Innovation

Payara Services: Interview With Founder Steve Millidge About The Enterprise Platform Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 18, 2025

Payara Services is a provider of trusted, stable runtimes for running enterprise Java applications on-premises, in the cloud, and in hybrid environments. The company's products help global enterprises simplify application deployment and management, delivering reliability, security, and performance while helping successful modernizations. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Payara Services founder and CEO Steve Millidge to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Emirates Expands Boeing Partnership With $38 Billion Order For 65 Additional 777X Jets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 18, 2025

Emirates announced a major fleet expansion on the opening day of Dubai Airshow 2025 with a US$38 billion order for 65 additional Boeing 777-9 aircraft powered by GE9X engines. The new agreement strengthens one of aviation’s most significant and longest-running partnerships and pushes Emirates’ total Boeing orderbook to 315 widebody aircraft, including 270 Boeing 777X jets, 10 Boeing 777 freighters, and 35 Boeing 787s.

VentureIsrael: Interview With Managing Partner Rafael Gold About The Early-Stage VC Firm

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 18, 2025

VentureIsrael is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in deep-tech and machine-learning startups. Pulse 2.0 interviewed VentureIsrael Managing Partner Rafael (Roman) Gold to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

voize: $50 Million Series A Raised To Help Nurses Cut Administrative Burden

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 18, 2025

voize, a Berlin-based startup building AI tools specifically designed for nurses, has closed a $50 million Series A round led by Balderton Capital, with participation from HV Capital, Redalpine, Y Combinator, and HPI Ventures. The company says the funding will accelerate its expansion across Europe and support its entry into the United States.

RebuilderAI: Pre-Series A Funding Raised To Accelerate Global Expansion In 3D Modeling AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 18, 2025

NAVER D2SF-backed RebuilderAI has secured KRW 4.5 billion in new capital through a Pre-Series A funding round that adds ASICS Ventures, Medici Investment, IBK Capital, and Korea Credit Guarantee Fund to its investor base. The round marks a new stage of momentum for the Seoul-based company, which continues to gain global recognition for its 3D modeling AI technology after receiving a CES Innovation Award and being named a Top 100 Global Startup at the Entrepreneurship World Cup 2025.

Superprof: Interview With CPO Mickaël Laires About The Online Tutoring Marketplace

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 18, 2025

Superprof is an online tutoring marketplace that connects students with private instructors across a wide range of subjects, including academics, languages, test preparation, music, art, and fitness. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Superprof CPO Mickaël Laires to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Nyver Capital Partners: Record €335 Million Debut Fund Closed At Hard Cap

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

Nyver Capital Partners has completed the final close of its debut private equity vehicle, Nyver I, at its hard cap of €335 million, marking the largest first-time private equity fund ever raised in the Netherlands. The Amsterdam-based firm reached the hard cap in slightly more than four months, reflecting strong global investor demand for its strategy and team.

PowerLattice: $25 Million Series A Raised To Advance Power Delivery For AI Chips

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

PowerLattice has emerged from stealth with a $25 million Series A round co-led by Playground Global and Celesta Capital, bringing its total funding to $31 million. The Vancouver-based semiconductor company is developing what it calls the industry’s first power delivery chiplet, designed to dramatically reduce the energy demands of AI accelerators and increase overall system performance.

Kingsway Pharmaceuticals Acquires Minority Stake In CIGA Healthcare To Accelerate U.S. Diagnostic Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

Kingsway Pharmaceuticals has acquired a strategic minority equity stake in CIGA Healthcare, a global diagnostics provider. This move positions the U.S.-based consumer healthcare company for a significantly larger role in the rapidly expanding at-home and retail diagnostic testing market.

TearOptix: Strategic Funding Raised And Scientific Advisory Board Formed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

TearOptix, a Silicon Valley contact lens innovator focused on next-generation solutions for presbyopia, has secured a strategic round of corporate financing backed by investors with strong expertise in ophthalmology. The funding will support the company’s clinical development program and accelerate plans to bring its proprietary multifocal contact lens technology to market.

Alembic: $145 Million Raised To Advance Enterprise Adoption Of Causal AI And Expand Supercomputing Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

Alembic Technologies has raised $145 million in Series B and growth funding, marking one of the most significant recent financings in the enterprise artificial intelligence sector. The round represents a 15.7 times increase in valuation since the company’s Series A, positioning Alembic among the leading labs pushing the boundaries of next-generation enterprise intelligence. The funding was co-led by Prysm Capital and Accenture, with participation from Liquid 2 Ventures, NextEquity, Friends & Family Capital, WndrCo, and growth financing from SLW.

AlertD: $3 Million Pre-Seed Funding Raised And AI Agentic SRE And DevOps Platform Launched

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

AlertD has emerged from stealth with the launch of its AI-driven SRE and DevOps platform and the announcement of $3 million in pre-seed funding led by True Ventures partner Puneet Agarwal. The San Francisco Bay Area startup aims to redefine how engineering teams manage cloud operations by introducing specialized AI agents that instantly surface AWS insights, reduce operational toil, and provide verifiable system visibility through a natural-language interface.

Ramp: $32 Billion Valuation Achieved After $300 Million Raise And Tender Offer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

Ramp announced that it has reached a valuation of $32 billion after completing a $300 million primary financing round alongside an employee tender offer, marking one of the most significant private funding events of 2025 in the financial operations sector. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round, joined by a substantial roster of existing backers including Founders Fund, D1 Capital Partners, Coatue, GIC, Avenir Growth, Thrive Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures, T. Rowe Price, Khosla Ventures, ICONIQ, Glade Brook Capital Partners, Soma Capital, Emerson Collective, 8VC, Lux Capital, Definition Capital, 137 Ventures, General Catalyst, Box Group, Kultura Capital, Pinegrove Venture Partners, Anti Fund, and Stripes. New investors included Alpha Wave Global, Bessemer Venture Partners, Robinhood Ventures, 1789 Capital, Epicenter Capital, and Coral Capital.

Mate: $15.5 Million Seed Funding Closed To Advance AI-Driven Security Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

Mate, a cybersecurity startup based in Tel Aviv, announced its launch from stealth with a $15.5 million seed round led by Team8 and Insight Partners. The funding will support rapid hiring across engineering, expand collaborations with design partners, and prepare the company for broader enterprise deployment as demand grows for more efficient and adaptive Security Operations Centers.

SubImage: $4.2 Million Raised To Expand Open-Core Cloud Security Graph Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

SubImage announced it has raised $4.2 million in seed funding to accelerate development of its open-core cloud security graph platform, expand customer pilots, and grow its engineering team. FundersClub, Y Combinator, Phosphor Capital, and Transpose Platform participated in the round.

NAF Opens Nationwide $10,000 Real Estate Impact Competition For High School Students

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

High school students across the United States now have the opportunity to compete for a share of $10,000 by proposing new ways to demonstrate how Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) can strengthen local communities. The Real Estate, Real Impact Challenge, launched by NAF on its free KnoPro digital learning platform and sponsored by Nareit, is open through December 7.

Energetic Capital Secures Permanent Financing For 400MW Solar Project In Texas

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

Energetic Capital has enabled permanent financing for one of the most significant solar developments in the ERCOT market, supporting a nearly 400MW utility-scale project in Texas through its flagship EneRate Credit Cover insurance product. The project, backed by a significant renewable energy developer, is expected to generate enough clean power to supply more than 75,000 homes each year.

Solve Therapeutics: $120 Million To Advance Next-Generation ADC Pipeline For Solid Tumors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

Solve Therapeutics has secured $120 million in new financing to accelerate the development of its clinical-stage antibody drug conjugates for solid tumors, marking one of the biotechnology sector’s notable funding rounds of the year. The San Diego-based company is advancing a portfolio built on its proprietary CloakLink linker system, designed to improve stability, reduce hydrophobicity, and enhance the therapeutic index of ADCs targeting difficult solid tumor indications.

Safe Pro Group: Over $20 Million Secured To Accelerate AI, Drone, And Ballistics Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

Safe Pro Group announced a major operational update following the securing of more than $20 million in new strategic investments, which are fueling rapid development across its AI, autonomous drone services, and advanced ballistic protection divisions. The Aventura-based company, which trades on Nasdaq under the ticker SPAI, said the funding is enabling the faster commercialization of its technology platforms and strengthening its market position in defense, public safety, and humanitarian operations.

Artios: $115 Million Series D Raised To Advance Late-Stage DDR Oncology Pipeline

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

Artios Pharma Limited has closed an oversubscribed $115 million Series D financing to accelerate clinical development across its portfolio of DNA damage response therapeutics. The round was co-led by SV Health Investors and RA Capital Management, with participation from Janus Henderson Investors and strong support from existing backers.

Sealed Air To Be Acquired By CD&R In $10.3 Billion Buyout

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

Sealed Air has agreed to be acquired by funds affiliated with Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in an all-cash transaction valuing the company at $10.3 billion, marking one of the largest private equity takeovers in the industrial packaging sector this year. Under the terms of the agreement, Sealed Air stockholders will receive $42.15 per share in cash, representing a forty-one percent premium to the company’s unaffected share price as of August 14, 2025, and a 24% percent premium to its ninety-day volume-weighted average trading price as of November 12, 2025.

PayPal And KKR Sign New Agreement For Up To €65 Billion In European Buy Now Pay Later Receivables

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

PayPal and KKR have expanded their partnership through a new agreement that will enable KKR’s credit funds and accounts to purchase up to €65 billion of PayPal’s current and future European buy-now-pay-later receivables through March 2028. The renewed arrangement includes a loan commitment of up to €6 billion and covers BNPL loans originated in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

Sakana AI: ¥20 Billion Series B Raised To Advance Sustainable AI In Japan

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

Tokyo-based research company Sakana AI has secured ¥20 billion (approximately $135 million) in Series B funding to accelerate its work on sustainable, efficiency-focused AI technology and expand deployment across major Japanese industries. The round included participation from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Khosla Ventures, Factorial, Macquarie Capital, Fundomo, Mouro Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Geodesic Capital, Lux Capital, Ora Global, MPower Partners, Shikoku Electric Power, and In-Q-Tel.

Ancient Makes Strategic Investment In Superyacht Leader Burgess

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

Ancient has taken a strategic stake in Burgess, the longstanding global leader in the superyacht industry, marking a significant partnership aimed at strengthening Burgess’s position as the foremost full-service platform in the sector. The deal aligns with Ancient’s approach of investing in category-defining businesses in specialty finance and specialized services.

AKA Foods: $17.2 Million Closed To Launch Secure AI Platform For Food Innovation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

AKA Foods has closed a $17.2 million seed funding round led by noted AI entrepreneurs Alex and Michael Bronstein, marking the official debut of AKA Studio, a secure AI system designed to accelerate and modernize product development for global food companies. The financing represents a notable early investment in a platform that aims to redefine how food is researched, formulated, and commercialized by integrating organisational knowledge, sensory evaluation, and advanced AI assistants into a unified environment.

Intellect Acquires Zaptic To Enhance AI-Powered Quality Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

Intellect has announced its acquisition of the UK-based Connected Frontline Worker platform, Zaptic, in a move that significantly expands its global operations and strengthens its AI-powered Quality Management System capabilities. The deal brings together two complementary technologies aimed at unifying quality, safety, and frontline execution for manufacturers in Food and Beverage, consumer goods, and other regulated sectors.

Lone Star Funds Completes Acquisition Of Multi-Asset UK Real Estate Portfolio From St. James’s Place

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

Lone Star Funds has finalized the purchase of a substantial multi-asset real estate portfolio from St. James’s Place and its Property Unit Trust and Life and Pensions Trust, marking one of the firm’s notable property acquisitions this year. St. James’s Place was advised by Invesco Real Estate, which managed the disposition process on its behalf.

Parseur: Interview With Co-Founder & CTO Sylvain Josserand About The Document-Processing Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

Parseur is a document-processing platform that automatically extracts structured data from emails, PDFs, and other documents. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Parseur co-founder and CTO Sylvain Josserand to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Talkdesk: Interview With VP Of Healthcare And Life Sciences Patty Hayward About The Customer Experience Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

Talkdesk is a global cloud contact center and customer experience platform that utilizes AI to help businesses enhance customer interactions and improve service efficiency. Talkdesk is leading a new era in customer experience with Customer Experience Automation (CXA), a new category and platform designed to automate the full complexity of modern customer journeys. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Talkdesk's Vice President of Healthcare and Life Sciences, Patty Hayward, to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Hummink: €15 Million Raised To Advance Micronic Precision Printing For Next-Generation Electronics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 17, 2025

Hummink has raised €15 million in new funding to accelerate the global deployment of its micronic precision printing technology, positioning the Paris-based deep-tech company as a pivotal player in the future of semiconductor and advanced display manufacturing. The round was co-led by KBC Focus Fund, Cap Horn, and Bpifrance, with historic backers including Elaia Partners, Sensinnovat, Beeyond, and the French Tech Seed fund, managed by Bpifrance on behalf of the French government as part of France 2030. The European Innovation Council Fund also participated.