The alleywatch startup daily funding report: 11/5/2025. The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 11/5/2025 featuring funding details for Teleskope, AUI, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. Teleskope - $25M Series A. Teleskope, a data protection and security platform, has raised $25M in Series A funding led by M13. Founded by Elizabeth Nammour and Julie Trias in 2022, Teleskope has now raised a total of $32.2M in reported equity funding. AUI - $20M venture. AUI, the company building neuro-symbolic foundation models for task-oriented conversational AI, has raised $20M in Venture funding from investors that include New Era Capital Partners and eGateway Capital. Founded by Ohad Elhelo and Ori Cohen in 2017, AUI has now raised a total of $63.1M in reported equity funding. Synonym - $18.4M. Synonym, a platform for accelerating the launch and manufacturing of bioproducts, has raised $18.4M in funding according to a recent SEC filing. The filing indicates that the total offering is for $20.6M and there were fifty-two investors in this close. Synonym was founded by Edward Shenderovich and Joshua Lachter in 2021. Parable - $16.5M seed. Parable, an intelligence platform for enterprise operations, has raised $16.5M in Seed funding led by HOF Capital. Parable was founded by Adam Schwartz, Clinton Robinson, Alex Terrien, and Steve Tam in 2024. AlleyWatch is NYC's leading source of tech and startup news, reaching the city's most active founders, investors, and tech leaders. Advertise today iVerify - $12.3M. iVerify, a threat hunting platform for mobile devices, has raised $12.3M in funding according to a recent SEC filing. The filing indicates that there were six investors in the round. Founded by Danny Rogers and Rocky Cole in 2023, iVerify has now raised a total of $28.3M in reported equity funding. General Intelligence Company of New York - $10.4M. General Intelligence Company of New York, an AI platform that allows individuals to run entire businesses autonomously, has raised $10.4M in funding according to a recent SEC filing. The filing indicates that the total offering is for $11M and there were seven investors in this close. General Intelligence Company of New York was founded by Abhishyant Khare and Andrew Pignanelli in 2025. Cob Foods - $5M seed. Cob Foods, a sorghum-based snack brand, has raised $5M in Seed funding from investors that include Novak Djokovic. Cob Foods was founded by Jessica Brondo Davidoff and Djokovic in 2022. Helex - $3.5M seed. Helex, a therapeutics company focused on treatment of chronic and rare kidney disorders, has raised $3.5M in Seed funding led by Pi Ventures. Founded by Anirudh Nishtala, Poulami Chaudhuri, and Rohini Kalvakuntla in 2021, Helex has now raised a total of $4.6M in reported equity funding.

Parable raises $11M in Seed funding. Parable, a NYC-based intelligence platform for enterprise operations, raised $11m in Seed funding. The round was led by HOF Capital, with participation from Story Ventures and InMotion Ventures, alongside existing investors Lasagna, Panache, Supercharge, and Tripe Impact Capital. The round also included a number of angel investors, including the founders of companies such as Hubspot, Vimeo, Deel, Ramp, and Superhuman. This follows a $5m Pre-seed round, bringing the total funding to $16m. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts, as well as its business reach. Led by Adam Schwartz, CEO, Parable provides large enterprises with organizational observability of time spent across all processes, strategies, and projects, passively understanding how teams use their time in order to drive organizational-wide AI transformation. It allows leaders to answer questions such as "What do we do about AI and how do we know it's working?" The system contextualizes and categorizes activity data from across the workplace software stack. This data layer visualizes and quantifies how time is spent across operations and can simulate how to spend it more efficiently with AI. Within a private instance, Parable ingests millions of activity data points from over 250 workplace tools, creating an ontology and chronology of organizational work. This queryable ontology powers a dashboard of data visualizations and reporting that decode how collective time is spent, and where it's being lost.