Streamlined Newsletter - December 2024

Applovin: Meet the Newest AI Stock in the Nasdaq-100.

SpaceX Stock: The Destiny Tech100 ETF Could Surge 100% Over the Next Year

How Bezel Is Redefining The Luxury Watch Market Through Technology

Mesa Raises $9.2M to Solve the Home Cost Crisis

Fintech Mesa promises 1% cash back on mortgages, up to 3x on other home needs

Censia Announces Investment from Workday Ventures to Advance AI-Powered Talent Intelligence Solutions

Mesh Announces Strategic Investment From QuantumLight, Revolut Founder Nik Storonsky's VC Firm, Tripling its Series A Valuation

Travel Startup Flyr Raises $295 Million in Equity and Debt

Ullas Naik Streamlined Ventures Founder on AI and Data Science Investing

HerculesAI was working with large language models long before it was cool

Mesh and Moonpay Partner to Enhance Crypto Accessibility

Findigs Raises $27M in Series B Funding 

Rappi: Time 100 Most Influential Companies 2024

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Anoki, a leader in generative AI for Connected TVs (CTV), today announced the launch of Live TVx, a groundbreaking free streaming service on Google TV devices.

Anoki Elevates Personalized Content Discovery with AI-Powered Experience on Google TV

Gordian launches with $60m and platform that predicts outcomes in age-related diseases

Rappi Inc., one of Latin America’s most valuable startups, hired its first chief financial officer to prepare the SoftBank-backed delivery service for a future public listing.

SoftBank-Backed Unicorn Rappi Hires CFO to Get Ready for IPO

NobleAI Secures Over $10 Million in Series A Extension Funding

NobleAI, a pioneer in Science-Based AI solutions for Chemical and Material Informatics, today announced over $10M in Series A extension financing.

 Commerce Startup Flip Raises $144 Million to Challenge TikTok

California-based Activeloop today announced it has raised $11 million in series A funding from Streamlined Ventures, Y Combinator, Samsung Next and multiple other investors.

Activeloop nets $11M to give enterprises a better way to leverage multimodal data for AI

See the top 2599 AI Pre Seed investors as voted by the startup community.

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Mermaid Chart, a Markdown-like tool for creating diagrams, raises $7.5M

Cox Enterprises’ investment caps a busy fourth quarter for OpenGov — and makes it one of just a few gov tech companies with a value of $1 billion or more.

Cox Buys Majority Stake in OpenGov, Prompting $1.8B Valuation

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Today the company announced a $9M seed investment. 

Lemurian Labs is building a new compute paradigm to reduce cost of running AI models

Mesh (formerly Front Finance), a startup developing a service to help customers transfer and manage digital assets like crypto.

Mesh, which helps people manage their digital assets, raises $22M

Betterleap, an innovative startup aiming to disrupt the recruitment industry.

Betterleap leverages AI to revolutionize recruitment, launches with impressive $13M in seed funding

Caden is offering controls that allow users to fine-tune which data they share with third parties. 

Caden lands $15M to let users monetize their personal data

The app lets you explore dining, nightlife, hotels and more by browsing quick videos from locals and visitors. 

Atmosfy, an app that helps you discover local businesses through short-form video, raises $12M

Dear Friends, The last 6 months since our prior newsletter has been turbulent, to say the least. 

The round was led by Streamlined Ventures and Marbruck Investments.

VitalXP raises $3M for Web3 shooter Lowlife Forms

The New York City-based company provides an open data platform that enables users to control and monetize their personal data. 

Can John Roa’s Caden Solve The Internet Advertising Privacy Problem?

Serial founder Sohail Prasad has raised $100 million to build a public index of tech’s best private startups. 

Destiny: Disrupting BlackRock

Caden’s mobile app allows users to capture and monetize their data with explicit consent.

Caden Raises $6M to Help Users Reclaim and Sell Their Online Data

ear Friends, Greetings from Streamlined Ventures! We are delighted to share a few significant updates since our last newsletter in May 2022.

Solo GP secures $140M for fifth seed fund and third opportunity fund

Ratio is developing what it calls “a new flavor” of buy now, pay later that combines payments, predictive pricing, financing and a quote-to-cash process.

Ratio bags $411M in equity, credit for flexible subscription payment models

The Series B round follows a period of rapid growth where Flip grew its user base by 500% since the beginning of 2022.

Flip Closes $60 Million Series B Round to Reimagine the Next Era of E-Commerce

Wave Of Layoffs At Startups Foretell A Slow Summer For Venture Investing

Spot2 Raises $4.2 Million To Speed Up Commercial Real Estate Leasing In Mexico

Viable announced today the closing of a $5 million fundraise primarily for growth, R&D and new hires. 

Viable aims to quantify qualitative customer feedback with AI

We are happy to share some significant updates from our firm since our last Newsletter in October 2021.  

Umba brings a wide range of transparent and accessible financial products to those underserved by legacy banks across Africa.

Digital bank Umba raises $15M, plans to expand into three new African markets

Boom & Bucket is hauling the industry of second-hand heavy machinery sales into the current millennium. The company just raised a $5.5 million round.

Boom & Bucket scoops up investment to put second-hand machinery sales back on track

Real estate AI investment platform announces thier seed round of $8 million, adding key leadership positions and data science expertise.

Haystacks.AI Maintains Strong Momentum for 2022 With Additional Funding, Accelerated Growth

Forge Global Holdings, a private exchange that just closed its merger with a special purpose acquisition company, soared about 60% in its first day as a public company.

Forge Global Stock Soars in Trading Debut

RioGrande's mission is to build local brands, through acquisition and incubation, for the emerging middle class of Latin American consumers.

Riogrande captures 12 million dollars and wants to create new brands in Mexico

Konta, the startup that wants to shield entrepreneurs from the SAT

Stilt, which started its life as a provider of financial services for immigrants, has raised $14 million in Series A funding as it expands its focus to include a B2B offering.

Stilt secures $114M in debt & equity to help fintechs and neobanks launch credit offerings with its API

99minutos, a logistics service company for e-commerce vendors across Latin America, annouced today $82 million in Series C funding.

99minutos clocks in fresh capital for logistics infrastructure in Latin America

Rigetti Computing (Nasdaq: RGTI), is on a mission to build the world’s most powerful quantum computers to help solve humanity’s most important and pressing problems.

Rigetti Computing Begins Trading on Nasdaq Capital Market Today

Zero Systems launched seven years ago with an idea to bring automation to professional services like law firms.

Zero Systems gets $12M Series A to bring automation to professional services

Grocery delivery startup Calii is carving out a piece of Latin America’s $1 trillion groceries and food delivery market.

Calii bags $22.5M to build Latin America’s grocery shopping future

The company announced a Series E financing of $355 million with an $11 billion valuation.

Fresh round of $355M lifts online checkout company Bolt into decacorn territory

Ocurate, a startup using artificial intelligence to predict customer lifetime value for e-commerce businesses, took in an oversubscribed seed round of $3.5 million.

Ocurate raises $3.5M to show customer lifetime value for B2C companies

The new funding will immediately accelerate the Company’s product development and expansion efforts for its REMaaS (real estate management as a service) offering.

Haystacks.AI Secures $5 Million In Seed Funding Led by Streamlined Ventures and Colle Capital

‘Social’ trading platform Zingeroo lands $8.5 million investment

Dear friends, greetings from Streamlined Ventures! We are delighted to share a few significant updates from our firm since our last newsletter in April 2021. 

Medable brought in a new capital infusion of $304 million in Series D funding.

Medable reaches $2.1B valuation

CEO Cyriac and Uralil started Lively in 2016 to be a modern take on the HSA for employers and individuals.

Lively is building the modern health savings account that puts consumers first

Bolt Financial Inc., founded in 2014, raised $393 million in its latest round to bring total funding to $600 million.

Fintech Startup Bolt Sees Valuation Surge to $6 Billion

Pager, a New York-based digital care coordination and navigation platform, announced $70 million in newly raised equity and debt financing Tuesday.

Pager raises $70M to scale its turnkey care coordination platform

The company has developed a deep learning platform to forecast airline demand and set airfare prices.

FLYR Labs closes $150M Series C

Transaction would make Forge the first dedicated trading platform for private shares to become a public company


Pre-IPO Marketplace Forge Global to Go Public in $2 Billion SPAC Deal

Today, the Los Angeles-based company closed on a $28 million Series A led Streamlined Ventures.

Flip bags $28M to turn beauty, wellness social commerce on its head

The Scotts Valley, California-based company is using cloud technology and the Ethereum blockchain as the engine for its Paystand Bank Network that enables business-to-business payments with zero fees.

Paystand banks $50M to make B2B payments cashless and with no fees

The new financing brings Bogota-based Rappi’s total raised since its 2015 inception to over $2 billion, according to Crunchbase. 

Colombian on-demand delivery startup Rappi raises ‘over’ $500M at a $5.25B valuation

The idea is to enable any investor — not just the 1% —  to invest in startups whose services they use and love.

These Forge co-founders just raised $5 million to work on a new, still-stealth investing startup

The company, which makes software to track investment performance, has raised $150 million from D1 Capital Partners.

Addepar Valued at $2.17 Billion as Investors Bet on Wealth-Management Tech

In addition to selling products for dogs and cats, they are making a strong foray into veterinary and insurance services.

Laika gets US $ 12 million to expand the offer of its platform for pets

We have been fortunate that the last 12 months have provided meaningful liquidity across our portfolios. Five of our seed-stage portfolio companies saw significant liquidity events.

Clever and Kahoot are two purpose-led organizations that are equally passionate about education and unleashing the potential within every learner.

Kahoot acquires Clever, the US-based edtech portal, for up to $500M

Aussie startup Carted has secured a massive $13 million in seed funding, to build out its next-generation universal e-commerce API. And these founders have global domination in their sights.

Next-gen e-commerce startup Carted bags $13 million in seed funding

With this new funding, founder and CEO Analisa Goodin says she wants to help brands break free from the limitations of stock photography.

Catch&Release raises $14M to help marketers find and license content from across the web

Signifyd Inc., a company that sells artificial intelligence-based e-commerce fraud protection software, has raised $205 million in new investor funding bringing its valuation to about $1.34 billion.


E-Commerce Company Signifyd Raises $205 Million in Investor Funding

Mobile apps and games platform AppLovin raised $2 billion in an initial public offering Thursday that valued the company at $28.6 billion.

Mobile games group AppLovin valued at $28.6bn in IPO

Medable Secures $78M Series C Extension To Scale Digital Clinical Trials Program

Minded is a recently-launched psychiatric telehealth platform that allows patients to quickly and efficiently refill their mental health prescription needs. 

Minded Raises $2.2M for its Telehealth Service to Refill Mental Health Prescriptions

Eco, which has built out a digital global cryptocurrency platform, announced Friday that it has raised $26 million in a funding round led by a16z Crypto.

Eco raises $26M in a16z-led round to scale its digital cryptocurrency platform

AppLovin released its S-1 filing yesterday, bringing the Palo Alto-based mobile-app-focused software company a step closer to joining the public markets.

First impressions of AppLovin’s IPO filing

Rescale raises $50M to help public clouds fix the “developer experience” in the HPC domain

Stilt, a financial services provider for immigrants, raises $100 million debt facility from Silicon Valley Bank

Ullas Naik, Founder and General Partner at Streamlined Ventures, shares his journey of how he ended up in venture capital and working with visionary entrepreneurs. 

Visionary entrepreneurs have the x-factor

Bolt, a startup that offers online checkout technology to retailers added $75 million to its Series C round, bringing the financing to a total of $125 million.

Bolt adds $75M to its Series C, as the battle to rule online checkout continues

DoorDash's stock soared 85% above its IPO price in its Wall Street debut Wednesday, marking the culmination of a year that has seen delivery companies benefit greatly from skyrocketing demand for their services during the pandemic.

DoorDash soars 85% in Wall Street debut

Kea is a new startup giving restaurants an opportunity to upgrade one of the more old-fashioned ways that they take orders — over the phone.

Kea raises $10M to build AI that helps restaurants answer the phone

Medable's software is already being used to work on vaccines and therapeutics targeting COVID-19 specifically in addition to facilitating the development of other potentially life-saving therapies and treatments.

Medable raises $91 million for its clinical trial management software

Chooch.ai, a startup that hopes to bring computer vision more broadly to companies to help them identify and tag elements at high speed, announced a $20 million Series A today.

Computer vision startup Chooch.ai scores $20M Series A

We are delighted to share with you that we have closed our fourth seed fund at approximately $55M.

Colombia-based on-demand delivery company Rappi has raised over USD 300 million in a new funding round from investors.

Rappi gets USD 300M investment in a new funding round

Bunch, the party app for multiplayer games, has closed $20 million in Series A funding, bringing together many top multiplayer game makers as investors in an unprecedented show of support from the industry.

Bunch Closes $20 Million Series A Financing

Bolt the checkout technology platform company is raising $50 million in a new round of venture funding. 

Armed With $50 Million In Fresh Funding, Bolt Helps Retailers Shift To ECommerce

Codefresh's platform is specially built for apps that run on the popular open source, Google-created cloud computing system Kubernetes, and the company has had success reeling in customers that are looking for something more modern.

Codefresh just raised $27 million to help developers release code faster for apps that run on the Google-born cloud computing project Kubernetes

This latest fundraise elevates the San Francisco-based startup’s valuation to nearly $16 billion.

DoorDash Raises Another $400 Million Ahead Of Its Public Listing

Fox Corp. said it will acquire Tubi, the ad-supported free streaming service, for ~$500 million in cash — a deal funded largely from Fox’s sale of its 5% stake in Roku.

Fox Corp. to Acquire Tubi Free-Streaming Service for ~$500 Million

Stilt, a Y Combinator alum that provides financial services for immigrants without Social Security numbers or credit reports, announced today that it has closed a $7.5 million seed round.

Keep up to date with our latest news.

Streamlined Newsletter - December 2024

Applovin: Meet the Newest AI Stock in the Nasdaq-100.

Ullas Naik Streamlined Ventures Founder on AI and Data Science Investing

Rappi: Time 100 Most Influential Companies 2024

Commerce Startup Flip Raises $144 Million to Challenge TikTok

Solo GP secures $140M for fifth seed fund and third opportunity fund

Streamlined Newsletter - December 2024

Applovin: Meet the Newest AI Stock in the Nasdaq-100.

SpaceX Stock: The Destiny Tech100 ETF Could Surge 100% Over the Next Year

How Bezel Is Redefining The Luxury Watch Market Through Technology

Mesa Raises $9.2M to Solve the Home Cost Crisis

Fintech Mesa promises 1% cash back on mortgages, up to 3x on other home needs

Censia Announces Investment from Workday Ventures to Advance AI-Powered Talent Intelligence Solutions

Mesh Announces Strategic Investment From QuantumLight, Revolut Founder Nik Storonsky's VC Firm, Tripling its Series A Valuation

Travel Startup Flyr Raises $295 Million in Equity and Debt

Ullas Naik Streamlined Ventures Founder on AI and Data Science Investing

HerculesAI was working with large language models long before it was cool

HerculesAI was working with large language models long before it was cool

Mesh and Moonpay Partner to Enhance Crypto Accessibility

Findigs Raises $27M in Series B Funding

Rappi: Time 100 Most Influential Companies 2024

Streamlined Ventures Newsletter - Spring 2024

Anoki Elevates Personalized Content Discovery with AI-Powered Experience on Google TV

Gordian launches with $60m and platform that predicts outcomes in age-related diseases

SoftBank-Backed Unicorn Rappi Hires CFO to Get Ready for IPO

NobleAI Secures Over $10 Million in Series A Extension Funding