While the start -ups of AI still get the lion’s a part of financing the project, this month most startups that caught our attention didn’t focus on artificial intelligence. They include start -up by creating a more environmentally friendly fertilizer, a mental health platform for recent and expectant moms and a company dealing with medical devices, which goals to create a better insulin patch for people living with diabetes. Let’s look.
USD 85 million for a cooler insulin patch
One of the corporations that caught our attention this month VicentraDutch startup with an insulin pump designed to look and feel a more fashionable technological gadget than a medical device. The company based in the Netherlands raised $ 85 million in financing the D series at the starting of September.
His round comes when diabetes is becoming more and more common throughout the world and the insulin pump market achieve over $ 14 billion by 2034. From this pump of patches-alien, tubeless devices that adhere on to the skin and provide insulin constantly without the need for external pipes-represents the fastest growing market segment.
Vicentra does KaleidA small, elegant, waterproof insulin pump that comes in a series of vivid, shiny colours much like iPhone shades. The device also integrates a cloud platform, in which users can track glucose, sleep, weight-reduction plan and efforts, which may then share with doctors or members of the family.
“Kaleido is a real disturbance – small, discreet, feather and beautifully designed”, general director of Vicentra Tom Arnold – he said in the financing announcement. “It enables people with diabetes, offering a more personal and characteristic choice both in terms of function and style. Built with empathy and precision, he honors those who live with diabetes every day. Thanks to this financing we can now meet the growing European demand and quickly develop our entry into the American market.”
The company’s series D was run by a recent investor Industries Innovationwith a tailored participation of existing investors Partners in the capital AND Invest-Nl. Previous investors Eqt life sciences AND Health innovations He also joined.
Environmentally friendly fertilizer receives an increase in USD 50 million
We normally think about things like power plants, industrial vehicles and factories when we consider the best greenhouse gas emissions. Less often known wrongdoer: agricultural fertilizers.
But crop cultivation fertilizers – traditionally performed by the so -called Haber-Bosch method – If estimated To generate over 2% of greenhouse gas emissions. The Haber process produces ammonia by reacting nitrogen from the air with hydrogen (normally from natural gas) under extreme temperature and pressure, using an iron catalyst.
Ammonia is a key component of most nitrogen -based fertilizers, which makes a critical process for large -scale production around the world.
But although traditional fertilizers have enabled the production of mass food, additionally they create many negative external effects. Among them are high energy consumption and emissions, the dependence of resources on natural gas to hydrogen, environmental degradation and lack of biological diversity.
Startup based in San Francisco, Nitrityhas a different approach. This month, the company announced $ 50 million in financing of the B series and crashed at the recent ecological fertilizer factory at Central Valley, California. There, he’ll use renewable energy to provide his organic, nitrogen fertilizer, called ash tea, fabricated from recycling of organic almond shells, air and water.
The company claims that ash tea is competitive to other ecological fertilizers available in trade, but it is more environmentally friendly and free from pathogens and products of animal origin. Apparently, field studies of the product showed as much as a 30% increase in performance.
The pilot Nitricity factory at Fremont, California currently produces 80 tons of fertilizers a 12 months, which is treated by about 80 acres of crops. The company claims that the entire current production is spoken and has $ 150 million in the sales pipeline. According to the company, Nowa Fabryka will start operating next 12 months and mark production increase by 100 -fold.
“This is the point of inflection of the azite. We scale in the USA and we are very happy that we can develop into Europe in a serious and assertive way. The European market of our ecological fertilizer is even greater than in the US, and demand is growing only against the background of European rule, which want to increase immunity and create round agricultural economies”, a collaborator of Nitricity and CEO is growing. Nicolas Pinkowski He said in a statement.
His series B was run by a recent investor World fund and a returning investor Khosla Ventures. Including other participants ChipotleCultivate the next Venture Fund, Change strengthIN Susquehanna sustainable investmentsIN Partners of influence on energy AND A small structure undertaking.
USD 10.8 million for a toothbrush, which it performs for you
Toothbrushes have not modified much since the first electric appeared on the market in the Fifties.
But Zerobrush It is one of the handfuls of financed startups working on changing the approach to cleansing the teeth with the help of oral cleansing devices designed to be adapted, more efficient and more practical. This month, Palo Alto in California announced $ 10.8 million to launch what it calls “the first oral oral oral device in the world”.
The brush is fully automated, “cleaning all 192 teeth surfaces simultaneously with lips placed to order, 3D print and sound -powered bristles.” The company claims that early testing shows that its device removes almost twice as much tartar in half of the manual brushing time.
Zerobrush was founded by a cosmetic dentist Dr. Nidhi Pai and product innovator Akash Pai. Its investors cover Social capital and unnamed “large strategic strategic”, Angel Investors and A Finish The company said the senior executive director.
“Zerobrush is not only an incremental improvement-it is a completely new category of oral hygiene, which leads to cleaning at a professional level for daily routine,” said Dr. Pai in the financing announcement.
The company is one of several financed startups working on non -standard oral hygiene devices. Another Proclaimwhich creates a device with thread with full lips and collected $ 15 million in financing.
$ 8 million for better mental health care of the mother
While bringing a recent child to the world is a joyful opportunity for most individuals, it is often one of the most difficult and difficult experiences of the mother’s life. Not only physical recovery occurs after delivery: in fact, perinatal mood disorders and anxiety affect the estimates 1 in 5 womenmaking them the commonest complication of delivery.
Yet estimated three -quarters Among women who have been diagnosed with mood or fear of childbirth, they never receive treatment, no matter whether it is caused by a perceived stigma, supplier deficiencies, insurance restrictions or other access problems. This lack of treatment may have destructive consequences: suicide and overdose They are the major reasons Mother’s death in the US in the first postpartum 12 months.
This month, Seven StarlingThe New York startup said that he raised $ 8 million to recent funds to expand his mother’s mental health platform, focusing on the treatment of girls during the challenges related to fertility, pregnancy, postpartum and early parenting.
Rethinking influence He led the round. GrustajIN Zeal Capital PartnersIN Enlarge the venturesIN Hive ventilationIN ExpaIN Fiore VenturesIN 10 -cent.IN Rogue Women’s Fund AND Graham and Walker He also participated.
An organization that has now raised $ 22.4 million, on CrunchbaseHe said that he already operates in 18 US states and has partnerships from over 1500 Ob-Gyns. Thanks to recent financing, it plans to expand to over 30 states by the end of 2026.
The company claims that it maintains coverage in the network among health insurers AnthemIN AetnaIN Pipe AND United Healthcareand prolonged the coverage options, including Medicaid Programs on a growing variety of markets.
“We saw the opportunity to build something else, working directly in the healthcare system, instead of working around it”, general director and co -founder Tina Keshani He said in a statement. “Our approach integrated by the supplier ensures that women will receive specialist care at the moment that they need it the most.”
USD 1.5 million for a robot who is not attempting to be human
Robotics financing has recently reached long -year -old, increased by a round of 1 billion dollars at the startup of humanoid robotics Character.
But smaller startups working on robots – humanoid or not – also collect money, many of them using industrial or work.
One of the newest is Microfactswhich makes the tabletopes robot designed for repetitive manual work, reminiscent of electronics assembly. The company with its registered office in San Francisco at the starting of this month announced $ 1.5 million in financing before the investors, including Hugging co -founder Clement Delangue and early Uber AND Twitter investor RAVIKANT Navy.
Microfactory robots costs around $ 5,000. Unlike humanoid robots developed by many financed startups, the general bottles of the company are sufficiently small to suit on a desktop computer and in a compact frame.
Their robotic arms are Designed to work with replaceable tools and can perform tasks, including Precise soldering and screwing, cable routing, peeling adhesive foil or plastic layers, in addition to light food processing and packaging.
“You don’t need a humanoid work to automate work on the table”, co -founder and general director Igor Kulakov He said in a statement. “Our robot project allows us to automate tasks with the current state of robotic AI and equipment models.”
Because they do not need legs, complex human fingers or batteries, microfacts machines are also much simpler-and cheaper-to production than their humanoid counterparts, in keeping with the company.
Microfactory claims that he has secured paid reservations from over 100 customers in industries, from the assembly of electronics and textiles to food processing and laboratory automation. The first units are to be sent at the starting of 2026.