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C1 Fund Expanding Digital Asset Portfolio With Strategic Investment In Kraken

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 28, 2025

C1 Fund, a public closed-end investment fund focused on private companies in digital asset services and technology, announced its investment in Kraken, one of the world’s largest and longest-operating digital asset trading platforms.

ASU: Accreditation And Nine-Figure Gift Secured To Launch The John Shufeldt School Of Medicine And Medical Engineering

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 28, 2025

Arizona State University (ASU) announced a landmark moment for its rapidly growing health initiative, unveiling both preliminary accreditation for its new medical school and a nine-figure gift from alumnus and physician Dr. John Shufeldt, which will name the institution the John Shufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering.

Hovione: $100 Million Expansion Of New Jersey Manufacturing Site Completed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 28, 2025

Hovione, a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), announced the completion of its initial $100 million investment cycle to expand its New Jersey manufacturing site, marking a significant step in the company’s long-term strategy to scale U.S. operations and advance integrated drug substance and product manufacturing capabilities.

Breakwall Capital: $125 Million Closed For Inaugural Energy Credit Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 28, 2025

Breakwall Capital, an independent energy-focused asset management firm, announced the initial close of $125 million for its flagship vehicle, Breakwall Energy Credit Partners Fund (BEC I). The fund will provide senior secured first lien direct lending to companies operating across energy infrastructure, infrastructure services, and the energy transition subsectors, supporting both conventional and next-generation energy businesses.

KPS Capital Partners To Buy Controlling Stake In Ketjen From Albemarle In $1.6 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 28, 2025

KPS Capital Partners announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with Albemarle Corporation to acquire a controlling 51% stake in Ketjen Corporation’s refining catalyst solutions business, forming a new independent company that will become a global leader in advanced catalysts and additives for the refining and petrochemical industries.

Starlight Investments Expands UK Build-To-Rent Portfolio With Maidenhead Acquisition

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 28, 2025

Starlight Investments, a leading global real estate investment and asset management firm, has announced the acquisition of a build-to-rent (BTR) development in Maidenhead, Berkshire, marking a significant step in the company’s continued expansion across the UK rental housing market. The acquisition, part of the St Cloud Way regeneration scheme, was completed with Countryside Properties (UK) Limited, a subsidiary of Vistry Group, and brings Starlight’s UK BTR portfolio to 4,000 rental homes.

Gryphon Investors: $1.6 Billion Sale Of Shermco to Blackstone Completed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 28, 2025

Gryphon Investors, a leading middle-market private investment firm, announced the completion of the $1.6 billion sale of its portfolio company, Shermco, to funds affiliated with Blackstone. The deal, initially announced on August 21, 2025, marks one of the most notable middle-market private equity exits of the year.

Armira: €1 Billion Milestone Reached In Latest Fundraising

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 28, 2025

Armira, a European investment holding focused on partnering with entrepreneur-led and family-owned hidden champions, announced it has closed its latest fundraising program above its hard cap, bringing total capital available for deployment, including co-investments, to €1 billion.

Connect+Cure Gala Raises $4.7 Million For OU Health Harold Hamm Diabetes Center

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 28, 2025

Over 800 guests gathered at the 2025 Connect+Cure Gala, raising $4.7 million to support the University of Oklahoma Health Harold Hamm Diabetes Center’s pioneering research and programs focused on improving the lives of people affected by diabetes.

Next Glass Buys Ekos To Enhance Global Beverage Software Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 28, 2025

Next Glass, a leading global provider of software, data, e-commerce, and marketing solutions for the beverage alcohol industry, announced its acquisition of Ekos, the Charlotte-based supply chain management software platform trusted by over 1,200 craft beverage producers worldwide. The deal unites two of the most prominent technology providers in the beverage sector, enhancing Next Glass’s vision of connecting producers, retailers, and consumers through a unified digital ecosystem.

Honey Health: $7.8 Million Closed To Automate Medical Backoffices With Autonomous AI Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 28, 2025

Honey Health, a rapidly growing back-office automation platform for healthcare organizations, announced that it has raised $7.8 million in seed funding led by Pelion Ventures, with participation from Streamlined, Burst Capital, and 8-Bit Capital.

Spacial: $10 Million Seed Funding Raised To Advance AI-Based Engineering And Permitting Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 28, 2025

Spacial, an AI-based platform transforming residential engineering and permitting, announced that it has raised a $10 million seed round led by TLV Partners, with participation from Mango Capital, Re Angels, and HTV. The new funding will drive product innovation, expand sales and customer success teams, and scale adoption among architects, builders, and design professionals nationwide.

Augmentus: Strategic Investment Raised From Applied Ventures To Advance AI-Robotics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 28, 2025

Augmentus, a pioneer in AI-driven robotics and adaptive automation, has received a strategic investment from Applied Ventures, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials. The partnership represents a significant step in Augmentus’ mission to enable intelligent, autonomous robots that can adapt to the complexities of high-mix, high-variability manufacturing across industries.

Qualcomm: AI200 And AI250 Launched To Transform Rack-Scale AI Inference For The Data Center Era

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 28, 2025

Qualcomm Technologies unveiled its latest breakthroughs in data center artificial intelligence with the launch of the Qualcomm AI200 and AI250 chip-based accelerator cards and rack systems. These next-generation solutions, optimized for AI inference at scale, are engineered to deliver superior memory capacity, performance, and energy efficiency, setting new standards for total cost of ownership (TCO) and enabling seamless deployment of large-scale generative AI across data centers.

PodPlay Technologies: $8 Million Series A Raised For Advancing Future Of Sports Venues

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 28, 2025

PodPlay Technologies, Inc., the vertical SaaS platform transforming operations for participatory sports venues, announced it has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Frontier Growth, marking its formal spin-out from PingPod. As part of the investment, Frontier partner Dave Pandullo will join PodPlay’s board of directors.

Daxko Expands Boutique Fitness Technology Footprint With Acquisition Of Exercise.com

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Daxko, a leading software and integrated payments provider for the global health and wellness industry, announced its acquisition of Exercise.com, a fitness management platform trusted by thousands of studios, coaches, and personal trainers worldwide. The move marks a significant step in Daxko’s strategy to serve fitness entrepreneurs across all business models, from boutique and hybrid operators to online training platforms.

Prospanica To Buy Techqueria, Uniting Latino Business And Technology Communities Nationwide

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Prospanica, the Association of Hispanic MBAs and Business Professionals, announced plans to acquire Techqueria, the leading nonprofit organization advancing Latino representation in the technology industry. The proposed acquisition, pending regulatory approval from the California Attorney General’s office, represents a major milestone in uniting two powerful forces driving Latino advancement across business and technology sectors.

Chainguard: $280 Million Raised From General Catalyst To Advance Open Source Software Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Chainguard, the cybersecurity company redefining open source software security, has secured $280 million in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF). This latest investment brings the company’s total funding to $892 million, with $636 million raised in the past six months, positioning Chainguard to meet rising global demand for secure, production-ready open source software.

Starbridge: $42 Million Series A Closed To Transform How Businesses Sell To Government and Education

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Starbridge, the AI-powered platform helping companies unlock revenue in government and education markets, announced it has raised $42 million in Series A funding led by Craft Ventures. The funding will accelerate product development, hiring, and customer expansion as the company builds out its platform to make public sector sales more accessible and efficient for businesses of all sizes.

Omni Buying Explo And Projecting $30 Million ARR By Year-End

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Omni, a business intelligence and embedded analytics platform with a built-in semantic layer, announced the acquisition of Explo, a leading embedded analytics company, marking another milestone in its rapid expansion. Omni projects $30 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) by the end of 2025, representing 4x year-over-year growth following 10x growth in 2024, with expectations to double ARR again in 2026.

DraftKings Acquires Railbird to Accelerate Expansion Into Regulated Prediction Markets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

DraftKings announced that it has acquired Railbird Technologies Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Railbird Exchange, a federally licensed exchange designated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The acquisition strengthens DraftKings’ strategic position in the emerging prediction markets space and expands its long-term growth opportunities through regulated event contracts.

SAP NS2: $1 Billion Contract Secured With U.S. Army to Modernize Cloud Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

SAP National Security Services (SAP NS2), a U.S.-based subsidiary of SAP SE, announced it has been awarded a $1 billion firm-fixed-price Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the United States Army for an end-user license agreement under the RISE with SAP portfolio.

Fireblocks Buying Dynamic To Create Custody-To-Consumer Stack For On-Chain Finance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Fireblocks, an enterprise digital asset platform that runs more than $4 trillion in transactions annually, announced its acquisition of Dynamic, a developer platform powering more than 50 million on-chain accounts for major companies including Kraken, Zerohash, Magic Eden, Lighter, and Ondo Finance.

Crustdata: $6 Million Seed Funding Closed For Building Data Layer For AI Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Crustdata, a company building real-time data infrastructure for AI agents, announced it has raised $6 million in seed funding led by Y Combinator and A Capital, with participation from General Catalyst, SV Angel, and Phosphor Capital.

Tensormesh: $4.5 Million Seed Funding Raised For AI Inference Efficiency

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Tensormesh, an AI infrastructure company pioneering caching-accelerated inference optimization for enterprise AI, announced its public launch and $4.5 million seed funding round led by Laude Ventures. The company’s technology reduces redundant computation during inference, cutting GPU costs and latency by up to 10x while allowing enterprises to retain full control of their infrastructure and data.

Nicolet Bankshares To Buy MidWestOne Financial In $864 Million All-Stock Merger

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Nicolet Bankshares and MidWestOne Financial Group announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Nicolet will acquire MidWestOne and its wholly owned banking subsidiary, MidWestOne Bank, in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $864 million.

Avride: Up To $375 Million Secured For Autonomous Driving Technologies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Avride, a leading developer of autonomous driving technologies, announced it has secured up to $375 million in strategic investments and commercial commitments from Uber Technologies and Nebius Group. The deal represents a major step in accelerating Avride’s commercial growth, expanding its product portfolio, and scaling operations globally.

Sizable Energy: $8 Million Raised To Launch Ocean-Based Energy Storage

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Sizable Energy, a company developing offshore pumped-hydro energy storage systems, announced it has raised $8 million in funding, led by Playground Global, in support of its mission to commercialize a gravity-based long-duration energy storage (LDES) solution.

CoMind Technologies: $102.5 Million Secured To Improve Brain Monitoring

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

UK-based medtech firm CoMind Technologies Limited has raised $102.5 million in a funding round aimed at transforming how critically ill patients’ brains are monitored. The round was led by Plural with participation from existing backers including Angelini Ventures, LocalGlobe, Octopus Ventures, Crane Ventures, Backed VC and Entrepreneurs First. The Series C funding will support regulatory approval of the company’s flagship product and advance clinical development and manufacturing.

Andel: $4.5 Million Raised To Launch Employer-Supported Medication Marketplace

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Andel, a company focused on transforming the pharmacy benefit model for employers, announced that it has raised $4.5 million in a seed capital round to launch a new platform that enables employers to offer GLP-1 and other high-cost medications to employees at a fraction of traditional insurance costs.