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Top 10 pre-seed to Series A funding rounds of the week: ⚫ HealthTech ⚫ 🔶 1. FranShares, a startup that allows people to invest in franchise businesses starting with as little as $500, raised a $4.1 million seed round. → Investors: Chicago Ventures and others → Founded by: Kenny Rose, CFE ⚫ NFT ⚫ 🔶 2. Mintify Inc, a startup that built an NFT order book that allows users to discover, mint, and trade NFTs, raised a $3.4 million round. → Investors: ARCA, Cumberland, Psalion, and others → Founded by: Evan Varsamis ⚫ HealthTech ⚫ 🔶 3. Montara Therapeutics, Inc., a startup that is developing gene therapies to treat neurological diseases, raised a $8 million seed round. → Investors: SV Health Investors' Dementia Discovery Fund and others → Founded by: Nicholas Hertz, Ph.D ⚫ AI ⚫ 🔶 4. Not Diamond, a startup that provides a service that automatically routes queries to the best language model for the task, optimizing for speed, cost, and accuracy, raised a $2.3 million round. → Investors: Defy.vc. → Founded by: Tomás Hernando Kofman, Tze-Yang Tung, Jeffrey Akiki 🔶 5. Axle Automation, a startup that provides AI-powered tools to help compliance teams automate tasks such as sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and customer verification, raised a $2.5 million seed round. → Investors: Diagram Ventures and others → Founded by: Ioannis (Yanni) Giannaros ⚫ Data Management ⚫ 🔶 6. Streamkap, a startup that provides a real-time data streaming platform so businesses can move data between databases with minimal delay, raised a $3.3 million seed and pre-seed round. → Investors: InReach Ventures and others → Founded by: Paul Dudley, Ricky Thomas ⚫ Construction ⚫ 🔶 7. GovWell, a startup that helps streamline tasks such as building permits, code inspections, and other municipal processes, raised a $4.5 million seed round. → Investors: Work-Bench and others → Founded by: Ben Cohen, Troy LeCaire ⚫ Wearables ⚫ 🔶 8. Bee AI a startup developing a wearable AI assistant designed to learn from and interact with your conversations, raised a $7 million seed round. → Investors: Exor, Greycroft, New Wave VC, and Banana Capital → Founded by: Maria de Lourdes Zollo, Ethan Sutin ⚫ Esports ⚫ 🔶 9. Freestyle Chess, a recently founded startup that is organizing chess tournaments starring world champion Magnus Carlsen, raised a $10.9 million round. → Investors: Left Lane Capital and others → Founded by: Magnus Carlsen, Jan Henric Buettner ⚫ Marketing ⚫ 🔶 10. MarkOS, a startup that is developing AI technology to make sure employees and partners use assets that align with a company's brand guidelines, raised a $4 million pre-seed round. → Investors: Ludlow Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners and others → Founded by: Marius Ciocirlan, David Dawson, Wesley Yun ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ Well done to everyone! 👏 Btw, I'm Ivelina, content lead at doola and founder of my new passion project EverythingStartups. #startups #funding #venturecapital

FemWealth Issue 160 highlights 💌 In the Spotlight 💸 Founded by Maria Rotilu - Europe’s first Black solo GP, and a former Octopus Ventures investor - OpenseedVC announced the first close of its fund targeted at $10M. The London-based firm aims to back around 60 operator-led, very early-stage startups in Europe and Africa, in three areas: the future of commerce, health, and work. It will write cheques up to $150k. Startups news: -  Co-founded by Susanna Campbell, Syre, a Stockholm, Sweden-based company that develops textile recycling technology, secured $100M in Series A  - Founded and led by Stephanie Strong, Boulder Care, a US startup that provides comprehensive telehealth treatment and long-term support for people overcoming substance use disorders, raised a $35M Series C - Co-founded by Leanne Sherred, Expressable, a US company that offers one-on-one virtual sessions with speech language pathologists, announced a $26M Series B - Co-founded and co-led by Celine Lazorthes, Resilience, a French startup that provides a remote cancer patient monitoring platform, raised $25M - Co-founded and led by Sophia Lugo, Radar Therapeutics, a US startup that develops precision-targeted mRNA-based treatments, raised a $13.4M Seed round  -  Co-founded by Stephanie Bonk, Overland AI, a US company that develops autonomous vehicle technology for defense organizations and industries that operate in remote or rugged areas, raised a $10M Seed round - Founded and led by Meena Sankaran, KETOS, a SF startup that provides real-time water data and predictive analytics, raised a $10M - Co-founded by Karita Kinnunen-Raudaskoski, Fiberwood Ltd, a Finnish sustainable insulation and packaging startup, raised €7.7M - Co-founded by Dr. Isabel Álvarez-Martos and Deby Fapyane, Ph.D, CELLUGY®, a Danish biotech startup develops cellulose-based materials designed to replace petrochemicals in personal care products, raised €4.9M in Seed - Co-founded and led by Hil Moss, OncoveryCare, a US virtual survivorship clinic for those living with and beyond cancer, raised a $4.5M Seed  - Co-founded and led by Alia Rahman, Amplexd Therapeutics, a clinical-stage patient-scientist-led biotech company that specializes in developing accessible treatments for HPV-induced CIN, secured $2M - Founded and led by Lily Walla, Auggie, a US startup that aims to give parents a single platform where they can shop for products and connect, announced $1.7M in Seed funding  - Co-founded by Margot Karlikow, PhD, En Carta Diagnostics, a Paris-based startup that develops rapid Point-of-Care (POC) molecular diagnostics kits, raised €1.5M in Pre-Seed funding - Founded and led by Marta Łącka, Quantia AI, a London startup that offers a sales analytics platform, raised $1.2M in Pre-Seed - Founded by Anna Strubel and Carina Vantsi, CARÁ Health, an Estonian startup tgat aims to bridge the maternity support gap, raised €620K in Seed https://lnkd.in/eTeRwH4F

Israeli Largest Hospital Launches Its Accelerator Medtech Program ARC Innovation, an innovation center of Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer Center in Ramat Gan, announced its accelerator program ARC Accelerator. Ilex Medical Ltd. will invest $10M into ARC Accelerator. The ARC Accelerator provides advice, financial backing and a support network for early-stage startups in the MedTech field.  - Its new program will be focused on senior health, women’s health and mental health and will be open to applications from Israeli and foreign startups.  - 8–10 startups could take part in a program that runs 10 to 14 weeks. The accelerator program grants ARC Accelerator participants access to Sheba’s clinical expertise, global partnerships, educational insights, and investor relations. The funding structure offers $125,000 for a 7.5% equity stake, along with an additional $125,000. Source: https://lnkd.in/gqBPzzeh

Exciting Funding Updates in the Startup World! 🚀 🔍 Dive into the latest key startup fundraising rounds from this week: 1️⃣ Ideally: Secures $5.5m funding led by Icehouse Ventures and OIF Ventures, boosting its impactful customer insights platform. 2️⃣ Cartherics Pty Ltd: Bags $15m to advance trials of its innovative cell therapy product for ovarian cancer, a breakthrough by founders like Alan Trounson and Bob Moses. 3️⃣ Zitcha: Lands $15m Series A led by VMG Partners, poised to expand operations to the US with backing from OIF Ventures. 4️⃣ 7 Kiwi startups: Share NZ$17.5m in grant funding, including diverse sectors like space, health, and cleantech, aiming for global impact. 5️⃣ OpenAI: Value skyrockets to $157bn after a $6.6bn funding round, attracting investment from top players like Thrive Capital and Microsoft. 6️⃣ ZBiotics: Raises $12m in Series A Funding to revolutionize the biotech industry with innovative GMO probiotic products. Get more insights into these exciting developments - read the full article for more: https://buff.ly/3YaHKZ6 📩 📩 📩 📩 📩 Stay ahead of the game! Join our free newsletter for daily startup insights: https://buff.ly/3QlzuB6 📩 📩 📩 📩 📩 \#StartupFunding \#InvestmentNews \#InnovationLeaders

Big Boost for European Health Tech in Q3 2024 Despite a tough year for many startups, European health tech made a strong comeback in Q3, raising $2bn in funding! Oncology startups, like CatalYm GmbH and Myricx Bio, attracted major investments, showing the growing impact of AI in healthcare. Even though overall startup funding in Europe dropped 35% compared to last year, health tech and AI-powered solutions are proving to be bright spots. With early-stage investments staying strong and a focus on AI and biotech, the European startup ecosystem is set for more growth in 2025! Read more here: https://lnkd.in/efXyJYG8 #HealthTech #Startups #AI #Oncology #Innovation #EuropeStartups #Biotech #Investment

Health And Biotech Startups Now Get The Majority Of US Series A Funding So far in 2024, biotech and health companies have pulled in around $5.6 billion across 110 Series A rounds, per Crunchbase data. That accounts for 53% of all funding at the Series A stage, which is a closely watched barometer for the startup ecosystem. The biotech sector’s comparatively strong showing comes as overall Series A dealmaking looks on track to come in a bit above last year’s totals. However, funding remains down from 2022 and much, much lower than in 2021, which was a record-breaking year for startup investment overall. Of the 10 largest Series A rounds this year, six are biotechs. This includes the largest financing, which went to Xaira Therapeutics, a San Francisco-based startup using AI for drug discovery and development. The company secured more than $1 billion of committed capital in April from lead investors Arch Venture Partners and Foresite Capital. The second-largest Series A also went to a biotech, Mirador Therapeutics, which is focused on precision medicine for chronic inflammation and fibrotic disease. The San Diego company landed $400 million in a March round, also led by Arch. https://lnkd.in/ea-u2zd3

VCLink's Daily Round Report (Part 3) 18. The Jackfruit Company has raised $5 million in its Series B extension from InvestEco Capital, CREADEV - Creating for People , and Grosvenor Food & AgTech. The company plans to use the funding to expand operations and develop more products. https://lnkd.in/d5BPp84S 19. Kyuho Han's MEDIC Life Sciences, a cancer biomarker discovery company, announces a $5 million strategic investment from LG Electronics and Hanmi Pharmaceutical to advance their breakthrough MCAT™ platform, driving innovations in cancer drug discovery. https://lnkd.in/dUbcFr7c 20. Jeroen Kodde and Kaminari Medical, a photoacoustics and ultrasound imaging platform developer, has raised €3.8 million ($3.99 million) in new funding with Graduate Entrepreneur Fund, NLC Health Ventures, Libertatis Ergo Holding B.V., Demcon investment and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency participating. https://lnkd.in/d8FB32dg 21. Beyond Presence, a Munich-based startup, has raised $3.1 million in a pre-seed round to develop hyper-realistic avatars for real-time use cases such as customer service and recruitment. HV Capital led the round, with participation from 10x Founders, Alba VC, and others. https://lnkd.in/dSXsGqMA 22. Parakeet Health, co-led by former One Medical CEO Tom Lee, closes $3 million in seed funding led by Canvas Ventures. The AI health-tech company seeks to revolutionize patient communication through its AI call center and reduce patient acquisition costs. https://lnkd.in/daSt5W9j 23. Aaron Marks' FullyRamped, an AI-powered sales development platform, raises $2.3 million in pre-seed funding led by BoxGroup, MaC Venture Capital, and NOMO Ventures, with participation from Greylock and Sequoia Capital through scout funds. https://lnkd.in/d3fyUBbX 24. AILA, a Saudi Arabia-based edtech company leveraging generative AI, has raised $1.15 million in a pre-seed round led by Sabah Hub and White Hill Capital, with other angel investors also participating. AILA aims to expand regionally and further develop its technologies. https://lnkd.in/d9YNtNzu 25. Munchfam, a Helsinki-based digital solutions provider for restaurants, has raised €600,000 ($630,000) in new funding from Pitchdrive | Early-stage VC 🚀, Genesis, and angel investors from Eat Just, Inc., Bolt, and others. The capital will help the company empower restaurants by providing modern dining solutions. https://lnkd.in/dFYCyg_Z

Healthcare Startups, Time is Running Out to Enter the MedCity INVEST Pitch Perfect Contest in Chicago – MedCity News - MedCity News #MedCityINVESTPitchPerfectContest #HealthcareStartups #Chicago #MedCityNews Are you a healthcare startup looking for an opportunity to pitch your innovative ideas? Time is running out to enter the MedCity INVEST Pitch Perfect Contest in Chicago. This contest provides a platform for startups to showcase their solutions and gain exposure in the healthcare industry. Don't miss this chance to make your mark! Key points from the blog post: - The MedCity INVEST Pitch Perfect Contest is a great opportunity for healthcare startups to pitch their ideas in Chicago. - The deadline for entering the contest is approaching, so act fast to secure your spot. - This contest is a valuable opportunity for startups to gain recognition and network with industry professionals ai.mediformatica.com #startup #medcity #news #startups #health #invest #application #conference #diagnostics #healthtech #biopharma #biotech #digitalhealth #healthit #healthcaretechnology @MediFormatica (https://buff.ly/3wxwvym)

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