VCs deployed $417M in North American startups between pre-seed and Series A stages this week from June 12 to June 16, per Crunchbase data. Digital entertainment startups raked in 18% of the funding this week. Healthcare, biotech, and cybersecurity startups nabbed 9%, 9%, and 7% of the financing, respectively. Here are the top 10 largest rounds announced this week: - Sports content startup FZ Sports bagged $74M in debt and equity funding. 777 Partners, MEP Capital, Torneos, Serengeti Asset Management, and Magma Partners provided the funding.
- Biotech startup Theradaptive raised $26M in Series A funding to advance its targeted regenerative therapeutics.
- Venture Guides, Capri Ventures, and Alumni Ventures led an $18M Series A round into cloud recovery assurance platform developer Elastio Software.
- Content misinformation compliance and enforcement platform Trust Lab nabbed $15M Series A funding led by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) and Foundation Capital.
- Behavioral health company EvolvedMD secured $14M in Series A funding led by Conductive Ventures.
- Oakland, California-based robotics and apparel company Unspun nabbed $14M in Series A funding round. Lowercarbon led the funding with participation from SOSV, Climate Capital, Signia Ventures, and MVP Ventures.
- Seattle-based recruitment automation startup Humanly nabbed $12M in fresh funding to accelerate the growth of its AI-powered software.
- AptEdge, a Redwood City, California-based generative AI startup focusing on technical customer service, nabbed $11M through its oversubscribed seed+ funding round led by Stage 2 Capital.
- Gridware, a climate tech startup developing real-time monitoring solutions for grid assets, extended its seed round with $10.5M in additional funding led by Fifty Years and Lowercarbon Capital.
- Women's health and fertility startup Oova raised $10.3M in Series A funding led by Spero Ventures.
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