Innovation

Dream Finders Homes: Acquisition Of Alliant National Title Insurance Company Closed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Dream Finders Homes announced that it has closed on its acquisition of Alliant National Title Insurance Company and a related affiliate after the initial deal announcement on October 23, 2024. This acquisition was formally closed on April 18, 2025.

Electra: $115 Million (Series B) Raised For Building First Ultra Short Aircrafts

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Electra.aero announced it has secured $115 million in Series B funding to enter the pre-production and certification phase of the EL9, the first-ever Ultra Short aircraft, which can take off and land in 150 feet, which is roughly 10% of the footprint required for similarly-sized legacy airplanes. Prysm Capital led the funding round. Lockheed Martin Ventures, Honeywell, and Safran are among Electra's strategic investors, Prysm Capital, Statkraft Ventures, the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC), and other private investors.

Sagard: Strategic Partnership Signed With BEX Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Sagard, an alternative asset manager with over $27 billion of assets under management, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a strategic stake in BEX Capital, a specialized secondaries investment firm with over $2 billion of assets under management.

Bain Capital And BlueWater Marinas Buying Boathouse Marine Center

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Bain Capital’s Real Estate team and BlueWater Marinas, led by Joe Miller and Dunston Powell, announced the acquisition of Boathouse Marine Center (BMC), a dry-stack marina in Pompano Beach, Florida. The financial terms of the private and off-market purchase were not disclosed.

Hammerspace: $100 Million Raised For Data Platform For AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Hammerspace, a high-performance Data Platform for AI, announced that several strategic venture investors have invested $100 million in new strategic growth capital in Hammerspace. The rest of the funding round was completed by a combination of new and existing investors.

Glycomine: $115 Million (Series C) Raised To Advance GLM101 Drug Candidate

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Glycomine - a biotechnology company focused on developing transformative new therapies for orphan diseases - announced a $115 million Series C financing to advance its lead candidate GLM101, into a Phase 2b clinical trial. This funding was led by CTI Life Sciences Fund, funds managed by abrdn, and Advent Life Sciences, along with continued investment from existing investors, Novo Holdings, Sanofi Ventures, Abingworth, RiverVest Venture Partners, Sanderling Ventures, Chiesi Ventures, Remiges Ventures, and Asahi Kasei Ventures.

Worldeye Technologies Buying DataHawk To Expand E-Commerce Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Worldeye Technologies announced the acquisition of DataHawk, a provider of e-commerce analytics solutions. This deal integrates DataHawk's analytics platform into Worldeye Technologies' portfolio, creating synergies with other established marketplace optimization tools like Viral Launch.

Auradine: $153 Million (Series C) Raised For Advancing Future Of Blockchain

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Auradine - a leader in energy-efficient blockchain and AI infrastructure solutions - announced the closing of an additional $153 million in connection with its Series C funding round. This funding round was led by StepStone Group and included participation from Maverick Silicon, Premji Invest, Samsung Catalyst Fund, Qualcomm Ventures, Mayfield, MARA Holdings, GSBackers, and other existing investors.

WWE Acquiring Lucha Libre AAA

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

WWE - part of TKO Group Holdings - has announced its acquisition of leading Mexican lucha libre promotion AAA in partnership with Mexico-based sports and entertainment holding company Fillip.

ROH: $9.2 Million Raised For Hospitality-Focused Payments Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

ROH, which is the hospitality industry’s first payments management platform, announced it completed a $9.2 million funding round, led by Highgate Technology Ventures (HTV) and Acrew Capital.

TDK Ventures: Fund 3 Launched At $150 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

TDK announced today that its corporate venture-capital subsidiary, TDK Ventures, has launched Fund 3, a $150 million commitment to catalyzing the next generation of iconic deeptech startups. Building on Fund 1, Fund 2, and Fund EX1, this milestone also increases TDK Ventures’ total assets under management to $500 million, highlighting its position as a global leader in early-stage impact investing.

Ares Management: Acquisition Of Epika Fleet Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Epika Fleet Services - a leading mobile-focused provider of preventative maintenance and repair services for commercial trucking fleets - announced that an Ares Private Equity fund has acquired a majority stake in the company. This deal provides Epika with the capital needed to support investments in the quality and buildout of its service offerings, expand its customer base in underserved geographies, and solidify the platform as a mobile-solutions provider of choice for fleet operators.

Neogen Selling Cleaners And Disinfectants Business For $130 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Neogen, a leader in food safety solutions, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its global cleaners and disinfectants business to Kersia Group, a leader in biosecurity, disinfection, and hygiene solutions, for $130 million in cash at closing plus contingent consideration tied to the business's future performance.

Kenzo: $4.5 Million Raised For Transforming Security Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Kenzo Security announced it emerged from stealth after 18 months with $4.5 million in funding from The General Partnership and Michael Coates (former CISO of Mozilla and Twitter). And its Agentic AI Security Operations Platform is purpose-built to help CISOs and security teams do more with less while reducing risk.

HEICO Buying Aircraft Interior Display Company Rosen Aviation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

HEICO announced that its Mid Continent Controls (MC2) subsidiary acquired all of the ownership interests of Eugene, Oregon-based Rosen Aviation for cash consideration paid at the deal's closing. The further terms and financial details were not disclosed.

Bauplan: $7.5 Million (Seed) Secured For AI And Data Infrastructure Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Bauplan, a Python-first serverless data platform that transforms complex infrastructure processes into a few lines of code over data lakes, announced its launch with $7.5 million seed funding. Innovation Endeavors led this funding round, which included experienced operators Wes McKinney, Aditya Agarwal, and Chris Re.

Capital Machine Technologies: Investment Raised From Rotunda Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Rotunda Capital Partners announced it has invested in Capital Machine Technologies in partnership with the existing owners and management team.

Charli AI To Buy Investment Firm Sums Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Charli AI, a leader in AI-based market intelligence, announced that the company agreed to acquire Sums Capital, an early-stage investment platform specializing in streamlining investor transparency, reporting, and portfolio management for private companies. This strategic deal enhances Charli AI’s ability to deliver advanced, AI-powered financial insights, streamlining capital flow and decision-making across private and public markets.

Loti AI: $16.2 Million (Series A) Raised For Likeness Protection Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Loti AI, a leader in likeness protection technology, announced closing a $16.2 million Series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures with additional investments from FUSE, Bling Capital, and Ensemble.

Christopher Todd Capital Buying Two BTR Neighborhoods In Dallas-Fort Worth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Christopher Todd Capital has acquired two Texas Build-to-Rent (BTR) communities in the greater Dallas-Fort-Worth metroplex from NexMetro Communities. And these two stabilized communities represent a combined total of 335 homes. Willow Bridge was selected as the property management company based on its expertise in BTR.

Lexington Medical: Growth Funding Secured From Ampersand Capital Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Lexington Medical, a leader in minimally invasive surgical stapling solutions, announced a strategic investment by Ampersand Capital Partners. This partnership emphasizes Ampersand's confidence in Lexington's potential to transform surgical stapling standards and positions the company for accelerated growth in product innovation, smart manufacturing, and global market expansion.

Scout Ventures: Zach Beecher Named As Partner

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Scout Ventures announced that Zach Beecher is joining the firm as a partner. And Beecher brings extensive experience as a leader in mission-driven initiatives across various sectors, including early-stage technology and national security.

SPRIG Equity: Inaugural Fund Closed At $50 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

SPRIG Equity, a growth equity and late-stage VC firm focused on advancing patient care through investment in transformative medical technologies, announced the final closing of its inaugural fund, SPRIG Equity Fund I, with $50 million in assets under management (AUM).

NewRoad Capital: Vincent Love Named As Partner

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

NewRoad Capital Partners—an operator-led investment firm focused on high-growth supply chain and logistics, retail, and marketing technology companies—announced that Vincent Love has joined the firm as a Partner. In this new role, Love will be responsible for setting the investment strategy and driving all aspects of the investment process for NewRoad's Consumer industry investments.

RadNet Buying iCAD In $103 Million Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

RadNet, a leader in providing high-quality and cost-effective diagnostic imaging services and digital health solutions, and iCAD (a global leader in providing clinically proven AI-powered breast health solutions) announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which RadNet will acquire iCAD in an all-stock transaction.

Stonepeak Buying Majority Interest In IOR

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Stonepeak - a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets - announced that it has agreed to buy a 75% interest in IOR, a leading integrated commercial fuel and logistics provider in Australia.

Seveno Capital: $70 Million Commitment Raised To Extend Human Health Span

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Seveno Capital announced it has launched by making an inaugural investment in its mission to back early and growth-stage ventures that can potentially extend the human health span - which is the period of life during which a person can expect to enjoy good health.

Inferless: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Aishwarya Goel About The Serverless GPU Inference Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Inferless is a company that developed serverless GPU inference technology to scale your machine learning inference without any hassle of managing servers while deploying complicated and custom models with ease. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Inferless co-founder and CEO Aishwarya Goel to learn more about the company.

IPVanish: Interview With Chief Commercial Officer Subbu Sthanu About The VPN Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

IPVanish is a top-tier VPN service that delivers some of the best VPN speeds, the most secure connections, and the most competitive pricing anywhere. The company’s VPN service spans 40,000+ IPs on 2,400+ servers in more than 140 global locations, giving you the ability to surf anonymously and access blocked websites from every corner of the globe. Pulse 2.0 interviewed IPVanish Chief Commercial Officer Subbu Sthanu to learn more about the company.

Voyage Foods: Interview With Founder & CEO Adam Maxwell About The Sustainable Food Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Voyage Foods is a company that was born out of a deep hunger to harness the power of technology to secure the future of our favorite foods without exploiting their source ingredients. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Voyage Foods CEO and founder Adam Maxwell to learn more about the company.