VC Breakfast Rundown - April 8, 2025

Breakfast hits different in Mexico City. Sun on your face, chilaquiles on the plate, and a hot streak of startups serving more fire than your favorite roadside taquería. Today’s not just another Tuesday; it’s a 5-course meal of innovation, full of bold moves and bigger checks. The capital’s cooking and the tech is toasting. Let’s dig in.

Turbine Finance raised a $13M Series A (Alpha Edison, TTV Capital, Fin Capital, B Capital , Sozo Ventures) and secured a $100M debt facility from SVB. Founder Mike Hurst is turning private market liquidity into a high-speed product. AI/ML underwriting, GP/LP borrowing, and a real $13T addressable market.

Ethic secured $64M Series D (State Street Global Advisors, Oak HC/FT, Nyca Partners, UBS, Jordan Park Group, Fidelity Investments). Doug Scott, Johny Mair, and Jay Lipman are building Spotify-level personalization for institutional portfolios. $6B AUM, tax-optimized, values-aligned, and ESG native from day one.

AppWork closed a $13M Series A (Resolve Growth Partners). Sean Landsberg, CAM, Amichai Strasberg, and Josef Gitlin are modernizing multifamily maintenance with mobile-first software built from the boiler room up. Work orders automated, compliance locked in, and NMHC50 operators going all-in.

SandboxAQ locked in $450M Series E (Ray Dalio, Google, NVIDIA, T. Rowe Price, Eric Schmidt). Founder Jack Hidary is scaling quantum AI like it’s AWS for defense, pharma, and encrypted ops. AQNav, LQMs, and a $5.75B valuation mean the future’s not next, it’s now.

Metopio raised growth capital from Plymouth Growth to expand its Health Atlas platform. Will Snyder, Angela Grover, and Jonathan Giuffrida built a no-code engine powering public health for 475+ orgs. AI-powered CHNA, 87% reduction in reporting time, and serious SDOH firepower.

Composio raised $24M Series A (Lightspeed India, Elevation Capital, Together Fund). Soham Ganatra (Hiring) and Karan Vaidya are building the switchboard for AI agents. 12,000+ devs, 250 integrations, SOC2-compliant, and AI orchestration that actually works.

Cargado landed $12M Series A (LGVP (Itai Tsiddon/Nicholas Ellenoff, Conversion Capital, Assembly Ventures, Ironspring Ventures). Matt Silver and Rylan Hawkins built a freight intelligence layer for the $779B U.S.-Mexico corridor. 650 carriers, 200 enterprise shippers, and real traction across 44K trucks.

Rescale raised $115M Series D (Applied Ventures, NVIDIA, Hitachi Ventures, NEC Corporation, Foxconn). Joris Poort and Adam McKenzie are powering hybrid cloud HPC for aerospace, life sciences, and digital R&D. FedRAMP, 1,200 integrations, and CAE on NVIDIA Blackwell. Say goodbye to simulation lag.

Materna Medical closed $20M Series B2 (InnovaHealth Partners, LP, Wavemaker Impact, WomensVCFund II). CEO Tracy MacNeal is rewriting the pelvic health playbook with FDA-cleared tech for vaginismus labor trauma. 20 hospitals in the EASE trial and sales already live.

Embr Labs raised $73.8M to make hashtag#thermalwearables that actually work. Sam Shames and Elizabeth Gazda built the Embr Wave for temperature-driven wellness. 150K+ users, FDA-registered, and a market spanning menopause to athletic recovery.

Let’s 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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