Author: devcuration

Sequence just closed a $20M Series A and the timing feels less like good fortune and more like gravity doing its job. Founded in 2022 and operating across London and NY, Sequence exists because B2B finance teams were forced into a bad deal for too long, drowning in spreadsheets or trusting systems that crumble the second sales sells something custom. Riya Grover spent a decade watching that tension snap teams in half and decided to build infrastructure that could actually survive modern revenue. Sequence is an AI-powered revenue operations platform that unifies quoting, billing, invoicing, usage, and revenue recognition into…

December 2025 looks quiet if you are skimming. It looks different if you are listening. Scylos just closed a $3M oversubscribed seed round led by Galgano Family Investments, and this is not loud capital chasing logos. This is conviction capital showing up early because the math, the architecture, and the scars all line up. Money like this usually arrives after something breaks. In this case, it arrived because something already proved it would not. Scylos operates out of Nashville, Tennessee, but the problem set is universal. Endpoints keep failing because they keep remembering too much. Scylos removes the memory. ZeroCore…

Roaming used to mean surrender. Surrender to surprise bills, airport kiosks, dead zones, and that familiar moment where your phone shows bars but delivers nothing. Roamless exists because six telecom lifers looked at that mess and decided global travel deserved something calmer, cleaner, and permanent. Founded Jan 2023 and HQ in Wilmington, Delaware, Roamless was built by people who spent decades inside the pipes of connectivity and finally decided to fix what travelers feel. The founding team reads like a carrier org chart with scars. Emre Demirel, Co-Founder and CEO, came off 11+ yrs as a Partner at Turkven Private…

Strada has always been a loaded name. Roads connect people, move goods, create momentum. For years, video production teams have been stuck idling, watching progress bars creep while paying recurring tolls to clouds that promise freedom and invoice dependence. On Dec 14, 2025, Strada announced a strategic investment from Other World Computing, not loud, not flashy, but consequential in the way real infrastructure always is. Michael Cioni has spent 25+ years removing friction from creative workflows. Four Emmy Awards, Light Iron, Panavision, Frame.io, Adobe. That arc is not accidental, it is a case study in knowing where the bottlenecks hide.…

Quality failures do not arrive with fireworks. They slip in quietly through service notes, field logs, warranty claims, and emails no one at HQ reads until customers start calling lawyers. Daniel First saw that gap clearly at McKinsey, where engineers on the ground knew the truth months before leadership did. Axion came out of that tension, not as another dashboard pretending to be smart, but as an observability command center where weak signals stop whispering and start talking. This week, that conviction locked in a $37M Series B led by Salesforce Ventures, and the signal just got impossible to ignore.…

Sixteen yrs ago, three Human Genome Project scientists looked at the post-genome era and saw a gap big enough to drive a sequencer through. Jarret Glasscock PhD, Matt Hickenbotham, and Ryan Richt did not start Cofactor Genomics in Aug 2008 to chase noise. They started it to turn RNA from academic artifact into clinical leverage, first as a bootstrapped sequencing services company in St. Louis, then as something far more consequential. Fast forward to Dec 15, 2025. Cofactor Genomics announces a strategic investment led by Labcorp Holdings Inc., with Ascension Ventures returning to the table. No disclosed dollar figure, no…

Strada has always been a loaded name. Roads connect people, move goods, create momentum. For years, video production teams have been stuck idling, watching progress bars creep while paying recurring tolls to clouds that promise freedom and invoice dependence. On Dec 14, 2025, Strada announced a strategic investment from Other World Computing, not loud, not flashy, but consequential in the way real infrastructure always is. Michael Cioni has spent 25+ years removing friction from creative workflows. Four Emmy Awards, Light Iron, Panavision, Frame.io, Adobe. That arc is not accidental; it is a case study in knowing where the bottlenecks hide.…

Some companies raise capital. Others raise conviction. BlossomHill Therapeutics just closed an $84M Series B extension, and it landed exactly when it should. Total capital now sits at $257M, but the number that matters more is timing. This round hit as clinical data starts speaking clearly and programs move from theory to proof. That does not happen by accident. That happens when builders know the terrain and respect the climb. BlossomHill Therapeutics was founded in July 2020 by Jingrong J. Jean Cui and Yishan Y. Peter Li, the same pairing behind Turning Point Therapeutics, later acquired by Bristol Myers Squibb…

There are moments in biotech when the math finally bows to the physics, and the physics finally agrees to behave like biology. PsiThera’s $47.5M Series A is one of those moments. Born inside Roivant Sciences in Aug 2022 as Psivant Therapeutics and now fully independent out of Watertown, Massachusetts, PsiThera did not show up chasing noise. This was a slow build, a deliberate separation, a platform sharpened long before it ever asked for institutional capital. When a company waits until 2025 to raise its first real round, that is not hesitation. That is conviction with data behind it. At the…

Rent has always been the quiet heavyweight in American finance. Paid every month. Non negotiable. Miss it and life gets loud. Pay it faithfully and the system shrugs. For decades, rent lived outside the credit economy like it was not real money. In December 2025, Esusu made that omission impossible to ignore, closing a $50M Series C led by Westbound Equity Partners at a $1.2B valuation. Not hype. Confirmation. Rent finally counts. Esusu was founded in 2018 by Wemimo Abbey and Samir Goel, Co-Founders and Co-CEOs, shaped by immigrant families who did everything right and still got denied. Wemimo Abbey…