Innovation

Daisy: $15 Million (Series C) Secured For Tech Installation And Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 5:08 PM

Daisy, which is the first national home and small business technology installation and services company, announced the completion of its $15 million Series C funding round. And this new funding round will reinforce the company's continued investments in acquisitions and propel further growth for its franchise operations. So far, Daisy has raised $35 million, emphasizing its exceptional financial and operational performance in its first year in business.

Helios: $15.5 Million (Seed) Closed For AI-Based Workforce Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 5:06 PM

Helios Global Payments Solutions, an AI-based workforce management platform focusing on localized automation workflows, announced it has raised $15.5 million in funding as it launches its highly anticipated product worldwide across 125+ countries. And with backing from global corporate investors, private angel investors, and several Family Office investors, Helios is positioned to disrupt how companies hire, manage, and pay their global workforce.

Proximity: $3 Million (Seed) Raised To Optimize 340B Drug Discount Revenue For Healthcare Providers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 5:02 PM

Proximity, the intelligent automation platform maximizing 340B drug discount revenue for qualified healthcare providers, launched with $3 million in funding to help uncover and secure revenue critical to operating budgets. Proximity’s seed round was led by LRVHealth with participation from Commonweal Ventures and will accelerate the development of its technology, which has already been proven with pilot customers to improve 340B program values by an average of 20%.

Spacer Technologies: Interview With Founder & Global CEO Mike Rosenbaum About The Company That Monetizes Unutilized Space

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:56 PM

Spacer Technologies is a company that was created to help asset owners monetize space: Not the traditional residential home, office or accommodation space, but often forgotten but equally valuable real estate like parking, garages and empty space in vehicles. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Spacer Technologies founder and CEO Mike Rosenbaum to learn more about the company.

Callio Therapeutics: $187 Million (Series A) Secured For Realizing Promise Of Multi-Payload Antibody-Drug Conjugates

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:56 PM

Callio Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on realizing the promise of multi-payload antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) to improve cancer therapy, announced its launch with the closing of a $187 million Series A financing round. This funding was led by Frazier Life Sciences with significant participation from Jeito Capital along with other life sciences investors, including Novo Holdings A/S, Omega Funds, ClavystBio, Platanus, Norwest, Pureos Bioventures, SEEDS Capital, and EDBI.

GEM HEALTH: $7 Million (Series A) Secured For Scaling Virtual Sleep Care

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:54 PM

Gem Specialty Health, a nationwide virtual specialty care company transforming sleep care, announced a $7 million Series A funding round co-led by HealthTrend Capital and LFE Capital. Existing investors Base10 Partners and Mairs & Power Venture Capital participated.

CTGT: $7.2 Million (Seed) Raised To Help Enterprises Scale AI Efforts

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:52 PM

CTGT, a company that is enabling enterprises to scale their AI efforts with a new approach to customizing, training, and deploying AI models that is up to 500 times faster, announced that it has raised an oversubscribed $7.2 million seed round to accelerate product development and sales and marketing.

Credcore: $16 Million (Series A) Secured For Transforming Enterprise Debt Investment With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:50 PM

CredCore, a vertical AI company transforming debt capital markets for lenders and borrowers, announced $16 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Avataar Ventures and participated in by Inspired Capital, Fitch Group, BellTower Partners, and senior executives in asset management and financial services.

Together AI: $305 Million (Series B) Secured At $3.3 Billion Valuation For Scaling AI Acceleration Cloud

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:48 PM

Leading AI-based acceleration cloud company Together AI announced a $305 million Series B investment led by General Catalyst and co-led by Prosperity7. The funding round saw participation from a distinguished group of global institutional and strategic investors including Salesforce Ventures, DAMAC Capital, NVIDIA, Kleiner Perkins, March Capital, Emergence Capital, Lux Capital, SE Ventures, Greycroft, Coatue, Definition, Cadenza Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Brave Capital, Scott Banister, and technology pioneer John Chambers.

Arize AI: $70 Million (Series C) Closed For AI Observability And LLM Evaluation Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:47 PM

Arize AI, a leader in AI observability and LLM evaluation, announced a $70 million Series C round to accelerate its goal of making AI work reliably in production. The funding round was led by Adams Street Partners, with participation from M12 (Microsoft's venture fund), Sinewave Ventures, OMERS Ventures, Datadog, PagerDuty, Industry Ventures, and Archerman Capital. Existing investors Foundation Capital, Battery Ventures, TCV, and Swift Ventures also cemented their confidence in Arize's vision.

Opal: $1.5 Million (Pre-Seed) Secured For Automating Back-Office Operations For Agencies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:44 PM

Opal, a SaaS platform designed for automating back-office operations for agencies, announced $1.5 million in pre-seed funding. The funding round was led by Founders Co-op with support from Exit North Ventures. This funding will advance the development of “Opal Spend,” an ad-spend platform built to seamlessly connect ad-spend with accounting, invoicing, and contract management.

Resynergi: $18 Million (Series B Extension) Raised For Modular Advanced Plastic Recycling Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:43 PM

Resynergi, an in-modular advanced plastic recycling technology, announced it has raised $18 million in Series B extension funding led by Taranis, the investment and asset management company of Perenco Group. This funding round enables Resynergi to commission its first commercial-scale site, equipping the company to address the outsized demand for sustainable, circular plastic resin and advance its mission to accelerate the transition to a circular economy.

Henry AI: $4.3 Million (Seed) Secured For Automating Commercial Real Estate Deals

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:42 PM

Y Combinator-backed company Henry AI, an AI analyst for the commercial real estate (CRE) sector, announced that it has raised $4.3 million in seed funding. Susa Ventures and 1Sharpe Ventures co-led the funding round. Additional investors include RXR, Arden Venture Arms, Singularity Capital, Unwritten Ventures, Coalition Operators, Pioneer Fund, Orange Collective and Storyhouse ventures. Bill.com's head of product Rami Essaid, Truebill.com founder Yahya Mokhtarzada, ROOM founder Brian Chen, and Slack's chief strategy officer Joe Teplow also participated.

IdentifySensors Biologics; $20 Million Secured For Advancing New Digital Diagnostics Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 11:32 AM

IdentifySensors Biologics, a leading developer of digital diagnostic technologies, announced it has raised $20 million to commercialize a software platform utilizing semiconductors that function as rapid biosensors. And when connected to a dedicated Bluetooth device, the sensors are intended to rapidly detect targeted gene sequences indicative of infectious diseases and potentially various cancers using a patient sample.

Neem: Interview With Co-Founder & CTO Tarun Eldho Alias About The Dental Practice Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 9:00 AM

Neem is a company that offers an all-in-one software platform to run your dental practice. Its cloud-based platform is comprehensive and thoughtfully designed to serve the needs of the practice owner, front office, and clinical staff alike. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Neem co-founder and CTO Tarun Eldho Alias to learn more about the company.

1848 Ventures: Interview With Managing Partner Kal Amin About The Investment Firm

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 8:05 AM

1848 Ventures is a firm that brings the brightest minds together to solve the real-world challenges faced by small and medium businesses. Pulse 2.0 interviewed 1848 Ventures Managing Partner Kal Amin to learn more about the firm.

Colossal: Woolly Mouse Created To Express Mammoth-Like Traits Providing Adaptations To Life In Cold Climates

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 8:01 AM

With an achievement of advanced multiplexed genome engineering, Colossal Biosciences announced the birth of the Colossal Woolly Mouse — mice engineered to express multiple key mammoth-like traits that provide adaptations to life in cold climates. By modifying 7 genes simultaneously, Colossal's team created mice with dramatically altered coat color, texture, and thickness reminiscent of the woolly mammoth’s core phenotypes.

The CFO Centre: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Sara Daw About The Fractional And Part-Time C-Suite Service

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 8:00 AM

Sara Daw is Co-Founder and CEO of The CFO Centre and The Liberti Group. Operating in 17 countries, The CFO Centre is the global leading provider of fractional and part-time C-suite portfolio professionals to entrepreneurial, owner-managed, mid-tier businesses, and larger organizations.

ADNOC And OMV Merging To Create $60+ Billion Polyolefin Giant

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 6:13 AM

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and Austria-based OMV announced they will merge and create a $60+ billion chemical giant. This merged entity will be called Borouge Group International, which will acquire Nova Chemicals for $13.4 billion from Mubadala for $13.4 billion and create the world’s fourth-largest polyolefins player following the recontribution of Borouge-4 (at cost of about $7.5 billion) as measured by nameplate capacity with 13.6 mtpa of capacity across Europe, the Middle East and North America.

Ramp: $150 Million In Secondaries Acquired At $13 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 6:04 AM

Financial operations platform Ramp announced that new and existing investors including Stripes, GIC, Avenir Growth, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, 137 Ventures, and Definition Capital have purchased $150 million in Ramp secondaries from employees and early investors, most recently valuing the company at $13 billion.

Chatmeter: Interview With CEO John Mazur About The Brand Intelligence Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:47 PM

Chatmeter is a brand intelligence company reimagining customer connections and reputation management through AI-powered deep listening. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Chatmeter CEO John Mazur to learn more about the company.

Subsense: $17 Million (Seed) Secured For Non-Surgical Brain-Computer Interface

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 2:30 PM

Subsense, a neurotechnology company developing the first non-surgical, nanoparticle-based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), emerged from stealth to formally reveal its efforts in the emerging field of non-invasive brain connectivity. Founded by neurotech entrepreneur Tetiana Aleksandrova and serial entrepreneur Artem Sokolov, Subsense has raised $17 million in seed funding led by Sokolov’s Golden Falcon Capital to accelerate the development of bidirectional nanoparticle-based technologies that connect the human brain with external sources.

Paperplane Therapeutics: $1.5 Million Secured For Transforming Pain Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 2:27 PM

Paperplane Therapeutics, a Quebec-based company specializing in therapeutic virtual reality solutions for pain and anxiety management in healthcare, announced the closing of a $1.5 million funding round. Glen Ventures led the round, which received financial support from the Gouvernement du Québec through Investissement Québec. Strategic investors such as CABHI (Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation), Cedars-Sinai Intellectual Property Company, Anges Québec, and Aventure Capital also participated.

Altitude Lab: Incubated Startups Raised $154 Million In Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 2:20 PM

Altitude Lab announced that its incubating startups have collectively raised $154 million in early-stage funding since its launch in 2020. Created by Recursion, Altitude Lab supports diverse life science entrepreneurs in Utah by providing fully equipped laboratories, investor access, business operations education, and a collaborative founder community.

Turnover Labs: Interview With Founder & CEO Marissa Beatty About The Climate Tech Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 2:17 PM

Turnover Labs, an early-stage climate tech company building solutions for the chemicals industry. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Turnover Labs founder and CEO Dr. Marissa Beatty to learn more about the company.

Tevogen Bio To Receive $8 Million In Grant Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 2:16 PM

Tevogen Bio, a clinical-stage specialty immunotherapy biotech, announced in January 2025 that it received $2 million in non-dilutive grant funding from KRHP. An additional $8 million will be contributed, contingent on KRHP’s review of the company’s activities.

Flexera: Acquisition Of NetApp’s Spot FinOps Portfolio Completed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 2:11 PM

Flexera, a leader in technology spending and risk management, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Spot from NetApp. The acquisition is Flexera’s latest step towards providing comprehensive solutions to help organizations confront growing cloud cost and usage hurdles, especially as the consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) surges and strains cloud budgets.

Nuvation Bio: Up To $250 Million In Non-Dilutive Financings Secured

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 2:07 PM

Nuvation Bio, a global biopharmaceutical company addressing some of the greatest unmet needs in oncology, today announced non-dilutive financings of up to $250 million with Sagard Healthcare Partners. The deal features a royalty interest financing of $150 million and a senior term loan of up to $100 million.

Atmosic Technologies: $40 Million (Series D) Raised For Ultra-Low Power Wireless Connectivity Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 2:03 PM

Atmosic Technologies, a leader in ultra-low power computing and connectivity solutions, announced it has successfully raised $40 million in Series D funding. Sutter Hill Ventures led the round and was joined by Clear Ventures, Quantum Innovation Fund, and other institutional and private investors.

Taktile: $54 Million (Series B) Raised For Decision Automation Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 2:02 PM

Taktile – a category-defining decision automation platform – announced it has raised $54 million in a Series B funding round, to continue empowering teams at fintech companies and financial institutions to optimize their risk management strategies across the entire customer lifecycle. The funding round was led by Balderton Capital, with participation from existing investors Index Ventures, Tiger Global, Y Combinator, Prosus Ventures, and Visionaries Club, as well as Larry Summers, former US Secretary of the Treasury, bringing Taktile’s total funding to date to $79 million.