| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.08.2026 | VCs are chasing startups trying to make the internet social again | Investors are hunting for social media startups that can spark new connections and nurture existing ones.
"Social media companies started based on connection," Shawn Carolan, a partner at Menlo Ventures, said of the previous wave ... |
| 30.07.2026 | Henry AI Raises $16.5M in Series A Funding | Henry AI, a NYC-based provider of an AI platform automating back-office knowledge work for commercial real estate teams, raised $16.5M in Series A funding.
The round was led by FirstMark Capital with participation from Thomson Reuters Ventu... |
| 30.07.2026 | Gravie Closes Funding | Gravie, a Minneapolis, MN-based provider of health benefits solutions, raised an undisclosed amount in new funding.
The round was led by General Atlantic with participation from FirstMark.
The raise brought the total amount to $463M.
The co... |
| 14.07.2026 | Velocity Raises $38 Million Series A To Scale Enterprise Stablecoin Treasury And Settlement Infrastructure | Velocity, a London-based stablecoin treasury and settlement platform founded in 2025, has raised a $38 million Series A led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, with participation from Activant Capital, Capital One Ventures, QED Investors, Coinbase ... |
| 11.07.2026 | Vendelux Secures $50M Series B to Scale AI-Powered B2B Event Intelligence | Vendelux raised $50M Series B. Its AI-powered platform transforms B2B event intelligence. The funding accelerates AI development, product innovation, and global expansion. Vendelux tracks 250,000+ B2B events. It helps companies identify key... |
| 10.07.2026 | Vendelux Raises $50M in Series B Funding | Vendelux, a NYC-based developer of an AI-powered B2B event intelligence and predictive marketing analytics platform, raised $50m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Tribeca Venture Partners with participation from S3 Ventures, Pelion ... |
| 09.07.2026 | Daytona Targets the Future of AI Infrastructure With USD 24M Series A | Croatian-American Daytona raised USD 24M Series A to develop infrastructure for AI agents The company builds composable computers designed for autonomous software systems The platform supports code execution, computer use, and reinforcement... |
| 26.06.2026 | Nebulock Raises $25 Million Series A Led By FirstMark | Nebulock announced that it raised $25 million in Series A financing to expand its AI-native contextual security platform. The round was led by FirstMark, with participation from existing investors Bain Capital Ventures, Decibel, Zetta Ventu... |
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STARTUPLAND is where the future beging... |
| 16.05.2026 | Cerebras’ blockbuster IPO boosts hype for SpaceX and OpenAI, but crowds out smaller players | Now that Cerebras has hit the public markets, investor attention is turning to SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic, which is a challenge for the rest of the IPO pipeline.
“It’s very hard to care about anything other than the $3 trillion potential ... |
| 31.03.2026 | Posh: $37 Million Raised For Digital Ticketing And Event Management Platform Expansion | Posh, a NYC-based digital ticketing and event management platform, has raised $37 million in a Series B funding round led by FirstMark, with participation from Causeway Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Companyon Ventures, and Epic Ventures.
Fou... |
| 23.03.2026 | Posh Raises $37M in Series B Funding Round | Posh, a NYC-based provider of a digital ticketing and event management platform, raised $37m in a Series B funding round.
The round was led by FirstMark, with participation from Causeway Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Companyon Ventures, and ... |
| 19.03.2026 | Tracebit Secures $20 Million Series A to Bolster Cloud Deception Technology | Tracebit, a cloud-native cybersecurity innovator, closed a $20 million Series A funding round. FirstMark led the investment, boosting total capital to $25 million. The firm deploys advanced deception technology. It uses "canaries"... |
| 18.03.2026 | Tracebit: $25 Million Total Funding Following Series A Led By FirstMark | Tracebit announced a new Series A funding round led by FirstMark, with participation from Accel, MMC Ventures, Tapestry VC and CCL, alongside continued backing from existing angel investors. The company confirmed that this latest round brin... |
| 17.03.2026 | Tracebit Raises $20M in Series A Funding | Tracebit, a London, UK-based provider of a cloud-native cybersecurity platform, raised $20m in Series A funding.
The round was led by FirstMark, with participation from Accel, MMC Ventures, Tapestry VC, and CCL. This follows a $5M seed roun... |
| 17.03.2026 | Tracebit raises $20M Series A to expand cloud-native deception tech | Tracebit, a cloud-native cybersecurity company focused on threat detection, has raised a $20 million Series A round led by FirstMark, with participation from Accel. MMC Ventures, Tapestry VC, and CCL also joined the round. The funding follo... |
| 21.02.2026 | SurrealDB Secures $23 Million, Unleashes AI-Native Data Platform with 3.0 Launch | SurrealDB secures a significant $23 million in a Series A extension. This funding brings total capital raised to $44 million. The company concurrently launches SurrealDB 3.0. This new version is an AI-native, multi-model database. It unifie... |
| 18.02.2026 | SurrealDB: $23 Million Series A Extension Raised For Advancing Infrastructure Designed For AI-Native Systems | SurrealDB has raised an additional $23 million in a Series A extension, bringing its total funding to date to $44 million and expanding its Series A round to $38 million. The new capital brings Chalfen Ventures and Begin Capital into the ro... |
| 17.02.2026 | London-based SurrealDB raises additional €19 million to scale multi-model database for AI applications | SurrealDB, a UK company developing a multi-model, AI-native database, has secured an additional €19 million ($23 million) in Series A funding, bringing the company’s total investment to-date (including Seed) to €37 million ($44 million).
Ch... |
| 17.02.2026 | SurrealDB Raises $23M in Additional Series A Funding | SurrealDB, a London, UK-based company developing a multi-model, AI-native database, raised $23M in additional Series A funding.
New Investors Chalfen Ventures and Begin Capital joined existing investors FirstMark and Georgian.
The raise bro... |
| 10.02.2026 | Daytona Secures $24M Series A for Agent-Native AI Compute Infrastructure | Daytona announces a $24 million Series A funding round. FirstMark Capital led the investment. The company develops crucial infrastructure for AI agents. Its innovative sandboxes provide programmatic, composable computing environments. These... |
| 06.02.2026 | Daytona raises $24M Series A to build agent-native compute infrastructure | Croatian-founded Daytona has raised a $24M Series A to build infrastructure designed for large-scale agent workloads. The round was led by FirstMark Capital, with Matt Turck joining the board. Additional participation came from Pace Capital... |
| 06.02.2026 | Daytona Raises $24M Series A to Give Every Agent a Computer | the infrastructure company building programmatic, composable computers for AI agents, today announced it has raised $24 million in Series A funding.
The round was led by FirstMark Capital, with participation from Pace Capital and existing i... |
| 19.01.2026 | Платежный стартап Rain из Нью-Йорка привлек $250 млн | Стартап в сфере стейблкоинов Rain привлек $250 млн в раунде Series C при оценке $1,95 млрд — это уже третий раунд финансирования менее чем за год. Раунд возглавила инвестиционная компания Iconiq, а постинвестиционная оценка компании выросла... |
| 11.01.2026 | Rain Soars to $1.95 Billion Valuation Amid Stablecoin Revolution | Stablecoin innovator Rain secured $250 million in Series C funding. This propelled its valuation to $1.95 billion. ICONIQ led the substantial investment. The capital fuels Rain's global expansion into new markets. It also enables platform e... |
| 11.01.2026 | Rain Secures $250m Series C Funding to Scale Stablecoin-Powered Payments | Rain, which provides infrastructure that lets companies issue stablecoin-linked wallets and payment cards, said it raised $250 million in a Series C round led by ICONIQ, valuing the company at $1.95 billion.
The financing also drew particip... |
| 10.01.2026 | Rain: $250 Million Series C At $1.95 Billion Valuation Raised To Expand Stablecoin Payments Platform | Rain, which provides enterprise infrastructure for stablecoin-powered payments, has raised a $250 million Series C round led by ICONIQ, valuing the company at $1.95 billion. The financing brings Rain’s total funding to more than $338 millio... |
| 09.01.2026 | Stablecoin firm Rain valued at $1.95 billion in latest fundraise | Synopsis
Stablecoin firm Rain âsaid on Friday it has raised $250 million in a â funding round led by ICONIQ, valuing the company at $1.95 billion, as investor interest in the crypto sector continues to grow.
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| 09.01.2026 | Rain Raises $250M in Series C Funding | Rain, a NYC-based provider of an enterprise-grade infrastructure for stablecoin-powered payments, raised $250M in Series C funding, at $1.95 Billion valuation.
The round was led by ICONIQ, with participation from Sapphire Ventures, Dragonfl... |
| 16.12.2025 | Crisp Secures $26M to Expand AI Retail Platform | Crisp, an Arkansas-based AI company, just raised $26 million. This Series B1 round fuels expansion. The focus? Retail and supply chain solutions. Crisp’s AI isn’t general. It’s built *for* retail. Expect faster growth, new features, and mor... |
| 12.12.2025 | Crisp Raises $26 Million In Series B1 Funding To Scale Vertical AI For Retail And Supply Chains | Crisp has closed a $26 million Series B1 financing round to accelerate the expansion of its vertical artificial intelligence solutions for the retail industry. The round was led by Paine Schwartz Partners, with participation from Blue Cloud... |
| 22.10.2025 | Tycho.AI Secures $10M to Revolutionize Autonomous Systems in Challenging Environments | Tycho.AI secured $10M Series A funding. This investment propels mission-resilient autonomy for unmanned systems. The company excels in GPS-denied and communication-contested environments. Its edge AI and custom hardware deliver robust, prec... |
| 21.10.2025 | Tycho.AI: $10 Million Series A Raised For Advancing Mission-Resilient Autonomy For Unmanned Systems | Tycho.AI, a leading unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology company specializing in resilient navigation and AI systems for autonomous vehicles, has raised $10 million in Series A funding to accelerate product development and scale governm... |
| 27.08.2025 | STARTUPLAND is where the future begins | Der Countdown läuft! Am 5. November findet im RheinEnergieStadion in Köln unsere zweite STARTUPLAND statt. Auf mehreren Bühnen gibt es auch dieses Jahr wieder einen Tag lang spannende Vorträge und Diskussionen, lehrreiche Interviews, inspir... |
| 18.08.2025 | TensorZero nabs $7.3M seed to solve the messy world of enterprise LLM development | Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now
TensorZero, a startup building open-source infrastructure for large language model ... |
| 15.08.2025 | Tech IPOs are roaring after ‘years of Prohibition’ — it may be too good | The Bullish IPO this week is the latest sign that Wall Street is once again enthusiastic about new tech offerings.
Prior to Bullish’s 84% gain, Figma and Circle more than doubled in their recent market debuts.
Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman told... |
| 30.07.2025 | If you live and breathe startups – STARTUPLAND is your event! | Der Countdown läuft! Am 5. November findet im RheinEnergieStadion in Köln unsere zweite STARTUPLAND statt. Auf mehreren Bühnen gibt es auch dieses Jahr wieder einen Tag lang spannende Vorträge und Diskussionen, lehrreiche Interviews, inspir... |
| 24.02.2025 | Sparta Secures $42M to Transform Commodity Trading |
Founded by former traders Felipe Elink Schuurman and Miles Moseley, Sparta was born out of first-hand frustration with the inefficiencies of commodity trading. For years, traders relied on fragmented data buried in spreadsheets, hoarding i... |
| 24.06.2024 | SurrealDB: Multi-Model Database Company Raises $20 Million | Multi-model database company SurrealDB announced it raised $20 million in funding, led by FirstMark and Georgian and with participation from Crew Capital and Alumni Ventures. This round brought SurrealDB’s total to $26 million.
Many enterpr... |
| 19.06.2024 | SurrealDB Disrupts Database Industry with $20M Funding | Open-source database startup SurrealDB Inc. has secured a $20 million funding investment to revolutionize the big data industry. Led by FirstMark and Georgian, with participation from Crew Capital and Alumni Ventures, the funding brings the... |
| 18.06.2024 | London-based SurrealDB secures over €18.6 million aiming to disrupt database technology | SurrealDB a multi-model database platform based in London, has secured a significant over €18.6 million investment in its latest funding round. The round was led by prominent venture capital firms FirstMark and Georgian, with additional par... |
| 11.06.2024 | The VB AI Impact Tour: How long will humans stay in the auditing loop? | It’s the issue that takes the headlines and the question that keeps execs up at night: How do organizations audit their AI models for bias, performance and ethical standards?
At VentureBeat’s latest VB AI Impact Tour in New York City presen... |
| 27.04.2024 | Make gen AI work: The landscape, SLMs vs. LLMs, cost and more | Discover how companies are responsibly integrating AI in production. This invite-only event in SF will explore the intersection of technology and business. Find out how you can attend here.
Are you fascinated by the ever-evolving world of m... |
| 25.04.2024 | Alaffia Health Revolutionizes Health Plan Claims with $10M Funding | Generative AI takes the healthcare industry by storm as Alaffia Health secures $10 million in funding to enhance its innovative AI solutions. Led by FirstMark Capital, the funding round also includes support from GingerBread Capital and oth... |
| 24.04.2024 | Using generative AI for health plan claims, Alaffia Health raises $10M | Amish Jani, Founder and Partner at FirstMark, joined the company's Board of Directors
AI has become all the rage in healthcare: $1.1 billion, or 40% of Q1’s total funding to digital health, went to AI-enabled companies in the most recent qu... |
| 13.03.2024 | IVF uncertainty aside, startups rush to offer fertility care amid rising demand | AI tools, egg freezing, surrogacy, IUI, donorship, oncofertility, genetic analysis, loans, and more
In the aftermath of the Roe v. Wade overturn, U.S. fertility clinics (and patients alongside them) are battling an unlikely complication in ... |
| 12.02.2024 | Ezra, an Innovator in Applying AI to MRI Scanning, Raises $21 Million to Increase Access to Care | Healthier Capital, the venture capital firm led by former One Medical | Amazon CEO Amir Dan Rubin, co-leads round with FirstMark Capital, with participation from Allianz Life Ventures
Ezra, the healthcare Artificial Intelligence (AI) compan... |
| 09.02.2024 | Romanian-founded healthcare AI startup Ezra receives $21M investment | Romanian-founded healthcare AI startup Ezra receives $21M investment
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NY-based startup with Romanian roots,... |
| 07.02.2024 | AI cancer screening company Ezra raises $21M | The company doubled its revenue in 2023, and also received FDA clearance for Ezra Flash AI
Improved cancer screening has the potential to detect cancers earlier; however, right now, only 14% of diagnosed cancers are detected by screening wi... |
| 08.12.2023 | Revela removes blind spots in property management with its all-in-one API | The Detroit company just raised $9M in round led by FirstMark
The multi-billion-dollar property management space has long needed a software revamp. Many solutions are outdated, others are spread thin to provide services alongside the system... |
| 01.12.2023 | Vendelux knows which event you should attend next | Using AI to gather data, this startup aims to make in-person events more effective for attendees
It seems like only yesterday the world stood still as Covid-19 plagued people’s homes and shut the doors of offices, gyms, cinemas, malls, and ... |
| 04.10.2023 | Sparta raises USD17.5 million to improve market intelligence for commodity training | |
| 19.09.2023 | Austrian firm Metaloop raises a €16M Series A for scrap metal recycling software | Metal recycling software firm Metaloop is making a dent in the scrap metal recycling industry with its all-encompassing software solution, from matchmaking, logistics and recycling to financing and trade discovery.
The Austrian scrap metal ... |
| 24.05.2023 | Germany’s Sastrify raises €29.6M in Series B funding led by Amsterdam-based Endeit Capital | Cologne-based Sastrify, a next-generation platform for buying and managing SaaS subscriptions, announced that it has raised $32M (approximately €29.67M) in a Series B round of funding.
The investment was led by Amsterdam-based Endeit Capita... |
