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. 🐻
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 🇬🇧 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 #️⃣ & 💰:
16 Berkeley-founded companies funded
$470M of capital raised from the 16th September to 22nd September
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Acquired
🐻 Ajay Tripathy, Co-founder & CTO. BS EECS. Article
Closed Rounds
🤕 Alan. $193M Series F. 🇫🇷 Digital insurance to incentivise healthy living. 💰 Belfius, Ontario’s Teachers Pension Plan, Temasek, Coatue.
🐻 Charles Gorintin, Co-Founder & CTO. MFE Financial Engineering. Article
💳 AtoB. $130m Series C. 🇺🇲 Fuel Card 💰 Bloomberg Beta, General Catalyst, MasterCard.
🐻 Tushar Misra, Co-founder. Haas MBA. Article
🥙 Pairwise. $40M Series C. 🇺🇲 Using CRISPR for food an agriculture 💰Deerfield Management, Corteva, Aliment Capital.
💳 Yonder. $31M Series B. 🇬🇧 Credit cards focused on young professionals and expats. 💰 RTP Global, Latitude.
🧑⚕️ Hippocratic AI. $17M Series A+. 🇺🇲 Generative AI for healthcare. 💰 Nvidia, Greycroft, 7Wire Ventures.
🐻 Meenesh Bhimani, Co-founder & Chief Medical Officer. BA Neurobiology. Article.
🤖 Inbolt. $16.4M Series A. 🇫🇷 AI industrial 3D vision for robotics 💰 Exor Ventures & MIG Capital.
🐻 Rudy Cohen, Co-founder & CEO. Data Science - Entrepreneurship. Article.
🚺 TwentyEight. $14.5M. 🇺🇲 Women’s health subscription 💰 Undisclosed
🐻 Amy Fan, Co-founder, President and Chief Product Officer. Haas MBA
🪫 Smalt. $8.9M Seed. 🇩🇪 Talent supply for the energy transition. 💰 noa, General Catalyst, Owl Ventures.
🐻 Marius Westhoff, Co-founder & Managing Director. Management Education. Article
💉 CuraSen. $5.8M. 🇺🇲 Novel treatments for neurodegenerative diseases 💰 Undisclosed
🐻 Kathleen Sereda Glaub, Executive Chair to the Board of Directors. BA
📦 Two Boxes. $5.3M Seed. 🇺🇲 Returns processing platform 💰 Peterson Partners, Assembly Ventures
🐻 Kyle Bertin, Co-founder & CEO. Haas MBA. Article
🪫 Hgen. $5M Seed Round. 🇺🇲 Alkaline electrolyzers to make cheaper hydrogen 💰 Breakthrough Energy, Seven Seven Six, Founders Fund.
🌍 Turneo. $2M Seed. 🇬🇧 Global experience commerce platform 💰Bessemer Ventures
🐻 Fran Kauzlarić, Co-founder. EAP Political Economy. Article
🧑💻 Ladris. $1.1M. 🇺🇲 AI-driven risk modeling for disasters 💰 Undisclosed
🐻 Leo Zlimen, CEO. BA Arabic History.
🎒 Interplay Learning. Undisclosed Round. 🇺🇲 Online training for skilled trades using 3D simulations 💰 Goldman Sachs
🐻 Doug Donovan, CEO & Co-founder. Haas MBA. Article.
🎰 Forge. Undisclosed. 🇺🇲 Community driven gaming and engagement. 💰 Ava Labs, Sui Foundation.
💳 Aya. Joined Accelerator 🇨🇦 Healthcare payment platform for medical payments 💰 Google for Startups
🐻 Chanddeep Madaan, CEO & Founder. BS Nuclear Engineering
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Date Built By Berkeley Started | Companies Funded | Total Raised ($M) |
7/8/24 | 109 | 4,243 |
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