Author: Jesse Landry

Every once in a while, a startup doesn’t just raise a round, it raises the bar. That’s what just happened at Jobright, the Santa Clara-based AI native job platform that doesn’t just assist your job search, it becomes your job search. While the rest of the world is still playing musical chairs with job boards, Jobright just secured a $3.2M Seed VC-II round to turn the job hunt into a precision-tuned AI mission. The round was led by Translink Capital, with a sharp assist from HR Tech Investments (the venture arm of Indeed, the folks with a front-row seat to…

When you spend enough time around defense tech, you learn two things fast: the maps lie, and the sensors don’t talk to each other. Welcome to the chaos of spatiotemporal data, where a drone’s thermal feed, a cell tower’s RF signature, and a geologist’s seismic readout each live in their own lonely data silo. The problem? Machines don’t improvise like humans, and humans are drowning in data that refuses to sync. That’s where CubeNexus shows up, not as another player, but as the infrastructure. Founded in April 2024 by Steven Brandt (ex-USAF, dual-use defense VC, Harvard MPP) and Adam Gobbo…

There’s a reason the financial services industry has always clung to its VIP velvet rope, it makes more money when fewer people walk through the door. But someone forgot to tell Quinn that. And now the door’s wide open. After three years operating in stealth like a sniper with a CFA, Quinn just broke cover with an $11 million seed round to bring personalized wealth advice to the 99%, and not the TikTok version. Real plans. Real strategy. Built for real people. Led by Royi Markowitz (Co-Founder & CEO) and Asaf Amir (Co-Founder & CTO), Quinn didn’t just raise money,…

Imagine stepping on a scale and it talks back, not with numbers, but with insight. Now imagine that same scale saving your foot, maybe even your life. That’s not science fiction. That’s Empo Health, and they just locked in $7 million to take diabetic foot care out of the ER and into your bathroom. Founded in July 2020, Empo Health is the brainchild of two MIT engineers turned medical tech disruptors: Anuj Khandelwal (CEO) and Eric Dahlseng (Co-Founder and CPO). These aren’t your average founders chasing today’s trends. Anuj walked out of Stanford’s Medical Device program with a vision, Eric…

In Miami, the money doesn’t just move, it Waltzes. And today, this dance just got $25 million smoother. Waltz, the fintech company redefining how international investors lock in U.S. residential real estate, has secured a fresh $25 million line of credit from affiliates of Setpoint Capital. That pushes their total funding to a cool $50 million in equity and debt. And no, this isn’t some pitch deck smoke show. Since launching in July 2024, Waltz has already processed $300 million in loan applications from investors spanning four continents. Let that sink in: a company built for foreign nationals buying homes…

Somewhere between “AI strategy” and “actually shipping something that works,” most enterprise initiatives disappear into a Bermuda Triangle of pilot purgatory, internal PowerPoint rituals, and stakeholder séances. It’s a miracle anything makes it out alive. But then along comes Blank Metal, a Minneapolis-based AI-native engineering crew with a 90-day production guarantee, and the scars to prove they don’t bluff. This isn’t a squad of theory peddlers or self-congratulatory consultants billing by the brainstorm. This is a team of GoKart Labs vets who saw enough “innovation theater” to last a lifetime. After watching too many great ideas die in committee, they…

In a healthcare world where billions bleed from cracks no one wants to plug, Arine is doing what most systems won’t, fixing the actual problem. Medication mismanagement is a $528 billion wound. Not theoretical, not forecasted, actual dollars flushed thanks to misprescribed, mismanaged, or misunderstood meds. Most startups would’ve built another app that sends push notifications to take your statins. Arine built a full-stack, AI-powered command center that can steer clinical interventions across 25 million lives like it’s air traffic control for the human body. Founded in 2017, commercially live by 2019, Arine isn’t some overnight pitch deck playing house…

You ever try to manage 250 chronic conditions with a portal that patients forget their password to every time? Yeah, welcome to the Groundhog Day of American healthcare. But Jaan Health didn’t show up to patch holes in a broken system, they came to replace the plumbing. And now they’ve locked in over $25 million in funding to crank the water pressure up across the country. The round, announced June 24, is anchored by $15 million in non-dilutive growth capital from Level Structured Capital, the creative debt arm of Level Equity. Props to Barry Osherow for spotting the velocity under…

The last time a piece of infrastructure shifted the global economy, it was the cloud. Before that? The Internet. Now, we’re watching something bigger sneak in, quiet like a ninja, but with the balance sheet of a BlackRock. It’s called Canton Network, and it just raised its war chest. Digital Asset, the team behind the Canton Network and the open source contract language DAML, just closed a $135 million funding round, co-led by DRW Venture Capital and Tradeweb Markets, and the cast of backers reads like a who’s who of the institutional power grid. Goldman Sachs, Citadel Securities, DTCC, BNP…

There’s loud AI, and then there’s Decagon. The kind of company that doesn’t just show up to the party, it rebuilds venues. Fresh off a $131M Series C with a capstone $1.5B post-money valuation, Decagon didn’t sneak in the side door. They kicked it open. This round was co-led by Accel and Andreessen Horowitz’s Growth Fund, with a full-blown encore from Bain Capital Ventures, BOND, and A*, plus new believers Avra, Forerunner, and Ribbit Capital joining the tour. This isn’t just capital, it’s conviction. Founded in 2023 by Jesse Zhang (CEO) and Ashwin Sreenivas (CTO), this San Francisco outfit didn’t…