Founder & VC Leadership

Leadership within Startup Ecosystem and Venture Capital Space

Timon Ruban, Founder, Luminova, Seed | $11M

Alfred Lin, Partner, Seqouia Capital, 30+ Investments

Patricia Thaine, Co-Founder & CEO, Private AI, Series A | $8M

Hemant Taneja, Partner, General Catalyst, 50+ Investments

Liran Zvibel, Co-founder & CEO, Weka, Series D | $135M

Aaref Hilaly, Partner, Bain Capital, 5 Investments

Jitendra Mohan, Co-founder & CEO, Astera Labs, Series D | $150M

Amit Patel, Investor, Owl Ventures, 22+ Investments

Startup	Category	Country	Date	Round	$ Raised	Investors
Profound Impact	Enterprise Software	Canada	08/30/2023	Pre-Seed	$2.2M	Deborah Rosati
Sortera Alloys	AI/ML	United States	08/30/2023	Series C	$30.5M	Assembly Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Chrysalix Venture Capital, Macquarie Group, Mineral Resources, RA Capital Management, T. Rowe Price
Flojoy	Enterprise Software	Canada	08/29/2023	Seed	$1.3M	Boreal Ventures, Business Development Bank of Canada, Flybridge
GITAI	Robotics	Japan	08/29/2023	Series B	$8M	Green Co-Invest Investment, MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC), Pacific Bays Capital
SatSure	BI/Analytics	India	08/29/2023	Series A	$15M	Baring Private Equity Partners India, Force Ventures, IndigoEdge, Luckbox Ventures, Omidyar Network India, Promus Ventures, xto10x Technologies
GPU.Net	AI/ML	United States	08/29/2023	Seed	$500K	AlphablockZ, Momentum 6, NVIDIA, Taanga Studios
ConverSight.ai	BI/Analytics	United States	08/28/2023	Series A	$9M	Augment Ventures, Elevate Ventures, Surface Ventures, Techstars
FeedYou	Enterprise Software	Czech Republic	08/25/2023	Seed	$448K	Cedric Maloux, Michael Rostock-Poplar, Michal Illich, Pavel Kucera
FruitCast	AgTech	United Kingdom	08/25/2023	Seed	$1.38M	Ceres Agri-Tech, Innovate UK
Aily Labs	Enterprise Software	Spain	08/24/2023	Series A	$20.63M	Insight Partners
APERIO	Data	United States	08/24/2023	Series A	$9M	Bazan Group ltd, Chevron Technology Ventures, Delek US, Momenta, National Grid Partners (NGP), NextEra Energy
Irys	InsureTech	United States	08/24/2023	Seed	$3.5M	BrokerTech Ventures, Cofounders Capital, Markd, MTech Capital, RevTech Labs
Modular	Enterprise Software	United States	08/24/2023	Series A	$100M	Factory, General Catalyst, Google Ventures, Greylock, SVA
Wand App	AI/ML	United States	08/23/2023	Seed	$4.2M	Amy Wu, BDMI, Betaworks, Charge Ventures, Eden Chen, Jared Hecht, Long Journey Ventures, Notation Capital, O'Shaughnessy Ventures, Steve Martocci, Twelve Below
Syntonym	Advertising	Turkey	08/23/2023	Seed	$900K	APY Ventures, Invest 101, Simya VC, TT Ventures
Lex	AI/ML	United States	08/23/2023	Seed	$2.75M	True Ventures
Hugging Face	AI/ML	United States	08/23/2023	Series D	$235M	Amazon, AMD, Google, IBM, Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Salesforce Ventures, Sound Ventures
Portkey	Enterprise Software	United States	08/23/2023	Seed	$3M	Lightspeed Venture Partners, sanjee sisodiya
Kombai	Developer Tools	India	08/23/2023	Seed	$4.5M	Foundation Capital, Stellaris Venture Partners
Ideogram	Enterprise Software	Canada	08/22/2023	Seed	$16.46M	AIX Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Golden Ventures, Index Ventures, Raquel Urtasun, Sarah Guo, Tom Preston-Werner, Two Small Fish Ventures
Sizzle AI	EdTech	United States	08/22/2023	Seed	$7.5M	8VC, Owl Ventures
Octo	Enterprise Software	Israel	08/22/2023	Pre-Seed	$500K	Y Combinator
ACCURE Battery Intelligence	BI/Analytics	Germany	08/22/2023	Series A	$7.86M	Blue Bear Capital, Capnamic Ventures, HSBC Asset Management, Riverstone Holdings
YouMakr	Enterprise Software	United States	08/21/2023	Pre-Seed	$500K	Praveen Varshney, Techstars, Warwick Investment Group
hypergro	Enterprise Software	India	08/21/2023	Seed	$842.3K	Ankit Kedia, Arjun Vaidya, Dholakia Ventures, Forum for Innovation Incubation Research and Entrepreneurship, HME Ventures, Huddle, Rajesh Sawhney, Silverneedle Ventures, TDV Partners
Arkifi	FinTech	United States	08/21/2023	Seed	$9M	Aaron Applbaum, Correlation Ventures, G&H Partners, Khosla Ventures, Modern Venture Partners, Nyca Partners, Soma Capital, Valiant Capital Partners
BrainLogic AI	AI/ML	United States	08/21/2023	Seed	$5M	Anthos Capital, Capital X, Factory, Kalei Ventures, Perceptive Ventures, SNR.vc
FitFlo	AI/ML	Australia	08/21/2023	Pre-Seed	$144.08K	Antler
Nuwa Robotics	EdTech	Taiwan	08/21/2023	Series B	$6.26M	Foxconn Technology Group
Genesis Therapeutics	Biotech	United States	08/21/2023	Series B	$200M	Andreessen Horowitz, BlackRock, Fidelity Management and Research Company, Menlo Ventures, nVentures, Radical Ventures, Rock Springs Capital, T. Rowe Price
Swish	AI/ML	United Kingdom	08/20/2023	Pre-Seed	$31.84K	Angel Investor
leonardo. impact	FinTech	Germany	08/18/2023	Pre-Seed	$603.05K	BM H Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen
Electric Sheep	Enterprise Software	United Kingdom	08/17/2023	Pre-Seed	$509.96K	Dasein Capital, Look AI Ventures, Spatial Capital
Contiinex	AI/ML	India	08/17/2023	Seed	$2M	Refex Capital Fund, YourNest Venture Capital
dcbel	ClimateTech/CleanTech	Canada	08/17/2023	Series B	$50M	Coatue, Idealist Capital, Investissement Quebec, Kevin Mahaffey, Real Ventures, Volvo Cars Tech Fund
VitruvianMD	Healthcare	South Africa	08/17/2023	Seed	$1.25M	27four Investment Managers
Helm.ai	AI/ML	United States	08/16/2023	Series C	$55M	ACVC Partners, Amplo, Freeman Group, Goodyear Ventures, Honda Motor, Sungwoo Hitech
Testworks	AI/ML		08/16/2023	Series B	$3.73M	Art Impact, MYSC, POSCO CAPITAL, Shinhan Asset Management, The Wells Investment
Venteur	Healthcare	United States	08/16/2023	Seed	$7.6M	CRCM, GSR Ventures, Headwater Ventures, Houghton Street Ventures, Plug and Play, Revelry Venture Partners, Techstars
Caden	Data	United States	08/16/2023	Series A	$15M	1707 Capital, AAF Management Ltd., AME Cloud Ventures, B3 Capital, Industry Ventures, Lightning Capital, Montage Ventures, Nava Ventures, Streamlined Ventures
Twine	Enterprise Software	United States	08/15/2023	Pre-Seed	$500K	Y Combinator
Deckmatch	BI/Analytics	Norway	08/15/2023	Pre-Seed	$1.09M	Alliance, Nicolaj Nielsen, Skyfall Ventures
Aether Bio	AI/ML	United States	08/15/2023	Series A	$49M	Natural Capital, Unless
Grit	AI/ML	United States	08/15/2023	Seed	$7M	8VC, A* Capital, Abstract Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, CoFound Partners, Founders Fund, Gravity Capital, Guillermo Rauch, Operator Partners, Quiet Capital, Sahil Bloom, Scott Belsky, SVA, Uncorrelated Ventures
11x.ai	Future of Work	United States	08/11/2023	Pre-Seed	$2M	Felipe Navio, Mandeep Singh, No Label Ventures, Project A Ventures, Tiny Ventures
Deepstack	AI/ML	Germany	08/11/2023	Funded	$30M	Balderton Capital, GV, Alphabet Inc, Harpoon Ventures
Shaktimaan	EdTech	India	08/11/2023	Seed	$2M	Y Combinator, Fundersclub, GoodWater Capital
Basys	Healthcare	United States	08/11/2023	Pre-Seed	$2.4M	Nina Capital, Lilly Ventures, Mayo Clinic, Two Lanterns Venture Partners, Asset Management Ventures, Chaac Ventures
Persefoni	ClimateTech/CleanTech	United States	08/11/2023	Series C	$50M	TPG Rise, Clearvision Ventures, ENEOS Innovation Partners, NGP Energy Technology Partners, Prelude Ventures, Parkway Ventures, Rice Investment Group, Bain and Co., EDF, Alumni Ventures
SportsVisio	Robotics	United States	08/10/2023	Seed	$3M	Sapphire Sport
Cube3	Cybersecurity	United States	08/10/2023	Funded	$8.2M	Blockchange Ventures, Dispersion Capital, Symbolic Capital, Hypersphere Ventures, ICLUB, TA Ventures
Middleware	Cloud	United States	08/10/2023	Seed	$6.5M	8VC, Fin Capital, Guillermo Rauch, Tokyo Black, Decent Capital, Begin Capital, Beat Venture, Gokul Rajaram
Saeki	Robotics	Switzerland	08/10/2023	Seed	$2.3M	Wingman Ventures, Vento Ventures, Getty Capital
Serve Robotics	Robotics	United States	08/10/2023	Funded	$30M	Uber Technologies, NVIDIA, Wavemaker Partners, Mark Tompkins, Republic Deal Room
sewts	Robotics	Germany	08/10/2023	Series A	$7.6M	Emerald Technology Ventures, CNB Capital, EquityPitcher Ventures, Nabtesco Technology Venture, Bayern Kapital, APEX Ventures, HTGF
Virtualitics	Data	United States	08/10/2023	Series C	$37M	Smith Point Capital, Citi
Wint	IoT	United States	08/10/2023	Series C	$35M	Inven Capital, Insight Partners, Taronga Ventures
Pistachio	Cybersecurity	Norway	08/10/2023	Funded	$3.5M	Signals Venture Capital
All Is Well	Enterprise Software	United States	08/09/2023	Seed	$249.82K	Aarti Gill, abhishek banerjee, Bharat Founders Fund, Pradeep Parameswaran, Shantanu Deshpande, Sumit Jain, Vijay Aggarwal
AgileRL	AI/ML	United Kingdom	08/09/2023	Pre-Seed	$1.91M	Counterview Capital, Octopus Ventures, Rockman Law
Deepset	AI/ML	Germany	08/09/2023	Series B	$29.64M	Balderton Capital, Google Ventures, Harpoon, Lunar Ventures, System.One
Qualiti	AI/ML	United States	08/09/2023	Seed	$6.5M	EPIC Ventures, Sierra Ventures
Golgix	BI/Analytics	United States	08/09/2023	Seed	$800K	Gateway Capital Partners, Idea Fund of La Crosse
Symmetry Systems	Data	United States	08/09/2023	Funded	$17.7M	ForgePoint Capital, Prefix Capital, W11 Capital Management, TSG
Weights & Biases	Developer Tools	United States	08/09/2023	Funded	$50M	Daniel Gross, Nat Friedman, Sapphire Ventures, Coatue, Insight Partners, Felicis, BOND, BloombergBeta
Credgenics	FinTech	India	08/09/2023	Series B	$30M	Westbridge Capital, Accel, Tanglin Ventures, Beams Fintech Fund
Neuralink	Medical Devices	United States	08/09/2023	Series D	$280M	The Founders Fund
Deepset	AI/ML	Germany	08/09/2023	Funded	$30M	Balderton Capital, GV (Google Ventures), Harpoon, System.One, Lunar
MindsDB	Enterprise Software	United States	08/08/2023	Seed	$5M	Benchmark, Mayfield Fund, NVentures, OpenOcean, Walden Catalyst, Y Combinator
LighthouseAI	Logistics	United States	08/08/2023	Seed	$2.25M	Bertelsmann, Healthy Ventures
DRUID	AI/ML	Romania	08/08/2023	Series B	$24M	Endeavor, Gapminder VC, Hoxton Ventures, Karma Ventures, Smedvig Capital, TQ Ventures, Verve Ventures
Sereact	Robotics	Germany	08/08/2023	Seed	$5M	Air Street Capital, Alexander Diehl, Daniel Gurdan, Jan Stumpf, Martin Giese, Michael Achtelik, Mostafa ElSayed, Oliver Cameron, Point Nine, Wolfgang Frank
Cytomos	Biotech	United Kingdom	08/08/2023	Series A	$5.11M	Archangels, British Business Bank, Old College Capital, Scottish Enterprise
Talents Arena	AI/ML	Egypt	08/08/2023	Pre-Seed	$750K	UI Investments
Chargeflow	FinTech	Israel	08/08/2023	Seed	$11M	OpenView
Datamotive.io	AI/ML	India	08/08/2023	Seed	$3.8M	3one4 Capital, Morphosis Venture Capital, Patni Group, YourNest Venture Capital
Simon Data	Data	United States	08/08/2023	Funded	$54M	Macquarie Capital, Polaris, .406, F-Prime
Kavida.ai	Logistics	United Kingdom	08/08/2023	Funded	$1.1M	Qima, Red Bus Ventures, Chris Adelsbach, Jack Cresswell, Christopher Carter, Ian Kemsley, Jonathan Davie, Simon Davies, Russell Puttick, Lord John Nash
Dropzone	Cybersecurity	United States	08/08/2023	Seed	$3.5M	Decibel Partners, Pioneer Square Ventures Fund, Oliver Friedrichs, Jon Oberheide, Jesse Rothstein
Horizon3.ai	Cybersecurity	United States	08/08/2023	Series C	$40M	Craft Ventures, Signal Fire
Outfindo	E-commerce	United Kingdom	08/08/2023	Seed	$1.1M	Presto Ventures, Patero, Longevity Fellows, JARO Capital, Jaroslav Beck, Robert Kyncl
Laifei Smart	Robotics	China	08/07/2023	Seed	$10M	MAX Innovation Capital
Tractian	AI/ML	United States	08/07/2023	Series B	$45M	Andy McCall, Brian Requarth, Filip Kaliszan, General Catalyst, Jim Baum, Monashees, Next47, Rafael Stark, Ron Gill, RÃ³nÃ¡n de Hooge
Soft Robot Tech	Robotics	China	08/07/2023	Series C	$20.86M	Burning Sun Fund, GoldStone Investment, Shenqi Capital
Rimixlight	AgTech	China	08/07/2023		$139.07K	Darden Technology Partnership, Qinglin Asset Management
Parcha AI	Enterprise Software	United States	08/07/2023	Pre-Seed	$1.75M	Aldo Briano, Ameet Patel, Amit Agarwal, Cailen D'Sa, Cosmin Nicolescu, Garry Tan, Guy Podjarny, Henrique Dubugras, Jude Gomila, Kindred Ventures, Marco Mahrus, Michael Tannenbaum, Momo Ong, Zachary Abrams
Satim	Enterprise Software	United States	08/07/2023	Funded	$2M	Cultivation Capital, Verissimo Ventures, The Flying Object, Everywhere Ventures, Hustle Fund, StartupIst Ventures
One Model	Enterprise Software	United States	08/07/2023	Funded	$41M	Riverwood Capital, Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC), Geekdom, AV8 Ventures
Multiplayer	Developer Tools	United States	08/07/2023	Funded	$3M	Bowery Capital, Okapi Venture Capital, Mitch Wainer, Edith Harbaugh
Skyline Robotics	Robotics	United States	08/07/2023	Funded	$3.35M	SAFE Note
Wisecut	AR/VR	United States	08/07/2023	Seed	$1M	Tim Draper
Gomboc.ai	Cloud	United States	08/07/2023	Seed	$5M	Glilot Capital, Hetz Ventures
Ivix	Enterprise Software	Israel	08/07/2023	Series A	$12.5M	Insight Partners, Team8, Citi Ventures, Cardumen Capital
Orange	AI/ML	Japan	08/04/2023	Seed	$1.8M	Chiba Dojo, Globis Capital Partners
Rai	Blockchain	United States	08/04/2023	Pre-Seed	$3M	EST GLOBAL INC., SHIGERU USA
Zibra AI	AI/ML	Ukraine	08/04/2023	Seed	$500K	Andreessen Horowitz, MetaVision International
GoStudent	EdTech	Austria	08/04/2023	Funded	$95M	Deutsche Bank, Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Tencent, Prosus, DST, Coatue, Softbank Vision Fund 2
TytoCare	Digital Health	Israel	08/04/2023	Funded	$49M	Insight Partners
Persist AI	Drug Discovery	United States	08/04/2023	Seed	$4M	2048 Ventures, Innospark Ventures, Fellows Fund, YCombinator, Pioneer Fund
Disprz	EdTech	United States	08/04/2023	Series C	$30M	Lumos Capital, 360 ONE Asset (IIFL Wealth), Kae Capital, KOIS, Dallas Venture Capital