The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/9/2024 featuring funding details for OpenGradient, Avantos, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.
OpenGradient – $8.5M
OpenGradient, a decentralized platform for AI model hosting, has raised $8.5M in Seed funding from investors that include SV Angel, Coinbase Ventures, a16z crypto, Foresight Ventures, Sandeep Nailwal, Symbolic Capital, SALT Fund, Canonical Crypto, NEAR, Illia Polosukhin, Black Dragon Capital, Pragma, Thanefield Capital, and Balaji Srinivasan. Founded by Matthew Wang and Adam Balogh in 2024, OpenGradient has now raised a total of $9M in reported equity funding.
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Avantos – $9.2M
Avantos, an AI-powered client onboarding platform, has raised $9.2M in funding according to a recent SEC filing. The filing indicates that the total offering is for $10M and there were four investors in this close. Avantos was founded by Bassam Chaptini and Rabih Ramadi in 2024.