Where It All Starts

Your Sunday VC Breakfast Rundown

Before the pitch, before the product, before you even knew you were building, there was someone setting the table. Not for applause. Not for equity. Just so you’d have a place to return when the world cracked open.

Mother’s Day isn’t soft. It’s seismic. The original blueprint beneath every moonshot, carved from chaos, care, and relentless instinct. While startups chase firsts, first to market, first to raise, mothers were already living it. First to believe. First to sacrifice. First to scale, bootstrapped on love and sleep deprivation.

So today, as you build, launch, lead, know this: before ambition had a name, it had a heartbeat pressed to hers. She didn’t just set the table. She started it all.

And these founders? They’re carrying that blueprint forward, with capital, conviction, and the kind of clarity you only get from knowing what’s worth fighting for. Let’s get into it.

CodeAnt AI drops a $2M Seed (Y Combinator, Uncorrelated Ventures, VitalStage, DeVC). Founders Amartya Jha and Chinmay Bharti are ex-Zeta and ShareChat engineers flipping the script on app security. Their AI-powered platform reviews 50M+ lines daily, autoguts 500K bugs, and saves devs 100,000+ hours a day. Code quality, now at machine scale.

mPower Technology raises $21M+ Series B (Razor’s Edge, Shield Capital). CEO Kevin Hell and CTO Dr. Murat Okandan are fueling the future of orbit with DragonSCALES, ultraflexible solar arrays that survive radiation, shade, and space chaos. Backed by Blue Origin, Airbus, and Firefly, this isn’t a solar play, it’s aerospace infrastructure.

Impact Analytics secures an undisclosed Series D (Blue Cloud Ventures, Sageview, Vistara Growth). Founder Prashant Agrawal and CTO Tamal Chowdhury built an AI-native platform that powers pricing, merchandising, and supply chains for retail giants. With $93M revenue, 655 people, and a 92% retention rate, this is decision intelligence, weaponized.

Amilia scores $35M in growth capital (Vertu Capital, EDC, CBGF, Investissement Québec). Founder François Gaouette and CEO Hugo Lachance are turning chaos into clarity for rec centers, YMCAs, and nonprofits. With SmartRec™, they’re powering $1B+ in transactions across 6,600+ sites, and doing it while staff are off the clock.

Kouper comes out of stealth with $10M (General Catalyst, 25Madison, CVS Health Ventures). Founders Salman Ali, Ablimit Keskin, and Theodore Lee are fixing the post-discharge black hole. With AI that follows up, schedules rides, and boosts care continuity by 60%+, Kouper makes sure recovery isn’t an afterthought.

Una Software lands $4.4M Seed (Staircase Ventures, Emerald Development), stacking to $10M total. Built by Clayton Ramnarine and Don Mal (ex-Vena, Clarity Systems), Una is an AI-powered FP&A engine that rewrites forecasts on the fly and turns finance from reactive to real-time. Adaptability meets accountability, finally.

Jozu raises $4M Seed (HalfCourt Capital, Mozilla Ventures, AlleyCorp, Union Bay). Led by Brad Micklea and Zachary Harding, Jozu is building enterprise-grade AI orchestration. Their open-source KitOps already powers secure, compliant AI deployment across regulated industries. When LLMs get real, Jozu’s the control tower.

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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