| Date | Title | Description |
| 09.10.2025 | Vulcan Technologies Raises $10.9M in Seed Funding | Vulcan Technologies, an Austin, TX-based reg-tech company offering advanced AI to help government agencies and legal professionals with regulatory drafting and compliance, raised $10.9M in Seed funding.
The round was led by General Catalyst... |
| 08.10.2025 | Cookiy AI Ignites Market Research Revolution with $7M+ Investment | Cookiy AI landed over $7 million in pre-seed funding. This investment propels its Agentic Voice AI. The platform revolutionizes consumer research. It conducts natural, human-like conversations at massive scale. Businesses now gain deep, act... |
| 07.10.2025 | Cookiy AI Secures $7M+ to Transform Consumer Insights With Agentic Voice AI | Cookiy AI has raised over $7 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed round backed by Liquid2, Converge, GoAhead, and UpHonest, alongside other top-tier venture funds and strategic angels. The company is pioneering a new paradigm of platforms ... |
| 06.10.2025 | Cookiy AI Raises Over $7M in Pre-Seed Funding | Cookiy AI, a Palo Alto, CA-based agentic voice AI company, raised over $7M in Pre-Seed funding.
Backers included Liquid2, Converge, GoAhead, and UpHonest, alongside other venture funds and strategic angels.
The company intends to use the fu... |
| 22.09.2025 | Catena: $5 Million Raised For Its API For Telematics And Logistics Data | Catena announced it has raised $5 million in a seed funding round. This round was led by Floating Point and saw participation from several noteworthy investors, including Shaper Capital, Teamworthy, Plug and Play, SpringTime Ventures, Liqui... |
| 21.08.2025 | Convoke: $8.6 Million Secured For Building AI Operating System For Biopharma | Convoke, an innovative AI-native operating system tailored specifically for the biopharma sector, has successfully secured $8.6 million in seed capital to accelerate its growth and technological development. This financing round was led by ... |
| 18.08.2025 | Protege: $25 Million Series A Raised For Expanding AI Training Data Platform | Protege, a platform for the secure exchange of proprietary data for AI training, has secured $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Footwork, with participation from CRV, Bloomberg Beta, Flex Capital, Shaper Capital, Liquid 2 Ventur... |
| 13.08.2025 | Protege Raises $25M in Series A Funding | Protege, a NYC-based provider of a platform designed to enable the secure exchange of proprietary data for artificial intelligence training, raised $25M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Footwork, with participation from existing in... |
| 28.07.2025 | Cascade Space: $5.9 Million Seed Funding Raised For Space Communication Platform | Cascade Space, a company building an end-to-end platform for space communication system design, test, and operation, recently announced it has raised $5.9 million in seed funding. The round included participation from Nova Threshold, Undete... |
| 25.07.2025 | Cascade Space Raises $5.9M in Seed Funding | Cascade Space, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a platform for end-to-end communication system design, test, and operation, raised $5.9M in Seed funding.
Backers included Nova Threshold, Undeterred Capital, Y Combinator, Night Capital,... |
| 17.07.2025 | Blaxel raises $7.3M seed round to build ‘AWS for AI agents’ after processing billions of agent requests | Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now
Blaxel, a startup building cloud infrastructure specifically designed for artificia... |
| 11.07.2025 | AI Automation Takes Aim at Regulated Industries: Gradient Labs Secures $13M | Gradient Labs, an AI startup founded by Monzo alumni, secured $13 million in Series A funding. This British firm redefines customer service for regulated industries. Its advanced AI agent, Otto, adeptly handles complex inquiries, automates ... |
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| 08.07.2025 | London-based Gradient Labs raises over €11 million for its AI customer service agent | Gradient Labs, a British AI startup focused on customer service in regulated industries, today announced a Series A round of over €11 million to expand its technology, marketing, sales, onboarding, and customer success teams and increase it... |
| 08.07.2025 | Monzo alumni's Gradient Labs raises $13M to reinvent agentic AI for regulated industries | AI agentic startup Gradient Labs has raised $13 million in Series A funding.
Founded in 2023, Gradient Labs was co-founded by Dimitri Masin, Neal Lathia, and Danai Antoniou — early employees of UK challenger bank Monzo.
Gradient Labs assist... |
| 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... |
| 07.05.2025 | Sentry Acquies Emerge Tools to Enhance Mobile App Delivery | Sentry, the leading debugging platform for developers, today announced it has acquired Emerge Tools, a prominent provider of mobile app development solutions. Emerge Tools enables teams to deliver smaller, faster and more reliable mobile ap... |
| 28.04.2025 | Ika Reveals Strategic Investment From Sui Foundation, Bringing Total Funding to Over $21m | Zug, Switzerland, April 28th, 2025, Chainwire
Ika, the world’s fastest parallel MPC network, set to launch on the Sui blockchain, reveals a strategic investment from Sui Foundation after recently concluding a record-setting 1.4M SUI NFT art... |
| 16.04.2025 | Finch Raises Seed Funding | Finch Legal, a NYC-based pre-litigation operations platform built for personal injury law firms, raised a Seed funding round of undisclosed amount.
The round was led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Roar Ventures, Liquid 2 Venture... |
| 22.03.2025 | BuildOps: A New Era for Commercial Contractors | In the bustling world of commercial contracting, chaos often reigns. But a new player is changing the game. BuildOps, a platform designed specifically for modern commercial contractors, has just raised $127 million in Series C funding. This... |
| 22.03.2025 | BuildOps: $127 Million (Series C) Closed At $1 Billion For Commercial Contractor Platform | BuildOps, an all-in-one platform exclusively for modern commercial contractors, announced that it has raised $127 million in Series C funding led by Meritech Capital Partners. This advances the company to unicorn status with a valuation of ... |
| 01.03.2025 | Patlytics: Revolutionizing Patent Management with AI | In the fast-paced world of technology, innovation is the lifeblood of progress. Patlytics, a San Francisco-based startup, is at the forefront of this revolution. With its recent $14 million Series A funding, the company is poised to transfo... |
| 24.02.2025 | Patlytics Secures $14 Million Series A Funding Led by Next47 | The company’s generative AI platform is leading patent intelligence transformation, backed by Google’s Gradient Ventures and Myriad Venture Partners
Patlytics, the AI-powered patent workflow platform, today announced the closing of a $14 mi... |
| 10.12.2024 | Fintech Frenzy: The Rise of Business Banking Platforms in India | The fintech landscape in India is buzzing. New players are emerging, and established firms are ramping up their game. Business banking platforms are at the forefront of this revolution. They are reshaping how businesses manage their finance... |
| 10.12.2024 | Business banking platform Infinity secures maiden funding from Y Combinator and others | ETtech
Bengaluru-based business banking platform Infinity has secured $1.9 million (about Rs 16 crore) in equity funding from Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, Script Capital and angel investors such as Alan Rutledge, Justin Hamilton and Sam... |
| 25.10.2024 | Attention: $14 Million (Series A) Secured To Transform Customer Conversations Into Insights | Attention, a platform that transforms customer conversations into actionable insights, announced $14 million in Series A funding to power its next phase of growth. Alven led this funding round, which also included Eniac, 645 Ventures, Aglae... |
| 24.10.2024 | Attention Raises $14M to Enhance Sales with AI-Powered Automations | Attention, the platform that transforms customer conversations into actionable insights, announced today its $14 million Series A funding to power its next phase of growth. The investment was led by Alven, with participation from Eniac, 645... |
| 04.09.2024 | Palm's $6.1M Seed Funding: A New Dawn for Enterprise Cash Management | In the fast-paced world of finance, where every second counts, Palm is making waves. This Swedish and Dutch fintech company has just secured $6.1 million in seed funding. The goal? To revolutionize cash management for enterprise treasury te... |
| 04.09.2024 | Flex Raises $3.2M Seed Funding | Flex, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a solution for direct-to-consumer health and wellness brands to begin accepting HSA and FSA payments online, raised $3.2M in Seed funding.
Backers included Y Combinator, SV Angel, Precursor, Liqui... |
| 04.09.2024 | Palm Raises $6.1M in Seed Funding | Palm, a Swedish and Dutch financial technology company created to streamline cash management for enterprise treasury teams, raised $6.1M in funding.
The round was led by Speedinvest and Target Global, with participation from Upfin, Liquid2,... |
| 12.06.2024 | Tenderd raised $30 M Series A funding from A.P. Moller | Tenderd has successfully concluded a $30 million Series A funding round. Tenderd is a global leader in digital transformation for heavy equipment management and operations. Leading the round was the $32 billion investment firm A.P. Moller H... |
| 13.04.2024 | Automattic's Acquisition of Beeper: A Shift into Messaging | Automattic Inc., the parent company of WordPress, recently acquired Beeper for $125 million, marking a strategic shift into messaging. Beeper, known for its all-in-one messaging app, gained attention for its iMessage-on-Android solution. Th... |
| 12.04.2024 | Most-Active US Investors: General Catalyst Tops March’s List | 3 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
This is a monthly feature that runs down some of the most-active investors in U.S.-based companies, looks at some of their most interesting investments, and includes some odds and ends of who spent w... |
| 11.04.2024 | Google’s Gradient backs Patlytics to help companies protect their intellectual property | Patlytics, an AI-powered patent analytics platform, wants to help enterprises, IP professionals, and law firms speed up their patent workflows from discovery, analytics, comparisons, and prosecution to litigation.
The fledgling startup secu... |
| 09.04.2024 | Automattic expands messaging portfolio with $125M acquisition of Beeper
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One click below supports our mission to provide f... | Automattic Inc., the parent company of WordPress, today announced that it had acquired Beeper, the company behind the messaging app that gained widespread attention late last year when it launched a service that allowed Android users to sen... |
| 09.03.2024 | Overjet Revolutionizes Dental Care with $53.2M Series C Funding | Overjet, a pioneer in dental AI, has secured a groundbreaking $53.2 million Series C financing round, marking a significant milestone in the realm of artificial intelligence for dentistry. Led by March Capital and supported by prominent inv... |
| 05.03.2024 | Overjet: Dental AI Company Raises $53 Million At $550 Million Valuation | Overjet—a leader in dental AI—announced a $53.2 million Series C round, the largest investment ever in artificial intelligence for dentistry. March Capital led this historic round, which also included General Catalyst, Insight Partners, E14... |
| 22.02.2024 | Testnet Launch for dWallet Network – Composable Modular Signature Network | Tel Aviv, Israel, February 22nd, 2024, Chainwire
dWallet Labs today announced the Testnet launch of dWallet Network – a first-of-its-kind composable modular signature network. The dWallet Network introduces a new primitive for multi-chain ... |
| 30.06.2023 | Seed 75: The best seed VC firms for founders looking to raise money in 2023 | From right to left: Miriam Rivera of Ulu Ventures, Maelle Gavet of Techstars, Marlon Nichols of MaC Venture Capital, David Tisch of BoxGroup, Christine Tsai of 500 Global, Saeed Amidi of Plug and Play Ulu Ventures, Techstars, MaC Venture Ca... |
| 11.04.2023 | Carbon Robotics bags $30m to fight the war on weeds with autonomous laser bots | Carbon Robotics has raised a $30 million Series C for its precision weed-control system for speciality crops.
New investor Sozo Ventures led the round with participation from existing investors Anthos Capital, Fuse Venture Capital, Ignition... |
| 11.04.2023 | Carbon Robotics lands $30M to sell more weed-destroying machines powered by AI | The LaserWeeder from Seattle startup Carbon Robotics zaps weeds using a high-powered lasers powered by AI and cameras. (Carbon Photos)
Turns out that farmers like using lasers to kill weeds.
Seattle startup Carbon Robotics raised $30 millio... |
| 15.12.2022 | Classet Raises $3M Seed Round to Grow Its Hiring and Training Platform for Skilled Trades | CHICAGO (PRWEB) December 15, 2022
Classet, a recruiting and training software startup for skilled trades companies, today announced that it has raised a $3 million seed round. This initial funding round will be used to scale out their platf... |
| 08.12.2022 | Joe Montana Finding As Much Success Away From NFL As He Did Playing | Joe Montana is finding success in venture capital after winning four Super Bowls during a 15-year ... [+] NFL career.Icon Sportswire via Getty Images |
| 27.07.2022 | WeLoveNoCode Uses the New USD 3M of Investment to Keep Building Its Smart Marketplace for Nocoders | WeLoveNoCode is a marketplace for low-code/no-code solutions Their latest Seed round was led my MANTIS and amounted to USD 3M This investment will allow the marketplace to remain ever-ready for the booming growth of the low-code/no-code nic... |
| 25.02.2022 | Liquid 2 Ventures Raises $80M For Third Core Fund | From left to right: Mike Miller, Joe Montana, Nate Montana, and Michael Ma
Liquid 2 Ventures LLC, a San Francisco, CA-based early-stage venture capital firm, closed the third core fund, Liquid 2 Ventures Fund III, L.P., at $80M.
Founded by ... |
| 09.02.2022 | $29 million to fuel Destinus aerospace vision | |
| 09.12.2021 | Vendease wants to be the Amazon for Nigeria’s food vendors | Tunde Kara and Olumide Fayankin grew up watching their parents — a farmer and a restaurant owner — grapple with inefficiencies in Nigeria’s food system. Caused by layer after layer of middlemen that deliver food from the farm to vendors to ... |
| 09.09.2021 | Prospa secures largest pre-seed investment in sub-Saharan Africa’s startup ecosystem | Prospa, a startup helping small businesses manage their banking and business on a single platform, has raised a $3.8 million pre-seed round months after graduating from Y Combinator, to increase its customer base and hire more product and e... |
| 22.04.2021 | Satellite imagery startup Albedo closes $10M seed round | While most startups today are creating software, not every upstart enterprise is taking a code-only approach to building a business. Some of today’s most ambitious startups are aiming quite a bit higher.
Albedo is one such company. The rece... |
| 13.07.2020 | Mighty Health created a wellness app with older adults top of mind | Virtual classes might make it easier to work out anywhere, anytime, but not for anyone. Mainstream fitness tech often targets the young and fit, in advertisements and cardio-heavy exercises. It effectively excludes aging adults from partici... |
| 16.06.2020 | African payment startup Chipper Cash raises $13.8M Series A | African cross-border fintech startup Chipper Cash has closed a $13.8 million Series A funding round led by Deciens Capital and plans to hire 30 new staff globally.
The raise caps an event-filled run for the San Francisco-based payments comp... |
| 29.12.2019 | Wrapping Up CLT’s 2019: Q4 Deals in the Queen City | An exciting Q4 in the Carolinas has left many startups looking forward to a successful 2020. We thought the best way to ring in the new year would be to look back at the most noteworthy fundings, deals, exits, mergers, and acquisitions duri... |
| 18.12.2019 | Africa-focused fintech Chipper Cash raises a further $6m | San Francisco based fintech startup Chipper Cash announced yesterday that it had raised a further $6-million, in a seed round led by California-based Deciens Capital.
The announcement was made in an article yesterday by US tech publication ... |
| 18.12.2019 | Africa-focused fintech Chipper Cash raises a further $6m | San Francisco based fintech startup Chipper Cash announced yesterday that it had raised a further $6-million, in a seed round led by California-based Deciens Capital.
The announcement was made in an article yesterday by US tech publication... |
| 04.09.2019 | SF-based African fintech startup Chipper Cash expands to Nigeria | The African no-fee, cross-border payment startup Chipper Cash has expanded to Nigeria.
The San Francisco-based startup, with offices in Ghana and Kenya, will offer its P2P payment service and app in Africa’s most populous nation in partners... |
| 17.07.2019 | In-space shuttle service, Momentus, raises $25.5 million as investments climb for ‘new space’ tech | With commercial launch services expected to reach $7 billion by 2024, there’s increasing demand for an array of new technologies that can offer advantages to companies looking to get communications infrastructure in orbit.
That’s one of the... |
| 04.06.2019 | Africa Roundup: Jumia’s post-IPO earnings, Gokada’s $5.3M raise, Facebook’s fake-news purge, Joe Montana’s fintech investment | Jumia held its first post-IPO earnings call and weathered a short-sell assault in May, with Wall Street showing confidence in the Pan-African e-commerce company.
On the numbers, key takeaways were that Jumia’s Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) ... |
| 14.05.2019 | Chipper Cash CEO on why African startups aren’t launching the next Paypal | Africa’s fragmented nature could be why the continent’s startups have found it difficult to launch merchant-focused payments products such as Paypal, surmises Ham Serunjogi the CEO of cross-border payments startup Chipper Cash.
The startup ... |
| 14.05.2019 | Chipper Cash CEO on why African startups aren’t launching the next Paypal | Africa’s fragmented nature could be why the continent’s startups have found it difficult to launch merchant-focused payments products such as Paypal, surmises Ham Serunjogi the CEO of cross-border payments startup Chipper Cash.
The startup... |
| 09.05.2019 | Chipper Cash convinces Joe Montana to invest in African fintech | The African no-fee, cross-border payment startup Chipper Cash has raised a $2.4 million seed round led by Deciens Capital.
The payments company also persuaded 500 Startups and Liquid 2 Ventures — co-founded by Joe Montana — to join the roun... |
| 26.04.2019 | Liquid 2 Ventures Raises $37.67M for Second Fund | Liquid 2 Ventures, a San Francisco, CA-based early stage venture capital firm, held a $37.67m close of its second fund.
According to a regulatory form filed with the SEC, Liquid 2 Ventures Fund II, L.P., has been supported by 59 investors t... |
| 28.02.2019 | iUNU raises $7.5m for greenhouse ‘system-as-a-service’ using computer vision | Greenhouse decision support software company iUNU closed a $7.5 million venture round with existing early-stage Midwest investor NCT Ventures and AI-focused BooststapLabs. The Seattle-based startup closed a $6 million round in August 2017 w... |
| 24.01.2019 | Cannabis startup Caliva raises $75M from former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Joe Montana | San Jose cannabis company Caliva is proving that weed’s still hot, even as some markets cool off.
The company is announcing a $75 million round of investment that includes participation from former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and football legend ... |
| 08.08.2018 | Your vegetables are going to be picked by robots sooner than you think | In the very near future, robots are going to be picking the vegetables that appear on grocery store shelves across America.
The automation revolution that’s arrived on the factory floor will make its way to the ag industry in the U.S. and i... |
| 19.03.2018 | UPDATE: AI-Powered Online Farmers Market Farmstead Raises $4.8m in Seed Funding | *** First Published on October 5, 2017. Updated March 19, 2018 to include additional funding.***
Farmstead, a new artificial intelligence-powered farm to doorstep grocery delivery startup has raised $4.8 million in seed funding from Resolut... |
| 15.03.2018 | Strix Leviathan raises $1.625M for its enterprise crypto trading platform | Seattle-based Strix Leviathan, an enterprise trading and management platform for crypto assets founded by startup vet Jesse Proudman, today announced that it has raised a $1.625 million seed round led by Joe Montana’s Liquid 2 Ventures (yes... |
| 24.10.2017 | Plant-based Peroxide-Maker Solugen Raises $4.4m Seed Round from Y Combinator, Joe Montana’s VC, others | A biomaterials startup using CRISPR gene-editing technology has raised $4.4 million in seed funding for its plant-based bio-peroxide technology. Solugen will use the funding to expand distribution of its bioperoxide and launch a consumer br... |
| 22.08.2017 | Reddit Cofounder & Joe Montana Invest in $6m Seed Round for Stealthy iUNU | Seattle-based greenhouse software company iUNU has raised $6 million from Initialized Capital and Liquid 2 Ventures, run by Reddit-cofounder Alex Ohanian and NFL hall-of-famer Joe Montana, respectively. Second Avenue Partners and Fuel Capit... |
| 27.02.2017 | 16 early-stage healthtech startups you need to know | From online marketplaces to wearables for mothers, these are the fastest-growing healthtech startups
Editor's note: Our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables event is coming up on March 23 in San Francisco. We'll have Mario Schlosser (Found... |
| 18.01.2017 | Iris Automation raises $1.5 million to help drones sense and avoid obstacles | Iris Automation Inc. has raised $1.5 million to bring “sense and avoid” technology, and truly self-flying capabilities, to drones used for industrial tasks.
Even for human pilots, identifying obstacles and deciding precisely how to maneuver... |
| 12.01.2017 | Yoshi raises $2.1 million to fill up your car, or wash it, anywhere | A startup that refuels your car wherever it’s parked, Yoshi Inc. has raised $2.1 million in a new round of venture funding to expand its gas delivery service into new towns, and to add different auto-related services to its menu. According ... |
| 06.10.2016 | $15 billion in Q3 2016—VC investing hits two-year low | Venture capital continues to "reset," according to Pitchbook, with deal flow down again
Editor's note: Our 6th Annual Vator Splash LA conference is coming up on October 13 at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica. Speakers include Mark ... |
| 23.08.2016 | The unlikeliest new faces of venture capital | Musicians, actors and athletes have been raising their own funds over the past few years
One of the big news items this week was the announcement that NBA superstar Kobe Bryant had launched his own venture capital fund.
Founded along with i... |
| 11.08.2016 | CareSkore Raises $4.3M for Predictive Population Health Management | CareSkore, a Y-Combinator backed startup has raised $4.3 million in seed funding for its predictive population health management platform that helps measure the clinical and financial risk of hospital patients based on their EMR and claims ... |
| - | Joe Montana prepares for biggest windfall as a venture capitalist ahead of GitLab’s $10 billion IPO | Joe Montana’s Liquid 2 Ventures invested in GitLab at about a $12 million valuation, after the software company came out of the Y Combinator accelerator program.
GitLab is poised to hit the Nasdaq on Thursday at a valuation that could top $... |