Funding — Page 21
Rounds, valuations, term sheets.
- Vita Dynamics raises about $70M in pre-A as China’s humanoid race shifts to production
The sizable pre-A round signals a push from R&D to manufacturing as Chinese humanoid startups aim to scale ahead of Western peers.
- Ciridae raises $20M seed from Accel and Andreessen Horowitz to push AI into the physical economy
Accel and Andreessen Horowitz are backing the early-stage startup as AI automation shifts focus from software workflows to real-world operations.
- After Bench's collapse, Ian Crosby raises $10M for Synthetic, an autonomous AI bookkeeper
Khosla Ventures leads the seed with Basis Set Ventures and Shopify CEO Tobias Lutke, backing a product Crosby says may not be possible yet.
- Avi Patel alleges General Catalyst co-led $31.5M seed into copycat of his startup Kled
In a thread on X, the Kled founder says he spoke with GC for months and claims the firm backed a startup that copied Kled’s designs, site, and app.
- Juan Andrade raises $2.7m seed for Caribou, an autonomous tax firm
Blue Wire Capital, Y Combinator, TinyVC, and Venture Together back Caribou's $2.7m seed; Andrade shares a park video on why companies like Hadrian, OpenFX, Vertice, and others need it.
- Furientis debuts with $5M to build low-cost interceptor missiles
Backers include Silent Ventures, Bessemer, SV Angel and others; Franzen says Furientis will target the gap between low-cost threats and the interceptors meant to stop them.