Innovation

JumpCloud Buying Privileged Access Management Company VaultOne

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 24, 2025

JumpCloud is simplifying IT with the acquisition of VaultOne. VaultOne delivers privileged access management (PAM) solutions that provide secure access to a wide range of critical assets, from SaaS applications to cloud infrastructure and databases. JumpCloud’s acquisition furthers its goal of simplifying IT operations across a secure access control platform for today’s global workforce.

Eagle Merchant Partners: Fund II Closed At $415 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 24, 2025

Atlanta-based private equity firm Eagle Merchant Partners announced it closed its second fund, Eagle Merchant Partners Fund II, with $415 million in capital commitments.

Miter: $38 Million Raised For Human Capital Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 24, 2025

Miter, a leading provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM), field operations, and expense management solutions for the construction and field service industries, announced it has raised a total of $38 million, including a recent $23 million round led by existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Coatue Management.

PHASE Scientific: $34 Million Series A Closed For Advancing Urine-Based Diagnostic Technology For Early Disease Detection

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 24, 2025

PHASE Scientific, a biotechnology company revolutionizing early disease detection through proprietary urine-based diagnostics, announced the completion of a $34 million Series A funding round. This funding round was led by Value Partners Group with significant backing from new healthcare-focused investors and continued support from existing global backers.

Teleskope: Significant Growth Investment Raised From SEVA

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 24, 2025

Teleskope Technologies, a leading employee experience platform for global enterprises, announced it received a significant minority investment from SEVA Growth, a growth equity firm exclusively focused on serving customer-centric founders building fast-growing, profitable, and technology-enabled companies.

RevenueCat: $50 Million Series C Closed For Expanding Global Infrastructure For Consumer Software Monetization

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 23, 2025

RevenueCat, a leading platform for managing consumer app monetization, announced it has raised a $50 million Series C round led by Bain Capital Ventures (BCV). Returning investors Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Adjacent, Volo Ventures, and SaaStr Fund also participated. This added to the prior $12 million Series C raised last year, bringing the total raised to $100 million to date.

WellTheory: $5 Million Raised For Launching AI-Based Care Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 23, 2025

WellTheory, a leading whole-person care platform for autoimmune disease, announced the close of $5 million in new funding and the rollout of its AI tools Care Hub and Care Scribe across its care operations. New investors Samsung Next, Opal Ventures, and Up2 Fund joined the funding round, with continued support from existing investors Accel, OVO Fund, and BoxGroup.

FORE Biotherapeutics: $38 Million Series D-2 Raised For Advancement Of Plixorafenib

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 23, 2025

FORE Biotherapeutics, a registration-stage biotherapeutics company focused on developing targeted therapies to treat cancer patients, announced a $38 million Series D-2 financing. For this initial close of the Series D-2, leading healthcare-dedicated investors participated, such as SR One, Medicxi, OrbiMed, HBM Healthcare Investments, Wellington Management, Novartis Venture Fund, Cormorant Asset Management, and 3B Future Health Fund.

Global Student Accommodation: $500 Million Refinancing Deal Signed With Wells Fargo

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 23, 2025

Global Student Accommodation (GSA), a leader in student housing, announced the closing of a $500 million senior loan facility with Wells Fargo Bank, which is one of the world’s leading financial institutions.

STACK Infrastructure: $1.4 Billion Green Financing Raised For Supporting Portfolio Of Stabilized Hyperscale Assets

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 23, 2025

STACK Infrastructure, a digital infrastructure partner to innovative companies and a leading global developer and operator of data centers, announced the closing of a $1.4 billion green financing facility, which was secured by a diversified pool of ten fully stabilized and revenue-generating data centers across its North American platform.

Pixee: $15 Million Seed Funding Raised For Automating Code Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 23, 2025

Pixee, which is the creator of innovative solutions that empower security teams to match the productivity of AI-powered development, announced that it has raised $15 million in seed funding. The funding round was led by Decibel and Wing VC, with participation from TEDCO, PrimeSet and strategic investors, including early GitHub engineer Zach Holman, HackerOne Founder and CTO Alex Rice, Oracle SVP of Cloud Operations Brian Chess, etc.

Forethought: $25 Million Series D Raised To Advance Agentic AI For Customer Experiences

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 23, 2025

Forethought, a leader in agentic AI for customer experience, announced it had introduced the industry’s first multi-agent and omnichannel AI for customer experience. For driving the growth of its agentic CX system, the company secured a $25 million strategic investment, bringing total funding to $115 million.

Axle Health: $10 Million Series A Raised For Transforming Home Health Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 23, 2025

Axle Health, a company transforming home healthcare operations, announced a Series A funding round of $10 million. This funding round was led by F-Prime, with participation from Y Combinator, Pear VC, and Lightbank.

SecureAuth: Interview With CEO Joseph Dhanapal About The Better Identity Management Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 23, 2025

SecureAuth believes more security shouldn’t mean more obstacles. Since 2005, SecureAuth has helped leading companies simplify identity and access management for customers and employees, creating experiences that are as welcoming as they are secure. SecureAuth is redefining authentication for the modern enterprise. Today’s evolving threat landscape demands innovative, adaptive security solutions. As the first-to-market provider of continuous facial authentication, the company goes beyond the initial authentication to deliver ongoing security throughout the entire session. SecureAuth’s mature AI-driven risk engine delivers dynamic (and often invisible) authentication, making enterprises more effective than ever at eliminating threats while ensuring frictionless, secure access for employees and customers. “Welcome to Better Identity.” Pulse 2.0 interviewed SecureAuth CEO Joseph Dhanapal to learn more about the company.

NextSTEP: Interview With Managing Director Claudio Colombo About The Investment Initiative

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 23, 2025

NextSTEP (NextEnergy Sustainable TEchnology for the Planet) is an investment initiative dedicated to the capitalization and growth of innovative early-stage startups in the field of Environmental Sustainability (CleanTech). Pulse 2.0 interviewed NextSTEP Claudio Colombo to learn more about the company.

Archetype AI: Interview With Co-Founder, CEO, And CTO Dr. Ivan Poupyrev About The Physical AI Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 23, 2025

Archetype AI is a physical AI company pioneering a new form of technology that is capable of perceiving, understanding, and reasoning about the world. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Archetype AI co-founder, CEO, and CTO Dr. Ivan Poupyrev to learn more about the company.

Why OpenAI Is Buying Jony Ive’s io In $6.5 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 23, 2025

OpenAI announced it is recruiting Jony Ive, who is known as the designer behind the Apple iPhone, Apple Watch, and MacBook Pro. Jony Ive will oversee a new hardware project for OpenAI. As part of the deal, OpenAI will be buying io Products for $6.5 billion, which is a product and engineering company that was co-founded by Ive.

Addepar: Acquisition Of Enterprise AI Workflow Company Arcus

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 23, 2025

Addepar, a leading technology and data platform for wealth, investment, and asset management, announced the acquisition of Arcus, an innovator in enterprise AI workflows. This strategic deal accelerates Addepar's technology roadmap to embed sophisticated AI and machine learning (ML) more deeply across its platform, supported by the company's ongoing investment of $100+ million annually to research and development.

Opex Technologies: Strategic Growth Investment Raised From Bregal Sagemount

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 23, 2025

Leading growth-focused private equity firm Bregal Sagemount announced a strategic growth investment from its Basecamp fund, in Opex Technologies, a trusted advisor that helps businesses navigate and optimize complex technology procurement decisions. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Final Boss Sour: $4 Million Seed 2 Round Raised For Healthier Snack Alternatives

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 23, 2025

Final Boss Sour, a gaming-themed healthier snack alternative brand known for its bold, retro-gaming-inspired sour snacks, and built in studio by Science Inc., announced that it has raised $4 million in a Seed 2 funding round.

Seeds: $10 Million Raised For Transforming Personalized Investment Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 23, 2025

Seeds (previously Seeds Investor) is a fintech company enabling advisors to create a personalized investing experience and streamline portfolio operations. The company recently announced a $10 million Series A funding round led by Portage, with continued participation from investors Social Leverage and Blank Ventures.

Siro: $50 Million Series B Raised For Bringing AI To In-Person Sales

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 22, 2025

Siro, an AI-powered conversation intelligence platform for in-person sales, announced it has raised $50 million in Series B funding led by SignalFire, with participation from 01 Advisors, StepStone Group, and existing investors CRV, Fika Ventures, and Index Ventures.

Legora: $80 Million Series B Raised For Collaborative AI For Lawyers

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 22, 2025

Legora announced an $80 million funding round led by ICONIQ and General Catalyst, with continued support from existing investors Redpoint Ventures, Benchmark, and Y Combinator. This latest funding round is a significant endorsement of Legora’s product quality, velocity, and the traction it has achieved globally.

North Hudson: Production Partners V Fund Closed At $344 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 22, 2025

North Hudson Resource Partners, a Houston-based energy investment firm, announced the final closing of its fifth non-operated oil and gas fund, North Hudson Production Partners V LP. The fund closed at its hard cap with $344 million in equity commitments, including the general partner's commitment. This closing brings the firm's total assets under management to $1.4 billion.

Creator Ventures: Fund II Closed At $45 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 22, 2025

Creator Ventures announced it has raised a $45 million Fund II, more than double the size of its prior fund. This brings the firm’s total assets under management to $65 million.

Mura: $6 Million Seed Funding Raised For Transforming Commercial Field Service Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 22, 2025

Mura, an AI platform transforming commercial field service operations through dark software, announced it has emerged from stealth with $6 million in total funding. Level One Fund and Lerer Hippeau co-led the seed funding round with participation from notable angels and strategic investors. This comes after a $1.5 million pre-seed funding round led by Lerer Hippeau, completed several months prior.

PE Firm Mauloa Launches SMB Accelerator With $10+ Million Prize

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 22, 2025

Maryland-based private equity firm Mauloa announced it has introduced a first-of-its-kind accelerator program for middle market companies, where the winning company receives an investment offer of at least $10 million.

Anumana: Interview With CEO Maulik Nanavaty About The AI-Driven Health Technology Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 22, 2025

Anumana is a company that is harnessing industry-leading AI and translational science to decode electrical signals from the heart as never before, empowering healthcare providers to transform patient care throughout the cardiac clinical pathway. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Anumana CEO Maulik Nanavaty to learn more about the company.

Coworker.ai: $13 Million Raised For AI Agent Research Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 21, 2025

Coworker.ai has announced the launch of the world's first AI agent that can independently research, plan, and execute complex work just like an experienced colleague. The launch is backed by a $13 million seed round led by Jeff Huber, former SVP of Google Ads, Maps, and Workspace, now at Triatomic Capital. Other investors include Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures), Mallun Yen (Operator Collective), Tim Young (Eniac Ventures), and Clark Golestani, Ken Hausman, and Jack Greenfield (K2 Access Fund). They join pre-seed investors Soma Capital, Focal VC, Mischief, and Karman Ventures, taking the total amount raised to date to $16.5 million.

Awardco: $165 Million Series B Raised At $1+ Billion Valuation For Engagement Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 21, 2025

Awardco announced a $165 million Series B round of funding with a valuation that surpassed $1 billion, enhancing its leadership and innovation in the employee rewards and recognition industry.