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Regard: AI-Based Clinical Insights Company Raises $61 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Regard, an AI-based clinical insights platform that empowers clinicians to unlock the full potential of patient data, announced the closing of a $61 million Series B financing round, led by Oak HC/FT, with participation from Cedars-Sinai Health Ventures, and existing investors TenOneTen Ventures, Calibrate Ventures, and Techstars.

Finnovista: An Interview With Fermín Bueno About Making Finance Better In Latin America

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Finnovista is a leading innovation and venture capital firm committed to developing the Fintech ecosystem and transforming finance for the better. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Finnovista co-founder and Managing Partner Fermín Bueno to learn more about the firm.

Apty: How This Company Helps Enterprises Streamline Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Apty is a company that helps enterprises streamline their operations and increase efficiency through guided employee experiences and proactive analytics that accelerate digital adoption and process compliance. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Apty founder and CEO Krishna Dunthoori to learn more about the company.

Curate Capital: Accelerating Success Of Companies By Women For Women

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Curate Capital is a venture capital firm that accelerates the success of companies by women for women. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Curate Capital founder and general partner Carrie Colbert to learn more about the firm.

Kuberno: Automating Management Of Global Entity Governance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Kuberno is a company that has created a global entity governance platform called Kube, which combines world-leading entity management functionality with a unique secretariat practice management system. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Kuberno CEO Zoe Bucknell to learn more about the company.

SWIPEBY: How This AI Commerce Company Helps SMBs Thrive

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

SWIPEBY is an AI commerce platform for small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs). To learn more about the company, Pulse 2.0 interviewed SWIPEBY CEO Carl Turner.

ten23 health: An Interview With CEO Professor Dr. Hanns-Christian Mahler About This Innovative CDMO

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

ten23 health is the human-centric and sustainable strategic partner of choice for the pharmaceutical industry and biotech start-ups for the development, manufacture, and testing of tomorrow’s medicines. Pulse 2.0 interviewed ten23 health CEO Professor Dr. Hanns-Christian Mahler to learn more about the company.

StorMagic: Making It Easier To Store And Manage Data At And From The Edge

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

StorMagic is a company that is solving the world’s edge data problems. Pulse 2.0 interviewed StorMagic Chief Marketing and Product Officer Bruce Kornfeld to learn more about the company.

CarbonBlue: Climate Tech Company Closes $10 Million In Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Climate-tech company CarbonBlue has announced the completion of a seed funding round to scale up and deploy its water-based Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) technology, bringing the funding raised by the company to $10 million. This funding round was led by Ibex Investors and FreshFund, joined by strategic investors Engie New Ventures and ZIM Ventures (the corporate venture capital arm of ZIM Integrated Shipping Services), and included further investments by existing investors Jibe Ventures, MoreVC, and Secret Chord Ventures.

CTA Smart: Fuel Management Company Closes $3 Million In Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

CTA Smart, a leading technology company in the fuel sector, announced it has secured a $3 million investment in a new funding round to boost its international growth. Led by Invisto and Indicator Capital, this funding will support CTA Smart's expansion into the American market and lay the groundwork for global expansion.

FIRST: An Interview With CEO Chris Gibson, An Industry Leader in Incident Response

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

FIRST is the global leader in incident response. Membership in FIRST enables incident response teams to respond more effectively to security incidents, both reactively and proactively. Pulse 2.0 interviewed FIRST CEO Chris Gibson to learn more.

Heeler Security: Application Security Company Raises $8.5 Million In Seed Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Application security company Heeler Security announced today the successful closing of an $8.5 million Seed Series funding round, led by Norwest Venture Partners with significant participation from Storm Ventures.

Versable: Using AI Models To Enhance Auto Part Product Data In A $500+ Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

TierPoint: Majority Investment Raised From Argo Infrastructure Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Argo Infrastructure Partners, LP announced that it has increased its ownership stake to represent a majority interest in TierPoint, emphasizing the firm’s confidence in the platform’s exceptional growth trajectory. Argo has now invested about $700 million since 2020 in TierPoint, the flagship digital infrastructure investment in Argo’s portfolio.

Aprio Raises Strategic Growth Funding From Charlesbank

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Aprio, a leading business advisory and accounting firm, announced that it has received a strategic investment from Charlesbank Capital Partners (a middle-market private investment firm with more than $18 billion of capital raised since its inception) to accelerate innovation and growth. The deal represents the first institutional capital investment in Aprio.

F1 Arcade: Experiential Hospitality Brand Raises $130 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Kindred Concepts Ltd. (trading as F1 Arcade) announced it completed a growth financing raise. The $130 million commitments are funded by Cheyne Capital, Liberty Media Corporation, Permira Credit and OakNorth.

Kandji: Apple Endpoint Management And Security Company Raises $100 Million At $850 Million Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Kandji announced it has raised $100 million in capital from General Catalyst, with $50 million allocated to equity financing for its Series D and $50 million for go-to-market investment. This latest funding round brings Kandji’s valuation to $850 million. Deep Nishar from General Catalyst will join the company’s Board of Directors in connection with the funding.

Arkion: AI-Based Grid Inspection Data Solution Company Raises $4 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Arkion, formerly known as Skyqraft, an AI-powered software solution that transforms overhead power lines inspection data into condition assessments of all assets, announced the successful closing of a $4 million funding round. This round was led by Subvenio Invest, with participation from Neptunia Invest, and Antler.

Robertson Stephens Surpasses $6 Billion In Advisory Assets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2024

Robertson Stephens Wealth Management has strategically expanded its presence in the Pacific Northwest by partnering with Rain Capital (an SEC-registered investment advisor managing over $360 million in advisory assets). And David Reichle and Ellen Kim, co-founders of Rain Capital, join Robertson Stephens as Managing Directors & Principals, along with their colleagues Chris Abbruzzese, Jamie Iversen, Luz Garcia, and Wendy Maroun.

Nagish: $16 Million Closed To Make Communication Accessible For Deaf And Hard-Of-Hearing Individuals

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2024

Nagish, a company using AI to make communication accessible for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, announced $16 million in funding. This includes $11 million in Series A funding led by Canaan Partners, with participation from existing investors K5 Global, Tokyo Black, Cardumen Capital, Vertex Ventures Israel, Contour Venture Partners, and Precursor Ventures, and the founders of Datadog and Looker.

Momento: $15 Million Raised To Make Real-Time Data Infrastructure Easier At Enterprise Scale

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2024

Momento, a real-time data platform founded by the engineering team that built DynamoDB, announced it raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Bain Capital Ventures to expand on its vision of hassle-free infrastructure for interactive experiences at a global scale. Existing investors Bain Capital Ventures and The General Partnership pre-empted the latest round, a sign of confidence in the company's growth. And additional angel investors include Marianna Tessel (EVP and General Manager at Intuit), Neha Narkhede (co-founder of Confluent), Tom Killalea (first CISO of Amazon), Don MacAskill (CEO of Flickr/SmugMug), and John Lilly (former CEO of Mozilla).

BOB: Hybrid Layer-2 Solution Company Raises $1.6 Million In Strategic Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2024

BOB, a first-of-its-kind hybrid Layer-2 powered by Bitcoin and Ethereum, announced $1.6 million in combined strategic funding led by Ledger Ventures and angel round with funds deployed to broaden the Layer-2's presence throughout the Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems.

Armada: Edge Computing Company Raises $40 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2024

Armada, an edge computing pioneer transforming the future of connectivity, computing and AI, announced a $40 million funding round led by M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund), raising its total to over $100 million.

Healthworx Launches New Accelerator Program To Help Scale Healthcare Startups

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2024

Healthworx is an agile group of healthcare experts featuring equal parts investment arm, strategic partner, commercialization engine, and launch pad. The team has introduced a reimagined accelerator for healthcare startups seeking funding and mentorship.

North Sky Capital: $250 Million Raised For Impact Secondaries Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2024

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

Miravast Closes $346 Million For Second Flagship Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2024

Miravast Asset Management, a leading vertically integrated investment manager with deep experience underwriting longevity risk and investing in life settlements, announced that it recently completed fundraising for Miravast ILS Credit Opportunities II LP (Fund II) with $346 million of fund commitments.

Seismos: AI-Based Acoustic Sensing Company Raises $15 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2024

Seismos and Edison Partners announced a new $15 million growth investment to enable and accelerate the energy industry’s shift from analog-focused exploration and production to digital infrastructure and autonomous production operations.

Exabeam And LogRhythm Complete Merger

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2024

Exabeam - a company that delivers industry-leading AI and automation for accelerated threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR)- and LogRhythm (known for its trusted data ingestion) announced the successful completion of their previously announced merger.

Hayden: Vision AI Platform Company Raises $90 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2024

Hayden AI Technologies, a leader in vision AI solutions for smart cities, announced $90 million in new growth equity financing. This Series C round was led by The Rise Fund and was supported by existing investors such as the Drawdown Fund and Autotech Ventures, and others.

Rohirrim: RFP AI Automation Company Raises Strategic Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2024

Rohirrim, a leading Request for Proposal (RFP) AI automation platform, announced that Bessemer Venture Partners and IBM Ventures made strategic investments in the company.