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Blackstone Taking AIR Communities Private In $10 Billion Deal

Johnson & Johnson Buying Shockwave Medical In $13.1 Billion Deal

RAAAM Memory Technologies: $4 Million Raised To Develop Solutions For Implementing On-Chip Memory

Regeneron Ventures: $500 Million Fund Launch To Invest In Biotech Companies

Snappy: Gifting Platform Company Closes $25 Million

Evergreen Theragnostics: Clinical-Stage Radiopharmaceutical Company Raises $26 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:32 PM

Sayari: $235 Million Strategic Investment Raised From TPG

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:32 PM

Sayari (a leading counterparty and supply chain risk intelligence platform utilized by government agencies, multinational corporations, and financial institutions) and TPG (a global alternative asset management firm) announced that TPG Growth (the firm’s middle market and growth equity platform) has closed a $235 million strategic majority investment in Sayari.

Allen Control Systems: Defense Technology Company Raises $12 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 1:55 PM

Defense technology company Allen Control Systems (ACS) announced it has raised $12 million in seed capital led by Craft Ventures with participation from Forum Ventures and Rally Ventures. Austin, Texas-based ACS is developing counter-drone robotic gun systems.

Loft Labs: Virtual Kubernetes Cluster Company Raises $24 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 1:53 PM

Loft Labs—the creators of vCluster and DevPod—announced $24 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures. Existing investors Fusion Fund, Surface Ventures, Emergent Ventures, and Berkeley SkyDeck Fund participated. Kit Merker, one of the first product managers for Kubernetes at Google, made an additional angel investment. This new funding round brings Loft's total financing to $28.6 million.

SOSV: V Fund Closed At $306 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 1:51 PM

SOSV announced the closing of its $306 million SOSV V fund, the firm’s largest fund to date. The SOSV V fund will focus on deep tech startups in human and planetary health, with an emphasis on decarbonization and re-industrialization—part of the fund’s mandate to reinvent the means of production as SOSV also continues to drive investments in health ranging from therapeutics to medical devices.

CarNow: $40 Million Growth Investment Raised From Runway Growth Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 1:50 PM

Runway Growth Capital, a leading provider of growth loans to venture and non-venture-backed companies seeking an alternative to raising equity, announced a $40 million commitment to CarNow, which is a live-data automotive technology platform that helps dealers elevate the car buying process by transforming the way they connect with customers.

WellTheory: How This Virtual Care Platform Plans To Reverse The Autoimmune Epidemic

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 1:46 PM

WellTheory is an early-stage company on a mission to reverse the autoimmune epidemic. Pulse 2.0 interviewed WellTheory co-founder and CEO Ellen Rudolph to learn more about the company.

Take2 AI: Sales Recruiting Platform Company Raises $3 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 8:21 AM

Take2 AI, an AI-powered job simulation platform for sales recruiting, announced it has raised a $3 million seed round led by Reach Capital and SemperVirens. Other Silicon Valley-based venture funds, Techstars, and HR leaders from Visa, Disney, HP, and Google participated.

Bridgewise: $21 Million Raised To Advance AI-Powered Financial Intelligence Platform For Global Securities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 8:07 AM

Bloomreach: Personalizing E-Commerce Experiences By Unifying Customer And Product Data

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 8:00 AM

Bloomreach personalizes the e-commerce experience by unifying real-time customer and product data so businesses understand what customers want. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Bloomreach CEO and co-founder Raj De Datta to learn more about the company.

Breaking: Plastic Degradation And Synthetic Biology Company Secures $10.5 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 7:32 AM

Breaking, a plastic degradation and synthetic biology company, launched at Colossal Biosciences based on a core discovery out of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. Breaking also announced it launched with unveiling its discovery, X-32, which it will develop to address the global plastics crisis. And Breaking raised $10.5 million in a seed round.

Miggo: Application Detection And Response Platform Company Raises $7.5 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 7:30 AM

Miggo, a cybersecurity company introducing a Application Detection and Response (ADR) platform, announced $7.5 million in seed funding led by YL Ventures with the participation of CCL (Cyber Club London), cybersecurity leaders from Elastic and Everon, and former CISOs of Google, Zscaler and Nike. And Miggo's ADR platform addresses a critical gap in application security by enabling security teams to detect and respond to targeted application attacks.

BreachRx: Intelligent Incident Response Platform Company Raises $6.5 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 11:55 PM

BreachRx, a provider of the first intelligent incident response platform designed for the entire enterprise, announced the closing of its $6.5 million seed round led by SYN Ventures and participated in by Overline.

Trident IoT: Silicon Provider And RF Technology Company Closes $10 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 11:54 PM

Trident IoT, a silicon provider and RF technology company focused on decreasing time-to-market for connected device manufacturers, announced the completion of a $10 million fundraising round.

HumanX: AI Leader Forum Company Secures $6 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 11:52 PM

HumanX, a forum for AI leaders started by the team behind HLTH and Money20/20, announced its official debut and the annual conference. This inaugural gathering will be hosted in March 2025 and bring together C-suite leaders, decision-makers, policymakers, founders, and AI practitioners. And HumanX raised over $6 million in funding led by Primary Venture Partners, with participation from Foundation Capital, FPV Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz.

BeyondTrust To Buy Privilege Management Company Entitle

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 10:36 PM

BeyondTrust, a leader in intelligent identity and access security, announced a definitive agreement to acquire Entitle, a privilege management solution company that discovers, manages, and automates just-in-time (JIT) access and modern identity governance and administration (IGA).

Toku: All-In-One Recurring Payments Platform Raises $9.3 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 10:34 PM

GridBeyond: Intelligent Energy And Smart Grid Platform Company Secures €52 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 10:30 PM

GridBeyond, a leading intelligent energy and smart grid platform provider for distributed energy resource management, announced it has closed a €52 million Series C financing round. Alantra’s Energy Transition Fund Klima led the round. And the round also included new investors Energy Impact Partners, Mirova, ABB, Constellation, and Yokogawa Electric Corporation, as well as investment from existing investor Act Venture Capital.

Ilant Health: Obesity Management Company Extends Seed Round To $5.5 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 6:28 PM

Ilant Health, a leader in value-based obesity management and cardiometabolic health solutions, announced the extension of its seed round of fundraising from $3 million to $5.5 million. This women-led startup received additional funds from a combination of new health-oriented investors, including LifeX Ventures, Celtic House Asia Partners, Cornucopian Capital, and existing investors.

University Of Texas At Arlington Launches Center For Entrepreneurship And Technology Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 6:02 PM

The University of Texas at Arlington has announced the launch of its Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Development (CETD) to support student and faculty entrepreneurship. This center will support the region’s innovation economy and expand UTA’s worldwide engagement with public and private partners.

Asher Biotherapeutics: $55 Million Raised To Develop Precisely-Targeted Immunotherapies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 5:49 PM

Asher Biotherapeutics, a biotechnology company that is developing precisely targeted immunotherapies for cancer, autoimmune, and infectious diseases, announced the closing of a $55 million Series C funding round. This funding was led by RA Capital Management and included new investors AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb, along with existing investors Janus Henderson Investors, Third Rock Ventures, Wellington Management, Boxer Capital, and other undisclosed institutional investors.

AI Squared: $13.8 Million Raised To Deliver Data And Insights Into Business Apps

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:18 PM

AI Squared, a company that helps organizations deliver data and AI insights into business applications, announced today that it has raised $13.8 million in Series A funding led by Ansa Capital with participation from existing investors NEA and Ridgeline.

University Of Arkansas At Little Rock Receives $5 Million In Federal Funding For Cybersecurity Education

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:16 PM

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock received $5 million in federal funding to enhance cybersecurity for the energy sector through education, workforce development, and innovation. This award comes from appropriations language authored by U.S. Sen. John Boozman (passed into law in December 2022). And the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response provided this funding.

Accenture Federal Services To Buy Cognosante

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:11 PM

Accenture Federal Services has agreed to acquire Cognosante, a mission-driven provider of digital transformation and cloud modernization solutions for federal health, defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies. The terms of the deal were undisclosed.

Magnesium Capital: Inaugural Fund Closed At €135 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:10 PM

Energy transition buyout specialist Magnesium Capital announced the successful closing of its inaugural Fund, Magnesium Capital I, at its hard cap of €135 million, exceeding the €100 million Fund target. The final close occurred less than a year after the Fund’s first close, with Magnesium attracting blue-clip institutional investors from the US, Europe, and the UK.

Andreessen Horowitz: $7.2 Billion Raised For Several Venture Strategies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:08 PM

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz announced it has raised $7.2 billion for several venture strategies. The funding will be spread as follows: American Dynamism ($600 million), Apps ($1 billion), Games ($600 million), Infrastructure ($1.25 billion), and Growth ($3.75 billion).

EnrichedHQ: How This Platform Connects Families To Virtual Activities For School-Aged Kids

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:06 PM

Two Chairs: Modern Behavioral Health Company Raises $72 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:03 PM

Modern behavioral health company Two Chairs announced that it has closed a $72 million Series C equity and debt financing round led by Amplo. Fifth Down Capital and other investors also participated. Bridge Bank set up the debt financing.

Armis Buying Silk Security For $150 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 3:58 PM

Armis announced it has acquired Silk Security for a total of $150 million and will integrate the Silk Platform into the Armis Centrix AI-based Vulnerability Prioritization and Remediation solution to enhance its capabilities and now be able to provide security teams with a consolidated view of security findings that encompass all sources of data from on-premise devices to cloud compute, code, and application security tools, and fully manage and automate remediation.

VShift: Helping Large Organizations In Regulated Industries With Digital Transformations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 3:56 PM

VShift is a digital strategy, design, and technology agency for enterprise-scale brands in regulated industries. Pulse 2.0 interviewed VShift founder and CEO Al Collins to learn more about the company.