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VC firm Kleiner Perkins announced it has raised over $2 billion for two new funds. This includes the firm's $825 million twenty-first venture fund KP21 and $1.2 billion third select fund KP Select III. KP21 will invest in early-stage companies and KP Select III will back high-inflection investments.

Universal Data Lakehouse company Onehouse announced it has secured $35 million in Series B funding led by Craft Ventures. And existing investors Addition and Greylock Partners participated in this new round, bringing total funding to date to $68 million.

Athletic Brewing Company, the largest non-alcoholic brewery in America, today announced it has closed a $50 million equity financing round led by General Atlantic with participation from multiple existing investors.

Gymdesk, a provider of member management software for fitness and wellness businesses, announced it has raised a $32.5 million growth investment from Five Elms Capital. And this funding will drive Gymdesk's mission to expand and strengthen its solutions for the fitness industry and widen its customer base across new verticals.

Canoe Intelligence, a financial technology company powering smarter alts management, announced the completion of its Series C financing round of $36 million today - which was led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives with participation from existing investors F-Prime Capital and Eight Roads.

Monomoy Capital Partners, a middle market-focused private investment firm, announced the closing of its fifth private equity fund (Fund V). And Fund V exceeded its initial target of $1.6 billion and was oversubscribed at its final close of $2.25 billion (including a $250 million GP commitment). The firm’s previous fund closed in late 2021 at over $1.1 billion.

Endoron Medical, a medtech company specializing in innovative endograft stapling solutions for the endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms, announced the successful closing of its $10 million Series A funding round. This funding round was led by Sofinnova Partners, with significant matching contributions from the European Innovation Council Fund (EIC Fund).

Neustark, a Swiss carbon removal provider, announced it has raised $69 million in a funding round to scale up in the carbon dioxide removal (CDR) market. This growth equity round was led by Decarbonization Partners (a partnership between BlackRock and Temasek). Climate tech growth investor Blume Equity also joined in the round. And these new investors join neustark’s existing backers - which are all continuing their support, including Holcim, Siemens Financial Services, Verve Ventures, and ACE Ventures. Plus, UBS has contributed capital to the round via debt financing. Neustark also has a strategic collaboration with Holcim to scale up its carbon removal technology globally, enabling building solutions that are both circular and low-carbon.

Volley, a revenue leader in AI-powered games, announced today the closing of its Series C fundraising round at $55 million. The round was co-led by Microsoft’s M12 Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. General Catalyst, Causeway Media Partners, the Amazon Alexa Fund, BITKRAFT, Y Combinator, Boost VC, Alumni Ventures, Waverley, Gaingels, and Riverside also joined the latest round.

Digital wallet company Curve announced a strategic investment by Samsung Next. This new investment brings Curve’s total raised funds to over $250 million. The funding will be used to enhance its products and offerings to financial consumers.

North Sky Capital announced the closing of its latest impact secondaries fund called Clean Growth VI (CG VI), with $250 million of commitments. The investors include prominent pension plans, foundations, wealth management platforms, and family offices from across the United States, Canada, Brazil, Singapore, and the UK/Europe.

SAVA—a company developing the first-ever multi-molecule biosensing wearable capable of detecting biomarkers just below the skin’s surface, enabled by its novel microsensing technology—announced it has raised $8 million in a seed funding round led by Balderton Capital and Exor Ventures.

Captions, a leading generative video creation and editing platform, announced today it has raised $60 million in Series C funding led by Index Ventures, bringing the total capital raised to $100 million for a valuation of $500 million. The company's returning investors include Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, and Sequoia Capital. New investors include Adobe Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, and Jared Leto.

Pandium enables B2B SaaS companies to build, launch, and promote native software integrations, all inside an easy-to-use platform. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Pandium CEO and founder Cristina Flaschen.

Maximum Fidelity Surgical Simulations (MaxFi), a company that provides lifelike cadavers to create highly realistic surgical simulations for medical education, research and product development, and military training, announced today that it has completed its $2.25 million seed funding round. The round was led by St. Louis Arch Angels, BioGenerator Ventures, and Missouri Technology Corporation (MTC).

HydroX AI, an AI-based company with the industry's first comprehensive all-in-one large language model (LLM) safety and security platform, announced the closing a $4 million angel round from Vitalbridge Capital, Atom Capital, and AI expert Qi Lu.

Momentick is an emissions intelligence company that has developed advanced algorithms, which unlock the power of multi-satellite imagery to detect, quantify, and monitor methane and other greenhouse gas emissions across the planet. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Momentick CEO and co-founder Daniel Kashmir to learn more about the company.

DeepKeep is a company that developed AI security, which promotes unbiased, error-free, and secure solutions. Pulse 2.0 interviewed DeepKeep CEO and founder Rony Ohayon to learn more about the company.

Prismatic is a versatile embedded iPaaS that helps B2B SaaS teams launch powerful product integrations up to 8x faster. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Prismatic CEO Michael Zuercher to learn more about the company. 

Secureframe is an automated compliance platform built by experts in the field. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Secureframe founder and CEO Shrav Mehta to learn more about the company.

J2 Ventures, a deep tech venture capital fund focused on new technologies that are critical for the private sector and national security interests of the U.S. and its allies, announced it has raised $150 million for its new Argonne Fund. This oversubscribed fund, majority veteran-owned and led, is more than double its last fund size with support from some of the largest financial institutions in the world, including JP Morgan, MetLife, and the New Mexico State Investment Council.

Foray Bioscience, a company sowing the seeds for plantless plant products, announced it has raised $3 million in seed funding led by ReGen Ventures. And additional investors include The Engine Ventures, Susquehanna Sustainable Investments, Understorey Ventures, Superorganism, and others.

Formic, a Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) automation company, announced it has raised another $27.4 million in Series A financing led by Blackhorn Ventures with participation from Mitsubishi HC Capital America, NEC and Translink Orchestrating Future Fund, Alumni Ventures, FJ Labs, Lux Capital, Initialized Capital and Lorimer Ventures. This new funding round brings the total Series A round to more than $52 million since January 2022.

LiveEO – a company that uses high-resolution satellite data and AI to transform raw satellite data into automated actionable insights to help companies manage their climate risks and resilience – announced it has raised €25 million in a Series B funding round led by NordicNinja and DeepTech & Climate Fonds (DTCF). This funding round will accelerate the development of LiveEO's solutions, while expanding its team and capabilities.

Knowledge management solutions provider Upword announced the launch of its AI-powered research companion tool and the completion of a $3 million pre-seed funding round.

COMPREDICT, an AI-based company for software-defined vehicles, announced a $15 million Series B funding round led by Woven Capital (Toyota's growth fund), with continued support from existing investor Shift4Good.

Allora Labs (previously known as Upshot), the contributors to the Allora Network, recently closed a strategic funding round, bringing the total company funding to $35 million. Allora Labs’ investors include Polychain, Framework Ventures, CoinFund, Blockchain Capital, Archetype, Slow Ventures, Mechanism Capital, Delphi Digital, and others.

Columna Capital announced it has successfully closed Columna Capital Fund III. This marks the third and largest fund capital raise since Columna Capital’s maiden fund launched in 2016.