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Century Health Raises $5M in Seed Funding Led by Origin Ventures
Funding May 20, 2026
StitcherAI Raises $3M in Pre-Seed Funding Led by Founders Co-op
Funding May 20, 2026
Checker Raises $8M in Funding Led by Galaxy Ventures
Funding May 20, 2026
Blank Bio Raises $7.2M in Seed Funding and Strategic Collaboration with PacBio
Funding May 20, 2026
Hellbender Raises $12.5M in Seed Funding Led by Veredas Partners
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Commure Raises $70M in Funding Led by General Catalyst
Commure, Mountain View, CA-based provider of an AI platform for healthcare, has raised $70 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst. The round also saw participation from Sequoia Capital, Morgan Stanley, and Kirkland & Ellis. The company has a post-money valuation of $7 billion. The company plans to use the funding to grow […]
May 20, 2026
Century Health Raises $5M in Seed Funding Led by Origin Ventures
Century Health, a NYC company that specializes in applying AI to real-world clinical data to accelerate research, has raised $5 million in a Seed funding round led by Origin Ventures. The round also saw participation from InnovateHealth Ventures, 25madison, Next Play Ventures, 2048 Ventures, Alumni Ventures, and strategic angels. The company plans to use the […]
May 20, 2026
StitcherAI Raises $3M in Pre-Seed Funding Led by Founders Co-op
StitcherAI, a Seattle, WA-based company building an IT Finance system of intelligence, has raised $3 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Founders Co-op. The round also saw participation from Sunshine Lake VC, Ascend, and Plug & Play Ventures. The company plans to use the funding to grow its operations and continue developing its […]
May 20, 2026
Checker Raises $8M in Funding Led by Galaxy Ventures
Checker, a NYC-based network that enables financial institutions to plug into stablecoins and digital asset liquidity, cross-border payments, treasury, and credit via a single API, has raised $8 million in a funding round led by Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures, and Framework Ventures. The round also saw participation from strategic financial institutions, including Bitso and Airtm […]
May 20, 2026
Blank Bio Raises $7.2M in Seed Funding and Strategic Collaboration with PacBio
Blank Bio, a San Francisco, CA-based applied AI research lab training foundation models for RNA, has raised $7.2 million in seed funding from Define Ventures, Leonis Capital, Nova Threshold, Ripple Ventures, SignalFire, Y Combinator, and a strategic collaboration with PacBio, a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions. The company plans to use the […]
May 20, 2026
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Hellbender Raises $12.5M in Seed Funding Led by Veredas Partners
Hellbender, a Pittsburgh, PA-based physical AI infrastructure company empowering intelligent systems at the edge, has raised $12.5 million in a Seed funding round led by Magarac Venture Partners and Veredas Partners. The round also saw participation from Mana Ventures, Gaingels, Sum VC, and the Active Angels Network. The company plans to use the funding to […]
May 20, 2026
Benji Raises $6.25M in Seed Funding Led by Preface Ventures
Benji, a Chicago, IL- and NYC-based provider of a universal API for loyalty partnerships, has raised $6.25 million in a seed funding round led by Preface Ventures and Atinc. The round also saw participation from Great North Ventures, M25, and Hyde Park Venture Partners. The company plans to use the funding to grow its engineering […]
May 20, 2026
Vital Signals Raises $15M Led by XYZ Ventures
Vital Signals, a San Francisco, CA-based health company that supports understanding, tracking, and managing blood pressure and hypertension, has raised $15 million in a funding round led by XYZ Ventures. The company plans to use the funding to support Vital Signals as it introduces a new technology that helps people better understand their blood pressure […]
May 20, 2026
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic
Andrej Karpathy, an artificial intelligence researcher who co-founded OpenAI and later joined Tesla, announced on Tuesday that he is joining Anthropic. Andrej Karpathy started this week at Anthropic, where he is working on pre-training under team lead Nick Joseph. Pre-training is the large-scale process that gives Anthropic’s Claude models their core knowledge and abilities. It […]
May 20, 2026
Relay Raises $50M in Funding Led by General Catalyst
Relay Financial Technologies, Inc., the NYC-based provider of small business banking services and a money management platform, has raised $50 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst. The company plans to use the funding to strengthen its growth operations and accelerate customer acquisition. Relay is redesigning business banking and money management through a […]
May 20, 2026
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