Quanta, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an accounting platform for startup finances, raised $15M in Series A funding.
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The round was led by Accel, with participation from Operator Collective, Naval Ravikant, Designer Fund, Basecase, and operators including Akshay Kothari (Notion), Claire Hughes Johnson (Stripe), and Huey Lin (Affirm).

​The funding coincides with the launch of Prism, the new AI-powered reporting layer of the Quanta platform.
The company intends to use the funds to invest in its accounting engine, expand its expert services team, and accelerat development of Prism’s intelligence layer.

Led by CEO Helen Hastings, Quanta is a provider of an AI-powered finance platform that combines an automated accounting engine with an in-house accounting team. It ingests financial activity from banks, payroll, revenue, and spend systems and keeps the books continuously reconciled and up-to-date.

The company says that companies use it to maintain accurate books throughout the month, shorten their close, and operate with live data they can trust.

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A Star for a Storyteller Who Moved the World
Chadwick Boseman’s star ceremony was filled with emotion as his family, artistic partners, and fans paid tribute to a man whose work reshaped modern cinema and uplifted millions. From Black Panther’s King T’Challa to his electric portrayals of historical icons like Jackie Robinson and James Brown, Boseman’s career was defined by roles that carried depth, dignity, and purpose.

His widow, Simone Ledward-Boseman, accepted the honor on his behalf, speaking to his commitment to truth, representation, and the power of storytelling. Director Ryan Coogler and actress Viola Davis, both long-time collaborators, shared personal memories that resonated deeply with those present — reflections on Chadwick’s discipline, compassion, and unwavering belief in elevating the voices of his community.

Curi Bio, a Seattle, WA-based company delivering human-relevant functional data for drug discovery and development, raised $10M in Series B funding.
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The round was led by DreamCIS.

The company intends to use the funds to accelerate the development of new platforms for cardiac, skeletal muscle, metabolic, smooth muscle, and neuromuscular diseases and expand its commercial reach across the globe.

Led by CEO and PhD Nicholas A. Geisse and CBO Elliot Fisher, Curi Bio generates novel workflows and delivers functional human data to inform biopharmaceutical R&D decision making. Through an integrated platform featuring advanced 3D tissue models of disease, biosystems enabling clinically relevant functional analyses, and advanced automated data analysis, it enables functional and analytical assessments for drug safety, efficacy, and potency.

The three-pronged platform strategy integrates:

• human cells:
• advanced systems;
• advanced data analysis.

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Zafran Security, a NYC-based AI-native Threat Exposure Management company, raised $60m in Series C funding.

The round, which brought total funding to $130m, was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital and Cyberstarts, in addition to PSP Growth, Vintage Investment Partners, and Knollwood Investment.

The company intends to use the funds to accelerate product innovation and global expansion. 

​Led by Sanaz Yashar, CEO, Zafran Security is an AI-native end-to-end Threat Exposure Management platform for security teams to stop vulnerability exploitation everywhere. The company uses existing security tools to prove that 90% of critical vulnerabilities are not exploitable, then quickly remediates and mitigates the 10% that are most likely to cause an incident.

By launching Agentic Exposure Management, Zafran is now poised to complete the entire end-to-end lifecycle across asset inventory, vulnerability detection, risk assessment, and autonomous remediation workflows. 

Since their last funding round, the company has doubled its valuation and more than tripled its annual recurring revenue (ARR), driven by rapid adoption across sectors including healthcare, technology, financial services, and manufacturing. Zafran now serves multiple Fortune 500 enterprises.
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Nevis, a NYC-based provider of an AI platform for wealth management, raised $35M in Series A funding.

The round was led by Sequoia Capital, ICONIQ, and Ribbit Capital.

The raise brought the total amount to $40M, following a $5M seed round which was led by Sequoia.

As part of the round, Sequoia’s Luciana Lixandru joined the Nevis board.

The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts.

Nevis was founded by Mark Swan (CEO), Philipp Burda (CPO), and Ivan Chalov (COO), Nevis AI tools that help financial advisors automate their administrative workflows end-to-end, helping wealth management firms serve more clients.

Customers include wealth management firms of all sizes, from national RIAs serving high-net-worth clients like United Capital and Apollon Wealth Management, to firms focused on ultra-high-net-worth families like GC Wealth.

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Jeeva AI, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an AI platform that enhances productivity for sales teams, raised $9m in funding.
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​The round was led by JLL Spark with participation from Sapphire Ventures, Alt Capital (Jack Altman, Sam Altman’s brother), Launch Capital, GTMFund, Nonstop Capital, Coyote Capital, Bonfire Ventures, Techstars, Marc Benioff, and Mucker Capital.

The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts.

Led by Gaurav Bhattacharya, founder and CEO, Jeeva AI is an agentic system that automates end-to-end sales workflows across discovery, outreach, coaching, notes, and CRM management so teams can focus on the call.

The company is already serving 35,000 users across more than 300 enterprise customers including JLL, Whisper Energy, Initio Capital, and Deaglo.

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