It’s May 7, 2025, and we’re back with another roundup of the day’s biggest startup funding news. Yes, we’ve missed a few dates. No, we’re not promising perfect attendance. But if investors keep opening their wallets like this, we’ll keep showing up.
Today’s deal sheet is stacked—AI, biotech, cybersecurity, and even digital business cards. Investors aren’t just dabbling, they’re writing serious checks. From early-stage bets to late-stage moonshots, the signal is clear: the startup party isn’t over yet.
Here’s who raised, how much, and why it matters.
NewLimit Raises $130M Series B for Longevity Biotech
Funding Description: NewLimit, a biotech startup co-founded by Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong, secured a massive $130 million Series B round to accelerate its mission of developing therapies that extend human healthspan. The South San Francisco-based company is working on epigenetic reprogramming techniques to treat aging itself, aiming to tackle the root cause of many diseases. This new infusion, led by top-tier investors, will help NewLimit expand its operations and R&D efforts in the emerging longevity therapeutics field.
Funding Details:
Company Name: NewLimit
Investors Name: Kleiner Perkins (lead), Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Khosla Ventures, Human Capital, Valor Equity Partners, with existing backers including Dimension, Founders Fund, Brian Armstrong, John & Patrick Collison, Fred Ehrsam, Elad Gil, Joshua Kushner, Joe Lonsdale, Garry Tan.
Amount Raised: $130 million
Total Raised: Not disclosed
Funding Stage: Series B
Funding Date: May 7, 2025
OX Security Lands $60M to Scale Its Cybersecurity Platform
Funding Description: OX Security, a cybersecurity startup providing an application security platform, raised $60 million in a Series B round to fuel its growth. Originally founded by Israeli security veterans (now based in Boston), OX has developed technology to prioritize software vulnerabilities by analyzing real-world code behavior. The funding, led by a German telecom VC with participation from tech giants, brings OX’s total funding to $94 million, supporting product development and global expansion.
Funding Details:
Company Name: OX Security
Investors Name: DTCP (lead), Swisscom Ventures, IBM, Evolution Equity, Microsoft, and Team8
Amount Raised: $60 million
Total Raised: $94 million
Funding Stage: Series B
Funding Date: May 7, 2025
Sett Emerges from Stealth with $27M for AI Gaming Agents
Funding Description: Tel Aviv-based startup Sett came out of stealth mode, announcing a total of $27 million in funding to build AI agents for mobile game development. The company’s technology automates game design and operations, helping studios improve user acquisition and visibility. The latest portion of the funding was a Series A of $15 million led by Bessemer, following an earlier $12 million seed round, positioning Sett to expand its engineering and AI team in the competitive gaming industry.
Funding Details:
Company Name: Sett
Investors Name: Bessemer Venture Partners (lead), Saga VC, vgames, F2 Venture Capital, Akin Babayigit/Arcadia Gaming
Amount Raised: $15 million (latest round)
Total Raised: $27 million (including seed)
Funding Stage: Series A
Funding Date: May 7, 2025
Blinq Secures $25M to Expand Digital Business Cards
Funding Description: Blinq, a Melbourne, Australia-based startup offering a digital business card platform, raised $25 million in a Series A round to accelerate its global growth. Blinq’s app allows professionals to share contact information instantly via QR codes, links, and NFC, replacing traditional paper business cards. With over 2.5 million users globally, the company will use the new capital to develop more tools for professional networking and expand its reach across its offices in Australia and the U.S.
Funding Details:
Company Name: Blinq
Investors Name: Touring Capital (lead), Blackbird Ventures, Square Peg Capital (existing investors), and HubSpot Ventures (new)
Amount Raised: $25 million
Total Raised: Not disclosed
Funding Stage: Series A
Funding Date: May 7, 2025
FoodHealth Raises $7.5M to Scale Nutrition Intelligence Platform
Funding Description: San Francisco-based FoodHealth (formerly known as Bitewell), a nutrition intelligence startup, closed a $7.5 million Series A round to grow its healthy food scoring platform. FoodHealth provides a personalized “FoodHealth Score” that rates products on nutrient density and ingredient quality, already integrated into major grocers’ apps. The new funding, led by food-focused venture firms, brings FoodHealth’s total funding to $20 million and will help the company expand its operations and license its scoring system across the food industry.
Funding Details:
Company Name: FoodHealth
Investors Name: Reach Capital and Ulu Ventures (co-leads), with Supply Change Capital, ReThink Food, Refinery Ventures, Mudita, Antler, and other returning investors
Amount Raised: $7.5 million
Total Raised: $20 million
Funding Stage: Series A
Funding Date: May 7, 2025
Inductive Bio Attracts $25M for AI-Driven Drug Discovery
Funding Description: Inductive Bio, a New York City-based biotech software startup, secured $25 million in Series A financing to advance its AI platform for small-molecule drug discovery. The company is building machine learning models and a data consortium to predict drug properties (ADMET) and speed up the optimization of lead compounds. The round was led by prominent deep-tech investors and angels from the AI and biotech sectors, providing Inductive Bio with resources to expand R&D and partnerships in pharmaceutical research.
Funding Details:
Company Name: Inductive Bio
Investors Name: Obvious Ventures (lead), Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio+Health, Lux Capital, S32, Character, Amino Collective, plus angels Oren Etzioni, Jeff Hammerbacher, Malay Gandhi, and Jakob Uszkoreit
Amount Raised: $25 million
Total Raised: Not disclosed
Funding Stage: Series A
Funding Date: May 7, 2025
ImmuneWalk Therapeutics Closes $7M Seed Round for Immunology
Funding Description: ImmuneWalk Therapeutics, a biotech company based in New York and Petach Tikvah (Israel), announced a completed seed financing of $7 million to advance its novel immunology drug candidate. The funding came from an institutional life-science investor along with contributions from ImmuneWalk’s management team. ImmuneWalk is developing a monoclonal antibody (IW-601) that modulates the immune system by inhibiting certain white blood cells, and the seed funds will support ongoing clinical studies and presentations at upcoming medical conferences.
Funding Details:
Company Name: ImmuneWalk Therapeutics
Investors Name: Undisclosed institutional investor, with participation from ImmuneWalk’s management
Amount Raised: $7 million
Total Raised: $7 million (seed only)
Funding Stage: Seed
Funding Date: May 7, 2025
7Learnings Nets €10M+ to Optimize Retail Pricing with AI
Funding Description: Berlin-based 7Learnings raised over €10 million in a Series B round to scale its AI-powered retail optimization platform. The startup’s software helps e-commerce and retail companies predict the impact of pricing and automatically determine optimal prices using machine learning. With this new funding led by Acton Capital, 7Learnings plans to expand into North America and enhance its predictive pricing solutions for its growing client base of fashion and retail brands.
Funding Details:
Company Name: 7Learnings
Investors Name: Acton Capital (lead), with continued support from High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF)
Amount Raised: €10 million+ (over €10 million)
Total Raised: Not disclosed
Funding Stage: Series B
Funding Date: May 7, 2025
Jericho Security Grabs $15M to Combat Phishing with AI
Funding Description: Jericho Security, a New York-based cybersecurity startup, raised $15 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-driven platform for employee cyber training. Jericho’s solution simulates advanced social engineering attacks (like conversational phishing and deepfakes) using “agentic AI” to train employees to recognize and thwart threats. The round was led by early-stage investors and includes a broad syndicate of venture firms and angels, providing Jericho the capital to accelerate its go-to-market and R&D for next-gen security training tools.
Funding Details:
Company Name: Jericho Security
Investors Name: Jasper Lau of Era Fund (lead), with Lux Capital, Dash, Gaingels Enterprise & AI, Distique, Plug & Play, Henry, Metalab, Fog, Scrum Ventures, KBTG, and Textbook participating.
Amount Raised: $15 million
Total Raised: Not disclosed
Funding Stage: Series A
Funding Date: May 7, 2025
WisdomAI Secures $23M to Scale AI “Insight Agents” for Business
Funding Description: San Francisco’s WisdomAI raised $23 million to advance its “business insight agents,” AI tools that help enterprises make data-driven decisions. The funding (stage undisclosed, likely Series A) was led by Coatue, indicating strong interest in WisdomAI’s approach to aggregating and analyzing organizational data. With backing from enterprise-focused VCs, WisdomAI plans to accelerate product development and grow its engineering and sales teams to serve large customers seeking AI-powered decision support.
Funding Details:
Company Name: WisdomAI
Investors Name: Coatue Ventures (lead), Madrona Venture Group, GTM Capital, The Anthology Fund, plus angel investors
Amount Raised: $23 million
Total Raised: Not disclosed
Funding Stage: Undisclosed (early-stage)
Funding Date: May 7, 2025
CueZen Raises $5M Seed Round to Personalize Digital Health
Funding Description: Seattle-based CueZen, an AI-driven health personalization platform, announced a $5 million seed funding round led by Point72 Ventures. CueZen’s technology helps health tech companies boost user engagement by orchestrating data from wearable sensors and evidence-based health programs to deliver personalized wellness “nudges.” The fresh capital will be used to accelerate customer acquisition and expand CueZen’s platform capabilities as it partners with health enterprises to improve user retention and outcomes.
Funding Details:
Company Name: CueZen
Investors Name: Point72 Ventures (lead), Pack VC, Fortson VC, Nextinfinity
Amount Raised: $5 million
Total Raised: $5 million (initial seed)
Funding Stage: Seed
Funding Date: May 7, 2025
Uviquity Emerges with $6.6M to Innovate UV Disinfection Tech
Funding Description: Uviquity, a Raleigh, N.C.-based deep tech startup, emerged from stealth with $6.6 million in seed funding to develop its breakthrough Far-UVC light disinfection technology. Uviquity is creating tiny, semiconductor-based far-UVC light sources that can continuously disinfect air, water, and surfaces safely around people. The seed round, led by a deep-tech VC with agtech and filtration industry partners, will help Uviquity accelerate R&D and productize its fingertip-sized far-UVC chips for wide deployment in healthcare, agriculture, and consumer applications.
Funding Details:
Company Name: Uviquity
Investors Name: Emerald Development Managers (lead), AgFunder, MANN+HUMMEL
Amount Raised: $6.6 million
Total Raised: $6.6 million (stealth seed)
Funding Stage: Seed
Funding Date: May 7, 2025
Fastino Launches with $17.5M to Build Task-Specific AI Models
Funding Description: Fastino AI, based in Palo Alto, unveiled its new “Task-Specific Language Models” (TLMs) and announced a $17.5 million seed funding round led by Khosla Ventures. Fastino’s team of ex-Google DeepMind and Apple researchers developed AI models that achieve 99× faster inference than typical large language models by training on inexpensive gaming GPUs. The seed funding, which brings Fastino’s total financing to $25 million, will support the rollout of its developer API and further model development for tasks like text summarization, code execution, and data extraction.
Funding Details:
Company Name: Fastino AI
Investors Name: Khosla Ventures (lead), with Insight Partners (pre-seed lead), Valor Equity Partners, and angels including Scott Johnston (ex-CEO of Docker) and Lukas Biewald (CEO of Weights & Biases)
Amount Raised: $17.5 million
Total Raised: $25 million
Funding Stage: Seed
Funding Date: May 7, 2025
FirmPilot Adds $4.7M, Total Funding Reaches $11.7M for Legal Tech
Funding Description: FirmPilot, a Miami-based legal tech startup, announced that Thomson Reuters Ventures and HubSpot Ventures have joined as new strategic investors, bringing the company’s total funding to $11.7 million. The AI-powered marketing platform for law firms raised $4.7 million in this latest strategic round, building on its prior seed and Series A rounds. With this funding, FirmPilot plans to further develop its AI marketing engine that helps law firms attract clients online more cost-effectively.
Funding Details:
Company Name: FirmPilot
Investors Name: Thomson Reuters Ventures, HubSpot Ventures (new investors in current round); previously, Blumberg Capital led its Series A
Amount Raised: $4.7 million (new round)
Total Raised: $11.7 million
Funding Stage: Strategic investment (post-Series A)
Funding Date: May 7, 2025
SimpleClosure Lands $15M to Streamline Startup Shutdowns
Funding Description: SimpleClosure, a Santa Monica, CA-based platform that helps other startups wind down operations, raised $15 million in a Series A round. The company, which automates the complex legal, financial, and compliance steps of shutting down a business, will use the funds to expand its product and integrations. The round, led by fintech investors, brings SimpleClosure’s total funding to over $20 million, reflecting investor confidence in a tool that has already helped over 1,500 founders close their companies more efficiently.
Funding Details:
Company Name: SimpleClosure
Investors Name: TTV Capital (lead), with existing investors Infinity Ventures, Anthemis, Vera Equity, and new backers The LegalTech Fund and Carta, plus angel investors
Amount Raised: $15 million
Total Raised: $20 million+
Funding Stage: Series A
Funding Date: May 7, 2025
Carta Healthcare Snags $18.25M for Clinical Data Platform
Funding Description: Carta Healthcare, a San Francisco-based provider of AI-powered clinical data management solutions, secured $18.25 million in a Series B1 financing round. Carta’s platform streamlines the extraction and analysis of patient data for health systems and clinical research. The round was led by UPMC Enterprises (the venture arm of a major health system), joined by several hospital venture funds and existing investors, aiming to help Carta meet rising demand from hospitals and life science companies for its data abstraction and analytics tools.
Funding Details:
Company Name: Carta Healthcare
Investors Name: UPMC Enterprises (lead), new strategic investors MemorialCare Innovation Fund, Rex Health Ventures, Tampa General Hospital Ventures, plus existing backers Memorial Hermann Health System, Frist Cressey Ventures, Storm Ventures, Paramark Ventures, CU Healthcare Innovation Fund, Mass General Brigham Ventures
Amount Raised: $18.25 million
Total Raised: Not disclosed
Funding Stage: Series B1
Funding Date: May 7, 2025
Funding Summary Table
Company Name
Investors Name (Lead and notable investors)
Amount Raised
Total Raised
Funding Stage
Funding Date
NewLimit
Kleiner Perkins; Nat Friedman; Daniel Gross; Khosla Ventures; Human Capital; Valor Equity; (others)
$130 M
N/A
Series B
May 7, 2025
OX Security
DTCP; Swisscom Ventures; IBM; Evolution Equity; Microsoft; Team8
$60 M
$94 M
Series B
May 7, 2025
Sett
Bessemer Venture Partners; Saga VC; vgames; F2 VC; Akin Babayigit
$15 M
$27 M
Series A
May 7, 2025
Blinq
Touring Capital; Blackbird Ventures; Square Peg; HubSpot Ventures
$25 M
N/A
Series A
May 7, 2025
FoodHealth
Reach Capital; Ulu Ventures; (others: Supply Change, ReThink Food, Refinery, Mudita, Antler)
$7.5 M
$20 M
Series A
May 7, 2025
Inductive Bio
Obvious Ventures; a16z Bio+Health; Lux Capital; S32; Character; Amino; (angels)
$25 M
N/A
Series A
May 7, 2025
ImmuneWalk Therapeutics
Undisclosed institutional investor; (Mgmt team)
$7 M
$7 M
Seed
May 7, 2025
7Learnings
Acton Capital; HTGF
€10 M+
N/A
Series B
May 7, 2025
Jericho Security
Jasper Lau (Era Fund); Lux Capital; Dash; Gaingels; Distique; Plug & Play; (others)
$15 M
N/A
Series A
May 7, 2025
WisdomAI
Coatue Ventures; Madrona; GTM Capital; The Anthology Fund; (angels)
$23 M
N/A
(Undisclosed)
May 7, 2025
CueZen
Point72 Ventures; Pack VC; Fortson VC; Nextinfinity
$5 M
$5 M
Seed
May 7, 2025
Uviquity
Emerald Dev. Managers; AgFunder; MANN+HUMMEL
$6.6 M
$6.6 M
Seed
May 7, 2025
Fastino
Khosla Ventures; Insight Partners; Valor Equity; (angels)
$17.5 M
$25 M
Seed
May 7, 2025
FirmPilot
Thomson Reuters Ventures; HubSpot Ventures
$4.7 M
$11.7 M
Strategic (Post-Series A)
May 7, 2025
SimpleClosure
TTV Capital; Infinity Ventures; Anthemis; Vera Equity; The LegalTech Fund; Carta
$15 M
$20 M+
Series A
May 7, 2025
Carta Healthcare
UPMC Enterprises; MemorialCare; Rex Health; TGH Ventures; (others)
N/A
N/A
N/A
May 7, 2025
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