Acryl Data, a Mountain View, CA-based company driving the DataHub Project, an open-source data catalog, announced that it has secured $21 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Bhaskar Ghosh, Partner at 8VC, with participation from Ram Shriram, Founder, of Sherpalo Ventures, and Guillermo Rauch, Founder and …

Render, a San Francisco, CA-based modern cloud for application developers and teams, announced that it raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Existing investors Addition, General Catalyst, and the South Park Commons Fund also participated in the round. In conjunction with the investment, …

Fero Labs, a New York-based AI-driven manufacturing process optimization software company, closed $15 million in growth funding, bringing its total raised to $30 million. The round was led by Climate Investment ('CI', formerly OGCI Climate Investments), with additional participation from investors Blackhorn Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, and DI Technology. With this …

Playtag, a Seoul, South Korea-based startup specializing in vision-based AI behavior analysis, secured 40 billion won in pre-Series A investment. The funding round was led by CJ Investment, with participation from BNK Venture Investment, DSC Investment, and KB Investment. The company plans to utilize the investment to bolster its primary …

Outbound AI, a Seattle, WA-based healthtech startup that provides conversation AI, raised $16 million in seed financing to accelerate the growth of AI agents performing administrative tasks. The round was co-led by Madrona Venture Group and SpringRock Ventures, with participation from Epic Ventures, Ascend, Pack Ventures, Locke Capital, Tacoma Venture …

MatrixSpace, a Burlington, MA-based AI collaborative sensing solution, announced that it raised $10 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funding to $20 million since its first year of operation in 2020. The round was led by the Raptor Group, with participation from Intel Capital. Rob Broggi, Partner at …

Kaito, a Seattle, Washington-based AI-powered search engine for digital assets, raised $5.5 million in a Series A funding round at a $87.5 million valuation, to build an artificial intelligence (AI) search engine tailored to the crypto industry, the firm told CoinDesk. The round was led by early-stage crypto venture capital …