Top Startup and Tech Funding News – March 19, 2025

It’s Thursday, March 19, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds spotlight investor urgency around AI agent infrastructure, privacy-first digital ecosystems, and the physical systems supporting electrification and compute scaling. From coding security to data center power delivery and electric vessels, the breadth of capital allocation underscores how the lines between digital and physical innovation are blurring fast.

Major Series A and B financings this cycle demonstrate conviction in security primitives for AI-native development, foundation models for workplace automation, and new interfaces for event and identity-driven economies. At the same time, late-stage rounds are fueling scale across electric mobility, hardware security, and privacy infrastructure. Today’s deals span cybersecurity, enterprise AI, energy systems, and climate-aligned hardware—each contributing to the rewiring of technical and social infrastructure.

Tech Funding News

Funding Highlights

• Cloaked raises $375M Series B to protect consumer data
• Oasis Security raises $120M Series B to secure AI systems
• Arc Boat Company raises $50M Series C to electrify watercraft
• Deeptune raises $43M Series A for AI training simulators
• Posh raises $37M Series B for event planning platform
• Claros raises $30M Seed to improve data center efficiency
• Edra raises $30M Series A to automate workflows
• Hanover Park raises $27M Series A for AI-driven fund administration
• Corridor raises $25M Series A for AI coding security
• Eclypsium raises $25M Series C to secure AI hardware and firmware

Investor Activity

Today’s financings saw broad participation from premier venture and growth firms backing critical infrastructure for AI scalability and digital privacy. General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz were active across agent security, simulation, and enterprise automation. Lux Capital and Emergence backed financial infrastructure modernization, while Felicis and Red Cell supported next-gen developer security and power systems. Strategic capital continues to flow into software-defined electrification and cybersecurity platforms that anchor AI’s physical backbone.

Venture Funding News

Oasis Security Raises $120M in Series B Funding to Secure AI Systems

Oasis Security, an Israeli cybersecurity startup, today announced a $120 million Series B funding round to address the rising threat of non‑human identity (NHI) attacks in the AI era. Its platform provides visibility and governance for AI agents, service accounts, and other machine identities across cloud environments.

The funding, led by Craft Ventures with participation from Sequoia Capital, Accel, and Cyberstarts, will help Oasis scale its agentic access management solution as enterprises adopt AI-heavy workflows. Elevating NHI security to a $9.5B market, Oasis’s new round lifts its total funding to $190M.

• Startup: Oasis Security

• Investors: Craft Ventures (lead), Sequoia Capital, Accel, Cyberstarts

• Amount Raised: $120M

• Total Raised: $190M

• Funding Stage: Series B

• Funding Date: March 19, 2026

Cloaked Raises $375M in Series B Funding to Protect Consumer Data

Cloaked, a consumer privacy and security startup, raised $375 million in a Series B and growth financing round to bolster its bundled privacy tools and expand into the enterprise market. Founded in 2020, Cloaked offers features such as disposable identities, a VPN, data removal, and AI‑powered spam-call screening to protect personal data.

With 350,000 paying users and 10 million identities protected, the company plans to use the new capital to scale its AI-driven protection (extending it to SMS, email, and browsing) and launch enterprise-grade security services for employees. The round was co-led by General Catalyst (via its Customer Value Fund) and Liberty City Ventures, with Lux Capital, Human Capital, Marquee Ventures, DuckDuckGo and others joining.

• Startup: Cloaked

• Investors: General Catalyst, Liberty City Ventures (co-leads); Lux Capital, Human Capital, Marquee Ventures, Fifth Growth Fund, NFL Players Association, LG Technology Ventures, Assurant Ventures, DuckDuckGo

• Amount Raised: $375M

• Total Raised: $375M

• Funding Stage: Series B (plus non-dilutive growth financing)

• Funding Date: March 19, 2026

Arc Boat Company Raises $50M in Series C Funding to Electrify Watercraft

Arc Boat Company, a Los Angeles electric vessel maker, secured $50 million in Series C funding to expand from consumer boats into commercial and defense markets. The capital raise – from Eclipse Ventures (lead), a16z, Menlo Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Necessary Ventures, and Offline Ventures – will accelerate Arc’s push into hybrid tugboats and government contracts while continuing its core electric sport-boat business.

Founder Mitch Lee believes the nascent electric boat market will mirror the EV revolution on land, and Arc is building on early momentum in the recreational boat market to demonstrate the technology’s reliability for heavier-duty customers.

• Startup: Arc Boat Company

• Investors: Eclipse Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Menlo Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Necessary Ventures, Offline Ventures

• Amount Raised: $50M

• Total Raised: $50M

• Funding Stage: Series C

• Funding Date: March 19, 2026

Deeptune Raises $43M in Series A Funding for AI Training Simulators

Deeptune, a New York AI startup, raised $43 million in Series A funding to build “training gyms” for AI agents. The company creates high-fidelity reinforcement-learning environments that simulate enterprise workflows (e.g., accounting, customer support, DevOps) across tools like Slack and Salesforce. By enabling large language models to interact and learn in realistic workplace scenarios, Deeptune seeks to improve AI performance on multi-step tasks.

Andreessen Horowitz led the round (with investors 776, Abstract Ventures, Inspired Capital and notable angel backers) after seeing strong early traction: over 100 custom environments have already been built with top AI labs. The new funding will help Deeptune scale its platform as the global RL environment market surges on agentic AI trends.

• Startup: Deeptune

• Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (lead), 776, Abstract Ventures, Inspired Capital; angels including researchers from OpenAI and compute executives

• Amount Raised: $43M

• Total Raised: $43M

• Funding Stage: Series A

• Funding Date: March 19, 2026

Claros Raises $30M in Seed Funding to Improve Data Center Efficiency

Claros, a Northern Virginia hardware startup, closed a $30 million seed round to tackle inefficiencies in data center power use. Founded by former IBM engineers, Claros is developing chip-level power infrastructure (integrated voltage regulators) to streamline how servers draw power, reduce waste, and integrate renewable energy. The new funds – co-led by General Catalyst and Red Cell Partners, with Systemiq, Aero X Ventures, and Trenches Capital also participating – will be used to expand Claros’s Los Angeles lab and hire more engineers.

With AI-driven data center demand surging (data centers may account for 8% of U.S. electricity by 2030), Claros’s power-management platform aims to reduce costs and emissions. Its first prototype products will let data centers dynamically route power from multiple sources directly to chips, bypassing traditional conversions and saving energy.

• Startup: Claros

• Investors: General Catalyst, Red Cell Partners (co-leads); Systemiq Capital, Aero X Ventures, Trenches Capital

• Amount Raised: $30M

• Total Raised: $39.75M (including prior $9.75M)

• Funding Stage: Seed

• Funding Date: March 19, 2026

Corridor Raises $25M in Series A Funding for AI Coding Security

Corridor, a San Francisco startup founded by security veteran Alex Stamos, raised $25 million in Series A funding to build security infrastructure for AI-native software development. Its flagship Agentic Coding Security Management (ACSM) platform embeds real-time vulnerability checks into AI code-generation workflows, preventing exploits as developers use AI to write code. Felicis Ventures led the round, joined by Conviction, Timeless, Artisanal Ventures, Lux Capital, Sunflower Capital, Datadog, and SV Angel (along with AI-industry angel investors).

Corridor will use the fresh capital infusion to deepen its integrations with developer tools and grow its research and engineering team. As enterprises increasingly rely on AI coding assistants, Corridor’s solution aims to ensure AI-driven software builds meet security and compliance standards from the outset.

• Startup: Corridor

• Investors: Felicis Ventures (lead), Conviction, Timeless, Artisanal Ventures, Lux Capital, Sunflower Capital, Datadog, SV Angel, and AI-industry angels

• Amount Raised: $25M

• Total Raised: $25M

• Funding Stage: Series A

• Funding Date: March 19, 2026

Posh Raises $37M in Series B Funding for Event Planning Platform

Posh, a New York event-tech startup, secured $37 million in Series B funding to expand its business-focused events platform. Founded by NYU students Avante Price and Eli Taylor-Lemire, Posh enables organizers to sell tickets and manage events directly (versus relying on consumer marketplaces). The startup processes millions of tickets for music festivals, brand activations, and nightlife events, taking a ~10% cut of sales.

FirstMark Capital led the round, with follow-on investments from Causeway Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Companyon Ventures, and Epic Ventures. In 2024, Posh generated about $10M in revenue (on $83M ticket sales) and had raised $22M in a prior Series A. The new funding will fuel Posh’s growth as it shifts toward surfacing personalized event recommendations for 8 million users (e.g., “Netflix‑style” discovery of concerts and activities), effectively expanding the addressable events market by organizing more group social plans.

• Startup: Posh

• Investors: FirstMark Capital (lead), Causeway Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Companyon Ventures, Epic Ventures

• Amount Raised: $37M

• Total Raised: $59M (including previous $22M Series A)

• Funding Stage: Series B

• Funding Date: March 19, 2026

Edra Raises $30M in Series A Funding to Automate Workflows

Edra, a New York and London AI automation startup, raised $30 million in Series A financing to advance its enterprise workflow platform. The company’s software agents ingest a company’s existing data and process flows to learn how teams work, then execute tasks autonomously across business apps. For example, Edra’s AI can inspect a firm’s CRM and finance systems to replicate an employee’s review process.

Led by CEO Eugen Alpeza, the startup plans to use the funds (led by Sequoia Capital with participation from A* and 8VC) to grow its team and accelerate development. Edra is already in pilot with enterprise customers such as ASOS, HubSpot, and real estate firms. Its approach of “white-box” AI agents that mimic human workflows targets a large $197 billion enterprise automation labor market.

• Startup: Edra

• Investors: Sequoia Capital (lead), A* (Accel’s growth fund), 8VC

• Amount Raised: $30M

• Total Raised: $30M

• Funding Stage: Series A

• Funding Date: March 19, 2026

Hanover Park Raises $27M in Series A Funding for AI-Driven Fund Administration

Hanover Park, a New York fintech startup, announced a $27 million Series A round led by Emergence Capital. The company is building an AI-native platform to modernize private fund administration and reporting. Hanover Park uses machine learning to automate data aggregation and accounting (e.g. balance sheets, waterfall calculations) while CPAs validate outputs in real time.

The new funding – also backed by Lux Capital and Susa Ventures – will help expand the platform’s general ledger and investor portal capabilities and scale sales into the $100 trillion asset management market. With this capital, Hanover Park plans to further grow its assets under administration (already jumped from $1B to $15B in 12 months) and replace outdated spreadsheet-driven workflows in venture funds, hedge funds and others.

• Startup: Hanover Park

• Investors: Emergence Capital (lead), Lux Capital, Susa Ventures

• Amount Raised: $27M

• Total Raised: $27M

• Funding Stage: Series A

• Funding Date: March 19, 2026

Eclypsium Raises $25M in Funding to Secure AI Hardware and Firmware

Eclypsium, a Portland-based cybersecurity startup, raised $25 million (Series C extension) to expand its hardware and firmware security platform in the era of AI. Founded in 2017, Eclypsium scans the firmware of servers, laptops, network devices, and emerging AI infrastructure for vulnerabilities beneath the OS layer. The new round was led by PEAK6 Strategic Capital (with Ten Eleven Ventures and an unnamed bank), alongside previous backers Andreessen Horowitz, Madrona, and Qualcomm Ventures.

Eclypsium will use the capital to focus on security for AI data centers and edge devices (GPU servers, NVIDIA BlueField accelerators, SD-WAN, 5G hardware, etc.) as AI-specific attacks become more common. The funding boosts Eclypsium’s total to about $110 million, reflecting its role in protecting the physical infrastructure that increasingly underpins modern AI systems.

• Startup: Eclypsium

• Investors: PEAK6 Strategic Capital (lead), Ten Eleven Ventures; existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Madrona Venture Group, Qualcomm Ventures

• Amount Raised: $25M

• Total Raised: $110M

• Funding Stage: Series C (equity & debt extension)

• Funding Date: March 19, 2026

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