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Onebrief Reaches $1.1 Billion Valuation with $20 Million Series C Extension Led by Battery Ventures, Nearly Doubling in 3 Months

Onebrief, the leading software for military staff collaboration and operational planning, today announced a $20 million Series C extension led by Battery Ventures. This funding round scales the company’s valuation to $1.1 billion, an increase from the $650M valuation achieved three months prior in Onebrief’s Series C.

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BreachRx
BreachRx Closes $15M Series A Funding to End the Chaos of Cybersecurity Incident Response

BreachRx, provider of the first intelligent incident response platform designed for the entire enterprise, today announced the closing of an oversubscribed $15 million Series A funding round led by Ballistic Ventures, with participation from SYN Ventures, Overline, and Silver Buckshot Ventures. The company also announced the appointments of Ballistic Ventures General Partner and former Mandiant CEO Kevin Mandia to the Board of Directors, and best-selling author and former New York Times lead cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth as Board Observer. The investment brings the company’s total funding raised to over $23 million.

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Polsky
The University of Chicago Partners with Bay Area Accelerator to Launch Alchemist Chicago

Alchemist Accelerator, one of the world’s leading enterprise-focused startup accelerators, has joined forces with the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation to launch Alchemist Chicago — a new deep tech accelerator built to take scientific breakthroughs from lab to market.

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PR Newswire
BQP Raises $5M Oversubscribed Seed Round Following Pilot Agreement with Air Force Research Lab for Quantum-Accelerated Digital Twin Platform

BQP, a dual-use quantum-accelerated simulation software company, has raised an oversubscribed $5 million seed round to expand its unified digital twin platform, BQPhy®, for mission-critical industries, including aerospace, defense (A&D), and semiconductor. The raise follows a strategic collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Systems Directorate (AFRL/RQ) under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to accelerate mission-critical modeling and simulation capabilities with quantum computing.

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GlobeNewswire
WSO2 Acquires Leading API Analytics and Monetization Startup Moesif

WSO2, the leader in enterprise digital infrastructure technology, today announced it has acquired Moesif, a San Francisco-based startup specializing in advanced API analytics and monetization. The all-cash acquisition marks a strategic milestone in WSO2’s long-term plan to accelerate global growth through targeted inorganic opportunities.

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Verdi
Verdi’s $6.5M CAD ($4.7M USD) Oversubscribed Seed Round, Led by SVG Ventures | THRIVE.

Excited to announce Verdi’s $6.5M CAD ($4.7M USD) oversubscribed seed round, led by SVG Ventures | THRIVE. When we started Verdi, it felt like a crazy idea — could a small team really modernize the massive, decades-old systems that power global agriculture?

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San Francisco Business Times
These AI Startups Are Making Money, Accelerator Says

Alchemist Accelerator is hosting its 39th Demo Day, and AI startups in the current batch are growing faster than previous generations of SaaS companies, the accelerator says.

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Siro.ai
Letter from the CEO: Announcing Siro’s Series B

Today, I’m proud to share that we’ve raised a $50 million Series B, led by SignalFire, with participation from our existing investors. This round is more than a financial milestone – it’s a vote of confidence in a part of the workforce that’s been underserved for too long. While tech has raced ahead for remote work and digital sales, the people selling in person have largely been overlooked. This raise is a step toward changing that.

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Alchemist Accelerator
Alchemist Announces the Launch of the Second Cohort of "Alchemist Japan" and Kickoff Event

Alchemist Accelerator and Alchemist Japan are excited to announce the launch of applications for the second cohort of the Alchemist Japan Program.

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The Times of India
Solo Founders & Indie Hustlers: Turning Your Skills Into Income

Anyone can build a solo venture to turn their skills and interests into income. There’s a million-dollar idea in you, waiting to be launched. The key is to activate your profitable niche by living in your zone of genius and monetizing your labor of love.

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Business24
Triple S Ventures Celebrates Strategic Investment by Alchemist Doha in Denovo Sciences

Triple S Ventures is proud to announce that Alchemist Doha, a leading innovation and equity vehicle in Qatar has made a strategic investment in Denovo Sciences, one of the most promising AI-driven drug discovery startups from our portfolio.

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UzDaily
Alchemist and IT Park Ventures Join Forces to Support Startups

The American accelerator Alchemist and the Uzbek platform IT Park Ventures have entered into a collaboration agreement to support startups, as announced by the IT Park press service.

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Spiky.ai
Spiky Secures $3.2M to Redefine Sales Conversational Insights

Spiky has successfully raised $3.2 million in funding, further solidifying its leader position in AI-powered sales conversational intelligence. With backing from leading investors, Spiky is poised to accelerate its mission of redefining conversational intelligence and delivering cutting-edge solutions that empower teams with actionable insights.

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Nomadic Drones
Nomadic Drones Raises $1.6M Pre Seed

Thrilled to share that Nomadic Drones has secured $1.6M in our pre-seed round, led by Outlander VC and Asia2G Capital!

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Pinnacle
Pinnacle Raises $2.5M Seed

Today, we’re excited to share that we’ve raised a $2.5M Seed round led by eLab Ventures, with participation from Incisive VC, 57 Blocks, Sher Ventures, Sarah Smith Fund, Embedding VC, Jolly VC, Gaingels, Alchemist Accelerator, StartX, Cooley LLC, and Mastodon Capital, with support from experienced angels and advisors like Sagar Mehta (CTO@OpenTable), Jia Li (ex-Chief AI Fellow@Accenture, ex-founder of Google Cloud AI/ML's New Products Division), Melinda Wolfe (3x CHRO@Bloomberg, Pearson, GLG), and Jason Rosoff (CEO@Radical Candor).

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Onebrief
Onebrief Secures $53M to Build the Future of Military Staffs

Onebrief, the leading software platform for military staff workflows and collaboration, today announced the closure of its Series B funding round, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $53 million.

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LinkedIn
BosonQ Psi Closes $3M+ Seed

Congratulations to BosonQ Psi (BQP), Alchemist Class 34, who just closed $3M+ Seed Round. BosonQ Psi is exponentially compressing product cycles by years to save $Bn for heavy-industry manufacturers by making simulations 10X faster, more accurate, & cost-effective, using quantum algorithms.

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Forbes
How A Latin American Construction Tech Startup Promotes Sustainability

Latin America has substantial infrastructure gaps in key sectors like energy, sanitation, communication, logistics, and housing. To meet the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, the continent needs to invest over $2.2 trillion in infrastructure. However, the construction sector has faced huge challenges due to a lack of coordination and transparency over supply chains, which has impacted the efficiency, capabilities, and cost of building across the region.

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ChemAnalyst
Universal Fuel Technologies Secures $3M to Cut SAF Costs by Up to 50%

With the demand for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) projected to increase tenfold by 2030, Universal Fuel Technologies (Unifuel) has successfully secured $3 million in funding for its innovative Flexiforming technology, which reduces SAF production costs by up to 50% and related carbon emissions by up to 75%. This seed round was led by TO VC and included participation from Alchemist Accelerator, Claire Technologies, and World Star Aviation. The funds will be used to advance the company’s proprietary Flexiforming process and establish a lab in Texas for producing SAF samples.

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Short Term Rentalz
Besty AI Secures $1.5m in Seed Funding

Besty AI, an AI messaging solution for short-term rentals and hotels, has announced that it has raised $1.5 million in a seed funding round to accelerate its expansion strategy.

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