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Rise Growth Invests In Bleakley Financial Group

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 2, 2024

Rise Growth Partners—the wealth management industry’s first synergistic financial partner for growth-oriented registered investment advisors (RIAs)—announced an inaugural strategic minority investment in Bleakley Financial Group. Bleakley is a distinguished wealth advisory and financial planning firm with over thirty years of history, whose advisors currently service nearly $10 billion in advisory assets as of June 30.

QuantHealth: $215 Million In Financial Returns And 85% Clinical Trial Accuracy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 2, 2024

QuantHealth, an AI-based clinical trial design company, announced it has surpassed 100 successfully simulated clinical trials, achieving 85% accuracy and a major return on investment (ROI) for pharmaceutical partners.

Noetik: AI-Based Biotech Company Raises $40 Million (Series A) To Develop Cancer Therapeutics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2024

Noetik - an AI-based biotech company leveraging self-supervised machine learning and high-throughput spatial data to develop next-generation cancer therapeutics - announced that it closed an oversubscribed $40 million Series A financing round. This funding was led by Polaris Partners and managing partner Amy Schulman, who will join the board of directors, with participation from new investors Khosla Ventures, Wittington Ventures, and Breakout Ventures.

Onebrief: Military Staff Workflow Platform Company Raises $53 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2024

Onebrief—a leading software platform for military staff workflows and collaboration—announced the closing of its Series B funding round, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $53 million. Human Capital led this funding round, with participation from 9Yards Capital and Caffeinated Capital.

Skyfire Systems: AI-Based Financial Stack Company Raises $8.5 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2024

Skyfire Systems has launched the world's first payment network built to enable fully autonomous transactions across AI Agents, LLMs, data platforms, service providers, and other goods and services. The company has also announced $8.5 million in funding from Neuberger Berman, Brevan Howard Digital, Intersection Growth Partners, DRW, Inception Capital, Arrington Capital, RedBeard Ventures, Sfermion, Circle, FBG, Gemini, Crossbeam Venture Partners, EveryRealm, Draper Associates, ARCA, and Ripple.

Cairn Surgical: Breast Cancer Locator Company Raises $4.5 Million (Series A2)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2024

Cairn Surgical - an innovative medical technology company aiming to make breast cancer surgery more precise - announced that it has closed $4.5 million in a Series A2 financing led by Morningside Ventures.

Buzz Solutions: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Kaitlyn Albertoli About Their AI-Powered Power Utility Infrastructure Inspection Solution

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 30, 2024

PuriFire Energy: Green Hydrogen And Methanol Solutions Company Secures £2.7 Million (Seed)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 30, 2024

PuriFire Energy announced it had closed a £2.7 million (US$3.5 million) seed round investment led by HICO Investment Group with participation from Bulnes Capital, R&R Investments, and Abhishek Desai.

Echelon: Decentralized Lending Protocol Company Secures $3.5 Million (Seed) Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 30, 2024

Decentralized lending protocol Echelon announced it has secured seed funding to advance DeFi lending on Move-based blockchains. This funding round was led by Amber Group, with participation from strategic partners including Laser Digital, Saison Capital, Selini Capital, Interop Ventures, and Re7. Echelon aims to offer high-performance markets integrated with other DeFi applications and real-world assets (RWAs).

Pangeam: Enterprise Social-Spatial Analytics AI Platform Company Secures $4.25 Million (Seed)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 30, 2024

Workplace intelligence company Pangeam announced it has launched an enterprise B2B SaaS platform designed to transform office environments by deeply understanding occupants' needs and behaviors. Pangeam also announced the completion of a $4.25 million Series Seed fundraise led by Neotribe, alongside SNR Ventures, DVC, and Niremia Capital.

Miris: Spatial Computing Company Raises $26 Million (Seed)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 30, 2024

Miris, a company bringing spatial computing into the streaming era, announced it launched from stealth with $26 Million in seed funding led by IAG Capital Partners.

Plume: Interview With GM-European Operations Jasna Mihelj Coustaury About Their Connected Home Platform And #PlumeStrong

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 30, 2024

Plume is a SaaS platform company that delivers technological services for connected homes. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Plume’s general manager of European operations, the head of #PlumeStrong Jasna Mihelj Coustaury, to learn more about the company.