Author: devcuration

There is a certain kind of silence right before an industry gets uncomfortable. That quiet moment when the math finally works, the excuses dry up, and the old guard realizes the energy bill just got audited. Tobe Energy lives in that space. Oklahoma-based, hydrogen-obsessed, and deeply uninterested in wasting electrons, this company is building technology that does not negotiate with legacy inefficiency. It just shows the numbers and lets the room get quiet. Founded March 2024 by Colby F. DeWeese and Dr. Caleb Lareau, with Louis Mounsey pulling commercial gravity into orbit, Tobe Energy feels like a deliberate collision of…

Traini did not wake up one morning and decide to teach dogs how to talk. This started the way real categories always do, with a founder staring at a problem people smirk at until the data stops joking. Founded in 2022 in Palo Alto by Arvin Sun, Traini is building pet emotional intelligence with multimodal AI that listens, watches, and learns. Audio, visual, and behavior signals fused together to translate what dogs are actually feeling into something humans can understand, in real time, two way, no theatrics. Timing matters, and Traini’s timing is surgical. 2M+ dogs already served, 70M+ YouTube…

Philanthropist and entrepreneur Tom Golisano just dropped a $100M commitment that’s reshaping the map of pediatric healthcare. Two hospitals, Arkansas Children’s in Little Rock and Wellstar Children’s Hospital of Georgia in Augusta, are each receiving $50M and joining the Golisano Children’s Alliance, bringing the total network to 12 leading institutions nationwide. That’s not just expansion, it’s ecosystem design. When the founder of Paychex starts investing in children’s hospitals, it’s not about legacy. It’s about leverage. Arkansas Children’s, founded in 1912 by Horace Gaines Pugh, evolved from an orphanage into the state’s only pediatric health system fully dedicated to kids. This…

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…

In the race to outsmart antibiotic resistance, Pragmatech AI Solutions just made a move worth watching. The Oviedo-based startup closed a €650,000 round that fuses equity and non-dilutive capital, precision finance for a precision problem. First Drop VC led with €300,000, Urriellu Ventures added €175,000, and ENISA backed it with a €180,000 participative loan. That mix isn’t luck, it’s strategic engineering built for scale, not burn. Co-CEOs Javier Fernández Domínguez, PharmD, PhD, and Pablo Valledor aren’t your typical founders. One spent 15 years in hospital microbiology fighting infections molecule by molecule, the other spent nearly two decades training algorithms to…

In construction, the truth gets buried under noise faster than rebar in concrete. One call changes everything, a decision made, a detail missed, and by the time it hits the paperwork, it’s gone. That gap costs contractors millions every year. Hardline just raised $2 million in pre-seed funding to close it for good. Founded in March 2025 and already locking down capital by December, this Los Angeles-based crew isn’t building slowly, they’re building smart. Congratulations to cofounders Alena Tuttle and Karly-Lynn Heffernan for turning friction into innovation, and props to Suffolk Technologies for backing them through their BOOST 6 accelerator.…

Functional food has a way of exposing who is actually doing the work and who is just remixing sugar water with a wellness playlist. NextFoods stepped back into the spotlight on December 18, 2025 with a $10M Series 3 round led by ECP Growth, and the message was clear without saying it out loud. This is what long-term conviction looks like when the science, distribution, and discipline all show up on time. Founded in 2006 by Steve Demos and Todd Beckman, NextFoods was never built for fast applause. It was built for receipts. Real ones. Clinical ones. Years before gut…

In July 2020, while most of real estate was still guarding 5–6% commissions like they were constitutional amendments, Beycome showed up in Miami asking an uncomfortable question. If technology can automate finance, logistics, and global commerce, why does selling a home still feel like paying a cover charge to your own equity? Nico Jodin, Philippe Kalifa, Herve Barbera, and Cyrille Carbonnier didn’t pitch rebellion. They built an alternative and let the math do the talking. They bootstrapped for 3 years, reached profitability, and scaled quietly while others chased headlines. By the time outside capital entered the chat, Beycome was already…

There is a quiet problem sitting inside wealth management that nobody puts on a billboard. Financial advisors are credentialed, ambitious, and surrounded by demand, yet the average conversion still burns 58 hours like a slow leak no CRM ever fixed. FINNY AI Inc. did not show up to decorate that reality. It showed up to erase it. Born in NYC in Dec 2023 and launched Mar 2024, FINNY is what happens when frustration meets machine learning and decides to get ruthless about efficiency. Eden Ovadia did not arrive here by accident. At Boston Consulting Group, advising major financial institutions and…

Neurable Inc. just closed a $35M Series A and this one does not read like a hype cycle. It reads like a balance sheet finally catching up to a decade of serious neuroscience. Founded in March 2015 out of the University of Michigan Direct Brain Interface Laboratory, Neurable spent 10+ years doing the work most people skip. Signal fidelity. Validation. Patents. The kind of progress that compounds quietly until it stops being quiet. Dr. Ramses Alcaide is not a storyteller pretending to be a scientist. He is a neuroscientist who decided the lab was not the finish line. PhD in…