Author: Jesse Landry

In a market obsessed with speed, Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev built a company around something most founders avoid like a tax audit: durability. And now Temporal has secured $300M in Series D funding at a $5B valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sapphire Ventures in the mix, alongside returning firepower from Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Tiger Global, GIC, Madrona, and Amplify Partners. That is not a cap table. That is a statement. Temporal, founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, is the quiet backbone behind workflows that simply refuse to die. Open source at…

The future of energy does not arrive with fireworks. It hums in a lab in Madison, Wisconsin, where superconducting magnets whisper at temperatures that would make winter blush. Realta Fusion just secured a $9.5M growth capital facility from Silicon Valley Bank, a division of First Citizens Bank. Debt, not equity. Strategic, not flashy. The kind of capital you take when you know exactly what you are building and you do not feel like explaining it twice. Congratulations to Kieran Furlong, MBA, CEO and Co-Founder, and to the deep bench of scientific assassins beside him: Cary Forest, PhD, CSO and Co-Founder,…

Some startups chase waves. Seasats builds them. Out of San Diego, where the Pacific is less postcard and more proving ground, Seasats just pulled in a $20 million Series A to scale production of its small uncrewed surface vehicles. Not toy boats with WiFi. Long-endurance autonomous surface vessels built for defense, commercial operators, and researchers who prefer data over drama. Konvoy Ventures led the round, with Shield Capital, DNS Capital, Techstars, Tanis Venture Management, Crumpton Ventures, Dorado Group, and a slate of strategic investors leaning in. Smart capital betting on saltwater steel and software that does not blink. Credit where…

Compliance is where ambition goes to get audited. It is the quiet tax on every bank, fintech, and public company that wants to grow without a regulator breathing down its neck. So when Sphinx locks in $7.1 million in seed funding, you do not just clap politely. You pay attention. Cherry Ventures led the round, with Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, Deel Ventures, and Singularity Capital stepping in. That is not tourist capital. That is conviction capital. The kind that studies a $200 billion annual compliance spend and says, there is a smarter way to carry this weight. Respect where it…

There is a quiet truth in construction. The cranes move. The earth shifts. Billions in steel and diesel trade hands. And behind the curtain, a surprising amount of it still runs on software that feels like it was installed when flip phones were hot. Moab just stepped out of stealth with $16M across Seed and Series A, both led by Elad Gil, with strong backing from Ironspring Ventures and angels Karim Atiyeh of Ramp and Dave Yuan of Tidemark. Capital is loud. Conviction is louder. When operators who understand scale write checks twice, you lean in. Charles Soll, Co-Founder and…

Some startups raise capital. Others raise the bar. Dataro just did both with a $14.28M Series A, and if you understand what fundraising teams are actually up against, you know this is not just a headline. It is leverage. Founded in 2017 out of Sydney through the FuelID accelerator, Dataro has been quietly building the AI decision layer that sits on top of nonprofit CRMs and tells fundraisers what to do next. Not in theory. In practice. Tim Paris, Co-founder and CEO, alongside David Lyndon, Co-founder and CTO and Chris Paver, Co-founder and COO, saw something most people missed. Nonprofits…

GelMEDIX just pulled $13M in seed financing, and if you think that is just another biotech press release drifting through Cambridge, you are not paying attention. This is hydrogel with a pulse. First, respect where it is due. Congratulations to Reza Dana, MD, MPH, MSc, and Nasim Annabi, PhD, the scientific co-founders who turned years of academic collaboration into something that now carries venture backing and serious board firepower. And congratulations to Max Cotler, PhD, now CEO, who has climbed from operator to architect inside the same company. That is not a title change. That is continuity with conviction. Safar…

Somewhere in New York, trillions of telemetry events are whispering secrets about revenue. Most companies treat that data like background noise. QuadSci decided to turn up the volume. QuadSci just secured $8M in Series A financing, led by Crosslink Capital, with Alumni Ventures and Correlation Ventures in the mix, plus Shail Jain, Peter Gibson, Tom Roloff, and Rob Eberle backing the thesis. Smart capital does not chase vibes. It follows signal. And QuadSci is in the signal business. Sean Murray and Dan Harmeson built QuadSci.ai, Inc. around a simple but uncomfortable truth. Software companies love to talk about predictable revenue…

Somewhere between a red build and a 2 a.m. hotfix, every engineering team has the same quiet thought: there has to be a better way. Not another dashboard. Not another brittle script duct-taped to a CI pipeline. A better way. Autosana just secured $3.2M in seed funding to prove that thought right. Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Phosphor Capital, DeVC, 468 Capital, and Blast Club leaned in. Angels like Paul Graham, Eric Levine, Ooshma Garg, and Kulveer Taggar joined the cap table, alongside YC alumni, customers, and executives from Meta, Netflix, Coinbase, Robinhood, Discord, Life360, and Instacart. When operators who have…

When the vulnerability clock starts ticking, most companies are still looking for the clock. VulnCheck just raised $25M in Series B funding, and if you understand the tempo of cyber right now, you know this is less about capital and more about cadence. Sorenson Capital led the round, with Ten Eleven Ventures, In-Q-Tel, National Grid Partners, Lux Capital, and Aviso Ventures stepping back in like seasoned producers who know a hit when they hear one. Total funding now sits at $45M. That is not noise. That is signal. Anthony Bettini, Founder and CEO, has been here before. Appthority. FlawCheck. Built,…