Startup Roundup: Sept. 13, 2024

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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.

🐤 Cohost, a would-be X rival launched in June 2022 by not-for-profit software company Anti Software Software Club, is running out of money and will shut down at the end of 2024. [Tech Crunch]

⚙️ Landbase, a startup aiming to transform sales and marketing automation, emerged from stealth mode this week with a $12.5M seed funding round co-led by A*, 8VC, and First Minute Capital. [Venture Beat]

🤖 AI search startup Glean has raised over $260M in a Series E funding round co-led by Altimeter Capital and DST Global. Founded in 2019 by former Google and Facebook engineers, the company is now valued at $4.6B. [Maginative]

📈 Finally, an AI-powered finance and HR platform, has secured a $200M Series B investment. Since its last funding round in 2022, Finally has achieved a 300% annual revenue growth and increased its workforce by the same percentage. [Fintech]

👨🏼‍🎨 Spotter, a startup that underwrites creators and offers AI tools, raised $7.M, according to a Form D filing. The additional funding is much smaller than their $200M Series D round led by SoftBank in 2022. [Tech Crunch]

🤑 Armed with some data from our friends at CrunchBase, Reza Chowdhury breaks down the 11 largest US funding rounds last month. [Alley Watch]

💸 Wealthtech start-up Centricity has secured $20M in a seed funding led by Lightspeed. The funding will be used to double its tech development team to 150 specialists, with a focus on on GenAI-driven modules, insurtech, and brokingtech platforms. [Outlook Start-Up]

🦾 35 US AI startups have raised $100M or more in 2024. [Tech Crunch]

💻 CA-based startup Every has raised $22.5M in Series A funding, led by Redpoint Ventures with participation from Y Combinator, Okta Ventures, Base10 Partners and Formus Capital. Every is an all-in-one finance and HR suite that enables tech founders to set up an entire back office in one place. [finsmes]

👷 Track3D has secured $4.3M in venture capital seed funding led by Endiya Partners. This investment will be used to accelerate its AI-driven construction monitoring. [yahoo!finance]

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