The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 9/15/25

"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 9/13/25 featuring funding details forAven, Apex, and thirteen other deals representing $3.3B in new funding that you need to know about."

"San Francisco-based Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture. Founded by Ali Ghodsi, Andy Konwinski, Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, Patrick Wendell, and Reynold Xin in 2013, Databricks has now raised a total of $16.6B in total equity funding and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Insight Partners, MGX, Thrive Capital, and WCM Investment Management."

"Aven - $110.0M San Francisco-based Aven's mission is to provide the lowest cost, most convenient, and most transparent access to capital. Founded by Almaz Nanjappa, Jeremy Solomon, Murtada Shah, and Sadi Khan in 2019, Aven has now raised a total of $252.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Caffeinated Capital, Electric Capital, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, GIC, and Khosla Ventures."

The week ending 9/13/25 recorded thirteen notable startup funding rounds totaling $3.3B in new capital. Databricks led with a $1.0B raise; the San Francisco-based lakehouse platform has raised $16.6B in total equity. Aven raised $110.0M to expand low-cost, transparent access to capital, reaching $252.0M in total equity. CuspAI secured $100.0M for AI-driven materials discovery, bringing total equity to $130.0M. Goodpath raised $18.0M for virtual whole-person chronic care, bringing total equity to $30.5M. Investors included Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, Healthy Ventures, and MassMutual Ventures.

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