Cortical.io, a Vienna, Austria, and NYC- and San Francisco, CA-based provider of solutions that classify, extract and search information within unstructured documents, raised $6 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Ezpada, a global commodity trading house. The company intends to use the funds to continue to …

folk, a Paris, France-based extended relationships manager (xRM) for centralizing, organizing, and activating contacts, raised $3.3M in seed funding led by Accel and 35 operator angels. The company intends to use the funds to expand its team and continue developing and launching the first version of the product. Company: folk …

DeepHow, a Detroit, MI-based AI company that turns technical know-how into smart, how-to training videos, closed a $9 million in pre-Series A funding. The round was led by Sierra Ventures, with participation from Osage Venture Partners, Qualcomm Ventures LLC, and pre-seed investor Foothill Ventures. The company, which has raised $13m …

Scalenut, a content intelligence platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI), raised $400,000 in seed funding led by Titan Capital, First Principles VC, AngelList, Abhishek Goyal, and other angel investors also participated in the round. Scalenut intends to continue expanding into new geographies and strengthening this unified product offering for users …

Private AI, a Toronto, Canada-based developer of privacy-preserving machine learning and natural language processing tools, raised $3.15 million in seed funding led by M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund. The fund will be used to improve their product offering, expand the team, and accelerate their acquisition of domestic and international customers. …

Rewind, an Ottawa, Canada-based data security software company, raised $65 million in Series B round to fuel its expansion into new countries, bringing its total funding for 2021 to US$80 million. New York-based Insight Partners led the new round, which also included previous investors Besserer Venture Partners, FundFire, Inovia Capital, …

Axelera AI, an Eindhoven, Netherlands-based AI semiconductor startup, raised $12 million in a seed round. The round was led by emerging technologies leader Bitfury and joined by global nanoelectronics R&D center imec and deep-tech venture capital funds Innovation Industries and imec.xpand. The funding will support the company’s development of an …