Author: devcuration

Some companies chase regeneration like it is a buzzword. Amphix Bio treats it like a discipline, the kind that takes 20+ years of peer reviewed science, a Northwestern University spinout, and the patience to let biology do the talking. Founded in 2019 and spun out in 2021, this Chicago based company has been stacking proof quietly, not rushing the mic, not selling promises before the data shows up. That discipline showed its hand on December 18, 2025, with the announcement of a $12.5M seed round, bringing total dilutive and non dilutive capital to $18M. Every existing investor followed on. No…

Gravity has a way of exposing truth without saying a word. You don’t notice it at first, then suddenly you realize everything has been pulling you in the same direction the whole time. That feels like the right place to start with GravityLabs. Founded in July 2022 by Woonyeon Kim, also known as Jacob Kim, this company did not come out of Seoul chasing noise or attention. It showed up with mass. Quiet confidence. The kind that bends behavior instead of begging for it. MoneyWalk is where that gravity shows up in motion. An AI-powered healthcare platform that turns walking,…

NeuraWorx Medical Technology, Inc. is one of those companies that makes you stop scrolling, not because it’s loud, but because the science hums. Founded in 2021 in Excelsior, MN, this clinical-stage neurotech company is chasing a part of brain health most people forgot to ask about: cerebrovascular and glymphatic function. Translation for the real world: how the brain moves blood, clears waste, and keeps firing when time, trauma, or disease start stealing margin. The Cerebrovascular Pacing System™ didn’t come out of a pitch deck brainstorm or a late-night Slack thread. This platform was born inside the University of Wisconsin–Madison and…

Canada has spent the last decade renting its digital town square from foreign landlords, then acting surprised when the walls move, the rules change, and the lights flicker every time policy shifts south of the border. That low-grade anxiety is the real origin story behind Gander Social. Not outrage. Not noise. A decision. While managing social media for the Elbows Up Canada movement on Parliament Hill, Ben Waldman watched good-faith civic dialogue drown under trolling, manipulation, and tools built for extraction, not community. Gander Social launched in Ottawa in 2025 with a premise Big Tech hates because it cannot be…

December 18, 2025 landed like one of those industry moments that barely makes noise when it happens, then echoes for years. Manifold closed an $18M Series B led by Reach Capital, with SilverArc Capital and Industry Ventures stepping in and TQ Ventures plus Calibrate Ventures running it back. Total capital raised now sits at $40M. No fireworks, no chest beating, just a clear signal that serious infrastructure still attracts serious conviction when the problem is real and the execution shows receipts. Manifold was founded in 2016 as an AI lab, back when “vertical AI” was not yet dinner conversation. Vinay…

Some companies show up loud. Others show up inevitable. Katalist is the second kind. Founded June 2023 and headquartered at 548 Market St in San Francisco, this is what happens when people who actually shipped creative automation get tired of watching professional video production waste time, budget, and talent like it is a hobby. Andraz Zvonar and Blaž Blokar did not wander into this space. They met years ago at Celtra, lived inside the complexity, and decided the industry deserved something tighter, smarter, and built by people who know the grind. Katalist is a unified AI platform that takes a…

December 18, 2025 lands like a low rumble you feel before you hear it. Edison Scientific just closed a $70M seed round at a $250M post-money valuation, and this is not another AI headline built on vibes and demo-day lighting. This one smells like lab solvent, peer review, and nights that run long because the data refuses to behave. Spark Capital and Triatomic Capital came in as co-leads alongside a U.S.-based biotech investor who clearly understands that discovery, not compute, is the real choke point. Jeff Dean and Dmitri Alperovitch showing up as participants is not name-dropping, it is pattern…

There is a certain quiet that settles in right before an industry realizes it has been lying to itself. Commercial trucking insurance lived in that quiet for decades, pricing risk with lagging data, analog habits, and a prayer, while fleets hauling the economy paid the price. Nirvana Insurance didn’t break the silence politely. Founded in 2020, born from what Rushil Goel saw while scaling fleet tech at Samsara, the idea was dangerous in its simplicity. If trucks already generate truth in real time, why is insurance still guessing? That conviction just pulled in a $100M pre-emptive Series D. Led by…

Ottawa has a habit of producing quiet assassins in technology. Not loud, not flashy, just precise. Woodway Assurance fits that lineage perfectly. Founded in early fall 2025, this Canadian privacy technology company did not show up to make noise. It showed up to make proof. And in a world where data sharing goes to die in risk reviews, policy binders, and circular meetings, proof is the only thing that actually moves a decision forward. Woodway Assurance just closed a USD $1M oversubscribed seed round announced December 17, 2025, led by Aventure Capital with participation from multiple angel investors. For a…

Some companies chase horsepower. Mythic went hunting for wattage. On Dec 17, 2025, the Austin-born analog rebels closed a $125M Series D led by DCVC, with New Enterprise Associates, Atreides Management, Honda Motor Co., and Lockheed Martin stepping in with conviction. That pushes total capital raised north of $290M, not to flex valuation math, but to scale production of AI silicon that thinks more like a brain and less like a space heater. GPUs roar and gulp power. Mythic whispers, sips electrons, and still finishes the sentence. The roots explain the posture. Founded in 2012 as Isocline out of the…