#pre-seed-funding

#pre-seed-funding

Series, a small New York-based start-up, thinks it has a shot at winning a profitable share of the market. The business, only launched last year, is today revealing it has now signed up 10,000 daily active users who have collectively exchanged more than a million messages so far. Series is the brainchild of two Yale University students, Nathaneo Johnson and Sean Hargrow, who saw an opportunity to do something different in the social networking space.

Logan Brown, a 30-year-old corporate lawyer, began the year billing hours at the global law firm Cooley. Now she's building a tech-first law firm that meets the routine needs of startups, without the Big Law price tag. Soxton, Brown's new venture, has raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding, Business Insider has learned exclusively. "I didn't have a deck. I didn't have a team," Brown said. Instead, she told investors, "I am building the solution for founders. That is not the billable hour."

Windeck and Aidan Guo, 19, launched Attention Engineering earlier this year to build a next-generation desktop assistant powered by AI. "It's not exactly a desktop assistant, but kind of becomes one: ambient, proactive, and personally understands you," Guo said. "It can surface a lot of insights like how you use your time," he said. In the coming months, the tool will be able to automate everything you do on your computer, like a "cursor for everything," he said.

Jack Fertility, an Oxford-based men's healthtech startup, has raised more than £500,000 in pre-seed funding to launch Snip Check, the UK's first home-to-lab postal vasectomy test kit, and accelerate development of its broader range of male reproductive health solutions. The round was led by Fuel Ventures, with participation from Microsoft angels, Alma Angels, The Beam Network, Moonstone Venture Capital, FemTech Lab, Founders Factory's Reckitt Benkiser Accelerator, and the Oxford Seed Fund.

Order-to-cash workflows, the end-to-end process of managing customers from order placement to payment collection, are highly regulated, requiring strict adherence to identity verification, call recording disclosures, and other mandatory steps. While these tasks are simple for human agents, they become resource-intensive at scale. MEGA, founded by industry veterans with firsthand experience in call centers, regulatory compliance, and recovery operations, addresses this challenge by automating repetitive yet critical customer interactions with human-like dialogue. The platform ensures every conversation is logged, auditable, and ready for regulatory scrutiny.