Startup Funding
Enzyme engineering startup Imperagen raises £5M
Imperagen is an enzyme engineering startup that uses quantum simulation, AI, and robotics to design better enzymes faster. The Manchester company raised a £5 million seed round on Thursday. PXN Ventures led the deal, while IQ Capital and Northern Gritstone also participated. The pitch is simple: enzyme engineering is still too slow and too dependent […]
Stilta Raises $10.5M for Patent Litigation Software
Stilta is building patent litigation software that automates the heavy research and analysis behind intellectual property disputes. The startup raised a $10.5 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with backing from Y Combinator and operators linked to OpenAI, Legora, and Lovable. Patent litigation still involves large amounts of repetitive review work. That process is […]
Ocean Raises $28M for Agentic Email Security
Ocean builds agentic email security software that investigates incoming messages before employees act on them. The startup has now come out of stealth with $28 million in total funding as email fraud gets sharper, cheaper, and more personalized in the age of generative AI. Founded in 2024 by Shay Shwartz and Oran Moyal, Ocean is […]
Status AI Funding: $17M Bet on AI Social Gaming
Status AI is an AI social gaming app that lets people role-play as original or fandom characters inside a simulated social network. Status AI funding reached $17 million across seed and Series A on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, as investors backed a blunt thesis: younger users are getting bored of passive feeds and want entertainment […]
Trackk Trading App Raises $3.7M for Gen Z
Trackk is a Mumbai-based stock discovery and broking app for young Indian investors. The Trackk trading app has raised $3.7 million in a seed round led by Lightspeed, with participation from Info Edge Ventures. The startup wants to make investing simpler for Gen Z users. Many young investors discover stock ideas through creators, communities, and […]
AI Medical Notetaker Kin Health Raises $9M
Kin Health is building an AI medical notetaker for patients. The Los Angeles startup has raised a $9 million seed round led by Maveron. Doctor visits are often packed with instructions, jargon, and follow-ups. But many patients still leave without a clear record they can actually use.Kin was founded by physician brothers Arpan Parikh and […]
Cellogen Therapeutics Raises ₹20 Cr for CAR-T
Cellogen Therapeutics is building lower-cost CAR-T and gene therapies for cancer and blood disorders, and it has now pulled in ₹20 crore from Kotak Alternate Asset Managers. The big problem it’s chasing is brutally simple: existing CAR-T treatment can cost $500,000 to $700,000, which puts it out of reach for most patients. Founded in 2021 […]
Nectar Social Raises $30M to Build an AI Social OS
Nectar Social builds software that helps brands handle community management and social listening. It also covers creator workflows and commerce conversations in one place. That AI social OS just brought in a $30 million Series A led by Menlo Ventures and the Anthology Fund, which Menlo created alongside Anthropic. The pitch is simple: buying conversations […]
Simple Energy Funding: ₹126.7 Cr Led by Velumani
Simple Energy builds premium electric scooters for Indian riders. The latest Simple Energy funding round brings in ₹126.7 Cr at a moment when the Bengaluru startup is trying to prove it can scale faster than the delays and skepticism that followed its early years. India’s EV market is crowded, capital intensive, and brutally unforgiving when […]