Series A activity: Week of March 29, 2026
There were 21 Series As in the last week that raised a total of $702.7 million. The average deal size was $33.5 million while the median was $23.2 million.
Data for Series A deals done worldwide (ex-China) where amount raised is greater than $8M and the company is not focused on therapeutics
Series A Deals
Mars Men raised $27.5 million from L Catterton on March 30, 2026. Natural, drug-free supplement stacks for men’s health and performance. Mars Men is based in Greenville, WI, United States. Website: mengotomars.com
Midas raised $50 million from RRE Ventures and Creandum on March 30, 2026. Cryptocurrency application for selling and investing in tokens. The CEO is Dennis Dinkelmeyer. Midas is based in Berlin, Germany. Website: midas.app
Starcloud raised $170 million at a $1.1 billion valuation from Benchmark and EQT Ventures on March 30, 2026. Network of megawatt-scale data centers in space. The CEO is Philip Johnston. Starcloud is based in Redmond, WA, United States. Website: www.starcloud.com
Acclaim raised $34 million from Ratmir Timashev on March 31, 2026. Voice-first AI agents and CX platform for regulated industries. Acclaim is based in Miami, FL, United States. Website: www.acclaim.ai
Antaris raised $28 million from WestWave Capital on March 31, 2026. Digital space platform simplifying satellite design and operation. The CEO is Thomas Barton. Antaris is based in Los Altos, CA, United States. Website: antaris.space
AvoMD raised $10 million from Noro-Moseley Partners, AlleyCorp, Las Olas Venture Capital, MedMountain Ventures, Epsilon Health Investors, LLC, and Scrub Capital on March 31, 2026. No-code platform for instant clinical consults at the point-of-care. The CEO is Yair Saperstein. AvoMD is based in New York, NY, United States. Website: www.avomd.io
Bachatt raised $12 million from Accel on March 31, 2026. Daily savings platform for self-employed individuals in India. The CEO is Anugrah Jain. Bachatt is based in Gurgaon, India. Website: bachatt.app
Jaaq raised $17 million from Meridian Health Ventures, Fuel Ventures, Bolt Angels, and Guinness Ventures on March 31, 2026. Mental health-focused online platform connecting users to specialists. The CEO is Alex Packham. Jaaq is based in London, United Kingdom. Website: jaaq.app
Kestra Technologies raised $25 million from RTP Global on March 31, 2026. Open-source orchestration and scheduling platform for critical applications. The CEO is Emmanuel Darras. Kestra Technologies is based in Paris, France. Website: kestra.io
OpenFX raised $94 million at a $500 million valuation from Accel, Atomico, Lightspeed Faction, M13, Northzone, and Pantera on March 31, 2026. Global money movement platform enabling seamless cross-border transfers. The CEO is Prabhakar Reddy. OpenFX is based in New City, NY, United States. Website: www.openfx.com
Scala Biodesign raised $16 million from Grove Ventures on March 31, 2026. Computational solutions to enhance protein value and development. Scala Biodesign is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Website: www.scala-bio.com
ThinkLabs raised $28 million from Energy Impact Partners on March 31, 2026. AI development firm empowering industries for global energy sustainability. ThinkLabs is based in New York, NY, United States. Website: www.thinklabs.ai
Treeline raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) on March 31, 2026. AI-powered managed service platform that automates IT, security, and compliance operations for growing businesses, including help desk, device lifecycle management, vulnerability management, and compliance workflows. Treeline is based in San Francisco, CA, United States. Website: www.treeline.ai
Variance raised $21.5 million from Ten Eleven Ventures on March 31, 2026. AI software for threat detection and risk management automation. Variance is based in New York, NY, United States. Website: www.variance.com
memQ raised $10 million from Quantonation and Ocean Azul Partners on March 31, 2026. Quantum technology for secure photonic qubit distribution in telecom. The CEO is Manish Kumar Singh. memQ is based in Chicago, IL, United States. Website: www.memq.tech
Cognichip raised $60 million from Seligman Ventures on April 1, 2026. AI-driven semiconductor design using physics-informed models. The CEO is Faraj Aalaei. Cognichip is based in Redwood City, CA, United States. Website: www.cognichip.ai
Inbiome raised $16 million from the NATO Innovation Fund and a group led by Michiel Boehmer and Slingshot Ventures on April 1, 2026. Molecular diagnostics pioneer for faster bacterial tests and analytics. Inbiome is based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Website: inbiome.com
Daydream raised $15 million from WndrCo, along on April 2, 2026. SaaS platform automating end-to-end programmatic SEO. The CEO is Thenuka Karunaratne. Daydream is based in San Francisco, CA, United States. Website: www.withdaydream.com
Generare raised $23.2 million from Alven and Daphni on April 2, 2026. Biotech startup discovering next-generation medicines from soil bacteria. The CEO is Guillaume Vandenesch. Generare is based in Paris, France. Website: generare.bio
Littlefish raised $9.5 million from TLcom Capital, Flourish Ventures, Proparco, and Partech on April 2, 2026. Merchant operating system for African banks that unifies POS apps, merchant portals, CRM, payments, and APIs to power digital merchant services at scale. The CEO is Brandon Roberts. Littlefish is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Website: littlefishapp.com
Insight Health raised $11 million from Standard Capital on April 3, 2026. AI-driven platform automating clinical tasks for healthcare providers. The CEO is Jaimal Soni. Insight Health is based in Austin, TX, United States. Website: www.insighthealth.ai
Three Most Interesting Deals
Starcloud ($170M from Benchmark and EQT Ventures): Starcloud’s $170M round at a $1.1B valuation is a major signal that investors are underwriting space-based infrastructure as a credible next layer of compute. If the thesis works, megawatt-scale data centers in orbit could reshape the cost and availability of sovereign/defense compute and latency-sensitive services, creating a new hyperscaler adjacency. The scale of capital suggests long-duration ambitions and a push toward early commercial deployment rather than pure R&D. This deal also reinforces the broader “space as an industrial platform” trend that can pull in a large ecosystem of suppliers and downstream applications.
OpenFX ($94M from Accel, Atomico, Lightspeed Faction, M13, Northzone, and Pantera): OpenFX’s $94M round at a $500M valuation highlights sustained conviction in cross-border payments infrastructure as a foundational fintech layer, especially as real-time rails expand globally. Large Series A financing at this valuation implies strong early traction and/or a credible path to network effects and enterprise distribution. The category remains strategically important because improved global money movement unlocks marketplaces, payroll, remittances, and B2B trade flows. Competitive intensity is high, so this round is also a signal of expected land-grab dynamics and the need for balance-sheet, compliance, and liquidity scale.
Cognichip ($60M from Seligman Ventures): Cognichip’s $60M raise underscores how strategic AI-driven semiconductor design has become as compute demand and chip complexity accelerate. Physics-informed models promise faster iteration and better PPA outcomes, which could meaningfully shift time-to-silicon for both incumbents and new chip startups. Investor appetite here is a strong signal because the space is technically deep and capital-intensive, implying confidence in differentiated IP and a path to commercial partnerships. This deal matters broadly as it sits at the intersection of AI software and hardware supply constraints, a key bottleneck for the entire AI economy.
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