Funded & Hiring
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Sunday, 05/04/2025 |
ChainguardFunding Amount: $365 MillionChainguard, a Kirkland, WA-based open source software, security and cloud native development company, raised $365M in Series D funding, at $3.5 Billion valuation. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins and IVP. New investors Salesforce Ventures and Datadog Ventures, and all existing investors like Sequoia, Spark, Amplify, Redpoint, Lightspeed, Mantis, and Kerrest & Co. also participated. |
ApexFunding Amount: $200 MillionApex, a Los Angeles, CA-based spacecraft manufacturer offering productized and configurable satellite bus platforms, raised $200M in Series C funding. The round was led by Point72 Ventures and co-led by 8VC, alongside existing investors including Andreessen Horowitz, as well as new firms Washington Harbour Partners and StepStone Group. |
PersonaFunding Amount: $200 MillionPersona, an SF-based verified identity startup, raised $200m in Series D funding at a $2b valuation. Founders Fund and Ribbit Capital co-led, joined by insiders Bond, Coatue, First Round Capital, and Index Ventures. |
SupabaseFunding Amount: $200 MillionSupabase, a Postgres database management system, raised $200m in Series D funding at a $2b valuation, per Fortune. Backers include Coatue, YC, Craft Ventures, and Felicis. |
ManychatFunding Amount: $140 MillionManychat, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of a conversational AI and automation across social and messaging platforms, raised $140M in funding. The round was led by Summit Partners. |
VezaFunding Amount: $108 MillionVeza, a Los Gatos, CA-based identity security company, raised $108M in Series D funding, at $808M valuation. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from new investors Atlassian Ventures, Workday Ventures, Snowflake Ventures and existing investors, Accel, GV (Google Ventures), True Ventures, Norwest, Ballistic Ventures, J.P. Morgan, and Blackstone Innovations Investments. |
Endor LabsFunding Amount: $93 MillionEndor Labs, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based software supply chain security company, raised $93m in Series B funding. DFJ Growth led, joined by Salesforce Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, Dell Technologies Capital, Section 32, and Citi Ventures. |
AstronomerFunding Amount: $93 MillionAstronomer, a NYC-based provider of a unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®, raised $93m in Series D funding. The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and existing investors including Insight, Meritech, and Venrock, as well as Bosch Ventures. |
OmnidianFunding Amount: $87 MillionOmnidian, a Seattle, WA-based provider of comprehensive protection and performance plans for residential and commercial solar and energy storage systems, raised over $87M in funding. The round was led by B Capital, with participation from existing Omnidian investors Activate Capital, Liberty Mutual Investments, National Grid Partners and WIND Ventures, as well as new investors such as Marunouchi Innovation Partners, BNP Paribas Solar Impulse Venture Fund, Citi Impact Fund and Alumni Ventures. |
Butterfly EffectFunding Amount: $75 MillionButterfly Effect dba Manus AI, a Chinese AI agent developer, raised $75m at a $500m valuation led by Benchmark, per Bloomberg. Hiring For: Remote(2), Marketing(2), Operations(1), Other(3) |
LightrunFunding Amount: $70 MillionLightrun, an Israeli developer observability startup, raised $70m in Series B funding. Accel and Lightspeed co-led, joined by Citi, Glilot Capital, GTM Capital, and Sorenson Capital. |
UtilidataFunding Amount: $60.3 MillionUtilidata, a Providence, RI-based company which specializes in edge AI technology, raised $60.3M in Series C funding. The round was led by Renown Capital Partners with participation from Quanta, NVIDIA, and existing investor Keyframe Capital. Hiring For: Remote(14), Engineering/Technology(10), Operations(4), Data(2), Product(2), Other(2) |
SupioFunding Amount: $60 MillionSupio, a Seattle, WA-based provider of an AI platform used by personal injury and mass tort plaintiff law firms, raised $60M in Series B funding. The round was led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from new investors Mayfield and Thomson Reuters Ventures. |
AlpacaFunding Amount: $52 MillionAlpaca, a San Mateo, Calif.-based developer of a stock-trading API, raised $52m in Series C from Derayah Financial, 850 Management, National Investments Company Kuwait, Unbound and Portage Ventures. |
RogoFunding Amount: $50 MillionRogo, a generative AI startup focused on financial services, raised $50m in Series B funding. Thrive Capital led, joined by JPMorgan, Tiger Global, and insiders Khosla Venture and BoxGroup. |
NavroFunding Amount: $41 MillionNavro, a London-based international payments platform for businesses, raised $41m in Series B funding. Jump Capital led, joined by Bain Capital Ventures, Motive Partners, and Unusual Ventures. |
PliantFunding Amount: $40 MillionPliant, a German BB payments platform, raised $40m in Series B funding. Illuminate Financial and Speedinvest co-led, joined by insiders PayPal Ventures and Motive Ventures. |
ExowattFunding Amount: $35 MillionExowatt, a Miami-based solar storage startup, raised $35m in Series A funding. Felicis led, joined by a16z, 8090 Industries, Starwood Capital, Thrive Capital, and MCJ Collective. It also secured $35m in debt from HSBC. exowatt.com Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(11), Product(1), Operations(1), HR/People(1) |
DoppelFunding Amount: $35 MillionDoppel, an SF-based social engineering defense platform, raised $35m in Series B funding at a $205m valuation. Bessemer Venture Partners led, joined by 9Yards Capital, Sozo Ventures and insiders a16z, South Park Commons, Strategic Cyber Ventures, and Script Capital. doppel.com |
SteadilyFunding Amount: $30 MillionSteadily, an Austin, Texas-based provider of landlord insurance, raised $30m in Series C funding at a $355m valuation. Two Sigma Ventures led, joined by Clocktower Technology Ventures, Belfer Investment Partners, Belfer Investment Partners, Nine Four Ventures, and Matrix Partners. steadily.com |
Northwood SpaceFunding Amount: $30 MillionNorthwood Space, a developer of shared infrastructure for satellite backhaul, raised $30m in Series A funding co-led by a16z and Alpine Space Ventures. |
Push SecurityFunding Amount: $30 MillionPush Security, a Boston-based identity threat detection startup, raised $30m in Series B funding. Redpoint Ventures led, joined by Datadog Ventures. Hiring For: Remote(5), Sales/Business Development/Growth(2), Engineering/Technology(1), Finance/Accounting(1), Other(1) |
SuperpowerFunding Amount: $30 MillionSuperpower, a health early detection app, raised $30m in Series A funding. Forerunner led, joined by Day One Ventures, Susa Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Family Fund, Opal Ventures, Valia Ventures, Visible Ventures, Vanessa Hudgens, Steve Aoki, and Giannis Antetokounmpo. |
Listen LabsFunding Amount: $27 MillionListen Labs, a San Francisco, CA-based AI powered customer research startup, raised $27m in seed and Series A financing. The round were both led by Sequoia Capital. |
ReductoFunding Amount: $24.5 MillionReducto, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an ingestion platform generating unstructured data for AI pipelines, raised $24.5M in Series A funding. The round was led by Benchmark, alongside existing investors First Round Capital, BoxGroup and Y Combinator. |
Alternative PaymentsFunding Amount: $22 MillionAlternative Payments, an embedded B2B payments fintech for service-based businesses, raised $22m in seed and Series A funding co-led by MissionOG and Third Prime, per Axios Pro. Hiring For: Customer Success(3), Remote(1), Product(1), Operations(1), HR/People(1), Finance/Accounting(1), Other(5) |
Near Space LabsFunding Amount: $20 MillionNear Space Labs, a NYC-based stratospheric remote sensing company, raised $20M in Series B funding. The round was led by Bold Capital Partners, with participation from USAA, Climate Capital, Gaingels, and River Park Ventures, joined by existing investors Crosslink Capital, Third Sphere, Draper Associates, and others. Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(4), Remote(3), Data(1), Supply Chain/Logistics(1), Other(1) |
NetFoundryFunding Amount: $12 MillionNetFoundry, a Charlotte, N.C.-based zero-trust networking platform, raised $12m in seed funding from SYN Ventures. Hiring For: Remote(2), Product(1), Marketing(1), Other(1) |
AronditeFunding Amount: $12 MillionArondite, a London, UK-based AI company supporting defence organisations and security systems, raised $12M in funding. The round was led by Index Ventures. Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(10), Design(2), Product(2), Other(2) |
AscertainFunding Amount: $10 MillionAscertain, a NYC-based healthcare technology company empowering care teams with AI, raised $10m in Series A funding. The round was led by Deerfield Management with strategic participation from Northwell Health. Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(3), Data(1) |
ROHFunding Amount: $9.2 MillionROH, a payments management platform for hospitality, raised $9.2m from Highgate Tech Ventures and Acrew Capital. roh.co Hiring For: Operations(1), Marketing(1), Customer Success(1), Other(1) |
NeurolabsFunding Amount: $7.8 MillionNeurolabs, a London, UK-based image recognition as a service (IRaaS) company, raised $7.8M in Series A funding. The round, which brought the total amount to over $12M, was led by Nauta with participation from existing investors LAUNCHub, Lunar Ventures and Techstart. Hiring For: Customer Success(2), Engineering/Technology(1), Other(3) |
RespondologyFunding Amount: $5 MillionRespondology, a Boulder, CO-based social media comment moderation and intelligence company, raised additional $5M in Series A-1 funding. Backers included Iron Gate Capital, SJF Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, Boulder Heavy Industries (BHI), and RLB Holdings. Hiring For: Remote(3), Engineering/Technology(2), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1) |
IncoFunding Amount: $5 MillionInco, a NYC-based startup building the missing confidentiality layer for the blockchain stack, raised $5M in funding. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz Crypto Startup Accelerator, with participation from new and existing investors including Coinbase Ventures, 1kx Capital, OrangeDAO, South Park Commons, and Script Capital. Hiring For: Remote(5), Engineering/Technology(3), Sales/Business Development/Growth(2), Marketing(1) |
Noma TherapyFunding Amount: $4.25 MillionNoma Therapy, a Denver, CO-based mental health tech startup, raised $4.25m in funding. The company intends to use the funds to launch its platform across Colorado, and to scale to more states, beginning with Texas. Hiring For: Remote(2), Other(2) |
BlacksmithFunding Amount: $3.5 MillionBlacksmith, a San Francisco, CA-based high-performance CI cloud, today raised $3.5M in seed funding. The round was led by GV (Google Ventures) and Y Combinator, with participation from notable angel investors including Spencer Kimball, CEO of Cockroach Labs; Peter Mattis, CTO of Cockroach Labs; and Rich Aberman, Co-Founder of WePay by J.P. Morgan. Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(3), Design(1), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), Customer Success(1), Other(2) |
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