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Freeze - a leading provider of proactive offensive security and attack surface protection solutions designed to prevent hackers from gaining the necessary information and resources to attack organizations and their teams - announced its $2.6 million seed funding round closing. This funding was led by angel investors, cybersecurity experts, and technology experts who recognize the growing need for innovative approaches to proactive offensive security, attack surface protection, and cybersecurity.

TrueFoundry - a leading AI deployment and scaling platform - announced it raised $19 million in Series A funding, led by Intel Capital. And existing investors Eniac Ventures and Peak XV’s Surge (formerly Sequoia Capital India and SEA) participated along with new investor Jump Capital and several angel investors including Gokul Rajaram, Mohit Aron, and executives from Fortune 1000 companies. In connection with the financing, Avi Bharadwaj, Investment Director at Intel Capital, will join TrueFoundry’s board of directors.

Cognida.ai, a leader in practical AI solutions for enterprises, announced the closing of its $15 million Series A funding round, led by Nexus Venture Partners. This funding validates Cognida.ai's unique approach to making AI implementation practical and financially impactful for enterprises, demonstrated through deployments at over 30 leading organizations.

Urban Sky, a stratospheric platform company, announced it closed a $30 million Series B investment round. This funding round will be used to develop and commercialize a connected suite of products that will unlock the full value of the tactical stratosphere for military and commercial customers.

CloudZero is the leader in proactive cloud cost efficiency. Pulse 2.0 interviewed CloudZero CEO Phil Pergola to learn more about the company.

Swivl, a company focused on reflective technology for education and personal development, has secured a growth loan from Decathlon Capital Partners. This investment package will meet the growing demand for Swivl's Mirror and MirrorTalk solutions, enhance functionality, and support new development efforts that advance the company's mission of accelerating reflection for better learning and social-emotional outcomes.

Trinity Capital - a leading alternative asset manager - announced the commitment of $25 million in growth capital to Wisetack, a leading pay-over-time platform for home services.

BlueFlame AI is a company that helps alternative investment managers take advantage of AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) to capture significant time savings and efficiency gains in a safe and compliant manner. Pulse 2.0 interviewed BlueFlame AI CEO Raj Bakhru to learn more about the company.

Perspective AI announced it emerged from stealth to announce a $4 million seed funding round led by Village Global, Array Ventures, Honeystone VC, Recursive Ventures, Darkmode VC, and prominent angel investors.

Hidden Level - a leader in passive radar and radio frequency sensing technology for detecting and precisely locating drones and other threats - announced $65 million in Series C funding led by DFJ Growth with participation from Booz Allen Ventures, Revolution Growth, Costanoa Ventures, Washington Harbour Partners, Veteran Ventures, Founders Circle Capital, and others. This funding comes on the heels of the company's $35 million Series B - which closed only six months earlier. This brings the company's funding over the last year to $100 million, solidifying its position as a technology player in the rapidly evolving national security and critical infrastructure landscape.

PlantBaby, a company focused on creating solutions in the plant-based nutrition space, announced the closing of its series seed equity financing round. This funding round was led by B2 Partners, a firm founded by seasoned investor Matt Behrens, at a post-money valuation of $20 million. B2 is joining the PlantBaby board, with additional support from Big Idea Ventures, Everywhere Ventures, X Factor Ventures, Women's Equity Lab Silicon Valley, and Babylist.

Suki, a leader in AI technology for healthcare, announced an investment from Zoom Ventures (the investment arm of the AI-first work platform and leading healthcare collaboration platform Zoom Communications). Suki will join Zoom Ventures' AI investment portfolio, which includes Anthropic and CoreWeave.

Alternative investment manager Leste Group announced it entered into an agreement to buy a minority stake in Billor, a vertically integrated freight and fintech platform for U.S. truck drivers. The deal also includes setting up a $335 million credit facility to accelerate the company’s growth. Additional financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

KODE Health, which is the only on-demand medical coding platform that connects healthcare systems with certified medical coding professionals, announced that it raised $27 million in Series B funding led by Noro-Moseley Partners with participation from Mercury, FCA Venture Partners, Epsilon Innovation Fund and 111 West Capital.

Nurse Capital, a VC fund that invests in early-stage healthcare startups founded and led by nurses, announced the launch of the Nurse Capital Network (NCN), an exclusive and invitation-only community designed to connect and empower nurse entrepreneurs and inventors.

DataBank, a provider of enterprise-class edge colocation, interconnection, and managed services, announced a $250 million equity investment from TJC LP (formerly The Jordan Company) and a $600 million secondary share offering. This new funding resulted from excess investor interest in the $2 billion primary equity round announced in October 2024 and this brings the total debt and equity raised in the past year and a half to nearly $5 billion.

Atombeam, a company with technology that redefines how data is used, moved, stored and secured, today announced the closing of its recent Reg A+ funding round, with a total of $20 million raised. The funding round was hosted by StartEngine, which enables individual investors to gain an ownership stake in the company's transformative technology. Over 6,500 investors invested in Atombeam during this round. This funding brings Atombeam's total to $35 million.

Anchor, a free-to-use Autonomous Billing & Collections platform, announced it raised a $20 million Series A funding round led by Mosaic General Partnership and Oren Zeev from Zeev Ventures. And existing investors, including Entrée Capital and Tal Ventures, participated, along with new investors Amy Banse, who will be joining Anchor's board and currently serves as a board member at Adobe and ON running, Tien Tzuo (founder and CEO of Zuora), former NBA superstar Andre Iguodala (via Mosaic General Partnership), and other industry leaders.

Cedar Money - a payments company that enables seamless cross-border money movement on stablecoins  - announced a $9.9 million seed round led by QED Investors, with participation from North Island Ventures, Wischoff Ventures, Lattice, and Stellar. This funding will enable Cedar Money to accelerate its mission of transforming international money flows using cutting-edge payment infrastructure.

Closinglock, a fraud prevention technology provider for the real estate industry, announced it has closed a $34 million Series B funding round. This funding was led by Sageview Capital and supported by Headline and RWT Horizons.

NinjaOne, an automated endpoint management platform, and Dropsuite, a leader in cloud data backup, archiving, and recovery solutions, today announced a definitive agreement for NinjaOne to acquire Dropsuite for a total deal value of about $252 million. This deal is expected to close in the first half of this year, subject to approval by Dropsuite’s and other customary closing conditions.

Blackstone recently announced that Blackstone Energy Transition Partners have agreed to acquire Potomac Energy Center, a 774-megawatt natural gas power plant in Loudoun County, Virginia.

Singapore-based private equity firm Everstone Capital announced it acquired a majority stake in Wingify, a leading global provider of marketing technology SaaS product VWO. And this partnership includes a significant investment to accelerate VWO’s product innovation and international growth. This deal highlights Everstone’s focus on supporting two key technology sectors: SaaS and marketing technology across India and Southeast Asia.

According to venture capital firm Greylock Partners, cyber resilience company Semperis announced it surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), a milestone that fewer than one in every 1,000 venture-backed enterprise software companies achieve. Driving Semperis' rapid customer growth and ascension to centaur status is the company's comprehensive solution for enterprises combatting the ever-growing threat of identity-based attacks in Active Directory and Entra ID environments.

Nextworld, a provider of enterprise platforms, announced the closing of a $65 million Series F funding round. The McVaney Investment Partnership led the round, which positions the company for significant growth this year as it continues to redefine how businesses build, extend, and optimize their technology stacks.

Semgrep, a leading Application Security platform, announced $100 million in Series D funding led by Menlo Ventures. This round also included participation from existing investors including Felicis Ventures, Harpoon Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital. This funding round brings the company's total funding to $204 million.

ElevenLabs announced it has raised $180 million in Series C funding to make speech the new standard for digital interaction. This funding round was co-led by a16z and ICONIQ Growth, with additional new investors NEA, World Innovation Lab (WiL), Valor, Endeavor Catalyst Fund, and Lunate. And existing investors Sequoia Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Smash Capital, SV Angel, NFDG, BroadLight Capital are also increasing their support. The company is also further partnering with strategic investors, including Deutsche Telekom, LG Technology Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, NTT DOCOMO Ventures, and RingCentral Ventures. This latest funding values ElevenLabs at $3.3 billion, tripling its valuation from one year before and bringing the total funding to $281 million across four rounds since its founding in 2022.

Verde Clean Fuels closed the $50 million equity investment by Cottonmouth Ventures, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Diamondback Energy. This investment features the purchase of 12.5 million shares of Verde’s Class A common stock by Cottonmouth at a purchase price of $4.00 per share. The investment represents the second investment by Cottonmouth in Verde over the past two years, for a total investment of $70 million, making Cottonmouth the second largest shareholder of Verde.

European online solutions provider Your.World announced that it has received €800 million in long-term partnership capital in the form of preferred equity from Ares Management Credit funds and Carlyle. Launched in 2016 by Strikwerda Investments, Your.World emerged as a leading European web hosting provider, online productivity, and managed IT services. And its growth has been driven by its serial acquirer model based on high quality, sustainable value creation and scalable M&A across verticals and geographies.

Petra Capital Partners announced it completed fundraising on Petra Growth Fund V (PGF V) with $270 million of capital available to invest. The fund was oversubscribed and reached its hard cap.