Innovation

StackOne: $20 Million Series A Raised To Transform SaaS And AI Agent Integrations

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2025

StackOne, a next-gen AI-based platform advancing the future of enterprise AI agents and SaaS integrations, announced it raised $20 million in a Series A round led by GV (Google Ventures). Workday Ventures, XTX Ventures, existing investors Episode 1 and Playfair, and angels from OpenAI, Deepmind, Microsoft, and Mulesoft also participated.

Recraft: $30 Million Series B Raised For AI-Based Design Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2025

Recraft, an AI-based design platform that generates images with brand consistency, announced it has raised a $30 million Series B funding round led by Accel. Participating investors include Madrona Ventures and existing investors Khosla Ventures, Nat Friedman, Elad Gil, and RTP Global.

ReNew Energy Global: $100 Million Investment Raised From BII

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2025

ReNew Energy Global - a leading decarbonization solutions company - announced it has secured an INR 8700 million ($100 million) investment from British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, to advance the growth of its solar manufacturing business in India. The funding will be made through ReNew Photovoltaics Private Limited, ReNew’s dedicated solar manufacturing subsidiary in India.

MyVenue: Majority Investment Raised From Greater Sum Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2025

Entrepreneurial family office and growth equity firm Greater Sum Ventures (GSV) announced a majority investment in MyVenue, a worldwide leader in event venue point-of-sale (POS) technology.

iAltA Holdings: $20 Million Raised For Modernizing Private Markets

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2025

iAltA Holdings, a private markets infrastructure company, announced its launch with an initial funding of $20 million led by WestCap. Launched out of WestCap, iAltA’s goal is to build a digital infrastructure that unifies private market systems.

Google Announces AI Futures Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2025

Today, Google announced the AI Futures Fund. This new program will invest in and collaborate with startups that want to bring their innovative ideas to market using Google DeepMind's latest AI models. With this fund, Google will work closely with companies in various stages of growth while also providing access to Google’s advanced resources, expertise, and early iterations of the company’s latest AI models like Gemini.

Realtime Robotics: Interview With CEO Peter Howard About The Robotics Optimization Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2025

Realtime Robotics is a company has invented a solution for generating safe robot motion plans in micro-seconds, enabling robots to function in unstructured, collaborative work-spaces, reacting to other motions as soon as they are perceived. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Realtime Robotics CEO Peter Howard to learn more about the company.

Mainframe: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Jordan Singer About The Productivity Software Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2025

Holonym: Interview With Co-Founder Nanak Nihal Khalsa About The Privacy-Preserving Identity Tool

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2025

Holonym is a company that is building the foundation of digital rights: privacy, security, global access to finance, and personhood through applied cryptography. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Holonym co-founder Nanak Nihal Khalsa to learn more about the company.

YL Ventures: How This VC Firm Helps Cybersecurity Entrepreneurs Scale Their Businesses

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2025

YL Ventures is an early-stage firm that funds and supports visionary cybersecurity entrepreneurs from seed to scale to help them evolve transformative ideas into market-leading companies. Pulse 2.0 interviewed YL Ventures partner Justin Somaini to learn more about the firm.

illumicell AI: Interview With Co-Founder & CSO Jeyla Sadikova About The Cellular Data Analytics Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2025

illumicell AI is a company that is transforming how clinicians analyze the most fundamental unit of health: the cell in fluid. Pulse 2.0 interviewed illumicell AI co-founder and CSO Jeyla Sadikova to learn more about the company.