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Rajani Bespoke: An Interview With Founder Zahir Rajani About Building A Luxury Clothing Brand

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 23, 2024

Rajani Bespoke is a luxury clothing brand that produces custom garments for men and women. And the company partnered with the world's best and largest fabric mills to bring customers the very best in bespoke tailoring. To learn more about his journey, recent move and trip to Pitti Uomo in Italy, and the company’s future plans, Pulse 2.0 interviewed Rajani Bespoke Creative Director and founder Zahir Rajani.

Monarch Tractor Raises $133 Million In Series C Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Monarch Tractor, the creator of the world's first fully electric, driver-optional smart tractor and Wingspan Ag Intelligence (WingspanAI) farm management platform called MK-V announced $133 million in Series C funding, making it the largest round in agricultural robotics history. This funding was co-led by global impact investor Astanor and HH-CTBC Partnership, L.P., with additional support from prominent investors, including At One Ventures, PMV, and The Welvaartsfonds.

Standard Bots: Robotics Automation Company Closes $63 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Standard Bots, a robotics automation leader, announced it has raised $63 million in total funding, with its recent Series B round led by General Catalyst with participation from Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund and Samsung Next. Lachy Groom, Quiet Capital, 468 Capital, Lightscape Partners, and Box Group provided additional venture capital support.

Arrcus: Hyperscale Networking Company Closes $30 Million In Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Arrcus, a hyperscale networking software company and a leader in core, edge, and multi-cloud routing and switching infrastructure, announced a significant new investment of $30 million from Prosperity7 Ventures, NVIDIA, Lightspeed, Hitachi Ventures, Liberty Global, Clear Ventures, and General Catalyst.

Element Biosciences: Over $277 Million In Series D Raised For Democratizing Access To Advanced Biological Tools

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Element Biosciences, a developer of pioneering technologies to empower science, announced over $277 million in Series D funding to support its growing global customer base with disruptive DNA sequencing and multi-omics technologies for years to come. The oversubscribed funding round was led by Wellington Management with participation from new and existing investors, including Samsung Electronics, Fidelity, Foresite Capital, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Venrock, and others. This brings Element's cumulative raise to $680+ million.

HUI: Liquid Collaboration Company Raises €25 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

HUI announced the closing of a €25 million equity capital commitment from Nimbus Capital, a Panama-based fund. This funding will further drive HUI's growth as the VC 3.0 Super App, utilized by thousands of entrepreneurs, startups, and investors for its unique market features.

Earned Wealth: $200 Million Capital Commitment Raised

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Earned Wealth, a tech-enabled financial services firm focused on the needs of medical professionals, announced a $200 million capital commitment led by growth equity investors Summit Partners and Silversmith Capital Partners with participation from existing investors Juxtapose, Hudson Structured Capital Management and Breyer Capital.

Medal: AI Assistant Company Secures $13 Million At $333 Million Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Medal - an AI company that is behind the popular MedalTV clipping app - announced the launch of Highlight, its groundbreaking AI assistant platform designed to alter how users interact with popular AI models. And Medal also announced a $13 million funding round from Horizons Ventures, OMERS Ventures, peak6, and Arcadia Investments, valuing the company at $333 million post-money.

Saronic: Defense Technology Leader Raises $175 Million At $1 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Saronic, a defense technology leader that designs and manufactures autonomous surface vessels (ASVs), announced a $175 million Series B funding round, putting the company's valuation at $1 billion. And the funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from both new and existing investors, including 8VC, Caffeinated Capital, Elad Gil, and NightDragon, and others.

Buildots: AI-Based Construction Software Company Closes $15 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Buildots, an AI-based construction software company, announced a $15 million investment led by Intel Capital with participation from OG Tech Partners and previous investors. In connection with the funding, Lisa Cohen, Investment Director at Intel Capital, will join as a board observer.

Regard: AI-Based Clinical Insights Company Raises $61 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Regard, an AI-based clinical insights platform that empowers clinicians to unlock the full potential of patient data, announced the closing of a $61 million Series B financing round, led by Oak HC/FT, with participation from Cedars-Sinai Health Ventures, and existing investors TenOneTen Ventures, Calibrate Ventures, and Techstars.

Finnovista: An Interview With Fermín Bueno About Making Finance Better In Latin America

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Finnovista is a leading innovation and venture capital firm committed to developing the Fintech ecosystem and transforming finance for the better. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Finnovista co-founder and Managing Partner Fermín Bueno to learn more about the firm.

Apty: How This Company Helps Enterprises Streamline Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Apty is a company that helps enterprises streamline their operations and increase efficiency through guided employee experiences and proactive analytics that accelerate digital adoption and process compliance. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Apty founder and CEO Krishna Dunthoori to learn more about the company.

Curate Capital: Accelerating Success Of Companies By Women For Women

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Curate Capital is a venture capital firm that accelerates the success of companies by women for women. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Curate Capital founder and general partner Carrie Colbert to learn more about the firm.

Kuberno: Automating Management Of Global Entity Governance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Kuberno is a company that has created a global entity governance platform called Kube, which combines world-leading entity management functionality with a unique secretariat practice management system. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Kuberno CEO Zoe Bucknell to learn more about the company.

SWIPEBY: How This AI Commerce Company Helps SMBs Thrive

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

SWIPEBY is an AI commerce platform for small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs). To learn more about the company, Pulse 2.0 interviewed SWIPEBY CEO Carl Turner.

ten23 health: An Interview With CEO Professor Dr. Hanns-Christian Mahler About This Innovative CDMO

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

ten23 health is the human-centric and sustainable strategic partner of choice for the pharmaceutical industry and biotech start-ups for the development, manufacture, and testing of tomorrow’s medicines. Pulse 2.0 interviewed ten23 health CEO Professor Dr. Hanns-Christian Mahler to learn more about the company.

StorMagic: Making It Easier To Store And Manage Data At And From The Edge

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

StorMagic is a company that is solving the world’s edge data problems. Pulse 2.0 interviewed StorMagic Chief Marketing and Product Officer Bruce Kornfeld to learn more about the company.

CarbonBlue: Climate Tech Company Closes $10 Million In Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Climate-tech company CarbonBlue has announced the completion of a seed funding round to scale up and deploy its water-based Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) technology, bringing the funding raised by the company to $10 million. This funding round was led by Ibex Investors and FreshFund, joined by strategic investors Engie New Ventures and ZIM Ventures (the corporate venture capital arm of ZIM Integrated Shipping Services), and included further investments by existing investors Jibe Ventures, MoreVC, and Secret Chord Ventures.

CTA Smart: Fuel Management Company Closes $3 Million In Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

CTA Smart, a leading technology company in the fuel sector, announced it has secured a $3 million investment in a new funding round to boost its international growth. Led by Invisto and Indicator Capital, this funding will support CTA Smart's expansion into the American market and lay the groundwork for global expansion.

FIRST: An Interview With CEO Chris Gibson, An Industry Leader in Incident Response

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

FIRST is the global leader in incident response. Membership in FIRST enables incident response teams to respond more effectively to security incidents, both reactively and proactively. Pulse 2.0 interviewed FIRST CEO Chris Gibson to learn more.

Heeler Security: Application Security Company Raises $8.5 Million In Seed Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Application security company Heeler Security announced today the successful closing of an $8.5 million Seed Series funding round, led by Norwest Venture Partners with significant participation from Storm Ventures.

Versable: Using AI Models To Enhance Auto Part Product Data In A $500+ Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

TierPoint: Majority Investment Raised From Argo Infrastructure Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Argo Infrastructure Partners, LP announced that it has increased its ownership stake to represent a majority interest in TierPoint, emphasizing the firm’s confidence in the platform’s exceptional growth trajectory. Argo has now invested about $700 million since 2020 in TierPoint, the flagship digital infrastructure investment in Argo’s portfolio.

Aprio Raises Strategic Growth Funding From Charlesbank

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Aprio, a leading business advisory and accounting firm, announced that it has received a strategic investment from Charlesbank Capital Partners (a middle-market private investment firm with more than $18 billion of capital raised since its inception) to accelerate innovation and growth. The deal represents the first institutional capital investment in Aprio.

F1 Arcade: Experiential Hospitality Brand Raises $130 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Kindred Concepts Ltd. (trading as F1 Arcade) announced it completed a growth financing raise. The $130 million commitments are funded by Cheyne Capital, Liberty Media Corporation, Permira Credit and OakNorth.

Kandji: Apple Endpoint Management And Security Company Raises $100 Million At $850 Million Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Kandji announced it has raised $100 million in capital from General Catalyst, with $50 million allocated to equity financing for its Series D and $50 million for go-to-market investment. This latest funding round brings Kandji’s valuation to $850 million. Deep Nishar from General Catalyst will join the company’s Board of Directors in connection with the funding.

Arkion: AI-Based Grid Inspection Data Solution Company Raises $4 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Arkion, formerly known as Skyqraft, an AI-powered software solution that transforms overhead power lines inspection data into condition assessments of all assets, announced the successful closing of a $4 million funding round. This round was led by Subvenio Invest, with participation from Neptunia Invest, and Antler.

Robertson Stephens Surpasses $6 Billion In Advisory Assets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Robertson Stephens Wealth Management has strategically expanded its presence in the Pacific Northwest by partnering with Rain Capital (an SEC-registered investment advisor managing over $360 million in advisory assets). And David Reichle and Ellen Kim, co-founders of Rain Capital, join Robertson Stephens as Managing Directors & Principals, along with their colleagues Chris Abbruzzese, Jamie Iversen, Luz Garcia, and Wendy Maroun.

Nagish: $16 Million Closed To Make Communication Accessible For Deaf And Hard-Of-Hearing Individuals

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2024

Nagish, a company using AI to make communication accessible for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, announced $16 million in funding. This includes $11 million in Series A funding led by Canaan Partners, with participation from existing investors K5 Global, Tokyo Black, Cardumen Capital, Vertex Ventures Israel, Contour Venture Partners, and Precursor Ventures, and the founders of Datadog and Looker.