The Scramble at Sunrise
Your Monday VC Breakfast Rundown
Monday doesn’t ask for your best. It demands your real. The kind of real that starts with slippered feet on cold tile and the familiar soundtrack of a fridge door swinging open, cabinets rattling like snare drums, and someone shouting from upstairs, “Where’s my charger?”
This isn’t peace. It’s presence. The eggs don’t flip themselves, and the blender sounds like it’s chewing gravel, but there’s something sacred in the sequence. Dad scraping bacon onto a paper towel. Mom double-checking macros. The oldest scrolling headlines. The youngest insisting cereal counts as protein. It’s jazz with no conductor, messy, fast, perfectly timed.
And in that five-minute window between scrambled eggs and out-the-door, there’s momentum. Not the kind that trends on LinkedIn, the kind that scales. Because anyone who can survive a Monday morning kitchen with heart intact? They’re already building. Already moving. Already leading the week’s first jam session.
Let’s see who else is cooking:
PATH EX pulls in a $5M round (IAG Capital Partners, TMC Venture Fund, Fitz Gate Ventures). Dr. Sinead Miller and Alex Wieseler are fighting sepsis like it’s a war, because it is. PATH EX’s CycloPE® device removes 95%+ of bloodstream bacteria in a single pass using paramagnetic tech. Diagnostics and therapy in one hit. This is medtech with purpose, precision, and no margin for error.
Glide locks in a $15M Series A (Acrew Capital, Pear VC). Founders Gautam Ajjarapu and Vishnu Chakroborty, ex-Google, Stripe, AWS, are giving credit unions and community banks a digital arsenal. From account opening to lending, Glide’s AI-native fintech stack delivers enterprise-grade tools to Main Street. The revolution won’t be televised, it’ll be core-integrated.
Clarium raises $27M Series A (Northzone, General Catalyst, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, AlleyCorp, Texas Medical Center Ventures, 1984 Ventures). Steve Liou, ex-Citadel and Millennium, built Astra OS to fix a $25B mess. Real-time AI for hospital supply chains, $10M+ in savings, and disruption detection before your CMO knows it’s coming. Hospitals finally get a backend built to survive the storm.
Fusion Connect locks down an $85M NAV-based loan (Hark Capital). William Wignall, Brian McClintock, and Chris Updegraft are flipping legacy telecom into a cloud-native juggernaut. UCaaS, CCaaS, SD-WAN, and security, all on an Azure/AWS stack with a 99.999% SLA. 200K+ voice sessions, $358M revenue, and 18 hubs later, this is infrastructure with attitude.
Pulse Charter Connect lands $2M Seed (Ivy Ventures, Simplex Ventures, Cedars Sinai Health Ventures, Techstars, Belal Badat Ventures). Pilot-turned-founder Laura Epstein built a SaaS logistics engine that books organ transports in seconds, not hours. With CTO Chris Tyler (ex-IBM, AT&T), PCC has already saved 65 lives. IoT-enabled, HIPAA/FAA-tight, and built to beat the clock.
Redaptive secures a $650M credit facility (CDPQ, Nuveen). Founders John Rhow and Arvin Vohra are turning commercial real estate into a carbon-cutting machine. Their EaaS platform powers HVAC overhauls, solar + storage, and IoT orchestration across 200M+ square feet. $650M says this isn’t greenwashing, it’s a systems upgrade for the planet.
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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