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Expedition Growth Capital: $375 Million Raised For Third Fund To Back Europe’s Software And AI Leaders

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 2, 2025

Expedition Growth Capital has closed its third fund at $375 million as the London and Boston-based growth equity firm continues to invest in capital-efficient, founder-led software and AI companies across Europe. The oversubscribed raise was completed in four months, with more than half of the commitments coming from U.S. investors, including leading endowments and foundations.

Bourn: £3.5 Million Raised To Scale Its Embedded Alternative To The Business Overdraft

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 2, 2025

Bourn, a London-based fintech building a modern, data-driven replacement for the traditional business overdraft, has raised £3.5 million to expand the rollout of its Flexible Trade Account, a real-time working capital solution for small and medium-sized enterprises. The round includes a strategic minority investment from NatWest Group, alongside participation from McPike Global Family Office, Haatch, Love Ventures, Portfolio Ventures, and Aperture.

Augmentt: C$18 Million Series A Closed A To Advance Microsoft 365 Security Automation For MSPs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 2, 2025

Augment, an Ottawa-based SaaS platform that helps managed service providers unify and secure Microsoft 365 environments, has raised C$18 million Series A round led by Camber Partners, a New York–based growth equity firm focused on scaling high-velocity B2B software companies.

Jeeva AI: $9 Million Closed To Launch Agentic Sales Platform That Supercharges Reps Instead of Replacing Them

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 2, 2025

Jeeva AI, an AI-driven platform designed to boost productivity for sales teams, announced a $9 million funding round led by JLL Spark, with participation from Sapphire Ventures, Alt Capital, Launch Capital, GTMFund, Nonstop Capital, Coyote Capital, Bonfire Ventures, Techstars, Marc Benioff, and Mucker Capital. The San Francisco–based company is already serving 35,000 users across real estate, healthcare, financial services, and other non-tech sectors, with onboarding that takes about 10 minutes.

Goldman Sachs To Acquire Innovator Capital Management In $2 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 2, 2025

Goldman Sachs announced that it has agreed to acquire Innovator Capital Management, a major pioneer in defined outcome ETFs, in a transaction valued at approximately $2 billion in cash and equity, subject to performance targets. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2026, pending regulatory approval, and will add $28 billion in assets under supervision across 159 defined outcome ETFs to Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s platform.

Nevis: $40 Million Raised As It Emerges From Stealth To Build Wealth Management AI Tools

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 2, 2025

Nevis, an AI platform built to automate wealth management workflows, has emerged from stealth with $40 million in total funding after closing a $35 million Series A round led by Sequoia Capital with participation from ICONIQ and Ribbit Capital. The raise comes less than one year after the company’s founding.

Aledade: $500 Million Credit Facility Secured From Ares

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 2, 2025

Aledade, the nation’s largest network of independent primary care practices, has secured a $500 million senior secured credit facility from Ares Commercial Finance to accelerate its national expansion and strengthen its position in value-based care. The financing, led by Ares Credit funds, includes the option to increase the total facility to up to $650 million, doubling the company’s committed capital capacity.

Larson Packaging Acquires Great Western Eagle

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 2, 2025

Larson Packaging Company (LPC), a provider of custom technical packaging solutions, has acquired Great Western Eagle Packaging (GWEP), a California-based supplier of high-precision case and foam solutions serving aerospace, military, drone, and advanced technology customers.

Minitap: $4.1 Million Raised To Accelerate AI-Driven Mobile Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 2, 2025

Minitap, an AI-powered platform designed to accelerate mobile development dramatically, announced it has raised $4.1 million in seed funding, co-led by Moxxie Ventures and Mercuri, with participation from EWOR, Tekton Ventures, Amigos Venture Capital, and six unicorn founders. The funding arrives just four months after founders Nico and Luc, both 23, surpassed teams from Google DeepMind, ByteDance, Microsoft Research, and Alibaba to claim the top global position on AndroidWorld, the leading benchmark for AI-controlled mobile devices.

Rithmik Solutions: Strategic Investment Raised From Hitachi Construction Machinery

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 2, 2025

Rithmik Solutions, a Montréal-based provider of OEM-agnostic AI-based performance analytics for mobile mining equipment, has secured a minority strategic investment from Hitachi Construction Machinery as part of its ongoing Series A round.

HyrUP Acquires Evolve Partners To Expand Nationwide Executive Search Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 2, 2025

hyrUP, an award-winning executive search and recruiting firm specializing in accounting, finance, technology, and operations, announced the acquisition of Evolve Partners, a national boutique search firm known for its high-touch approach to executive recruiting. The deal strengthens hyrUP’s nationwide footprint and deepens its focus on high-caliber finance and leadership talent.

CerraCap Ventures And Impact Venture Capital Merge

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 2, 2025

CerraCap Ventures and Impact Venture Capital have merged to form CerraCap Impact Venture Capital (CIVC), establishing one of the most globally connected venture platforms. The unified firm combines an extensive network of corporate customers, corporate investors, and strategic acquirers, positioning CIVC as a differentiated partner for founders seeking rapid commercial validation and scalable enterprise adoption.

Tutor Intelligence: MIT Spinoff Raises $34 Million Series A To Scale AI-Powered Warehouse Robot Workforce

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 2, 2025

Tutor Intelligence, an MIT-born robotics company building AI-powered fleets of warehouse robot workers, announced it has raised a $34 million Series A round led by Union Square Ventures, bringing its total funding to $42 million. Additional investors include Fundomo and follow-on investor Neo, which led the company’s seed round.

Circular Genomics: $15 Million Series A Closed To Advance Circular RNA Platform For Early Alzheimer’s Detection

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 2, 2025

Circular Genomics announced it has raised a $15 million Series A round to accelerate the clinical validation and commercialization of its circular RNA–based biomarker platform for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease. The round was led by Mountain Group Partners with participation from Poplar Grove Investors, HIP Fund, and the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF).

Raindrop: $15 Million Closed To Detect Critical AI Agent Failures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 2, 2025

Raindrop, a San Francisco–based monitoring platform designed to detect hidden failures inside AI agents, has raised $15 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The round includes participation from Figma Ventures, Vercel Ventures, the founders of Replit, Cognition, Framer, Speak, Notion, and YC. The capital will help Raindrop meet surging enterprise demand and strengthen its position as the default monitoring layer for agentic AI systems.

Mixx Technologies: $33 Million Series A Raised To Transform AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 2, 2025

Mixx Technologies, a deep-tech company developing high-performance, silicon-integrated optical connectivity for artificial intelligence infrastructure, has raised $33 million in Series A funding. The round was led by ICM HPQC Fund, with participation from TDK Ventures, Systemiq Capital, Banpu Innovation & Ventures, G Vision Capital, Ajinomoto Group Ventures, AVITIC Innovation Fund, and several additional strategic investors.

Michael And Susan Dell Commit $6.25 Billion To Expand Invest America for 25 Million Children

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 2, 2025

Michael and Susan Dell have announced a $6.25 billion commitment to expand Invest America, a new federally backed initiative designed to give every American child under 18 access to a tax-advantaged investment account. The contribution will fund $250 deposits for 25 million children ages 10 and under, enabling earlier access to long-term savings and wealth-building tools.

SAI360 Acquires Plural Policy To Expand AI Regulatory Intelligence Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 2, 2025

SAI360 has acquired Plural Policy, an AI-driven regulatory intelligence company specializing in analyzing legislative and regulatory text at scale. The deal strengthens SAI360’s AI-native compliance capabilities at a time when global regulatory change is becoming more rapid, fragmented, and complex across industries.

Omni Fiber: $200 Million Raised To Accelerate Fiber Network Expansion Across The Midwest And Texas

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 2, 2025

Omni Fiber has secured $200 million in new financing to support its continued fiber-optic network expansion across the Midwest and Texas. The round includes $150 million in incremental debt from Stonepeak Credit and Oak Hill Advisors, as well as an additional $50 million in equity from Oak Hill Capital. The company also closed a $10 million working-capital facility with Republic Bank & Trust Company.

Mamava Acquires TalkBox To Expand Privacy And Wellness Space Offerings

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 2, 2025

Mamava, a market leader in lactation infrastructure, has acquired TalkBox, a Colorado-based designer of sound-resistant privacy booths used for calls, meetings, telehealth, and wellness. The deal marks a significant expansion of Mamava’s mission as the company broadens its focus from lactation support to a full suite of privacy and wellness spaces for workplaces and public environments.

Nvidia And Synopsys Form Strategic Partnership In $2 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 1, 2025

Nvidia and Synopsys announced a major multi-year strategic partnership aimed at reshaping design and engineering across industries by combining Nvidia’s accelerated computing, agentic AI technologies, and Omniverse digital twin platforms with Synopsys’ market-leading engineering and simulation solutions. As part of the expanded partnership, Nvidia also invested $2 billion in Synopsys common stock at a purchase price of $414.79 per share.

Numerata: Funding Raised From Jane Street And CoreWeave Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 1, 2025

Jane Street announced it has led a seed investment in Numerata, with additional participation from CoreWeave Ventures. The New York–based firm, known for its technology-driven trading and investment operations, is also becoming a flagship customer of Numerata, which builds AI-powered development tools to enhance developer productivity and reduce costly software errors.

Kubiks: Interview With Alex Holovach About The Modern Observability Platform Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 1, 2025

Kubiks is a modern observability platform that delivers deep OpenTelemetry-native insights into application performance, errors, and user experience. Pulse 2.0 interviewed co-founder Oleksandr (Alex) Holovach to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Teledyne MEMS: Strategic Investment Raised For C2MI Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 1, 2025

Teledyne MEMS, a founding partner of the MiQro Innovation Collaborative Center (C2MI), is acknowledging a significant new commitment from the Canadian and Quebec governments as part of C2MI’s next-phase expansion, C2MI1.5. The C$656 million investment strengthens Canada’s semiconductor and microelectronics ecosystem and supports the center’s infrastructure growth in advanced packaging and post-processing technologies.

Torque Capital Acquires Joe Gibbs Manufacturing Solutions And Rebrands Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 1, 2025

Torque Capital Group has acquired Joe Gibbs Manufacturing Solutions from Joe Gibbs Racing and will rebrand the company as JGA Space & Defense. The business has historically been rooted in performance racing. It is now positioning itself as a focused supplier to the space and defense sectors, producing advanced specialty composites, assemblies for solid rocket motor propulsion systems, and precision-machined aerospace and defense components.

Protego Biopharma: $130 Million Series B Funding Closed To Advance Pivotal AL Amyloidosis Program

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 1, 2025

Protego Biopharma has closed an oversubscribed $130 million Series B financing round that will accelerate its first-in-class AL amyloidosis therapeutic program into a pivotal clinical study. The round was led by Novartis Venture Fund and Forbion, with additional participation from new investors Omega Funds, Droia Ventures, YK Bioventures, and Digitalis Ventures. Existing backers Vida Ventures, MPM BioImpact, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Scripps Research also returned to participate in the round.

Morphocell Technologies: $50 Million Series A Raised To Advance Regenerative Medicine

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 1, 2025

Morphocell Technologies has completed a $50 million Series A financing following a US$10 million extension led by Investissement Québec and CDP Venture Capital. The closing brings the total Series A raise to $50 million after the company secured US$40 million in February 2024 through a round led by Genson Capital. The new funding expands Morphocell’s investor base with two mission-driven institutional backers and extends the company’s operating runway to more than three years.

Sokin: $50 Million Series B Raised To Accelerate Global Payments Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 1, 2025

Sokin has raised $50 million in Series B funding to advance its global business payments platform following a year marked by 100% revenue growth and an eightfold increase since 2022. The investment round was led by Prysm Capital, with participation from Watershed Ventures, Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital–managed funds, Aurum Partners, Gary Marino (former Chief Commercial Officer at PayPal), and Mark Britto (former Chief Product Officer at PayPal). The latest financing increases Sokin’s valuation to $300 million.

Black Forest Labs: $300 Million Series B At $3.25 Billion Valuation Raised To Advance Frontier Visual Intelligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 1, 2025

Black Forest Labs has raised $300 million in a Series B funding round led by AMP and Salesforce Ventures, valuing the company at $3.25 billion post-money. The investment builds on a previously unannounced Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from BroadLight Capital, Creandum, Earlybird VC, General Catalyst, Northzone, and Nvidia. With this new round, the company has now secured more than $450 million in total funding.

Marble Imaging: €5.3 Million Seed Funding Raised To Advance High-Resolution Earth Observation Constellation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 1, 2025

Marble Imaging has secured €5.3 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round as it works to become Europe’s primary provider of very high-resolution Earth Observation data and analytics. The round, led by High-Tech Gründerfonds, exceeded initial targets and adds to more than €10 million in previously secured non-dilutive funding. The company also recently signed its first €3 million anchor contract with the European Space Agency under the Copernicus Contributing Missions program.