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QXO To Buy Beacon Roofing Supply For $11 Billion

Google To Buy Cloud Security Company Wiz In $32 Billion All-Cash Deal

Kraken To Buy NinjaTrader For $1.5 Billion

Ceramic.ai: $12 Million Raised For Delivering Faster AI Model Training For Enterprises

LimitlessCNC: $4.1 Million (Seed) Raised For Transforming Manufacturing With AI

VulnCheck: $12 Million (Series A) Closed For Exploit Intelligence Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 8:16 AM

VulnCheck, the exploit intelligence company, announced a $12 million Series A funding round led by Ten Eleven Ventures, with participation from existing investors, including Sorenson Capital and In-Q-Tel (IQT). The latest funding brings the total funding raised to nearly $20 million.

Ownright: C$4.5 Million (Seed) Raised For Real Estate Law Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 8:15 AM

Ownright (previously Doormat), an Ontario-based law service for real estate transactions, announced it has successfully closed a C$4.5 million seed funding round led by Alate and Relay Ventures, bringing the total capital raised to $6.5 million CAD. Along with accelerating growth, this latest funding round will enhance the client experience through expanded technological capabilities, solidifying Ownright’s position as the go-to legal solution for homebuyers and sellers.

RegCell: $45.8 Million Raised For T-Cell Reprogramming

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 8:15 AM

RegCell - a biotechnology company developing first-in-class therapies for autoimmune diseases and transplantation with its epigenetic reprogramming platform utilizing the natural biology of regulatory T-cells (Tregs) - announced the closing of an oversubscribed seed round and its transition to a U.S.-based company.

Moonwatt: €8 Million Raised For Advancing Sodium-Ion Energy Storage Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 8:14 AM

Moonwatt – an energy storage company founded by seasoned professionals with a track record at global leaders like Tesla, EDF, Siemens, Scatec, and Freyr Battery – announced it has raised €8 million to unlock the true, 24/7 power of solar with its disruptive sodium-ion battery system. The funding was co-led by daphni and LEA Partners, Founders Future, AFI Ventures (by Ventech) and Kima Ventures also participated along with strategic business angels and customers.

Decibel Bio: $12 Million Raised For Advancing Epigenetic Plant Programming Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 8:12 AM

Decibel Bio, a plant biotechnology company building the first crop epigenetic platform, announced it recently emerged from stealth with the announcement of an oversubscribed $12 million financing round from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Future Ventures, and industry leaders Bayer and Syngenta. This funding round will advance Decibel’s proprietary platform for reading and writing the plant epigenome to create crop varieties with higher yield, efficiency, and resilience to a changing environment.

CaseBlink: $2 Million (Pre-Seed) Raised For Helping Transform Immigration Case Preparation With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 8:10 AM

CaseBlink, an AI startup focused on immigration law, announced it has secured $2 million in pre-seed funding led by Tower Research Ventures, leading VCs, and immigration law firms, including Fakhoury Global Immigration (FGI).

Hillpointe: $750 Million Raised For Workforce Housing Partnership V

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 8:10 AM

Hillpointe - a fully integrated real estate development and investment management firm focused on developing market-rate workforce housing in the Sun Belt - announced the closing of Hillpointe Workforce Housing Partnership V at its hard cap of $750 million.

Dashlane: Interview With Co-Founder & VP Of Architecture Guillaume Maron About The Credential Management Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 6:53 PM

Dashlane is a web and mobile app that simplifies password management for people and businesses. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Dashlane co-founder and VP of Engineering Guillaume Maron to learn more about the company.

Firsthand: $26 Million (Series A) Secured For Scaling AI-Based Brand Agent Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 6:46 PM

Utila: $18 Million (Series A) Raised For Institutional MPC Wallet Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 6:44 PM

Utila enables organizations to address the fast-growing market with a secure, seamless, institutional-grade platform for digital asset operations. In 18 months, the company has secured $35 billion in digital asset transactions, engaged hundreds of global clients, and leaped forward to become a leading institutional-grade digital asset operations platform.

JSI Buying Contact Center Services Company LogicomUSA

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 6:41 PM

Stone-Goff Partners (SGP), a lower middle-market private equity firm investing in technology-driven business-to-business service companies, announced the acquisition of LogicomUSA, a premier provider of voice, network, and 24/7 contact center services to broadband providers and electric cooperatives nationwide, by SGP portfolio company JSI.

Wabtec Buying Dellner Couplers For $960 Million In Cash

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 6:40 PM

Wabtec agreed to buy Dellner Couplers, a global leader in highly engineered safety-critical train connection systems and services for passenger rail rolling stock. The acquisition brings highly attractive and complementary technologies to Wabtec and positions the company for accelerated, profitable growth while strengthening its portfolio of passenger rail systems.

Sienz: Strategic Funding Raised From Sunkist Growers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 6:37 PM

Sunkist Growers announced it acquired a minority stake in Sienz, a leader in fruit and vegetable packinghouse technology. With this strategic funding, Sienz provided critical parts, service, and ongoing support to Sunkist's packinghouse equipment customers worldwide. Sienz will also collaborate with Sunkist to develop new technologies.

Sofinnova Partners: €165M Biotech Acceleration Fund Closed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 6:34 PM

Sofinnova Partners, a leading European life sciences venture capital firm based in Paris, London, and Milan, announced the final close of Sofinnova Biovelocita II. This fund has exceeded its target, successfully raising €165 million, with substantial backing from the top global pharmaceutical companies, including Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Pfizer Ventures.

257: $9.2 Million (Seed) Secured For Transforming Residential Energy Market Using Data And AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 5:31 PM

257 - a software and AI company with a vision to reshape the massive residential energy market - announced a $9.2 million seed funding round to transform how energy product and service providers analyze and engage with consumers. The funding round was led by longtime partner F2 Venture Capital and top energy and AI angels, including Mike Fallquist (Founder & CEO of Crius Energy, Co-Founder & CEO of Energywell), Jeff Hammerbacher (founder and co-CEO of Open Athena, founder of Cloudera, original Facebook data team manager), Otto von Troschke (a European growth capital investor focusing on the energy transition, co-founder of SUSI), and Gil Golan (former GM CTO and head of GM Ventures).

Dentons Combining With Griffiths & Partners In Turks and Caicos And Pisut In Thailand

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 5:29 PM

Dentons announced its intention to combine with a couple of law firms. This includes Griffiths & Partners in Turks and Caicos Islands and Pisut in Thailand.

Clario Buying Imaging Analysis Company NeuroRx

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 5:28 PM

Clario - a leading provider of endpoint data solutions to the clinical trial industry - announced they have acquired NeuroRx, a leader in imaging analysis with expertise in multiple sclerosis.

Telesis Bio: $21 Million Raised For Accelerating Adoption Of Gibson SOLA Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 5:27 PM

Telesis Bio, a provider of DNA and mRNA synthesis solutions to accelerate therapeutic discovery with fast and flexible on-site automated foundries, announced that it has entered into a convertible preferred stock purchase agreement to sell shares of a new series of convertible preferred stock in a private placement. The financing was led by Novalis LifeSciences and Northpond Ventures and is expected to result in gross proceeds to the company of up to about $21 million.

Merit Buys $1.6 Billion Firm Sanctuary Wealth Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 5:25 PM

Merit Financial Advisors, a Georgia-based financial advisory firm specializing in financial planning and wealth management solutions for high-net-worth individuals, families, and those navigating life transitions, announced it has acquired Sanctuary Wealth Management and Fiduciary Services (FS). This deal enables Merit to establish a presence in Idaho and grow its assets collectively by $1.6 billion.

TPG: Jennifer Chu Named As Chief Legal Officer And General Counsel

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 5:22 PM

Global alternative asset management firm announced that Jennifer Chu has been named as a Partner, Chief Legal Officer, and General Counsel of TPG, effective March 31. Chu will be succeeding Bradford Berenson, who will continue at TPG for a period of time as a Senior Advisor before retiring from the firm at year-end.

Cenosco: Growth Investment Raised For Asset Integrity Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 5:20 PM

Cenosco, a leading asset integrity management (AIM) software provider, announced a growth investment led by Summit Partners, with participation from existing investor Fortino Capital. This partnership will help accelerate Cenosco’s continued product innovation, international expansion, and team growth.

Curinos And University Of Washington Relaunching FinTech Incubator At Startup Hall

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 5:19 PM

Curinos, a global data intelligence business combining expertise, insights, and analytics to help leading financial institutions grow their businesses, announced a new partnership with CoMotion, the collaborative innovation hub at the University of Washington, to relaunch its FinTech Incubator.

Myriad Venture Partners: Interview With Founder & Managing Partner Chris Fisher About The Early-Stage Venture Firm

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 10:21 AM

Myriad Venture Partners is an early-stage venture firm defining the future of business solutions. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Myriad Venture Partners founder and managing partner Chris Fisher to learn more about the firm.

Bread & Butter Ventures: $40 Million Fund IV Announced For Investing In Seed-Stage Startups

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 12:56 AM

Bread & Butter Ventures - an early-stage venture firm based in the bread and butter state of Minnesota, announced the closing of its fourth fund with a new $40 million vehicle. And their latest fund - which has already begun making investments - targets innovative seed-stage tech companies across North America that are shaping the future of food technology, digital health, and enterprise SaaS. Bread & Butter Ventures has invested in 66 companies across these sectors via their first three funds since 2017.

Coreshell: $24 Million Raised For Scaling Cell Production And Deliver Next-Generation EV Batteries

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 12:56 AM

Battery technology company Coreshell announced $24million in strategic funding aimed at scaling production of its 60 Ah battery cells made with 100% domestically-sourced metallurgical silicon (MG-Si). The funding round was anchored by Coreshell's strategic partner Ferroglobe, a leader in the production of Silicon and Ferroalloys, and Zeon Ventures. And additional financial and returning investors include Lane Ventures, Entrada Ventures, Foothill Ventures, Helios Climate Ventures, Translink Investment, Trousdale Ventures, and Asymmetry Ventures.

brain.space: $11 Million (Series A) Closed To Accelerate Brain Data-Driven Mental Modeling

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 12:54 AM

brain.space, the creator of the first-ever Brain-Data-as-a-Service Ecosystem for exclusive Generative AI Mental Modeling that better understands and predicts human behavior, announced an $11 million Series A Funding Round led by Toyota Ventures, with significant participation by Mangrove Capital Partners, The Group Ventures, and a $3.5 million non-dilutive Grant by the Israel Innovation Authority.

Equipt.ai: $3.2 Million (Seed) Funding Secured For Accelerating AI-Based Growth In Asset & Field Service Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 12:53 AM

Equipt, a software company transforming asset and field service management, announced it has secured a $3.2 million seed funding round led by Moneta Ventures with participation from Cortado Ventures. This investment will drive product innovation, market expansion, and operational scaling to meet growing demand.

Crossmint: $23.6 Million Secured To Bring Businesses And AI Agents Onchain

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 12:52 AM

Crossmint - an all-in-one platform for companies building onchain - announced the completion of a $23.6 million funding round led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from Franklin Templeton, Nyca, First Round, and Lightspeed Faction. This funding follows a year of explosive growth, with Crossmint's subscription revenue increasing by 1,100% last year.

White & Case: Xavier Hubert Named As A Partner In Paris

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 12:45 AM

Global law firm White & Case announced it has expanded its Global White Collar Practice with the addition of Xavier Hubert as a partner in Paris.

Orion Security: $6 Million (Seed) Raised For AI-Based Data Protection Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 12:45 AM

Orion Security, an AI-based data protection platform, announced a $6 million seed funding round led by Pico Partners and FXP with participation from Underscore VC and cybersecurity leaders like the founders of Perimeter 81 and the CISO of Elastic. Launched by CEO Nitay Milner, former product leader at Cisco-acquired Epsagon, and CTO Yonatan Kreiner, former application security lead at WalkMqe, Orion is already used by leading technology companies.