April 2025 turned out to be a full month for the global startup community.
On the one hand, data from economic times suggest that transactions have dropped. Startups in early and late stage collected funds in 104 contract, in comparison with 116 in the last period. This dropped by 12% from 2023.
Other data suggest that the global financing of the project lasts largely flat yr on yr, after the latest sum of 2025 April 2025. $ 23 billion in full global financing of Venture.
This happens despite the record month in March, largely driven by the largest private financial agreement for Opennai for $ 40 billion.
While the interest in artificial intelligence didn’t show any signs of slowdown in the near future, it was combined with the growing fears of the trace of the AI environment, because of its requirements on the power grid and water needed Keep data measures. This was followed by Altman herself, who emphasized this saying “please” and “thank you” during interaction with AI, in total adds up Millions of costs.
Despite this, the report published this month from the International Monetary Fund showed that economic profits exceed the costs of growing carbon dioxide emissions, increasing global production by about 0.5% per yr in 2025–2030.
April also recorded interest in the code generated by AI at a rapid pace. The General Director of Microsoft made it available 30% of the company’s code It is already made of AI during Fireside chat.
Despite the everlasting noise around artificial intelligence, many industries gain on the ground, doubling cases of use.
Telehealth has exploded over the past few years, accelerated with pandemic with air-con and many of us do not need to do something personal that we are able to do on the device.
Meanwhile, the world of health of pets technology has exploded along with the indicators of pets of pets, managed by organizations such as Leap Venture Studio. When the growth of latest owners looks at the care of pets in a different way than their predecessors, this is expected grow From $ 380 billion to over $ 500 billion to 2030, because the owners try to enhance the health and well -being of their pets for a longer, more comfortable life.
As in the case of important healthcare, Telehealth takes place here, as might be seen in the case of a startup from California Airvet. This month, the company collected the B-2 series value $ 11 million Highlandx.
Thanks to this, let’s look at some of the popular Startup stories from April in more detail.
USC Marshall/Greif Incubator goes forward with events and competitions
The USC incubator, led by Paul Orlando, shared congratulations on the amazing work of the Bachelor’s Team, which won VCIC West and tied in fourth place around the world during the Venture Capital Investment Competition in 2025.
For the first time, students could participate in the competition, but they hit their weight and collective years of experience. The startup incubator gave a special scream for Carson Davis, Akshay MANGLANI, Henry Miller, Wednesday SATTERLEE, Vedant Kapoor and Debra Erdenenadakh for their exertions and grain.
The USC incubator was also the host of the mentor session in April, in which experts and founders from recognized global startups shared their experiences with the current Kohort.
Global Think Tank Horasis to host the climate -oriented panel São PaoloBrazil
With the increase in the relationship between technology and climate change, Horasis decided to manage with the elephant in the room.
Latin American and international enterprises in Greentech space are to shine when the global meeting of Horasis is managed by São Paolo in Brazil. Horasis is an independent, global Think Tank, which supports innovation in a way that advantages social and economic purposes.
In April, it was announced that he would organize a latest session in Brazil to tell apart climate technologies that may speed up the transition to green tools and technology. This is to incorporate industries based on AI revolutionizing performance and communication; Solutions based on the nature of ecology and economy brosting; and elastic building societies of sustainable infrastructure.
Eric Aguilar, co -founder and general director of Omnitron Sensors, USA, are already confirmed; Laura Mello de Andrea Constantini, partner, Astella Investimentos, Brazil; Martin Dimitrov Emba, general director, Wealthlock, Bulgaria with more.
General Director of Leadsales Aifs Tips on financing the founders
By maintaining the regional concentration of Latin America, Crunchbase News appeared specific advice For the founders with its registered office in the area. Roberto Peñacastro, CEO LeadsalesHe runs an revolutionary startup focused on providing a specialized CRM for WhatsApp and social media.
In the article presented, he shared a wide review of the current VC landscape in the region, the key barriers to financing before which startups are facing here and the strength of strategic partnerships.
AI startup The gift is greeted by the executive director of Biopharma Janet Dorling on board
The gift has an ambitious road map supporting organizational performance, using artificial intelligence to challenges arising from bad business communication.
The AI platform for business presentations announced that Janet Dorling, senior vice chairman of Gilead Sciences, joined the board. Gilead Sciences is a global biofarmaceutical company that develops revolutionary methods of treating serious diseases.
This means a step forward for the company and its ability to handle the biofarmaceutical industry with adapted solutions.
Aestro AI startup starts to remodel the debt recovery process
Aestro Ai is an agency service because the programming company recently appeared on the market after launching at Emerge Americas, the most significant technology conference that took place in Miami.
The AI-Starup platform allows fintech and social banking to intelligent, automated and profitable solution to recuperate the debt in the last mile to unravel the growing challenge of debt to recuperate.
During ongoing economic turbulence in all markets, the risk of soothing is crucial for almost all the time the sector. However, in particular fintechs and financial institutions are under unjustified pressure resulting from threatened loans, which negatively affect their balance and increase the cost of capital. Aestro Ai wants to establish as a solution to this challenge for fintechs and banks in America.
SQREAM GPU SQREM calls a latest CEO to AI factories
As the demand for artificial intelligence increases, more efficient ways to handle data and extracting insights will likely be crucial.
SQREAM, a leader in the processing of large data sets, announced his ambitious plans to turn into the best factor taking into account AI Factory, in which enterprises transform mass data into insight driven by AI.
This involves the appointment of a latest CEO, Liam Galinwhich is able to manage this latest era because of his experience in running public corporations.
Startups bring children in English in Latin America
According to UNESCO44 million additional teachers will likely be needed worldwide by 2030. In particular, 3 million teachers will likely be required in Latin America. With fewer teachers, overcrowded classes come, which implies that topics that require one on one, such as language learning, even tougher.
Buddy.AI has a mission of democratization of access to English tuition fees in Latin America as the first in the world AI teacher designed especially for children, in interview with the founder Ivan Crewkov.
The founder of the Skyst Shagun Malhotra describes the power of automatic financial control for enterprises in detail
The critical role of CFO in 2025 was emphasized by Novobrief in an article examining financial changes in organizations.
Here, Shagun Malhotra, founder and general director of Skysta, talked about the advantages of automatic accounting controls, which support financial reports, reports from family members, processes, audit processes and others to avoid headaches from poorly managed manual systems and manual financial processes.
Y Combinator Startup Deepsource releases autonomous AI agents
Because the code generated by AI becomes more visible in each important software suppliers and latest startups, Devsecops teams are fighting to keep up the security of applications and errors in these huge amounts of code.
DeepsourceThe Unified Devsecops platform based in San Francisco to secure code, announced in April, launching three fully autonomous AI agents to save lots of programmers’ working hours by scanning and repairing gaps in code security.
According to the organization’s statement, latest AI agents observe key events, use reasoning to optimize their safety goals and autonomous motion to make sure the safety of code databases.
Extending large data sets enterprises
Because the technology sector is still growing in Latin America, in particular Ecuador is expected that its digital economy will grow 18% per yr in welcome news.
Big Data and ML Enterprise Source Meridian is a long company at the forefront of changes in the region, and offices in the USA and Colombia are often at the top of lists of the best corporations to work in the Americas. In April, the company announced the opening of a latest office in Ecuador, where it hopes to extend the technology scene of the country.