The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 9/29/25 – AlleyWatch

The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of the notable funding activity in the various markets that we track. The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 9/27/25 featuring funding details for Greptile, Genstore, Bastion, and seventeen other deals representing $1.7B in new funding that you need to know about.

Salt AI – $10.0M

Los Angeles-based Salt AI is a contextual AI company that offers a visual development platform for enterprise applications in life sciences and health tech. Founded by Aber Whitcomb and Jim Benedetto in 2023, Salt AI has now raised a total of $13.0M in total equity funding and is backed by CoreWeave, Marbruck, Morpheus Ventures, and Struck Capital.

Judi Health – $400.0M

New York-based Judi Health is a healthtech platform that provides pharmacy benefit management solutions. Founded by AJ Loiacono, Joseph Alexander, and Ryan Kelly in 2017, Judi Health has now raised a total of $653.0M in total equity funding and is backed by 9Yards Capital, B Capital, Edison Partners, General Catalyst, Generation Investment Management, Goldman Sachs, Prime Health Investments, Transformation Capital, and Wellington Management.

AmplifyMD – $20.0M

Los Gatos-based AmplifyMD is a telemedicine platform connecting medical institutions with specialist doctors. Founded by Anand Nathan and Meena Mallipeddi in 2018, AmplifyMD has now raised a total of $20.0M in total equity funding and is backed by F-Prime, Forerunner, Greylock, Memorial Hermann Health System, and Tau Ventures.

AppZen – $180.0M

San Jose-based AppZen is a technology company that provides an AI-driven finance platform to automate and improve financial operations. Founded by Anant Kale and Kunal Verma in 2012, AppZen has now raised a total of $280.6M in total equity funding and is backed by 500 Global, Bloomberg Beta, Coatue, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint, and Riverwood Capital.

Distyl AI – $175.0M

San Francisco-based Distyl AI specializes in providing artificial intelligence solutions tailored for large enterprises. Founded by Arjun Prakash and Derek Ho in 2022, Distyl AI has now raised a total of $202.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Coatue, Dell Technologies Capital, DST Global, Khosla Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Caregility – $25.1M

Eatontown-based Caregility is a clinical collaboration and communications company focused on enabling the shortest and fastest path of care for patients. Founded by Bin Guan, Pete McLain, and Ronald Gaboury in 2019, Caregility has now raised a total of $50.1M in total equity funding and is backed by Star Mountain Capital.

Thyme Care – $97.0M

Nashville-based Thyme Care is a healthcare company that provides oncology care management services. Founded by Bobby Green and Robin Shah in 2020, Thyme Care has now raised a total of $234.0M in total equity funding and is backed by AlleyCorp, Andreessen Horowitz, Concord Health Partners, CVS Health Ventures, Foresite Capital, Frist Cressey Ventures, Humana, Memorial Hermann Health System, Morgan Health, Texas Oncology Physicians Association, and Town Hall Ventures.

zerohash – $104.0M

Chicago-based zerohash makes it effortless to bring your business on-chain. Founded by Brian Liston and Edward Woodford in 2015, zerohash has now raised a total of $273.9M in total equity funding and is backed by Apollo, FTMO, IMC, Interactive Brokers Group, Jump Crypto, Liberty City Ventures, Morgan Stanley, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, Nyca Partners, Peak 6, SoFi, and tastytrade.

Burnt – $3.8M

San Francisco-based Burnt is a provider of a restaurant application platform that automates workflows stuck in legacy ERP systems. Founded by Chandru Shanmugasundaram, Joseph Jacob, and Rhea Karimpanal in 2022, Burnt has now raised a total of $4.3M in total equity funding and is backed by Dan Scheinman, Formation, Penny Jar Capital, Scribble Ventures, and Y Combinator.

Greptile – $25.0M

San Francisco-based Greptile is an AI code reviewer that automatically reviews pull requests with full codebase context. Founded by Daksh Gupta, Davis Liddell, Soohoon Choi, and Vaishant Kameswaran in 2023, Greptile has now raised a total of $30.4M in total equity funding and is backed by Benchmark, Cory Levy, Initialized Capital, and Y Combinator.

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Empower Semiconductor – $140.0M

Milpitas-based Empower Semiconductor is a technology company enabling the design of high efficiency, integrated voltage regulators in SoCs. Founded by David Lidsky, Gene Sheridan, and Tim Phillips in 2014, Empower Semiconductor has now raised a total of $215.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Atreides Management, CapitalG, Fidelity, Knollwood Investment Advisory, Maverick Silicon, Socratic Partners, and Walden Catalyst.

PredictAP – $5.0M

Boston-based PredictAP is a FinTech startup that automates AI-driven accounts payable and payment processing for large real estate investment companies. Founded by David Stifter, Russell Franks, and Trisha Koyanagi in 2020, PredictAP has now raised a total of $13.0M in total equity funding and is backed by RET Ventures and WISE Ventures.

Factory – $50.0M

San Francisco-based Factory provides AI software agents automating complex development tasks and workflows. Founded by Eno Reyes and Matan Grinberg in 2023, Factory has now raised a total of $70.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Aaron Levie, Abstract, Frank Slootman, JP Morgan, MANTIS Venture Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Nikesh Arora, NVIDIA, and Sequoia Capital.

Telo Trucks – $20.0M

San Carlos-based Telo Trucks manufactures cleverly designed, compact electric vehicle trucks for city dwellers and weekend adventurers. Founded by Forrest North, Jason Marks, and Yves Behar in 2022, Telo Trucks has now raised a total of $26.8M in total equity funding and is backed by E12 Ventures, Marc Benioff, Marc Tarpenning, MCJ, Neo, Nova Threshold, TO ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, and Yves Behar.

QuickCode ai – $1.4M

Mclean-based QuickCode.ai provides a software platform that helps solve this problem of getting the right kind of labeled training data. Founded by Gary King, Rebecca Fair, and Shannon Hynds in 2021, QuickCode ai has now raised a total of $4.5M in total equity funding and is backed by Buckhorn Capital Group.

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Filevine – $260.0M

Salt Lake City-based Filevine provides a legal operating platform integrating AI for case, document, and lead management. Founded by Jim Blake, Nathan Morris, and Ryan Anderson in 2014, Filevine has now raised a total of $636.1M in total equity funding and is backed by Accel, Album VC, Halo Experience Company, Insight Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Run Ventures, and StepStone Group.

Genstore – $10.0M

Westlake Village-based Genstore offers an AI chat platform for merchants to create and manage online stores with product setup and marketplace integration. Founded by Junwei Huang in 2025, Genstore has now raised a total of $10.0M in total equity funding and is backed by LIGHTHOUSE and Weimob.

Valence – $50.0M

New York-based Valence provides an AI coach for employee development and organizational performance. Founded by Levi Goertz and Parker Mitchell in 2017, Valence has now raised a total of $75.1M in total equity funding and is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners.

Inspiren – $100.0M

Brooklyn-based Inspiren uses AI to help senior living providers to monitor patient care, track interactions, and improve clinical workflow management. Founded by Michael Wang, Paul Coyne, and Vincent Cocito in 2016, Inspiren has now raised a total of $155M in total equity funding and is backed by Avenir, Insight Partners, Primary Venture Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Story Ventures, Studio VC, and Third Prime.

Bastion – $14.6M

Campbell-based Bastion blends the best of web2 and web3 technologies to broaden opportunities for organizations and their customers. Founded by Nassim Eddequiouaq and Riyaz Faizullabhoy in 2023, Bastion has now raised a total of $39.6M in total equity funding and is backed by a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Hashed, Samsung NEXT, and Sony Innovation Fund.