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| 29.06.2026 | Orthogonal Raises $4.3 Million Seed Round For AI Agent Discovery And Payments Infrastructure | Orthogonal announced that it has raised $4.3 million in seed funding to build discovery, orchestration, and payments infrastructure for AI agents.
The round was led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Dec... |
| 27.05.2026 | Didit: $7.5 Million Seed Funding Raised To Build Identity Infrastructure For The AI Era | Didit announced it has closed an additional $6 million in seed funding, bringing its total seed financing to $7.5 million as the company builds identity infrastructure designed for the AI era. The funding will support global go-to-market ex... |
| 29.08.2025 | British AI startup Artificial Societies raises €4.5 million to simulate human behaviour at scale | London-based Artificial Societies, a synthetic persona platform enabling AI-powered simulations of human behaviour, has raised €4.5 million in combined pre-Seed and Seed funding.
The latest Seed round of €2.8 million was led by Point72 Vent... |
| 10.08.2025 | UAE Fintech Alaan Raises $48m Series A to Expand Across MENA Region | Listen to this article
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UAE-based business-to-business Fintech startup Alaan has secured $48 million in Series A funding led by Peak XV Partners, formerly Sequoia Capital India, to expand its AI-powered spend manag... |
| 08.08.2025 | Alaan Raises $48M in Series A Funding | Alaan, a Dubai, UAE-based fintech company, raised $48m in Series A funding round.
The round was led by Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India & SEA), with participation from 885 Capital, Y Combinator, 468 Capital, and Pioneer ... |
| 08.08.2025 | MENA Digest: UAE’s Alaan, Saudi startup Salasa, Egypt’s Wuilt secure funding | Credit: Thinkstock
Fundraising activity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region was driven by two big-ticket, late-stage deals this week. Saudi Arabia-based e-commerce fulfillment platform Salasa secured Series B funding, while UA... |
| 07.08.2025 | AI Reshapes Legal Intake: Caseflood.ai Secures $3.2M for Groundbreaking Automation | Caseflood.ai, a pioneering force in human-assisted AI for legal intake, recently secured $3.2 million in strategic funding. This capital infusion propels its mission to transform law firm operations. The company's innovative voice AI, Luna,... |
| 06.08.2025 | Peak XV leads USD 48 Mn Series A Round for UAE's Alaan The round was led by Peak XV Partners, with participation from 885 Capital, Y Combinator, 468 Capital, Pioneer Fund, and several prominent angel ... | UAE-based fintech firm Alaan has raised USD 48 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate its growth in the Middle East and North Africa.
The round was led by Peak XV Partners, with participation from 885 Capital, Y Combinator, 468 C... |
| 05.08.2025 | "We Got Funded!" UAE-Based Fintech Alaan Raises a US$48 Million Series A Round The funds will accelerate Alaan's expansion in Saudi Arabia and power the next phase of its growth, focused on ... | Alaan, a UAE-based spend management platform for businesses, has raised US$48 million - reportedly one of the largest Series A funding rounds in the history of the region.
The round was led by Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital Indi... |
| 30.07.2025 | Caseflood.ai Raises $3.2M in Funding | Caseflood.ai, a San Francisco, CA-based human-assisted AI intake team for law firms, raised $3,2M in funding.
Backers included Acquisition.com, Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, Four Cities Capital, Elevation Capital, Amino Capital, Valia Ventures,... |
| 14.07.2025 | Vellum Secures $20M to Revolutionize Enterprise AI Development | Vellum, a leading enterprise AI platform, just closed a $20 million Series A funding round. This significant capital injection, led by Leaders Fund, accelerates Vellum’s mission. It defines the standard for reliable AI development. The plat... |
| 10.07.2025 | Vellum Raises $20M Series A to Bring Rigor, Speed and Reliability to Enterprise AI Development | Vellum provides the infrastructure enterprises need to easily build, evaluate and deploy reliable AI products at scale – now available for everyone to use
This round — led by Leaders Fund, with participation from Socii Capital and existing ... |
| 03.07.2025 | Argon AI raises $5.5M for product improvement, team growth | Photo: Hero Images Inc./Getty Images
Argon AI has announced it secured $5.5 million in seed funding.
Crosslink Capital and Wireframe Ventures co-led the round, with participation from Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund and other investors.
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| 24.12.2024 | Hamming.ai Announces $3.8 Million Seed Led by Mischief | Hamming.ai, the AI voice agent reliability platform, announced that it has raised $3.8 million in seed funding led by Mischief, with participation from YCombinator, AI Grant, Pioneer, Coalition Operators, Coughdrop and angels including Hite... |
| 24.12.2024 | Hamming.ai: AI-Based Voice Agent Reliability Company Raises $3.8 Million (Seed) | Hamming.ai, an AI voice agent reliability platform, announced that it raised $3.8 million in seed funding led by Mischief, with participation from Y Combinator, AI Grant, Pioneer, Coalition Operators, Coughdrop and angels including Hiten Sh... |
| 19.12.2024 | Hamming.ai: Pioneering Reliability in AI Voice Agents with $3.8 Million Seed Funding | In the fast-paced world of artificial intelligence, Hamming.ai emerges as a beacon of reliability. The San Francisco-based startup recently secured $3.8 million in seed funding, led by Mischief, with notable participation from YCombinator, ... |
| 18.12.2024 | Hamming.ai Announces $3.8 Million Seed Led by Mischief | Hamming.ai, the AI voice agent reliability platform, announced that it has raised $3.8 million in seed funding led by Mischief, with participation from YCombinator, AI Grant, Pioneer, Coalition Operators, Coughdrop and angels including Hite... |
| 29.03.2023 | Promising Tacoma Startup Expands Restaurant Staffing Pilot Program | Serve Reserves Logo
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Tacoma Startup Serve Reserves, a recruiting & on-demand staffing platform for the food & beverage industry, is expanding their Washington State pilot ... |
| 20.10.2022 | Bumpa raises $4 million in seed funding to help underserved SMEs grow and manage their business | Emerging e-commerce startup: Bumpa has announced a $4 million raise in its just-completed seed funding round. This round was led by Base10 Partners with participation from Plug & Play Ventures commerce fund, SHL Capital, Jedar Capital, ... |
| 22.03.2021 | These undergraduates left university to build Flux, a payments startup now in YC | In the 170 years since Western Union was founded, no company has managed to solve two basic problems that continue to bedevil the remittance business — exorbitant fees and slow deposit times. For instance, it takes days or weeks for money s... |
| 01.07.2020 | ‘Codecademy for VCs’ launches | If you want to get an internship at a venture capital firm, it often goes like this: you ask your dad who’s an investor or your mate from business school who’s a VC to get you one — or you just don’t get through the door.
Merit, a new kind ... |
| 07.04.2020 | VR pioneer Roto raises £1.5m | The designer of the world’s first interactive 360 degree chair, Roto VR, has raised £1.5 million.
Consumer venture capital trust, Pembroke VCT is the lead investor with the TVB Growth Fund, managed by The FSE Group, also investing in the ro... |
| 28.02.2020 | Pioneer founder Daniel Gross on bringing remote teams together | There are plenty of accelerators aiming to sway young startups to join their ranks rather than apply to Y Combinator, but Pioneer‘s sell is a bit different.
First off, they are fully remote; founders selected to participate in the program c... |
| 19.02.2020 | Ex-YC partner Daniel Gross rethinks the accelerator | Amid skyrocketing operating expenses, remote work has become an obsession for Bay Area founders looking to have it both ways, accessing Silicon Valley’s networks of capital and opportunity without paying steep premiums for talent.
Daniel Gr... |
| 12.12.2019 | Microtraction invests in Ghanaian fintech startup Bit Sika | Lagos-based early-stage investor Microtraction announced yesterday that it has invested in Ghanaian fintech startup Bit Sika.
The Accra-based startup provides a money transfer service which uses digital or crypto currencies to enable users ... |
| 12.12.2019 | Microtraction invests in Ghanaian fintech startup Bit Sika | Lagos-based early-stage investor Microtraction announced yesterday that it has invested in Ghanaian fintech startup Bit Sika.
The Accra-based startup provides a money transfer service which uses digital or crypto currencies to enable users... |
| 02.12.2019 | Finding free money for your social impact startup | David Teten Contributor
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| 23.07.2019 | Fortify: Digital Composite Manufacturing Pioneer Raises $10 Million | Boston-based additive manufacturing startup and Digital Composite Manufacturing (DCM) pioneer Fortify announced it raised $10 million in Series A funding
Fortify — a Boston-based additive manufacturing startup and pioneer in Digital Composi... |
| 05.06.2019 | Solar pioneer Azuri Technologies announces $26 million equity investment | Solar pioneer Azuri Technologies announces $26 million equity investment
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Azuri Technologies, a leading provider of pay-as-you-go solar home solutions to off-grid households across Africa, today announced a strategic investment of... |
| 07.12.2018 | Baring PE Asia to invest $904m in Japan’s audio systems maker Pioneer | Premium
Japanese audio systems maker Pioneer Corp said on Friday buyout firm Baring Private Equity Asia has agreed to invest 102 billion yen ($904 million) in the company to restore its financial health, the first major private equity inves... |
| 12.09.2018 | Japan’s ailing electronics maker Pioneer snags $540m from HK’s Baring PE | Premium
Japan’s struggling Pioneer Corp on Wednesday said it had secured up to 60 billion yen ($540 million) in funding from Hong Kong-based fund manager Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA).
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| 10.08.2018 | Idea incubator Pioneer calls for ambitious outsiders | New incubator Pioneer has launched and is calling for “ambitious outsiders” to pitch their ideas to secure funding and win a trip to Silicon Valley.
Pioneer says it’s building a “community of creative young people working on interesting pro... |
| 28.05.2018 | Digital payments pioneer Lawrence Lerner bets on blockchain with $170M startup investment fund | Lawrence Lerner, an early innovator in digital payments is the CEO of Seattle-based Pithia, an investment fund focused on blockchain technology startups. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop)
Lawrence Lerner was working to integrate digital paymen... |
