Author: devcuration

There’s always a moment in tech where a founder catches the signal before the noise. Taehoon Kim, “TK” if you’ve spent more than five minutes in a room with him, has made a career out of spotting those moments, then turning them into movement. He did it with Power Rangers: Legacy Wars (100M+ downloads) before most mobile studios understood F2P retention curves. He did it again at nWay, which Animoca Brands scooped up in 2020. Now he’s back at it with Spekter Games, and this time, the signal’s bouncing off Telegram, refracted through Web3, and cutting deep into the roguelite…

In a world where therapy for kids too often feels like waiting in line at the DMV, long, frustrating, and nowhere near fast enough to matter, Handspring Health just slammed the door on mediocrity with a $12 million Series A that feels more like a mic drop than a milestone. Led by Cobalt Ventures and backed by the likes of NextView Ventures, nvp capital, 25madison, Arkitekt Ventures, VamosVentures, Hyde Park Angels, and Cornucopian Capital, this round wasn’t just capital, it was validation. Two major health plans even joined in, a rare alignment that speaks volumes; payers aren’t just interested, they’re…

There’s “data pipeline,” and then there’s DataBahn.ai, a startup so deep in the enterprise signal game, it’s turning petabytes into poetry and telemetry into truth. And now, with $17 million in fresh Series A capital, the company is hitting a whole new gear. Led by Forgepoint Capital (props to Ernie Bio for not just writing checks but joining the board), with heavy Texas muscle from S3 Ventures and returning heat from GTM Capital, this round brings DataBahn.ai’s total raise to $19 million, which, considering the carnage in early-stage land, says a lot. But this isn’t your standard “hype and hope”…

Pretty cool watching a company ditch the hardware dreams for something lighter, faster, and way more dangerous. In 2021, Wispr launched with the kind of ambitious neurotech play that would’ve made DARPA blush, wearables for silent speech. Think “talking” without speaking. But in a move straight out of the startup survival handbook (the real one, not the one influencers sell), they took the signal and dropped the noise. In 2024, Wispr pivoted hard, from brainwave gadgets to Wispr Flow, a slick AI dictation platform that makes typing look like dial-up. That shift just got a $30 million endorsement from the…

Founded in 2021 by Anshul Rathi, Certify isn’t solving a problem, it’s tearing down a broken system and replacing it with an infrastructure layer the industry should’ve built decades ago. Rathi cut his teeth at Oscar Health, where he wasn’t just leading network ops, he was the network ops. One man, 40,000 providers, 100+ hospitals, and a war chest of battle scars from healthcare’s credentialing chaos. They used to call him the “one-man credentialing army,” and not as a joke. That’s the guy rebuilding the rails for healthcare’s provider data. Now, backed by Transformation Capital (led by Scott Rosen, who…

In a world where most autonomous vehicle companies are still stuck pitching prototypes and dodging regulatory potholes, Beep, Inc. just put the rubber to the road, and left the rest coughing in its electric dust. With $52.7 million in fresh Series B fuel, co-led by Intel Capital and Blue Lagoon Capital, Beep isn’t just scaling, it’s compounding. They’ve now raised a total of $97.7 million across three rounds, with returning support from ABS Capital, TDF Ventures, and Hidden Creek Management. That kind of long-term conviction doesn’t happen unless you’re doing more than selling a vision, you’re delivering results. And Beep’s…

Healthcare’s been trying to play catch-up with innovation for decades, dragging fax machines into the 21st century like they’re vintage. But specialty drug access? That’s a different beast. It’s not just outdated. It’s a Kafkaesque maze where the patient gets lost, the provider drowns in paperwork, and the treatment, yeah, the one meant to save lives, sits on pause while admin chaos runs the show. Now enter Mandolin, and no, this isn’t some sleepy acoustic startup. This is a precision instrument slicing through $250 billion in specialty drug dysfunction. Founded in 2024 by Will Yin (CEO) and Rohit Rustagi (COO),…

There’s AI, and then there’s ZestyAI. The difference? Most are still stuck zooming out with zone-based risk models while ZestyAI is laser-focused at rooftop level, crunching climate peril data with a microscope. While others estimate, ZestyAI knows, and that edge just got sharper. On June 25, ZestyAI secured a $15 million credit facility from CIBC Innovation Banking. Not a victory lap, this is dry powder to go harder, deeper, and faster into one of the most complex, underwritten corners of the economy: climate risk modeling for the property and casualty (P&C) market. The world’s burning, literally, and the financial systems…

Night falls. Markets sleep. But Bruce Markets just flipped the lights on, and Wall Street’s starting to realize that money doesn’t punch a clock. While most ATSs are either clunky hand-me-downs or built for bankers who haven’t updated their iPhones since 2017, Bruce ATS™ is a full-blown, enterprise-grade beast, spinning trades from 8:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. ET, Sunday through Thursday. In other words, while you’re binge-watching “Succession” reruns, Bruce is giving global institutions a clean shot at U.S. Reg NMS securities. Real-time liquidity. Institutional execution. No bouncers, no velvet ropes. And now? They’ve locked in another strategic investment round,…

If you ever tried to sell school photos using paper order forms and a prayer, you know the grind. Labels, folders, mismatched names, and somehow, always, a parent calling six weeks later wondering where Jimmy’s photo went. The volume photography industry has been clinging to legacy like it’s a lifeboat. And into that chaos stepped PhotoDay, a B2B SaaS platform with zero interest in playing by yesterday’s rules. Founded in 2017 by Jonathan Dantes, Rainer Flor, and Lisa Mallis, PhotoDay isn’t just streamlining workflows, it’s rebuilding them with AI, cloud tech, and facial clustering so accurate it might give the…