Jedi Cuts & Bronx Swings

Your Tuesday VC Breakfast Rundown:

The lightsaber came out just after the tarp went down. A soggy Sunday in the Bronx didn’t stop 40,000 from pulling up, most not for the baseball, but for the bobble. Jedi Giancarlo, cloaked in brown robes and gripping a saber the way he used to grip 98-mph fastballs, stood frozen near the rail like he was waiting on a signal from Yoda. Plastic? Sure. But the energy? Very real.

This is what happens when brand power meets culture. When the Force collides with fanbases, and nostalgia cuts through drizzle like a clean single up the middle. And just like that, without warning, the crowd roared, not for the score, but for the swing. Because whether it’s the Bronx or your cap table, timing is everything. The startups below? They didn’t miss. Let’s get into it.

Windfall Data raised $65M Series B (Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital) to bury bad data once and for all. Arup Banerjee, Dan Stevens, and Cory Tucker built a platform that feeds CRMs and pipelines with predictive AI and real-time wealth signals, no stale spreadsheets, no second-guessing. They’re not selling contact lists. They’re selling clarity.

Atlas Data Storage launched out of stealth with a $155M seed (ARCH Venture Partners, Bezos Expeditions, In-Q-Tel) to etch humanity’s digital memory into synthetic DNA. CEO Varun Mehta and CTO Bill Banyai are fusing biology with hardware to store petabytes in molecules. This isn’t backup, it’s time travel for data.

HubSync locked in over $100M growth capital from Thoma Bravo to become the default OS for tax and accounting firms. John McGowan, Paul Madarasz, and Betsy Weissman aren’t pushing features, they’re rewriting workflows with a platform that’s already moving records for nearly half the top 25 U.S. firms. The spreadsheet never saw it coming.

ChurchSpace raised $1.2M (Black Ops Ventures, Dug Song, Michigan Rise) to activate America’s most overlooked real estate: empty churches. Day Edwards and Emmanuel Brown are turning sanctuaries into kitchens, logistics hubs, and venues, one leased pulpit at a time. Mission-driven. Margin-aware. Movement in motion.

Rainmaker Technology brought in $25M Series A (Lowercarbon Capital, Garry Tan, Naval Ravikant) to make it rain, literally. Founder Augustus Doricko and ops lead Harry Thomas are running cloud-seeding drones with mineral precision and a $50/hour burn rate. Forget praying for rain. They’re deploying it.

Anysphere detonated a $900M round (Thrive, a16z, Accel) at a $9B valuation to give devs the ultimate weapon: Cursor. Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, and Aman Sanger didn’t build a code editor, they built a co-pilot with an AI core that thinks in commits and executes in milliseconds. $200M ARR. 1M users. Zero brakes.

Let’s connect and keep the momentum going across the tech ecosystem. Whether you’re a founder shaping the future, a leader driving change, a VC backing bold ideas, or an investor spotting the next big thing, together, we’re pushing boundaries. Proud to be building the future with you.

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