Post by DevCuration

Top funding announcements today. Part I. These are the funding announcements I'm tracking across the ecosystem with real signal behind the rounds, whether that's AI infrastructure, defense, healthcare, enterprise software, deep tech, or companies scaling critical operational systems. If you're building, investing, hiring, or tracking where serious capital is moving, save this. Momentum Life Sciences — Strategic growth investment from Parthenon Capital. Andrea Heslin Smiley and team are expanding a patient engagement platform that has supported more than 100 specialty brands and over 10 million patient and healthcare provider engagements, reinforcing the growing importance of specialty therapy commercialization infrastructure. Guthrie AI — $4M Seed led by Chicago Ventures. Ted Baumgardner and Tuneer De are bringing AI to commercial construction preconstruction workflows, helping specialty contractors automate bidding, RFIs, scope management, and estimating without replacing the tools they already trust. Ravee Optics — $6M Seed led by BIG Capital, with participation from JobsOhio Ventures and CincyTech. Dr. Piyush Shah and Dr. Augustine Urbas are developing ultracompact laser communications built on meta-optics to make satellite communications smaller, lighter, and easier to manufacture at scale. Gauntlet Networks — $125M Series C backed by SBI Holdings USA, Inc.. Tarun Chitra continues building quantitative risk infrastructure for digital assets, helping bridge traditional capital markets and programmable finance while supporting more than $42B in client assets. Augmodo — $21M funding round at a reported $350M post-money valuation, led by TQ Ventures. Ross Finman and team are applying wearable AI and computer vision to real-time retail inventory, helping stores detect empty shelves before they become lost sales. #StartupFunding #VentureCapital #EnterpriseAI #DeepTech #Infrastructure