Startup funding on October 1, 2026
23 companies raised: 13 filing for the first time, 10 again · 29 with a profile. Together they reported $257.9 million in new offerings in Form D filings the SEC accepted on Thursday, October 1, 2026. The largest was CScale, Inc., with $144.9M from 37 investors.
29 companies filed on Oct 1: 23 reported new money, which makes up the day's total; 5 only amended earlier filings; 1 only filed late for offerings that began more than a year earlier (listed below the table). We also leave out 23 companies: two listed on a stock exchange, two based outside the US, two reporting a merger or spin-off rather than a raise and 17 that are not startups by our rules (banks, insurance accounts, clinics, funds' vehicles, old offerings). All Form D filings counts everything the SEC accepted that day, including investment funds and real estate offerings, which we leave out when counting.
Companies
| Company | Location | Filing | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 CScale, Inc. Artificial Intelligence | Palo Alto, CA | Jul 17, 2026 | $144.9M | 37 | New ↗ |
 Click Therapeutics, Inc. Healthcare | New York, NY | Apr 7, 2026 | $49.9M | 1 | New ↗ |
 Amani Therapeutics, Inc. Biotech & Pharma | New York, NY | Sep 16, 2026 | $34.9M | 5 | New ↗ |
 Axle Labs, Inc. Artificial Intelligence | Atlanta, GA | May 28, 2026 | $17.2M | 13 | New ↗ |
 Solaris Endovascular Inc. Healthcare | Dallas, TX | Sep 5, 2025Late filing | $4.9M | 45 | New ↗ |
 Zaps Worldwide, Inc. Energy & Climate | Phoenix, AZ | Sep 8, 2026 | $4.0M | 8 | New ↗ |
 Equidefi Ltd. FinTech & Financial Services | Fort Lauderdale, FL | Jul 15, 2025 | $2.5M | 29 | Amended ↗ |
 Lumati Holdings, Inc. Healthcare | Encinitas, CA | Jun 24, 2026 | $2.5M | 9 | Amended ↗ |
 Althea Technologies PBC Healthcare | Boulder, CO | Sep 14, 2026 | $2.5M | 4 | Amended ↗ |
 Green Mountain Firewood Co Consumer & Retail | Owensboro, KY | Oct 16, 2024 | $2.1M | 8 | Amended ↗ |
 US Positronix Inc. Industrial & Robotics | Oberlin, OH | Sep 16, 2026 | $2.0M | 2 | New ↗ |
 Xodus Technologies, Inc. FinTech & Financial Services | Wilmington, DE | Sep 15, 2026 | $1.5M | 1 | New ↗ |
Fraud Protection Network, Inc. FinTech & Financial Services | Aventura, FL | Jun 8, 2026 | $1.1M | 7 | Amended ↗ |
 Cookie Finance, Inc. Other | Norfolk, VA | Sep 22, 2026 | $750,000 | 3 | New ↗ |
Opus KSD, Inc. Healthcare | Pembroke, MA | Sep 23, 2026 | $680,801 | 16 | New ↗ |
 Numerant, Inc. Enterprise Software | Brentwood, TN | Sep 10, 2026 | $425,000 | 3 | New ↗ |
| Tucson, AZ | Sep 25, 2026 | $250,000 | 1 | New ↗ | |
 Idle Work Inc. Artificial Intelligence | Floral Park, NY | Sep 30, 2026 | $170,000 | 8 | New ↗ |
 Depo Technologies, Inc. Enterprise Software | Dallas, TX | Jul 16, 2026 | $160,000 | 1 | New ↗ |
LigaSys Inc. Industrial & Robotics | San Jose, CA | Sep 16, 2026 | $155,000 | 7 | New ↗ |
Urza Systems, Inc. Enterprise Software | New York, NY | Sep 21, 2026 | $130,000 | 5 | New ↗ |
| Boise, ID | Sep 17, 2026 | $100,000 | 1 | New ↗ | |
 Cruitical, Inc. Enterprise Software | San Francisco, CA | Aug 20, 2026 | $100,000 | 1 | New ↗ |
Kimetra, Inc. Consumer & Retail | Dover, DE | Sep 15, 2026 | $60,000 | 2 | New ↗ |
Ligeia, inc. Consumer & Retail | Ojai, CA | Sep 22, 2026 | $50,000 | 1 | New ↗ |
| New York, NY | Sep 22, 2026 | $50,000 | 1 | New ↗ | |
 Secure Closure, Inc. Healthcare | Denver, CO | Sep 15, 2026 | $20,000 | 2 | New ↗ |
| Cedar Hills, UT | Sep 28, 2026 | $10,000 | 1 | New ↗ | |
Curated Drops LLC Consumer & Retail | New York, NY | Sep 19, 2026 | $5,000 | 3 | New ↗ |
- Location is the address under “Principal Place of Business and Contact Information” on the filing, not the “Jurisdiction of Incorporation/Organization”. Most startups incorporate in Delaware but work somewhere else.
- First sale is the day the first investor committed, which can be months before the filing date. Not yet means the company filed before that day came, so the amount sold is $0 for now; it shows up when the company amends the filing.
- $0 next to a first-sale date means an investor had committed but no money had come in when the company filed.
- New is a company's first filing for an offering. Amended updates an earlier filing, usually because more money came in, and shows the new total; that money was already counted when it was first reported.
- One company filed more than once that day, usually amendments to separate offerings. Each company is listed once; open “more filings” to see the others.
Late filings, not in the day's total
New filings for offerings whose first sale came more than a year before Oct 1. The filing is new, but the money was raised long before.
- Solaris Endovascular Inc.: one filing for an offering first sold on Sep 5, 2025 ($4.9M).
Filings for Oct 1, 2026, read from the SEC's daily EDGAR index.