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April 18, 2025 - Deals

Spur Raises $4.5 Million In Seed Funding Led By First Round Capital

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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

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Puppy Sphere Secures Seed Round Of $24 Million From Strategic Investors Including The School Of Hard KnocksPuppy Sphere (@ThePuppySphere), a New York-based wellness brand centered on the human-animal bond, has raised a Seed round from a group of strategic investors including The School of Hard Knocks, Tobi Oluwole, Jake Fleshner, Torch Collective, former Massage Envy CEO David Humphrey, and other founders and operators. Founded by Francesca Albo and Lea Burbidge Izquierdo, Puppy Sphere has scaled its puppy yoga concept into a broader experiential wellness platform with 13 studios, corporate wellness programs, brand partnerships, and live activations, serving more than 450,000 customers and partnering with companies including Google, Amazon, Netflix, TikTok, and the NBA. FUN FACT: Puppy Sphere was born from two Canadian founders’ own mental health journeys and has since grown into 13 studios across North America, $14M+ in cumulative revenue, and 450,000+ customers, all without outside capital. Along the way, the brand has welcomed names like Sabrina Carpenter, Simu Liu, Trevor Noah and Alessia Cara, while building a broader wellness platform around the gentle power of puppy therapy. Now Puppy Sphere is opening its cap table for the first time through a strategic angel round, bringing together leaders across media, consumer growth and wellness, including The School of Hard Knocks, former Massage Envy CEO David Humphrey, growth entrepreneur Tobi Oluwole, and Nucleus Network co-founder Jake Fleshner, alongside a broader group of strategic founders and operators. The vision: bring the gentle power of puppy therapy across the globe. FOUNDERS: Francesca Albo (@FrancescaaAlbo), Lea Burbidge Izquierdo (@LeaburbIz) INVESTORS: The School of Hard Knocks (@TheSchoolofHardKnockz), Tobi Oluwole (@TheTobiOluwole), Jake Fleshner (@JakeFleshner) Torch Collective, Heather Stark, Will Bodewes, Craig Zingerline & more ROUND: Seed VALUATION CAP: $24,000,000 HQ: New York, New York #VentureCapital #PuppySphere #TradedPartner #FrancescaAlbo #TradedVC