Effectiv, a San Francisco, CA-based real-time fraud and risk management platform startup, raised an additional $4.5 million in seed funding to help organizations fight financial fraud. The new funding came from Better Tomorrow Ventures LLC, with participation from Accel Partners LP and angel investors. This funding brought the total raised …

Protect AI, a Seattle, WA-based artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) security company, closed a $35 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Evolution Equity Partners, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and existing investors Acrew Capital, boldstart ventures, Knollwood Capital, and Pelion Ventures. To date, the …

AutogenAI, a London, UK-based company that offers natural language processing solutions to help companies write compelling draft bids, proposals, and tenders in minutes, raised $22.3 million in a fresh round of funding from UK-based venture capital firm Blossom Capital. The fresh funding will be used to advance its technology and …

ScorePlay, a New York-based all-in-one AI-powered media operating system powering sports, raised a $5 million seed funding, bringing its total funding to $6.5 million. The round was led by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven Six alongside a powerhouse of sports investors such as NBA All-Star Kevin Durant and Rich …

Materials Nexus, a London, UK-based deep tech startup company that processes quantum calculations, raised £2 million in a seed funding round led by Ada Ventures. High-Tech Gründerfonds, The University of Cambridge, National Security specialists MD One Ventures, as well as new institutional investor Michael Eisenberg at Genuine Capital Ventures, and …

Akooda, a Boston, MA-based company that has developed an operations intelligence platform, raised $11 million in seed funding from NFX, Atlassian Ventures, Village Global, Founder Collective, and others. The company plans to use the funding to further develop its product suite and expand its customer base. Akooda participates in Intel …

SPIRITT, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based company which has developed an AI platform that enables the development of complex apps by describing the concept to a computer without the need to write code, has extended its seed funding round to $13.5 million. The investors in the round include Square Peg and …