Large cybersecurity rounds. HealthTech venture growth.
To round out the month of March, we’ve compiled some of the big venture capital headline from across the Southeast. These are some of the teams that are poised for growth….so you should have them on your radar.
Funding Rounds To Note
- 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
- 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.
- Huntsville’s Performance Drone Works: $110M Series B
Performance Drone Works specializes in developing autonomous unmanned aerial systems.
- Charlotte’s Lucid Bots raises $20M Series B – Aerospace
Lucid Bots is a commercial cleaning drone company. (Previous Hypepotamus coverage here).
- 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
- TransFi (Tampa) – $14.2M Series A – FinTech/payments
TransFi is a stablecoin-powered payment solution, enabling cross-border transfers, collections, and digital currency transactions.
- 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).
- City Detect (Tuscaloosa, AL): $13M Series A – SaaS/analytics
City Detect is a platform that helps cities fight urban blight.
- Ziggiz (Chattanooga) – $10.7M venture round – cybersecurity
Ziggiz is a cybersecurity company that offers data infrastructure and agentic AI for real time security insights.
- Fulfillment IQ (Suwannee, GA): $10.2M venture round – ecommerce
Fulfillment IQ is a supply chain and fulfilment platform for D2C brands, 3PLs, and retailers
- Definity (Covington, KY): $7M Series A – enterprise software
Definity offers an end-to-end healthcare workforce platform to streamline full labor management lifecycle.
- UnifyAI (Nashville): $8.5M Series A – enterprise software
UnityAI is the agentic workforce for ambulatory healthcare operations
