Freeway
Arizona

Tempe

Freeway partner cityData as of Oct 1, 2026
687
Companies
$21.0M
Venture funding in the last 12 months, 3 rounds
$729.1M
Venture funding, 2022–2026
23
Investor firms

Venture funding by year

* 2026 through Oct 2026. Rounds without a disclosed amount count as rounds, not dollars.
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YearVenture fundingRounds
2019$686.1M21
2020$170.0M23
2021$285.4M20
2022$438.5M23
2023$55.7M6
2024$146.1M9
2025$67.8M7
2026*$21.0M3

Industries

  • Health86
  • Marketing55
  • Enterprise software50
  • Energy45
  • Fintech43
  • Real estate39
  • Education35
  • Food31
  • Semiconductors31
  • Media24

And 20 more industries.

Companies in Tempe

25–48 of 687 companies

  • Early stage · 2–10 employees

  • Early stage · 2–10 employees

  • Early stage · 1 employees

  • Early stage · 11–50 employees

  • Akwai

    Education

    Early stage · 1 employees

  • Breakout · 201–500 employees

  • All the World's A Stage Design is a boutique firm specializing in preparing residential properties for sale, personal redesign, and event planning. Based in Burlington, North Carolina, the firm serves homeowners, realtors, builders, and investors. The company's primary service is home staging for both vacant and occupied properties. The process begins with an initial two-hour consultation, priced at $150, to develop a customized plan that aligns with the client's goals and budget. Subsequent work is billed at an hourly rate or as a project-based fee. The firm's methodology focuses on transforming a house into a welcoming home that allows potential buyers to envision themselves living there, thereby enhancing market appeal and expediting sales. Beyond staging, the company offers home redesign services aimed at refreshing and reimagining living spaces to improve functionality and reflect the owner's personality. It also provides comprehensive event planning and design, managing details from decor to logistics for personal and business functions. All the World's a Stage Design positions itself as a versatile partner for clients, capable of managing projects ranging from staging cozy condos to designing for midterm rentals and luxury properties. Testimonials highlight the founder's ability to create warm, inviting, and meticulously styled environments that deliver results.

    Early stage · 1 employees

  • Early stage · 11–50 employees

  • Allergy Voyage is a digital platform designed to assist individuals with dietary restrictions in finding safe dining options. This firsthand experience of being unable to dine out safely, particularly while traveling, was the direct inspiration for the company's creation. Tierce, a 2024 graduate from Arizona State University with degrees in Art Studies and Business Entrepreneurship, established the venture during his sophomore year.The core of Allergy Voyage's service is a website and concierge service where users can view restaurant menus that are filterable based on specific allergens. This allows patrons to identify suitable meals, view ingredient information, and discover new, safe local restaurants. The platform serves a dual-sided market. For individual users, it provides a free-to-use tool that builds confidence and safety when dining out. For food service providers, such as restaurants and campus dining halls, Allergy Voyage offers a subscription-based partnership. These partners receive an interactive menu management platform to keep their allergen information updated, gain visibility to a targeted consumer base, and are offered discounted access to food safety training programs. This model aims to increase revenue for the establishments by attracting diners who would otherwise avoid eating out.The company was developed with support from Arizona State University's Venture Devils program, which provided funding and mentorship. Initially focused on the area around Tempe, Arizona, the company has expanded its partnerships and plans to continue growing in Phoenix and Tempe, with a long-term vision of becoming a global resource for travelers with food allergies. The platform was also the subject of Tierce's defended honors thesis at ASU in the spring of 2024.

    Early stage · 2–10 employees

  • Allseasonspoolandpatio

    Hosting, Semiconductors

    Early stage

  • Early stage · 2–10 employees

  • Breakout · 51–200 employees

  • aLocal

    Enterprise software

    aLocal Solutions is a marketing research firm that leverages modern technologies to source and analyze local market data. The company serves a diverse range of clients including businesses, state and federal governments, tribal governments, and real estate developers. Operating in the market research and data analytics industry, aLocal Solutions offers a unique business model by providing free access to local market demand information for first-time users, which typically costs upwards of $50,000. This strategy aims to attract clients to their more advanced, fee-based products and services.The company generates revenue through software upgrades and additional features such as netEI, Demand Revenue, and Employment Estimates. Their advanced features allow users to see and compare industry demand across multiple ZIP codes, build custom-tailored demand models, and view heat maps of market opportunities. aLocal Solutions emphasizes equity and sovereignty in data analytics, aiming to provide an equitable approach to information and analytics.

    Early stage · 2–10 employees · $500K raised

  • ALPHACORE, INC.

    Real estate, Semiconductors

    Breakout · 51–200 employees · $15.7M raised

  • Alt Thirty Six is a pioneering company in the cannabis industry, providing compliant digital payment solutions for modern cannabis dispensaries. The company enables consumers to purchase cannabis products both in-store and online, ensuring a seamless and secure transaction process. Compliance is a key focus for Alt Thirty Six, which is crucial in the highly regulated cannabis market. By offering the industry's first and only compliant digital payment solution, Alt Thirty Six helps dispensaries upgrade their payment systems without any upfront costs. This allows dispensaries to save time, money, and reduce the hassle associated with traditional payment methods. The company primarily serves cannabis dispensaries and their customers, operating within the legal cannabis market. Alt Thirty Six's business model revolves around providing a sophisticated and legitimate way to handle cannabis transactions, making money through transaction fees and service charges. The company also collaborates with partners like SpringBig to enhance customer experiences and support dispensary operations.

    Breakout · $16.1M raised

  • Early stage · 11–50 employees

  • Amae Live

    Event tech

    Amae Live is a technology and development partner that specializes in providing custom solutions and professional services for users of the Swoogo event management platform. Amae Live and Swoogo have a collaborative relationship, reportedly sharing a founder and maintaining highly integrated teams. The firm's business is centered on enhancing the capabilities of the Swoogo platform for corporate, agency, and association event organizers. It provides a range of services designed to streamline event technology workflows. These services include a customizations marketplace with pre-built add-ons, professional services for creating custom registration functions and website templates, and onsite services like integrated badge printing, check-in, attendance tracking, and lead retrieval. The objective is to enable event organizers to deliver highly branded and customized event websites and attendee journeys. In October 2025, Amae Live was acquired by Swoogo. This acquisition was a strategic move to integrate Amae Live's expertise into Swoogo's Professional Services team, thereby expanding its capacity to deliver branded experiences, advanced builds, and tailored technical solutions at a greater scale.

    Early stage · 2–10 employees

  • Early stage

  • The firm specializes in providing startups, founders, and innovation ecosystems with visibility through professionally written, human-led editorial storytelling. Its primary service involves creating in-depth features that showcase the individuals and companies shaping emerging industries.The company's business model is centered on content creation and distribution, generating revenue through strategic brand partnerships and advertising. American Ascent serves a diverse client base that includes startup founders, high-growth companies, accelerators, incubators, venture studios, and economic development organizations. The content produced aims to help these clients build credibility, attract customers, strengthen partnerships, and gain recognition within their respective fields.Distribution of these stories is executed across a multi-channel network, which includes a digital magazine, a dedicated website, a newsletter, and various social media platforms. This approach ensures a broad reach for its clients' narratives. The company has adopted a scalable market strategy, beginning with the launch of 'American Ascent Arizona' to establish a successful playbook. The long-term vision is to replicate this model and build a national media platform dedicated to spotlighting local innovation before it reaches mainstream awareness.

    Early stage · 1 employees

  • Early stage

  • American Precision Works (APW) specializes in precision 5-axis mill turn CNC machining services, catering to the aerospace, defense, medical, and industrial sectors. The company focuses on producing small parts that fit within a 6-inch cube, leveraging advanced machinery that surpasses competitors in speed and precision. This technological edge translates into quicker lead times and reduced costs for clients. APW's business model revolves around providing high-complexity machining solutions with minimal operator interaction, supporting automation, and reducing quality risks associated with multiple workholdings. The company operates from Philadelphia, drawing on the city's rich resources, talent, and energy to sustain a world-class manufacturing operation. Founded by two industry veterans with 30 years of combined experience, APW is committed to redefining industry standards in price, delivery, and quality. The company generates revenue by offering specialized machining services to its diverse client base, ensuring high-quality outcomes and efficient production processes.

    Early stage · 1 employees

  • Anbarlab

    Health

    Early stage

  • Anesthesia Resources

    Hosting, Semiconductors

    Early stage · 2–10 employees

  • Anton Intelligence provides data, artificial intelligence, and software infrastructure for business-to-business (B2B) healthcare companies. The firm operates with a philosophy of being 'pharmacy operators first and AI builders second,' emphasizing that its solutions are designed by professionals with direct experience in managing rebate, market access, and patient hub programs at scale.The company's core services are structured around three layers built for healthcare operators. The first is data infrastructure, which unifies fragmented data from pharmacy, payer, and manufacturer sources into a single, reliable repository for decision-making. The second layer involves the deployment of large-scale models, domain-trained AI, and intelligent agents designed to impact outcomes rather than just populate dashboards. The final layer is operator-built software, which consists of production AI applications that can be shipped in weeks, offering a significant speed advantage over traditional development cycles. Anton Intelligence's client base includes health plans, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and patient access providers. The company is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, near Arizona State University, with additional operations in Winter Garden, Florida, and Nashville, Tennessee.

    Early stage · 2–10 employees

Recent venture rounds

CompanyRoundAmountDateInvestors
ProPlaintiff.aiEarly VCUndisclosedJul 2026Not disclosed
BasataSeries A$21.0MMay 2026Cowboy Ventures, Basis Set Ventures, PHX Ventures +1 more
LifeGuidesGrowth Equity VCUndisclosedJan 2026Castellan Group
RunBuggySeries B$37.0MOct 2025Centana Growth Partners
DMD systems Recovery, Inc.Growth Equity VCUndisclosedSep 2025Tailwind Capital
Shilo AISeed$2.6MJun 2025The Levi Rodgers Real Estate Group, The MPH Team, AZ-VC +6 more
SolestialSeries A$17.0MMay 2025Techstars, Airbus Ventures, AE Ventures +6 more
UplinqSeries A$10.0MMay 2025LiveOak Venture Partners, Next Coast Ventures, AZ-VC
Morphos AiEarly VC$500KMay 2025Not disclosed
PurityresourceSeed$680KApr 2025Not disclosed
Accelerators and programs

Source: Dealroom, data as of Oct 1, 2026. Venture funding sums venture-type rounds with a disclosed amount; rounds raised by companies already public or bought out are left out. The last 12 months run from Nov 2025 to Oct 2026.

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