$372.5M for Biotech, $200M for Batteries & More Funding Rounds! 🚀

Issue #21 • July 29, 2025

Hey SeedRadar Squad! This week's innovation scene reveals significant capital infusions and groundbreaking advancements from visionary tech startups. MapLight Therapeutics secured substantial funding to advance novel treatments for challenging CNS disorders. Simultaneously, Lyten raised significant capital for a strategic acquisition, bolstering its control over the battery value chain for advanced materials.

Alongside these major announcements, Exodigo announced an oversubscribed funding round for its non-intrusive mapping technology, and Startup Central launched a new manufacturing hub to scale hardware innovations, and more.

📈 Important News of the Week!

Funding News

MapLight Therapeutics Announced a $372.5 million Series D financing round. The funding will advance its portfolio of novel treatments for challenging central nervous system disorders like schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease psychosis.  - Read More

Lyten raised $200 million from existing investors to fund its acquisition of assets from bankrupt manufacturer Northvolt AB. The deal includes intellectual property and a Polish manufacturing plant, enabling Lyten to move downstream and control more of the battery value chain.  - Read More

Exodigo announced an oversubscribed $96 million Series B round. The capital will fuel the expansion of its non-intrusive mapping technology, which helps prevent costly and dangerous utility strikes in major construction and infrastructure projects.  - Read More

Startup Central announced the soft launch of its Tempe, Arizona, manufacturing hub, designed to help hardware startups scale from prototype to production. The accelerator also revealed a strategic partnership with post-quantum cryptography firm IdentiKey to safeguard its infrastructure and the systems of its defense-tech spinout, DCO.  - Read More

💰 Hot Funding Rounds You Missed!


Positron AI ($51.6M) -A company developing American-made semiconductors and inference hardware as a purpose-built, cost-effective alternative to GPUs for AI workloads.  - Read More

BlinkOps ($50M) -A no-code security automation platform that allows teams to build and deploy custom "micro-agents" to automate cybersecurity workflows and incident response.  - Read More

Centivax ($45M) -A biotech startup developing an mRNA candidate for what could be the world's first universal flu vaccine, with technology applicable to other highly variable pathogens.  - Read More

E2B ($21M) -A provider of open-source cloud infrastructure for AI agents, offering secure, sandboxed environments for agents to complete complex tasks. - Read More  - Read More

🌱 The Next Big Thing: Our Startup Pick!

🎯 This Week's Emerging Star: Sphinx Labs

Sphinx Labs is a new startup that's making some serious noise in the FinTech and AI space. Backed by the prestigious accelerator Y Combinator, they are definitely one to watch.

So what's their big idea? Sphinx Labs builds AI agents to eliminate the massive bottlenecks in financial compliance, specifically with Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) checks. We aren't talking about simple identity verification. Their technology is designed to conduct deep, complex investigations in real-time, like scanning global news, untangling complicated corporate ownership structures, and screening against hundreds of international sanctions lists to provide clear, explainable onboarding decisions.  

Anyone in the financial industry knows the pain of slow, manual compliance processes that can frustrate customers and expose businesses to risk. That's exactly what Sphinx Labs is trying to fix. They are betting that AI can be so effective at this deep research that it transforms compliance from a costly bottleneck into a streamlined, intelligent defense. It is a bold goal to make regulatory compliance fast, automated, and genuinely insightful, and that makes Sphinx Labs a company worth watching very closely.

🚀 Startup Radar: Movers, Shakers & Future Makers

Seed Radar - Startups
🛰️ Armada
#EdgeComputing

Full-stack edge infrastructure company delivering compute, storage, and AI capabilities.

$131M Series A  Read More

🛡️ Fable Sec.
#Cybersecurity

Risk management platform that uses AI and behavioral science to reduce risky actions.

$24.5M Series A  Read More

🛰️ Cascade S.
#SpaceTech

Platform for end-to-end space communication system design, and operation.

$5.9M Seed  Read More

🛡️ Root
#Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity startup championing evidence-based security to distill digital risk.

$12.5M Seed  Read More

📸 Cambridge T.
#DeepTech

Developed security devices that use terahertz sensors and AI to detect hidden weapons and contraband.

$12M Seed   Read More

🏨 TakeUp
#HospitalityTech

An AI-powered revenue optimization platform for independent hotels, inns, and glamping properties.

$11M Series A  Read More

🚢 Spear AI
#DefenseTech

Builds autonomous labs that leverage AI and machine learning to accelerate materials research and development.

$2.3M Seed  Read More

📈 Hall
#Martech

A marketing startup building infrastructure for businesses to manage presence in AI chatbots.

$2M Pre-Seed  Read More

🛠️ Trending AI Tools to Supercharge Your Workflow!

Tools List Newsletter

🛡️ Dropzone AI

AI SOC analyst that triages security alerts to reduce intervention.

🩺 Charta

Platform that automates the pre-bill review of medical charts.

📈 Lightyear

Investment platform for retail investors that launched a new suite of AI tools.

📊 Julius AI

An AI data analyst tool that connects to databases and creates analyses.

🛡️ Tonic Sec.

AI platform that contextualizes data from disparate security tools.

📣 Rocksalt

AI marketing platform that helps B2B executives build credibility.

💼 Join the Revolution: Hot Startup Jobs!

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Ante Labs
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💼 Resource of the Week: Investor’s list!

💰 LeadLoft's Curated List of Most Active AI Investors

A comprehensive and up-to-date list of the top VC firms actively funding AI startups in 2025. The list details each firm's investment stage (from Seed to Growth) and highlights notable AI investments (e.g., a16z's investment in OpenAI, Sequoia's in DeepMind), providing critical intelligence for targeted fundraising outreach.

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