Artie raises $12M in Series A funding. Artie, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a managed real-time data streaming platform, raised $12M in Series A funding. The round was led by Dalton Caldwell at Standard Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, Pathlight Ventures, and angel investors including Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox co-founder & former CTO), Benn Stancil (Mode CTO), Chris Best (Substack CEO), Charles Hearn (Alloy CTO), and Lenny Rachitsky (Lenny's Podcast). The company intends to use the funds to support continued investment across product, go-to-market, and team growth. Led by CEO Jacqueline Cheong, Artie is a provider of a real-time streaming platform that moves production data across systems in real-time, with zero maintenance, empowering mission-critical use cases including fraud and risk monitoring, inventory visibility, customer-facing analytics, and AI workloads. For example, streaming changes from Postgres directly into Snowflake so teams can rely on data without building or maintaining streaming infrastructure. It is used by companies like ClickUp, Substack, and Alloy.

The Los Angeles-based gaming startup backed by NBA star Kevin Durant and Scooter Braun, raised nearly $36 million this month to deliver "mobile games that hit different," according to a regulatory filing made public this week.