Browsing: Seed

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs are easy to underestimate. They make up a fraction—just 3.65%—of the total federal research and development budget. Their administration is decentralized across 11 federal agencies. Their individual awards have statutory limits of $305,000 for Phase I and $2 million for Phase II—modest…

eComID has raised $17 million in seed funding to expand its Shopping Passport platform globally and build what it describes as a shopper context layer for the next generation of online commerce. Systemiq Capital led the round, with participation from Regeneration.VC, Course Corrected, Stadium and returning investor CapitalT.

Synthetic raises funding through a $10 million seed round led by. Basis Set Ventures also participated in the round, alongside several operator-investors. These include Tobi Lütke of Shopify and Kaz Nejatian of Opendoor. Zach Abrams, Cosmin Nicolaescu and Michael Tannenbaum also joined the investor group.

The Saudi Aramco-backed investor joined Bessemer and Tribeca in funding an AI startup building digital replicas of employees.

African defense tech company Terra Industries on Monday announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 million. Investors in the round include Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, Silent Ventures, and Nova Global. 

Terra Industries just closed one of Africa’s largest-ever seed rounds. The defense tech startup announced an additional $18 million in funding today, bringing its total seed to $52 million – a staggering amount for early-stage capital in emerging markets. The round signals growing investor appetite for defense infrastructure in the Global South, a sector that’s…

Corma has raised $60 million in seed funding to build a foundation model specifically for defensive cybersecurity, targeting a widening gap between rapidly advancing AI-powered attacks and the ability of existing security systems to detect and stop them. Sequoia Capital led the financing, with participation from Khosla Ventures and Coatue.

Applying Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), Eikona’s AI engine learns from user engagement and generates content that people respond to, driving double-digit uplifts in sales for lifecycle marketing

Recognition comes as Accounting Seed expands its AI capabilities and supports more than 60,000 users worldwide

GEM has closed its inaugural fund dedicated to seed- and micro-stage venture capital with $82 million in commitments, exceeding both its $60 million fundraising target and $80 million internal hard cap.