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Sundial: $23 Million Closed For Improving Data-Informed Decisions With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 9, 2025

Sundial, an AI-driven analytics platform, has announced that it has raised a total of $23 million, including a $16 million Series A funding round led by GPV partner DJ Patil, the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist. The company has also raised investments from notable firms such as Sequoia Capital and Electric Capital, as well as influential industry figures like Fidji Simo and Tobi Lütke.

Tulum Energy: $27 Million Raised For Scaling Turquoise Hydrogen Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 9, 2025

Tulum Energy, a methane pyrolysis startup, has announced the closure of a $27 million venture financing round. This significant investment, led by CDP Venture Capital (through its Green Transition Fund) and TDK Ventures and a global consortium of prominent investors including Tulum’s founder TechEnergy Ventures, MITO Technology, through the MITO Tech Ventures fund, and Doral Energy Tech Ventures, underscores strong confidence in Tulum Energy's innovative approach to clean hydrogen production.

Brainfish: $6.4 Million Pre-Series A Raised For AI-Based Customer Experience Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 9, 2025

Brainfish, an AI platform that enhances user interaction with digital products, has raised $6.4 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by Prosus Ventures, bringing its total funding to $10 million. Existing investors, including Peak XV’s Surge and Macdoch Ventures, also participated.

Honor Education: $38 Million Series A Raised For Improving Digital Learning Experiences

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 9, 2025

Honor Education, a learning platform transforming skills and cultures, has secured $38 million in Series A funding from investors including Alpha Edison and Wasserstein & Co. This funding reflects growing confidence in Honor's innovative approach to delivering engaging learning experiences across degree programs, credentialing, and corporate leadership development.

Castellum.AI: $8.5 Million Series A Closed For Advancing AI Agent And AML/KYC Platform Adoption

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 9, 2025

Castellum.AI, a financial crime compliance platform featuring in-house risk data, AML/KYC screening, and AI agents, announced it has closed an oversubscribed $8.5 million Series A funding round. This funding round was led by Curql, supported by over 130 credit unions, including Navy Federal, with additional participation from BTech Consortium and Framework Venture Partners, as well as existing investors like Spider Capital, Remarkable Ventures, and Cameron Ventures.

Apella: $207 Million Team Independence Wealth Advisors Onboarded

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 9, 2025

Apella Wealth, a financial advisory and wealth management firm, has acquired Independence Wealth Advisors, a registered investment adviser (RIA).

Cetera Reveals Alternative Investments Allocation Models

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 9, 2025

Cetera has introduced its first Alternative Investments allocation model for advisors seeking to offer alternative investments to accredited-investor clients.

Dexter Energy: €23 Million Series C Raised For Scaling Climate Tech

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 9, 2025

Amsterdam-based climate tech company Dexter Energy has raised €23 million in a Series C funding round to enhance its AI-driven forecasting and trade optimization services for renewable energy and batteries. This round was led by Alantra’s energy transition fund, Klima, with participation from Mirova and continued support from existing investors like ETF Partners, Newion, and PDENH.

Yaspa: $12 Million Secured For Advancing Fintech Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 9, 2025

Yaspa, a fast-growing fintech company in London, has secured $12 million in a funding round led by Discerning Capital to support its expansion in the United States. Discerning Capital believes that Yaspa’s payment processing will transform the gambling payments ecosystem by enhancing player protections, and is joined by long-time investor TechStars Ventures.

Metafide: $3.275 Million Closed For Transforming Financial Trading

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 9, 2025

Metafide, a company that combines human intuition and AI to drive innovation in financial trading, has secured $3.275 million in new funding and formed a strategic partnership with DogeOS, the leading application layer for Dogecoin, valued at $25 billion.

Raymond James Brings In $1.1 Billion Team

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 9, 2025

Raymond James has welcomed seven financial advisors to its independent channel, Raymond James Financial Services (RJFS), as announced by Northeast division director Alex David.

Kardium: $250 Million Raised For Launching Atrial Fibrillation Treatment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 9, 2025

Kardium, the developer of the Globe Pulsed Field System for atrial fibrillation (AF), has raised $250 million in a financing round led by new investors, including Janus Henderson Investors and the Qatar Investment Authority, with participation from existing investors such as T. Rowe Price. This round includes an equity investment from a key strategic investor.

Samsung Buying Healthcare Integration Company Xealth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 9, 2025

Samsung Electronics has announced its acquisition of Xealth, a healthcare integration platform that combines various digital health tools and care programs for patients and providers. This move aligns with Samsung’s goal of creating a connected care platform that integrates wellness and medical care, offering a seamless approach to preventive healthcare.

Huspy: $9 Million Series B Raised For Transforming Home Buying Experiences

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 9, 2025

Huspy, a proptech company transforming home buying, announced it has closed a $59 million Series B funding round led by Balderton Capital, with participation from Peak XV and others.

Parspec: $20 Million Series A Raised For Enhancing Construction Supply Chain With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 9, 2025

Parspec is an AI-driven software platform that helps wholesale distributors and sales agents efficiently bid on and supply construction products. The company recently raised $20 million in Series A funding, led by Threshold Ventures, with participation from Innovation Endeavors, Building Ventures, Heartland Ventures, and Hometeam Ventures.

EQT Healthcare Growth To Buy Europa Biosite

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 8, 2025

EQT Healthcare Growth has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Europa Biosite, a Stockholm-based distributor of high-quality research-use-only (RUO) life science reagents and biological substances. Operating in 17 countries across Europe and North America, Europa Biosite supports over 60,000 researchers in academia and the biopharmaceutical industry.

Circulate Health: $12 Million Seed Funding Raised For Advancing Potential Of Therapeutic Plasma Exchange

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 8, 2025

Circulate Health, a startup dedicated to utilizing the potential of therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) to advance human healthspan and lifespan, announced today that it raised $12 million in a seed funding led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Seaside Ventures and CSC Ventures.

IFC: $50 Million Committed To Victory Park Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 8, 2025

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, has announced a $50 million follow-on investment in the Victory Park Capital Investor Fund W, LP, reinforcing its commitment to financial inclusion in emerging markets. Together with an additional $50 million from IDB Invest in January 2025, the fund's total commitments now exceed $200 million.

Climeworks: $162 Million Raised For Direct Air Capture Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 8, 2025

Climeworks, a leader in Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology, has achieved a significant milestone by raising $162 million in equity funding, marking the largest carbon removal investment globally for 2025 so far.

Baker McKenzie: Hamish McCormack Named As Partner In Melbourne

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 8, 2025

Baker McKenzie announced that Hamish McCormack has joined Baker McKenzie as a partner in Melbourne, specialising in leveraged finance and special situations/liability management arrangements in the context of large-scale, complex financing transactions (particularly cross-border deals). Hamish spent much of his career working for leading law firms in the US, before returning to Australia.

Athora To Buy Pension Insurance In £5.7 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 8, 2025

Pension Insurance Corporation Group Limited (PICG), the ultimate parent company of Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC), the specialist insurer of UK defined benefit pension schemes, announced that Athora Holding Limited has agreed to acquire PICG for about £5.7 billion. And Athora is a leading pan-European savings and retirement services group with €76 billion of assets under management and administration, on behalf of 2.8 million policyholders.

Capgemini Buying WNS In $3.3 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 8, 2025

Capgemini (a global business and technology transformation partner) and WNS (a leading digital-led business transformation and services company) announced that they have entered into a definitive transaction agreement under which Capgemini will acquire WNS for a cash consideration of $76.50 per WNS share, which represents a premium of 28% to the 90-day average share price from the time the deal was announced.

Thoma Bravo: $2 Billion Acquisition Of Olo

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 8, 2025

Olo (a leading open SaaS platform for restaurants) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm, in an all-cash transaction valuing Olo at approximately $2 billion in equity value.

Odyssey Selling Applied Technical Services To SGS For $1.325 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 8, 2025

Odyssey Investment Partners announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its portfolio company Applied Technical Services (a provider of specialized Testing, Inspection, Calibration, and Forensic Consulting solutions in North America) to SGS (a leading Testing, Inspection, and Certification company) in a transaction valued at $1.325 billion.

OnePrime Capital: Secondary Fund III Closed At $305 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 8, 2025

OnePrime Capital announced that the firm has closed OnePrime Secondary Fund III, L.P., with $305 million of committed capital, exceeding its target fund size of $275 million. And Fund III closed eight months after its launch in October 2024, demonstrating strong investor confidence in OnePrime's specialized technology secondary strategy.

G&A Partners To Buy GrowthForce

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 8, 2025

G&A Partners, a leading professional employer organization (PEO) and human resources outsourcing (HRO) provider, has acquired GrowthForce, a top accounting firm specializing in financial management for service-based businesses and nonprofits.

Blues: Fundraising Expanded To $33 Million For IoT Connectivity Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 8, 2025

Blues, a leader in IoT connectivity solutions, has secured an $8 million follow-on funding round led by XYZ Venture Capital, following a $25 million raise from Sequoia Capital in May 2025. Increased investor demand after the previous round's oversubscription drove this expedited funding.

NeXtWind: €1.4 Billion Raised For Expansion Of Wind Energy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 8, 2025

NeXtWind, a leading renewable energy company, has secured €1.4 billion in debt financing, along with an additional €1.3 billion in accordion facilities that can be accessed in tranches over the coming years. This syndicated loan is the largest for an independent wind energy provider in Germany, allowing major financial institutions, both domestic and international, to invest in the onshore wind market.

Proskauer: Sarah Stasny Named As Partner And Head Of Private Equity Transactions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 8, 2025

Proskauer recently announced the addition of nationally renowned private equity M&A lawyer Sarah Stasny. Stasny is joining the firm as Head of Private Equity Transactions – US, enhancing the strength and depth to the firm’s market-leading private capital offering.

KKR Buying ProTen From Aware Super

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 8, 2025

Global investment firm KKR and the Australian superannuation fund Aware Super have finalized agreements in which KKR-managed funds will purchase ProTen, one of Australia's largest agricultural infrastructure businesses, from Aware Super.