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Volantis: $9 Million Seed Funding Raised For Advancing Photonically Integrated Computers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Volantis, a semiconductor startup developing photonically integrated computers for the AI era, today emerged from stealth and announced a $9 million seed funding round. The round includes backing from Alex Wang (Scale AI) and Trevor Blackwell (Y Combinator). Sam Altman backed Volantis in April 2022, betting on the need for foundational breakthroughs in computing long before today’s AI infrastructure limitations became apparent.

VectorWave: $2.5 Million Raised For Transforming Electromagnetic Spectrum

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

VectorWave announced $2.5 million in seed funding led by prominent dual-use investor J2 Ventures and Coalition Ventures.

Olyzon: $5 Million Raised For Advancing Agentic AI Platform For CTV Advertising

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Agentic CTV advertising platform Olyzon announced a $5 million seed extension round led by Cassius Capital, with continued participation from Ventech, Eurazeo, and strategic angels including Greg Coleman (former President of Criteo), Tom O'Regan (former CEO of Madison Logic), Cédric Mao (founder of Epic12), and Christophe Parcot (former executive at Ogury, Teads, and Yahoo). The funding round included $3.8 million in equity, which was complemented by non-dilutive funding from Bpifrance and a consortium of banking partners.

George Mason University: Grand Challenge Initiative To Drive A Sustainable Future

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

George Mason University has recently announced the launch of its Grand Challenge Initiative, a comprehensive research framework backed by an initial five-year, $15 million investment. This initiative will align university resources, faculty expertise, and educational programs around six interconnected solution areas, addressing what George Mason President Gregory Washington described as "humanity's ultimate grand challenge": securing a peaceful, healthy, and prosperous future.

IonQ Buying Oxford Ionics In $1.08 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

IonQ and Oxford Ionics announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for IonQ to buy Oxford Ionics in a transaction valued at $1.075 billion, which will consist of $1.065 billion in shares of IonQ common stock and approximately $10 million in cash (subject to customary closing adjustments and expenses).

Neuberger Berman: $4 Billion Raised For Secondary Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Neuberger Berman, a private, independent, and employee-owned investment manager, announced the final closing of NB Strategic Capital Fund II, with total capital commitments exceeding $4 billion. This figure includes additional capital committed by limited partners to co-invest alongside the fund.

Paytient: $40 Million Raised For Advancing Market Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Paytient, a healthcare payments company helping people better access and afford care, announced it has secured $40 million from Trinity Capital. This facility will support Paytient's expansion into large group employer-sponsored plans, alternative health plans, the ACA marketplace, and Medicare, as plan-embedded out-of-pocket affordability or cost-smoothing solutions are becoming standard in health plan benefits.

Chckvet: Pre-Seed Funding Raised For Vet Clinic Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Chckvet, a fully integrated online scheduling, client communication, and analytics software for veterinary clinics, announced a Pre-Seed funding round.

Trucordia: $1.3 Billion Funding Raised At $5.7 Billion Valuation From Carlyle

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Trucordia announced that it will receive a $1.3 billion strategic investment from Carlyle’s Global Credit platform. The deal will reduce Trucordia’s leverage and simplify its governance structure by repurchasing units from existing minority investors.

Filament Syfter: $4.8 Million Series A Raised For Data Engine For Private Market Dealmakers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Filament Syfter, a leading AI-enabled data engine purpose-built for private market dealmakers, announced it has raised $4.8 million in a Series A funding round led by FINTOP Capital.

Clifford Chance: María Guinot Named As Partner In Spain

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Global law firm Clifford Chance announced that María Guinot has been appointed as a partner in its Litigation & Dispute Resolution team, boosting its commercial litigation and regulatory investigations offering, with a focus on the financial services sector. And she will join the firm in the coming weeks.

N2W: Interview With Chief Revenue Officer Alon Maimoni About The Cloud-Native Backup Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

N2W is a company that delivers a cloud-native backup and recovery platform built for the real-world demands of AWS and Azure environments. Pulse 2.0 interviewed N2W Chief Revenue Officer Alon Maimoni to learn more about the company.

Peerbridge Health: Interview With CEO Chris Darland About The Remote Healthcare Platform Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Ohio State University: AI Fluency Initiative Revealed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

The Ohio State University has announced an ambitious new initiative to ensure that every student graduates with the AI proficiencies necessary to compete and lead now. Launching this fall for first-year students, Ohio State’s AI Fluency initiative will embed AI education into the core of every undergraduate curriculum, equipping students with the ability to not only use AI tools but also understand, question, and innovate with them, regardless of their major.

Flank: $10 Million Raised For Scaling Autonomous Legal Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Flank, a Berlin-based company that is building an autonomous AI legal agent for enterprise teams, announced a $10 million funding round led by global software investor Insight Partners, with continued participation from Gradient Ventures, the Seed fund designed for founders in AI, as well as 10x Founders and HV Capital.

Thread AI: $20 Million Series A Secured For Enterprise AI Workflow Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Thread AI, a leader in composable AI infrastructure, announced it has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Greycroft, with participation from Index Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Plug-and-Play, Meritech Capital, and Homebrew.

Uptick: Strategic Growth Investment Raised From PSG

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Uptick, a job management software for fire, safety, security, and field service professionals, announced a strategic growth investment from PSG. And PSG's investment aims to support Uptick's commitment to product innovation and continued global expansion, with a focus on accelerating growth in North America.

SWTCH Energy: Strategic Investment Raised For EV Charging Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

SWTCH Energy, a leading provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions, announced it has secured a strategic $4 million investment from Constellation Technology Ventures (CTV). This funding expands SWTCH’s Series B funding to $31.2 million, building on the momentum of its initial $27.2 million raise.

White & Case: Sonia Tubiana Named As Partner In Paris

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Global law firm White & Case announced it has expanded its Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice and Global Private Equity Industry Group with the addition of Sonia Tubiana as a partner in Paris.

BNP Associates Buys Consulting Firm Establish

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

BNP Associates, a leading air transportation design and engineering firm backed by Godspeed Capital Management, announced the acquisition of Establish, a global consulting firm specializing in warehousing and supply chain logistics. The deal for Establish enhances BNP’s capabilities with a holistic suite of consulting services for clients across the aviation, warehousing, and logistics industries.

Impart Security: $12 Million Series A Raised For Application Detection And Response Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

Impart Security announced the general availability of the industry's first Application Detection and Response Engineering Platform, trusted by security teams to build autonomous workflows for production environments. This launch is accompanied by a $12 million Series A funding round led by Madrona Ventures, with participation from CRV and 8-Bit Capital.

GM Investing $4 Billion In U.S. Manufacturing Plants

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 12, 2025

General Motors plans to invest about $4 billion over the next two years in its domestic manufacturing plants to increase U.S. production of gasoline and electric vehicles. This new investment will give GM the ability to assemble over two million cars per year in the U.S. This investment comes on the heels of the company’s recently announced plan to invest $888 million in the Tonawanda Propulsion plant near Buffalo, New York, to support GM’s next-generation V-8 engine.

Deep Fission: Interview With Founder & CEO Elizabeth Muller About The Nuclear Power Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 11, 2025

Deep Fission is a company that is reimagining nuclear power with a bold new approach: placing small modular reactors (SMRs) a mile underground for cheaper, faster, and more scalable deployment. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Deep Fission founder and CEO Elizabeth Muller to learn more about the company.

Mindgard: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Dr. Peter Garraghan About The AI Security Testing Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 11, 2025

Mindgard is a leader in Artificial Intelligence Security Testing. Launched at Lancaster University and backed by cutting-edge research, Mindgard enables organizations to secure their AI systems from new threats that traditional application security tools cannot address. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Mindgard co-founder and CEO Dr. Peter Garraghan to learn more about the company.

Plug And Play: $50 Million Closed For Fintech & AI Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 11, 2025

Plug and Play, which is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, announced the closing of its $50 million Fintech & AI Fund with nine institutional investors. Plug and Play runs nine funds in total.

Farsight: $16 Million Secured For Automating Financial Workflows

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 11, 2025

Farsight, a pioneering technology company transforming workflows and insights at financial institutions, has announced a Series A fundraise, raising $16 million in capital. This funding round was led by SignalFire, with participation from RRE Ventures, Link Ventures and K5 Ventures as well as contributions from many strategic angel investors at firms including Blackstone, Oaktree, Searchlight, Bank of America and more.

SpliceBio: $135 Million Series B Secured For Advancing Lead Program SB-007

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 11, 2025

SpliceBio, a clinical-stage genetic medicines company pioneering Protein Splicing to address diseases caused by mutations in large genes, announced the closing of a $135 million Series B financing co-led by new investors EQT Life Sciences and Sanofi Ventures, with participation from Roche Venture Fund, and all existing investors New Enterprise Associates, UCB Ventures, Ysios Capital, Gilde Healthcare, Novartis Venture Fund, and Asabys Partners.

Atraverse Medical: $29 Million Secured For Advancing Commercialization Of HOTWIRE

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 11, 2025

Atraverse Medical, a medical device company pioneering next-generation transseptal access technology, announced the closing of a $29.4 million follow-on financing to advance growth.

Wealthbox: $200 Million Secured For Advancing Financial CRM Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 11, 2025

Wealthbox, a CRM software platform for financial advisors, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement for a $200 million strategic majority investment from Sixth Street Growth.

Trustible: $4.6 Million Seed Funding Raised For AI Governance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 11, 2025

Trustible, a leading AI governance platform that enables safe and compliant AI adoption, today announced a $4.6 million Seed Series financing round. The round was led by Lookout Ventures, with participation from the Office of Eric Schmidt, Tau Ventures, Inner Loop Capital, Alumni Ventures, FoundersX, former Deloitte CIO Larry Quinlan, former Relativity CEO Mike Gamson, and former Washington DC Mayor Adrian Fenty, alongside existing investors Harlem Capital, Vamos Ventures, and JHH VC.