Crash Override, a New York City-based engineering relationship management (ERM) platform provider, raised a hefty $28 million seed round led by GV (Google Ventures) and SYN Ventures. The startup’s platform automates the tracking of changes across code, infrastructure, and teams for full traceability, helping engineering organizations maintain clear oversight of their software development process. Founded in 2022 by veteran security entrepreneurs John Viega and Mark Curphey, Crash Override will use the new funding to accelerate product development, fuel innovation, and expand in the market.

Function (formerly Ignition), a NYC-based crypto startup, has secured a $10 million seed round to expand its platform that transforms Bitcoin into a yield-generating asset for decentralized finance. The round was led by Galaxy Digital, with Galaxy joining as a core contributor alongside Antalpha and Mantle.

Function’s flagship product, FBTC, is a fully reserved Bitcoin-backed token integrated with multiple blockchain protocols, enabling institutions to deploy Bitcoin in DeFi applications without sacrificing security. With this strategic backing, Function aims to bridge the gap between traditional finance and crypto by making Bitcoin more productive and composable across ecosystems.

Retirable, a New York City-based holistic retirement planning platform, raised $10 million in Series A funding to expand its tech-enabled advisory services for retirees. The round was led by IA Capital Group, with new backers Nationwide Ventures, Western & Southern Financial Group, and Clocktower Ventures joining, and continued support from Primary Venture Partners, Portage Ventures, Vestigo Ventures, and SilverCircle.

This infusion brings Retirable’s total funding to $25 million and will help the company grow its team of retirement advisors and launch new features. Founded in 2019, Retirable combines human financial advisors with digital tools like custom investment portfolios, high-yield cash accounts, and a proprietary bond ladder strategy to help Americans better manage their finances and healthcare costs in retirement.

Billee Technologies, a Dallas-based provider of AI-driven utility management software for multifamily properties, closed its $9.15 million seed financing round led by strategic investors including RET Ventures. The startup’s platform automates and streamlines utility billing and work orders for apartment communities, using artificial intelligence to eliminate manual processes, improve billing accuracy, and unlock significant cost savings for property owners.

Co-founded by proptech veteran John Hinckley, Billee will use the funding to expand its research and development team and continue refining its core platform as it scales to more multifamily housing operators. The company’s AI-powered system also provides real-time resident support and intelligent bill audits, creating a more transparent and efficient utility billing process for both landlords and tenants.

Coverflow, a San Francisco-based startup building an AI platform for insurance brokers, raised $4.8 million in seed funding led by AIX Ventures. The round saw participation from Founder Collective and Afore Capital. Coverflow’s technology uses proprietary AI to instantly analyze insurance policy documents, flag coverage discrepancies, and generate executive summaries, automating tedious brokerage workflows without any manual data entry.

The company plans to use the seed funding to grow its team and develop additional features that save brokers time and money in managing insurance policies. Led by co-founder and CEO Matthew Fastow, Coverflow aims to help insurance brokerages reduce errors and streamline their operations through its web-based, secure platform.

Chariot Defense, a San Francisco-based defense technology startup, raised $8 million in seed funding to advance its next-generation battlefield power systems. The round was co-led by General Catalyst and XYZ Venture Capital, with participation from a broad syndicate including Cubit Capital, Ravelin, Forward Deployed VC, Pax, New Vista, D3, and Brave Capital.

The funding will support expansion of operations and product development for Chariot’s Amphora platform, a modular, high-voltage power supply designed for the demands of modern warfare.

Founded in late 2024 by CEO Adam Warmoth, Chariot Defense aims to replace noisy, inefficient generators with silent, lightweight power units that can run everything from radios and drones to sensors and directed-energy weapons in the field. The Amphora system provides reliable electricity with minimal heat and noise signature, improving resilience and stealth for combat units operating in remote or contested environments.

Firestorm Labs, a San Diego-based expeditionary manufacturing startup, raised $47 million in a Series A round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). The financing included $12 million in venture debt from J.P. Morgan and participation from defense-focused investors Lockheed Martin Ventures, Decisive Point, Washington Harbour Partners, and Booz Allen Ventures.

Firestorm will use the funds to expand its engineering team, build a larger production facility, and accelerate deployment of its “factory-in-a-box” platform, which enables on-site 3D printing of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and components in combat zones.

Led by CEO Dan Magy, Firestorm has developed modular, open-architecture drone technology that can be produced in the field to meet the fast-evolving needs of U.S. and allied defense organizations. Its approach allows frontline units to rapidly replenish drones and adapt them for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, or strike missions without waiting on centralized supply chains.

Eton Solutions, a Research Triangle Park, NC-based fintech that provides wealth management software for family offices, secured $58 million in Series C funding to fuel product innovation and global expansion. The round was led by repeat investor Navis Capital Partners. Eton will use the capital to accelerate the development of AI-driven features on its AtlasFive® platform and broaden its suite of offerings to serve private equity and investment fund clients.

Led by Executive Chairman Satyen Patel, Eton Solutions’ software platform currently administers over $1 trillion in assets for more than 800 ultra-wealthy families worldwide. The company has more than quadrupled revenue over the past three years, and its integrated system of record helps family offices manage data, reporting, and workflows with greater efficiency. With this Series C funding, Eton plans to roll out new solutions for individuals with $25 million+ in assets and continue its rapid growth across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Eton Solutions
Navis Capital Partners (lead)
$58 million
Not disclosed
Series C
July 16, 2025

Bedrock Robotics, a San Francisco-based autonomous construction technology company, emerged from stealth with a combined $80 million in Seed and Series A funding to bring advanced autonomy to heavy equipment. The seed round was led by Eclipse, and the Series A by 8VC, with participation from a broad group of investors including Two Sigma Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, NVIDIA’s NVentures, Crossbeam Venture Partners, Raine Group, Tishman Speyer, Atreides Management, Al Rajhi Partners, and Samsara Ventures. Bedrock will use the funds to grow its engineering and operations teams and deepen partnerships as it works toward deploying fully operator-less construction machinery by 2026.

Founded in 2024 by Boris Sofman (CEO) and Laurent Hautefeuille (COO), Bedrock Robotics retrofits autonomous driving systems onto construction equipment such as excavators, enabling builders to improve safety, reduce risk, and accelerate project timelines with “robotic” heavy machinery. The company’s technology is already being tested on active job sites in states like Arizona, Texas, and Arkansas, moving the industry closer to truly autonomous construction fleets.

HOPE Hydration, a Miami-based company building digitally connected water refill stations, closed a $20 million Series A funding round to expand its network of “HydroStation” water dispensers. The round was led by Pentair plc, a global water treatment firm, with participation from Burnt Island Ventures. HOPE Hydration will use the capital to accelerate growth into new markets, scale up manufacturing, drive product innovation, and strengthen strategic partnerships worldwide.

Founded by Jorge Richardson, Cristina Gnecco, and Dave Tigue, HOPE’s IoT-enabled HydroStations provide free filtered drinking water in cities, stadiums, airports, and other public spaces. Each station includes real-time monitoring of usage and environmental impact (tracking plastic bottles saved), and features digital advertising displays for an additional revenue stream. The company, which counts Boost VC and Spice Capital among its backers and has NBA player Grayson Allen as an investor, aims to combat plastic waste by making refillable water access ubiquitous.

H2Ok Innovations, a Boston-based cleantech startup developing AI-powered inline sensors for manufacturing, announced a $12.4 million Series A funding round led by Greycroft. Additional participants in the round include 2048 Ventures and Construct Capital. H2Ok’s patented in-pipe sensors monitor production processes in real time, allowing major CPG companies like Unilever, AB InBev, Coca-Cola, and Danone to drastically reduce cleaning downtime and resource waste during manufacturing runs.

By applying AI optimization and closed-loop control, H2Ok’s system helps factories speed up product changeovers and cut the use of water, energy, and chemicals by double-digit percentages. Founded in 2021 by sibling team Annie and David Lu, H2Ok Innovations has already been recognized as Unilever’s 2023 “Startup of the Year” for its impact on sustainability. The new funding will support H2Ok in scaling its technology to more production lines globally and rapidly productizing its solution for easy deployment across existing industrial facilities.

Rwazi, a Los Angeles-based startup offering an AI-powered market intelligence co-pilot, raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Bonfire Ventures. Other investors in the round include Santa Barbara Ventures, Newfund, and Alumni Ventures. The company’s platform collects real-time consumer data at a massive scale, volunteered directly by consumers, to help businesses simulate market outcomes and make faster, better-informed strategic decisions.

Co-founded by Joseph Rutakangwa and Eric Sewankambo in 2021, Rwazi’s AI co-pilot captures billions of behavioral signals across demographics and geographies, allowing enterprise teams to detect shifts in consumer preferences early, run “what-if” simulations, and act with confidence. The new funding will be used to deepen Rwazi’s simulation capabilities, expand its global data infrastructure, and enhance the co-pilot’s ability to recommend next best actions across marketing, product, and operations functions. The company had previously raised a $4 million seed round, bringing its total funding to approximately $16 million to date.

FundApps, a London-based regulatory technology (RegTech) SaaS provider, received a growth equity investment from FTV Capital to accelerate its expansion. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but as part of the transaction, FTV Capital’s Brad Bernstein, Richard Earnshaw, and Max Weber will join FundApps’ board. The investment also enabled a full exit for the company’s previous growth investor, Scottish Equity Partners, signaling a strategic transition in ownership.

FundApps plans to leverage the new capital to broaden its product offering through both organic development and acquisitions, in order to better serve its global client base. Founded in 2010 by CEO Andrew Patrick White, FundApps provides a cloud-native platform that automates compliance monitoring and reporting for over 160 financial institutions managing more than $29 trillion in assets. By replacing manual compliance processes with automated rules and data feeds, FundApps helps asset managers, hedge funds, and banks stay ahead of regulatory requirements efficiently across North America, EMEA, and Asia.

Agora, a fully remote stablecoin infrastructure startup, raised $50 million in Series A funding to help companies launch their own branded stablecoins. The round was led by crypto venture firm Paradigm, with participation from Dragonfly Capital. Founded by Nick van Eck, Agora provides a platform that allows enterprises to issue stablecoins backed by fiat reserves within days, without needing an in-house crypto engineering team.

As part of this raise, Agora is rolling out a white-label stablecoin product that enables organizations to create their own USD-pegged digital currencies quickly, leveraging Agora’s existing liquidity and exchange integrations. The company has already launched its flagship stablecoin AUSD with deep on-chain liquidity and has several major exchanges and fintech platforms signed up to issue coins through Agora.

This new funding (following a $12 million seed round last year) brings Agora’s total financing to about $62 million. The capital will support Agora’s operational expansion and further development of its fully compliant, multi-chain stablecoin solutions as it seeks to accelerate the adoption of digital dollars beyond the crypto sector.

Warden AI, an Austin, TX-based startup offering an AI auditing platform for HR applications, raised an undisclosed amount of funding to fuel its expansion. The investment round was led by the founders of identity verification firm Onfido and included participation from Playfair Capital. Warden AI provides tools that help HR departments ensure their AI systems (such as hiring algorithms) are fair and compliant with emerging regulations like the EU AI Act and New York City’s bias audit law.

The 2023-founded company, led by CEO Jeffrey Pole and CTO Eduard Schikurski, plans to use the new capital to grow its presence across North America and Europe while enhancing its platform’s capabilities. Warden’s software continuously audits AI models used in recruiting and workforce management, identifying biases and risks, and is already being used by HR tech platforms including Greenhouse, Sense, and Beamery. (Note: The exact funding amount was not disclosed, but U.K. filings indicate a seed investment of roughly £1.1 million.)

KNOT, a Mumbai-based quick commerce fashion platform, raised $3 million in funding to scale its virtual try-on shopping app and rapid delivery service. The seed round was led by early-stage VC Kae Capital with participation from Sparrow Capital, Boundless Ventures, and angel investor Kumar Saurabh (of Aukera Jewellery), as well as existing backers WEH Ventures and All In Capital.

Founded in 2025 by IIT Bombay graduates Archit Nanda and Rachit Bansal (after pivoting from a previous startup), KNOT’s mobile app lets users preview apparel with an augmented reality feature before ordering, helping reduce decision fatigue and product returns.

The platform also offers 60-minute delivery of fashion items in Mumbai, partnering with over 70 local brands such as SNITCH, The Souled Store, and Bonkers Corner. With the new funding, KNOT plans to accelerate product development, expand operations beyond Mumbai to other cities, and deepen partnerships with fashion brands as it aims to modernize India’s fast-fashion shopping experience.

Deep Algorithm Solutions, a cybersecurity and AI startup based in Mumbai and Hyderabad, India, raised ₹10.8 Crore (approximately $1.3 million) in seed funding to advance its fraud prevention platform. The round was led by Unicorn India Ventures, with participation from other angel investors. The company will use the funds to scale its engineering and threat intelligence teams, accelerate go-to-market efforts in India and Southeast Asia, integrate with enterprise platforms like Azure AD and Okta, and enhance its behavioral AI fraud analytics engine.

Founded in late 2021 by CEO J.P. Mishra, Deep Algorithm Solutions has developed an adaptive identity security product (adapID) and a bot mitigation system (BotShield) to protect digital financial ecosystems from fraud, zero-day attacks, DDoS, and other threats. The startup has already secured a patent in India and deployed its technology with a major private bank and a government organization. Over the next year, Deep Algorithm plans to launch a SaaS offering for mid-sized financial institutions, expand to markets in Africa and the Middle East, and continue R&D on “agentic AI” for automated fraud resolution.

Quant Insight, a London-based provider of macro factor analytics for institutional investors, completed its Series A funding round (amount not disclosed) led by fintech-focused investment firm 7RIDGE. The company plans to use the funding to drive global expansion, enhance its platform with more machine learning capabilities, and scale its operations to serve a growing client base of asset managers and hedge funds. Led by CEO Mahmood Noorani, Quant Insight offers a software platform that helps investment professionals understand how macroeconomic variables impact their portfolios.

Its tools include a Macro Factor Equity Risk Model that breaks down portfolio returns into macro drivers, a cross-asset valuation engine that identifies mispricing across markets, and solutions for constructing active ETFs and hedging risk. Quant Insight’s technology covers over 13,000 global assets via API and is integrated with leading risk management systems, providing actionable macro intelligence to modern investment teams. The fresh capital will support the company’s mission to bring clearer macro insight to portfolio decisions, at a time when understanding inflation, interest rates, and other economic forces is crucial for investors.

Nuqleous, a Bentonville, Arkansas-based provider of space planning and retail analytics software, received a strategic majority investment from Rubicon Technology Partners (amount not disclosed) aimed at accelerating product innovation and long-term growth. Along with the investment, Nuqleous has appointed Ben Cronin – a seasoned software executive with over two decades in retail and supply chain tech – as its new Chief Executive Officer to lead the company’s next phase.

Founded originally as Rock Solid Retail, Nuqleous offers mission-critical analytics and planogram automation tools used by over 180 consumer packaged goods brands worldwide. Its software suite (including products like Shelf IQ, Retail Analytics, and Presentation Builder) helps sales and merchandising teams derive insights from retail data faster and optimize shelf-space planning and execution in stores. The partnership with Rubicon (a growth-oriented private equity firm) will provide Nuqleous with resources to enhance its data-driven retail solutions and better serve enterprise clients in the CPG and retail industry.

Ora Technologies, a Casablanca-based super-app startup, has raised $7.5 million in a Series A funding round to grow its mobile payments and delivery platform. The round was led by Morocco’s Azur Innovation Management and joined by three other Moroccan strategic investors. This investment — the largest disclosed Series A for a Moroccan tech startup this year — brings Ora’s total funding to $11.9 million since its launch in 2023.

Founded by Omar Alami, Ora’s app combines a peer-to-peer mobile wallet (Ora Cash) with food delivery, e-commerce marketplace, messaging, and social networking features in a bid to become a locally tailored super-app similar to China’s WeChat. The new capital gives Ora runway to deepen the reach of Ora Cash (which now supports transfers, bill payments and QR code purchases via 5,000+ agents nationwide) and to scale up its Kooul food delivery service across Morocco. Ora plans to use the funds to accelerate user acquisition in both urban and rural areas, continuing to integrate multiple services into one platform that serves Moroccans in their own languages and aligns with local transaction habits.

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