Innovation

VulnCheck: $12 Million (Series A) To Address Demand For Exploit Intelligence Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Exploit intelligence company VulnCheck announced a $12 million Series A funding round led by Ten Eleven Ventures. Existing investors, including Sorenson Capital and In-Q-Tel(IQT), participated. And the latest investment brings VulnCheck's total funding raised to nearly $20 million.

FirstPartyCapital Raises Strategic Funding From DoubleVerify

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

FirstPartyCapital (FPC), an early-stage venture capital firm specialising in adtech, martech, and digital media, announced a strategic investment from DoubleVerify, a leading software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics.

StrategiQ: £3 Million Investment Raised For Communications And Marketing Agency

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

StrategiQ, a rapidly growing strategic communications and marketing agency, announced a significant £3 million investment in growth to advance its goal of becoming a leading force in the creative services industry.

HyperSciences: $1.7 Million Phase 2 SBIR Contract Award Received

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

HyperSciences, a leader in advanced hypersonic propulsion and projectile technologies, announced it has been awarded a $1.7M Phase 2 SBIR (Small Business Industry Research) contract with the U.S. Department of Defense as a follow-on to its 2018-2019 NASA SBIR Phase 1 contract.

PGIM Real Estate: $2 Billion Raised For Final Close Of Global Data Center Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

PGIM Real Estate announced it has completed the fundraise for its first Global Data Center Fund (GDCF) with $2 billion of capital allocated to the strategy. And PGIM Real Estate secured capital commitments for the GDCF from a range of global investors.

Actively AI: $22.5 Million Secured For Maximize Revenue For Sales Teams

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Actively AI, a company that applies AI reasoning for revenue teams, announced it has raised $17.5 million in Series A funding led by Bain Capital Ventures. And First Round Capital, which led their previously unannounced $5 million seed round, also participated. Plus, prominent angel investors include Jason Boehmig, co-founder and CEO at Ironclad; Ali Rowghani, former Y Combinator managing partner and Twitter COO; and Frederic Kerrest, vice chairman and co-founder at Okta. With this funding round, Actively has raised $22.5 million to date.

SandboxAQ: Over $450 Million (Series E) Raised For Enterprise Quantitative AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

SandboxAQ, a leader in enterprise quantitative AI, announced the addition of Ray Dalio, Horizon Kinetics, BNP Paribas, Google, and NVIDIA to its Series E funding round that raised over $450 million. These investments emphasize the confidence in SandboxAQ's vision and the transformative power of its Large Quantitative Models (LQMs), which are transforming how enterprises leverage AI to address complex scientific and quantitative challenges.

Tower MSA Partners: Strategic Investment Raised From Ambler Brook

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

Tower MSA Partners - a leading national provider of Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) compliance technology and settlement services to self-insured enterprises, insurance carriers, and third-party administrators - announced that it received a significant growth investment from Ambler Brook.

Redpanda: $100 Million (Series D) Raised For Agentic AI Service for the Enterprise

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

Redpanda announced it has closed $100 million in Series D funding led by GV, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners. With this latest funding round, Redpanda is now valued at $1 billion, with a total of $265 million raised.

restor3d: $38 Million Raised For 3D Printed Patient Specific Musculoskeletal Implants

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

restor3d - a leader in 3D-printed and personalized orthopedic implant care - announced the completion of capital raising efforts totaling $38 million. These funding rounds included participation from both existing and new private investors, including Summers Value Partners.

Moneta Ventures: Over $250 Million Raised For Investing In Seed & Series A Startups

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

Moneta Ventures, which is dual-headquartered in Sacramento, CA, and Austin, TX, has raised over $250 million for its third fund. The firm invests in Seed and Series A enterprise software companies.

Dalma: €20 Million (Series B) Raised For Pet Insurance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

Dalma announced a €20 million Series B funding round led by Breega. This funding round is supported by its existing investors, Northzone and Anterra Capital along with Bpifrance's Digital Venture 3 fund—dedicated to innovative technology companies in the digital sector—and Breega, a leading investor in the insurance industry, both of which are joining the company's capital.

Marsh McLennan Agency Buying Arthur Hall Insurance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA)—a business of Marsh and a leading provider of business insurance, employee health and benefits, retirement and wealth, and private client insurance solutions across the US and Canada—announced the acquisition of Arthur Hall Insurance, a full-service insurance agency based in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Pillar VC: $175 Million Fund IV Closed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

Pillar VC recently announced its $175 million Fund IV, bringing the firm’s total assets under management to more than $500 million. And Pillar VC is also introducing three new Venture Partners, and four new Founding Pillars, a group of CEOs who have built highly successful companies; they are co-

HeroWear: Exoskeleton Company Raises $5 Million (Series A)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

HeroWear, a private startup specializing in occupational exosuit solutions, announced $5 million of Series A funding from White Road Investments. The company is partnering with Engage to accelerate its work with top enterprises.

Solace: $60 Million (Series B) Raised For Digital Health Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

Solace, a digital health platform that connects patients with expert health advocates, announced it has closed a $60 million Series B funding round. Menlo Ventures led this funding round with participation from existing backers Craft Ventures, Inspired Capital, and Torch Capital, and new investor SignalFire.

Keebler Health: Interview With CEO And Co-Founder Isaac Park About Keebler’s Risk Adjustment Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

Keebler Health is a company that provides an AI-native risk adjustment platform for healthcare providers, accurately identifying chronic patient conditions and providing clinicians with insights and recommended next steps to keep patients healthy. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Keebler Health co-founder and CEO Isaac Park to learn more about the company.

Augnito: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Rustom Lawyer About The Clinical Documentation Voice Recognition Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

Augnito is a leading voice recognition software built with the goal to improve the quality of clinical documentation while allowing doctors to be more efficient by the use of cutting edge technology. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Augnito co-founder and CEO Rustom Lawyer to learn more about the company.

AttoTude: $50 Million (Series B) Raised For THz Technology For AI And Hyperscale Data Center Applications

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

AttoTude, a company focused on groundbreaking THz interconnect technology for AI and hyperscale data center applications, announced it has raised $50 million in Series B funding led by Mayfield and joined by The Westly Group, with participation from existing investors Sutter Hill Ventures, Canaan Partners, and Wing Venture Capital. This round brings AttoTude's total funding to $91 million, following its $30 million Series A in 2024 and $11 million seed round earlier that year.

Hydrolix: $80 Million (Series C) Raised For Data Lake Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

Portland-based Hydrolix announced the closing of an $80 million Series C investment round, led by QED Investors, joined by Blumberg Capital, Frontline Ventures, Pruven Capital and Sozo Ventures, along with existing investors that include Akamai, AV8 Ventures, Ericsson Ventures, Nava Ventures, Oregon Venture Fund, S3 Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures and Wing Venture Capital. And Chuckie Reddy, QED partner and head of growth investments, will join the Hydrolix board as a director.

Equal Parts: $10 Million Raised To Launch Next-Gen Insurance Agency

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

Equal Parts, a next-generation insurance agency combining the power of traditional relationship-based distribution with best-in-class AI technology, announced it has launched with $10 million in acquisition capital led by Equal Ventures and Max Ventures, the company announced today. And Equal Parts’ goal is to build a new model for independent insurance agencies amid a decade-long flood of consolidation by traditional private equity firms.

Atomic: $10 Million Raised For Financial Connectivity Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

Atomic, a market leader in growing account primacy and enabling financial connectivity that drives action, announced a $10 million strategic investment with participation from Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, and F.N.B. Corporation. This funding round affirms Atomic’s position as a trusted partner for financial services across various use cases. And the funding will be used to further innovation and expansion.

EVident Battery: $3.2 Million (Seed) Raised For EV Battery Pack Inspection Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

EVident Battery, a leader in sustainable and advanced battery technology, announced the closing of a $3.2 million seed funding round. This funding will support the company's mission to accelerate the development of next-generation battery inspection solutions that address the uncertainty of EV battery pack health in the aftermarket and quality optimization in the battery pack manufacturing process.

Nerdio: $500 Million (Series C) Raised At Over $1 Billion Valuation To Transform How Organizations Deploy Microsoft Cloud Technologies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

Nerdio, an automated End-User Computing (EUC) platform transforming how organizations deploy and manage Microsoft cloud technologies, recently announced it has signed a definitive agreement for a $500 million minority investment from General Atlantic with participation from Lead Edge Capital and StepStone. Upon the closing of the deal, this funding will quadruple Nerdio's valuation in just two years to $1+ billion.

Upscale Conference: Interview With Head Of Marketing Paula Vivas About The High-Profile Events

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

Upscale Conference is an event by Freepik that brings together industry leaders and powerhouses to discuss the impact of genAI in the creative and design sectors. One of the most recent Upscale Conference events happened in Spain this past May and the next one is set for May in San Francisco. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Freepik and Upscale Conference Head of Marketing Paula Vivas to learn more about the event.

Simply.TV: Majority Growth Investment Raised From Summit Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

Simply.TV, a video metadata provider, announced the acquisition of Red Bee Media’s Content Discovery Business. This move accelerates Simply.TV’s global expansion strengthens its position in the U.S. market. In connection with this deal, Simply.TV has secured a majority growth equity investment from Summit Partners, marking the company’s first institutional funding.

MDA Space Buying SatixFy Communications In $193 Million Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

MDA Space (a mission partner to the rapidly expanding global space industry) and SatixFy Communications (a leader in next-generation satellite communication solutions based on in-house-designed chipsets) announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which MDA Space will acquire all outstanding shares of SatixFy in an all-cash transaction for $2.10 per share.

Linden Capital Partners: Structured Capital Fund II Closed At $400 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

Linden Capital Partners - a Chicago-based healthcare private equity firm - announced the closing of Linden Structured Capital Fund II (SCF II. This fund closed with $400 million of commitments, exceeding the prior structured capital fund (SCF I) size of approximately $355 million.

HarbourVest Launches Private Investment Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

HarbourVest Partners, a leading global private markets investment specialist with over $143 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2024, announced the launch of the HarbourVest Private Investment Fund (HPIF). HPIF was designed to provide a single entry point to HarbourVest’s multi-manager, direct private equity (PE) platform.

VCU Startup Wins Grant For Infection-Fighting Surgical Gel

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

A Virginia Commonwealth University startup with an innovation that could enhance brain and spinal surgeries received a $800,000 state grant to support the development of its infection-fighting gel. Pascal Medical is one of four grant recipients to receive awards from Virginia Catalyst, a nonprofit created by the General Assembly and funded via the state’s general fund and seven public research universities, including VCU. Catalyst CEO Mike Grisham said the nonprofit's goal is to provide funding that helps industry partners and academic investigators raise follow-on investments.