Author: devcuration

It’s not every day a startup from Chubbuck, Idaho, yes, Chubbuck, drops a clinical intelligence platform that’s not just AI-powered but AI-native, trained to speak nephrology like a seasoned practitioner. That’s Nephrolytics, with sharp tech doing heavy clinical lifting in a field most of the Valley wouldn’t touch without gloves and a translator. This week, they locked in a $2.5M SAFE round, backed by a syndicate of physician investors and strategic healthcare leaders who don’t just write checks, they write the future of precision medicine. Let’s rewind the tape. Nephrolytics wasn’t born in a pitch deck. It was born in…

If you’ve ever had a family member in a skilled nursing facility or stuck in post-op purgatory waiting for an IV team that’s “on the way,” you already know the punchline: mobile care in this country is too often a rolling joke with no delivery. Vellum Health just dropped a very different kind of punchline, and this one hits like truth serum. On June 26, 2025, Vellum Health officially stepped out under a unified brand, backed by a fresh Series A round led by FCA Venture Partners with support from Green Park & Golf Ventures and follow-on angels like Michael…

Most startups are still trying to figure out how to recycle the hype from last year’s pitch decks, Novoloop is out here recycling polyethylene, the actual kind clogging your oceans, not your VC inbox. And they just locked in a $21 million Series B round to prove that doing the hard thing is, in fact, the smart thing. The round was led by Taranis, Perenco Group’s circularity and decarbonization powerhouse, and backed by returning believers at Valo Ventures and new momentum from SHOP Limited (aka the Bata Shoe Company family office). The game here isn’t greenwashing. It’s green engineering, scaled…

Foresight Data just raised $5.5M in seed funding, but let’s not pretend this is just another line in the cap table. This is what it looks like when two veterans of the private markets step off the sidelines, load the tech stack with ammo, and build the system they wish they had when they were behind the curtain. Founded in 2023 by Jason Miller (CEO) and Adam Devine (CRO), Foresight isn’t playing at “fixing” private market data, they’re declaring open season on the entire mess. Jason’s a West Point grad, Bronze Star recipient, and ex BlackRock, Point72, and Greycroft product…

GPS was built in the ’70s for Cold War combat, not Tesla autopilot or drone swarms dodging skyscrapers. It’s slow, weak, and too damn polite for the digital battlefield we’re living in now. If GPS is your granddad’s flip phone, Xona Space Systems is the quantum iPhone carving signals from space with sub-10cm accuracy and a signal so strong it punches through concrete like Tyson in ‘88. Xona just pulled in a $92 million Series B, bringing total funding to $150 million, to take its PULSAR satellite navigation constellation from ambitious to absolutely inevitable. Craft Ventures led the charge, with…

If you still think Bitcoin is just a speculative play for crypto bros in hoodies or corporate whales stacking sats on some backdoor balance sheet, you’re missing the plot. Castle just raised a $1M pre-seed round to make sure you don’t miss the next act. Castle isn’t about hype. It’s not promising to build a token or drop a white paper. What Stephen Cole and João Almeida are building is way more subversive than that, it’s infrastructure. Boring to the average observer. But to anyone who’s actually run a P&L or lost sleep over inflation-devoured savings, it’s a signal through…

There are AI startups, and then there’s Ubie, a company that didn’t just show up at the healthcare party; it built a VIP level guest list, curated the soundtrack, and handed out maps to the future. On June 26, Ubie announced it crossed $125M in cumulative funding. Not in one viral shot. No billion-dollar tweet. Just years of smart grind, medically-vetted AI, and the type of tech that doesn’t guess, it knows. When most startups are still arguing over feature sets, Ubie’s AI is diagnosing symptoms with an accuracy that makes Dr. House look like WebMD. Founded in May 2017…

Let’s talk about scale, not just headcount or ARR, but real scale. Infrastructure, compliance, intelligence. The kind of scale that makes CFOs sleep better and HR leaders stop grinding teeth at midnight. Niural just dropped a $31M Series A to do exactly that, and the story behind it? It’s what happens when you build AI from the ground up instead of pasting it to something built in 1986. Founded in 2022 by Nami Baral and Nabin Banskota, Niural isn’t your off-the-shelf PEO. It’s AI-native, globally tuned, and razor-focused on the distributed, fast-growth companies that are scaling past the spreadsheets but…

When your platform’s name literally means “everything” in Arabic, you’d better deliver. And Kalshi Inc. just did, closing a $185 million Series C and punching its ticket to a $2 billion valuation. Yeah, billion with a “b.” But this isn’t your average raise from a spreadsheet startup promising to revolutionize tofu delivery via blockchain. Kalshi is out here building a whole new financial category, regulated markets for betting on reality. And guess what? Reality’s never been more tradable. Co-founders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, two MIT alums with resumes that read like hedge fund poetry (Citadel, Goldman, Bridgewater, Five…

Some companies whisper their way into relevance. Others walk in like they’ve been running the room for years. Clearspeed Corp.? They don’t just walk in, they scan the room in under 90 seconds and tell you exactly who’s full of it. On June 26, 2025, Clearspeed dropped a $60M Series D announcement that did more than just thump the capital table; it cemented their place as the real-deal voice of truth in a world full of noise. With Alex Martin, former U.S. Marine, UC Berkeley MBA, and co-founder, leading the charge, the company has transformed voice analytics from spy-novel sci-fi…