Innovation

Taliware: Interview With CEO Tarik Tali About One-Touch Authentication, Converting Images Into Copyright Protected Digital Assets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Taliware, developer of innovative heart rhythm authentication and location tracking software, released its patented Cordoba L2 blockchain API, designed for embedded systems in digital cameras and smartphones. The Cordoba L2 instantly converts digital images into copyright-protected blockchain-based non-fungible tokens (NFTs), thus expanding the frontiers in digital content provenance with blockchain proof of ownership. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Taliware CEO Tarik Tali to learn more about the company.

Ramco: Interview With VP & Head of Aviation, Aerospace & Defense Sam Jacob

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Ramco Aviation Software is a company that continues to innovate with ‘Anywhere Apps,’ significantly reducing transaction time both during aircraft-on-ground conditions and critical aircraft turnarounds. And with 80+ Aviation leaders onboard, Ramco is the solution of choice for Heli, MRO, CAMO and Defense. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Ramco Systems Corporation CEO Sam Jacob to learn more about the company.

Nutrient: Interview With CEO Jonathan Rhyne About The Digital Transformation Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Nutrient is a company that delivers the building blocks to accelerate digital transformation for modern businesses. Nutrient’s SDKs, cloud-based document processing, low-code solutions for Microsoft 365, and workflow automation platform transform document ecosystems. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Nutrient CEO Jonathan Rhyne to learn more about the company.

Rocket Companies Buying Digital Real Estate Brokerage Redfin In $1.75 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Rocket Companies, a Detroit-based fintech platform consisting of mortgage, real estate, and personal finance businesses, announced today that it has agreed to purchase Redfin, a leading digital real estate brokerage, in an all-stock transaction for $12.50 per Redfin share, or $1.75 billion of equity value.

Tamnoon: Interview With CEO & Co-Founder Marina Segal About The Cloud Security Remediation Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Tamnoon is a Managed Cloud Security Remediation service focused on mitigating cloud security risks. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Tamnoon co-founder and CEO Marina Segal to learn more about the company.

ForceMetrics: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Andre McGregor About The Decision-Assist Public Safety Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

ForceMetrics is the leading proactive decision-assist platform for first responders, providing real-time and actionable insights that enhance officer safety and improve community outcomes. Pulse 2.0 interviewed ForceMetrics co-founder and CEO Andre McGregor to learn more about the company.

Floodbase: $5 Million Raised For Parametric Platform For Insuring Uncovered Flood Risk

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Floodbase, a parametric platform for insuring uncovered flood risk, announced a $5 million investment led by Ecosystem Integrity Fund (EIF) with participation from Pulse Fund. The investment will enable Floodbase to accelerate the development of flood insurance programs, solidifying its position as the industry standard for a new category of flood insurance.

Vivici: €32.5 Million (Series A) Raised For Making Dairy Protein From Precision Fermentation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Vivici, a Dutch ingredients startup backed by nutrition, health and beauty multinational dsm-firmenich and dairy multinational Fonterra, announces that it has raised €32.5 million (about US $33.7 million) in Series A funding. APG led this funding round on behalf of ABP, one of the largest pension funds in the world, and Invest-NL. Additional participation came from InnovationQuarter, and continued support from existing shareholders dsm-firmenich and Fonterra.

Workhelix: $15 Million (Series A) Raised For Maximizing Value Of AI Investments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

CompScience: $27.6 Million (Series B) Secured For Advancing AI-Based Insurtech For Workplace Safety

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

CompScience, a leading active commercial P&C insurance, announced the closing of its $27.6 million Series B funding round led by Sands Capital. This funding will accelerate product innovation, scale operations, and expand market reach to help more organizations prevent serious injuries and fatalities (SIFs). Other investors, including Four More Capital, Working Capital, and Valor Equity Partners, are backing CompScience's generative AI-driven approach to risk reduction, reinforcing confidence in its broad industry impact.

Rune Technologies: $6.2 Million (Seed) Secured To Modernize Military Logistics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Rune Technologies, a defense technology company building software to enable military logistics in contested environments at the tactical and operational levels, announced $6.2 million in seed funding. The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Point72 Ventures and XYZ Venture Capital. Individual investments were made by several leading defense technology executives, including Anduril SVP of Software Gokul Subramanian, Vannevar Labs CEO Brett Granberg, Cape CEO John Doyle, Forterra CGO Scott Sanders, and others.

Charta Health: $8.1 Million (Seed) Secured For Automating Chart Review With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Charta Health, a provider of an AI-powered platform that optimizes medical billing and coding workflows, announced it raised $8.1 million in seed funding, led by Bain Capital Ventures. Participation came from SV Angel, South Park Commons, SpringRock Ventures, Refract Ventures, and strategic angel investors. With this funding, Charta will expand R&D, grow the team, and further enhance its AI-driven platform.

Pamlico Capital: Sixth Fund Closed At Hard Cap Of $1.75 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Pamlico Capital - a leading middle-market private equity firm - announced today the closing of Pamlico Capital VI (PC VI) at the fund’s hard cap of $1.75 billion. And PC VI was significantly oversubscribed, exceeding its initial $1.5 billion target based on strong demand from both existing and new investors.

Shoulder Innovations: $40 Million (Series E) Raised For Shoulder Replacement Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Shoulder Innovations, a leader in shoulder replacement technology, announced the closing of a $40 million Series E equity financing round. The funding was led by existing investor U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), with support from additional existing investors, including Gilde Healthcare Partners, Gilmartin Capital, and Aperture Venture Partners. New investors Arboretum Ventures and Sectoral Asset Management also participated.

Patlytics: $14 Million (Series A) Raised For AI-Based Patent Workflow Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Patlytics, an AI-based patent workflow platform, recently announced the closing of a $14 million Series A round led by global venture firm Next47. And existing investors, including Google's AI-focused venture fund Gradient, 8VC, Alumni Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Myriad Venture Partners also participated in the round.

Cambridge Innovation Capital: £100 Million Opportunity Fund Closed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC), a leading venture capital firm embedded in the Cambridge ecosystem, announced it has launched a new £100 million Opportunity Fund – which is anchored by Aviva Investors and British Patient Capital – to invest in growth-stage deep tech and life sciences companies.

Tandem: $10 Million (Pre-Seed) Closed For Transforming Pet Healthcare

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Tandem - a pet healthcare startup on a mission to deliver affordable healthcare to every pet - recently announced that it has secured $10 million in pre-seed funding to redefine veterinary care. And building on its mobile clinics and telemedicine services, Tandem will launch a 5,000 sq ft AI-based health hub this summer.

Breakout: $3.25 Million (Seed) Raised For Developing AI Sales Reps

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Breakout, a company developing AI sales reps, announced its launch from stealth and $3.25 million seed funding led by Village Global, with participation from Recall Capital, Z21 Ventures, and leading angels. And the company’s AI rep engages with customers at their highest point of intent and conducts an instant demo and discovery call.

Faireez: $7.5 Million Raised For Turning Residential Buildings Into High-End Hotel Experiences

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Faireez announced it is officially launching with $7.5 million in funding from leading investors including Aristagora VC, Longevity Venture Partners, Hetz Ventures, Secret Chord Ventures, including Gigi Levy-Weiss, RE Angels and other investors from the tech and real estate space. And Faireez's housekeeping platform brings 5-star hotel-quality service to residential buildings by combining dedicated professionals with AI technology.

Flex: $225 Million Raised For Building Personal Financial Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Flex, a fintech company that enables business owners to automate their back offices and grow, announced it has raised $225 million in equity and debt funding to accelerate the buildout of its payments infrastructure and personal finance software for business owners. And the capital raise includes a $25 million equity round led by Titanium Ventures, with participation from Companyon Ventures, Florida Funders, MS&AD Ventures, AAF Management and First Look Partners, and a $200 million credit facility from Victory Park Capital. And Yash Patel, General Partner at Titanium Ventures, will join Flex’s Board of Directors.

ResilienceVC: Debut Fund Launched At Over $56 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

ResilienceVC, a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in fintech startups driving financial resilience for all Americans, announced the closing of its debut and oversubscribed fund. With its inaugural fund attracting a diverse range of strategic investors and its management of early-stage investments for the Discover Financial Health Improvement Fund, the firm’s total assets under management stand at over $56 million.

Outmarket AI: $4.7 Million (Seed) Raised For Transforming Insurance With AI-Based Insights

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Outmarket AI, an intelligence platform purpose-built for transforming commercial insurance, has launched with $4.7 million in seed funding. This funding round was led by Fika Ventures, with participation from TTV and Dash Fund. This funding will accelerate Outmarket’s platform innovation, team expansion and strategic partnerships with leading brokers and carriers.

ServiceNow Buying Moveworks In $2.85 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Today, ServiceNow announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Moveworks. The acquisition will combine ServiceNow’s agentic AI and automation strengths with Moveworks’ front-end AI assistant and enterprise search technology to unlock new experiences for every employee in every corner of the business.

Mendix: Interview With Senior Director, Vertical Marketing Erika Arena About The Enterprise Low-Code Development Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Mendix is a leading enterprise low-code application development platform. And with Mendix you can convert a spreadsheet into an app, create an organization-wide app portfolio, modernize an entire core system. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Mendix’s Senior Director of Vertical Marketing Erika Arena to learn more about the company.

ThetaRay: Interview With CEO Peter Reynolds About The Financial Security Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

ThetaRay is transforming the way financial institutions detect and combat financial crime through the power of Cognitive AI. Pulse 2.0 interviewed ThetaRay CEO Peter Reynolds to learn more about the company.

Helfie: Interview With Founder & Director George Tomeski About The AI-Based Health Screening Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Helfie AI redefines human health by pairing everyone with their own health AI—checking key conditions, delivering intelligent insights, and enabling persistent monitoring, all via mobile for cents. It’s the world’s first preventative health and early detection system, accessible to all 8 billion+ humans. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Helfie AI founder and director George Tomeski to learn more about the company.

Quantum Machines: $170 Million (Series C) Secured For Advanced Quantum Control Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Quantum Machines (QM), a leading provider of advanced quantum control solutions, announced it has raised $170 million in Series C funding, bringing the company's total funding to date to $280 million. The highly oversubscribed round was led by PSG Equity with participation from Intel Capital, Red Dot Capital Partners, and existing investors.

Actual Veggies: $7 Million (Series A) Closed For Veggie-Forward Brand

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Actual Veggies, a CPG leader known for its chef-crafted veggie burgers and vegetable-forward products, announced its $7 million Series A round of funding led by Relentless Consumer Partners with participation from New Fare Partners and industry leaders Todd Lachman, Sovos Brands founder and Sauer Brands Chairman, and Ben Rawitz.

Rowan Digital Infrastructure: $1.24 Billion Construction Financing Closed For Hyperscale Campus In Maryland

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Rowan Digital Infrastructure, a sustainable hyperscale data center developer and portfolio company of Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, announced it closed a further $1.24 billion of construction financing to build the second phase of a flagship hyperscale data center campus in Maryland.

Shield AI: $240 Million (F-1) Raised At $5.3 Billion Valuation For Defense Autonomy Software

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 9, 2025

Shield AI - a deep-tech company building state-of-the-art autonomy software products and defense aircraft - announced it has completed a $240 million F-1 strategic funding round, raising its valuation to $5.3 billion. The funding was completed with major participation from strategic investors L3Harris and Hanwha Aerospace and participation from existing investors including Andreessen Horowitz, U.S. Innovative Technology, and Washington Harbour. The funds will enable Shield AI to expand the deployment of Hivemind Enterprise to OEMs, governments, and companies to empower the more significant robotics and drone industrial base to build autonomy products.