Top Startup and Tech Funding News – November 6, 2025
Nickie Louise
Posted On November 6, 2025
It’s Thursday, November 6, 2025, and we’re back with the top startup and tech funding news stories making waves today. From AI-driven infrastructure to cybersecurity and fintech innovation, investors continue to pour capital into both late-stage market leaders and fast-rising disruptors redefining their sectors.
Today’s highlights feature Metropolis, which secured a staggering $500 million Series D to scale its AI-powered parking and checkout-free commerce platform; Synchron, which closed a $200 million Series D to advance its minimally invasive brain-computer interface technology; and MoEngage, which raised $100 million to expand its global AI-powered customer engagement suite. The funding momentum extended across verticals — from open-source security and developer tooling to marketing automation, deep-tech, and crypto — underscoring sustained investor confidence in transformative technologies shaping the next decade.
Funding Highlights
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Metropolis raised $500 million in Series D funding to expand its AI-powered parking and urban transaction infrastructure.
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Synchron secured $200 million in Series D funding to commercialize its brain-computer interface platform, Stentrode.
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MoEngage brought in $100 million in late-stage growth funding to scale its global AI customer engagement platform.
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Truffle Security raised $25 million in Series B funding to safeguard codebases from leaked credentials and expand secret-detection capabilities.
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Inception landed $50 million in seed funding to pioneer diffusion-based AI models for text and code generation.
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Reevo secured $80 million in early-stage funding to unify sales, marketing, and customer success workflows.
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Fomo raised $17 million in Series A to grow its social crypto trading app.
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MythWorx closed $5 million in seed funding to accelerate its next-generation AGI reasoning models.
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Digs raised $5 million in seed funding to scale its residential homebuilder software platform.
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MeshDefend brought in $2.3 million in seed funding to build an AI operating system for enterprise data infrastructure.
Investor Activity
Today’s rounds drew participation from some of the most influential venture players — including Intel Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Goldman Sachs, LionTree, Menlo Ventures, and Khosla Ventures — signaling strong conviction in frontier innovation. From AI infrastructure and brain interfaces to developer security and fintech ecosystems, capital deployment remains steady across both early and late stages.
Together, these financings highlight a strong start to November, with AI, cybersecurity, fintech, and automation startups leading the charge in shaping the next wave of digital transformation.
Here’s the full breakdown. Until tomorrow, stay sharp.
Metropolis Raises $500M in Series D Funding for AI-Powered Parking Platform
Metropolis, a Los Angeles-based startup transforming parking with computer vision and AI, has secured a massive $500 million Series D funding round at a valuation of about $5 billion. The raise is part of a larger $1.6 billion financing package that includes debt, as the company accelerates its expansion beyond parking lots into broader real-world transaction infrastructure. Metropolis’s checkout-free platform uses cameras and machine learning to let drivers park and leave without stopping for payment, automatically charging them and emailing receipts. This massive funding – one of the year’s largest – will fuel growth initiatives, including the rollout of its technology to new sectors like retail and hospitality, following Metropolis’s $1.5 billion acquisition of parking operator SP+ earlier this year, which swelled its workforce to over 23,000 employees.
Founded by CEO Alex Israel, Metropolis aims to eliminate friction in daily mobility and commerce. Its AI-powered system tracks vehicles and handles payments seamlessly, positioning the company at the forefront of “physical world” fintech. The Series D round was led by a fund managed by LionTree, with participation from affiliates of BDT & MSD Partners, signaling strong investor confidence in Metropolis’s vision. To date, the company has raised roughly $3.5 billion (including debt) to build out its platform. With the new capital, Metropolis plans to scale to more cities, pursue strategic acquisitions, and continue innovating its platform so any venue – from garages to gas stations – can offer a smooth, automated experience. It’s a significant bet that convenient, AI-driven services will redefine how we park, shop, and move through urban life.
Funding Details:
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Startup: Metropolis
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Investors: LionTree (lead, via managed fund), BDT & MSD Partners (affiliates), among others
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Amount Raised: $500 million
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Total Raised: approx. $3.5 billion (including debt financing)
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Funding Stage: Series D
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Funding Date: November 6, 2025
Synchron Secures $200M in Series D Funding to Advance Brain-Computer Interfaces
Synchron, a pioneer in minimally invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, announced a $200 million Series D financing to accelerate the commercialization of its neural implant platform. The New York-based medtech startup is known for developing the Stentrode – the first endovascular BCI that can be implanted without open-brain surgery. Placed via a catheter into a blood vessel in the brain, the Stentrode has enabled patients with paralysis to control digital devices by thought, translating neural signals into action wirelessly. With ten patients already implanted across U.S. and Australian clinical trials, Synchron’s device has demonstrated the potential to restore communication and independence for people with severe paralysis. The new funding will help Synchron ramp up pivotal clinical trials and prepare for a commercial launch of the Stentrode system, bringing this breakthrough closer to everyday healthcare use.
This oversubscribed round was led by Double Point Ventures, with participation from a roster of top investors, old and new. Existing backers like ARCH Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, and Bezos Expeditions (the personal venture fund of Jeff Bezos) joined in, alongside new investors including the Australian government’s National Reconstruction Fund, Qatar Investment Authority, and T. Rx Capital. The infusion brings Synchron’s total funding to about $345 million to date. Founder and CEO Dr. Tom Oxley says the capital will also fuel development of a next-generation, higher-bandwidth BCI and the growth of Synchron’s “NeuroAI” data science team to decode brain signals in real time. As competition in the BCI field heats up – including efforts by Elon Musk’s Neuralink – Synchron’s less invasive approach and early clinical head start have positioned it as a leader. With fresh funding, the company is poised to scale up operations, hire engineering and neuroscience talent, and ultimately get its device FDA-approved for widespread use, a milestone that could transform life for patients with neurological injuries or disease.
Funding Details:
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Startup: Synchron
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Investors: Double Point Ventures (lead), ARCH Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Bezos Expeditions, NeuroTechnology Investors, METIS, National Reconstruction Fund (Australia), T.Rx Capital, Qatar Investment Authority, K5 Global, Protocol Labs, IQT (among others)
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Amount Raised: $200 million
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Total Raised: $345 million
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Funding Stage: Series D
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Funding Date: November 6, 2025
MoEngage Secures $100M in Funding to Scale AI Customer Engagement Platform
AI-driven customer engagement startup MoEngage has raised $100 million in a new growth funding round to double down on its global expansion and product innovation. Based jointly in San Francisco and Bengaluru, MoEngage offers a marketing automation platform that helps consumer brands personalize their interactions with users across web, mobile, email, and social channels. The fresh capital, led by Goldman Sachs’s asset management arm (GS Alternatives) with participation from venture firm A91 Partners, underscores booming demand for next-generation marketing tech that leverages AI. MoEngage’s platform – including its flagship Merlin AI suite of intelligent assistants – allows companies to analyze customer behavior data at scale and automatically optimize campaigns for better engagement and conversion. With over 1,350 enterprise clients worldwide (brands like Domino’s, Deutsche Telekom, and McAfee) and reaching more than 2 billion users monthly, MoEngage has emerged as a leader in the marketing tech space, especially in Asia, and is now rapidly growing in North America and Europe.
This new funding brings MoEngage’s total financing to over $250 million. The company will use the funds to enhance its AI capabilities and beef up its go-to-market presence across key regions. CEO and co-founder Raviteja Dodda said the investment will help MoEngage deepen its foothold in North America and EMEA, where digital-first enterprises are embracing AI tools to replace legacy marketing cloud software. The team plans to hire aggressively in customer success, sales, and R&D, and continue refining Merlin AI’s ability to help marketers make data-driven decisions autonomously. MoEngage’s vision is to empower brands to deliver personalized, omnichannel experiences with minimal manual effort – an increasingly critical need as consumers expect smarter, more timely interactions. With Goldman Sachs now backing the company (alongside earlier investors like Eight Roads and Matrix Partners), MoEngage is well-positioned to scale its AI-powered platform and cement its status among the top global customer engagement SaaS providers.
Funding Details:
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Startup: MoEngage
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Investors: Goldman Sachs Alternatives (lead), A91 Partners, and others
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Amount Raised: $100 million
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Total Raised: $250+ million
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Funding Stage: Growth round (late-stage)
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Funding Date: November 6, 2025
Inception Lands $50M Seed Funding to Pioneer Diffusion Models for AI
Inception, an AI research startup aiming to revolutionize how machines generate code and text, has emerged from stealth with a $50 million seed funding round. Founded by Stanford professor Stefano Ermon and a team of AI scientists, the young company is developing diffusion-based AI models that depart from the typical ChatGPT-like approach to language. Diffusion models generate content by iteratively refining the entire output (an approach proven in image AI like Stable Diffusion), rather than predicting words sequentially. Inception believes this technique can dramatically improve speed and efficiency for large language models when handling tasks like code generation. The hefty seed round – one of the largest early-stage AI investments this year – was led by Menlo Ventures and attracted a who’s who of tech investors. Participants include Mayfield Fund, Innovation Endeavors, Microsoft’s M12 venture arm, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks Ventures, and Nvidia’s NVentures, as well as notable angel backers like AI luminary Andrew Ng and former OpenAI research director Andrej Karpathy.
With the new funding, Inception is quickly scaling up its research and engineering efforts. The startup has already unveiled an early product called Mercury, a diffusion model tailored for software development that can assist with writing and debugging code. Mercury is reportedly being piloted in developer tools such as ProxyAI and Buildglare, showcasing the model’s ability to integrate into real-world programming workflows. Inception’s approach promises significant gains: by generating code via diffusion, their models aim to reduce the computational cost and latency associated with today’s AI coding assistants. The seed capital will enable Inception to hire top-tier AI researchers and double down on R&D to push the boundaries of diffusion models. While still at an early stage, the company’s vision is to unlock AI that can handle large-scale text and code tasks more holistically – potentially a game-changer in a field dominated by auto-regressive models like GPT. Menlo Ventures’ leading of such a big seed round, joined by enterprise players and renowned AI figures, signals strong conviction in Inception’s novel approach to AI model design.
Funding Details:
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Startup: Inception
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Investors: Menlo Ventures (lead), Mayfield, Innovation Endeavors, M12 (Microsoft), Snowflake Ventures, Databricks Ventures, NVentures (Nvidia), with angel funding from Andrew Ng, Andrej Karpathy, and others
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Amount Raised: $50 million
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Total Raised: $50 million (seed round)
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Funding Stage: Seed
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Funding Date: November 6, 2025
Fomo Lands $17M Series A for Social Crypto Trading App
Crypto trading app Fomo has raised $17 million in a Series A round led by Benchmark, marking a rare foray into crypto by the elite Silicon Valley VC firm. Fomo’s platform, which launched only in May, positions itself as a “super app” for digital asset investing – aiming to let everyday users trade virtually any cryptocurrency across any blockchain with minimal friction. The startup’s ambitious promise of offering millions of tokens in one interface, combined with built-in social features, has quickly gained traction. Fomo allows users to follow friends and crypto influencers to see their trades and portfolios, bringing a community element to the often-isolating trading experience. The founders, Paul Erlanger and Se Yong Park (both former dYdX engineers), took an unconventional path to fundraising: instead of a traditional seed round, they assembled a dream list of 200 angel investors and successfully convinced 140 of them – including big names like Balaji Srinivasan (ex-Coinbase CTO), Solana co-founder Raj Gokal, and Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron – to back the company early. That grassroots approach yielded an initial $2 million in pre-seed funds and helped build buzz around the product.
Now, with Benchmark leading its Series A, Fomo has a stamp of credibility that few crypto startups attain. The round (which brings total funding to $19 million) will help Fomo accelerate growth amid a resurging crypto market. The app has already rolled out features like Apple Pay integration for easy on-ramping, which dramatically boosted user adoption over the summer. With fresh capital, the team plans to expand asset coverage even further, enhance the app’s social trading tools, and ensure top-notch security as they scale. Benchmark’s general partner was reportedly drawn to Fomo as one of the first consumer-friendly crypto apps with mass-market appeal – a single venue where a novice can buy anything from Bitcoin to obscure meme coins, while also learning from peers. Fomo’s vision extends beyond crypto: eventually, it aspires to support trading of other asset classes (think stocks, prediction markets, even NFTs) all within one interface. For now, armed with one of the most impressive investor rosters in crypto and Benchmark’s vote of confidence, Fomo is gearing up to compete with established exchanges by offering Gen-Z and millennial traders a more connected, user-centric experience.
Funding Details:
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Startup: Fomo
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Investors: Benchmark (lead), 140+ angel investors including Balaji Srinivasan, Raj Gokal, Marc Boiron, etc.
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Amount Raised: $17 million
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Total Raised: $19 million
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Funding Stage: Series A
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Funding Date: November 6, 2025
Inception Secures $50M in Seed Funding to Build Diffusion Models for Code & Text
Inception, a startup formed to apply diffusion-model architectures (traditionally used in image generation) to code and text tasks, announced a major $50 million seed round. The funding was led by Menlo Ventures and included participation from Mayfield Fund, Innovation Endeavors, Microsoft M12, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks Ventures, and NVentures (the venture arm of Nvidia).
The company, co-founded by Stanford professor Stefano Ermon, is building the “Mercury” model family, which claims to achieve significantly higher efficiency and lower latency compared to standard autoregressive LLMs by leveraging diffusion-style generation across code and text. The fresh capital will be used to hire top engineering talent, advance research, and commercialise the model into developer workflows and enterprise tooling.
Funding Details:
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Startup: Inception
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Investors: Menlo Ventures (lead), Mayfield Fund, Innovation Endeavors, Microsoft M12, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks Ventures, NVentures
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Amount Raised: $50 million
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Total Raised: Not publicly disclosed
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Funding Stage: Seed
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Funding Date: November 6, 2025
Truffle Security Raises $25 Million in Series B Funding to Secure AI-Era Codebases from Leaked Secrets
Truffle Security, the company behind the widely used open-source project TruffleHog, has raised $25 million in Series B funding to expand its mission of protecting software systems from exposed credentials. The round was co-led by Intel Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with additional participation from Abstract, Lytical Ventures, and prominent cybersecurity leaders, including Casey Ellis (Founder, BugCrowd), Emilio Escobar (CISO, Datadog), and Haroon Meer (Founder & CEO, Thinkst).
Truffle Security has become a trusted name among developers for detecting and remediating leaked API keys, tokens, and non-human identities (NHIs) — an overlooked but critical layer of modern software security. Its flagship tool, TruffleHog, has been downloaded more than 15 million times, starred over 23,000 times on GitHub, and runs more than 250,000 times daily across developer environments worldwide. The company’s enterprise offering builds on this foundation, providing real-time secret detection and remediation across major cloud platforms. With the new capital, Truffle Security will scale its product development, expand its NHI analysis to AWS and Azure, and roll out TruffleHog GCP Analyze, a feature designed to give organizations instant visibility into leaked Google Cloud service accounts and their potential impact.
The investment underscores growing urgency around protecting codebases in the AI and automation era, as large language models and co-pilot tools generate code at unprecedented speed — and risk. Backed by two powerhouse investors, Truffle Security is doubling down on its vision to safeguard the invisible workforce of credentials that power every modern software system.
Funding Details:
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Startup: Truffle Security
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Investors: Intel Capital (lead), Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Abstract, Lytical Ventures, Casey Ellis (BugCrowd), Emilio Escobar (Datadog), Haroon Meer (Thinkst)
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Amount Raised: $25 million
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Total Raised: Not disclosed
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Funding Stage: Series B
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Funding Date: November 6, 2025
MythWorx Closes $5M in Seed Funding at $100 M Valuation to Speed Up AGI Reasoning
MythWorx, a next-generation AI/AGI startup focused on true reasoning architectures rather than purely pattern-recognition models, raised $5 million in seed funding at an implied valuation of $100 million. The round was led by Eagle Venture Fund IV, along with Eagle Freedom Fund I & II and other angel backers.
MythWorx says its “Echo Ego v2” model uses one-tenth the power of typical large language models while outperforming them in reasoning benchmarks (e.g., MMLU-Pro) without relying on chain-of-thought prompting or heavy pretraining. The funding will drive hiring, development of licensing deals (including with defence and government clients), and accelerate go-to-market initiatives as the company positions itself in an emerging AGI category.
Funding Details:
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Startup: MythWorx
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Investors: Eagle Venture Fund IV (lead), Eagle Freedom Fund I & II, other angel investors
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Amount Raised: $5 million
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Total Raised: $5 million (first external round)
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Funding Stage: Seed
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Funding Date: November 6, 2025
Digs Raises $5M in Funding to Boost Software Platform for Residential Builders
Digs, a Vancouver, WA-based startup that offers software enabling residential home-builders to digitise, organise, and manage build documents and warranties (including a 3D digital twin of the home), has raised $5 million in a new round.
Founded in 2022, Digs claims nearly 10,000 homes already on its platform and is now focusing on converting pre-construction workflows into searchable digital assets for builders and homeowners. CEO Ryan Fink describes the product as “CarFax for the home,” turning static blueprints and change orders into a living record of value and improvements. The new funding will expand the sales team, scale the platform, and enable features aimed at homeowner engagement and subscription services.
Funding Details:
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Startup: Digs
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Investors: (Not publicly specified)
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Amount Raised: $5 million
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Total Raised: Not publicly disclosed
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Funding Stage: Seed
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Funding Date: November 6, 2025
MeshDefend Raises $2.3M in Funding to Build an AI OS for Enterprise Data Infrastructure
MeshDefend, a Bengaluru-based startup developing an AI “operating system” tailored to enterprise data infrastructure needs, has secured $2.3 million in its initial funding round. The round was led by Kalaari Capital with participation from Kettleborough VC and a syndicate of entrepreneurs and CXOs.
MeshDefend’s platform is designed to provide observability, governance, and control across complex data estates by applying AI to detect anomalies, optimise pipelines, and manage disparate data sources. The funding will be used to advance product development, expand market outreach across large enterprises in India and abroad, and build strategic partnerships as data infrastructure becomes a top investment area for AI-driven companies.
Funding Details:
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Startup: MeshDefend
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Investors: Kalaari Capital (lead), Kettleborough VC, group of entrepreneurs & CXOs
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Amount Raised: $2.3 million
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Total Raised: $2.3 million (first round)
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Funding Stage: Seed
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Funding Date: November 6, 2025
Reevo Scores $80M in Launch Round to Unify Sales, Marketing & Customer Success
Reevo, a newly launched go-to-market platform aiming to unify marketing, sales, and customer success workflows into one intelligent system, has secured $80 million in funding to build an AI-native revenue platform for go-to-market teams. The round was co-led by Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins.
The company positions itself as the antidote to fragmented GTM stacks — CRM systems, engagement tools, and analytics platforms that don’t communicate. With the massive influx of capital, Reevo plans to hire engineering talent rapidly, build out AI-assisted workflows for revenue teams, and accelerate its path to becoming the central “revenue OS” for mid-to-enterprise organisations.
Founded in 2024 by David Zhu (a former DoorDash engineering leader) and team, Reevo is developing a modern “AI-native” revenue operating system that unifies marketing, sales, and customer success tools into one intelligent platform. The goal is to replace the fragmented tangle of CRM, analytics, and outreach software that businesses use with a single, AI-driven platform that can automate workflows and provide end-to-end visibility into the customer journey.
Reevo’s platform consolidates every stage from initial prospecting to closing deals and post-sales support, allowing go-to-market teams to work from one source of truth. By embedding AI at its core, the system can automatically capture and analyze customer interactions (emails, meetings, etc.), generate insights, and even suggest next best actions for sales reps
Funding Details:
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Startup: Reevo
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Investors: Khosla Ventures (lead), Kleiner Perkins
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Amount Raised: $80 million
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Total Raised: $80 million (launch round)
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Funding Stage: Seed / Early Stage
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Funding Date: November 6, 2025
Tech Funding Summary Table
| Startup | Investors (Lead & Notable) | Amount Raised | Total Raised | Funding Stage | Funding Date |
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| Metropolis | LionTree (lead, via managed fund); BDT & MSD Partners (affiliates); others | $500 million | ≈ $3.5 billion (including debt) | Series D | Nov 6, 2025 |
| Synchron | Double Point Ventures (lead); ARCH Venture Partners; Khosla Ventures; Bezos Expeditions; National Reconstruction Fund (Australia); Qatar Investment Authority; T.Rx Capital; K5 Global; Protocol Labs; IQT; others | $200 million | $345 million | Series D | Nov 6, 2025 |
| MoEngage | Goldman Sachs Alternatives (lead); A91 Partners; others | $100 million | $250 million + | Growth Round (Late Stage) | Nov 6, 2025 |
| Reevo | Khosla Ventures; Kleiner Perkins | $80 million | $80 million | Seed / Early Stage | Nov 6, 2025 |
| Inception | Menlo Ventures (lead); Mayfield; Innovation Endeavors; Microsoft M12; Snowflake Ventures; Databricks Ventures; Nvidia NVentures; angels (Andrew Ng, Andrej Karpathy, etc.) | $50 million | $50 million (seed round) | Seed | Nov 6, 2025 |
| Truffle Security | Intel Capital (lead); Andreessen Horowitz (a16z); Abstract; Lytical Ventures; security veterans (Casey Ellis – BugCrowd, Emilio Escobar – Datadog, Haroon Meer – Thinkst) | $25 million | Not disclosed | Series B | Nov 6, 2025 |
| Fomo | Benchmark (lead); 140 + angel investors incl. Balaji Srinivasan, Raj Gokal, Marc Boiron & others | $17 million | $19 million | Series A | Nov 6, 2025 |
| MythWorx | Eagle Venture Fund IV (lead); Eagle Freedom Fund I & II; angel investors | $5 million | $5 million | Seed | Nov 6, 2025 |
| Digs | (Undisclosed investors) | $5 million | Not disclosed | Seed | Nov 6, 2025 |
| MeshDefend | Kalaari Capital (lead); Kettleborough VC + entrepreneur/CXO syndicate | $2.3 million | $2.3 million | Seed | Nov 6, 2025 |
Total Startups Covered: 10
Aggregate Disclosed Funding: ≈ $984.3 million +
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025
This table captures the top 10 startup and tech funding rounds worldwide, spanning AI, cybersecurity, fintech, deeptech, and infrastructure — showing investors’ continued confidence in innovation despite global market headwinds.
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