Silicon Valley Journals Most venture-backed companies climb a version of the same ladder: friends & family, pre-seed, seed, Series A, and on through the alphabet. Each stage has its own investors, check sizes, valuation norms, and expectations, and each one costs the founders a slice of the company. This guide covers every stage, with typical numbers for each … Read more
Supabase, the open source Postgres development platform, has raised $100 million in Series E funding at a $5 billion valuation, co-led by Accel and Peak XV, with participation from Figma Ventures and other existing backers. The round comes just four months after Supabase’s Series D, bringing its total funding to more than $500 million. As … Read more
Hupside, the Original Intelligence platform company helping organizations identify, measure, and scale human originality in an AI-driven world, today announced it has closed a $1.7 million pre-seed round led by Ruxton Ventures, with participation from strategic angel investors. The funding aligns with the public availability of Hupchecker, a first-of-its-kind, research-backed assessment platform that measures Original … Read more
Anything, the AI platform that turns natural language prompts into production-ready mobile and web apps, has raised $11 million in Series A funding at a $100 million valuation. The round was led by Footwork, with participation from M13. Prior investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Uncork Capital. The raise follows a year of rapid product … Read more
Obot AI, an open-source software company building secure, enterprise-ready platforms for the emerging Model Context Protocol (MCP) standard, today announced a $35 million seed funding round. The round was co-led by Mayfield Fund and Nexus Venture Partners. The new capital will support Obot as it expands the development of its open-source projects, including the Obot MCP Gateway and Nanobot MCP … Read more
Upscale AI, Inc., a new high‑performance AI networking company recently announced its launch with over $100 million in funding. The seed round was co-led by Mayfield and Maverick Silicon and included participation from StepStone Group, Celesta Capital, Xora, Qualcomm Ventures, Cota Capital, MVP Ventures, and Stanford University. Upscale AI was incubated by Auradine, a rapidly growing infrastructure … Read more
AusperBio Therapeutics, Inc. and Ausper Biopharma Co., Ltd. (collectively AusperBio), a privately held clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to advancing targeted oligonucleotide therapies to achieve a functional cure for chronic hepatitis B (CHB), today announced the closing of its $63 million Series B2 financing. The financing was strongly supported by the company’s existing syndicate of investors, … Read more
AppZen, the leading Agentic AI platform for finance teams, announced it raised $180 million in growth funding. This round was led by Riverwood Capital, one of the leading investment firms solely dedicated to technology growth and scalability. AppZen is the AI-native platform for autonomous finance. Powered by proprietary ZenLM models and the Mastermind AI Automation Platform, AppZen’s … Read more
Ultralytics, a global leader in vision AI at the edge, has completed a $30 million Series A funding round recently led by Elephant with participation from SquareOne. “Ultralytics’ success is built on the conviction that open-source drives enterprise innovation, and nowhere is that more evident than in artificial intelligence,” said Glenn Jocher, Founder and CEO, Ultralytics. “We’ve redefined what’s possible with Edge AI, … Read more
Baseten just pulled in a massive $150 million Series D, vaulting the AI infrastructure startup to a $2.15 billion valuation and cementing its place as one of the most important players in the race to scale inference — the behind-the-scenes compute that makes AI apps actually run. If the last generation of great tech companies … Read more