The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 2/2/26
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The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 2/2/26
"The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of the notable funding activity in the various markets that we track. The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 1/31/25 featuring funding details for Grid Aero, Compa, Tradespace, and fourteen other deals representing $1B in new funding that you need to know about."
"Compa - $35.0M Newport Beach-based Compa provides a software platform that supplies compensation data and analytical tools for corporate pay decision processes. Founded by Charlie Franklin, Joe Malandruccolo, and Taylor Cone in 2020, Compa has now raised a total of $48.9M in total equity funding and is backed by Crosslink Capital, HR Tech Investments LLC, Jump Capital, PagsGroup, Permanent Capital, and Storm Ventures."
"Checkbox - $23.0M New York-based Checkbox provides an AI-powered no-code workflow automation platform that helps legal teams capture, manage, and automate work requests. Founded by Evan Wong, James Han, and Paul Wenck in 2016, Checkbox has now raised a total of $29.2M in total equity funding and is backed by Conductive Ventures, Five V Capital, Jerry Ting, Peak XV Partners, Tidal Ventures, and Touring Capital."
Multiple US startup ecosystems produced roughly $1 billion in new funding for the week ending 1/31/25 across fourteen notable deals. Compa raised $35.0M for its compensation-data and analytics platform, bringing total equity to $48.9M. Checkbox raised $23.0M for its AI-powered no-code legal workflow automation, bringing total equity to $29.2M. Chamelio raised $10.0M to provide modern negotiation and legal workflow tools, bringing total equity to $13.5M. Concourse raised $12.0M to automate corporate finance analysis, reporting, and data workflows, bringing total equity to $17.2M. Several rounds included participation from venture firms and strategic backers.
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