Startup Funding News

Payment Nerds provides merchant accounts and payment processing for in-person and online businesses, including higher-risk merchants. Its service combines card and ACH processing, payment-gateway and POS integrations, onboarding, fraud and chargeback tools, and merchant support to help businesses accept and manage transactions.

A curated beauty and personal-care shopping app that uses reviews and ingredient information to help consumers choose skincare and haircare products, with rapid delivery in Gurugram.

Mithrl builds a scientific decision engine for biopharma and research teams. Its biomedical world model combines validated biological knowledge with each organization’s data, then uses AI agents and workflows to help scientists analyze experiments, assess hypotheses and accelerate drug-discovery decisions; the company is preparing its next-generation platform for broader deployment.

Climb is a Databricks-native data and AI consultancy that helps enterprise teams move from data foundations and AI pilots to production systems. Senior architecture, engineering and AI teams deliver defined-scope engagements, using reusable accelerators and Climb’s delivery runtime to implement and operate governed enterprise workflows.

AcouBatt combines passive acoustic sensors and AI software to monitor battery-cell activity during manufacturing, testing and operation.

Complir helps retailers and brands manage product safety and regulatory compliance across the markets where they sell.

Veridion provides continuously updated company intelligence that enterprise risk, procurement and data teams can integrate into their own systems.

Barrell Lithium is developing lithium-brine resources in East Texas’s Smackover Formation. It assembles prospective land positions, evaluates subsurface geology and advances direct-lithium-extraction projects to supply lithium for the battery value chain; the company is in exploration and commercial development.

Delos sells autonomous AI workers that take on defined business tasks through a company’s messaging and software tools.

EnduroSat designs and manufactures modular, software-defined satellites and components, and provides mission services for commercial and institutional operators.