Weekly Recap

We are excited to share additional venture capital funding news from last week. We hope you enjoyed our newsletter this week.

4. Tech Unicorn Fivetran Closes on $125 Million in Debt

6. With government backing, Ireland’s Elkstone closes first VC fund at $108M for early-stage startups

7. Catalyst by Wellstar™ Launches $100 Million Venture Fund to Shape Future of Healthcare

9. AnD Ventures closes first fund at $70 million

12. Charm gets $53 million to turn corn leftovers into oil and inject it into abandoned oil and gas wells

13. m]x[v Capital Launches with $52M Debut Fund

14. BuildOps Raises $50 Million to Revolutionize Commercial Contracting

16. ANYbotics raises $50 million to help deploy its robot dog

19. Venture Led by Pebb Capital Buys Fort Lauderdale Office Tower for $43M

22. NewLimit Raises $40M to Cure Aging

24. Former CFO of Seattle startup accused of diverting $35 million, losing it after investing in crypto

25. Peter Thiel Backs Bitcoin Startup River in $35M Round

26. Percent lands $30M investment to connect investors with private credit

27. Prime Roots Raises $30M in Series B Funding to Roll Out the First-of-its-Kind Plant-Based Deli Meats Nationwide

28. Night sweats to climate tech: Kelvin eyes heat pumps and nabs $30M

29. Alloy Enterprises Raises $26M in Series A Funding

30. Landlord-focused insurtech Obie lands $25.5M led by Battery Ventures

31. Mental Healthcare Provider Octave Secures $22M in Funding

32. Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs raises $20M for third fund, bets big on generative AI

33. Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models

34. Union AI raises $19.1M Series A to simplify AI and data workflows with Flyte

35. Workflow orchestration startup Union AI, which created Flyte, lands $19.1M

36. Kubernetes and sigstore founders raise $17.5M to launch software supply chain startup Stacklok

37. Stratolaunch submits $17M bid for some of Virgin Orbit’s assets

38. Food tech startup Foodberry raising $15M Series A

39. LayerZero and Immunefi launch largest crypto bug bounty program with up to $15M in rewards

40. Laguna Health lands $15 million Series A for AI-powered contextual care platform

41. Climate risk startup Mitiga gets $14.4M to help businesses face an uncertain future

42. E-Con Systems Raises $13 Mn In Maiden Institutional Round

43. Mitiga Solutions mitigating climate risks by raising €13 million

44. Firmbase raises $12 million for financial planning and analysis platform

45. SWAPP raises $11.5 million Series A to help architects with AI platform

46. Add another fraud fighter for the financial services sector list as ThreatFabric nets €11.5 million

47. Satori Capital Raises $10.3M for Satori Neuro Fund, Following Mental Health Venture Launch

48. Quilt raises $9M seed round to become the Nest of heat pumps

49. Tiger Global-backed Axis launches digital payments platform for Egyptian SMEs months after its $8.25M seed 

50. Kallyope Receives $8.2 Million Grant to Identify Novel Interventions for Children and Undernourished Pregnant Women and Mothers Experiencing Environmental Enteric Dysfunction

51. Rubber company to invest $8 million in West Rome; start-up plans to hire 100 over the next 5 years

52. Unity SCM raises $8 million Series A for its supply chain platform

53. Stella Opens Flagship PTSD Treatment Location in Chicago and Secures $7M in Funding

54. Nory knows restaurants, raises €7 million in seed round

55. Ownify Raises $7M in Seed Funding

56. Visual Layer raises $7 million in Seed for its visual data management platform

57. Unitea Raises $7M in Funding

58. Lumeus.ai Raises $6M in Seed Funding

59. CryptoHub raises $6 million led by Tectona at $30 million valuation

60. Oh for Faks sake, they’ve gone and raised €5 million to digitise pharmacies comms with suppliers

61. Edtech platform Oneday raises £5 million to bring its MBA to life

62. Lavita AI Raises $5M in Seed Funding

63. Putting predictive analytics to good use in the food industry, Tenzo ties into $5 million

64. Jia, a blockchain-based lender of small businesses in emerging markets, raises $4.3 million seed

65. PYOR Raises $4M in Seed Funding

66. Music NFT platform anotherblock welcomes Stride, and second Swedish House Mafia member Axwell to cap table in €4 million seed round

67. REI Cooperative Action Fund invests $4 million in nonprofits working to create a more equitable outdoors

68. ZK Startup Lagrange Labs Raises $4M to Build Secure DeFi Interoperability

69. London’s Deployed sees $4 million deployed in its direction

70. Music NFT platform anotherblock welcomes Stride, and second Swedish House Mafia member Axwell to cap table in €4 million seed round

71. Employee insights startup Groopit raises $3.5M, plans to develop generative AI tools

72. Youth mental health startup Somethings launches with a $3.2M raise led by General Catalyst

4. Flexport is buying Deliverr from Shopify. Here's the pitch deck the startup used to raise its $40 million Series C and become an acquisition target for some of the biggest names in e-commerce.
5. Venture Capitalist Asks $37.5 Million for Home in One of Miami Beach’s Most Exclusive Enclaves

6. Petal raises $35M, spins off data unit ‘to bring credit scores into the 21st century’

7. AI2 Incubator’s new $30M fund triples down on early-stage AI startups

9. Wellthy lands $25M to help caregivers feel less overwhelmed

12. AccelerComm’s signal gets supercharged with £21.5 million funding round

13. New Indianapolis venture capital firm launches first $20M fund

14. Cloverly Raises $19M in Series A Funding

16. Crypto media firm Blockworks raises $12M at $135M valuation

19. Cable Raises $11M in Series A Funding

20. Italy’s RBF player Viceversa adds €10 million to the coffers, hints at white label service

22. Viceversa Closes €10M Funding Round

24. SPECIAL:Greece sets dealmaking record, and other VC trends in Southern Europe

25. Airspeed Raises $7.5M in Funding

26. Bloomfilter Raises $7M in Seed Funding

27. PermitFlow advances construction permitting automation with $5.5M in new capital

28. AudiencePlus Raises $5.4M in Seed Funding

29. Fibery’s $5.2M Series A deck

30. Voltfang raises €5 million to give new life to EV batteries with its energy storage solution

31. AI, Machine Learning: Openlayer Finalizes $4.8M Seed Round

32. Blu Venture Investors Co-Leads $4.5 Million Seed Round for Aiden Technologies

33. Insurtech Marble raises $4.2mn in seed plus round

34. Denmarks Sparrow Quantum raises €4.1 million for its integrated chip for on-demand single-photon streams

35. Vibe Raises $4M in Seed Funding

36. Award-Winning Web3 Climate Start-up Ecoterra Raises Over $3.5 Million Investors Hurry to Buy in Before 10% Price Rise

37. Fintech firm Fundly.ai bags $3 million in seed funding

38. Optery Raises $2.7M in Seed Funding

39. SPECIAL: Crowdfunding Restaurants Via Blackbird

40. Sweden's Freshsound raises fresh funding to the tune of €2 million

41. Value.Space raises £1.8m for satellite-based insurtech process

42. SPECIAL: Tri Ri Asset Management Announces Launch of Flagship VC Fund

43. Read the 21-page pitch deck a music startup used to raise $1.6 million to make distribution affordable for independent artists

44. German fermented feed start-up finds new investment partner, raises another €1.5m 

45. Shopping space start-up draws £1.5m to solve Sticky problem

46. Belfast spending management platform Polyloop scores £1.2m