Funding Rounds To Note

  1. TENEX AI (Sarasota, FL): $250M Series B – Cybersecurity

TENEX AI is building an AI-powered security team that can automatically detect and respond to cyber threats

  1. eMed (Miami, FL): $200M Series A – HealthTech

eMed is a digital health company that manages GLP-1 weight-loss programs for employers. With the fundraise, the company announced a $2 billion valuation.

  1. Huntsville’s Performance Drone Works: $110M Series B

Performance Drone Works specializes in developing autonomous unmanned aerial systems.

  1. Charlotte’s Lucid Bots raises $20M Series B – Aerospace

Lucid Bots is a commercial cleaning drone company. (Previous Hypepotamus coverage here).

  1. Levitate (Raleigh, NC): $16M venture round – CRM technology

Levitate is a relationship marketing platform that provides communication tools and an AI dashboard for the insurance, financial, and legal industries

  1. TransFi (Tampa) – $14.2M Series A – FinTech/payments

TransFi is a stablecoin-powered payment solution, enabling cross-border transfers, collections, and digital currency transactions.

  1. Zero RFI (Atlanta) – $13.8M seed – construction

Zero is an AI-native holding company that buys companies in the construction space. (Previously Hypepotamus coverage here).

  1. City Detect (Tuscaloosa, AL): $13M Series A – SaaS/analytics

City Detect is a platform that helps cities fight urban blight.

  1.  Ziggiz (Chattanooga) – $10.7M venture round – cybersecurity

Ziggiz is a cybersecurity company that offers data infrastructure and agentic AI for real time security insights.

  1. Fulfillment IQ (Suwannee, GA): $10.2M venture round – ecommerce

Fulfillment IQ is a supply chain and fulfilment platform for D2C brands, 3PLs, and retailers

  1. Definity (Covington, KY): $7M Series A – enterprise software

Definity offers an end-to-end healthcare workforce platform to streamline full labor management lifecycle.

  1. UnifyAI (Nashville): $8.5M Series A – enterprise software

UnityAI is the agentic workforce for ambulatory healthcare operations