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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.
💰 AI deals continue to dominate VC funding, raising a collective $18.9B in Q3 (28% of all funding). All told, 39 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024. [TechCrunch]
🤖 AI company Decagon has raised $65M in a Series B funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures, bringing its total capital raised to $100M. The company’s AI-powered customer-support agents are designed to enhance enterprise customer support by automating and resolving inquiries at scale. [MarketWatch]
🏆 Colby Proffitt, VP of Marketing at Shift5, has been named Startup CMO of the Year as part of Pavilion & TrustRadius’s GTM Awards, an industry-wide program celebrating top go-to-market leaders who have demonstrated excellence, innovation, and success in sales, marketing, customer success, operations, CEO/founder roles, and investing. [Yahoo Finance]
🐝 Tech entrepreneur Rony Abovitz’ AI startup SynthBee just closed a $20M Seed funding round led by Crosspoint Capital Partners. Abovitz is best known for founding MAKO Surgical and Magic Leap, a leader in spatial computing. [Forbes]
NYC-based Everstage, which provides sales performance management software for enterprises worldwide, raised $30M in Series B funding led by Eight Roads Ventures. [finsmes]
📊 Numeric, an accounting software that uses AI to automate parts of the book-closing process, has raised a $28M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from IVP and Socii. [TechCrunch]
📈 Capacity, a provider of an AI-powered support automation platform, raised over $26M in Series D funding. The company has raised more than $89M to date. [finsmes]
🛡️ Boston-based DeNexus, which specializes in end-to-end cyber risk management for operational technology, has raised $17.5M in Series A funding led by Punja Global Ventures. [finsmes]
🔒 zkPass, an oracle protocol enabling verifiable web private data, has closed a $12.5M Series A funding round. [Yahoo Finance]
📞 Clerk Chat, the leading AI telecom platform for enterprises, has closed a $7M funding round led by Race Capital. The investment will be used to fuel team expansion, AI enhancement, and telecom partnerships. [AIThority]
🔍 San Francisco-based Tako, an AI search engine for visualizing and sharing the world’s knowledge, has raised $5.75M in Seed funding led by Kevin Hartz at A* and Ramtin Naimi at Abstract Ventures. [finsmes]
🎟️ GlobalTix, a ticketing software provider and marketplace distribution platform for the tourism industry, has closed a Series B funding round of about $5M led by Tin Men Capital. [PhocusWire]
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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.