Author: devcuration

Miami’s been hot since the ’80s, but this summer, it’s not Pitbull or pastel suits lighting up the skyline, it’s Payabli. Founded in 2020, this fintech firestarter just dropped a $28M Series B, co-led by QED Investors and Fika Ventures, with TTV Capital and Bling Capital back in the mix. That’s $60M raised in just over three years, not from hype, but from a product that hits harder than an El Alfa beat in Little Havana. Co-founders Joseph Elias Phillips and William Corbera didn’t stumble into this; Joseph cut his teeth at Seamless and ServiceTitan, helping shape payments architecture before…

Referral-based healthcare. The phrase alone sounds like a bureaucratic scavenger hunt where the prize is waiting six weeks for someone to tell you what your PCP already suspected. If you’ve ever been caught in that broken maze, or watched a family member navigate it with the grace of a bull in molasses, you know the system wasn’t designed for efficiency. It was designed because no one else dared to rebuild it. Until Tennr. Tennr didn’t just pop up out of a WeWork with a slick logo and vague ideas about AI. This is a company with grit baked into its…

In a world of overnight fintechs selling speed but shipping spaghetti, Tensec just did something different, they made time work for them. Not with slogans. With substance. Founded in 2023, this Palo Alto-based powerhouse didn’t show up to play dress-up in financial jargon. They came equipped with an AI-driven platform that lets global trading companies deliver cross-border financial services, FX, real-time payments, transaction banking, to their SMB clients without even touching an integration. It’s like if SWIFT had a nightmare and that nightmare was Tensec moving money in seconds, not days. This isn’t your average “let’s plug into Stripe and…

GeneCentric Therapeutics just locked in the initial close of an $8 million Series C round, courtesy of the returning trio: Hatteras Venture Partners, IAG Capital Partners, Alexandria Venture Investments, and the diagnostics giant Labcorp, who’s not just writing checks but building diagnostics shoulder-to-shoulder with the team. In a world full of generic “precision medicine” startups tossing around buzzwords like confetti, GeneCentric isn’t promising precision, they’re measuring it. Literally. Founded in 2011 out of UNC’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, GeneCentric was born from the kind of deep science that doesn’t flinch under fluorescent lights. The scientific trio, Dr. Charles M. Perou,…

There’s something poetic, albeit wildly overdue, about a medical device company finally putting women’s pelvic health at the center of innovation. Not as an afterthought. Not buried in the fine print. But front and center, where a $25B market has been hiding in plain sight. Materna Medical, Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, California, isn’t just developing devices, they’re addressing damage the healthcare system has normalized for generations. And they just locked in a $20M Series B2 raise to back it up. Led by InnovaHealth Partners, with Dr. Ariella Golomb not only writing checks but also chairing the board, this round…

When most startups raise their Series A, they’re just getting out of the garage. Uncountable? They’ve already built the racetrack, tuned the engine, and started handing out lap times to Fortune 500. Founded in 2016 by a trio that reads like a power draft, MIT’s Noel Hollingsworth (CEO), Stanford’s Jason Hirshman (CTO), and MIT alum-turned-Apple product whisperer Will Tashman (CRO), Uncountable didn’t stumble onto a problem, they hunted it down. The trio saw a trillion-dollar blind spot in industrial R&D: fragmented data, legacy systems pieced together, and a workforce suffocating under inefficiency. Their answer? A cloud native R&D platform built…

HOPPR just pulled off a diagnostic dropkick on the AI healthcare industry, and it landed with a $31.5M Series A that doesn’t just raise the bar, it turns the whole radiology floor into a launchpad. This isn’t some play-pretend pivot with AI taped to the homepage. HOPPR, founded in 2019, was built on a decade-old memo from Dr. Khan M. Siddiqui, MD, the kind of physician-executive hybrid you don’t clone in labs. Faculty at Johns Hopkins. Healthcare platform lead at Microsoft. Founder of higi, which exited via Babylon Health’s $4.2B SPAC deal. And now? Chairman and CEO of a company…

Athena didn’t just come out of stealth, they cracked the code on visibility in a world where the algorithm doesn’t care how much you spent on Google Ads last quarter. Founded by Andrew Yan and Alan Yao, Athena is dropping heat in the AI-powered search arms race, and $2.2 million in fresh seed capital is the kindling. Y Combinator, FCVC, Red Bike Capital, Amino Capital, Eli Schwartz, Ashley Stirrup, and a posse of sharp angels saw what was coming and placed their bets early. You don’t invest in the future of search, you invest in the team that understands it.…

Back in March, we talked about Ramp’s secondary round, the one that pushed them to a $13 billion valuation, $55 billion in annual payment volume, and made it painfully obvious they weren’t just scaling, they were recalibrating the financial core of modern businesses. And now we’re back again, because Ramp just did what Ramp does: they leveled up, again. $200 million in fresh Series E funding, a $16 billion valuation, and a firm reminder that you can’t talk about the future of finance without talking about Ramp. Period. And the crew behind it? Tight. Eric Glyman, Karim Atiyeh, and Gene…

When a kid takes a $200 loan in high school and turns it into a $470 million defense-tech juggernaut before the age most of us figured out how to make a decent cup of coffee, pay attention. Ethan Thornton didn’t just drop out of MIT. He dropped into a war room of his own making. The result? Mach Industries. And today, that Mach-speed momentum just got a $100 million Series B injection from Khosla Ventures, Bedrock Capital, and the always-watchful Sequoia Capital. Mach isn’t your standard Pentagon poster child. They’re not reinventing the drone. They’re gutting the status quo, rebuilding…