Startup Funding News

www.freedocumentmaker.com - Free Document Maker's image compression tool is fully bootstrapped by founder Saddam Hosen, with $100K invested to deliver 100% free, signup-free AI tools. This funding supports server costs, CDN, WebP compression, AVIF processing, and long-term scalability.

tailscale.com - Tailscale has raised $160 million USD ($230 million CAD) in our Series C, led by Accel with participation from CRV, Insight Partners, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital. Existing angel investor George Kurtz - CEO of Crowdstrike is also included in this round, as well as Anthony Casalena - CEO of Squarespace, who joins as a new investor for Series C.

www.flagright.com - Flagright, the Berlin-born AI-native AML compliance platform, has secured a $4.3 million seed round led by Frontline Ventures with follow-on support from Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Moonfire Ventures and high-profile angels including former Zalando and Revolut executives. The cash will speed the roll-out of “AI Forensics,” a suite of specialised agents that Flagright says already cuts false-positive alerts by 93 percent and manual review work by 87 percent, while sustaining sub-700 ms real-time decisions and 99.99 percent uptime. Founded in 2022 and now serving more than 50 customers across six continents with a 35-person team, the company is simultaneously launching a Startup Program that makes its enterprise-grade tools free for a year, halved in cost the next, and standard thereafter, and is planting new offices in London (EMEA HQ), New York and San Francisco to complement existing hubs in Berlin, Singapore and Bangalore. By pairing deep data integration with AI agents, Flagright aims to help fintechs and banks stay ahead of the surge in AI-enabled financial crime ahead of tightening global AML rules in 2026.

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economictimes.indiatimes.com - Fintech startup Dodo Payments has raised $1.1 million in its pre-seed round led by Antler, 9Unicorns, and Venture Catalysts. Nitin Gupta (Uni Cards and PayU), Maninder Gulati (former Oyo CSO/Lightspeed), Raymond Russell (former Chief of Staff at Boom Supersonic), Preethi Kasireddy (former Partner, a16z), and Nishant Verman (former Flipkart CorpDev head) have also participated. The proceeds will be used for several strategic initiatives, including enhancing the technological infrastructure by introducing modules for subscriptions, billing, fraud detection, and risk management. Additionally, Dodo Payments plans to establish local payment rails in over 30 countries, focusing on regions such as the European Union, United Kingdom, Southeast Asia, Middle East, Brazil, and Australia. Founded in 2023 by Rishabh Goel and Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments simplifies complexities, enabling merchants to easily accept payments from over 150 countries with success rates exceeding 90%. The platform supports over 25 local payment methods, including Apple Pay, Klarna, Affirm, Cash App, UPI, and all major card networks, and is available in 14 languages, covering 86% of the global population. In its initial phase, Dodo Payments claims to have onboarded over 1,000 merchants across 30 countries and aims to expand this to more than 10,000 merchants globally by the end of the year.

entrackr.com - Bengaluru-based AI startup Quash has secured $635,000 in pre-seed funding led by Arali Ventures, with contributions from Java Capital, PeerCheque, DeVC by Matrix Partners, and Abhishek Goyal, co-founder of Tracxn.

techcrunch.com - Since launching in 2021, we've been on a mission to revolutionize eCommerce checkout experiences for ambitious merchants. Today, we're processing over $4B in annualized GMV, helping hundreds of D2C brands deliver Amazon-level sophistication to their customers. This new funding will accelerate our vision of transforming how online merchants optimize their checkout experience through: 👉 Enhanced checkout and shipping personalization 👉 Even more advanced testing capabilities 👉 Deeper eCommerce platform integrations

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techcrunch.com - Cohere, a generative AI startup co-founded by ex-Google researchers, has raised $500 million in new cash from investors including Cisco, AMD and Fujitsu. The round, which also had participation from Canadian pension investment manager PSP Investments and Canada’s export credit agency EDC, values Toronto-based Cohere at $5.5 billion, according to Bloomberg. That’s more than double the startup’s valuation from June 2023, when it secured $270 million from Inovia Capital and others, and brings Cohere’s total raised to $970 million.

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www.businesspost.ie - GreyScout, a leading SaaS platform for online brand protection, has announced a €3.5 million seed investment, bringing their total raised to €4.5 million. This round, jointly led by Act VC and Tribal, and participation from Furthr VC, Enterprise Ireland, and HBAN, reaffirms GreyScout’s commitment to safeguarding brands against the digital threats of grey market selling and counterfeiting.

www.fieldpulse.com - FieldPulse, a leading software provider in the field service industry, today announced a $21 million Series B funding round led by Fulcrum Equity Partners. The round also saw continued participation from current investors, Capri Ventures and Superseed Ventures.

www.zakeke.com - Zakeke, the world-leading SaaS company in the Visual Commerce landscape, offering brands advanced tools like live product personalization, superior 3D visualization, Augmented Reality, and Virtual Try-On, has successfully finalized a €2 million SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) investment round, championed by the esteemed Private Equity Fund Berrier Capital, driving forward Zakeke’s ambitions for expansive global growth. This new investment round for Zakeke brings another significant update: the esteemed Stefano Venturi, currently serving as the President of Cefriel, and formerly the CEO of both Hewlett Packard Enterprise Italy and Cisco Systems Italy, has taken a seat on Zakeke’s Board of Directors.

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grass.osgeo.org - The goal of this project is to modernize software infrastructure and strategically grow the GRASS community to achieve a technologically and socially sustainable open-source ecosystem that provides scientists a foundation for novel, interdisciplinary research that will be accessible, reproducible, and ready for further innovations. The project aims to facilitate the adoption of GRASS GIS as a key geoprocessing engine by a growing number of researchers and geospatial practitioners in academia, governments, and industry. To achieve a technologically sustainable ecosystem with broader access to GRASS algorithms and models, the project will modernize and expand software distribution, increase security and quality assurance, and simplify maintenance of GRASS integrations with other software (such as R and QGIS). Streamlined contributor onboarding procedures and both remote and in-person training, mentoring, and promotion activities will encourage researchers to contribute new geospatial algorithms and models. Onboarding and teaching materials that are integrated in automated testing will significantly lower the costs to the developer community for maintaining this sophisticated software environment. The project aims to grow the community of GRASS users, contributors, and developers worldwide through engagement activities such as cross-project meetups, developer summits, community sprints, online and in-person training and one-on-one contributor mentoring. International involvement and diversity in project governance will be addressed by working with the GRASS Project Steering Committee to establish focused work groups that will implement policies ensuring an inclusive environment and high-quality contributions. Expanding the number and diversity of contributors from academia and research, non-profits, and industry will facilitate development of new geoprocessing engine features and ensure long-term maintenance of contributed research models. It will also enable faster development of geoprocessing tools to address major societal challenges linked to a location and place. The NSF grant is an acknowledgement of the critical role GRASS GIS plays in addressing complex challenges across various domains and represents an exciting opportunity for the GRASS community to grow and innovate.

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www.linkedin.com - GoWit, a startup focused on omnichannel retail media advertising solutions, has secured an $1 million investment in its first financing round.

www.pressrelease.com - Seed stage funding by principals announced.

web321.co - We’re excited to share that we won the $30,000 CAD grant through the ICCC-KFC Recipe for Success Program! Thank you to Inner City Capital Connections and KFCCanada for the opportunity to participate in the ICCC program and receive this grant. We look forward to using it to help our business continue to grow!

techcrunch.com - “Everyone knows someone who has fallen victim to a phishing-based brandjacking scam,” said Alex Pinchev, Founder and Managing Partner at Capri Ventures. “Memcyco is the first company to provide a real-time solution to that problem, while existing approaches are mostly after-the-fact and leave organizations not knowing which users fell victim to the attack.” Quotes from investors: “Memcyco’s leadership team is fully committed to protecting banks, eCommerce and other customers whose businesses depend on the trust and goodwill of their customers. We believe they will build the company to become the leading innovator in digital trust.” added Ben Nye, Managing Partner at Venture Guides.

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techcrunch.com - MarginEdge, a restaurant management and bill payment platform, is the latest to secure some fresh capital, $45 million in Series C funding, bringing its funding to date to over $71 million. Ten Coves Capital led the round with participation from Fiserv, Derive Ventures and all of the company’s previous institutional investors.

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techcrunch.com - French startup PhotoRoom has raised a $19 million Series A funding round. The company develops a popular photo editing app for e-commerce vendors and small businesses. In particular, it helps you remove the background behind objects you are about to sell so that your photos look more professional.