Today, I take a look at the state of venture capital and seed funding during the month of May nationally, where $7.7B was invested into US startups.Analyzing some publicly available data from our friends at CrunchBase, we break down the aggregate statistics for all funding deals by stage of funding (Early Stage [Angel, Pre-Seed, Seed], Series A, Series B, and Late Stage [Series C+]).
Neurelo is building a simpler way for developers to connect a database to an application | TechCrunch
Neurelo has developed a programming interface that simplifies the interaction between databases and applications by creating customized APIs based on the individual data model.
The company has raised $5 million in seed funding to further develop their solution.
RealReports, formerly known as BHR, has secured $2 million in seed funding led by TTV Capital, Moderne Ventures, Erez Capital, and other venture capital firms.
The funding will be used to boost product development, expand the team, and penetrate the market with real estate brokerages and MLS associations.
Via Scientific Secures $5 Million in Seed Funding Led by G20 Ventures and Innospark Ventures
Via Scientific, developer of Via Foundry, raised $5 million in seed funding to accelerate the pace of life sciences discovery.
The Via Foundry platform provides a comprehensive multi-omics solution for analyzing data across various disciplines and leveraging AI to identify patterns and biomarkers.
Marketing Workflow Tech Startup Arcane Secures $5 Million In Seed Funding | AdExchanger
Arcane, a marketing workflow automation startup, has raised $5 million in seed funding to tackle the problem of manual, lower-level tasks in marketing.
Arcane's core product is an AI copilot that provides a 'ChatGPT experience plugged into your model marketing data,' and it is planning a public launch of a self-serve offering in Q1 2022.
Data Intel Firm Tracer Taps Series A Funding And Hires President | AdExchanger
By Data, data everywhere, and not a drop of insight to drink.Data intelligence platform Tracer, which helps agencies and marketers link data sets, selected Obele Brown-West, formerly of the agency Tinuiti, to be its first president on Wednesday on the brink of closing its Series A round of funding.
Marketing Workflow Tech Startup Arcane Secures $5 Million In Seed Funding | AdExchanger
Arcane, a marketing workflow automation startup, has raised $5 million in seed funding to tackle the problem of manual, lower-level tasks in marketing.
Arcane's core product is an AI copilot that provides a 'ChatGPT experience plugged into your model marketing data,' and it is planning a public launch of a self-serve offering in Q1 2022.
Marketing Workflow Tech Startup Arcane Secures $5 Million In Seed Funding | AdExchanger
Arcane, a marketing workflow automation startup, has raised $5 million in seed funding to tackle the problem of manual, lower-level tasks in marketing.
Arcane's core product is an AI copilot that provides a 'ChatGPT experience plugged into your model marketing data,' and it is planning a public launch of a self-serve offering in Q1 2022.
The company aims to address cybersecurity challenges posed by Large Language Models (LLMs) through comprehensive protection and innovative security solutions.
Lasso plans to use the funding to expand its team and improve its offerings.
Standard Fleet raises funding to expand fleet management platform for electric vehicles
Standard Fleet, a provider of fleet management solutions for electric vehicles (EVs), today announced that it has successfully raised $7 million in a seed funding round.The investment was led by UP2398 (founded by eBay's Pierre Omidyar) and Canvas Ventures.It will enable Standard Fleet to expand its team and develop innovative tools, the company says.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 6/13/2023
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 6/13/2023 featuring funding details for Lalo, Normal Computing, and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.Lalo - $10.1M Lalo, a baby and toddler brand, has raised $10.1M in Series A funding led by Spin Master Ventures.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 6/12/2023
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 6/12/2023 featuring funding details for Rex and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.Rex - $3.96M Rex, a photo-based recommendation app, has raised $3.96M in Seed funding from investors that include Accel, Khosla Ventures, and Future Positive.
With so much going on in the city's thriving ecosystem, it is easy to miss some of the happenings in the space.We keep you abreast of the things that you may have missed in NYC Tech News for the week ending 6/10 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC startup events featuring news for Sourcemap, Aktivate, Luxos, and much, much more.
Invasive species bioplastic among winners of Afri-Plastics Challenge
The Canadian government and social enterprise Challenge Works have announced the winners of their Afri-Plastics Challenge - an accelerator for companies across sub-Saharan Africa that are working to end plastic pollution.The competition's £4.1 million prize fund was divided among nine winning projects, including a reusable diaper subscription from Rwanda and a Kenyan company making washing-up brushes from discarded coconut fibres.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 6/6/2023
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 6/6/2023 featuring funding details for OurX, 2045, and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.OurX $2.5M OurX, a personalized scalp and hair wellness startup for textured hair care, has raised $2.5M in Seed funding led by Reign Ventures.
With so much going on in the city's thriving ecosystem, it is easy to miss some of the happenings in the space.We keep you abreast of the things that you may have missed in NYC Tech News for the week ending 5/20 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC startup events featuring news for HouseAccount, Percent, Kustomer, and much, much more.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 5/17/2023
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 5/17/2023 featuring funding details for Neura Health, Adonis, and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.Neura Health - $8M Neura Health, a virtual care platform for people experiencing with neurologic conditions like migraines and headaches, has raised $8M in Seed funding from investors that include led by Norwest Venture Partners and Koch Disruptive Technologies.
Chatbot Start-Up Character.AI Valued at $1 Billion in New Funding Round
Character.AI, a 16-month-old start-up that builds online chatbots, said it had raised $150 million in a recent funding round that valued the company at $1 billion.Character.AI is among a tiny group of small companies along with the tech industry's giants that are building technology that could one day rival the systems under development at OpenAI, the San Francisco start-up that incited the A.I. boom with the release of an online chatbot called ChatGPT.
Homebot home education portal acquires mobile app firm Quo Finance
Homebot, a home education portal that keeps people connected to their loan officers and real estate agents, acquired Quo Finance, a mobile app for first-time homebuyers."Quo will massively accelerate Homebot's mission to connect people to make informed homeownership decisions," Charlie Pratt, CEO of Homebot, said in a statement.
Analytics Startup Rayn Is Trying To Make "Digital Twins" A Thing | AdExchanger
Six years ago, Tim Geenen co-founded Faktor, a consent management platform that was an early leader when privacy-based identity solutions for publishers blossomed after GDPR.A few years later, Faktor was sold to LiveRamp, where Geenen spent almost three years leading privacy and addressability products in Europe.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 6/5/2023
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 6/5/2023 featuring funding details for Advocate, Amogy, and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.Advocate - $4M+ Advocate, an AI-powered platform that helps workers and veterans apply for government benefits including social securtity and veterans disability, has raised $4M+ in Seed funding led by Lerer Hippeau .
With so much going on in the city's thriving ecosystem, it is easy to miss some of the happenings in the space.We keep you abreast of the things that you may have missed in NYC Tech News for the week ending 6/5 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC startup events featuring news for Radformation, Highlight, and much, much more.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 5/30/2023
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 5/30/2023 featuring funding details for Stepful, Radformation, and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.Stepful - $7.5M Stepful, an online learning platform for the healthcare industry that provides training to those without college degrees for entry-level roles, has raised $7.5M in Seed funding led by Reach Capital.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 5/25/2023
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 5/25/2023 featuring funding details for BBy, Vox Funding, and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.BBy - $3M BBy, a startup that is condensing breast milk from nursing mothers to be used in hospital settings to increase access without relying on freezers, has raised $3M in Seed funding from investors that include Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Cathexis Ventures, and 7G Bioventures.
Over $8.4B raised by US startups in December.Find out where it went... Today, I take a look at the state of venture capital and seed funding during the month of April nationally, where close to $8.4B was invested into US startups.Analyzing some publicly available data from our friends at CrunchBase, we break down the aggregate statistics for all funding deals by stage of funding (Early Stage [Angel, Pre-Seed, Seed], Series A, Series B, and Late Stage [Series C+]) including mention of notable rounds.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 5/16/2023
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 5/16/2023 featuring funding details for Somethings, Avenue One, and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.Somethings - $3.2M Somethings, a mental health platform for teenagers that connects them with vetted mentors, has raised $3.2M in Seed funding led by General Catalyst.
With so much going on in the city's thriving ecosystem, it is easy to miss some of the happenings in the space.We keep you abreast of the things that you may have missed in NYC Tech News for the week ending 3/25 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC startup events featuring news forReveal HealthTech, VERO Leasing, and much, much more.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 3/23/2023
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 3/23/2023 featuring funding details for MOGL, Amogy, and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.MOGL - $2.6M MOGL, a marketplace for student athletes to capitalize on Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) opportunities, has raised $2.6M in Seed funding led by Magarac Venture Partners.
SapientAI Emerges From Stealth to Apply AI to App Testing
By: Mike Vizard on SapientAI emerged from stealth today to automate the writing of test code using a combination of generative artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning algorithms and data science.Fresh from raising $5 million in seed funding, SapientAI CEO Rishi Singh said the goal is to leverage AI to push application testing further left using an AI Test Coder the company built.
Design Patterns Are A Better Way To Collaborate On Your Design System - Smashing Magazine
Every company and team has to have deep collaboration between engineering and design to get the value out of a design system (and not go nuts).Building design patterns first is a better way to work.It unblocks people to work in parallel, keeps people synced up, and results in reusable modules that speed up your next project.
With so much going on in the city's thriving ecosystem, it is easy to miss some of the happenings in the space.We keep you abreast of the things that you may have missed in NYC Tech News for the week ending 5/13 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC startup events featuring news for Integrated Projects, Antimetal, and much, much more.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 5/11/2023
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 5/11/2023 featuring funding details for Werewool, AltHub, and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.Werewool - $3.7M Werewool, a maker of sustainable performance fibers, has raised $3.7M in Seed funding led by Sofinnova Partners and Material Impact Fund.
Webb Raises $7 Million for Blockchain Asset Transfer Privacy System
Blockchain company Webb Technologies this week announced that it has raised $7 million in seed funding for its privacy solutions and protocol.The investment round was co-led by Polychain and Lemniscap, with participation from CMS Holdings, Zeeprime, and others.With offices in Miami, New York, Tel Aviv, and Cairo, the company provides privacy-focused solutions for cross-chain applications, aiming to build an interoperable zero-knowledge privacy network for the blockchain ecosystem.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 5/9/2023
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 5/9/2023 featuring funding details for Assemble, BurnerPage, and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.Assemble - $1.2M Assemble, an SMS-based support community for nurses, has raised $1.2M in Pre-Seed funding led by Surface Ventures.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 5/8/2023
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 5/8/2023 featuring funding details for Cloudburst Technologies, Antimental, and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.Cloudburst Technologies - $3M Cloudburst Technologies, a real-time monitoring platform to detect fraud in the cryptocurrency markets, has raised $3M in Seed funding led by Strategic Cyber Ventures.
With so much going on in the city's thriving ecosystem, it is easy to miss some of the happenings in the space.We keep you abreast of the things that you may have missed in NYC Tech News for the week ending 5/6 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC startup events featuring news for BigBrain, Kinnos, and much, much more.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 5/1/2023
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 5/1/2023 featuring funding details for Entendre Finance, Marble, and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.Entendre Finance - $4M Entendre Finance, an accounting and bookkeeping platform for Web3, has raised $4M in Seed funding led by Basis Set Ventures.
With so much going on in the city's thriving ecosystem, it is easy to miss some of the happenings in the space.We keep you abreast of the things that you may have missed in NYC Tech News for the week ending 4/29 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC startup events featuring news for Constrafor, Chiefy, Axoni, and much, much more.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 4/27/2023
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 4/27/2023 featuring funding details for Pinecone, POSH, and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.Pinecone - $100M Pinecone, a vector database that gives AI long-term memory, has raised $100M in Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.
With so much going on in the city's thriving ecosystem, it is easy to miss some of the happenings in the space.We keep you abreast of the things that you may have missed in NYC Tech News for the week ending 4/22 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC startup events featuring news for MilkMate, Whizz, Oshi Health, and much, much more.
With so much going on in the city's thriving ecosystem, it is easy to miss some of the happenings in the space.We keep you abreast of the things that you may have missed in NYC Tech News for the week ending 4/1 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC startup events featuring news for Salt Labs, Macro, Markerr, and much, much more.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 3/30/2023
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 3/30/2023 featuring funding details for Florence, DataDome, and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.Florence - $20M Florence, a healthcare platform to optimize clinical capacity starting with emergency departments, has raised $20M in Seed funding led by Thrive Capital, GV, Salesforce Ventures.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 3/29/2023
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 3/29/2023 featuring funding details for Salt Labs, Coursedog, and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.Salt Labs - $10M Salt Labs, a loyalty and payments technology platform focused on hourly frontline workers, has raised $10M in Pre-Seed funding led by Fin Capital.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 3/28/2023
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 3/28/2023 featuring funding details for Smalls, Spiral, and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.Smalls - $19M Smalls, a human-grade cat food brand, has raised $19M in venture funding led by Companion Fund.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 3/22/2023
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 3/22/2023 featuring funding details for Reveal HealthTech, Stratyfy, and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.Reveal HealthTech - $4M Reveal HealthTech, a healthtech platform focused on improving patient health by reducing technology as a constraint to healthcare, has raised $4M in Seed funding led b y W Health Ventures.
With so much going on in the city's thriving ecosystem, it is easy to miss some of the happenings in the space.We keep you abreast of the things that you may have missed in NYC Tech News for the week ending 3/18 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC startup events featuring news for Pietra, ReflexAI, Iron Health, and much, much more.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 3/13/2023
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 3/13/2023 featuring funding details for Iron Health, LineSlip Solutions, and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.Iron Health - $4.5M Iron Health, a virtual women's health platform, has raised $4.5M in Seed funding led by March of Dimes Innovation Fund.
With so much going on in the city's thriving ecosystem, it is easy to miss some of the happenings in the space.We keep you abreast of the things that you may have missed in NYC Tech News for the week ending 3/11 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC startup events featuring news for Opkit, Standby Deposits, Proven, and much, much more.