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BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front): This is your weekly list of the latest deals and disrupters, insights and trends to keep you up-to-date on the startup scene.
📉 Startup Exit Slowdown: The rate of cash flow returning to limited partners (silent/passive investors in venture capital funds) is slower than at any other point since the global financial crisis. The backlog of startups yet to exit has ballooned to 57,674, with late-stage companies accounting for 32.4% of those outfits. [TechCrunch]
🍪 Cookie Finance, which provides accounting, bookkeeping, and similar services to online content creators, recently raised $4.1M in capital. [Richmond Biz Sense]
🧠 Voyage AI, a Calif.-based developer of RAG tools to reduce AI hallucination, raised $20M in Series A funding. [finsmes]
🚀 Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt launched space-based solar power startup Aetherflux this week, investing “millions” of his own capital into the venture. [TechCrunch]
👩⚕️ Maven Clinic, a virtual clinic for women’s and family health, has raised a $125M Series F funding round led by StepStone Group, bringing its total funding to more than $425M. [PR Newswire]
🎓 French startup Revyze, a ‘TikTok for education’ startup, has closed a seed round of $6M led by Speedinvest and Moonfire. [TechCrunch]
🩺 Air Doctor has raised $20M in Series B funding round led by aMoon. Air Doctor is a telemedicine app that aims to improve access to medical care while users are overseas. The funding will be used to support Air Doctor’s expansion into Asian markets. [ITIJ]
✅ Generative AI fact-checking firm Infactory has raised $4M in seed funding led by Bee Partners. The new funding round will go toward expanding the team and ramping up go-to-market efforts. [TechCrunch]
🛠️ Windwalk has raised $4.5M in early seed funding to launch its social community growth tool, Harbor. [Games Industry]
🌌 Space technology startup XDLINX Space Labs has raised $7M in a seed funding round led by Ashish Kacholia of Lucky Investments. Founded in 2022, XDLINX Space Labs aims to make satellite technology accessible to a broader range of clients. [Business Standard]
🍽️ Clout Kitchen, an LA-based consumer AI startup, raised $4.45M in seed funding co-led by a16z SPEEDRUN and Peak XV’s Surge. [finsmes]
🔗 Vectorize, a Boulder-based startup in AI-powered data integration, has raised $3.6M in seed funding led by True Ventures. The company also unveiled its Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) platform, which handles the complex task of preparing and organizing data so AI systems can understand and use it effectively, automating much of the technical work that would typically slow down AI development. [Colorado Biz]
📊 Sydney martech startup Mutinex has raised $17.5M in a deal that’s nearly doubled the marketing spend analytics platform’s valuation in 12 months. [Startup Daily]
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Your weekly list of the latest deals and disrupters, insights and trends to keep you up-to-date on the startup scene.
Your weekly list of the latest deals and disrupters, insights and trends to keep you up-to-date on the startup scene.
Your weekly list of the latest deals and disrupters, insights and trends to keep you up-to-date on the startup scene.
Your weekly list of the latest deals and disrupters, insights and trends to keep you up-to-date on the startup scene.