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Until Labs $58M, Avenzo $60M, Quo $105M, AmplifyMD $20M — plus Unit 221B’s $5M cyber raise, Kalshi lands in South Park, and fresh roles at Beagle, Polari Labs + Impression Ventures!
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Laura Deming, Co-Founder & CEO of Until Labs, a biotech company developing organ cryopreservation technology to extend transplant viability, raised $58M in Series A funding led by Founders Fund.
Athena Countouriotis, Co-Founder & CEO of Avenzo Therapeutics, a biotech company developing next-generation oncology therapies, raised $60M in Series B funding led by OrbiMed and SR One.
Daryna Kulya, Co-Founder & COO of Quo (formerly OpenPhone), a business phone platform for small and growing businesses, raised $105M in growth financing led by General Catalyst.
Meena Mallipeddi, Co-Founder & CEO of AmplifyMD, an AI-enabled virtual care platform for health systems, raised $20M in Series B funding led by Forerunner Ventures.
Hala Sarkis, Co-Founder & CEO of Epic Padel, an operator of padel clubs, raised $10M in seed funding led by NowaisWorld and Stryde Ventures.
Rebekka Mikkola, Co-Founder & CEO of Trismik, a Cambridge University spin-out building an LLM evaluation platform for AI scientists and engineers, raised £2.2M in pre-seed funding led by Twinpath Ventures.
Divya Aathresh, Founder & CEO of MaxHome.AI, an AI-native platform automating real estate transactions, raised $5M in seed funding led by Fika Ventures.
Agata Krawiec-Rokita, Co-Founder & CEO of sun.store, Europe’s largest B2B marketplace for solar and storage components, raised €6M in seed funding led by Contrarian Ventures, Market One Capital, and Movens Capital.
Eden Canillar, Co-Founder & CTO of Helios, an AI platform delivering forecasts on prices, climate risk, and supply chain disruptions, raised $4.7M in seed funding led by Collide Capital.
May Chen-Contino, CEO of Unit 221B, a cybersecurity company tracking and disrupting global hacking groups, raised $5M in seed funding led by J2 Ventures.
🌐 Top AI orgs are running Campus Ambassador Programs (Anthropic, Perplexity, OpenAI, Simplify) where students can lead clubs, host events, promote tools, and earn rewards.
🚀 Beagle (YC24), the first AI insurance startup, is scaling fast and hiring a Go-To-Market Associate (BDR/SDR) and a Partnership Executive (AE) to help transform the insurance industry.
🎓 Dayli is opening applications for its invite-only High School Fellowship, giving ambitious students hands-on startup growth + social media experience, mentorship, and a community of student founders from top colleges.
🔥 Polari Labs is hiring a Founder Associate in London to support fundraising, ops, HR, and marketing as they build a bold new science-backed sexual health brand preparing for launch.
🧠 Impression Ventures is hiring an AI Venture Analyst in Toronto to evaluate cutting-edge startups, track industry trends, and help shape the future of fintech.
🔥 Khosla Ventures is creating a brand-new role for a technical polymath who thrives in hackathon-style environments, loves traveling nonstop, and can hold their own in conversations with engineers — an intense, personality-driven hire to work closely with the KV team.
💸 Forum Ventures’ Olivia O’Sullivan is backing 3 founders in October (no warm intros required) with $50K–$200K checks plus a spot in their pre-seed accelerator.
🚀 A founder whose previous venture was acquired by Revolut is hiring a Founder’s Associate (flexible location) to analyze data, speak with customers, and tackle product, research, and strategy challenges for a new AI venture.
🌟 Sondra Y. curated a list of 8 remote early-career roles across sales, marketing, ops, and HR (entry-level to 2+ years experience).
💜 Aimee Says is offering AI-powered support for founders and creatives navigating life during or after a controlling relationship, while also seeking partnerships in tech, advocacy, and philanthropy to scale survivor-led justice. Use code: HerHustle.
💁♀️ Teli matches and introduces young talent to founders at top early-stage startups & SMBs. Apply to join our talent pool!
Immigration lawyer Sophie Alcorn breaks down the new $100K H-1B fee in conversation with Menlo Ventures’ Deedy Das, clarifying what it means for renewals, transfers, F-1 OPT applicants, and families.
Tian Shi (Industry Ventures) crowdsourced 18 must-attend events for SF Tech Week, including female founder brunches, AI mixers, happy hours, and even a founders + investors yacht outing.
Cloudflare announced plans to hire 1,111 interns in 2026 — a nod to its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver — aiming to give students hands-on experience and mentorship at scale.
Faith Edmonstone (Co-Founder of Kwenched) shared that she’s been running her startup while working as a self-employed nail tech and reminded founders that it’s totally okay to work another job to cover expenses while staying fully committed to building your company.
A co-founder of Juicebox, which announced a $30M Series A from Sequoia this week, noted that after interviewing 50+ AE candidates (many stumbling on product demos or needing extra walkthroughs), the standouts are those who grasp the flow instantly, understand buyer priorities, and handle tough objections. New AE Celina Chen did just that.
Oura’s valuation doubled from $5B to $11B in a year, shipping 5.5M+ devices and cementing itself as the smart ring category leader, now battling giants like Apple and Samsung while positioning as a daily health OS.
🚀 A new “Forward Deployed Angels” list spotlights early backers like Lisa Kleinsorge (Puzzle), Lisa Yu (99VC), and Jean Yang (Postman).
📺 Kalshi, the prediction markets platform co-founded by Luana Lopes Lara, was featured in a South Park episode, with the show satirically portraying its app as part of a broader cultural moment for prediction markets.
September 26 | 🤖 Abaka AI x 2077AI @Harvard: Happy Hour (Boston)
September 29 | 🍂 VC Gals Get Cozy! (Toronto)
September 29 | 📊 NYC B2B: Pre-Seed + Seed Founders & Investors Meetup (NYC)
September 30 | ✨ The New Founder Playbook: Redefining Success for Women (London)
October 1 | 🤝 Boston Founders & Funders Mixer (Boston)
October 6-12 | SF Tech Week (SF)
Tons of great events, including Women’s Health Happy Hour by H*QUOTIENT, Beyond the Algorithm: Leading Women in AI, Egg Freezing, IVF, and Surrogacy for Women in Tech, and so much more!
November 8 | 📣 Women’s Health Summit @ Harvard Business School (Boston)
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