Silicon Florist 🌹 $45M for Eclypsium, $22M for Paxton 💰

Issue 785

Feb 01, 2025

a16z portfolio company Eclypsium raises $45M Series C

It’s been a minute since we’ve heard from Eclypsium. But clearly, they’ve been heads down making progress. Because they just announced another round of funding. And with existing investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Madrona, and Ten Eleven continuing to invest, they’re clearly onto something big in cybersecurity… More

Where are they now…? Catching up with startup founders

Portland has its fair share of events where a variety of amazing founders take the stage to pitch their company, share their story, or answer questions about their journey — after its over. But what we don’t have is an opportunity to check back in with founders along their journey to figure out really where they are at this given moment. We want to know: Where are they now…? So we’re going to ask… More

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Bend startup Paxton raises $22M Series A

Seems like those VC pocketbooks are starting to thaw a little bit. Eclypsium revealed a significant round, yesterday. And today, Bend-based Paxton — an AI platform focused on the legal industry — announced a $22 million Series A… More

TechCrunch: Graze is building a business on Bluesky

A startup called Graze, which lets you build your own feeds for the Bluesky social network, has caught investors’ attention. In addition to offering tools to easily build, customize, publish, and manage Bluesky feeds, Graze will soon allow feed creators to monetize their efforts with advertising, sponsored posts, and subscriptions… More

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