur First, Alliance for Impact, and H... |
| 12.11.2024 | Northflank Secures $22.3 Million to Simplify Developer Workloads | In the fast-paced world of technology, developers often find themselves wrestling with complex infrastructure instead of focusing on what they do best: writing code. Northflank, a London-based startup, aims to change that narrative. With a ... |
| 11.11.2024 | Exclusive: Northflank scores $22.3 million to make cloud infrastructure less of a nightmare for developers | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
Northflank, a London-based cloud deployment platform, announced $22.3 million in new funding today to help compan... |
| 11.11.2024 | Northflank: Developer Workload Platform Company Secures $22.3 Million | Northflank, a developer workload platform, announced $22.3 million in new funding, including a $16 million Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) and a $6.3 million seed led by Vertex Ventures US. Additional investors participating in ... |
| 28.06.2023 | Seed, pre-seed specialist Kindred Ventures scores $312m across new flagship fund, first opportunity vehicle | |
| 26.06.2023 | Kindred Ventures foresees a ‘massive explosion of startups’ courtesy of AI | Last week, we talked with Kindred Ventures, a small, nine-year-old, San Francisco-based early-stage venture firm that, despite investing in a lot of nascent startups — more than 100 to date — takes a generalist approach, investing in AI, cl... |
| 07.01.2022 | DeFi platform Goldfinch raises $25m to continue emerging market lending | Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto) led a $25 million funding round that will help Goldfinch continue to offer uncollateralised DeFi loans to businesses in emerging markets.
Removing the crypto collateral requirement unlocks a new level of bo... |
| 07.01.2022 | DeFi platform Goldfinch raises $25m to continue emerging market lending | Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto) led a $25 million funding round that will help Goldfinch continue to offer uncollateralised DeFi loans to businesses in emerging markets.
Removing the crypto collateral requirement unlocks a new level of b... |
| 21.10.2021 | Vitaance cierra su 2ª ronda de €3M liderada por Kindred Ventures. Acuden también Softbank, Astorya, ShillingVC, K Fund y fondos y BA de la industria aseguradora | 21/10/2021
Nota de prensa
VITAANCE CIERRA UNA RONDA DE FINANCIACIÓN DE €3 MILLONES PARA IMPULSAR SU CRECIMIENTO.
● Kindred Ventures, Softbank, Astorya, Shilling y K Fund, entre otros fondos, han participado en la ronda de financiación
●... |
| 11.03.2021 | South Africa’s FlexClub adds $5M to seed round to scale its car subscription marketplace | The traditional process of buying, insuring and financing cars across emerging markets can be challenging, and it defeats the purpose of building an all-around car shopping experience. Today, FlexClub, a South African company, has been prov... |
| 01.02.2021 | Kindred Ventures just closed its second fund with $100 million in capital commitments | Two years after launching its $56 million debut fund, Kindred Ventures, a San Francisco-based pre-seed and seed-stage venture fund founded by Steve Jang and Kanyi Maqubela, has closed its second fund with $100 million in capital commitments... |
| 17.08.2020 | Hour One raises $5M Seed to generate AI-driven synthetic characters from real humans | All of the people pictured above are real, but what you are seeing are synthetically generated versions of their real selves. And they can be programmed to say anything. Tech futurists have long warned about humans being replaced by life-li... |
| 12.06.2020 | Lo Toney has some ideas about how to (really) bring VC into the 21st century | Last week, we suggested that for a truly diverse venture industry, the limited partners that provide investing capital to VCs — institutions like universities and hospital systems — need to start incorporating diversity mandates into their ... |
| 12.03.2020 | Heartbeat Health raises $8.2M for its virtual cardiovascular platform | The company provides telemedicine visits, discovery events and AI-powered coaching
[Editor's note: Future of Behavioral and Mental Health with BetterHelp, Headspace, Ginger.io, Providence Hospitals, UnitedHealthcare Optum, Khosla Ventures, ... |
| 12.03.2020 | Heartbeat Health Raises $8.2M Series A to Expand Delivery of Best-in-Class Virtual Cardiovascular Care | |
| 18.11.2019 | Steve Jang & Kanyi Maqubela form or fund as Kindred Ventures | Venture capitalists often mutter, “I haven’t seen anything I like lately.” Founders frequently complain that “investors are back-seat drivers who won’t get their hands dirty.” A $56 million fund with a fresh approach is aiming to address bo... |
