• Latin America Leads VC Growth in 2024

• OpenAI Unites With Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal to Create A.I. Devices

• Elon Musk Commits to Tesla CEO Role for Next 5 Years

• Tesla Board Explores New Pay Deal for Musk

• Tesla CFO Vaibhav Taneja Receives Record $139M Pay Package

• Austin. TX's Reign as a Tech Hub Might Be Coming to an End

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• Acrisure (Grand Rapids, MI) – Raised $2.1B at a $32B valuation, led by Bain Capital, to expand its fintech and insurance services.

• Beyond Imagination (Los Angeles, CA) – In discussions to raise $100M Series B at a $500M valuation, led by Gauntlet Ventures, to advance humanoid robotics.

• Gravitee (Denver, CO) – Raised $60M Series C, led by Sixth Street Growth, to enhance API and event management solutions.

• SparkCharge (Somerville, MA) – Closed $15.5M Series A-1, led by Monte's Fam, to expand portable EV charging infrastructure.

• Novisto (Montreal, Canada) – Raised $27M Series C, led by Inovia Capital, to scale its ESG reporting platform.

• Attensi (Oslo, Norway) – Secured $25M in non-dilutive growth funding from Ture Invest Partners to enhance game-based training solutions.

• Blues (Boston, MA) – Raised $25M, led by Sequoia Capital, to advance IoT connectivity solutions.

• Sweep (New York, NY) – Closed $22.5M Series B, led by Insight Partners, to develop an agentic workspace for business systems.

• FanBasis (Miami, FL) – Raised $20M Series A, led by Left Lane Capital, to support digital business infrastructure for creators.

• Catena Labs (Boston, MA) – Secured $18M funding from investors including Breyer Capital, Circle Ventures, and Coinbase Ventures to build AI-native financial infrastructure.

• Affiniti (New York, NY) – Raised $17M Series A, led by SignalFire, to enhance AI-driven financial tools for SMBs.

• TrustCloud (Boston, MA) – Secured $15M funding, led by ServiceNow Ventures, to modernize AI-native security assurance platforms.

• Lendflow (Austin, TX) – Received $15M from Trinity Capital to expand its embedded credit infrastructure.

• Barndoor AI (San Francisco, CA) – Raised $13.6M seed round, led by Crosslink Capital, to develop a control plane for agentic AI workforces.

• Coworker.ai (Palo Alto, CA) – Raised $13M seed round, led by Jeff Huber, to build AI agents capable of autonomous complex work execution.

• Biostate AI (Cambridge, MA) – Secured $12M Series A, led by Accel, to predict diseases using RNA sequencing and AI.

• SUPER STUDIO (Tokyo, Japan) – Raised approximately $12M from 31VENTURES, Global Brain, and others to expand its integrated commerce platform.

• Didask (Paris, France) – Raised $11M, led by AVP and Citizen Capital, to enhance corporate training solutions.

• Audoo (London, UK) – Secured approximately $9.2M from investors including Adele and Adam Clayton to improve music royalty payments.

• sensmore (Vienna, Austria) – Raised $7.3M, led by Point Nine Capital, to develop autonomous machinery.

• Meibel (San Francisco, CA) – Raised $7M seed round, led by Mosaic General Partnership, to build a runtime platform for confident AI.

• XP (Brooklyn, NY) – Secured $6.2M funding, led by Blockchange, for its secondary ticket marketplace.

• AskElephant (Chicago, IL) – Raised $6M seed round, led by Jump Capital, to develop an AI orchestration platform for customer-facing teams.

• New Gen (San Francisco, CA) – Secured $4.5M seed round, led by South Park Commons, to build an AI-based commerce platform.

• Ontik (London, UK) – Raised $3.7M seed round, led by Firstminute Capital, to automate trade credit for B2B wholesalers.

💸 VC Funds Raised & Raising

• SV Health Investors raised $270M for its second dementia-focused fund

• Creator Ventures, a seed and pre-seed venture capital fund focused on consumer internet companies raises its second fund with $45 million, more than double its previous $20 million fund

• QuantumLight, the AI-focused VC firm led by Revolut's founder, raised $250M for its debut fund to back early-stage startups

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🚀 Startup Spotlight

FanBasis - an all-in-one platform helping creators and internet entrepreneurs build and scale digital businesses.

What They Do: FanBasis unifies payments, BNPL financing, digital product delivery, course/community hosting, and backend automation—allowing creators to run high-margin businesses from one place.

Background/Problem: Creators often patch together multiple tools for monetization, fulfillment, and customer management. This leads to friction, lost revenue, and failed payments. FanBasis solves this with a full-stack infrastructure designed for serious creators selling expertise, not just content.

Key Features:

• Embedded BNPL + smart payment routing

• Automated course, community, and product fulfillment

• Affiliate engine, upsells, order bumps

• Real-time revenue insights and churn analytics

• 5,000+ app integrations + white-glove onboarding

Headquarters: Miami, Florida

Founder: Yash Daftary – Serial entrepreneur, ex-Storm Ventures and MBX Capital. Scaled multiple 7-figure businesses by age 20.

Funding: $20M Series A from Left Lane Capital, Ryan Serhant, Gerard Piqué, KSI & The Sidemen (Upside Ventures), Connexa Capital

Business Model: SaaS + transaction fees from embedded payments and financing. Built for high-ticket creators and course businesses.

Traction: 10,000+ creators and agencies. Top sellers see +38% revenue lift from BNPL and order bumps. Targeting “Creator CEOs.”

Comps:

• Kajabi – Online courses and memberships

• Podia – Digital product storefronts

• Fourthwall – Creator stores + fan monetization

• Mighty Networks – Paid communities and content hosting

• Gumroad – Lightweight digital product sales

Why FanBasis: It’s the full-stack platform for modern creators—blending Stripe-level fintech, Kajabi-like content tools, and growth optimization into one seamless ecosystem. Creators don’t just monetize—they scale real businesses.