Seed Funding Announcements

Foray Bioscience, a startup sowing the seeds for plantless plant products, announced it has raised $3 million in seed funding, led by ReGen Ventures. Additional investors include The Engine Ventures, Susquehanna Sustainable Investments, Understorey Ventures, Superorganism, and others. The seed capital follows a pre-seed round and brings the company’s total funding to $3.875 million.

HyperNorm AI, an India-based startup leveraging AI for decision intelligence in wealth management, closed a $2.2 million seed funding round co-led by Capital 2B and SenseAI Ventures.

Secludy raised $4 million in seed funding to launch their platform for financial services companies to train GenAI models without exposing real customer data.

Saile raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding to help doctors find side jobs using AI.

Boundary Labs announced the closing of a $2M pre-seed funding round led by Galaxy Ventures to launch USBD, a verifiable institutional stablecoin.

District, a Los Angeles-based AI-powered commerce platform, raised $14.7 million in Seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kindred Ventures, with participation from Greylock Partners, SV Angel, 20VC, Maria Raga, Gokul Rajaram, Deborah Liu, Imran Khan, Jacob Andreou, Peter Sellis, Josh Siegel, Jaren Glover, Soleio, and others.

Bengaluru-based Vobiz.ai secured $1 million in seed funding led by Piper Serica VC Fund to build AI-native telephony infrastructure for voice agents.

MochaTrade raised an undisclosed pre-seed funding round from Y Combinator and Pioneer Fund to build a platform offering perpetual futures on US stocks, commodities, and indices.

Exponent, a yield trading platform built on Solana, has raised $5 million in a seed round led by Multicoin Capital, marking another early-stage bet on specialized DeFi infrastructure within the Solana ecosystem.

Raleigh-based e-commerce startup ReFiBuy has raised $13.6 million in a seed funding round led by NewRoad Capital Partners.