AstroForge, the California-based asteroid mining startup, has raised $40 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Nova Threshold with participation from 776, Initialized Capital, 468 Capital, Y Combinator, Uncorrelated Ventures and Jed McCaleb. The new capital will propel AstroForge toward its next major milestone, Mission 3: Vestri. With a focus on developing …
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KARRI secures pre-seed to launch smart walkie talkie for kids to communicate safely with parents
KARRI, a startup developing a smart walkie-talkie for children, has raised £775,000 in pre-seed funding. The round was led by 468 Capital and included contributions from a notable group of angel investors such as Verena Pausder (an early backer of play-based learning provider Edurino and Chair of the Board at the German Startup Association), Hakan …
Codesphere raises $18M Series A
German startup Codesphere has secured $18 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Creandum, with existing investors including LEA Partners, Begin Capital, 42CAP and 468 Capital also participating. Codesphere enables developers to program and scale complex applications directly in the cloud without the traditional challenges of DevOps and containerization. This leads to …
Yoneda Labs raises $4M to build foundation model for chemists
Yoneda Labs, the startup building a foundation model for chemists working in drug discovery, announced it has raised $4 million in seed capital from Khosla Ventures, 500 Emerging Europe, 468 Capital, and Y Combinator. More than 400,000 chemists are working on chemical manufacturing around the world. While scientists have begun to leverage AI in the …
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Battery storage company Terra One raises $7.5M to power transition to green energy
Terra One, a Berlin-based startup powering the transition to green energy with its grid-connected large-scale battery storage systems, has raised $7.5 million in seed funding. Leading the round is PT1, the early-stage VC for transformative real asset technologies, with the support of neosfer, the early-stage investor of Commerzbank. 468 Capital, the first backers of Terra …
UserHub secures $3.2M to help SaaS startups monetize and scale
UserHub, a user-based billing platform built for B2B SaaS, has secured $3.2 million in pre-seed funding. The investment, led by 468 Capital, marks a major step forward in the company’s mission to make modern monetization infrastructure attainable for every software business. UserHub will use the funding to expand the engineering team, accelerate product development, and …
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acto raises €3.7M seed to build the gold standard for active decision intelligence, starting in B2B sales
acto, which is at the forefront of active decision intelligence for B2B sales teams, has raised €3.7 million in seed funding. The round, led by 468 Capital and Cusp Capital, with continued support from adesso ventures, will be used to further the startup’s mission to help B2B companies use data more effectively and solve the …
Razor Group acquires US Amazon aggregator Perch and announces Series D financing round
Razor Group (“Razor”) has acquired Perch, the leading Amazon aggregator in the US, solidifying its position as the global leader in the aggregation of online marketplace consumer brands and creating the #1 player in the industry. The acquisition is part of Razor’s broader consolidation strategy, underscoring its capability to act as the key consolidator within …
VectorShift raises $3M to build AI workflows
VectorShift, the AI automations platform, announced it has raised $3 million in seed funding. The US-based startup is working to simplify LLM application development with a modular no-code approach. It does so by providing enterprises from a variety of sectors with an end-to-end AI platform, where users can simply drag and drop components to build, …
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Jua, the startup developing the world’s first AI foundation model for the natural world, raises $16M
Jua, the startup developing the world’s first AI foundation model for the natural world, has raised $16 million to continue the research, design and customer launch of its platform. The company is developing the first commercially available AI to help humans understand, respond to and predict events in nature. With a planned launch shortly, Jua’s …