Seed Watch: Over $2.7 Billion Raised in Early-Stage Funding in Q1 of 2025

Author

Ofodile Iloanya
March 29, 2025

Welcome to our weekly edition of Seed Watch- a segment of Market Insyte Digest focused on sharing some of the latest and most intriguing Pre-seed & Seed funding news grabbing the headlines in the startup world.

As Q1 draws to an end, early-stage startups have raised over $2.7 billion in Pre-Seed & Seed rounds in 2025. Find out the top 3 deals from this week that caught our attention.

  • Startup Name: Brevel

  • Industry: AgriTech

  • Region: Israel

  • Amount (USD): $25 million

  • The problem it is solving: Sustainable protein production – Traditional animal-based protein has a high carbon footprint and resource demand. Nutritional limitations in plant-based proteins – Many alternative proteins lack essential nutrients or have strong flavors. Cost and scalability issues – Microalgae proteins have struggled with cost-effective mass production.

  • What the Funds Will Be Spent On: Expanding commercial activities and securing supply agreements. Establishing joint manufacturing ventures to scale production. Bringing new products to market—next product rollout planned for summer 2025.

  • Startup Name: Rerun

  • Industry: AI & Robotics Data Management

  • Region: Sweden

  • Amount (USD): $17 million

  • The problem it is solving: Managing complex multimodal AI data – Robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones, and spatial computing devices generate vast amounts of video streams, 3D scenes, and tensor data that existing databases struggle to handle. Debugging and understanding AI decisions – When a robot makes an unexpected move (e.g., driving into a wall), developers lack tools to analyze and visualize the underlying reasons. Scaling AI-powered physical systems – As AI moves into real-world applications, companies need a dedicated database for processing and optimizing their AI models.

  • What the Funds Will Be Spent On: Expanding database capabilities to handle complex AI-generated data. Scaling product development and preparing for general availability later in 2025. Growing industry partnerships with robotics, autonomous vehicle, and drone companies.

  • Startup Name: Yutori

  • Industry: AI

  • Region: U.S.A

  • Amount (USD): $15 million

  • The problem it is solving: Current AI assistants are limited to chat-based interactions. While today's AI models enable impressive chatbot conversations, they struggle to autonomously complete tasks across multiple digital environments. LLM-based AI agents frequently make errors when performing long sequences of actions, leading to unreliable execution. Existing AI assistants require too much user input, rather than proactively managing and automating digital tasks.

  • What the Funds Will Be Spent On: Further development of Yutori’s agent-first AI system. Expanding the engineering and design teams to refine product execution. Preparing for the closed beta launch of its first AI assistant later in 2025.