Spice AI, a Seattle, WA-based startup enabling developers to integrate AI into their applications, raised $1 million in pre-Seed funding. Spice AI is backed and advised by several tech leaders, including Nat Friedman (CEO of GitHub) and Mark Russinovich (CTO of Microsoft Azure), together with institutional investors, Madrona Venture Group, …

SparkPlug, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an employee rewards and campaign management platform, raised $2.5 million in seed funding. The round, which brought total funding raised to date to $3.5M, included TenOneTen Ventures, Jason Calacanis, and Argonautic Ventures; co-founders from Shift, Applied Semantics, Social Native, and Factual; and executives …

BuildAi, an AI-driven construction management platform, secured $1.9 million in a seed funding round. Some high-profile construction participants and investors include Marr Contracting, Total Constructions, Galileo Ventures, Markus Preston (CEO of The Preston Group), Angus Kennard (Kennards Hire), Stuart Ford (Ex MD Ford Civil), and several other angel investors who …

Replai, a San Francisco, California-based world’s first video-based creative insights platform that provides custom computer vision and AI technology to any company that uses video online, raised $4.7 million in seed funding, bringing its total funding to $6 million. The round was led by Hoxton along with Sonae IM, Lux …

Fika, a Stockholm, Sweden- and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam-based social and dating app, raised $1.6 million in Seed funding. The round was led by VNV Global, with participation from GFC Global Founders Capital GmbH, 31 Atlantic, Balderton Capital’s Magda Lukaszewicz, Index Ventures’ Sofia Dolfe, Sebastian Knutsson, Fredrik Hjelm, and …

Pluto Biosciences, a Denver, Colorado-based biotech software startup and developer of the Pluto collaborative life sciences platform, raised $1 million in a seed round led by private investors. Funding will be used to expand the bioinformatics and machine learning-based analyses in its collaborative life sciences platform, democratize access to published …

Opal, a San Francisco, CA and New York-based access management platform, raised $1.8 million in Seed funding. The round was led by Greylock, with participation from angel investors such as Expanse CEO Tim Junio, Abnormal Security CEO Evan Reiser, and Signal Sciences CEO Andrew Peterson. The company intends to use …