VC
All Deals
April 18, 2025 - Deals
Spur Raises $4.5 Million In Seed Funding Led By First Round Capital
Spur, the AI startup co-founded by Sneha Sivakumar and Anushka Nijhawan, has raised $4.5 million in seed funding to revolutionize quality assurance testing. The round was led by First Round Capital, with participation from Pear VC, Neo, Conviction, Liquid2Ventures, Predictive Venture Partners, and Y Combinator. The team is also backed by a strong bench of angel investors including founders and executives from Figma, Dropbox, Zeus Living, and Rippling. Spur uses AI agents that simulate real user behavior to autonomously test product flows, replacing traditional manual and outsourced QA. Since launching out of Y Combinator’s Summer 2024 batch, Spur has seen rapid traction with high-growth, customer-centric teams like Wander, Norse Atlantic Airways, and Living Spaces. The company is positioning itself as essential infrastructure for modern software teams looking to ship faster with fewer bugs. This funding will accelerate Spur’s mission to modernize QA workflows, reduce engineering bottlenecks, and scale intelligent testing systems for the next generation of product-driven companies.
AMOUNT: $4,500,000
FOUNDERS: Sneha Sivakumar, Anushka Nijhawan
INVESTORS: First Round Capital, Pear VC, Neo, Conviction, Liquid2Ventures, Predictive Venture Partners, Y Combinator
#TradedVC #Spur #AI #QualityAssurance #FirstRoundCapital #PearVC #Neo #Conviction #Liquid2Ventures #PredictiveVenturePartners #YCombinator #DeveloperTools #StartupFunding #SeedRound
More Deals
View All
Scapia Raises $63 Million In Funding Round Led By General Catalyst With Peak XV Partners And Z47Scapia raised $63 million in a round led by General Catalyst, with participation from existing backers Peak XV Partners and Z47. The India-based travel-fintech company, founded and led by CEO Anil Goteti, plans to use the capital to accelerate its AI-first product roadmap, expand its customer base across the country, and strengthen its integrated travel and financial ecosystem spanning credit cards, payments, rewards, and travel services. The company said it is seeing strong traction across flights and stays as it builds toward a broader AI-native travel platform for a younger, travel-heavy consumer base in India.
FOUNDER: Anil Goteti
INVESTORS: General Catalyst, Peak XV Partners & Z47
AMOUNT: $63,000,000
HQ: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
#VentureCapital #Scapia #AnilGoteti #TradedVC
Convective Capital Raises $85 Million Fund For Climate And Disaster Resilience InvestmentsConvective Capital, the early-stage climate and resilience-focused venture fund led by Bill Clerico, has raised an $85 million fund, up from its $35 million 2022 debut. The new fund marks a shift from an initial “firetech” focus on wildfire detection and mitigation to a broader mandate around physical-world risk management and disaster resilience, backed increasingly by institutional investors including insurers and asset managers. Convective plans to continue investing in technologies spanning wildfire prevention, infrastructure monitoring, insurance innovation, and climate-adaptive systems as extreme weather and disaster-related losses accelerate globally.
FOUNDER: Bill Clerico
AMOUNT: $85,000,000
#VentureCapital #ConvectiveCapital #BillClerico#TradedVC
Advanced Micro Devices Commits Over $10 Billion To Taiwan Semiconductor Ecosystem For AI InfrastructureAdvanced Micro Devices said it will invest more than $10 billion across Taiwan’s semiconductor ecosystem in a sweeping push to scale advanced packaging and accelerate next-generation AI infrastructure deployment. The commitment, outlined in a May 21 release, deepens partnerships with firms including ASE and SPIL to develop wafer-based 2.5D “Elevated Fanout Bridge” interconnect technology for AMD’s upcoming 6th Gen EPYC CPUs codenamed “Venice,” while also marking a milestone with PTI on panel-based EFB interconnects aimed at improving efficiency and economics for AI systems. The investments support AMD’s Helios rack-scale platform, targeting multi-gigawatt deployments from 2H 2026 using Instinct MI450X GPUs and EPYC processors, as the company competes more directly with Nvidia in AI infrastructure. Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su said the strategy combines AMD’s high-performance computing with Taiwan’s ecosystem to enable integrated rack-scale AI systems for faster deployment of next-gen workloads.
FOUNDERS: Jerry Sanders, Edwin Turney, John Carey, Jack Gifford, Sven Simonsen, Frank Botte, Jim Giles & Larry Stenger
AMOUNT: $10,000,000,000
HQ: Santa Clara, California
#VentureCapital #AdvancedMicroDevices #JerrySanders #EdwinTurney #JohnCarey #JackGifford #SvenSimonsen #FrankBotte #JimGiles #LarryStenger #TradedVC
Socket Secures $60 Million In Series C Funding Led By Thrive Capital At $1 Billion ValuationSocket raised $60 million in a Series C round at a $1 billion valuation, officially becoming a unicorn as demand intensifies for tools that secure open-source software supply chains amid the rapid rise of AI-generated code. The round was led by Thrive Capital with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Abstract Ventures, and Capital One Ventures, bringing total funding to $125 million. Founder and CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh said the company’s platform detects malicious behavior in open-source dependencies in real time as AI now generates the majority of code in leading engineering teams.
FOUNDER: Feross Aboukhadijeh
INVESTORS: Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Abstract Ventures & Capital One Ventures
ROUND: Series C
AMOUNT: $60,000,000
VALUATION: $1,000,000,000
HQ: San Francisco, California
#VentureCapital #Socket #FerossAboukhadijeh #TradedVC
Subscribe to get the most important vc news and trends.