Every month we share our latest roundup of women-founded startups that were recently funded or acquired from our community and beyond in the past month. If you would like to be featured, please email us at team@grahamwalker.com with your announcement.
Here’s the our latest funding roundup:
- BlueSky, a decentralized social media company, raised $15M in Series A funding. The round was led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from Alumni Ventures, True Ventures, and SevenX.
- SchooLinks, a leading software platform providing College and Career Readiness (CCR) resources for K-12 students across the U.S., announced an $80M Series B funding round, led by Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE) an entrepreneur-centric growth equity firm. Additional investors who participated in the funding round include Stephens Group, Strada and ASA.
- Cornerstone AI, a tool that analyzes and provides the cleaning and standardizing of data has now raised a total of $10M in total equity funding. The latest round is backed by Acrew Capital, Arif Nathoo, Healthy Ventures, Initiate Studios, Travis May, and Web Sun.
- Agtonomy, a pioneer in AI-based automation software for agriculture and land maintenance, announced it has raised an additional $10M to close its Series A round. Leading mobility venture fund Autotech Ventures led the round and new investors include Rethink Food, Allison Transmission, and Black Forest Ventures.
- Klasha, a cross-border B2B payment services platform has announced an additional $2M in funding. This round of investment includes support from existing backers like Expert Dojo, Alumni Ventures, Practical VC, Breega, My Asia VC, Resilience17, and Magic Fund.
- Hummingbirds a startup that connects hyperlocal content creators with brands that reward them for sharing products with highly engaged communities, announced a $5.4M seed round. Participants in the seed round include Allos Ventures, Ground Game, Homegrown Capital, InnoVenture Iowa Fund, ISA Ventures, M25 Fund, and Next Level Ventures.
- Hue, an AI-based SaaS platform that powers the end-to-end infrastructure for authentic user-generated video content that converts on eCommerce, announced that it has closed $4.5M in seed funding. Fika Ventures and Underscore VC co-led the round, with follow-on participation from pre-seed investors, including Sequoia Scouts, The MBA Fund, Glasswing Ventures, Courtyard Ventures, Phoenix Fund, and Tristan Walker’s Heirloom Fund.
- SweatPals, a peer-to-peer marketplace connecting fitness communities and fitness enthusiasts has closed a $3M funding round, led by a16z SPEEDRUN and Pear VC, in a significant milestone to drive the company’s mission of fostering connections through fitness.
- Uprise, a San Francisco-based financial advisory platform, has announced $3.3M in its seed funding round. The investment round was led by Blank Ventures. Other participants in the round included Graham & Walker, Hustle Fund and Dash Fund, according to a report from TechCrunch.
- Pomp, a beauty-tech startup aiming to bring personalized skin care from licensed estheticians to the masses, has closed a $3.3M seed II round to advance its mission. The round was co-led byLong Journey Ventures and Cassius and included angel investors Casey Winters and Kevin Kwok.
- Wave Therapeutics, a developer of AI-enabled, soft robotics cushioning technology, received an investment from Nurse Capital as part of its seed round of funding. Read more here.
