Early Stage VC Pulse

Visko's $10M pre-seed and Orbis launch show how persistent, physics-grounded video generation could power the next wave of foundation-model startups...

AIR's $50 million in back-to-back seed rounds (Sequoia + Greenoaks) validates a fresh infrastructure category: continuous vetting of AI-agent skills,...

Launch Wisconsin's free Oct. 6 event at Marquette University gives early-stage founders prescheduled one-on-one meetings with investors from Wisconsin...

Three frontier companies—Anthropic, OpenAI and Databricks—have captured 92% of the $410 billion raised by the 45 firms on Madrona’s IA40 list, leaving the remaining 42 with just $34 billion combined as traditional early-stage thresholds keep rising.

Major VCs are doubling down on AI-enabled cross-border payments for Latino immigrants, with a16z and General Catalyst co-leading Félix's $200M Series...

Sequoia-incubated Empirik just spun out with $21M seed funding to build AI that predicts and prevents outages by tracking system changes and their...

GoPro's $285M acquisition by newly formed Starman Optical wipes out its $92M debt while leaving shareholders with just 10% of the combined entity.

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Global buyers like Solifi are acquiring proven Canadian lending infrastructure, folding Vancouver-based Inovatec into a foreign-controlled platform. This points to attractive exit paths for early-stage fintechs with solid tech.

F&F Ventures launched a $10M fund investing pre-seed to Series A in consumer brands, pairing capital with SHOPLINE's full commerce stack.

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Stack Health's $21 million seed round targets small businesses tired of unpredictable group-insurance renewals.

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Lone Palm Labs raised over $21 million in Series A funding for Retro, its private photo-sharing and consumer social platform based in San Francisco.

a16z is extending its AI bets from physical infrastructure to scaling companies.

• Machine Age Fund ($1.1B) targets semiconductors, data centers,...

A Harvard Law dropout raised $6M for Blue Voice AI after spotting critical gaps in police training following a campus shooting, using AI to target high-stakes public-sector workforce needs.

One day's NYC activity captures a wide spectrum of early-stage fintech, enterprise, and media plays.

• RQD Clearing raised $74M led by Bain Capital...

Owner raised $240M in growth capital led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives to expand its AI platform for independent restaurants and other local...

• Deal combines strengths: PowerFlex's commercial fleet charging and energy management platform with The Mobility House's transit/school bus...

REGENT's $240 million Series B, split evenly between equity and debt, highlights how advanced mobility startups are blending financing types to shift...

Atorie's $9.5M seed round, backed by a16z speedrun and Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed, highlights investor appetite for vertical AI platforms that link...

Andreessen Horowitz expanded its growth fund to $8.5 billion just days after launching a $1.1 billion Machine Age Fund targeting AI hardware in chips,...

Form Energy's $750 million Series G brings total funding past $2 billion, highlighting the capital intensity of moving iron-air batteries from...