Several tech startups — Blank Metal, Arine, Pangram, Quinn, CubeNexus, among others, have announced their venture capital funding to bolster innovation and business growth.
Blank Metal Raises $3 mn
Blank Metal, an AI-native engineering company, raised $3 million in seed funding led by Value Creation Capital, with participation from Secfund, Kadmos Capital, and angel investor Cees Links. Co-founded and led by CEO Patrick Moreu, the company offers secure, offline data transfer using optical encoding via common hardware like laptops and smartphones. The strategy is to deploy its software-based data diode across defense, government, and civilian sectors. The investment will support international scaling, technology refinement, and customer acquisitions. The platform enables unidirectional, wireless-free file exchange essential for mission-critical environments. Benefits include enhanced data security, faster transfers, and broad applicability across use cases.
Arine Raises $30 mn
Arine, a San Francisco–based AI medication optimization platform founded and co-led by CEO Yoona Kim and CTO Penjit Boom Moorhead, raised $30 million in a Series C round led by Town Hall Ventures, with participation from Kaiser Permanente Ventures. The funding will support platform expansion, AI model integration, and partnerships. Arine’s technology aggregates clinical, social, and behavioral data to guide personalized medication interventions, enabling clinicians to reduce hospitalizations (>40%) and deliver >6:1 ROI for health plans. The platform targets payers and providers seeking value-based care, offering real-time insights, reduced costs, improved outcomes, and enhanced clinical efficiency.
Pangram Secures $4 mn
Pangram, founded by Stanford AI graduates Max Spero and Bradley Emi, raised $4 million in a seed round led by Haystack Management and ScOp Venture Capital to advance its AI detection platform. The strategy focuses on expanding its highly accurate AI-generated text detector, which delivers over 99 percent accuracy and 1 in 10,000 false positives. Funding will support product development, AI model benchmarking, and integrations across education, publishing, and compliance sectors. The technology uses transformer-based models and hard negative mining to detect AI-written content from leading LLMs. Customers include educators, publishers, and safety teams requiring reliable verification tools. Benefits include minimized false positives, robust AI detection, and enhanced content trust.
Quinn Raises $11 mn
Quinn, a fintech AI startup, raised $11 million in a Seed round led by Viola Fintech with existing backers. The company offers an AI-driven financial planning and advice platform. The strategy focuses on scaling personalized wealth advisory beyond traditional advisor-to-client limits. The investment will support product development, team expansion, and commercial partnerships. Technology leverages advanced AI to deliver customized financial advice on a scale. The customer focus includes financial institutions aiming to expand advisory reach. Innovation lies in automated, high-quality advice distribution. Benefits include scalable wealth planning and broader access to financial guidance.
CubeNexus Raises $650,000
CubeNexus, a Tulsa-based spatial data intelligence startup, raised $650,000 in a pre-seed round led by 46 VC, with participation from TitletownTech. Co-founded by CEO Steven Brandt and CTO Adam Gobbo, the company’s Decision Intelligence Suite structures complex 4D sensor data for AI and autonomous systems. The platform unifies real-time and historical spatial data surface, subsurface, aerial into digital twins that enable advanced querying through LLMs. The strategy focuses on accelerating product development, technical team growth, and industry adoption in energy, aviation, and defense. Customers benefit from GPS-independent navigation and richer situational awareness. Innovation lies in its substrate for reliable, deterministic AI spatial interactions.
