Top 10 Startup and Tech Funding News – July 24, 2025
Nickie Louise
Posted On July 24, 2025
It’s Thursday, July 24, 2025, and the capital continues to pour in at breakneck speed. Today’s funding news underscores a clear trend: investors are chasing AI-native platforms, defense manufacturing scale-ups, and intelligent tools that reduce friction across enterprise workflows.
From stealth-mode AI labs raising billions to startups automating compliance, contracts, and even construction vehicles, today’s deals are anything but ordinary. Mira Murati’s new venture, Thinking Machines Lab, made headlines with a staggering $2 billion seed round, while Hadrian secured $260 million to modernize U.S. defense infrastructure with advanced automation. Meanwhile, Vanta’s trust infrastructure push got a $150 million boost, and LegalOn is bringing AI contract review to the legal mainstream with fresh capital from Goldman Sachs.
Funding Highlights
Cambridge Terahertz raked in $12 million to take on the $100 billion return fraud problem using 3D imaging technology that even helps Amazon see inside unopened boxes. Hadrian ramped up its factory ambitions with $260M. Lovable became Europe’s newest unicorn, and Vanta crossed $4B in valuation. Delve, Ashby, and Bedrock Robotics are each streamlining enterprise ops—from hiring to heavy equipment—with intelligent software and automation. Even long-form video got its spotlight, with Memories.ai raising seed money to tackle analysis at scale.
Investor Activity
Top-tier firms like Andreessen Horowitz, Wellington, Insight Partners, and Accel are leading the charge. Strategic backers from Nvidia to Goldman Sachs are doubling down on platforms with real momentum. Across sectors and continents, enterprise AI, robotics, legal tech, and defense infrastructure all grabbed serious attention.
Whether it’s building smarter teams, smarter factories, or smarter AI, today’s funding activity makes one thing clear: this isn’t hype—it’s execution at scale.
Here’s the full breakdown of today’s startup and tech funding news activity.
Cambridge Terahertz Raises $12M in Funding to Help Amazon See Inside Boxes Using 3D Imaging
Cambridge Terahertz, a tech startup founded by MIT researcher Nathan Monroe, has raised $12 million in seed funding led by Felicis, with Amazon’s $1 billion Industrial Innovation Fund also joining in. The investment is part of Amazon’s push to support technologies that can plug into its massive logistics machine.
Cambridge is building a 3D imaging system that can peek inside unopened boxes. Think of it as a scanner that doesn’t need to break the seal to know if you’re returning the sneakers you ordered—or a box of rocks.
Cambridge Terahertz didn’t start in a flashy lab or VC incubator—it started in a garage near MIT, which the team nicknamed “Garage Mahal.” Over the last two and a half years, that garage-born project has grown into a ten-person team based in Sunnyvale, California, complete with a THz test lab and three generations of custom silicon imaging chips.
Monroe co-founded the company last year after spending time researching terahertz imaging at MIT. What they’ve built is a chip-based system, shrunk down from airport-style scanners into a small pyramid-shaped device that fits in the palm of your hand. It can “see” through packaging materials without opening anything, making it useful not just for retail but for applications ranging from aerospace to border inspections.
Funding Details:
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Startup: Cambridge Terahertz
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Investors: Felicis (lead) and Amazon’s $1 billion Industrial Innovation Fund
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Amount Raised: $2 billion
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Total Raised: $2 billion
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Funding Stage: Seed
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Funding Date: July 15, 2025
Hadrian Raises $260M in Series C Funding for Automated Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing
Hadrian, an industrial tech startup focused on automated manufacturing, secured a $260 million Series C round to expand its network of high-tech factories for space and defense parts. The financing was led by Founders Fund and Lux Capital (with additional backing from Morgan Stanley, Altimeter, and others) and will fuel the build-out of “Factory 3” in Arizona by year’s end.
The Los Angeles-based Hadrian is modernizing aerospace supply chains by using advanced automation to produce precision components much faster than traditional machine shops. The fresh capital — which brings Hadrian’s total funding to nearly $500 million since its 2020 founding — will also support an expanded 500,000 sq ft California headquarters and the launch of new manufacturing services (like welding and 3D printing) as part of Hadrian’s “factory-as-a-service” model for major defense contractors.
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Startup: Hadrian
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Investors: Founders Fund (lead), Lux Capital, with participation from Morgan Stanley, Altimeter, 1789 Capital, and existing backers like Andreessen Horowitz and Construct Capital
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Amount Raised: $260 million
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Total Raised: ~ $500 million
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Funding Stage: Series C
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Funding Date: July 17, 2025
Lovable Becomes Unicorn with $200M Series A Funding for AI “Vibe Coding” Platform
Lovable, a Stockholm-based AI startup launched just 8 months ago, has secured a $200 million Series A at a $1.8 billion valuation, making it Europe’s newest unicorn. The round, led by Accel, saw participation from top European VCs including Creandum, byFounders, Hummingbird Ventures, and others backing Lovable’s vision of democratizing software creation.
The company’s “vibe coding” platform allows even non-technical users to build software by simply describing what they want (the “vibe”), a novel approach that helped Lovable reach $4 million in annual recurring revenue within weeks of launch. This massive early investment – bringing total funding to about $224 million – will help Lovable rapidly scale its product and global presence as it aims to cater to the surging demand for AI-assisted coding tools among businesses and individual makers alike.
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Startup: Lovable
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Investors: Accel (lead), with existing backers Creandum, byFounders, Hummingbird Ventures, Visionaries Club, 20VC participating
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Amount Raised: $200 million
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Total Raised: $224 million
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Funding Stage: Series A
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Funding Date: July 17, 2025
Vanta Scores $150M in Series D Funding to Power AI-Driven Security Compliance
Vanta, a San Francisco-based startup specializing in security and compliance automation, has raised $150 million in Series D funding led by Wellington Management, boosting its valuation to $4.15 billion. Vanta’s platform helps over 12,000 companies streamline the work of achieving and maintaining SOC 2 certifications, privacy compliance, and other security standards – tasks traditionally handled via cumbersome audits.
By increasingly incorporating AI to automate these processes, Vanta enables businesses to continuously monitor and prove their security posture to customers and regulators. Existing major backers including Goldman Sachs, Sequoia Capital, JPMorgan, and Craft Ventures joined the round, underscoring strong confidence in Vanta’s “trust management” category leadership. The company will use the new funding to expand its product capabilities and global go-to-market efforts, as more organizations seek efficient ways to meet security compliance in the AI era.
Funding Details:
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Startup: Vanta
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Investors: Wellington Management (lead), with existing investors Goldman Sachs Growth, Sequoia Capital, JPMorgan, Craft Ventures
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Amount Raised: $150 million
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Total Raised: $250 million+
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Funding Stage: Series D
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Funding Date: July 23, 2025
Bedrock Robotics Emerges with $80M in Funding to Automate Construction Machinery
Bedrock Robotics, a San Francisco-based autonomous vehicle startup founded by ex-Waymo engineers, has emerged from stealth with $80 million in combined seed and Series A funding to automate construction equipment. The company retrofits standard heavy machinery (such as excavators) with self-driving kits, allowing builders to improve safety and productivity by running vehicles autonomously on job sites without new hardware.
Bedrock’s funding was led by Eclipse (seed round) and 8VC (Series A), with notable investors including NVIDIA’s NVentures, Two Sigma Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, and the Raine Group backing its vision for “driverless” construction sites. Armed with this capital, Bedrock plans to grow its engineering and commercialization teams and begin pilot deployments of its operator-less construction systems with industry partners by 2026, aiming to transform how large projects are built.
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Startup: Bedrock Robotics
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Investors: 8VC (lead Series A), Eclipse (lead Seed); with participation from Two Sigma Ventures, NVIDIA’s NVentures, Valor Equity Partners, Raine Group, and others
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Amount Raised: $80 million
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Total Raised: $80 million
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Funding Stage: Seed + Series A
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Funding Date: July 16, 2025
Ashby Lands $50M in Series D Funding for AI-Powered Talent Recruitment Platform
Ashby, a San Francisco-based startup offering an AI-enhanced recruiting platform, has raised $50 million in a Series D round co-led by Alkeon Capital and notable investor Lachy Groom. Ashby provides an all-in-one hiring software suite – combining an applicant tracking system, candidate relationship management, scheduling tools, and analytics – all infused with AI to help companies streamline their talent acquisition.
The platform, used by high-growth customers like OpenAI and Shopify, not only automates rote tasks (sourcing candidates, coordinating interviews, etc.) but also uses large language models to assist with job descriptions and outreach. Ashby more than doubled its customer count in the past year, prompting this opportunistic fundraise just a year after its Series C. With 220 employees spread across 21 countries, Ashby will deploy the new capital to further advance its AI features, expand customer success and community programs, and cement its position as an “intelligent hiring OS” for modern talent teams.
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Startup: Ashby
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Investors: Alkeon Capital (co-lead), Lachy Groom (co-lead), with participation from F-Prime Capital, Elad Gil, Gaingels, and others
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Amount Raised: $50 million
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Total Raised: Not disclosed
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Funding Stage: Series D
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Funding Date: July 22, 2025
LegalOn Grabs $50M in Series E Funding to Scale AI Contract Review Platform
LegalOn, a Tokyo-based legal tech startup, announced a $50 million Series E round to accelerate the global growth of its AI contract review platform. The funding was led by Goldman Sachs Growth, with support from World Innovation Lab and new investors including Japanese law firm Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, Mizuho Bank, and Shoko Chukin Bank. LegalOn’s software – already used by 7,000+ organizations and 25% of all publicly listed companies in Japan – uses artificial intelligence to review contracts, flag risky clauses, and suggest revisions based on playbook guidelines written by legal experts.
By automating this tedious review process, the platform can shorten contract turnarounds by up to 85% and improve accuracy for in-house legal teams. The SoftBank-backed startup has now raised over $200 million total and is investing heavily in developing AI “agent” tools to further streamline pre- and post-signing contract workflows. It will also use the new funds to enhance its presence in the U.S. and U.K., where LegalOn says business has quadrupled in the last year as companies adopt AI for legal operations.
Funding Details:
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Startup: LegalOn
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Investors: Goldman Sachs Growth (lead), World Innovation Lab (WiL), Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, Mizuho Bank, Shoko Chukin Bank (with prior backers like SoftBank Vision Fund remaining investors)
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Amount Raised: $50 million
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Total Raised: $200 million+
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Funding Stage: Series E
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Funding Date: July 24, 2025
Delve Raises $32M in Series A Funding to Automate Compliance for AI Startups
Delve, an AI compliance startup founded by two 21-year-old MIT dropouts, secured a $32 million Series A investment at a $300 million valuation to help companies navigate regulatory requirements with ease. The round was led by Insight Partners (which took the lion’s share of the financing) and also included participation from several Fortune 500 chief information security officers (CISOs) as angel investors.
Delve’s platform employs AI agents to automate much of the work required for frameworks like HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, and other “alphabet soup” compliance standards – enabling clients to become audit-ready in weeks instead of months. Since emerging from Y Combinator last year, the San Francisco-based startup has grown from 100 to over 500 customers (many of them fast-growing AI ventures themselves) and achieved a roughly tenfold jump in valuation from its seed round earlier in 2025. The fresh funds will help Delve broaden support to additional compliance regimes and scale its team, as demand soars for automated trust and safety tools amid the AI boom.
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Startup: Delve
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Investors: Insight Partners (lead), with participation from several Fortune 500 CISOs (strategic angel investors)
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Amount Raised: $32 million
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Total Raised: ~ $35 million
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Funding Stage: Series A
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Funding Date: July 22, 2025
Asylon Secures $26M in Series B Funding to Expand Autonomous Security Drones & Robots
Asylon, a Philadelphia-based robotics startup focused on security and defense, raised a $26 million Series B round to grow its fleet of autonomous drones and robotic guard dogs. The financing was led by Insight Partners, joined by military-focused firm Veteran Ventures Capital, Allegion Ventures, and the state-backed GO PA Fund. Asylon offers security robots-as-a-service: it deploys aerial drone systems and “DroneDog” ground robots (built on Boston Dynamics’ Spot platform) to patrol perimeters, inspect facilities, and respond to alarms without putting human guards in harm’s way.
The company, founded in 2015 by three MIT graduates, had previously raised around $21 million (plus grants) before this round, bringing its total funding to roughly $45 million. With recent high-profile security incidents driving interest in automation, Asylon will use the new capital to scale up production and sales of its robotic security solutions, giving large enterprises and government customers a powerful new tool to secure their sites 24/7 at a competitive cost.
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Startup: Asylon
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Investors: Insight Partners (lead), Veteran Ventures Capital, Allegion Ventures, GO PA Fund
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Amount Raised: $26 million
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Total Raised: ~ $45 million
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Funding Stage: Series B
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Funding Date: July 22, 2025
Memories.ai Gets $8M in Seed Funding Backed by Samsung for Long-Form Video Analysis
Memories.ai, a new AI startup tackling the analysis of large video libraries, has raised an $8 million seed round led by Susa Ventures, with Samsung Next, Fusion Fund, Crane Venture Partners, Seedcamp, and Creator Ventures also participating. Co-founded by former Meta researchers, Memories.ai’s platform can process and index vast amounts of video – potentially millions of hours – to make content searchable and analyzable across time.
Memories’ technology is poised to help security firms, marketers, and other enterprises glean insights from video footage by asking natural-language questions that span multiple cameras and long durations (something current AI models struggle with beyond short clips). Notably, Memories.ai’s system performs much of its computation on-device rather than relying solely on the cloud, an approach that aligns with Samsung’s interest in privacy-preserving, edge AI solutions.
The startup originally aimed to raise $4 million but drew so much investor interest that the round was oversubscribed to $8 million. With the funds, Memories.ai will expand its engineering team and accelerate development of its long-context video intelligence platform, helping clients turn their troves of video data into actionable information.
Funding Details:
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Startup: Memories.ai
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Investors: Susa Ventures (lead), with participation from Samsung Next, Fusion Fund, Crane Venture Partners, Seedcamp, Creator Ventures
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Amount Raised: $8 million
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Total Raised: $8 million
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Funding Stage: Seed
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Funding Date: July 24, 2025
Tech Funding Summary Table
| Startup | Investors (Lead and notable) | Amount Raised | Total Raised | Funding Stage | Funding Date |
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| Cambridge Terahertz | Felicis (lead) and Amazon’s $1 billion Industrial Innovation Fund | $12 million | $12 million | Seed | July 15, 2025 |
| Hadrian | Founders Fund (lead); Lux Capital, Morgan Stanley, Altimeter, 1789 Capital, a16z, Construct Capital | $260 million | ~$500 million | Series C | July 17, 2025 |
| Lovable | Accel (lead); Creandum, byFounders, Hummingbird Ventures, Visionaries Club, 20VC | $200 million | $224 million | Series A | July 17, 2025 |
| Vanta | Wellington Management (lead); Goldman Sachs, Sequoia Capital, JPMorgan, Craft Ventures | $150 million | $250 million+ | Series D | July 23, 2025 |
| Bedrock Robotics | 8VC (lead Series A); Eclipse (lead Seed); Two Sigma Ventures, NVentures (NVIDIA), Valor Equity, Raine Group | $80 million | $80 million | Seed + Series A | July 16, 2025 |
| Ashby | Alkeon Capital (co-lead); Lachy Groom (co-lead); F-Prime Capital, Elad Gil, Gaingels | $50 million | Not disclosed | Series D | July 22, 2025 |
| LegalOn | Goldman Sachs Growth (lead); World Innovation Lab, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, Mizuho Bank, Shoko Chukin Bank | $50 million | $200 million+ | Series E | July 24, 2025 |
| Delve | Insight Partners (lead); Fortune 500 CISOs (angels) | $32 million | ~$35 million | Series A | July 22, 2025 |
| Asylon | Insight Partners (lead); Veteran Ventures, Allegion Ventures, GO PA Fund | $26 million | ~$45 million | Series B | July 22, 2025 |
| Memories.ai | Susa Ventures (lead); Samsung Next, Fusion Fund, Crane Venture, Seedcamp, Creator Ventures | $8 million | $8 million | Seed | July 24, 2025 |
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