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Kojo: $10 Million Series C Extension Secured To Advance AI-Based Construction Procurement

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 26, 2025

Kojo, a leading construction procurement and materials management platform, has raised $10 million in Series C extension funding from Wesco International (NYSE: WCC), a global leader in business-to-business distribution, logistics services, and supply chain solutions. The investment strengthens an ongoing partnership that aims to digitize and streamline materials coordination across the construction industry.

Addgene: Interview With President And Executive Director Chonnettia Jones About The Nonprofit

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 26, 2025

Addgene is a nonprofit biological resource organization that accelerates scientific discovery by providing researchers worldwide with access to well-documented, high-quality plasmids (circular DNA vectors) and associated materials. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Addgene President and Executive Director Chonnettia Jones to gain a deeper understanding of the nonprofit.

Mackenzie Investments And Northleaf Launching Multi-Asset Private Markets Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 25, 2025

Mackenzie Investments in partnership with global private markets firm Northleaf Capital Partners, has announced the launch of the Mackenzie Northleaf Multi-Asset Private Markets Fund, an all-in-one global private markets solution designed for accredited investors in Canada. The new fund provides diversified exposure to private equity, private credit, and infrastructure, offering individuals access to asset classes traditionally reserved for institutional investors.

Brown Advisory: Nick Kirrage Appointed As Partner And Portfolio Manager

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 25, 2025

Global independent investment management firm Brown Advisory announced the appointment of Nick Kirrage as Partner and Portfolio Manager, based in the firm’s London office. Kirrage will lead two newly launched equity strategies: Global Value and International Value, marking an expansion of Brown Advisory’s global equity platform.

Immaterial: £13.5 Million Series A2 Funding Raised For Scaling Industrial Decarbonization Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 25, 2025

Immaterial, a Cambridge-based advanced materials and engineering solutions company, has closed its £13.5 million ($18.2 million) Series A2 funding round, marking a major step forward in its mission to deliver scalable, cost-effective decarbonization technologies for heavy industry. The funding round was led by SLB, with participation from existing investors AP Ventures, Moeve, and long-term backer and Chairman Jogchum Brinksma, as well as new investor Finindus, a joint venture between ArcelorMittal and the Flemish government.

Cytely: Funding Raised For Advancing Smart-Microscopy Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 25, 2025

Cytely, a smart microscopy company transforming how scientists generate and interpret biological data, announced new funding led by Ugly Duckling Ventures. The investment will accelerate the global expansion of Cytely’s platform and bring the company closer to its bold mission of curing all preventable diseases.

Chugai Pharmaceutical To Buy Renalys Pharma, Expanding Kidney Disease Portfolio Across Asia

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 25, 2025

Chugai Pharmaceutical has agreed to acquire Renalys Pharma, a Tokyo-based biotechnology company focused on advancing treatments for chronic kidney disease. The acquisition, which grants Chugai exclusive rights to develop and commercialize the kidney drug sparsentan in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, represents a major step forward in expanding access to innovative renal therapies across Asia.

FieldFlo: $35 Million Growth Investment Raised To Advance Project And Safety Management Innovation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 25, 2025

FieldFlo, a rapidly growing provider of project and safety management software for specialty subcontractors, has announced a $35 million growth investment from Mainsail Partners, a leading growth equity firm focused on vertical SaaS businesses. The funding will accelerate FieldFlo’s product innovation, expand its team, and strengthen support for subcontractors in high-risk industries across North America.

Overfuel: Growth Investment Raised From Recurring Capital Partners To Advance AI Innovation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 25, 2025

Overfuel, a leading AI-based website platform built to enhance dealership performance and digital sales impact, has announced a strategic growth investment from Recurring Capital Partners, an investor specializing in software companies. The funding will accelerate Overfuel’s artificial intelligence innovation, support strategic acquisitions, and expand its leadership team to position the company for continued growth across the automotive, powersports, and RV sectors.

GigaCloud To Buy New Classic Home Furnishings For $18 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 25, 2025

GigaCloud Technology, a pioneer in end-to-end B2B technology solutions for large parcel merchandise, has announced its entry into a binding term sheet to acquire 100% of the outstanding equity of New Classic Home Furnishings for $18 million.

Lilly To Buy Adverum Biotechnologies For Up To $260+ Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 25, 2025

Eli Lilly and Company has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Adverum Biotechnologies, a clinical-stage biotechnology firm pioneering intravitreal gene therapy for ocular diseases. The deal is centered around Adverum’s lead product candidate, Ixo-vec, a Phase 3 gene therapy designed to treat wet age-related macular degeneration (wAMD) with a single intravitreal injection.

Centerbridge Partners: Acquisition of MeridianLink Completed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 25, 2025

Global investment firm Centerbridge Partners has completed the acquisition of MeridianLink, a leading provider of software platforms for financial institutions and consumer reporting agencies. The deal includes a minority investment from Silversmith Capital Partners and it transitions MeridianLink from a publicly traded company to a privately held enterprise.

Gravity Buying Cityspan To Build A Fully Integrated Fintech Platform for Governments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 25, 2025

Gravity, a leading disclosure and budgeting automation company for the public sector, has announced the acquisition of Cityspan, a provider of cloud-based grants management and performance measurement systems. The deal marks a major expansion in Gravity’s mission to deliver an end-to-end financial management solution for governments, connecting budgeting, reporting, grants, and citizen engagement through a single unified platform.

Produce Investments Buys Biofresh Safestore To Enhance Its Agri-Tech And Crop Storage Technology Portfolio

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 25, 2025

Produce Investments (PI), a UK-based company specializing in potato production, crop storage, and agricultural technology, has announced the acquisition of Biofresh Safestore, a long-established leader in fixed crop management systems. The acquisition marks a significant step in PI’s ongoing strategy to expand its technology portfolio and reinforce its position as an innovation leader in sustainable post-harvest solutions.

VitVio: $8 Million Seed Funding Closed To Transform Operating Room Efficiency With AI-Based Ambient Sensing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 25, 2025

VitVio, a Boston-based medical technology company using AI, computer vision, and ambient sensing to improve operating room efficiency, has raised $8 million in an oversubscribed seed round. The funding was led by Bek Ventures (formerly Earlybird Digital East), with participation from existing backers LDV Capital and Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company, and new investors Balnord, Thornapple River Capital, healthcare leader Joe Mullings, and Mati Staniszewski, founder of ElevenLabs. This funding round brings VitVio’s total funding to $10 million and will support the company’s expansion across major U.S. hospitals.

Shuttle: $6 Million Seed Funding Raised To Build the AI Platform Engineer for Developers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 25, 2025

Shuttle, an AI-based cloud infrastructure company, announced that it has raised $6 million in seed funding to accelerate its mission of making backend development and operations as simple as writing code with AI. The round includes participation from Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital, Thomas Dohmke (former CEO of GitHub), Calvin French-Owen (Founder of Segment), and senior leaders from OpenAI, Deel, and Confluent.

Neolix: Over $600 Million Series D Funding Raised To Advance China’s Autonomous Driving Industry

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 25, 2025

Neolix, the world’s largest provider of Level 4 (L4) autonomous delivery vehicles, has completed a record-breaking $600 million Series D funding round, the most significant private financing in the history of China’s autonomous driving sector. The round also ranks among the most significant private investments in the country this year, underscoring the growing confidence in autonomous logistics and Neolix’s technological leadership.

SecondWave Systems: Series A Expanded To Advance Ultrasound-Based Anti-Inflammatory Therapy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 25, 2025

SecondWave Systems, a clinical-stage medical device company pioneering ultrasound-based therapies for inflammatory diseases, has announced the addition of Sectoral Asset Management to its Series A investment syndicate. The expanded financing will accelerate development and clinical progress of the company’s novel noninvasive therapeutic technology, the SecondWave MINI, a wearable ultrasound device designed to treat chronic and acute inflammatory disorders.

LINEN Cloud Secures Strategic Investment For Advancing AI-Driven Enterprise Planning

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 25, 2025

LINEN Cloud, a Silicon Valley-based intelligent sales planning platform, has announced a new strategic investment round led by a global network of chief information officers, chief technology officers, and enterprise technology leaders. The funding will accelerate the company’s expansion across North America and further develop its AI-driven planning capabilities, positioning LINEN Cloud as a next-generation platform for enterprise go-to-market (GTM) operations.

AImoji: Interview With Founder & CEO Aoi Minamoto About The Brain Health Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 24, 2025

AImoji is a U.S.-based AI startup focused on human-centered innovations, especially in digital health and interaction technologies. Pulse 2.0 interviewed AImoji founder and CEO Aoi Minamoto to gain a deeper understanding of the company. AImoji’s flagship product is the KinaBot, which is a voice-and-conversation-based brain health barometer.

First Stop Health: Interview With CTO Vijay Anand About The Virtual Care Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 24, 2025

First Stop Health is a U.S.-based virtual care company that provides employers and higher-education institutions with a full suite of telehealth services designed to be affordable, convenient, and highly engaging. Pulse 2.0 interviewed First Stop Health CTO Vijay Anand to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Evertune: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Brian Stempeck About The Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) And AI Marketing Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 24, 2025

Evertune is a GEO and AI marketing company that helps brands measure, optimize, and gain visibility in AI search. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Evertune co-founder and CEO Brian Stempeck to learn more about the company and why brands need to gain a deeper understanding of how they appear in AI-search recommendations.

JumpCloud: Interview With Director Of Product Marketing Chase Doelling About The Open Directory Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 24, 2025

JumpCloud is a cloud-based open directory platform that provides unified identity, device, and access management for organizations. It helps IT teams securely manage users, devices, and access to IT resources such as applications, networks, and infrastructure, all from a single platform. Pulse 2.0 interviewed JumpCloud Director of Product Marketing Chase Doelling to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Google Working With I Squared Capital And LCI To Develop Broadwing Energy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 24, 2025

I Squared Capital and its portfolio company, Low Carbon Infrastructure (LCI) announced a clean energy partnership with Google to develop Broadwing Energy, a 400-megawatt natural gas-fired cogeneration power plant integrated with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology. This project will also generate more than 1.5 million pounds of steam per hour and is designed to capture and permanently store over 90% of its CO₂ emissions, marking a significant step forward in advancing low-carbon, firm power generation in the US.

Streetbeat: $15 Million Series A Closed To Scale Agentic AI Trading For Wealth Managers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 24, 2025

Streetbeat, an AI-based intelligence platform for financial professionals and retail investors, has raised $15 million in Series A funding to accelerate the rollout of agentic AI for trading, risk management, and portfolio analysis. The funding round was led by CDP Venture Capital through the AI Fund, with participation from TTV Capital, Monte Carlo Capital, and 3Lines VC. The new financing brings Streetbeat’s total funding to $25 million.

Anthropic Expands Partnership With Google For Access Up To One Million TPUs For Claude Training

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 24, 2025

Anthropic announced a significant expansion of its collaboration with Google Cloud, providing access to unprecedented compute capacity for training and deploying future generations of its Claude AI models. The deal grants Anthropic access to up to 1 million Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips, marking its most significant TPU commitment to date and representing computing power valued at tens of billions of dollars. The total infrastructure will exceed 1 gigawatt of capacity, with capacity coming online in 2026.

VestGen Launches Retirement Services Division, Expanding National Platform For Supporting Plan Sponsors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 24, 2025

VestGen Wealth Partners, a national wealth management firm focused on advisor succession and client continuity, has announced the launch of VestGen Retirement Services, a new division aimed at redefining how retirement plan sponsors manage fiduciary oversight, participant engagement, and long-term wealth outcomes.

Greenbelt Capital Partners Expanding Leadership Team With Senior Hires

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 24, 2025

Greenbelt Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in the New Energy Economy, announced the addition of several senior executives to its growing leadership team. The appointments include Katie Kiersey as Chief of Strategy and Operating Partner, Erika Mapes as Managing Director, Austin Major as Principal, and Elouise Roche as Vice President.

senswork: Interview With CEO & Managing Director Roman Rieger About The Automation Innovation Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 24, 2025

senswork is a Germany-based company specializing in turnkey machine vision, inspection, and optical measurement systems for industrial manufacturing. Pulse 2.0 interviewed senswork CEO and Managing Director Roman Rieger to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management And Clearwater Analytics Launch Automated Cash Management Platform For Hedge Funds

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 24, 2025

Clearwater Analytics, a leader in investment management technology, and J.P. Morgan Asset Management have announced a new integration designed to transform how hedge funds manage idle cash. The collaboration connects Enfusion by CWAN directly to Morgan Money, J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s short-term investment and liquidity platform, giving hedge funds a fully automated solution for optimizing yield, diversification, and liquidity oversight.