Author: devcuration

In 1963, a single Sizzler opened in Sugar House, Salt Lake City, a quiet move with loud consequences. That lone steakhouse didn’t just serve dinner, it served notice. Six decades later, that original flame is now a firestorm: Sizzling Platter, LLC, a 13,000-employee franchise force with over 800 quick-service and fast-casual locations across the U.S. and Mexico. This isn’t your uncle’s franchise group. It’s an operational machine quietly shaping the dining map behind brands you already crave. And now? They just dropped the kind of financing that makes Wall Street pay attention and competitors start rereading their leases. Affiliates of…

In a world where AI gets handed to the software kids like candy, Parter just walked out of stealth and reminded the rest of us that hardware still runs the world, and it’s messy, expensive, and one bad spreadsheet away from disaster. On July 7, 2025, Parter announced $5.5M in seed funding to help hardware teams finally play offense, not just defense. This round was led by StageOne Ventures, a crew that doesn’t show up unless they smell real heat, alongside Zenda Capital and Mercer Ventures. Toss in angels like former Sequoia partner Shmil Levy, Ariel Maislos, execs from Cisco,…

Some startups are born out of spreadsheets. Others are born out of necessity, and the ones that rise from chaos tend to burn a little brighter. When Joan Nguyen and Chriselle Lim launched Bumo, it wasn’t because they saw a market opportunity. It was because the market failed them, and every working parent trying to juggle Zoom calls with diaper changes. This wasn’t product-market fit. This was survival turned scalable. Now, the on-demand childcare marketplace has locked in a $10M seed round, led by Offline Ventures and True Ventures, with backing from Goodwater Capital, Marketplace Capital, and a stack of…

Some health startups want to treat disease. Sensifai Health wants to ambush it before it ever shows up at the party. Fresh out of stealth and straight out of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), this Canadian-Israeli preemptive health company just secured an undisclosed seed round led by Glen Ventures, with firepower from Eurêka Investment Fund. But the real story isn’t the funding, it’s the fuse they just lit under an industry still busy playing catch-up. Dr. Amir Hadid, Sensifai’s co-founder and CEO, isn’t building another digital symptom checker for hypochondriacs. This is a guy who’s…

When you tell the planet’s story from space, it better come with receipts. Chloris Geospatial just pulled in an $8.5M Series A to do exactly that, and the funding round reads like a who’s who of climate-capital conviction. Led by Future Energy Ventures, with returning believers like AXA IM Alts, At One Ventures, Cisco Foundation, Counteract, and Orbia Ventures, this round isn’t about hype, it’s about validation. Data doesn’t lie. And Chloris doesn’t guess. Founded in 2021 and operating out of Boston with a braintrust that could make a NASA boardroom blush, Chloris is laser-focused on one thing: showing the…

The next time someone tells you drug discovery is slow, expensive, and chained to legacy chemistry, you point them to Menlo Park, where Synfini Inc. is putting that narrative through the shredder. Spun out of SRI International less than a year ago, Synfini just closed an $8.9M expansion round. Lead investor JSL Health Capital showed up with the conviction, and a deep syndicate followed, including WERU Investments, Ferocity Capital, SRI Ventures, Foothill Ventures, Trust Ventures, High Water Venture Partners, Mana Ventures, and Gaingels. That’s not a cap table, that’s a tactical unit, the kind you deploy when you’re done playing…

The earned wage access game just leveled up, and it’s not subtle. DailyPay locked in a $200 million asset-backed securitization on June 30, 2025, a move that’s less about playing defense and more about building a war chest. Barclays took the lead on the book and structuring, while Citi and Morgan Stanley flanked as joint bookrunners. Morningstar DBRS slapped ratings from AA to BB across the four tranches. That’s not just financial engineering, it’s capital markets jiu-jitsu. This isn’t DailyPay’s first time on the debt floor either. They’ve pulled nearly $1 billion in receivables-backed debt to date, layering that with…

If you’ve ever tried to read a construction blueprint and felt like you were decoding the Voynich manuscript with a hangover, you’re not alone. Somewhere between the archaic symbols, outdated workflows, and endless manual estimates, $50 billion a year gets torched just figuring out how much wood, steel, and concrete you’ll actually need. Enter Bild AI, a name that doesn’t just sound like a construction tech company, it hits like a command: build smarter. Founded in February 2024, Bild AI is coming off the blueprint like a wrecking ball through inefficiency, closing a $3.1M seed round led by Khosla Ventures.…

Alkeme Insurance just pulled a move that most in the insurance space will feel three quarters too late. The Southern California-based brokerage, known for moving at a tempo that feels more tech house than traditional coverage, announced it has secured a new investment from Flexpoint Ford, a private equity firm with a taste for companies that don’t wait for markets to evolve, they evolve markets. Let’s be clear: this wasn’t a “raise.” This was a reload. Under the steady hand of CEO Curtis Barton and the strategic command of President Chris Walters, Alkeme isn’t just scaling, it’s compounding. Since 2020,…

The life sciences industry is many things: precise, life-altering, and let’s be honest, painfully bureaucratic. It’s a world where PhDs spend more time babysitting documents than solving the problems they were born to tackle. Enter LogicFlo AI, the Boston-based team that just secured $2.7 million in seed funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, led by Rohil Bagga, with support from other top-tier healthcare and enterprise AI investors. And they didn’t just raise capital, they raised eyebrows across pharma, biotech, and medtech. This isn’t another AI startup with a shiny deck and a chatbot in a lab coat. LogicFlo AI, founded by…