Author: Jesse Landry

Healthcare admin costs chew through a trillion dollars a year in the U.S. That’s not a typo, that’s a national inefficiency crisis. And while the rest of tech is out here chasing shiny objects, VoiceCare AI is deep in the trenches, on the phone, in the hold queue, where the actual problem lives. Founder and CEO Parag Jhaveri didn’t raise this round from a deck in a WeWork with a pitch about “optimizing AI.” He bootstrapped the company, spent nine months calling payers himself, waited on hold for 53 minutes to learn. Now that’s founder-market fit. It’s not just empathy,…

Let’s rewind. Back in 2015, Sylvain Perron was deep in the financial trenches at Protorisk Limited when he realized the problem wasn’t just clunky software, it was the fact that we were expected to think like the machines. That kind of backwards logic sparked a project that didn’t just ask better questions, it built the infrastructure for answers. Fast-forward to 2017, and with co-founder Justin Watson, Botpress was born. No hype, just conviction and code. Now, 8 years later, the Quebec City-based team just closed a $25M Series B round led by Framework Venture Partners, with participation from Inovia Capital,…

In November 2022, while the rest of crypto was panicking and rage-tweeting post FTX, Nic Roberts-Huntley and Dillon Liang weren’t looking for the exit, they were sketching out the foundations. What they saw wasn’t collapse, it was clarity: the real innovation wasn’t happening offchain in shady group chats. It was happening onchain, where math speaks louder than promises. Enter Blueprint Finance, headquartered in New York with its pulse wired into every byte of DeFi. They’re not peddling promises, they’re laying concrete. Literally. Their dual-protocol model has Concrete Protocol powering tokenized DeFi-native asset management on Ethereum, while Glow Finance pushes high-speed…

There’s heat in the Valley again, and this time it’s coming from something colder than cryo. Snowcap Compute just stepped out of stealth and straight into the deep end with a $23M seed round led by Playground Global, flanked by Cambium Capital and Vsquared Ventures. The game they’re playing? Superconducting compute. That’s right, actual zero-resistance logic circuits engineered for artificial intelligence, quantum, and high-performance computing. This isn’t sci-fi vaporware or a back-of-napkin physics pitch. This is fabrication-ready tech, backed by decades of sweat, science, and silicon. Let’s talk people, because this founding team isn’t here to experiment, they’re here to…

In the age of financial complexity, where algorithms run faster than advisors can blink and clients want answers yesterday, Conquest Planning isn’t playing catch-up. They’re dictating tempo. On June 23, the Winnipeg-based fintech dropped a cool $80M USD Series B raise like it was halftime adjustments. Led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with heat from Canapi Ventures, BDC Capital, Citi Ventures, TIAA Ventures, and USAA, this round brings their total haul north of $100M USD. If you know the name Dr. Mark Evans, then you know the playbook didn’t just change, it was rebuilt, line by line. The…

When Veda stepped onto the DeFi stage in March 2024, the crowd wasn’t ready. Vault infrastructure? Crosschain yield products? It sounded niche, until they started locking billions and doing it cleaner, faster, and more scalable than anyone else in the game. Now they’ve gone and raised $18M in their first external round, and suddenly the whispers in the back room turned into phone calls at the top of the hour. This isn’t some throwaway funding headline. This is the moment you realize Veda didn’t just build a product, they architected the pipes for onchain finance to scale. And that capital?…

It’s not every day you watch a fintech outfit take on $19.5 trillion in U.S. consumer liability like it’s just another Monday, but that’s exactly what Spinwheel is doing. And with a fresh $30 million Series A in the vault, they’re not just spinning, they’re accelerating. Led by F-Prime Capital with backing from QED Investors, Foundation Capital, and Fika Ventures, this Oakland-based crew isn’t pitching pipe dreams. They’re building the infrastructure that financial institutions didn’t realize they needed until now. Let’s talk about friction, the kind that makes moving money, accessing data, or paying down debt feel like trying to…

You ever wonder why everyone wants AI to be smarter, faster, more “transformative,” but no one talks about what happens when that shiny new model is trained on garbage data? It’s like feeding Kobe beef to a vending machine and being surprised it spits out a warm can of Diet Mistake. That’s where Qualytics steps in, quietly, precisely, with the confidence of a company that doesn’t need to shout. Because when your platform surfaces 30,000+ real-world anomalies a month before they turn into six-figure clean-up jobs, your customers do the talking for you. On June 23, 2025, Qualytics locked in…

There’s “mapping the world,” and then there’s remapping the whole system. While the legacy map giants are still playing cartographer cosplay behind corporate walls, Hivemapper is out here building a decentralized atlas in real time, one dashcam, one contributor, one HONEY-dripping data packet at a time. This isn’t just a platform, it’s a DePIN juggernaut that just put another stake in the ground, this time in South Asia, with a fresh strategic investment from Ajna Capital. On June 23, 2025, Ajna stepped in with precision, scooping up 1.5% of HONEY’s circulating supply. Not because it’s trendy, because they’ve seen the…

If you’re in oil and gas and you’re still treating methane like an invisible rounding error instead of a multi-million-dollar liability, well… Insight M just lapped you, again. $30 million in fresh Series E funding just touched down for Insight M, and no, this isn’t another buzzword airshow. This is hard science, real emissions, and actual dollars staying where they belong, in your balance sheet, not the atmosphere. The round, led by Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s 1GT climate private equity strategy, comes with continued conviction from DCVC, Climate Investment, and Energy Innovation Capital. You don’t keep that kind of roster…