American Entrepreneurship Today

17/09/2025

Funding alone won’t make an entrepreneur successful—it’s focus, grit, and purpose that ultimately carry a venture forward to success.

William Santana Li has lived the entrepreneurial dream. As Ford’s youngest senior executive at 28, and later the founder who raised capital for Knightscope, he’s proven that investors don’t just back an idea—they back a founder with vision and the conviction to see it through.

From corporate leader to disruptive entrepreneur, Bill shares what it really takes to succeed on the funding journey: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2083521/episodes/14064871

17/09/2025

CrowdStrike unveils major AI security innovations for tech giant partners AWS, Intel, Meta, NVIDIA, and Salesforce.

The new initiatives were announced at the flagship Fal.Con 2025 event in Las Vegas, further positioning its Falcon® platform as the cybersecurity backbone of the AI era.

By embedding protection across the entire AI stack—from compute to cloud, data to models, and agents to applications—CrowdStrike is helping enterprises innovate with confidence by securing the future of AI.

CrowdStrike introduced its latest innovations, part of its Falcon platform which provides cybersecurity across the Enterprise

15/09/2025

New on Experienced Voices: Miles Spencer, founder of Reflekta, shares insights from his journey of building a breakthrough AI technology with a highly human touch.

From the urgency of being first to market, to the value of word-of-mouth growth, to establishing product-market fit, Miles reveals why the best idea wins.

This is a story of visionary AI that keeps people connected to loved ones across generations, leveraging AI innovation with cherished personal connections.

🎙️ Tune in 👉 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2083521/episodes/17819513

12/09/2025

Growing concerns over energy demand driving need for new solutions!

San Francisco–based TrueMeter has just raised a $4M seed round led by Ulu Ventures to scale its AI-powered energy savings platform for brick-and-mortar businesses.

Already delivering more than $3M in savings to multi-location customers, TrueMeter helps enterprises cut energy costs by up to 15% — all with zero upfront investment.

With this fresh funding, TrueMeter plans to expand its engineering team, accelerate customer acquisition, and bring AI-driven efficiency to more retailers, restaurants, and hospitality operators nationwide.

TrueMeter’s $4M Seed Funding will support Energy Savings for multiple location businesses through its AI platform.

12/09/2025

🚀 Venture Investors Health Fund has closed its seventh fund at $80M, reinforcing the Midwest’s growing role in healthcare innovation.

With a 40-year track record, VI continues to back visionary healthcare startups, ranging from autism diagnostics to noninvasive tumor therapies. Their goal is to transform the standard of care for patients.

Leveraging partnerships with leading universities like University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Michigan, the firm's success highlights the great innovation resources embedded in the Midwest.

Read more on how this new fund will fuel the next generation of healthcare innovation.

Venture Investors’ $80M Seventh Fund will fund startups working on breakthrough innovations to transform Healthcare’s Standard of Care.

11/09/2025

AI is moving Elder care into a New Era of Predictive Intelligence.

Copenhagen-founded Teton.ai has secured $20M in Series A funding led by Plural, with participation from Bertelsmann Investments, Antler Elevate, Nebular, and PSV Tech.

Now with funds for its US expansion as American baby boomers are aging, a shortage of caregivers is becoming more apparent. This is making the $220B senior care market primed for disruption.

Teton’s AI and computer vision platform shifts healthcare from reactive to predictive—reducing emergencies, cutting costs, and delivering measurable ROI for operators and investors.

Since its seed round, Teton has:

• Grown ARR 13x
• Increased customer adoption 300% year-on-year
• Partnered with Nvidia on the largest point-of-care dataset in senior care

CEO Mikkel Wad Thorsen describes the mission: “This is not just technology—it’s a structural shift in how care is delivered.”

With fresh capital, Teton plans to expand nationwide in the U.S., deepen its European footprint, and scale its engineering team to push predictive AI further into healthcare.

A category-defining moment in healthtech and elder care innovation.

Now, with funds for its US expansion as American baby boomers are aging, a shortage of caregivers is becoming more apparent. This is making the $220B senior care market primed for disruption.

American Entrepreneurship Today® - Teton.ai Raises $20M for Predictive Elderly Healthcare

10/09/2025

Torus Secures $200M to Accelerate Modular Power Plant Deployment

The energy sector is being reshaped by AI, cloud computing, and industrial electrification — creating unprecedented demand for reliable, sustainable power.

Torus Inc. has raised $200 million led by Magnetar to scale its hybrid modular power plants, combining inertia-based flywheels with long-duration batteries. This breakthrough approach enables millisecond response times, 99.9% uptime, and distributed “grid operating systems” for utilities, data centers, and industrial users.

With more than 230 deployments in 2025 and new manufacturing capacity underway in Salt Lake City, Torus is proving that American-made innovation can meet the rising energy demands of AI, industry, and the clean energy transition.

Congratulations to CEO & Co-founder Nate Walkingshaw and the entire Torus team on driving a new era of resilient, distributed energy infrastructure.

Torus $200M in funding is timely to accelerate its modular power plant deployment during a rising demand for energy.

05/09/2025

Startup Competition Alert: Applications are now open for the 2026 SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics Startup Challenge!

This premier pitch competition at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco brings together optics and photonics entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders. With cash prizes, global exposure, and the new Jay Kumler Innovation Award, it’s a powerful launchpad for startups turning light-based technologies into real-world impact.

📅 Deadline to apply: October 7, 2025
📍 Finals: January 20, 2026 at Moscone Center

American Entrepreneurship Today® recognizes the SPIE Startup Challenge as one of the most influential global stages for photonics innovation.

The 2026 SPIE Startup Challenge is accepting applications for its competition that offers cash prizes to photonics entrepreneurs.

05/09/2025

New Fund highlights Biotech sector resilience!

Atlas Venture just announced the close of its $400M Opportunity Fund III — an oversubscribed raise that will provide growth capital to advance portfolio companies as they scale new therapies.

Atlas’s two-fund strategy stands out for dual support of startups and early-stage companies with the addition of growth funding.

This continuity sustains innovation and helps ensure promising science becomes real treatments for patients.

Atlas Venture announced the closing of an oversubscribed $400M Third Opportunity Fund to back growth in Biotech companies.

03/09/2025

Veteran. Entrepreneur. Leader. Hillary Boyce, CEO of BAFO Services LLC has worn all three hats—and she’s here to share how to land a government contract.

With 20+ years of expertise in federal procurement, Hillary offers actionable insights for small businesses looking to tap into the lucrative government market.

From serving in the 3rd Infantry Division to earning the Emerging Star and Stellar Awards from the U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce, her story is one of leadership, growth, and strategic mastery in government contracting.

👉 Don’t miss this HOW-TO segment of Experienced Voices, where Hillary breaks down navigating federal contracts, scaling a business, and leading with discipline: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2083521/episodes/17764745

03/09/2025

⚡ Quantum computing is no longer a distant promise—it’s scaling today.

American Entrepreneurship Today® congratulates Phasecraft Ltd on securing $34M in Series B funding, fueling its U.S. expansion and the opening of its Washington, D.C. office.

The UK-based leader in quantum algorithms is forging collaborations with Google, IBM, and top industrial partners to deliver real-world applications sooner than expected.

By developing hardware-agnostic algorithms, Phasecraft is advancing breakthroughs in materials science, energy optimization, drug discovery, and telecommunications.

Backed by Plural, Playground Global, Novo Holdings’ Quantum Fund, and others, Phasecraft is emerging as a pivotal player in the commercialization of quantum computing.

Phasecraft's $34M Series B will be used to expand in the U.S. and increase its research capabilities.

29/08/2025

American Entrepreneurship Today applauds Aurelian's success in Helping 911 Centers and its $14M Series A funding milestone.

The Public Safety Startup is transforming how 911 centers operate with its AI-powered voice assistant, which automates up to 74% of non-emergency calls—freeing dispatchers to focus on true emergencies.

With New Enterprise Associates (NEA) leading the round, alongside Y Combinator, FUSE, Liquid 2, and Palm Drive Capital, Aurelian is scaling nationwide to support more Emergency Communication Centers.

Its platform reduces dispatcher burnout, shortens wait times, and bridges language barriers with support for 35+ languages via voice, SMS, and web chat.

NEA’s Mustafa Neemuchwala captured the urgency best: “911 is in crisis, and Aurelian has stepped in with a solution that works.”

American Entrepreneurship Today® - Aurelian’s $14M Series A Fuels Growth of its AI-Platform to Unburden 911 Dispatcher Workloads