Mary Ann Azevedo

Pinegap , an AI-powered equity research platform designed for institutional buy-side investors that its founder says is “like having a junior analyst,” has closed an $8 million Series A round led by Stellaris Venture Partners

A trend YC partners are watching closely Aaron Epstein, general partner at Y Combinator. (Photo courtesy of Albert Law/YC.)

Austin-based ClearJet, an AI-enabled logistics technology startup connects shippers with unused cargo capacity on commercial flights, has raised a $25 million Edison Partners-led Series B, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

Our second in a series of articles about non-tech founders getting venture funding features Sarah Buchner, a 'blue-collar worker by background' who set out to find a way to help construction companies manage their projects more efficiently using AI agents.

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It was 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic had just hit. Rob Whiting was trying to help his brothers, both of whom had lost their jobs, find a more affordable rental.

Ali Hussain, founder of Tabs. (Courtesy photo) From St. Paul to Oxford Humanities vision meets deep tech Related Crunchbase query:

The market for private-company shares has become a much bigger part of the startup ecosystem. In this Crunchbase News Q&A, EquityZen co-founder Phil Haslett discusses why startups are offering employees and investors liquidity earlier, and why secondary prices can be more revealing than headline valuations.

In the fourth of a series of articles about non-tech founders getting venture funding, we talk to Craft CEO Ilya Levtov, a Julliard-trained cellist who says he was able to launch his supply chain intelligence software company despite having never written a single line of code.

Identity verification and fraud prevention company Socure announced Thursday that it raised $156 million in a strategic growth investment valuing it at $5.2 billion. The Incline Village, Nevada-based company also says it is acquiring agentic AI startup Fravity, which will be incorporated into its RiskOS platform as RiskOS_Agents.