Funded Artificial Intelligence Startups in Philadelphia
Philadelphia's AI startup landscape in this dataset spans from a $20K round (Kommunity, May 2025) to Proscia's $50M Series D (March 2025), the largest disc…
Philadelphia's AI startup landscape in this dataset spans from a $20K round (Kommunity, May 2025) to Proscia's $50M Series D (March 2025), the largest disclosed raise in the set and a signal of maturing capital depth in the market. ClearCOGS added a $4M Seed in April 2025, continuing a pattern of early-stage activity that has been consistent since at least 2020, when Guru closed a $30M round.
Healthcare and life sciences AI is the most visible vertical across the 22 companies shown — Proscia (digital pathology), Carenostics, BioPhy, Strados Labs, and PrecisionGx all sit in clinical or biomedical contexts. Outside health, the cohort covers retail inventory intelligence (Invent Analytics, $8M Series A, December 2022), identity security (Deduce, $9M, September 2023), and precision forestry (Treeswift, $11M, September 2023). Four companies — Precigenetics, PACE AI, XponentL Data, and Tribaja — have undisclosed amounts, so total capital deployed exceeds what the disclosed figures alone reflect.
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Frequently asked
What are the largest disclosed rounds among Philadelphia AI startups in this data?
Proscia's $50M Series D (March 2025) is the largest disclosed raise in the dataset and the only late-stage round present. Guru's $30M raise (April 2020) and Treeswift's $11M (September 2023) are the next largest, followed by Deduce at $9M and Invent Analytics at $8M.
Which AI verticals appear most frequently among these Philadelphia-funded companies?
Healthcare and life sciences AI is the strongest cluster — Proscia, Carenostics, BioPhy, Strados Labs, and PrecisionGx all operate in clinical or biomedical contexts. Other verticals include identity security (Deduce), retail and inventory analytics (Invent Analytics, ClearCOGS), environmental monitoring (Microshare, Treeswift), and PCB manufacturing (FlashPCB).
What funding stages are most represented in this Philadelphia AI cohort?
Seed and Series Unknown designations dominate. At least five companies closed Seed rounds — ClearCOGS, XponentL Data, Carenostics, Tribaja, and PLLAY Labs. Three companies are at Pre-Seed (BioPhy, Imaginario AI, Precigenetics), with one Series A (Invent Analytics, $8M) and one Series D (Proscia, $50M) rounding out the stage distribution.
How concentrated is recent funding activity — how many rounds closed in 2023 or later?
Twelve of the 22 rounds visible in the dataset closed in 2023 or later, including three in the first five months of 2025: Proscia (March), ClearCOGS (April), and Kommunity (May). Deal pace from 2023 onward accounts for more than half the cohort shown.
How many companies in this dataset have undisclosed round amounts?
Four companies — Precigenetics, PACE AI, XponentL Data, and Tribaja — list undisclosed amounts. All four are early-stage (Pre-Seed, Seed, or Series Unknown), so the aggregate capital raised by this Philadelphia AI cohort is higher than the sum of the 18 disclosed figures.
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