Venture Capital

SAN FRANCISCO — BurnBot has raised $20 million in financing to expand its mechanized vegetation management and fuel treatment solutions to prevent destructive wildfires. The round was led by ReGen Ventures, with participation from Toyota Ventures, AmFam Ventures, Convective Capital, Blue Forest Asset Management, Skip Capital, Overture Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital and Pathbreaker Ventures. As the frequency and severity of wildfires increase, preventing mass devastation requires scalable, fuels treatment for brush clearance, prescribed […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Breakout Ventures, which invests in creative bioscience entrepreneurs, is welcoming five new venture partners. These industry leaders will lend their experience to diligence new investments and advise Breakout’s portfolio companies on product development and commercialization strategy. “We’ve had the pleasure of knowing these founders and advisors for many years and are delighted […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW — inDrive, a leading global mobility and urban services platform, has expanded its financing arrangement with General Catalyst to $300 million, up from the initial $150 million secured in 2023. The financing extension, which can be further extended for an additional year, enhances inDrive’s financial flexibility, enabling the company to bolster growth, invest […]

PALO ALTO — Buzz Solutions, an AI company that inspects and protects critical energy infrastructure, has closed a $5 million round of growth funding. GoPoint Ventures led the round, with additional participation from Blackhorn Ventures and MaC Venture Capital. The investment follows a period of significant acceleration in customer adoptions as utilities are demanding more efficient and accurate T&D infrastructure inspections and […]

SUNNYVALE — Euno, a data startup, has raised $6.25 million in seed funding and emerged from stealth to launch a dynamic governance solution for data teams at large and scale-up organizations. Euno’s “soft governance” approach empowers business analysts to innovate freely and leverage their expertise in structured query language (SQL) and business intelligence (BI) tools […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Loyal, a biotech company pioneering longevity drugs for dogs, has successfully completed its Series B funding round, securing $45 million in investment. The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures. This brings total funding raised by Loyal to more than $125 million since its founding in 2019 and includes a $12 million […]

PALO ALTO — Foundry, a new breed of public cloud for AI/ML workloads, has raised $80 million in seed and Series A funding to orchestrate the world’s compute capacity, rendering it universally accessible and useful. The round was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Redpoint, Microsoft Ventures (M12), Conviction, NEA, and […]