Seed Funding is a topic tracked in our intelligence system with 5 linked articles.
Crunchbase News' monthly deal digest profiles five under-the-radar funding rounds — Maxinsights ($30M, robot-training data), Foundational (£8.2M, satellite laser ranging), Cura Climate ($10M, low-carbon cement), Mika Games ($10M, game-marketing financing), and Cotierra ($3M, coffee-waste biochar) — each framed with proprietary sector funding data.
New York-based seed firm Inspired Capital has closed a $450 million fourth fund, its largest to date, signaling LP conviction in NYC's startup ecosystem even as venture capital increasingly concentrates on the West Coast.
Rivo raised $3.1m total ($2.7m seed) to automate idle cash management by routing balances into higher-yield US Treasuries via existing bank accounts, amid broader deposit profitability dynamics highlighted by a Capital One settlement and large bank deposit bases.
Crunchbase News analyzes mid-sized seed rounds ($5–$10M) in 2026 across proptech, cancer therapeutics, space tech, and robotics (with cybersecurity discussed in a separate piece), using ~800 deals to identify hotspot sectors.
Polar, an AI-first browser for knowledge workers founded by an ex-Perplexity/Comet engineer, raised a $5.7M seed round led by Madrona.
Fish Audio raised a $52M seed round and reports 8M users and $21M ARR for its AI voice models.
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