Tags: pre‑seed funding

Prickly Pear Health, founded by Iman Clark, is bringing its voice‑first, AI‑powered companion for women’s brain health to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in San Francisco. The platform captures daily voice reflections and integrates data from trackers like Apple Health, Oura and Garmin to provide personalized insights for women in their 30s to 50s navigating hormonal changes. After releasing a free version in May and preparing a premium launch in October, the company also announced a $350,000 pre‑seed round. Clark aims to fill gaps in traditional care by detecting early cognitive signals before they evolve into more serious health challenges. Read more

Sydney‑based startup Alloy is creating a data‑infrastructure platform tailored for robotics companies. The system encodes, labels and makes robot‑generated multimodal data searchable with natural language, while allowing users to set rule‑based alerts for anomalies. Founder and CEO Joe Harris, a former Atlassian and telehealth employee, launched Alloy in February 2025 after identifying data‑handling as a common pain point among robotics founders. Since then, Alloy has signed four Australian robotics firms as design partners, raised over AUD $4.5 million in a pre‑seed round led by Blackbird Ventures, and is preparing to expand into the U.S. market. Read more