Innovation

Weatherford Capital: Fund II Closed At $300 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 21, 2025

Private investment firm Weatherford Capital announced a $300 million close of Weatherford Capital Fund II. Consistent with Fund I's strategy, Fund II sustained a similar thesis, emphasizing investments in experienced values-based leaders operating growth-oriented companies in technology, financial services, and business and consumer services.

Stable Sea: $3.5 Million Secured For Global Stablecoin Offramping

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 21, 2025

Stable Sea, a stablecoin liquidity and orchestration company facilitating stablecoin offramping to global markets, announced a $3.5 million funding round led by Kindred Ventures with participation from Ludlow Ventures, DFS Lab, The Venture Dept. and The Fintech Fund. This funding will be used to further Stable Sea's mission of providing efficient, cost-effective and compliant stablecoin offramping solutions.

Quantexa: $175 Million (Series F) Raised At $2.6 Billion Valuation For Decision Intelligence Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 21, 2025

Quantexa, a leader in Decision Intelligence (DI) solutions for the public and private sectors, announced that it has completed a $175 million Series F investment round led by Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG). This latest funding round values the company at $2.6 billion. This milestone is driving Quantexa’s progress against its mission to help enterprises and government agencies across multiple markets stay ahead in the race for AI-driven DI.

Brainomix: £14 Million (Series C) Closed For Advancing AI Imaging In Healthcare

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 21, 2025

Brainomix, a company pioneering AI-based imaging tools in stroke and lung fibrosis, announced the completion of a £14 million ($18 million) Series C investment round. The funding round was co-led by prominent healthtech investors that include existing investors, Parkwalk Advisors, the UK's largest growth EIS fund manager, and the Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund (BIVF), along with new investor Hostplus via the IP Group Hostplus Innovation Fund. Hostplus is a leading Australian industry superannuation (pension) fund with over AUD$120 billion in funds under management. LifeSci Capital supported the funding round.

Sibel Health: $30 Million (Series C) Secured By Northwestern University Spinout For Advanced Monitoring Solutions For Patients

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 21, 2025

Sibel Health, a medical technology spinout of Northwestern University, announced the closing of $30 million in new equity financing and its 7th FDA 510(k) clearance. The equity funding was led by Sibel's existing investors, the Steele Foundation for Hope and Dräger, to accelerate the commercial deployment of the ANNE One monitoring platform.

QXO To Buy Beacon Roofing Supply For $11 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 20, 2025

QXO and Beacon Roofing Supply announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which QXO will acquire Beacon for $124.35 per share in cash. Beacon is a leading distributor of roofing, waterproofing and exterior products, with nearly 600 branches across the U.S. and Canada.

Kraken To Buy NinjaTrader For $1.5 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 20, 2025

Kraken, which is one of the most longest-standing, liquid, and secure crypto platforms serving over 15 million clients globally, announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire NinjaTrader, which is the leading U.S. retail futures trading platform, for $1.5 billion, subject to certain purchase price adjustments.

Ceramic.ai: $12 Million Raised For Delivering Faster AI Model Training For Enterprises

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 20, 2025

Ceramic.ai recently emerged from stealth with software for foundation model training infrastructure, enabling enterprises to build and fine-tune their generative AI models more efficiently. To support its rapid growth and ongoing development, Ceramic.ai secured $12 million in seed funding from NEA, IBM, Samsung Next, Earthshot Ventures, and Alumni Ventures. This funding is advancing product development, scaling the platform, and expanding Ceramic.ai’s enterprise customer base to meet growing demand.

LimitlessCNC: $4.1 Million (Seed) Raised For Transforming Manufacturing With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 20, 2025

LimitlessCNC, an AI-based manufacturing startup, announced it has emerged from stealth with a $4.1M seed round led by Grove Ventures and Meron Capital. And the company is developing AI agents to automate CNC (computer numerical control) machining.

VulnCheck: $12 Million (Series A) Closed For Exploit Intelligence Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 20, 2025

VulnCheck, the exploit intelligence company, announced a $12 million Series A funding round led by Ten Eleven Ventures, with participation from existing investors, including Sorenson Capital and In-Q-Tel (IQT). The latest funding brings the total funding raised to nearly $20 million.

Ownright: C$4.5 Million (Seed) Raised For Real Estate Law Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 20, 2025

Ownright (previously Doormat), an Ontario-based law service for real estate transactions, announced it has successfully closed a C$4.5 million seed funding round led by Alate and Relay Ventures, bringing the total capital raised to $6.5 million CAD. Along with accelerating growth, this latest funding round will enhance the client experience through expanded technological capabilities, solidifying Ownright’s position as the go-to legal solution for homebuyers and sellers.

RegCell: $45.8 Million Raised For T-Cell Reprogramming

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 20, 2025

RegCell - a biotechnology company developing first-in-class therapies for autoimmune diseases and transplantation with its epigenetic reprogramming platform utilizing the natural biology of regulatory T-cells (Tregs) - announced the closing of an oversubscribed seed round and its transition to a U.S.-based company.

Moonwatt: €8 Million Raised For Advancing Sodium-Ion Energy Storage Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 20, 2025

Moonwatt – an energy storage company founded by seasoned professionals with a track record at global leaders like Tesla, EDF, Siemens, Scatec, and Freyr Battery – announced it has raised €8 million to unlock the true, 24/7 power of solar with its disruptive sodium-ion battery system. The funding was co-led by daphni and LEA Partners, Founders Future, AFI Ventures (by Ventech) and Kima Ventures also participated along with strategic business angels and customers.

Decibel Bio: $12 Million Raised For Advancing Epigenetic Plant Programming Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 20, 2025

Decibel Bio, a plant biotechnology company building the first crop epigenetic platform, announced it recently emerged from stealth with the announcement of an oversubscribed $12 million financing round from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Future Ventures, and industry leaders Bayer and Syngenta. This funding round will advance Decibel’s proprietary platform for reading and writing the plant epigenome to create crop varieties with higher yield, efficiency, and resilience to a changing environment.

CaseBlink: $2 Million (Pre-Seed) Raised For Helping Transform Immigration Case Preparation With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 20, 2025

CaseBlink, an AI startup focused on immigration law, announced it has secured $2 million in pre-seed funding led by Tower Research Ventures, leading VCs, and immigration law firms, including Fakhoury Global Immigration (FGI).