#venture-funding

#venture-funding

Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer is closing the doors on her consumer software startup Sunshine, and is selling the company's assets to her new AI startup, Dazzle. The news was first reported by Wired, which cited an email sent to Sunshine's shareholders. Dazzle is setting out to build an AI personal assistant, the report cited anonymous sources as saying, and added that all of Sunshine's employees will move to the new company.

Capital Rx | Judi Health - $252M Series F HEALTHTECH Capital Rx, a full-service pharmacy and health benefits management platform, has raised $252M in Series F funding led by Wellington Management and General Catalyst. Founded by AJ Loiacono, Joseph Alexander, and Ryan Kelly in 2017, Capital Rx has now raised a total of $601M in reported equity funding. The company also announced it is rebranding itself to Judi Health.

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Area 2 Farms is a three-year-old company based in Arlington, Virginia, that's taking the concept of indoor farming to unusual spaces. Its first farm, in Arlington, grows dozens of varieties of crops in a low-slung brick building tucked between a dog day care and a car repair shop. With a new infusion of venture capital, the company is planning to expand, and it's looking to empty office buildings as potential future farms.

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 9/24/2025 featuring funding details for Syllo, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. Syllo - $5.75M Syllo, an AI-powered litigation workspace for attorneys, has raised $5.75M in funding according to a recent SEC filing. The filing indicates that the round comes from two investors. Founded by Jeffrey Chivers and Theodore Rostow in 2019, Syllo has now raised a total of $15.5M in reported equity funding.

Emergent, a company built by twin brothers Mukund and Madhav Jha, aims to become a similar platform for consumers when it comes to app creation. The platform allows non-technical users to create an app using prompts. While that's not a unique pitch in 2025, Emergent intends to aid users through the app development process, while also managing different APIs and deployment steps so they don't have to worry about various technicalities.

Zoom in: ProRata.ai's product, Gist Answers, lets publishers embed custom AI search on their websites. Publishers can show AI-powered summaries and recommendations exclusively based off their own content or showcase content from ProRata.ai's broader network of 750 publishers. "It's absolutely free to all the websites, and it's actually profit-making, small profit, but profit-making," Gross tells Axios. "Our whole goal is to get this ethical search distributed as far and wide as possible."

After vapes staved off the extinction of tobacco, a new generation of nicotine products is promising a safer, albeit no less addictive, form of consumption through tobacco-free pouches made popular by the likes of Zyn and Velo. Now, a celebrity-backed upstart called Sesh is trying to challenge those incumbents. Buoyed by $40 million in venture funding from Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale's 8VC, along with music stars Diplo and Post Malone,

EliseAI Raises $250M in Series E funding New York City-based EliseAI is focused on automating systems in healthcare and housing. For healthcare, it offers a platform that automates conversations with patients over voice, email, text and chat. It also helps schedule appointments with doctors, and sends alerts about billing and payment. Its Series E round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and included participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures and Navitas Capital.

As advances in computing and AI have quickened the pace of research and development, the sector has become a hotbed of startup and investor activity. Inside a fusion reaction, atoms are compressed and heated until they form a fourth state of matter known as plasma. When the plasma reaches the right temperature and pressure, those atoms begin to fuse, releasing tremendous amounts of energy in the process.