Approximately $304M in disclosed startup funding went to 23 companies with one or more verified female founder this week.

AI and AI-native software startups accounted for over half of the total funding.

Pulse Fund, led by Tenzin Seldon, closed its $63M climate debut fund.

Athletes on the Cap Table highlights the capital moves of Jessica Pegula, Lucy Bronze, Sophie Cunningham, and Sam Kerr.

Two former athletes—Meridith Cass & Jordan Angeli—appear in both Founder Raises and Athletes on the Cap Table.

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Funding rounds raised by companies with one or more women founders

No Mega Rounds tracked this week.

Kanin Energy (Janice Tran) raised $60M Series A to scale its industrial waste-heat-to-power projects, which convert excess factory and plant heat into electricity, led by S2G Investments and Canada Growth Fund.

TypeSafe AI (Sasha Sheng) emerged from stealth raising $40M Seed to build Jev, an AI model designed to produce structured, reliable outputs rather than conversational text, aimed at fixing AI's "overconfidence problem" when embedded in production software, led by DCVC.

Raindrop (Alexis Gauba) raised $35M Series A to grow its platform that monitors production AI agents for silent failures such as hallucinations and tool misuse, led by CRV.

dtcpay (Alice Liu) grew its Series A to $25M with a new SBI Group-backed extension, to expand its Singapore-based stablecoin payments platform that lets businesses accept, hold, and swap between fiat and stablecoins in real time for cross-border payments.

Altis Labs (Sally Daub) raised $25M Series A to accelerate its AI-powered software that predicts drug efficacy from clinical trial imaging data, co-led by OrbiMed and Qiming Venture Partners USA.

Veridion (Sorina Vlăsceanu) raised $20M Series A to expand its Romanian business-intelligence platform, which uses AI to build a continuously updated map of the global business landscape now covering 642M companies across 249 countries, led by Hoxton Ventures.

Kheops (Caroline Poinsignon) raised $17.2M to grow its platform that digitizes direct purchasing and ordering between retail stores and their suppliers.

BoomerangHR (Mallory Meiser) raised $12.7M Seed to grow its AI-native platform that automates employee offboarding and builds structured alumni networks for referrals and rehires, co-led by Kalos Ventures and Album Ventures.

Complir (Tine Kühnel) raised an oversubscribed $11M Seed to grow its Copenhagen-built AI platform that automates product-compliance work for retailers, led by General Catalyst. Kühnel is a Y Combinator Spring 2026 grad.

Nix Biosensors (🏆 Meridith Cass) raised $10M Series A to expand its sweat-sensing hydration wearable from athletes and the military into consumer health via a licensable algorithm, led by Shorewind Capital, Great Oaks Venture Capital, and White Road Investments.

MicroLub (Prof. Anwesha Sarkar) raised $10M to scale its water/protein-based microgel that replaces fat in food products without sacrificing taste or texture, led by Northern Gritstone.

Cura Climate (Erin Bobicki) raised $10M to scale its electrochemistry technology that decarbonizes cement manufacturing by electrifying the core chemical step, led by Zacua Ventures.

Metris Energy (Natasha Jones) raised $5M Seed to grow its AI-native platform that consolidates data from inverters, meters, SCADA, and billing systems to manage solar and renewable assets, led by PT1 Ventures.

VerifAIX (Madhulima Tewari) raised $5M Seed — its first institutional round — to scale its AI-native "verification trust layer" for chip-design teams across the US, India, and Israel, co-led by Endiya Partners and Bluehill VC.

OCTA (Nupur Mittal) raised $3.5M Seed to expand its AI accounting tools for firms from the Gulf into the US, led by Middle East Venture Partners.

Helios AI (Eden Canlilar) raised $3M from W23 Global and launched a Hunger Exposure Index for food-security risk, to grow its AI-powered price and supply forecasting for agricultural commodities.

Firi (Karishma Rathaur) raised $3M Seed to launch its AI-curated beauty quick-commerce marketplace in India, delivering in roughly nine minutes, led by 360 ONE Asset.

JustSolve (Alberta Trombetta) raised €3.7M Pre-Seed to grow its Milan-built agentic-AI infrastructure that automates debt collection and credit recovery across voice, WhatsApp, email, and postal channels, led by Base10 Partners.

Superpose Labs (Melody Chu) raised $2.2M Seed to build an AI app that coaches users on how to pose for better photos, led by Khosla Ventures.

Kickback Soccer Media (🏆 Jordan Angeli, Susannah Fuller) raised $1M Seed to grow their digital soccer media platform.

UCANACT (Julia Berezutskaya) raised €800K Pre-Seed to build a brain-computer interface for communication in people with severe motor impairments such as locked-in syndrome, led by LUMO Labs and Utrecht Holdings Seed Fund.

Covee (Rosaline Chow Koo) raised $750K Pre-Seed to launch an AI tool for insurance benefits brokers out of Singapore, backed by Built Different Ventures.

Ivyclip (Leonie Neisinger) raised €300K from investor Carsten Maschmeyer on Germany's "Die Höhle der Löwen" (Dragon's Den) for 10% equity, to bring her medical-grade thermoplastic hair clip into drugstore retail.

Ananya Health (Anu Parvatiyar) raised $100K from EHA Impact Ventures to advance its portable, battery-powered cryoablation device for cervical cancer prevention.

Robigo Bio (Dr. Andee Wallace) raised an undisclosed Series A to advance its engineered-microbial crop-protection biologicals, with its first product targeting Sudden Death Syndrome in soybeans ahead of a planned 2028 launch, led by Leaps by Bayer.

Pulse Fund (Tenzin Seldon) closed its debut fund at $63M to back early-stage climate companies across energy transition, infrastructure, food and agriculture, and mobility, with a thesis built around the convergence points between those sectors.

Athlete-backed capital moves that caught our attention this week

This section is contributed by Christie Lenox.

DASH Dog Food raised $1.5 million in seed funding. Top-ranked U.S. professional tennis player Jessica Pegula is an active investor. Voltage Ventures led the round.

Meridith Cass, former venture capitalist, 9-time marathon runner, and founder of Nix Biosensors closed a $10M Series A round. Also noted above. The round included equity backing from Boston Legacy FC.

England and Chelsea defender Lucy Bronze acquired an ownership stake in Foudys, the world's first e-commerce retail platform dedicated exclusively to official women's football merchandise.

Groov, a custom-insole footwear company, added Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham as an owner, collaborative partner, and brand ambassador.

MLV NorCal added four-time NBA champion Andre Iguodala to the investment group this week, alongside three-time Olympic gold medalist Kerri Walsh Jennings and two-time NBA champion Zaza Pachulia.

Fever, a live entertainment discovery and ticketing platform unicorn, raised a growth equity round of $250M+  that included Athletic Ventures which includes Sam Kerr and Pat Cummins as LPs.

SweatLabs, an infrared sauna company, added Atlanta Falcons OL Storm Norton as an athlete partner. 

Kickback Soccer Media, co-founded by former NWSL player Jordan Angeli and on-air host Susannah Fuller, has raised $1M Seed to grow their digital soccer media platform. MLS player Alejandro Bedoya was an investors in the round.

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