Startup funding on October 8, 2026
23 companies raised: 10 filing for the first time, 13 again · 32 with a profile. Together they reported $125.6 million in new offerings in Form D filings the SEC accepted on Thursday, October 8, 2026. The largest was Fortastra Corp, with $32.5M from 17 investors.
32 companies filed on Oct 8: 23 reported new money, which makes up the day's total; 9 only amended earlier filings. We also leave out 19 companies: five listed on a stock exchange, three based outside the US, two reporting a merger or spin-off rather than a raise and nine 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Fortastra Corp Aerospace & Defense | Torrance, CA | Sep 18, 2026 | $32.5M | 17 | New ↗ |
Fenix Space, Inc. Aerospace & Defense | San Bernardino, CA | Sep 8, 2026 | $30.0M | 2 | Amended ↗ |
 Plantswitch, Inc. Industrial & Robotics | Miami, FL | May 17, 2024 | $22.1M | 71 | Amended ↗ |
 Vye Health Inc. Healthcare | San Francisco, CA | Sep 24, 2026 | $16.2M | 9 | New ↗ |
 Finwave Semiconductor, Inc. Industrial & Robotics | Waltham, MA | Aug 25, 2026 | $15.5M | 15 | New ↗ |
 Clasp, Inc. Enterprise Software | New York, NY | Sep 23, 2026 | $13.2M | 7 | New ↗ |
 Lungpacer Medical, Inc. Healthcare | Exton, PA | Apr 23, 2026 | $12.0M | 2 | Amended ↗ |
 OncoNano Medicine, Inc. Biotech & Pharma | Dallas, TX | Sep 23, 2026 | $10.0M | 14 | New ↗ |
 Growers Edge Financial, Inc. FinTech & Financial Services | Johnston, IA | Sep 30, 2026 | $9.5M | 7 | New ↗ |
 Atmos Clinic, Inc. Healthcare | New York, NY | Sep 25, 2026 | $6.0M | 3 | New ↗ |
 GelSana Therapeutics, Inc. Healthcare | Aurora, CO | Nov 20, 2023 | $4.3M | 33 | Amended ↗ |
 StarLifter, Inc. Artificial Intelligence | Fishers, IN | May 27, 2026 | $3.9M | 1 | New ↗ |
TM Holding Companies, Inc. Biotech & Pharma | Memphis, TN | Aug 10, 2026 | $3.6M | 62 | New ↗ |
Negosh, Inc. Enterprise Software | New York, NY | Sep 23, 2026 | $3.0M | 8 | New ↗ |
| Austin, TX | Sep 28, 2026 | $2.1M | 4 | New ↗ | |
 LevelTen Energy, Inc. Energy & Climate | Seattle, WA | Jul 14, 2026 | $1.9M | 1 | New ↗ |
 Flexxbotics, Inc. Industrial & Robotics | Boston, MA | Aug 7, 2023 | $1.7M | 46 | Amended ↗ |
 Aikido Technologies, Inc. Artificial Intelligence | San Francisco, CA | Sep 23, 2026 | $1.7M | 4 | Amended ↗ |
 Inventwood Inc. Industrial & Robotics | Frederick, MD | Sep 25, 2026 | $1.4M | 2 | New ↗ |
 Turaco Inc. FinTech & Financial Services | Wilmington, DE | Aug 27, 2026 | $1.2M | 8 | New ↗ |
 Bioventrix, Inc. Healthcare | Mansfield, MA | Sep 29, 2026 | $1.2M | 6 | New ↗ |
Fraud Protection Network, Inc. FinTech & Financial Services | Aventura, FL | Sep 18, 2026 | $1.0M | 8 | Amended ↗ |
 ColoWatch, Inc. Healthcare | Gaithersburg, MD | Sep 24, 2026 | $975,000 | 8 | New ↗ |
 Synteq Digital, Inc. Enterprise Software | Wilmington, DE | Sep 29, 2026 | $890,000 | 11 | New ↗ |
 Code Pebble, Inc. Consumer & Retail | Lindon, UT | Jan 14, 2025 | $820,000 | 9 | Amended ↗ |
 Sky City Data, Inc. Enterprise Software | Milwaukee, WI | Oct 5, 2026 | $749,999 | 5 | New ↗ |
| Santa Monica, CA | Sep 30, 2026 | $700,000 | 3 | New ↗ | |
 Arentha, Inc. Artificial Intelligence | Colorado Springs, CO | Jul 24, 2026 | $280,000 | 4 | Amended ↗ |
| Dublin, CA | Sep 23, 2026 | $125,000 | 3 | New ↗ | |
 Byoxy, Inc. Industrial & Robotics | Madison, WI | Sep 25, 2026 | $120,000 | 1 | New ↗ |
| Mount Pleasant, SC | Sep 28, 2026 | $50,000 | 1 | New ↗ | |
| Fremont, CA | Not yet | $0 | 0 | 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.
Filings for Oct 8, 2026, read from the SEC's daily EDGAR index.