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Mantle: Metal 3D Printing Company Raises $20 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 19, 2024

Mantle, a leader in metal 3D printing technology for precision tooling, announced it has reached a significant milestone by securing $20 million in Series C funding. This funding round brought the total to over $61.5 million and it also marks a major step towards widespread adoption of its precision metal manufacturing technology.

Star Mountain Capital: Curtis Glovier Named As Managing Director And Strategic Portfolio Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 19, 2024

Star Mountain Capital, a specialized investment manager with over $4 billion in assets under management (AUM) focused on generating premium yield and total returns from the less efficient and resources-intensive market of U.S. private small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), announced that Curtis Glovier has increased his involvement with Star Mountain from a Senior Advisor to a full-time role of Managing Director and Strategic Portfolio Officer.

MRO Holdings: Aviation Maintenance Provider Raises Growth Funding From Bain

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 19, 2024

MRO Holdings, a leading provider of aircraft maintenance solutions for the global commercial airline industry, has agreed to a strategic minority investment from Bain Capital to support the company’s ongoing development and expansion of customer-centric initiatives.

Cybersixgill: An Interview With CPO Gabi Reish About Delivering Actionable Cyber Threat Intelligence In A $5+ Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 19, 2024

Cybersixgill is a company that continuously collects and exposes the earliest possible indications of risk, moments after they surface on the clear, deep and dark web. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Cybersixgill’s Global Chief Product Officer Gabi Reish to learn more about the company.

OnRamp: $14.2 Million Closed To Advance Customer Onboarding Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2024

OnRamp, a company that delivers seamless customer onboarding by automating and streamlining the post-sales process, announced today it has raised $14.2 million across a seed and recent Series A funding rounds. Javelin Venture Partners led the Series A and Contour Venture Partners led the seed round. These firms were joined by Pear VC, Quiet Capital, Correlation Ventures, Frontier Ventures, J Ventures and others, and with strategic individuals including Claire Hughes Johnson (Stripe), Steve Fredette (Toast), and Louis Beryl (Four Cities Capital).

Impel Buys Auto Customer Engagement Company Outsell For Over $100 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2024

Impel, a leader in AI-powered customer lifecycle management for the automotive industry, announced that it has acquired SaaS provider Outsell in a deal valued at over $100 million in cash consideration plus Impel equity. This acquisition establishes the auto industry’s first end-to-end AI sales and marketing automation platform, creating a combined company serving over 8,000 dealers in 51 countries.

Heartbeat Health Raises Growth Funding From Cressey And Existing Investors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2024

Heartbeat Health, one of the leading cardiovascular care companies in the country, announced that it has closed a significant growth investment by Cressey & Company LP, a private investment firm focused on building leading healthcare services and information technology businesses. And Heartbeat offers virtual care and diagnostic services focused on identifying and closing gaps in cardiovascular disease.

Coast: $40 Million Secured To Advance Platform For Managing Fleet Spending

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2024

Coast, a New York-based company offering a simple and smart way for companies in the US to manage fuel and fleet spending, today announced it has raised $40 million in new Series B financing, led by ICONIQ Growth. This funding round included participation from existing investors Accel, Insight Partners, Vesey Ventures, and Avid Ventures, and new investor Thomvest.

Uptick Partners Launches With New $275 Million Financial Advisor

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2024

Uptick Partners - the Bridge Builder to Independence - announced the official launch of the firm’s RIA platform for advisors looking to break away from captive broker-dealers, with the arrival of the firm’s first breakaway advisor.

MetLife Investment Management: Second Private Equity Fund Closed At $1.2 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2024

MetLife Investment Management (MIM), the institutional asset management business of MetLife announced the launch of its second private equity fund for institutional clients in concert with the closing of approximately $1.2 billion in commitments to a new MIM-managed fund-of-funds.

H.I.G. Capital: $1.3 Billion Raised For Europe Realty Fund III

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2024

H.I.G. Capital, a leading global alternative investment firm with $64 billion of capital under management, announced the final close of H.I.G. Europe Realty Partners III. And the fund closed with aggregate capital commitments of approximately $1.3 billion, which was significantly above the predecessor’s fund size.

TAIT Raises Equity Funding From Goldman Sachs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2024

Live experiences leader TAIT announced that the Private Equity business at Goldman Sachs Alternatives will acquire a majority stake in the company from affiliates of Providence Equity Partners, subject to obtaining customary regulatory approvals. The terms of the deal were undisclosed.

Jotform: How This Company Helps Automate Workflows

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2024

Jotform is a company that helps organizations go from busy work to less work with forms that use conditional logic, accept payments, generate reports, automate workflows, and more. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Jotform VP of Marketing Elliott Sprecher to learn more about the company.

Thoughtful AI: AI-Based Revenue Cycle Automation Company Secures $20 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2024

Thoughtful AI, an AI-based revenue cycle automation company, today made several announcements highlighting its forward momentum, including the launch of the world’s first fully human-capable AI Agents specializing in healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM), solid growth metrics, and $20 million in new funding through a Series A round led by Nick Solaro of Drive Capital with participation from TriplePoint Capital.

REMspace: Neurotech Company Raises $1 Million In Seed Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2024

REMspace, a neurotechnology company specializing in lucid dreaming studies, announced today it has closed a $1 million seed round, raised from lucid dreaming practitioners and enthusiasts based across Europe.

Piere: An Interview With Yuval Shuminer About This Check Splitting App

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2024

Piere, the company that offers an intelligent way to split the check, raise money in a group, and repay friends, just got smarter. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Piere founder and CEO Yuval Shuminer to learn more about the company.

Persistent Systems: An Interview With SVP And GM Ganesh Nathella About This Digital Engineering Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2024

Persistent Systems is a digital engineering and enterprise modernization company that utilizes deep technical expertise to help clients stay ahead. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Ganesh Nathella, the Senior VP and GM - Healthcare and Life Sciences Business at Persistent Systems.

Parrot AI: How This Collaborative Workspace Company Turns Conversations Into Results

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2024

Parrot AI is a collaborative workspace that turns conversations into results because the company understands the full context of your business. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Parrot AI co-founder and CEO Paul Morville to learn more about the company.

Decube: Offering A Comprehensive And Unified Approach To Data Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2024

Reveel: How This Company Helps Make Shipping Operations And Procedures Easier

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2024

Reveel is a leading Parcel Shipping Intelligence platform that enables companies to level the playing field with major carriers, such as FedEx and UPS. The company's unique technology enables shippers to break free of expensive parcel shipping consultants with an easy-to-use software app that brings transparency to the black box of carrier agreements. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Reveel's co-founder and CEO Josh Dunham to learn more about the company.

Astria: Shared Sequencer Network Company Raises $12.5 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2024

Astria is a shared sequencer network that replaces centralized sequencing, enabling many rollups to share a single decentralized network of sequencers that is simple and permissionless to join. The company has announced the successful completion of a $12.5 million strategic fundraise led by dba and Placeholder VC, with participation from RockawayX and returning investors.

Moffin: Data-Integration-Platform-As-A-Service Company Raises $2.1 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2024

Moffin, a Mexico-based software and data integration leader, announced that it has completed a $2.1 million seed funding round led by Accion Venture Lab and Chile Ventures. Fondation Botnar, New Ventures Capital, Rally Cap Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Carabela and AngelHub also participated in the round, with the goal of driving the expansion of the company and refining Moffin’s platform across Mexico.

Bioniq: AI-Based Personalized Supplement Company Secures $15 Million At $75 Million Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2024

Bioniq, a company founded in 2019 and renowned for its personalized supplements based on blood biomarker data, today announced the closing of its $15 million Series B funding round. This oversubscribed round was led by Principal Investors HV Capital and Unbound. Now, the company is valued at $75 million, and it will use the funding to further expand its global market share through continued disruption of the dietary supplements market.

Farther: Wealth Management Firm Surpasses $3 Billion In AUM

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2024

Farther, a leading technology-centric wealth management firm, announced 32 new strategic hires and the firm’s AUM surpassed $3 billion. These new strategic hires strengthen Farther’s ability to deliver its first-of-its-kind wealth management approach that combines custom-built, world-class technology with the bespoke financial expertise of a traditional wealth advisor.

Escala Raises $12 Million Raised To Help Latin SMBs Optimize Processes

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2024

Escala - a company founded by tech entrepreneur Andrés Moreno - offers a marketing and sales platform aimed at digitizing and optimizing client acquisition and retention for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Latin America and the US Hispanic market. The company recently completed a $12 million funding round co-led by IGNIA and Alaya Capital, with participation from High Alpha and other investors.

Amity: $60 Million Raised For Transforming Legacy Products With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2024

Amity Solutions (ASOL)—a leading software and AI business from Thailand and its parent company, Amity Corporation—announced the completion of a US$60 million Series C financing round. This funding round will support the company's mission to transform customer engagement software products into GenAI-centric applications that can create significantly more value and utility for enterprises.

Menlo Ventures And Anthropic Launching $100 Million Anthology Fund For Accelerating AI Innovation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2024

Venture capital firm Menlo Ventures announced the Anthology Fund, a groundbreaking $100 million initiative created in partnership with Anthropic, which is the frontier AI safety and research company. The Anthology Fund looks to partner with innovative founders for building unique AI-first applications and infrastructure solutions that leverage Anthropic’s technology and AI models.

Tembo: Postgres-Managed Company Raises $14 Million In Series A

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2024

Postgres-managed service Tembo announced it has closed a $14 million Series A funding round. GreatPoint Ventures led the investment with participation from Venrock, Grand Ventures, Wireframe Ventures, Defined Capital, and Cintrifuse Capital, along with several renowned angels.

appCD: Offering A New Approach To Solving The Challenges Of Infrastructure As Code

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2024

appCD is a company that generates Infrastructure from code automatically based on application code with golden standards applied. Pulse 2.0 interviewed appCD co-founder and CEO Sachin Aggarwal to learn more about the company.

Freshpaint: Healthcare Privacy Platform Company Closes $30 Million In Series B

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2024

Healthcare Privacy Platform company Freshpaint announced it raised $30.7 million in Series B funding led by Threshold, with additional participation from new investor SignalFire and existing investors Intel Capital, Y Combinator, and Zero Prime. This round brings Freshpaint's total funding to date to $41.8 million.