Innovation

Vori Health: $53 Million (Series B) Raised For Transforming Value-Based Musculoskeletal Care

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

Vori Health, which is one the nation's pioneering physician-led solutions for musculoskeletal care, announced a $53 million Series B funding round. The funding round was led by NEA and with continued support from AlleyCorp, Intermountain Health's Intermountain Ventures, Echo Health Ventures, and Max Ventures.

Carpool Logistics: $12 Million (Series A) Raised For Scaling Vehicle Shipping Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Carpool Logistics, a leading vehicle logistics platform, announced today that it has raised $12 million in Series A growth capital led by Wavecrest Growth Partners, with participation from CarMax, Impel founders Devin Daly and Michael Quigley, and automotive industry veteran David Metter.

Wilson Connectivity: Interview With CEO Bruce Lancaster About The Wireless Communication Leader

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Wilson Connectivity is the home of WilsonPro, weBoost, and Zinwave, and is the market leader in in-building wireless communication technology. Through evolutionary wireless connectivity products and services, Wilson Connectivity pioneers indoor and outdoor cellular amplification technology, unlocks new global markets, and expands consumer and commercial channels. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Wilson Connectivity CEO Bruce Lancaster to learn more about the company.

WATTER: $5 Million (Seed) Raised For Transforming Computing Efficiency

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

WATTER, a company reimagining computing efficiency through energy repurposing, announced it has closed a $5 million seed round led by Hunt Innovative Technologies and 17Shoals. This funding commitment marks a key milestone as WATTER spins out from Hunt Innovative Technologies, positioning itself to scale its distributed computing model, which uses waste heat from computing devices to heat water in residential homes and commercial properties.

Quanta: $4.7 Million (Seed) Raised For Next-Generation Accounting Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Quanta, a next-generation accounting company powered by AI, announced the general availability of its platform, featuring a self-serve onboarding process that accomplishes in minutes what typically takes weeks with other solutions. And Quanta also raised $4.7 million in seed funding led by Accel with participation from basecase, Comma Capital, Designer Fund, and Operator Collective, as well as prominent angel investors including Elad Gil.

CIM Group And Novva Data Centers Reveal $2 Billion In New Financing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

CIM Group (a real estate and infrastructure owner, operator, lender and developer) and Novva Data Centers (a data center company providing purpose-built facilities across the Western U.S.) announced that they recently closed a new commitment of $2 billion in financing from J.P. Morgan and Starwood Property Trust to complete the build-out of Novva’s flagship 175MW Salt Lake City data center. Launched in 2019 by CIM Group and Novva’s management team, Novva has moved quickly to bring its vision of purpose-built, sustainable data centers to life amid the soaring demand for capacity driven by increasing adoption of cloud computing and AI.

SpecterOps: $75 Million (Series B) Raised For Adversary-Focused Cybersecurity Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

SpecterOps, a provider of adversary-focused cybersecurity solutions with targeted insights of advanced threat actor tradecraft, announced it has raised a $75 million Series B funding round led by Insight Partners, with participation from additional investors including Ansa Capital, M12, Ballistic Ventures, Decibel and Cisco Investments. This funding will support SpecterOps’ scaling of BloodHound Enterprise (BHE), the industry’s first platform for comprehensively removing Identity-based Attack Paths.

Freed: $30 Million (Series A) Closed For AI-Based Clinician Assistant

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Freed, an AI-based clinician assistant designed to reduce the burdens of medical documentation, announced it has raised $30 million in Series A funding, led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Scale Venture Partners, Daniel Gross, Gokul Rajaram, and Ted Zagat. This brings Freed’s total funding to $34 million as the company solidifies its position as one of the fastest-growing health-tech companies in the U.S.

Raiinmaker: Interview With Head Of Operations Wyatt Hilkene About The Web3 Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Raiinmaker is an innovative Web3 and AI technology company that has developed the Raiinmaker Mobile Application and Raiinmaker Network. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Raiinmaker Head of Operations Wyatt Hilkene to learn more about the company.

Lumata Health: $23 Million (Series B) Raised For Expanding Access To Vision-Saving Care

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Lumata Health, a leader in personalized support for patients with vision-threatening chronic eye diseases, announced that it has raised $23 million in Series B funding to accelerate its mission of eliminating preventable vision loss, bringing its total raised since inception to $36 million. This funding round was co-led by LRVHealth, McKesson Ventures, and Cencora Ventures, with participation from existing investors, including Cortado Ventures.

MaxIQ: $7.8 Million (Seed) Closed For Customer Journey Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

MaxIQ, an AI-based Customer Journey Management platform designed to maximize customer lifetime value, announced it has raised $7.8 million in funding. The company’s Seed round was led by Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from Intel Capital. This funding will enable MaxIQ to advance operations, accelerate product innovation, and expand its leadership team as it redefines the future of customer journey management for B2B SaaS enterprises.

Ataraxis AI: $20.4 Million (Series A) Raised For Transforming Precision Medicine In Cancer Care

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Ataraxis AI, a leading AI precision medicine company, announced its $20.4 million Series A financing led by AIX Ventures with participation from Floating Point, Thiel Bio, Founders Fund, Bertelsmann Investments, and existing investors Giant Ventures and Obvious Ventures. The funding round also received backing from angel investors and healthcare pioneers, including Mario Schlosser (co-founder and former CEO of Oscar Health) and Ryan Fukushima (COO of Tempus), and others. And leading researchers from OpenAI and DeepMind also participated.

Dwight Capital And Affiliate REIT Closed $346.5 Million in February

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Dwight Capital and its affiliate REIT, Dwight Mortgage Trust (DMT), closed $346.5 million in real estate financings in February. Some of the significant transactions included a bridge loan for Waverly on the Lake in Michigan, a bridge loan and working capital line of credit for a six-property skilled nursing portfolio in Pennsylvania, and a bridge refinance for Mi Place at Brightmoor in New Jersey.

Liminal: $5.8 Million (Seed) Raised For AI In Gaming Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Liminal Experiences - a new UGC gaming startup dedicated to harnessing AI to enable human-centered creativity - has emerged from stealth with $5.8 million raised to date in seed funding. The funding comes from prestigious games industry backers, including BITKRAFT Ventures, Riot Games, and OTK Media Group, with participation from angel investors, including Marc Merrill, founder of Riot Games.

Good Job Games: $23 Million (Seed) Raised For Mobile Gaming Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Good Job Games, a rapidly growing mobile game company based in Türkiye, announced it has secured $23 million in a seed funding round led by Menlo Ventures and Tripledot co-founder Akin Babayigit’s new games fund Arcadia to build a legacy entertainment company for players of all ages. And Good Job Games raised the large seed financing with a proven track record of popular games, Zen Match, Wonder Blast and Match Villains.

GigaCrop: $4.5 Million (Pre-Seed) Secured For Advancing Photosynthesis For Boosted Crop Productivity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

GigaCrop announced it raised a $4.5 million pre-seed round of funding led by Playground Global.

SaySo: $4 Million Secured For Retail Clearance Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

SaySo is an end-to-end clearance solution and price optimization platform that emerged from stealth in late 2024 and immediately secured $4 million in seed funding, led by mobility VC firm UP.Partners.

Hawcx: $3 Million (Pre-Seed) Raised To Transform Passwordless Authentication

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Hawcx, an innovator in passwordless authentication, announced it has secured $3 million in pre-seed funding. The funding round was led by Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Engineering Capital, with participation from seed-stage fund Boldcap. This funding round will advance Hawcx’s efforts to accelerate product development, grow its team, and scale sales and marketing initiatives.

Roche And Zealand Pharma Sign $5.3 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Zealand Pharma (a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of innovative peptide-based medicines) announced a global collaboration and license agreement with Roche to develop petrelintide, which is Zealand Pharma’s amylin analog with potential as a foundational therapy for weight management while expanding into related indications. And the two companies will co-develop and co-commercialize petrelintide and combination products with petrelintide, including a fixed-dose combination product of petrelintide and CT-388, Roche’s lead incretin asset and potential best-in-class GLP-1/GIP receptor dual agonist.

Cybereason: $120 Million Raised For Advancing EDR Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Cybereason, a leading global cybersecurity company, announced a $120 million investment led by SoftBank Corp., SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and Liberty Strategic Capital to advance the company's global growth fueled by its endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions and its consulting services, enhanced by a strategic partnership with Trustwave. Manish Narula will serve as the company's new CEO.

Fusion Fund: $190 Million In Committed Capital Raised For Fund IV

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

With $190 million in committed capital, Fusion Fund has announced the closing of Fusion Fund IV to continue supporting technical founders in enterprise AI, healthcare, and industrial automation. And Fund IV was oversubscribed in less than six months, bringing Fusion Fund's total assets under management to over $500 million. Institutional LPs, including endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, and strategic family offices back this fund.

Reflection AI: $130 Million Secured For Building Superintelligent Autonomous Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Reflection AI has emerged from stealth mode, focusing on creating autonomous coding systems. The company has raised $25 million in a seed funding round led by Sequoia Capital and CRV and $105 million in a Series A funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and CRV.

ABB Investing $120 Million To Expand US Manufacturing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

ABB announced that it will invest $120 million in the US to expand the production capacity of its low-voltage electrification products. The investment will enable ABB to meet increasing demand from customers in a wide range of key growth industries, including data centers, buildings, and utilities.

ControlMonkey: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Aharon Twizer About The Terraform Automation Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

ControlMonkey is a fully end-to-end Terraform automation platform. From AI-powered code generation to best-in-class automations, ControlMonkey gives cloud teams a powerful, unified way to visualize, spin-up, automate and govern cloud infrastructure – end-to-end, at any scale, for any future. Pulse 2.0 interviewed ControlMonkey co-founder and CEO Aharon Twizer to learn more about the company.

FreightWise: Interview With CEO Chris Cochran About The Leading Logistics Software Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

FreightWise is a leading logistics software technology and services company specializing in helping and empowering thousands of customers to optimize their logistics supply chains for efficiency, visibility, better customer experience, and cost savings. Pulse 2.0 interviewed FreightWise CEO Chris Cochran to learn more about the company.

Ditto: $82 Million (Series B) Secured At $462 Million Valuation To Advance Edge-Native Resolution

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Ditto, a mobile database with built-in edge device connectivity and resiliency, announced it has raised $82 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round. The funding round brings Ditto’s post-money valuation to $462 million. This latest round, led by Top Tier Capital Partners and Acrew Capital, also included participation from existing and new investors, including Thomas Tull's U.S. Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), True Ventures, Amity Ventures, Fundrise, Friends & Family Capital, Advance Venture Partners, and Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ).

Quamcore: $9 Million (Seed) Raised For Building First Scalable 1 Million Qubit Quantum Computer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

QuamCore, a company redefining quantum computing scalability, announced today its emergence from stealth with $9 million in seed funding. The funding was led by Viola Ventures and Earth & Beyond Ventures.

Exowatt: Interview With CEO Hannan Happi About The Renewable Energy Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Exowatt is a next-generation renewable energy company offering customers a modular full-stack energy solution that can provide dispatchable power for up to 24 hours per day. Their flagship product, the Exowatt P3, stores solar energy as heat in a long-duration battery and converts it into electricity on demand. The solution is specifically designed to meet the needs of energy-intensive applications such as data centers. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Exowatt’s Co-Founder and CEO Hannan Happi to learn more about the company.

Avangrid: $20 Billion Investment Plan For U.S. Grid Infrastructure Through 2030

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Avangrid, a leading energy company and member of the Iberdrola Group, announced plans to invest $20 billion in U.S. electrical grid infrastructure by the end of the decade.

Aescape: $83 Million Raised For Wellness Robotics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Aescape, a lifestyle robotics company pioneering AI massage for personalized recovery, announced it has raised $83 million in a strategic round led by Valor Equity Partners. The round also saw participation from existing investors, including Alumni Ventures, and NBA Champion and All-Star Kevin Love. With this latest funding, Aescape’s total funding is now at $128 million, enabling the company to scale operations, expand into new markets, and grow its partnerships with global brands.