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Europe Rising. $470M Raised

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Xan Wood
September 23, 2024

Welcome to Built By Berkeley, where we announce all the funding rounds by Berkeley-founded companies. This is a community effort, so please let us know if we missed a company here. πŸ»

Is this the week of the Europeans? $470M was raised this week by Berkeley founders, but of this, $251M (53%) was by European founders… I include the πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ in this number. Of this $251M, a large proportion was raised by Alan, a French startup. Coincidentally, this is also the name of my dad… but sadly, he is not involved in this company.

Summary by the #️⃣ & πŸ’°:

  • 16 Berkeley-founded companies funded

  • $470M of capital raised from the 16th September to 22nd September

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Acquired

πŸ–₯️ Kubecost. Acquired by IBM. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡² Optimizing kubernetes clusters. πŸ’° IBM.

🐻 Ajay Tripathy, Co-founder & CTO.  BS EECS. Article

Closed Rounds

πŸ€• Alan. $193M Series F. πŸ‡«πŸ‡· Digital insurance to incentivise healthy living. πŸ’° Belfius, Ontario’s Teachers Pension Plan, Temasek, Coatue. 

🐻 Charles Gorintin, Co-Founder & CTO. MFE Financial Engineering. Article

πŸ’³ AtoB. $130m Series C.  πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡² Fuel Card πŸ’° Bloomberg Beta, General Catalyst, MasterCard. 

🐻 Tushar Misra, Co-founder. Haas MBA. Article

πŸ₯™ Pairwise. $40M Series C. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡² Using CRISPR for food an agriculture πŸ’°Deerfield Management, Corteva, Aliment Capital. 

🐻 David Liu, Founder. PhD Organic Chemistry. Article

πŸ’³ Yonder. $31M Series B. πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Credit cards focused on young professionals and expats. πŸ’° RTP Global, Latitude. 

🐻 Tim Chong, Co-founder & CEO. Haas MBA. Article

πŸ§‘β€βš•οΈ Hippocratic AI. $17M Series A+. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡² Generative AI for healthcare. πŸ’° Nvidia, Greycroft, 7Wire Ventures.

🐻 Meenesh Bhimani, Co-founder & Chief Medical Officer. BA Neurobiology. Article. 

πŸ€– Inbolt. $16.4M Series A. πŸ‡«πŸ‡·  AI industrial 3D vision for robotics  πŸ’° Exor Ventures & MIG Capital.

🐻 Rudy Cohen, Co-founder & CEO. Data Science - Entrepreneurship. Article. 

🚺 TwentyEight. $14.5M. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡² Women’s health subscription πŸ’° Undisclosed

🐻 Amy Fan, Co-founder, President and Chief Product Officer. Haas MBA 

πŸͺ« Smalt. $8.9M Seed. πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Talent supply for the energy transition. πŸ’° noa, General Catalyst, Owl Ventures. 

🐻 Marius Westhoff, Co-founder & Managing Director. Management Education. Article 

πŸ’‰ CuraSen. $5.8M. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡² Novel treatments for neurodegenerative diseases πŸ’° Undisclosed 

🐻 Kathleen Sereda Glaub, Executive Chair to the Board of Directors. BA

πŸ“¦ Two Boxes. $5.3M Seed. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡² Returns processing platform πŸ’° Peterson Partners, Assembly Ventures

🐻 Kyle Bertin, Co-founder & CEO. Haas MBA. Article

πŸͺ« Hgen. $5M Seed Round. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡² Alkaline electrolyzers to make cheaper hydrogen πŸ’° Breakthrough Energy, Seven Seven Six, Founders Fund. 

🐻 Colin Ho, Co-founder & CTO. MS Mechanical Engineering. Article

🌍 Turneo. $2M Seed. πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Global experience commerce platform πŸ’°Bessemer Ventures

🐻 Fran KauzlariΔ‡, Co-founder. EAP Political Economy. Article

πŸ§‘β€πŸ’» Ladris. $1.1M.  πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡² AI-driven risk modeling for disasters πŸ’° Undisclosed 

🐻 Leo Zlimen, CEO. BA Arabic History. 

πŸŽ’ Interplay Learning. Undisclosed Round. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡² Online training for skilled trades using 3D simulations  πŸ’° Goldman Sachs

🐻 Doug Donovan, CEO & Co-founder. Haas MBA. Article.

🎰 Forge. Undisclosed. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡²  Community driven gaming and engagement. πŸ’° Ava Labs, Sui Foundation. 

🐻 Kun Gao, Co-founder, President & CEO. BS EECS. Article

πŸ’³ Aya. Joined Accelerator πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Healthcare payment platform for medical payments πŸ’° Google for Startups

🐻 Chanddeep Madaan, CEO & Founder. BS Nuclear Engineering 

Built By Berkeley Tracker

Date Built By Berkeley Started

Companies Funded

Total Raised ($M)

7/8/24

109

4,243

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