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WiseTech Buying e2open For $2.1 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

WiseTech, a developer of leading logistics execution software CargoWise, announced it has entered into a binding agreement to acquire U.S.-based E2open, a leading provider of SaaS-based solutions in the global logistics value chain, for $3.30 per share in cash, equating to an enterprise value of $2.1 billion. This deal will be fully debt-funded from a new syndicated debt facility and is subject to certain customary conditions precedent.

Rillet: $25 Million Series A Raised For AI-Based ERP Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Rillet, an AI-native ERP (enterprise resource planning) platform, announced $25 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital. This funding round includes existing investors First Round Capital, Creandum, Susa Ventures and top angels, such as former NetSuite CFO, Ron Gill and Lee Kirkpatrick, former Twilio CFO.

Gebbia Media Buying Big Machine Rock

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Gebbia Media (a subsidiary of Siebert Financial) announced that it has acquired Big Machine Rock, the rock imprint of Big Machine Label Group - which has played a significant role in shaping the future of modern rock. This deal marks a bold new chapter in Gebbia Media's rapid ascent within the music and media industries, where it is focused on creating an artist-first platform that blends creative storytelling with strategic investment. Big Machine Rock's current roster includes Daughtry, Badflower, Sammy Hagar, Olive Vox, and Ryan Perdz, and others.

Endurosat: €43 Million Raised For Satellite Constellations-As-A-Service Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

EnduroSat, a leading provider of satellite constellations-as-a-service, today announced a €43 million investment led by Founders Fund.

AECOM Receives $80+ Environmental Remediation Contract For Vandenberg Space Force Base Project

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

AECOM - a trusted global infrastructure leader - announced that it has been awarded an Optimized Remediation Contract (ORC) by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Los Angeles District to provide environmental remediation services at Vandenberg Space Force Base on California’s Central Coast. And the 10-year $81.3-million single award is one of the most significant optimized remediation contracts awarded by the USACE Los Angeles District, reinforcing AECOM’s position as a trusted partner in delivering mission-critical solutions.

Haber: Interview With Co-Founder & COO Priya Venkat About The Actionable Intelligence Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Haber is a company with a mission to help industries become sustainable by converting data to actionable intelligence. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Haber co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Priya Venkat to learn more about the company.

Clear Current: Over $4 Million Secured For Launching AI-Based Virtual Energy Manager for Enterprises

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Clear Current, which is the first AI platform to offer a comprehensive virtual energy manager for enterprise businesses, announced it has secured over $4 million in an oversubscribed Seed Round. Rho Ignition led the round, with participation from Coreline Ventures and Avesta Fund.

Hildene Capital: $453.9 Million Non-QM Loan Securitization Closed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Strive Asset Management Signs $750 Million Investment To Advance Alpha-Generating Bitcoin Treasury Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Strive Asset Management and Asset Entities announced the signing of a $750 million private investment in public equity (PIPE), with an additional $750 million in potential financing available upon the exercise of warrants, which could increase total potential proceeds to $1.5 billion. Upon the closing of the deals, the proceeds are expected to support the company's first wave of Bitcoin acquisitions, to set up Strive Asset Management as the first Bitcoin treasury company focused on long-term Bitcoin outperformance through the implementation of alpha-generating strategies along with the company's plans to implement known beta strategies used by incumbent Bitcoin treasury corporations.

Traceloop: $6.1 Million Secured For Making AI Agents Production-Ready

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Pallet: $27 Million Series B Raised For Logistics AI Workforce Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Pallet, which is the company behind CoPallet, the AI workforce for logistics, announced a $27 million Series B round led by General Catalyst, with continued support from Bain Capital Ventures, Activant Capital, and Bessemer Venture Partners. Dan Lewis (CPO at Microsoft, co-founder at Convoy), Amit Agarwal (former President at Datadog), Girish Rishi (former CEO at BlueYonder), Michael Capellas (former CEO at Compaq), Matt McKinney (CEO at Loop), and Aatish Nayak (Head of Product at Harvey) participated in this funding round.

Blues: $25 Million Raised For Advancing Cloud Connected Intelligent Products

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

Blues, an Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity solutions company, announced the closing of its latest $25 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Blues has previously raised $66 million in funding.

Quadria Capital: $1 Billion Fund III Closed To Advance Healthcare Transformation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

Quadria Capital, an Asia-based healthcare-focused private equity firm, announced the final closing of Fund III, with total commitments of $1.07 billion, significantly exceeding its original target of $800 million.

MariaDB Buying Codership Oy And Its Product Galera Cluster

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

MariaDB announced the acquisition of Codership Oy, a Finnish-based company, and its flagship product, Galera Cluster, a powerful high-availability database solution that provides high uptime, no data loss, and scalability for database growth. With this deal, the core Galera team and its founders will join MariaDB, enhancing the company’s European engineering and technical support team.

Arcadea Buying Revenue Cycle Company Intuitive Care

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

Arcadea Group, an investor in global software companies, announced the acquisition of Intuitive Care, a leading provider of revenue cycle management services to the Brazilian healthcare industry. And this partnership marks a significant milestone in Intuitive Care’s growth journey, positioning the company for success while maintaining its commitment to innovation and excellence in healthcare financial operations.

Simi Capital Buys $31 Million Miami Industrial Portfolio

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

Simi Capital Group, a real estate investment firm specializing in various equity and debt strategies, founded by Andrew Skydell and Jacob Diamond, has announced the acquisition of a coveted industrial portfolio in Miami, Florida, for $31 million.

Clair: $23 Million Series B Raised For Earned Wage Access Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

Clair, a pioneering fintech company offering Earned Wage Access (EWA), originated by national bank Pathward, announced that it has raised $23.2 million in its Series B led by its Seed round lead investor Upfront Ventures, with participation from existing investors including Thrive Capital.

TrustCloud: $15 Million Raised For AI-Native Security Assurance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

TrustCloud, an AI-native security assurance platform for hybrid enterprises, announced it has raised $15 million in strategic funding led by ServiceNow Ventures, with participation from Cisco Investments, Presidio Ventures, OpenView Venture Partners, Tola Capital, and existing investors.

Firehawk Aerospace: Strategic Investment Raised For Advanced Energetics And Propulsion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

Firehawk Aerospace, a defense technology leader specializing in advanced energetics and propulsion technologies, announced that it has received a pivotal land grant and capital investment from the State of Oklahoma and federal leaders, including Governor Kevin Stitt, U.S. Representative Tom Cole, U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin, and Representative Trey Caldwell.

Vontive Reveals $150 Million Securitization With Citi As Equity Investor

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

Vontive, a technology company standardizing the business-purpose mortgage, announced an equity investment from Citi. Vontive also launched a $150 million securitization, VNTV 2025-RTL1.

DreamPark: $1.1 Million Seed Raised For Advancing Downloadable XR Theme Park

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

DreamPark, the creator of the world’s largest downloadable mixed reality (XR) theme park, announced it raised $1.1 million in seed funding led by Long Journey Ventures, with participation from Founders Inc.

Deccan AI: Funding Raised From Prosus

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2025

Deccan AI, a company specializing in pristine data for AI model training and evaluation, announced that it has raised funding from Prosus Ventures. The funding will advance product development, expand the team, and fuel market expansion.

Rhino: $15 Million Series A Closed For Scaling Federated AI Across Regulated Industries

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 31, 2025

Rhino Federated Computing, a leading platform for federated AI collaboration, announced the closing of an oversubscribed $15 million Series A funding round led by AlleyCorp. And all existing institutional investors participated, including LionBird, Fusion Fund, Arkin Digital Health, Qiming Venture Partners USA, Telus Global Ventures, and Keren Maccabi, as well as new investors Wilson’s Bird Capital, Mr. Frank Sica, and Gaingels. The funding round brings Rhino FCP’s total funding to over $30 million to date.

David: $75 Million Series A Raised To Build Tools For Increasing Muscle

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 31, 2025

David, a brand that designs tools to increase muscle and decrease fat, announced it closed a $75 million Series A funding round, led by Greenoaks with the participation of Valor Equity Partners.

Empathy: $72 Million Series C Raised For Transforming How The World Manages Tough Moments

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 31, 2025

Empathy, a leading technology company transforming how the world plans for and manages life’s toughest moments, announced a $72 million Series C fundraise led by Adams Street Partners with participation from General Catalyst, Index Ventures, Entrée Capital, Brewer Lane Ventures, SemperVirens, Latitude, and LionTree, bringing total capital raised to $162 million.

EQT Selling Acumatica To Vista Equity Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 31, 2025

EQT announced that the EQT VII fund has agreed to sell Acumatica to Vista Equity Partners. The deal marks a significant milestone in Acumatica's growth journey, following its transformation since EQT's initial investment in 2019.

Flip: $28 Million Series A Extension Secured For Helping Deskless Workers

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 31, 2025

Flip announced a $28 million Series A extension. Existing investors, including LEA Partners, HV Capital, Notion Capital, and Roland Berger, led the round.

Rhizome: $6.5 Million Seed Round Closed For Climate Resilience Planning Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 31, 2025

Rhizome, a leading climate resilience planning platform for the power grid, announced the closing of a $6.5 million oversubscribed seed funding round led by Base10 Partners. Base10 is joined in the Seed round by first-time Rhizome investors in MCJ and CLAI. And they join Convective Capital, El Cap, Streetlife Ventures, Stepchange, and Everywhere in closing out the oversubscribed round, all of whom also participated in prior Rhizome fundraises.

Rivan: £10 Million Raised To Build Energy Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 31, 2025

Rivan, a company enabling energy security through synthetic fuels, announced it has raised £10 million in funding led by Plural, with participation from 20VC, NFDG (Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross), and prominent angel investors Patrick and John Collison (Stripe).

Attensi: Over $25 Million Secured For Game-Based Solutions For Skills

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 30, 2025

Attensi, which is a leading provider of game-based solutions for skills and people development, announced it has secured more than $25 million in non-dilutive growth funding. This follows a remarkable period of growth for the company, driven by AI innovation and strategic product development.