The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of the notable funding activity in the various markets that we track. The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 7/27/24 featuring funding details for Caldera, Pearl, Dazz, and twenty-nine other deals representing $1.7B in new funding that you need to know about.
IntelePeer – $140.0M
San Mateo-based IntelePeer is a communications automation platform utilizing AI to enhance interactions. Founded by Haydar Haba in 2003, IntelePeer has now raised a total of $247.1M in total equity funding and is backed by Achmea, Coller Capital, Hollyport Capital, Manulife Investment Management, Savant Growth, and VantagePoint Capital Partners.
Archera – $17.0M
Bellevue-based Archera provides a cloud cost optimization solution for companies to save time and money on their cloud costs, without any risk. Founded by Aran Khanna, Daniel Christianto, James Milin, and Nikhil Khanna in 2019, Archera has now raised a total of $39.4M in total equity funding and is backed by Amplify Partners, HighSage Ventures, PSL Ventures, and Ridge Ventures.
Caldera – $15.0M
San Francisco-based Caldera offers a no-code Web3 infrastructure platform to help developers spin up layer-2 blockchains. Founded by Matthew Katz and Parker Jou in 2022, Caldera has now raised a total of $24.0M in total equity funding and is backed by ArkStream Capital, Dragonfly, Founders Fund, Lattice, Sequoia Capital, and TrueBridge Capital Partners.
Chainguard – $140.0M
Kirkland-based Chainguard is an open source software that develops software security, supply chain security, and risk mitigation solutions. Founded by Dan Lorenc, Kim Lewandowski, and Ville Aikas in 2021, Chainguard has now raised a total of $256.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Amplify Partners, IVP, Lightspeed Venture Partners, MANTIS Venture Capital, Redpoint, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.
CoachCare – $48.0M
New York-based CoachCare develops a virtual health and remote patient monitoring platform that offers personalized programs of losing weight. Founded by Andrew Zengilowski, Eric Di Bari, and Wes Haydon in 2013, CoachCare has now raised a total of $49.2M in total equity funding and is backed by Integrity Growth Partners and Topmark Partners.
Cowbell – $60.0M
Pleasanton-based Cowbell provides adaptive cyber insurance for small and medium-sized enterprises using AI-driven risk assessment. Founded by Jack Kudale, Prab Reddy, Rajeev Gupta, and Trent Cooksley in 2019, Cowbell has now raised a total of $208.3M in total equity funding and is backed by Zurich Insurance Group.
GeoWealth – $18.0M
Chicago-based GeoWealth is a technology platform offering asset management solutions for advisors. Founded by Michael O’Shaughnessy in 2010, GeoWealth has now raised a total of $37.0M in total equity funding and is backed by BlackRock, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, and Kayne Anderson Growth Capital.
Imperative Care – $150.0M
Campbell-based Imperative Care is singularly dedicated to finding meaningful answers to unsolved problems in stroke. Founded by Nick Hopkins in 2015, Imperative Care has now raised a total of $519.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Ally Bridge Group, AMED Ventures, Bain Capital Life Sciences, Catalio Capital Management, D1 Capital Partners, HealthCor Family Office, Innovatus Capital Partners, Intai Technology, Montreux Equity Partners, Pura Vida Investments, and Rock Springs Capital.
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InnerPlant – $30.0M
Davis-based InnerPlant is harnessing plant physiology to unlock data at scale and boost global agricultural yields and sustainability. Founded by Rod Kumimoto and Shely Aronov in 2018, InnerPlant has now raised a total of $48.5M in total equity funding and is backed by Bison Ventures, Coutts Agro, John Deere, and SYSTEMIQ.
Lakera AI – $20.0M
San Francisco-based Lakera AI is a real-time GenAI security company that utilizes AI to protect enterprises from LLM vulnerabilities. Founded by David Haber, Mateo Rojas-Carulla, and Matthias Kraft in 2021, Lakera AI has now raised a total of $30.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Atomico, Citi Ventures, Dropbox Ventures, and redalpine.
Loyal – $33.5M
Atlanta-based Loyal provides an integrated digital healthcare platform for patient engagement. Founded by Chad Mallory in 2015, Loyal has now raised a total of $46.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Concord Health Partners.
Monarch Tractor – $133.0M
Livermore-based Monarch Tractor creates fully electric, autonomous tractors designed to enhance productivity, sustainability, and safety in agriculture. Founded by Carlo Mondavi, Mark Schwager, Praveen Penmetsa, and Zachary Omohundro in 2017, Monarch Tractor has now raised a total of $214.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Astanor Ventures, At One Ventures, HH-CTBC Partnership, PMV, and Welvaartsfonds.
Mytra – $50.0M
South San Francisco-based Mytra is a robotics company developing software-defined warehouse robotics solutions to automate industrial tasks in logistics. Founded by Ahmad Baitalmal and Chris Walti in 2022, Mytra has now raised a total of $78.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Eclipse Ventures and Greenoaks.
Pearl – $58.0M
West Hollywood-based Pearl is an AI-driven company that enhances patient care in dentistry with FDA-cleared AI capable of identifying diseases in dental x-rays. Founded by Cambron Carter, Kyle Stanley, and Ophir Tanz in 2019, Pearl has now raised a total of $69.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Alpha Partners, Craft Ventures, Left Lane Capital, Neotribe Ventures, and Smash Capital.
QA Wolf – $36.0M
Seattle-based QA Wolf is your modern QA team Founded by Jon Perl, Laura Cressman, and Scott Wilson in 2019, QA Wolf has now raised a total of $56.1M in total equity funding and is backed by Inspired Capital Partners, Notation Capital, Scale Venture Partners, Threshold, and Ventureforgood.
Vanta – $150.0M
San Francisco-based Vanta is a trust management platform that automates compliance and risk management. Founded by Christina Cacioppo and Erik Goldman in 2017, Vanta has now raised a total of $353.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Atlassian Ventures, Craft Ventures, CrowdStrike, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, HubSpot Ventures, JP Morgan Chase, Sequoia Capital, Workday Ventures, and Y Combinator.
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Headway – $100.0M
New York-based Headway is a mental healthcare system that helps users have access to affordable healthcare. Founded by Andrew Adams, Dan Ross, Jake Sussman, and Kevin Chan in 2018, Headway has now raised a total of $325.5M in total equity funding and is backed by Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Forerunner, Global Founders Capital, Spark Capital, and Thrive Capital.
Uplimit – $11.0M
San Francisco-based Uplimit is an end-to-end AI learning platform that educates businesses and individuals with technical knowledge and practices. Founded by Jacob Samuelson, Julia Stiglitz, and Sourabh Bajaj in 2021, Uplimit has now raised a total of $19.5M in total equity funding and is backed by Conviction Partners, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock, GSV Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Translink Capital, and Workday Ventures.
Astranis – $200.0M
San Francisco-based Astranis is a space startup that builds small and low-cost telecommunications satellites to provide internet access in remote regions. Founded by John Gedmark and Ryan McLinko in 2015, Astranis has now raised a total of $703.5M in total equity funding and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Baillie Gifford, BAM Elevate, BlackRock, Fidelity, Friends & Family Capital, Garage Capital, Haystack, Jeff Dean, Metaplanet, PWV/RedwoodJS, Refactor, SV Angel, Trinity Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, and Y Combinator.
Heeler – $8.5M
Bethesda-based Heeler helps security teams scale with developers to eliminate critical risks and reduce future risks for cloud-based applications. Founded by Chris DeRamus, Christopher Hertz, James Green, and Trever McKee in 2023, Heeler has now raised a total of $8.5M in total equity funding and is backed by Norwest Venture Partners and Storm Ventures.
Noded Ai – $4.0M
San Francisco-based Noded Ai is preparing yourself for that customer meeting is tough. Founded by Chris Port and Steve Wood in 2023, Noded Ai has now raised a total of $4.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, boldstart ventures, Cal Henderson, Firsthand Alliance, Frederic Kerrest, Stewart Butterfield, and The Twenty Minute VC.
Dazz – $50.0M
Palo Alto-based Dazz delivers unified security remediation across code, clouds, infrastructure, and applications for security and development teams. Founded by Merav Bahat, Tomer Schwartz, and Yuval Ofir in 2021, Dazz has now raised a total of $110.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Cyberstarts, Greylock, Index Ventures, and Insight Partners.
Splight – $12.0M
Washington-based Splight is a technology business that creates artificial energy for digital solutions in existing power infrastructure. Founded by Fernando Llaver and Thomas Vadora in 2021, Splight has now raised a total of $12.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Ascent Energy Ventures, Barn Investments, Draper B1, Draper Cygnus, EDP Ventures, Elewit, Fen Ventures, noa, Reaction, and U.C. Berkeley.
Farmblox – $2.5M
Waltham-based Farmblox utilizes IoT and AI to give farmers the tools to automate their operations. Founded by John Dyer, Marc Printz, Mitch Gaines, and Nathan Rosenberg in 2022, Farmblox has now raised a total of $2.5M in total equity funding and is backed by Hyperplane, MHS Capital, Service Provider Capital, and Slow Ventures.
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Sojo Industries – $10.0M
Bristol-based Sojo Industries is an industrial automation business that caters to the food and beverage industries. Founded by Barak Bar-Cohen in 2021, Sojo Industries has now raised a total of $23.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Schreiber Ventures and Tech Council Ventures.
ReviR Therapeutics – $30.0M
San Francisco-based ReviR Therapeutics is a genomics-based platform that develops novel medicines targeting human RNAs. Founded by Yang Li in 2021, ReviR Therapeutics has now raised a total of $50.0M in total equity funding and is backed by 5Y Capital, CDH Investments, CMT Research Foundation, Lapam Capital, XtalPi, and Yael Capital Management Limited.
Cowboy Clean Fuels – $13.0M
Denver-based Cowboy Clean Fuels commercializes a process to produce renewable natural gas from alternative biomass feedstocks. Founded by Michael Urynowicz, Noah Yates, and Ryan Waddington in 2020, Cowboy Clean Fuels has now raised a total of $29.9M in total equity funding and is backed by Machan Investments.
Docket – $15.0M
Camas-based Docket is an artificial intelligence platform that helps virtual sales engineers to build knowledge graphs using big language models. Founded by Anoop Thomas Mathew and Arjun Pillai in 2023, Docket has now raised a total of $20.4M in total equity funding and is backed by Foundation Capital and Mayfield Fund.
Harvey – $100.0M
San Francisco-based Harvey is a generative AI company building the future of professional services. Founded by Gabriel Pereyra and Winston Weinberg in 2022, Harvey has now raised a total of $206.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Elad Gil, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, OpenAI, Sequoia Capital, and SV Angel.
Cormint Data Systems – $29.0M
New Hartford-based Cormint Data Systems can simplify data center operations and management by providing a comprehensive consolidated management. Founded by Jamie McAvity, Pierre DePeyster, Richard Godwin, and Ryan Gordon in 2018, Cormint Data Systems has now raised a total of $59.0M in total equity funding and is backed by 6th Horizon, Jamie McAvity, and Paragon Partners.
AppMagic – $3.0M
Alexandria-based AppMagic is a mobile apps market intelligence SaaS Founded by Max Samorukov in 2017, AppMagic has now raised a total of $3.0M in total equity funding and is backed by GEM Capital and Vibranium Venture Capital.
Joy – $10.0M
Oakland-based Joy is a parenting platform that provides essential services and memories for young families. Founded by Alan Chan, Emily Greenberg, Jacqueline Yuen, and Joe Moak in 2021, Joy has now raised a total of $10.0M in total equity funding and is backed by David Heller, Forerunner, Magnify Ventures, Maywic Select Investments, Obvious Ventures, Ogden CAP Associates, Rogue Venture Partners, Wesley Capital, and Western Technology Investment.
