Basata has raised $21 million in a Series A led by Lan Xuezhao of Basis Set Ventures, with participation from Cowboy Ventures’ Aileen Lee and Sofeon, to scale its AI-powered referral management platform for specialist medical practices. Total funding stands at $24.5 million. Founded by CEO Kaled Alhanafi, a former Lyft and Cruise executive, president […]
Origin Lab, a startup building a licensed data marketplace between the video game industry and AI labs developing world models, has raised $8 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed Ventures, with participation from SV Angel, Eniac, Seven Stars, and FPV. Angel investors include Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin and Cruise founder Kyle Vogt. The company, […]
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Onramp has raised $12.5 million in a Series A round led by Early Riders, valuing the bitcoin financial services firm at $135 million as it pushes to scale a custody model designed to meet institutional standards. The Austin-based company told Bitcoin Magazine it now holds more than $1 billion in assets under custody and has recorded zero security incidents since its founding in 2023. The new capital will support expansion of Onramp Finance, its recently launched platform that combines bitcoin custody, brokerage, and cash management, while funding new partnerships across banks, registered investment advisors, and fintech firms. At the center of the strategy is Onramp’s Multi-Institution Custody (MIC) model, which distributes key control across several regulated custodians rather than relying on a single entity or placing full responsibility on clients. The syst
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Kohort has announced the completion of its $7 million Series A fundraising round to build user acquisition (UA) agents for mobile game studios. The round is led by The Raine Group, who invested in Kohort’s seed round. UA Agents: Context engineering meets signal engineering Kohort’s thesis is that in a world where […]
Like many AI companies automating work that humans currently do, Basata will eventually face a harder question about where the line is between augmenting workers and displacing them. For now, the founders say the administrative staff they work with aren't worried about that; they're more worried about drowning.
Fazeshift, a startup that uses AI agents to automate accounts receivable, has raised $17 million in a Series A round of funding, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
Seattle-based CopilotKit has closed a $27 million Series A led by Glilot Capital, NFX, and SignalFire, backing its mission to move AI beyond chatbots and into the fabric of applications themselves. Co-founders Atai Barkai and Uli Barkai argue that text-based AI interfaces fall short, and that agents should instead generate dynamic, interactive UIs tailored to […]