Author: devcuration

Just under the surface of most enterprise tech stacks lies a goldmine of data, untapped, underleveraged, and aging faster than an inbox full of unread Slack notifications. The difference between surviving and dominating in 2025? Knowing how to turn that data into foresight, not just hindsight. Enter CRED, and no, it’s not just another AI company playing Mad Libs with buzzwords. This one came to play offense. After quietly building in the shadows since 2018, CRED just stepped into the light with a $15M seed round led by defy.vc, backed by heavyweights like HOF Capital, Alumni Ventures, LDV Partners, Streamlined…

The battery game has always had one problem, it runs out. Not just the juice, but the infrastructure, the raw materials, the domestic reliability. And while most folks stayed busy pitching buzzwords and shiny decks to Band-Aid the issue, Nascent Materials went underground. Lab coats on. Silence mode. No leaks. Just build. Now, they’ve emerged from stealth, and not with some recycled pitch about “next-gen” anything. They showed up with patents, production, and product already in customers’ hands. No vapor. Just voltage. Big congrats to Chaitanya Sharma, Co-founder and CEO of Nascent Materials, for securing a $2.3M seed round led…

In a world where “pharma” usually translates to red tape, recall notices, and commercials with side effects longer than your grocery list, USpharma Ltd. just reminded us what happens when execution meets vision, and science gets the final word. Tucked into a 150,000 sq. ft. fortress in Miami Lakes, Florida, formerly Merck’s domain, Dr. Manesh Dixit didn’t just acquire infrastructure, he acquired leverage. The kind that doesn’t show up on a balance sheet, but in product velocity and regulatory swagger. After throwing $9M into HVACs, warehouse systems, and enough fire protection to host a DEA inspection (which they passed), USpharma…

Sales is a game of rhythm, until someone hands you a CRM and calls it music. The reality? Most of those tools sound like elevator jazz at a techno rave. Enter Skarbe, a platform that doesn’t just speak the founder’s language, it listens, records, drafts, schedules, and sells with them. Founded in 2023 by Mikita Martynau (CEO), Alex Talyuk (CTO), and Ilya Kørzūn (COO), Skarbe didn’t emerge from some ivory tower of sales theory. It came from the trenches. Mikita built scale at PandaDoc from $10M to $100M ARR and knew firsthand how traditional CRMs punish productivity. Alex brought the…

You ever see someone turn a raw, dusty problem into something so clean it hums like vinyl on a Technics 1210? That’s what’s going down in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Manta AI just pulled in $2 million from Equal Opportunity Ventures to bring clarity to chaos, turning messy, marginalized data into power moves for the people who actually need it. And no, this isn’t your dad’s data lineage company. This is a whole different animal swimming in a much deeper ocean. Founded by Roland Fryer, MacArthur Genius, Clark Medalist, and once slinging fries at a McDonald’s drive-thru, and technologist Matt VanNuys,…

Some startups talk about changing the world. Others start in a Harvard classroom, leave before graduation, incorporate in India, and land a Fortune 500 client before the ink on the seed term sheet even dries. LogicFlo AI is doing the latter, no press release fluff, just agents, action, and auditable automation built for the science that keeps us alive. Founded in 2024 by Udith Vaidyanathan and Arun Ramakrishnan, LogicFlo AI was born out of frustration with a broken status quo: the best minds in life sciences stuck doing regulatory sudoku and SOP scavenger hunts while miracle drugs waited in the…

Some startups make noise. Woodchuck made energy, and just raised $3.75M in seed funding to keep that power flowing. Todd Thomas isn’t just building a company, he’s building a smarter biomass supply chain from the dirt up. Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Woodchuck is flipping construction and wood waste into high-quality biomass fuel using AI with sharper vision than most founders’ pitch decks. While the industry’s still talking about circular economies, Woodchuck’s already moving wood waste through a closed-loop system that’s feeding America’s clean energy grid and making carbon regret its comeback tour. Let’s get one thing straight: this isn’t…

AI might be eating the world, but it still needs someone to teach everyday folks how to cook with it. Enter Audos, the NYC startup serving up tools, capital, and human expertise for everyday entrepreneurs building AI-powered businesses. Because the future of entrepreneurship isn’t just for engineers with Y Combinator tattoos, it’s for anyone with knowledge worth scaling. across its Pre-Seed and Seed rounds, led by True Ventures, with strong support from Offline Ventures, Bungalow Capital, and a sharp lineup of individual investors including Bjarke Ingels, Leila Zegna, Niklas Zennstrom, and Mario Schlosser. But this wasn’t some over-polished pitch chasing…

There’s a reason NiaHealth didn’t launch with fanfare and fog machines. They were too busy building what most of the Canadian healthcare system still hasn’t figured out, how to actually prevent illness, not just react to it. That’s not disruption, that’s long-overdue logic. And today, the market just gave them $5.75M more reasons to double down. Led by Matt Golden and the team at Golden Ventures, with heavyweights like Kyle Braatz (Fullscript), Satish Kanwar and Arati Sharma (Good Future), Jonathan Ehrlich (Roar Ventures), Zach Coelius (Coelius Capital), The51, Jason Smith (Klue), Kathy Butler (CIBC), and returning fire from Boris Wertz…

Straight outta stealth and straight into the spotlight, 2wai isn’t just another AI startup, it’s building something so uncanny it borders on sci-fi, minus the dystopia. Their HoloAvatars talk, move, and think with you, not at you, and they’re doing it in real-time, across 40+ languages, on your device. Not some cloud-lagged, server-farmed puppet show. We’re talking edge-processed, lip-synced, emotionally fluid avatars that don’t glitch when your WiFi sneezes. Founded in 2024 by Russell Geyser, a Hollywood vet and startup shark with three public exits and a private equity play, and Calum Worthy, a creative powerhouse with 25 years of…