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Interview With Ariel Taub About This Luxury Fashion And Bridal Brand

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 4, 2024

Ariel Taub is a luxury fashion and bridal accessory brand designed specifically for the modern person who craves elegant and unique pieces. The company’s products include clutches, jewelry, veils, and other couture accessories, which are made with high-quality brilliant-cut crystals and handcrafted in the designer's Michigan-based studio. Pulse 2.0 interviewed the owner of Ariel Taub to learn more about her namesake company.

White & Case Adds New Partners Melissa Anyetei (Chicago), Anne-Sophie Noury (Paris), Alicia Albury (Sydney), And Shinsuke Yakura (Tokyo)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

Global law firm White & Case has expanded several of its practices by hiring several partners.

Kirkland & Ellis: Energy Regulatory Partner Damien Lyster Joins The Firm

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

Kirkland & Ellis announced that Damien Lyster has joined the Firm as an Energy Regulatory Practice Group corporate partner.

Outside Interactive Buys MapMyFitness From Under Armour

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

Outside Interactive - which is the leading creator of outdoor content, services, events, and experiences, announced the acquisition of MapMyFitness from Under Armour. MapMyFitness is a fitness tracking app that enables users to track their activities using built-in GPS on their mobile devices. This technology includes popular applications like MapMyRide, MapMyRun, and MapMyWalk.

CLEAResult Raises Majority Investment From Kohlberg & Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

CLEAResult, which is North America’s largest energy efficiency, energy transition and energy sustainability services provider, announced a majority investment by funds managed by Kohlberg & Company, a leading U.S. middle market private equity firm with 37 years of experience and an extensive background in the infrastructure services and energy efficiency sectors.

Skycharger: An Interview With COO Johannes Copeland About This EV Charging Leader

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

Skycharger is a company that has emerged as a leader in the EV charging space. And the company’s mission is to create environmentally conscious communities where accessibility to EV charging is not a luxury. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Skycharger COO Johannes Copeland to learn more about the company.

Yellow.ai: Empowering Enterprises To Create Memorable Customer Conversations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

Yellow.ai is an AI-first customer service automation company that empowers enterprises to create memorable customer conversations through a generative AI-powered customer service automation platform. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Yellow.ai co-founder and CEO Raghu Ravinutala to learn more about the company.

Halcyon: How This Company Stops Ransomware From Impacting Enterprises

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

Gray Capital Buys Solana At The Crossing In Indiana, Marking $112+ Million Of Multifamily Assets Acquired

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

Gray Capital announced the acquisition of Solana at the Crossing, which is a 384-unit class A apartment community built in 2014 and located on the north side of Indianapolis, Indiana. This is Gray Capital's eleventh apartment asset in the Indianapolis area.

DLA Piper: Legal Delivery Center Launched In Germany

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

DLA Piper announced it has appointed partners Dr. Michael Zollner and Dr. Carl Renner to establish and lead the Legal Delivery Centre (LDC) in Germany from September 1, 2024. The LDC is part of DLA Piper's Law& for disruptive legal, technology, and business advisory solutions.

Grid Status: Electric Grid Platform Secures $8 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

Grid Status, a modern data and analytics platform for the electric grid, announced an $8 million funding round led by Energize Capital. The company investors joining the round include Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross (NFDG Ventures), Rayburn Electric Cooperative, Evergreen Climate Innovations, and other individual investors.

Turntable Labs: Social Music Platform Company Raises $8.2 Million (Seed)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

Turntable Labs, the company behind the new social music platform Hangout, announced an extended seed round totaling $8.2 million ahead of its public launch. Hangout, which enables music fans, coworkers, and other communities to gather, DJ together, and interact in a playful virtual setting, is expected to go live later this year.

VRGL: Client Acquisition And Investment Proposal Company Raises Strategic Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

VRGL, a Client Acquisition and Investment Proposal Management solution, announced the completion of a strategic fundraising round. The funding round was led by existing investors FINTOP Capital and MissionOG, with significant support from Northwestern Mutual, Flyover Capital, Fin Capital, and other industry insiders and friends of the firm.

Bland AI: Conversational Platform Secures $16 Million (Series A)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

Bland AI - a platform automating phone calls for the enterprise using hyper-realistic AI agents - announced it emerged from stealth with a $16 million Series A funding round led by Scale Venture Partners. Other investors include: Y Combinator and angel investors Max Levchin the founder of Paypal, Piotr Dąbkowski the CTO of Eleven Labs CTO, Jeff Lawson the founder of Twilio, and others. With this funding, Bland AI has raised a total of $22 million.

New School Foods: Alt-Protein Company Raises $6 Million (Seed Extension)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

New School Foods has announced the completion of a $6 million Seed Extension round with funding from global investors including Inter IKEA, Good Startup, NewTree Capital and Hatch, building on previously announced non-dilutive capital from Protein Industries Canada.

nOps: AWS Cost Optimization Platform Company Raises $30 Million (Series A)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

nOps, a leading AWS cost optimization platform, announced the closing of a $30 million Series A funding round led by Headlight Partners. nOps is enabling organizations across the globe to solve one of the largest IT challenges of the last decade - which is better understanding, controlling and reducing cloud spend.

Aplantex Closes C$2.8 Million To Extract Plant Molecules From Proprietary Biomasses

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

Aplantex, an innovative Quebec-based startup specializing in extracting high-value plant molecules from its proprietary biomass, announces the closing of a $2.8 million CAD round of funding led by Frederick Perrault, with the participation of the Circular Innovation Fund (CIF) through its Acceleration Program, Cycle Momentum, Investissement Québec, and several angel investors. This funding will accelerate the development of the company’s strategic and production plan.

Codeium: AI-Based Code Acceleration Platform Raises $150 Million (Series C) At $1.25 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

Codeium, an AI-based code acceleration platform, announced it has secured $150 million in Series C funding, raising the company's valuation to $1.25 billion and bringing the startup to unicorn status in under two years since being founded. The funding round was led by General Catalyst, with continued support from existing investors Kleiner Perkins and Greenoaks.

Alaska Communications: $390 Million Financing Raised To Expand Statewide Fiber Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

Alaska Communications, a provider of mission-critical and life-critical communications infrastructure in Alaska, announced a major financial advancement by establishing a new five-year $390 million senior secured credit facility. These funds will be used for repaying existing debt and to further invest in expanding the company’s fiber infrastructure across the state.

Purdue University Reveals Record-Breaking Growth For The Year

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

Since Purdue University created Purdue Innovates in 2023, the system has worked to streamline access and strengthen support for technology commercialization and startup support resources. The goal of providing top-tier resources for entrepreneurial activities in Indiana is paying off.

ScaleVoice: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Ondrej Kuchta About This AI Communication Solution Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

ScaleVoice is a company that drives business growth through advanced AI-powered communication solutions. Pulse 2.0 interviewed ScaleVoice co-founder and CEO Ondrej Kuchta to learn more about the company.

PhotonPharma: $2.5 Million (Seed) Raised To Develop Ovarian Cancer Treatments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

Fort Collins, Colorado-based biopharmaceutical company PhotonPharma announced the closing of a $2.5 million seed financing round.

The Rounds: Inventory Management Platform Company Raises $24 Million (Series B)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2024

Inventory management platform company The Rounds - a company that delivers recurring grocery and household essentials in reusable packaging - announced a $24 million Series B funding round led by Moderne Ventures, with participation from FJ Labs and existing investors, bringing the total funding to date to $66 million.

Cassidy: Business Automation Platform Company Raises $3.7 Million (Seed)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 2, 2024

Business automation platform company Cassidy announced $3.7 million in seed funding led by The General Partnership, with participation from Neo, Comma Capital, Spacecadet Ventures, Ride Ventures, and angels like Erik Goldman (Co-founder of Vanta), Jason Dorfman (CEO of Orum), Zach Sims (founder of Codecademy), and other leading angels and operators.

Nucleus Security: Funding Raised From Dcode Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 2, 2024

Nucleus Security, the enterprise leader in unified vulnerability management, announced an investment by Dcode Capital, a growth-stage venture capital firm backed by J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Dcode Capital’s funding follows Nucleus Security’s FedRAMP Moderate authorization and further validates the critical impact of the company’s Unified Vulnerability Management platform for Federal organizations.

Fabric Cryptography: $33 Million (Series A) Closed To Build Computing Chips And Cryptographic Algorithms

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 2, 2024

Silicon Valley-based hardware company Fabric Cryptography announced a $33 million Series A funding round to build computing chips, software and cryptographic algorithms. This round was co-led by Blockchain Capital and 1kx, with participation from leaders in the sector, such as Offchain Labs, Polygon, and Matter Labs. This follows a $6 million seed round led by Metaplanet with participation from Inflection and Liquid2 Ventures, amongst others. With this funding round, the company has raised $39 million in total.

Your Money Line: $4.5 Million (Series A) Raised To Enhance Employee Financial Health

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 2, 2024

AI-based employee financial wellness benefits company Your Money Line announced it raised $4.5 million in Series A funding led by Allos Ventures, with participation from First Trust Capital Partners, CareSource, and Elevate Ventures.

Freshfields: Eva Mak Joins As Private Capital Partner

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 2, 2024

Freshfields announced that Eva Y. Mak has joined the firm as a private capital partner based in the Silicon Valley office. Mak’s practice is focused on representing private equity (PE), growth, and venture funds and their portfolio companies in large capital, mid-market, and growth transactions.

Latham & Watkins: Leen Zaza Joins As M&A Partner In Riyadh

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 2, 2024

Latham & Watkins announced that Leen Zaza has joined the firm’s Riyadh office as an M&A and Private Equity Practice partner. Zaza regularly advises Saudi and international companies, private equity firms, investors, and government bodies on various complex transactions, with a focus on private M&A, joint ventures, divestments, corporate governance, and corporate regulatory and advisory matters.

Cribl: IT And Security Management Company Raises $319 Million (Series E) At $3.5 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 2, 2024

Cribl announced it has closed a $319 million oversubscribed Series E round, comprised of a combined primary and secondary transaction. This brings the company’s total capital secured to over $600 million and increases its valuation to $3.5 billion—up 40% since the company’s Series D round in 2022.