| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.02.2026 | Rapidata: $8.5 Million Seed Funding Closed For Scaling Global Human Feedback Network | Rapidata announced it has raised an $8.5 million seed round to accelerate AI development by scaling on-demand human feedback for model training and evaluation. The round was co-led by Canaan Partners and IA Ventures, with participation from... |
| 21.02.2026 | Rapidata Secures $8.5M, Unleashing AI's Feedback Loop | Zurich AI innovator Rapidata secured $8.5 million in Seed capital. This funding empowers its global human feedback network. Rapidata solves AI's critical bottleneck: slow human judgment. AI models require rapid, precise validation. The comp... |
| 20.02.2026 | Zurich-based AI infrastructure startup Rapidata raises €7.2 million to scale global human feedback network | Rapidata, a Swiss company that accelerates AI development through scalable, on-demand data labeling via digital ads, announced a €7.2 million ($8.5 million) Seed round to scale their global human data network and support growing demand from... |
| 20.02.2026 | Rapidata raised USD 8.5 million to eliminate the feedback bottleneck in AI development |
As AI development accelerates, access to timely human feedback has emerged as a critical bottleneck. While compute and model architectures have advanced rapidly, collecting high-quality human judgments, preferences, and validation data rem... |
| 19.02.2026 | Rapidata raises USD 8.5M to accelerate AI development | Rapidata, a Venture Leaders program participant and Venture Kick winner, is tackling one of AI development’s biggest bottlenecks: the slow, manual process of gathering large-scale human feedback. By leveraging crowd intelligence and a globa... |
| 19.02.2026 | Rapidata Raises $8.5M in Seed Funding | Rapidata, a Zurich, Switzerland-based AI infrastructure startup which specializes in providing human feedback for AI model development, raised $8.5M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Canaan Partners and IA Ventures with participation fr... |
| 19.02.2026 | Rapidata raises USD 8.5M to accelerate AI development | 19.02.2026 17:10, Rita Longobardi
Zurich-based AI startup Rapidata has raised USD 8.5 million in seed funding to scale its human feedback platform, dramatically speeding up AI model training. Rapidata, a Venture Leaders program participant ... |
| 11.09.2025 | Enveda: $150 Million Series D Raised To Advance Clinical Trials And Enhance Leadership | Enveda, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing a new generation of small-molecule drugs sourced from nature, has announced a significant milestone with the close of its $150 million Series D funding round. The round wa... |
| 04.09.2025 | Enveda Raises $150M in Series D Funding | Enveda, a Boulder, CO-based clinical-stage biotech company, raised $150M in Series D funding.
The round was led by Premji Invest with participation from new and existing investors Baillie Gifford, Kinnevik, Lingotto Investment Management, P... |
| 16.05.2025 | Row Zero: $10 Million Raised For Advancing Development Of Enterprise Spreadsheet | Row Zero, an enterprise spreadsheet company built for big data and security, announced a seed round of $10 million, led by IA Ventures, with participation from Trilogy Equity Partners, Founder’s Co-op, Ludlow Ventures, K9 Ventures, Function... |
| 15.05.2025 | Row Zero Raises $10M in Seed Funding | Row Zero Spreadsheet Screenshot
Row Zero, a Seattle, WA-based provider of an enterprise spreadsheet built for big data and security, raised $10M in Seed funding.
The round was led by IA Ventures, with participation from Trilogy Equity Partn... |
| 14.03.2025 | How Much Venture Capital Did Mighty Raise? A Startup With a Mission to Level the Playing Field | In court, the little guy typically ends up on the short end of the stick.
Corporate defendants and deep-pocket insurance companies have deep pockets, massive legal staff, and a playbook that typically consists of dragging out cases until th... |
| 09.12.2024 | Ethyca Raises $10M to Scale its Enterprise Data Privacy Engineering Platform | Data privacy and governance have become critical for modern enterprises as they increasingly rely on complex data systems and AI. Organizations face mounting pressure to ensure compliance with privacy regulations while maintaining the abili... |
| 06.06.2024 | Simpl sees another round of layoffs, rejigs senior leadership | Buy now pay later (BNPL) start-up Simpl has let go of 30 more employees a month after it laid off 160 people.
Recently, the firm has also seen the departure of senior executives, including Vatsal Jain, Vice-President - Enterprise Business; ... |
| 12.04.2023 | Rupert raises $8 million seed round to build the future of analytics distribution by connecting insights to business outcomes | NEW YORK (PRWEB) April 12, 2023
Rupert, the leading analytics distribution platform, announced that it raised $8 million in seed funding. Cortical Ventures and IA Ventures led the round with participation by Citi Ventures and Joule Ventures... |
| 18.07.2022 | Canvas Medical Raises $24M for EMR & Payments Platform | What You Should Know:
– Canvas Medical, the EMR that enables clinicians and developers to power the future of care delivery, has raised $24M in Series B funding led by M13 with participation from Haystack and previous investors Inspired Cap... |
| 11.05.2022 | LootLocker completes $2.1MM seed financing ahead of its official launch. | LootLocker completes $2.1MM seed financing ahead of its official launch.
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May 11th, 2022, Stockholm, Sweden — LootLocker, the game backend-as-a-service company announced today the closing of it... |
| 13.01.2021 | Seattle fintech startup Secure, which helps enable emergency savings accounts, raises $3.5M | Secure co-founders Devin Miller (left) and Bassam Saliba. (Secure Photos)
Investors are betting on Secure, a new Seattle-area startup riding a trend of increased interest in emergency savings accounts amid the pandemic.
The company raised a... |
| 18.11.2020 | Headway raises $26M to expand insurance coverage for mental health | The company currently partners with Aetna, Cigna, United, Oxford, and Oscar
COVID has really done a number on the nation's already ongoing mental health crisis: over 40 percent of respondents to a survey in June "reported at least one ... |
| 22.10.2018 | IA Ventures seeks $160 mln, emphasizes passion as investment decision criteria | - |
| 01.02.2018 | Every New York City Venture Firm, Listed | As entrepreneurs brush off their pitch decks for the new year, they'll likely realize that finding the right venture fund is tougher than ever. Even though last year's VC deal dollars added up to the largest amount since the dot com boom, t... |
| 05.04.2017 | Cendana Capital — which funds 15 top seed-stage groups — just raised a ton of capital | Michael Kim is pretty much killing it.
Seven years ago, when he first approached investors with the idea of creating a fund-of-funds that would invest in seed-stage, or so-called micro VC, funds, they were cool to the idea. In fact, it took... |
| 01.02.2017 | How real investors separate AI hype from reality | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Artificial intelligence has captured public imagi... |
| 19.01.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: TellusLab Raises $3.1m Seed to Compete with Descartes Labs, Measure Raises $15m for Drones-as-a-Service, more | TellusLabs, a satellite imagery and machine learning company, has raised $3.1 million in seed funding led by NY-based early-stage big data investors IA Ventures with participation from Massachusetts-based seed-stage investors Founder Collec... |
| 17.01.2017 | TellusLabs wants to help us better understand our planet | If you’ve spent time following companies like Orbital Insight and Descartes Labs, you might assume the geospatial analytics race has been won. But TellusLabs thinks, on the contrary, that the table hasn’t even started to cool. Armed with $3... |
| 13.06.2016 | Better Mortgage Raises $30M Series A From Goldman Sachs, Pine Brook, KCK Group, And IA Ventures | Better Mortgage, a technology-driven direct mortgage lender, announced closing $30 million in Series A financing from Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments group, Pine Brook, KCK Group, and IA Ventures. The capital will support cont... |
| 25.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 25, 2016 | ThousandEyes closed a $35M funding; Arctic Sand Technologies secured $19M; enSilo received $19M
Signifyd, a fraud technology solution for e-commerce stores, closed a $20 million Series B funding round. The round was led by Menlo Ventures, w... |
| 09.02.2016 | DataSift founder’s new startup Cognitive Logic raises $3 million in seed funding | Cognitive Logic, a new startup from the founder of DataSift, has raised $3 million in seed funding from Upfront Ventures and IA Ventures.
The startup, led by Nick Halstead, is looking at combining different datasets across businesses to enh... |
| 04.01.2016 | Hometeam raises $27.5M to expand professional caregiver matchmaking service | Hometeam compares its software to a matchmaking service. It matches families with experienced caregivers and helps caregivers plan days to improve the quality of life of older adults.
Caregiver startups have been a popular area for digital ... |
| 04.01.2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 4, 2016 | Scholar Rock received $36M; DeePoon landed $30M; SilverCar raised $28M Series C funding
Japan-based startup news media The Bridge today announced raising an undisclosed amount of funding from Fuji Startup Ventures and PR Times. Founded in 2... |
| 19.07.2015 | The rise of the thematic VC and what it means for founders | Thematic venture capital funds have come into vogue over the last decade. Firms used to be generalists and VC was an artisanal craft largely organized by stage and fund size. Today there are hardware funds, B2B funds, and funds with very ex... |
| 19.07.2015 | The rise of the thematic VC and what it means for founders | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Thematic venture capital funds have come into vog... |
| 19.02.2015 | Cloud-Based Bio Lab Startup Transcriptic Lands $8.5 Million In Series A Funding To Help It Scale | Months after announcing its Y Combinator partnership and moving into a giant new Menlo Park facility, the robot-operated biolab startup Transcriptic has raised $8.5 million in Series A funding.
Data Collective led the round, with participat... |
| 23.03.2014 | Digital Ocean’s Journey From TechStars Reject To Cloud-Hosting Darling | The cloud hosting service DigitalOcean is one of the big startup success stories of the last year. Earlier this month, the company announced that it had raised a $37 million funding round led by Andreesen Horowitz, just a few months after r... |
| 25.02.2014 | The Trade Desk Raises $20M in Series B Funding | The Trade Desk, Inc., a Ventura, CA-based global demand-side advertising platform, raised $20M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Hermes Growth Partners with participation from seed and Series A investor IA Ventures. Following the in... |
| 14.10.2013 | Smart thermometer is the favorite at Cleveland Clinic & StartUp Health’s venture challenge | The favorite among the judges, and it seemed among attendees as well, is trying to track the spread of human disease by mapping it using mobile tools, starting with a smartphone-enabled thermometer and app. The company’s low-cost thermomete... |
| 20.05.2013 | Consumr Raises $565K in Seed Funding | Consumr, a New York-based provider of an app for people to review products, recently raised a $565k in seed funding.
Backers included Lerer Ventures, IA Ventures and Mesa+.
Co-founded by Ryan Charles, CEO, and Noah Zitsman, CTO, Consumr pro... |
| 15.05.2013 | Updater Raises $5M in Series A Funding | Updater, a New York-based provider of a website that enables families and individuals to update all of their personal accounts and records, connect home services and change of address, raised $5m in a Series A funding.
Backers included Soft... |
| 07.05.2013 | PlaceIQ Raises $6.75M in Series B Financing | PlaceIQ, a New York, NY-based provider of location intelligence solutions for marketers, raised $6.75m in Series B financing.
The round was led by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), with participation from IA Ventures, Valhalla Partners, kbs+ Ve... |
| 19.12.2012 | Signifyd Raises $2M | Signifyd, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of a risk and fraud prevention platform, has raised $2m in financing.
Backers include Andreessen Horowitz, Data Collective, IA Ventures, QED Investors, Resolute.VC, Tekton Ventures and other angel in... |
| 13.11.2012 | DataSift Receives $15M in Series B Funding | DataSift, a San Francisco, New York, Chicago, and Reading, U.K.-based provider of a social data platform company, has received $15m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from current investors ... |
| 21.08.2012 | Twice Raises $4M in Series A Funding | Twice, a San Francisco, CA-based concierge-style marketplace for secondhand fashion, has raised $4m in Series A funding.
The round was led by IA Ventures, with participation from Felicis Ventures, Lerer Ventures, SV Angel, CrunchFund, High ... |
| 09.03.2012 | Drawn to Scale Raises $925K in Funding | Drawn to Scale, a San Francisco, California-based developer of a database for real-time Big Data, has raised $925k in initial funding.
The round was led by RTP Ventures, with participation from IA Ventures and SK Ventures.
Previously the co... |
| 08.03.2012 | Database startup Drawn to Scale inks new financing deal | Drawn to Scale, a two-year-old Seattle startup developing a new database called Spire, has raised a round of funding from RTP Ventures, IA Ventures, and SK Ventures. Terms of the deal were not disclosed in a blog post from co-founder Bradfo... |
| 09.02.2012 | IA Ventures raises $105 million to invest in Big Data companies | But, it’s hard to imagine investors aren’t taking note of all of the new companies emerging as floods of data arise from digital health devices and platforms, some of which have already garnered investments from high-profile firms like Bain... |
| 08.02.2012 | IA Ventures Doubles Down On Big Data With A New $105M Fund | Before big data was a hot investing theme, Roger Ehrenberg was one of the first seed investors to focus almost exclusively on startups using data as a competitive edge. His NYC-based fund, IA Ventures, has backed companies such as Billguard... |
| 30.11.2011 | NewsCred Raises $4.75M | NewsCred, a New York-based media company focused on creating a single platform for the world’s news, said it raised a total of $4.75m in funding.
According to the company blog (read here) the company raised:
– $750K in seed round from FLOOD... |
| 27.10.2011 | Why you need to get to Venture Shift NY | The following post is sponsored by Vator.tv.
There are some rumblings that cash may be drying up for tech startups. Does that mean a shakeout is on the horizon, and angel investor hobbyists are going to go back to their day jobs? Are the no... |
| 18.10.2011 | Disruptors Got Legs! Disrupt Alum BillGuard Raises $10 M. | Mr. Samid.
BillGuard is only half-New Yorker–CEOYaron Samidis based in “New York and Tel Aviv.” But the company, which combs your online statements for fraud and frivolous charges, garnered 10,000 sign-ups in a matter of days after launchin... |
| 10.08.2011 | Cha-Ching: BankSimple Banks $10 Million In New Funds And Some Heavy-Hitting Partnerships | Alternative banking service BankSimple has just announced $10 million in funding led by IA Ventures and joined by existing investors and Shasta Ventures. This Series B round will join the $3.1 million in Series A and seed that the startup s... |
| 26.07.2011 | ThinkNear Turns Mobile Banner Ads Into Local Offers (Raises $1.6 Million From IA And Google Ventures) | Last April, one of the strongest startups from TechStars’s Demo Day in New York City was ThinkNear, which turns mobile ads into hyper-targeted daily deal offers for local merchants. The startup is officially launching later today to restaur... |
| 18.07.2011 | Destin: European VC Needs Revolution, Not Evolution | This is a guest post by Fred Destin, a Partner at Atlas Venture based out of Boston. Previously Destin was, for years, an active VC in Europe, working on DailyMotion, Seatwave, Zoopla and a number of other high profile European startup inve... |
| 18.07.2011 | European VC Needs Revolution, Not Evolution | This is a guest post by Fred Destin, a Partner at Atlas Venture based out of Boston. Previously Destin was, for years, an active VC in Europe, working on DailyMotion, Seatwave, Zoopla and a number of other high profile European startup inve... |
| 11.07.2011 | DataSift Raises $6M in Funding | DataSift, a Reading, UK-based company globally licensed by Twitter to re-syndicate its content, has raised $6m in venture capital funding.
The round was co-led by IA Ventures and GRP Partners.
The company intends to use the funding to build... |
| 04.04.2011 | The World’s Most Social City Meets Social Media: Why One Hot Investor Thinks New York Is on Fire as a Tech Startup Hub | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s no secret to anyone looking at venture activity that New York has blossomed over the past few years as a startup mecca. Riding a wave of investments in Web , media, and a... |
| 01.03.2011 | MyCityWay Raises $5M in Financing | MyCityWay, a New York-based company that develops an interactive geo-location urban reference app, has raised $5m in financing.
As we said on Saturday, 26, 2011, investors include BMW i Ventures (read the news). Existing investors FirstMark... |
| 26.02.2011 | What’s The Real Deal With AngelList? | Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at Bothsidesofthetable
There’s lots of discussion out there about a new and much-loved service called AngelList... |
| 03.12.2010 | Big data draws big money as IA Ventures raises $50M fund | Roger Ehrenberg, a former Wall Street investor, launched IA Ventures earlier this year to invest in startups that leverage “big data”. Now that big data is attracting big cash from limited partners as the fund has raised $50M, Dan Primack o... |
| - | Hometeam raises $27.5M to expand professional caregiver matchmaking service | Hometeam continues to build momentum for its aging in place approach to senior care, an area that will continue to be a big theme in 2016. It has raised $27.5 million in a Series B round led by Oak HC/FT. The fundraise is designed to speed ... |
| - | Smart thermometer is the favorite at Cleveland Clinic & StartUp Health’s venture challenge | Mobile health company Kinsa continued its victory lap around the startup competition circuit at the Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit today, taking home top honors at the summit’s first ever new ventures healthcare challenge.
Eleve... |
| - | IA Ventures raises $105 million to invest in Big Data companies | Big Data investor IA Ventures has raised a new $105 million fund that it will funnel into two dozen or so startups over the next three years.
The New York-based venture firm invests in “companies that create competitive advantage through da... |
| - | Kinsa says FDA has cleared Smart Thermometer as makers work on big data tool | For mobile health to become more mainstream, companies will have to provide tools that add value, save time and get the blessing of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Today, Kinsa said the FDA gave 510(k) clearance to its Smart Thermome... |
