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Technology Management Concepts: Strategic Growth Investment Raised From Haven

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 7, 2025

Technology Management Concepts (TMC), a Microsoft partner specializing in the entire Microsoft technology stack—such as Dynamics 365 (Business Central, Sales, Field Service, Customer Service, and Customer Insights), Office 365, Azure, and the Power Platform—announced a significant investment from Haven Capital Partners.

Milacron: Majority Investment Raised For $287 Million From Bain Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 7, 2025

Bain Capital, a leading private investment firm, announced a majority investment in the Milacron Injection Molding and Extrusion business, a globally renowned provider of highly engineered plastic processing equipment and services. Bain Capital will partner with Milacron’s current owner, Hillenbrand, who will remain a significant investor in the business and accelerate the company’s continued growth. Bain Capital had entered into a definitive agreement to buy an ownership stake of approximately 51% of Milacron for $287 million, subject to customary closing adjustments. And Hillenbrand will retain an ownership stake of approximately 49%.

Tyba: $13.9 Million (Series A) Raised For Improving Profitability Of Energy Storage Projects

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 7, 2025

Tyba, a leading energy storage optimization platform, announced $13.9 million in Series A funding led by Energize Capital. This funding round includes new investments from Pear VC, Mobilize Climate Capital, and Borusan Ventures and follow-on investments from Powerhouse, Wireframe, Virta, and Lorimer. This brings Tyba's total funding to $18.15 million.

Presto: $15 Million (Seed) Raised For EV Charging Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 7, 2025

Presto - an all-in-one EV charging platform - announced that it has raised $15 million in seed funding from Union Square Ventures, Congruent Ventures, Powerhouse Ventures, and Jetstream. And through Presto's app and APIs, fleets can find, charge, and pay for reliable on-the-go charging across thousands of Presto's partner public charging stations. This funding will be used to onboard new fleets, integrate more chargers, and add new features.

Freeze: $2.6 Million (Seed) Raised For Enhancing Cybersecurity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Freeze - a leading provider of proactive offensive security and attack surface protection solutions designed to prevent hackers from gaining the necessary information and resources to attack organizations and their teams - announced its $2.6 million seed funding round closing. This funding was led by angel investors, cybersecurity experts, and technology experts who recognize the growing need for innovative approaches to proactive offensive security, attack surface protection, and cybersecurity.

TrueFoundry: $19 Million (Series A) Raised To Transform AI Deployment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

TrueFoundry - a leading AI deployment and scaling platform - announced it raised $19 million in Series A funding, led by Intel Capital. And existing investors Eniac Ventures and Peak XV’s Surge (formerly Sequoia Capital India and SEA) participated along with new investor Jump Capital and several angel investors including Gokul Rajaram, Mohit Aron, and executives from Fortune 1000 companies. In connection with the financing, Avi Bharadwaj, Investment Director at Intel Capital, will join TrueFoundry’s board of directors.

Cognida.ai: $15 Million (Series A) Raised For Enterprise AI Adoption Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Cognida.ai, a leader in practical AI solutions for enterprises, announced the closing of its $15 million Series A funding round, led by Nexus Venture Partners. This funding validates Cognida.ai's unique approach to making AI implementation practical and financially impactful for enterprises, demonstrated through deployments at over 30 leading organizations.

Urban Sky: $30 Million (Series B) Raised To Enable Easy Access To The Stratosphere

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Urban Sky, a stratospheric platform company, announced it closed a $30 million Series B investment round. This funding round will be used to develop and commercialize a connected suite of products that will unlock the full value of the tactical stratosphere for military and commercial customers.

CloudZero: Interview With CEO Phil Pergola About The Cloud Cost Efficiency Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

CloudZero is the leader in proactive cloud cost efficiency. Pulse 2.0 interviewed CloudZero CEO Phil Pergola to learn more about the company.

Swivl: Funding Raised From Decathlon Capital Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Swivl, a company focused on reflective technology for education and personal development, has secured a growth loan from Decathlon Capital Partners. This investment package will meet the growing demand for Swivl's Mirror and MirrorTalk solutions, enhance functionality, and support new development efforts that advance the company's mission of accelerating reflection for better learning and social-emotional outcomes.

Trinity Capital: $25 Million In Growth Capital Committed For Wisetack

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Trinity Capital - a leading alternative asset manager - announced the commitment of $25 million in growth capital to Wisetack, a leading pay-over-time platform for home services.

BlueFlame AI: Interview With CEO Raj Bakhru About The GenAI Platform For Alternative Investment Managers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

BlueFlame AI is a company that helps alternative investment managers take advantage of AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) to capture significant time savings and efficiency gains in a safe and compliant manner. Pulse 2.0 interviewed BlueFlame AI CEO Raj Bakhru to learn more about the company.

Perspective AI: Self-Reflection Platform Company Raises $4 Million (Seed)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Perspective AI announced it emerged from stealth to announce a $4 million seed funding round led by Village Global, Array Ventures, Honeystone VC, Recursive Ventures, Darkmode VC, and prominent angel investors.

Hidden Level: $65 Million (Series C) Raised For Drone Detection Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Hidden Level - a leader in passive radar and radio frequency sensing technology for detecting and precisely locating drones and other threats - announced $65 million in Series C funding led by DFJ Growth with participation from Booz Allen Ventures, Revolution Growth, Costanoa Ventures, Washington Harbour Partners, Veteran Ventures, Founders Circle Capital, and others. This funding comes on the heels of the company's $35 million Series B - which closed only six months earlier. This brings the company's funding over the last year to $100 million, solidifying its position as a technology player in the rapidly evolving national security and critical infrastructure landscape.

PlantBaby: Seed Funding Raised At $20 Million Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

PlantBaby, a company focused on creating solutions in the plant-based nutrition space, announced the closing of its series seed equity financing round. This funding round was led by B2 Partners, a firm founded by seasoned investor Matt Behrens, at a post-money valuation of $20 million. B2 is joining the PlantBaby board, with additional support from Big Idea Ventures, Everywhere Ventures, X Factor Ventures, Women's Equity Lab Silicon Valley, and Babylist.

Suki: Healthcare AI Company Raises Funding From Zoom Ventures, Bringing Total To $168 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Suki, a leader in AI technology for healthcare, announced an investment from Zoom Ventures (the investment arm of the AI-first work platform and leading healthcare collaboration platform Zoom Communications). Suki will join Zoom Ventures' AI investment portfolio, which includes Anthropic and CoreWeave.

Leste Buying Minority Stake In Billor And Sets Up $335 Million Credit Facility

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Alternative investment manager Leste Group announced it entered into an agreement to buy a minority stake in Billor, a vertically integrated freight and fintech platform for U.S. truck drivers. The deal also includes setting up a $335 million credit facility to accelerate the company’s growth. Additional financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

KODE Health: $27 Million (Series B) Raised For Medical Coding Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

KODE Health, which is the only on-demand medical coding platform that connects healthcare systems with certified medical coding professionals, announced that it raised $27 million in Series B funding led by Noro-Moseley Partners with participation from Mercury, FCA Venture Partners, Epsilon Innovation Fund and 111 West Capital.

Nurse Capital: New Network Launched For Connecting Healthcare Companies To Investors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Nurse Capital, a VC fund that invests in early-stage healthcare startups founded and led by nurses, announced the launch of the Nurse Capital Network (NCN), an exclusive and invitation-only community designed to connect and empower nurse entrepreneurs and inventors.

DataBank Announces $250 Million Equity From TJC And $600 Million Secondary Share Sale

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

DataBank, a provider of enterprise-class edge colocation, interconnection, and managed services, announced a $250 million equity investment from TJC LP (formerly The Jordan Company) and a $600 million secondary share offering. This new funding resulted from excess investor interest in the $2 billion primary equity round announced in October 2024 and this brings the total debt and equity raised in the past year and a half to nearly $5 billion.

Atombeam: $20 Million (Reg A+) Raised For Transforming How Data Is Used

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Atombeam, a company with technology that redefines how data is used, moved, stored and secured, today announced the closing of its recent Reg A+ funding round, with a total of $20 million raised. The funding round was hosted by StartEngine, which enables individual investors to gain an ownership stake in the company's transformative technology. Over 6,500 investors invested in Atombeam during this round. This funding brings Atombeam's total to $35 million.

Anchor: $20 Million (Series A) Secured For Autonomous Billing & Collections Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Anchor, a free-to-use Autonomous Billing & Collections platform, announced it raised a $20 million Series A funding round led by Mosaic General Partnership and Oren Zeev from Zeev Ventures. And existing investors, including Entrée Capital and Tal Ventures, participated, along with new investors Amy Banse, who will be joining Anchor's board and currently serves as a board member at Adobe and ON running, Tien Tzuo (founder and CEO of Zuora), former NBA superstar Andre Iguodala (via Mosaic General Partnership), and other industry leaders.

Cedar Money: $9.9 Million (Seed) Raised For Cross-Border Stablecoin Payments Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Cedar Money - a payments company that enables seamless cross-border money movement on stablecoins - announced a $9.9 million seed round led by QED Investors, with participation from North Island Ventures, Wischoff Ventures, Lattice, and Stellar. This funding will enable Cedar Money to accelerate its mission of transforming international money flows using cutting-edge payment infrastructure.

Closinglock: $34 Million (Series B) Raised For Protecting Real Estate Deals

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Closinglock, a fraud prevention technology provider for the real estate industry, announced it has closed a $34 million Series B funding round. This funding was led by Sageview Capital and supported by Headline and RWT Horizons.

NinjaOne To Buy Dropsuite In $252 Million Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

NinjaOne, an automated endpoint management platform, and Dropsuite, a leader in cloud data backup, archiving, and recovery solutions, today announced a definitive agreement for NinjaOne to acquire Dropsuite for a total deal value of about $252 million. This deal is expected to close in the first half of this year, subject to approval by Dropsuite’s and other customary closing conditions.

Blackstone Energy Transition Partners To Buy Potomac Energy Center

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Blackstone recently announced that Blackstone Energy Transition Partners have agreed to acquire Potomac Energy Center, a 774-megawatt natural gas power plant in Loudoun County, Virginia.

Wingify: Majority Stake Raised From Everstone Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Singapore-based private equity firm Everstone Capital announced it acquired a majority stake in Wingify, a leading global provider of marketing technology SaaS product VWO. And this partnership includes a significant investment to accelerate VWO’s product innovation and international growth. This deal highlights Everstone’s focus on supporting two key technology sectors: SaaS and marketing technology across India and Southeast Asia.

Semperis: Cyber Resilience Company Surpasses $100 Million In ARR

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2025

According to venture capital firm Greylock Partners, cyber resilience company Semperis announced it surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), a milestone that fewer than one in every 1,000 venture-backed enterprise software companies achieve. Driving Semperis' rapid customer growth and ascension to centaur status is the company's comprehensive solution for enterprises combatting the ever-growing threat of identity-based attacks in Active Directory and Entra ID environments.

Nextworld: Enterprise Platform Company Raises $65 Million (Series F)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2025

Nextworld, a provider of enterprise platforms, announced the closing of a $65 million Series F funding round. The McVaney Investment Partnership led the round, which positions the company for significant growth this year as it continues to redefine how businesses build, extend, and optimize their technology stacks.

Semgrep: Application Security Company Raises $100 Million (Series D)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2025

Semgrep, a leading Application Security platform, announced $100 million in Series D funding led by Menlo Ventures. This round also included participation from existing investors including Felicis Ventures, Harpoon Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital. This funding round brings the company's total funding to $204 million.