Author: devcuration

December 31, 2025. While most people were closing tabs, posting recaps, and calling it a year, GUGLI Corporation quietly closed a $3.2M round and went right back to work. No victory laps. No noise. Just infrastructure doing its job when everything else is chaos. That alone tells you what kind of company this is. GUGLI Corporation exists because silence once killed people. On September 11, radios went dark inside the World Trade Center, and first responders never got the warning. Building codes responded with annual inspections, which is a polite way of saying we hope nothing breaks for the next…

Web3 Files Network did not walk in with fireworks or buzzwords. It showed up quietly, plugged itself into the spine of the internet, and started fixing the part most teams pretend is “good enough.” Filestorage is boring until it breaks. Centralized clouds fail loudly. IPFS works silently. The problem has never been the tech. The problem has been making it usable without a PhD and a terminal window. Frank Corsi saw that gap and treated it like an engineering problem, not a branding exercise. Founded in Feb 2025 and officially live on Sept 15, Web3 Files Network sits on IPFS…

Rembrand just dropped $23M in fresh paint on the wall, and it is not decorative. Series A, led by super{set}, with The Trade Desk, Naver D2SF, and Omega Venture Partners stepping in, plus continued conviction from Greycroft and BOLD, L’Oréal’s venture arm. This is not speculative capital. This is the advertising ecosystem signaling, in unison, that it sees where video monetization is actually going, not where the slide decks said it was five years ago. Founded in 2022, Rembrand shows up with experience baked in. Omar Tawakol has already built and sold category-defining data companies. Ahmed Saad engineered virtual product…

San Francisco has no shortage of AI demos that look great in a pitch deck and fall apart the second a real user shows up. Lemon Slice showed up with something different. Not louder. Not flashier. Just inevitable. Founded in January 2024 after a hard pivot from Infinity AI, Lemon Slice landed on a simple thesis that most people overcomplicate. Conversation wants a face. Text boxes were always a placeholder, not a destination. The team behind it is not new to pressure or production. Lina Avancini Colucci, PhD, Sidney Primas, and Andrew Weitz, PhD have been building together for over…

There’s a new signal cutting through the cybersecurity noise, and it’s coming from Texas. DigitalXForce just secured $5 million in strategic funding at a $100 million valuation, led by Innovating Capital and Kapital.io, with new strategic investors from India and the Middle East stepping into the mix. Not bad for a company founded in 2023. While most startups that age are still building pitch decks, DigitalXForce is out here replacing legacy GRC relics like RSA Archer and ServiceNow IRM with an AI-native platform that doesn’t just track risk, it predicts it. Founder and CEO Lalit Ahluwalia spent two decades watching…

Money is only digital if you can still touch it. That truth is where KaliSpot lives, breathes, and just secured $4M to scale. While fintech debates UI tweaks and growth hacks, KaliSpot is handling the unsexy problem that still decides outcomes. Cash access. Liquidity. The distance between a mobile wallet and real money. In West and Central Africa, that distance is not theoretical. It is daily friction, lost time, and stalled commerce. Founded in 2021 by Mika Diol, a Senegalese technologist shaped inside Microsoft, Oracle, and Ericsson, KaliSpot did not start with a deck. It started with frustration. Money parked…

Some startups chase disruption. Biobeat Technologies just made it look inevitable. Founded in 2016 by Arik Ben Ishay, Johanan May, and Israel Sarussi, Biobeat was born from a battlefield problem and turned into a global medtech revolution. When Arik Ben Ishay served as a volunteer paramedic during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict, he faced a brutal truth, monitoring multiple patients meant juggling wires, cuffs, and chaos. Out of that chaos came clarity: what if one device could track everything, continuously, no cuffs, no limits? Fast-forward to today, and that idea just pulled in a $50 million Series B round backed by…

Some names don’t need an introduction, they need a sequel. Marissa Mayer just dropped hers with Dazzle AI, securing an $8 million seed round led by Kirsten Green of Forerunner Ventures, alongside heavyweights like Kleiner Perkins, Greycroft, Slow Ventures, Bling Capital, Amino Capital, Offline Ventures, and Acquired Wisdom Fund. Palo Alto just got its next headliner. After steering Yahoo through chaos and watching Sunshine fade behind the clouds, Mayer didn’t pack it in, she pivoted hard. Dazzle AI isn’t some nostalgia act from a Silicon Valley veteran trying to stay relevant. It’s a full reboot built around a simple but…

December 22, 2025 lands quiet but heavy. Dentira secures a strategic growth investment from Vista Equity Partners via the Endeavor Strategy, the lane reserved for enterprise software that already cleared the hard part. Minimum $10M in recurring revenue just to qualify. No speculative optimism, no narrative gymnastics. Just proof of execution. That detail matters because it frames this moment not as arrival, but as leverage. Dentira never chased shiny objects. It went straight at a problem dentistry had normalized for decades. Fragmented vendors, opaque pricing, inventory guesswork, labs running parallel processes like it was still 2003. Vikas Gupta saw it…

Every few years a company shows up that does not beg for attention. It just quietly rearranges where the money flows. TrueMed just did exactly that, closing a $34M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Bessemer Venture Partners, Long Journey Ventures, BoxGroup, and Trust Ventures in the room. This is not wellness theater. This is infrastructure capital aimed straight at how Americans actually pay for health. Justin Mares did not build TrueMed to sell vibes, powders, or slogans. He built a payments and compliance engine designed to unlock $159B already parked in HSA accounts, plus another $30B+ sitting in…