Browsing: Seed

For years, crowdfunding had a reputation as the place founders went when they couldn’t raise venture capital. Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor thinks founders should look at it very differently.

Ploy, the AI‑driven website building and marketing automation platform founded by former Webflow CTO Bryant Chou, announced a $27 million seed round on June 18, 2026. The round was led by First Round and Y Combinator, with the capital earmarked for product development and scaling of its AI agents that generate landing pages, copy, and campaigns.

Accounting Seed’s AI model builds knowledge of each business’s workflows, approval paths, policies, and revenue recognition rules, then applies that knowledge when answering questions and completing work.

Peak XV Partners just doubled down on early-stage investing, raising its Surge program’s seed investment ceiling to $5 million while unveiling an 18-startup cohort targeting global markets. The move comes as Series A funding becomes increasingly competitive, forcing accelerators to provide bigger checks to help startups bridge the gap to institutional rounds.

Peak XV Partners, one of the largest venture capital firms investing in markets including India and Southeast Asia with more than $10 billion in assets under management, has increased how much it invests per startup through Surge, its seed-stage investing platform, as it unveils a new cohort of 18 companies.

Relationship intelligence platform Crux Analytics has raised €1.9 million ($2.2 million) in seed funding, bringing the company’s total capital raised to €2.8 million. The round was led by Castle Creek Launchpad, a joint venture fund with 35 community banks as limited partners. Chartway Ventures, One Washington Financial, and Curql, three credit union investment funds, also…

Greece-based Anacalypsis Therapeutics has raised a pre-seed financing round led by Metavallon VC through its Brain Gain Fund to advance AT001, a stapled peptide targeting the LRRK2–FADD protein-protein interaction as a potential treatment for Parkinson’s disease. The amount raised was not disclosed.

September 22, 2026 — Infini, an AI-powered global financial platform, today announced the close of a $6 million seed funding round. The round included participation from leading venture capital firms, including Reforge, Fortwest Capital, Enlight Capital, NextGen Digital Venture, SNZ Capital, and Vernal

RIYADH: Saudi fintech Abwab.ai raised SR15 million ($4 million) in a seed round led by European venture capital firm Speedinvest as it seeks to expand its AI-powered lending infrastructure for small and medium-sized businesses. 

Corridor just closed a massive $25 million seed round to tackle a problem that’s been plaguing small businesses for years: getting decent health benefits without the enterprise-level hassle. The startup is betting that traditional brokerages have left money on the table by ignoring smaller companies, and they’re building a tech-first platform to fill that gap.