Topic: seed funding
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Bahrain's Fintologya Raises $1M Seed to Boost GCC Fintech Expansion
Fintologya, a Bahraini fintech infrastructure firm, has raised $1 million in seed funding to expand across the Gulf Cooperation Council region. The company, founded in 2024, provides secure, scalable, and regulation-friendly payment platforms to financial institutions. The investment will help br...
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Moroccan Super App Done.ma Secures $2.1M Seed Funding
Done.ma, a Moroccan startup, has raised $2.1 million in seed funding to develop a super app that integrates services like food delivery, shopping, transport, and financial tools. The platform currently operates in eight regions with over 1,000 partners and plans to use the funds to expand geograp...
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Oumla Secures $2.4M to Develop Saudi Digital Asset Infrastructure
Oumla raised $2.4 million in seed funding, led by Core Vision with support from Avalanche and angel investors, to advance Saudi Arabia's digital asset infrastructure. The company provides custody, management, and tokenization solutions for digital assets, targeting corporations, banks, and govern...
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Saudi's Orbii Raises $3.6M Seed Round Led by Prosus for SME Lending
Orbii, a Riyadh-based AI credit platform, raised $3.6 million in seed funding to enhance SME financing access across the MENA region. The platform uses AI to automate underwriting and loan processes, integrating with financial systems for rapid, data-driven lending decisions. With the new funding...
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Root Secures $9M to Launch Customizable Social Platform
Root secured $9 million in seed funding led by Headline Ventures and Konvoy Ventures to develop its customizable social platform for dynamic communities, with a closed beta launch upcoming. The platform offers tailored tools like a Raid Planner and Task Tracker, along with support for user-genera...
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Studio555 Secures $4.6M to Launch Interactive Interior Design App
Studio555 secured €4 million in seed funding to develop an interactive interior design app that blends gaming elements with design, led by HOF Capital and Failup Ventures. The app, founded by ex-King employees, aims to make interior design intuitive and playful, removing technical barriers and la...
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Shield Raises $5M From a16z Crypto to Simplify Global Crypto Payments
Shield raised $5 million in seed funding, led by Giant Ventures with participation from a16z crypto and others, bringing its total funding to $7 million to expand banking partnerships and compliance infrastructure. The company, founded in 2022, pivoted in 2024 to focus on cross-border payments us...
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Hush Security Launches to Replace Legacy Vaults with Secretless Access
Hush Security has raised $11 million in seed funding to advance its policy-driven, just-in-time access model for machine-to-machine communication, replacing traditional vaults and static secrets. The company's approach provides real-time visibility, posture analysis, and prevention, addressing th...
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Munify Secures $3M to Power Cross-Border Banking for Egypt's Diaspora & Freelancers
Munify has raised $3 million in seed funding to develop a neobanking platform that simplifies international payments, targeting Egypt's remittance market and the regional freelance economy. The platform enables the Egyptian diaspora to send money home easily and allows local freelancers and busin...
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TensorZero raises $7.3M to streamline enterprise LLM development
TensorZero raised $7.3 million in seed funding led by FirstMark Capital to simplify large language model (LLM) development, gaining traction with its open-source platform trending on GitHub. The startup addresses enterprise AI deployment challenges by offering a unified platform for monitoring, o...
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OneText Secures $4.5M From YC & Khosla to Revolutionize Text Shopping
OneText raised $4.5M in seed funding to streamline online shopping by enabling purchases via text messages, backed by investors like Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator. The platform integrates with existing e-commerce systems using SMS for transactions, combining AI and human oversight to boost con...
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Finnish Startup Secures €25M for Revolutionary EV Wheel Motors
Finnish startup Donut Lab raised €25M in seed funding to advance its in-wheel motor technology, expanding operations with a new UK R&D center and adding investor Risto Siilasmaa to its board. The company's "Donut" motor integrates into wheel rims, eliminating traditional components like axles, of...
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Rosebud Raises $6M to Expand AI-Powered Journaling App
Rosebud, an AI-powered journaling app, secured $6 million in seed funding to enhance its platform and expand its user base by offering personalized insights and behavioral analysis. Since its 2023 launch, Rosebud has gained significant traction with 500 million words logged and 30 million minutes...
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Context Secures $11M for AI-Powered Office Suite
Context, an AI-powered office suite, raised $11 million in seed funding, led by Lux Capital, valuing the startup at $70 million and bringing total funding to $15.75 million. The platform integrates AI to enhance productivity by leveraging large context windows and cross-application intelligence, ...
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Spott’s AI Recruiting Platform Raises $3.2M to Streamline Hiring
Spott, an AI-powered recruiting platform, raised $3.2 million in seed funding to modernize staffing agencies with a unified AI-native system, attracting investors like Base10 Partners and Y Combinator. The platform integrates AI throughout recruitment workflows, replacing fragmented tools with au...
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Ex-Scale AI CTO Launches AI Agent to Solve Big Data's Biggest Problem
Isotopes AI launched with a $20 million seed investment, introducing Aidnn, an AI agent that allows business users to interact with data using natural language queries from various sources. The company was co-founded by Arun Murthy, a big data veteran from Hadoop and Hortonworks, who identified t...
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Young Founders Raise $5M to Decode Online Behavior with Vision AI
A new startup called Human Behavior uses vision AI to analyze user session replays, providing deeper insights into engagement and behavior without extensive manual coding. The company was founded by three young entrepreneurs who quickly raised $5 million in seed funding from notable backers like ...
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Hyper Secures $6.3M to Automate 911 Calls With AI Voice Tech
Hyper, an AI-powered emergency response startup, raised $6.3M in seed funding to automate non-emergency 911 calls, reducing strain on call centers through AI voice technology. CEO Ben Sanders, inspired by his hometown's emergency response delays, co-developed Hyper's AI system to filter routine i...
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Helios: The AI OS for Public Policy Experts
Helios, founded by former government officials, combines AI with policy expertise to create Proxi, an AI-native platform streamlining legislative research, stakeholder mapping, and policy drafting for public and private sectors. Backed by $4 million in seed funding, Helios' Proxi platform offers ...
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LGND Aims to Build ChatGPT for Earth Sustainability
Understanding Earth's complex data landscape just got easier with LGND's groundbreaking approach to geospatial intelligence. The planet generates staggering amounts of environmental data daily—satellites alone capture approximately 100 terabytes of imagery every 24 hours. Yet answering critic...
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YPlasma Cools Data Center Chips with Air-Zapping Tech
Innovative plasma technology offers a silent, energy-efficient cooling alternative for electronics, replacing traditional fans with thin copper strips that generate airflow without moving parts. YPlasma's plasma actuators consume minimal power (one watt) and could significantly reduce energy use ...
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Ethiopian Dev's Auth Tool Better Auth Secures $5M From Peak XV & YC
A self-taught Ethiopian developer, Bereket Engida, created Better Auth, an open-source authentication tool that addresses frustrations with existing solutions, securing $5 million in funding from investors like Peak XV and Y Combinator. Better Auth gained rapid traction with 150,000 weekly downlo...
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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab Hits $10B Valuation with $2B Funding
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, reached a $10 billion valuation after raising $2 billion in seed funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz. Despite being only six months old, the startup attracted major investment and top AI talent, leveraging Murati's reputation for breakt...
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Fastino raises $17.5M to train AI models on budget GPUs
Fastino develops specialized, efficient AI models that perform well on consumer-grade GPUs, costing under $100,000, contrasting with tech giants' high-end hardware investments. The startup secured $17.5 million in seed funding, bringing total investment to nearly $25 million, with backing from Kh...
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Andrew Yang Launches Budget Carrier Noble Mobile Inspired by Mark Cuban
Andrew Yang has launched Noble Mobile, a budget-friendly mobile service that offers cash back to customers who use less data, aiming to encourage healthier digital habits. The service operates on T-Mobile's network, charging $50 monthly for unlimited talk, text, and 5G data, with users earning ab...
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Ex-Microsoft & Uber Founder Raises $3M for Neobank Munify, Backed by YC
Munify is a neobank founded by Khalid Ashmawy to address the slow and costly process of sending remittances to Egypt, inspired by his personal frustrations with high fees and delays. The company has secured $3 million in seed funding and joined Y Combinator's Summer 2025 cohort, offering instant,...
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Maisa AI Raises $25M to Tackle Enterprise AI's 95% Failure Rate
95% of enterprise generative AI pilots are failing, prompting a shift toward agentic AI systems that prioritize learning and human supervision for reliable automation. Maisa AI, which recently secured $25 million in seed funding, offers a model-agnostic platform focused on creating transparent, a...
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Terraton Aims to Be the McDonald's of Biochar
Terraton has raised $11.5 million in seed funding to scale biochar production using a franchise-like model, partnering with companies to replicate and improve facilities. Biochar is made from agricultural waste, sequestering carbon and improving soil health, but scaling supply is a challenge desp...
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Ex-Google exec secures $8M for AI agents in group chats via Continua
Former Google engineer David Petrou raised $8M in seed funding for Continua, an AI-powered assistant designed to streamline group conversations across platforms like iMessage and Discord. Continua’s AI integrates into group chats contextually, offering real-time assistance for tasks like planning...
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Tulum Energy Raises $27M With Forgotten Hydrogen Tech
Engineers at Techint Group accidentally discovered a pyrolysis reaction during steel production, leading to Tulum Energy's hydrogen production method. Tulum Energy secured $27 million in funding for methane pyrolysis, a clean hydrogen solution that avoids CO2 emissions and eliminates costly catal...
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Africa's Top Founder Launches AI Startup, Secures $9M Funding
Africa's most successful startup founders, Karim Jouini and Jihed Othmani, launched Thunder Code, an AI-powered software testing platform, securing $9 million in seed funding shortly after inception. Thunder Code uses generative AI to automate software testing, targeting a $100 billion market wit...
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WisdomAI Raises $23M to Tackle AI Hallucinations
WisdomAI, founded by ex-Rubrik executive Soham Mazumdar, raised $23M in seed funding to transform enterprise analytics by extracting insights from messy datasets without AI hallucinations. Unlike traditional tools, WisdomAI works directly on raw, unstructured data, enabling natural language queri...
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CoreWeave Acquires AI Training Startup OpenPipe
CoreWeave has acquired OpenPipe, a startup specializing in reinforcement learning tools, to expand its AI development ecosystem. The integration aims to combine OpenPipe's self-learning capabilities with CoreWeave's cloud platform to help developers build scalable intelligent systems. This acquis...
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Earthmover Aims to Be the Snowflake for Weather and Location Data
Earthmover shifted its focus from general Earth observation data to weather data and its immediate applications, recognizing the need for frequently updated information to address climate impacts on daily operations. The company's core product is a sophisticated data structure and tool suite that...
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Signal for AI Secures $4.2M to Boost Confident Security
Businesses in regulated industries like healthcare and finance face data privacy concerns when adopting AI due to risks of unauthorized access or misuse of sensitive information. Confident Security, a startup, has launched CONFSEC, an end-to-end encryption tool that prevents AI providers from sto...
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Ex-Shopify Founder Aims to Help Devs Build Solo Unicorns
AI enables solo founders to build billion-dollar companies by reducing overhead and scaling businesses, exemplified by Birk Jernström's platform Polar, which helps developers monetize software effortlessly. Polar simplifies global billing and tax compliance for developers via API, attracting ...
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Console Secures $6.2M to Automate IT Tasks with AI
IT teams face inefficiencies from repetitive tasks like password resets, prompting Andrei Serban to found Console, an AI-driven automation startup that secured $6.2M in seed funding. Console’s AI assistant integrates with Slack, autonomously handling 50% of routine IT issues (e.g., access managem...
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Tensor9 Deploys Software Anywhere with Digital Twins
Businesses face security risks when sharing sensitive data with SaaS providers, prompting Tensor9 to enable direct deployment of vendor software into clients' existing infrastructure while maintaining security. Tensor9's digital twin technology provides real-time monitoring and operational insigh...
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Thinking Machines Lab Aims for More Consistent AI Models
Thinking Machines Lab, with $2 billion in seed funding, is addressing AI's unpredictability by developing systems that provide reproducible and consistent responses, diverging from the non-deterministic behavior of current models. The lab identifies GPU kernel coordination during inference as the...
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AI Startup Studio Aims to Launch 100K Companies Yearly
Audos, a startup studio founded by Henrik Werdelin, uses AI to help non-technical entrepreneurs launch small, sustainable businesses, targeting "everyday entrepreneurs" rather than high-growth ventures. The platform offers AI-driven support for idea refinement, product development, and marketing,...
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