5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: On-Demand Custom Manufacturing, Underwater Geothermal Energy, And Adventure Group Travel
Crunchbase News rounds up five notable startup funding deals from the past month that flew under the radar. The featured rounds include SendCutSend, a custom metal manufacturer that took its first outside funding, and Nourish, a metabolic health startup. The column highlights deals spanning manufacturing, healthcare and other sectors.
Key Takeaways
- A grab bag of funded startups caught our attention this past month, from a previously bootstrapped custom metal manufacturer that got its first outside funding from big-name Silicon Valley backers, to a startup that aims to provide geothermal energy from underwater volcanoes to small island nations.
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- Reno, Nevada-based SendCutSend said last month that it has raised $110 million in funding led by brothers and Stripe founders John and Patrick Collison , along with Sequoia Capital and Paradigm , at a reported $1 billion valuation.
The company operates an on-demand manufacturing platform specializing in custom-cut metal and fabrication.
- Investor Matt Huang of Paradigm told WSJ that underlying SendCutSend's booming business is intense demand for rapid, on-demand sheet metal and custom parts.
"If you think about the entire frontier of robots, defense companies, rocket companies, electric-car companies, they all need very fast turn prototyping," he said.
- Founded in 2021, Nourish operates what it describes as the country's largest dietitian-led metabolic health clinic, pairing more than 10,000 registered dietitians with AI coaching, lab testing and virtual care.
The company has increasingly expanded into GLP-1 prescribing and medication management as demand for drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy continues to surge.
- Nourish is positioning itself as a broader metabolic health platform focused on nutrition, behavior change and ongoing clinical support alongside medication.
Stats & Key Facts
- #$110M for on-demand custom manufacturing First, let's start with a refreshingly non-AI round, and a sizable one at that.
- #Reno, Nevada-based SendCutSend said last month that it has raised $110 million in funding led by brothers and Stripe founders John and Patrick Collison , along with Sequoia Capital and Paradigm , at a reported $1 billion valuation.
- #Related Crunchbase query: Global Venture Funding To Manufacturing Startups In 2026 $100M for insurance-covered metabolic health counseling GLP-1 weight-loss drugs may be booming, but a well-funded startup is betting that medication alone isn't enough to solve the chronic disease crisis.
- #Nourish , a New York-based metabolic health startup that combines dietitians, AI tools and GLP-1 medication management, last month said that it raised a $100 million Series C round led by Menlo Ventures .
A grab bag of funded startups caught our attention this past month, from a previously bootstrapped custom metal manufacturer that got its first outside funding from big-name Silicon Valley backers, to a startup that aims to provide geothermal energy from underwater volcanoes to small island nations. Marlize van Romburgh marlizevr This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting startup funding deals that may have flown under the radar. Check out our previous entry here .
A grab bag of funded startups caught our attention this past month, from a previously bootstrapped custom metal manufacturer that got its first outside funding from big-name Silicon Valley backers, to a startup that aims to provide geothermal energy from underwater volcanoes to small island nations. $110M for on-demand custom manufacturing First, let's start with a refreshingly non-AI round, and a sizable one at that. Reno, Nevada-based SendCutSend said last month that it has raised $110 million in funding led by brothers and Stripe founders John and Patrick Collison , along with Sequoia Capital and Paradigm , at a reported $1 billion valuation.
The company operates an on-demand manufacturing platform specializing in custom-cut metal and fabrication. The round is its first venture investment, and apparently came only after Sequoia's Andrew Reed flew to Reno to woo SendCutSend CEO Jim Belosic into accepting Silicon Valley backing. Previously, Belosic had bootstrapped the company, founded in 2018, with personal savings, bank loans and credit cards, he told The Wall Street Journal .
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