Innovation

Azra Games: $42.7 Million (Series A) Raised To Create Next-Gen Mobile Role-Playing Games

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 19, 2024

Sacramento-based Azra Games is a company that is dedicated to creating the next generation of mobile role-playing games (RPGs) with thrilling gameplay announced the completion of its $42.7 million Series A round. The funding round was led by Pantera Capital (Franklin Bi), with participation from a16z crypto (Arianna Simpson), A16Z GAMES (Jonathan Lai), and NFX (Gigi Levy-Weiss). And this brings Azra's total funding to date to $68.3 million.

Emerald Lake Capital Management Adds New Investment Team Members

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 19, 2024

Emerald Lake Capital Management announced three recent additions to the firm's investment team: Stephen Burhenn has joined from Ares Management, Derrick Lee has joined from Cinven, and Katie Slodzinski has joined from Goldman Sachs.

Gladia: AI Transcription And Audio Intelligence Company Raises $16 Million (Series A)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 19, 2024

Gladia, an AI-based transcription and audio intelligence provider, announced it has completed a $16 million Series A funding round. The company will use the funding to develop an end-to-end audio infrastructure, starting with a new real-time audio transcription and analytics engine (enabling voice-first platforms to deliver more value to their users across borders with AI).

Agtonomy: AI-Based Agriculture Automation Company Raises $32.8 Million (Series A)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 19, 2024

Agtonomy, a pioneer in AI-based automation software for agriculture and land maintenance, announced it has raised an additional $10 million to close its Series A round, bringing the total funding to $32.8 million. Leading mobility venture fund Autotech Ventures led the round. And new investors include Rethink Food, Allison Transmission, and Black Forest Ventures. Existing backers Toyota Ventures, Flybridge, and Cavallo Partners continued their support.

Kantata Reveals General Availability Of Pulse

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 19, 2024

Kantata, a leading global supplier of purpose-built technology for professional services, announced the general availability of Kantata Pulse. This solution optimizes service delivery across project portfolios by infusing operational data with real-time project sentiment data.

Galileo: Enterprise GenAI Evaluation And Observability Company Raises $45 Million (Series B)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 19, 2024

Galileo, a leader in generative AI (GenAI) evaluation and observability for enterprises, announced it raised $45 million in Series B funding led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Premji Invest, bringing the company's total funding to $68 million.

Monument Therapeutics: Precision Neuroscience Company Raises £1 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 19, 2024

Monument Therapeutics, a precision neuroscience company, announced a further £1 million equity investment by the Forster Foundation, a charitable incorporated organization. This new funding builds on equity and non-dilutive funding announced in April 2024 and will support the clinical development of MT1988, a novel treatment for the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia.

LeasePoint: $40 Million Incremental Funding Raised From Altriarch Asset Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 18, 2024

LeasePoint Funding Group announced today that it has secured $40 million of incremental funding from Altriarch Asset Management.

Eruditus: $150 Million (Series F) Raised To Make Education Accessible And Affordable

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 18, 2024

Eruditus, a leader in making high-quality education accessible and affordable to individuals, companies, and governments, announced today that it has raised a $150 million Series F fundraise led by TPG's The Rise Fund with participation from existing investors Softbank Vision Fund 2, Leeds Illuminate, Accel, CPP Investments and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

MyFO: $3.5 Million (Seed) Raised For Transforming Family Office Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 18, 2024

MyFO, a fast-growing platform for family offices and the wealth management professionals who service them, announced the closing of its oversubscribed $3.5 million seed funding round, led by Rhino Ventures. The platform simplifies and organizes financial lives by creating a comprehensive family office platform consolidating data, documents, and stakeholder management. The new injection of funds will scale its operations to meet growing demand, enhance its product offerings, and expand its team.

Constellation: Interview With CTO Nauman Hafiz About The Creating Marketing Technology Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 18, 2024

Constellation is a company that is inventing the world’s first and only creative marketing technology made for highly regulated industries. And the company’s end-to-end compliance solution features built-in verticalized engines designed to streamline the creative process for many companies with an automated solution that scales creative content and the regulatory approval process. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Constellation CTO Nauman Hafiz to learn more about the company.

Denodo: Interview With Founder & CEO Dr. Ángel Viña About The Data Virtualization Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 18, 2024

Denodo is the leader in data virtualization providing agile, high performance data integration, data abstraction, and real-time data services across the broadest range of enterprise, cloud, big data, and unstructured data sources at half the cost of traditional approaches. Denodo’s customers across every major industry have gained significant business agility and ROI. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Denodo founder and CEO Dr. Ángel Viña to learn more about the company.

StrongDM: Interview With CEO Tim Prendergast About The Zero Trust PAM Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 18, 2024

StrongDM is a leader in Zero Trust Privileged Access Management (PAM). StrongDM provides a policy-based platform that enables precise control over privileged actions and grants secure, compliant, and frustration-free access to all critical infrastructure. Pulse 2.0 interviewed StrongDM CEO Tim Prendergast to learn more about the company.