Startup funding on October 16, 2026
17 companies raised: 12 filing for the first time, 5 again · 22 with a profile. Together they reported $1.64 billion in new offerings in Form D filings the SEC accepted on Friday, October 16, 2026. The largest was Ramp Business Corp, with $1.58B from 40 investors.
22 companies filed on Oct 16: 17 reported new money, which makes up the day's total; 4 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 13 companies: four listed on a stock exchange, two based outside the US, one reporting a merger or spin-off rather than a raise and six 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ramp Business Corp FinTech & Financial Services | New York, NY | Oct 7, 2026 | $1.58B | 40 | New ↗ |
 Estuary Biotherapeutics, Inc. Biotech & Pharma | Menlo Park, CA | Jul 1, 2026 | $40.6M | 25 | New ↗ |
| Princeton, NJ | Sep 30, 2026 | $15.4M | 10 | New ↗ | |
 ShortTok, Inc. Artificial Intelligence | New York, NY | May 15, 2025 | $5.0M | 21 | Amended ↗ |
| New York, NY | Oct 2, 2026 | $3.0M | 3 | New ↗ | |
 Zeely, Inc. Artificial Intelligence | Wilmington, DE | Sep 23, 2026 | $2.0M | 1 | New ↗ |
 Vernex, Inc. Industrial & Robotics | Newark, DE | Sep 15, 2026 | $1.4M | 4 | New ↗ |
 Immorta Bio, Inc. Biotech & Pharma | Miami Beach, FL | Nov 5, 2024Late filing | $612,503 | 6 | New ↗ |
 StrikeArc Labs Inc. Artificial Intelligence | Birmingham, MI | Oct 12, 2026 | $500,000 | 1 | New ↗ |
 Lamina Surgical, Inc. Healthcare | Oakland, CA | Oct 2, 2026 | $490,000 | 8 | New ↗ |
 Admirra, Inc. Healthcare | Pittsburgh, PA | Oct 1, 2026 | $430,000 | 4 | New ↗ |
Allasting Corp. Consumer & Retail | Arcadia, CA | Nov 1, 2024 | $394,100 | 9 | Amended ↗ |
 Knowable Labs, Inc. Artificial Intelligence | Saratoga, CA | Oct 5, 2026 | $310,000 | 5 | New ↗ |
 VisiCX, Inc Healthcare | Joplin, MO | Oct 9, 2026 | $242,267 | 1 | New ↗ |
 Yard Inc. Real Estate & Construction | Tanner, AL | Jul 24, 2026 | $240,000 | 1 | New ↗ |
 Polt AI, Inc. Enterprise Software | Largo, FL | Jun 12, 2026 | $150,000 | 8 | Amended ↗ |
 J3 Bioscience, Inc. Healthcare | Salt Lake City, UT | Sep 30, 2026 | $50,000 | 1 | New ↗ |
Motaris Inc. Industrial & Robotics | Ann Arbor, MI | Oct 7, 2026 | $50,000 | 1 | New ↗ |
Sixer, Inc. Media, Entertainment & Gaming | Wilmington, DE | Aug 17, 2026 | $25,000 | 1 | New ↗ |
Torquem Technologies Ltd. Crypto & Web3 | Newark, DE | May 13, 2026 | $18,000 | 2 | Amended ↗ |
Narratives Interactive Inc. Education | Wesley Chapel, FL | Oct 7, 2026 | $10,000 | 1 | New ↗ |
JAH Farmland Inc. Food & Agriculture | LA Moille, IL | 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.
- 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 16. The filing is new, but the money was raised long before.
- Immorta Bio, Inc.: one filing for an offering first sold on Nov 5, 2024 ($612K).
Filings for Oct 16, 2026, read from the SEC's daily EDGAR index.