The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 1/19/26
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The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 1/19/26
"Palo Alto-based ClickHouse provides an open-source database system for real-time analytical reporting. Founded by Aaron Katz, Alexey Milovidov, and Yury Izrailevsky in 2021, ClickHouse has now raised a total of $1.1B in total equity funding and is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Dragoneer Investment Group, GIC, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price, and WCM Investment Management."
"San Francisco-based Deepgram provides a voice artificial intelligence platform for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice applications. Founded by Adam Sypniewski, Noah Shutty, and Scott Stephenson in 2015, Deepgram has now raised a total of $229.1M in total equity funding and is backed by Alkeon Capital, Alumni Ventures, AVP, BlackRock, Citi Ventures, Columbia University, IQT, Madrona, Princeville Capital, SAP, ServiceNow Ventures, Stanford University, Tiger Global Management, Twilio, University of Michigan, Wing Venture Capital, and Y Combinator."
The week ending 1/17/25 featured funding for Parambil, Etched.ai, Titl, and 26 other deals totaling $3.8B. ClickHouse raised $400.0M; the Palo Alto-based company provides an open-source database system for real-time analytical reporting and has raised $1.1B to date with backers including Bessemer, Dragoneer, GIC, Index, Khosla, Lightspeed, T. Rowe Price, and WCM. Converge Bio raised $25.0M to integrate generative AI with biological data and has $30.5M total funding with backers including Bessemer and TLV Partners. Deepgram raised $143.2M for its voice AI platform and has $229.1M total funding with a broad investor base. Defense Unicorns raised $136.0M to provide open-source software and AI capabilities for national security systems.
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