(Funding Recap #35) Bearhug Recruiting's Early & Growth Stage Tech Startup Funding Recap! 12/9/24
Description
Here’s this week’s startup funding recap ($478.42 million raised across 11 featured companies):
1. AMP, led by Matanya Horowitz, has raised $91 million in a Series D funding round. AMP provides AI-powered sortation systems for the waste and recycling industry, using deep learning to identify recyclables and contaminants in real-time.
2. Heirloom, led by Shashank Samala, has raised $150 million in a Series B funding round. Heirloom develops Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology that uses enhanced limestone to capture CO2 directly from the atmosphere.
3. Tractian, led by Igor Marinelli, has raised $120 million in a Series C funding round. Tractian specializes in manufacturing AI, providing an industrial copilot platform for manufacturing leaders.
4. Infleqtion, led by Matthew Kinsella, has secured $11 million in Debt funding through the U.S. Department of Defense’s Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies (APFIT) program. Infleqtion is a quantum technology company specializing in solutions for positioning, navigation, timing (PNT), and precision timekeeping.
5. Vooma, led by Jesse Buckingham, has raised over $16 million across Seed and Series A funding rounds. Vooma provides an AI-powered platform for freight brokers and carriers, streamlining logistics operations and reducing manual workloads.
6. HappyRobot, led by Pablo Palafox, has raised $15.6 million in a Series A funding round. HappyRobot specializes in AI-powered voice solutions for the logistics sector, offering agentic AI that automates communication and streamlines operations for freight brokers, 3PLs, warehouses, and supply chain businesses.
7. Nurture Boss, led by Jacob Carter, has raised $4.025 million in a Series A funding round. Nurture Boss provides an advanced AI platform tailored for the multifamily housing sector.
8. WeatherFlow-Tempest, led by Buck Lyons, has raised $3 million in a Growth funding round. WeatherFlow-Tempest provides weather technology and environmental monitoring solutions, delivering accurate, AI-driven weather data to support better decision-making and cost savings.
9. Provarity, led by Chris Cabrera, has raised $7 million in a Seed funding round. Provarity provides an AI-powered presales platform designed to optimize sales engineering performance.
10. Enterpret, led by Varun Sharma, has raised $20.8 million in a Series A funding round. Enterpret provides an AI-enabled customer feedback intelligence platform that helps product development and CX teams unify and analyze unstructured feedback from multiple channels.
11. Yurts, led by Ben Van Roo, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round. Yurts provides generative AI (GenAI) integration solutions at scale for defense, government, and enterprise customers.
To get more detail on each featured startup in this and our other weekly recaps, visit: https://www.bearhugrecruiting.com/career-intelligence/category/Startup+Funding























