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ZND: $20 Million Raised From Rollman Management Digital For Digital Asset Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 17, 2025

ZND, a digital finance platform operated by regulated European digital asset exchange zondacrypto, announced it has secured a $20 million token investment commitment from Rollman Management Digital for supporting the continued development of its technology and business operations. And ZND's goal is to provide a streamlined one-stop shop to earn, trade, and borrow digital assets.

NN: $128 Million Commitment Signed With Marathon Asset Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 17, 2025

Marathon Asset Management, an asset manager specializing in public and private credit markets with over $23 billion in assets under management, announced the completion of a refinancing program for NN, a global diversified industrial company that engineers and manufactures high-precision components and assemblies.

EnPlusOne Biosciences: Clare Murray, Ph.D. Named As CEO

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 17, 2025

EnPlusOne Biosciences, a biotechnology company utilizing the power of enzymes to deliver better RNA at scale, announced the appointment of Clare Murray, Ph.D., as Chief Executive Officer.

GoldState Music: $500 Million In Strategic Capital Raised From Northleaf And Ares

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 17, 2025

GoldState Music, a music rights investment platform, announced that it has raised $500 million in strategic capital, including a structured capital facility co-led by Northleaf Capital Partners and Ares Management funds and separately raised leverage.

t’order: Series C Round Launched With $50 Million Target

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 17, 2025

t'order, a leader in the Korean restaurant technology space, has officially launched its Series C fundraising round, targeting $50 million from domestic and global investors.

Clifford Chance: Mark Currell Named As Managing Partner In Australia

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 17, 2025

Global law firm Clifford Chance announced that Mark Currell has been named the new Managing Partner of its Perth and Sydney offices, effective May 1, 2025.

BayPine To Buy Clinical Trial Site Network Company CenExel

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 17, 2025

BayPine - a private investment firm that drives digital transformation in market-leading businesses- announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CenExel Clinical Research, a leading clinical trial site network focused on complex therapeutic areas.

Cofertility: $7.25 Million (Series A) Raised To Make Egg Freezing More Accessible

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 17, 2025

Cofertility, a human-centered fertility ecosystem that helps women freeze their eggs for free when donating half, announced the completion of a Series A funding round, led by Next Ventures and Offline Ventures, with additional support from Initialized Capital, Arkitekt Ventures, Foreground Capital, Gratitude Railroad, How Women Invest, Gaingels and Everywhere Ventures, leading investors with deep experience in the healthcare and technology sectors.

Lowe’s Buying Artisan Design Group In $1.325 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 17, 2025

Lowe's Companies announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Artisan Design Group (ADG) for $1.325 billion.

Falx Capital: Acquisition Of Pyramid Time Systems Completed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 17, 2025

Pyramid Time Systems (a leader in time and attendance solutions and synchronized time systems) announced it has been acquired by a private investment group led by Falx Capital.

Super Speciosa: Interview With Co-Founder Ken Loricchio About The Kratom Products Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 17, 2025

Super Speciosa is a leading brand of kratom herbal supplements with a focus on quality and transparency. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Super Speciosa co-founder Ken Loricchio to learn more about the company.

Trellis Health: $1.8 Million (Pre-Seed) Raised To Provide Women With Personalized And Proactive Care

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 17, 2025

Trellis Health, a digital health platform designed to empower women with personalized, proactive care, today emerged from stealth. The company is launching with $1.8 million in pre-seed funding from Palette Ventures, Swizzle Ventures, NEXTBLUE, Suncoast Ventures, and Sundial Foundation, along with high-profile healthcare individuals like Care.com founder Sheila Marcelo, the co-founders of Flo Health, Yuri Gurski and Andrei Kouzel, Mike Prytkov - the founder and CEO of Simple, Naseem Sayani, angels and executives from ARM, Microsoft AI and others.

FIS And Global Payments Sign $20+ Billion In Concurrent Deals

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 17, 2025

FIS and Global Payments announced a couple of major concurrent deals. FIS entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Global Payments' Issuer Solutions business for an enterprise value of $13.5 billion, or a net purchase price of $12 billion including $1.5 billion of anticipated net present value of tax assets. And FIS entered into a definitive agreement to sell its stake in Worldpay to Global Payments for $6.6 billion in pre-tax value.

SpotDraft: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Shashank Bijapur About The Contract Automation Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 17, 2025

SpotDraft is known as a co-pilot for your legal team that democratizes legal paperwork and speeds up the contract lifecycle. Pulse 2.0 interviewed SpotDraft CEO and co-founder Shashank Bijapur to learn more about the company.

Exaforce: $75 Million (Series A) Raised For Transforming Security With Agentic AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 17, 2025

Exaforce announced today that it has raised $75 million in Series A funding led by marquee investors Khosla Ventures, Mayfield, and Thomvest to develop an Agentic SOC Platform that provides AI agents (called Exabots) and advanced data exploration that gives customers a tenfold reduction in human-led SOC work, while dramatically improving security outcomes.

CleanArc Data Centers: Investment Raised From Townsend Group

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 17, 2025

CleanArc Data Centers - a developer and operator of renewables-focused hyperscale data center campuses - announced that Townsend Group, which is a leading advisor and partner to institutional investors globally, made a strategic investment in the company.

SK Capital Partners: John Novak Named As Head Of Business Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 17, 2025

SK Capital Partners - a private investment firm focused on the specialty materials, ingredients, and life sciences sectors - announced that John Novak has joined the firm as a Managing Director and Head of Business Development.

Achilles Buying Contractor Management Company InfoControl

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 17, 2025

Achilles, a leader in supply chain risk and performance management, announced the acquisition of InfoControl, a specialist AI and contractor management company based in Latin America.

KKR: General David Petraeus Named As Chairman Of The Middle East

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 17, 2025

Global investment firm KKR announced that it is expanding its presence in the Middle East including the appointment of General David Petraeus (US Army, Ret.) as Chairman of KKR Middle East and the establishment of a dedicated investment team in the region led by Julian Barratt-Due, a Managing Director at KKR.

Decision Logic: Growth Investment Raised From Clovis Point Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 17, 2025

Decision Logic, a provider of back-office management software for restaurants, announced a significant growth investment from Clovis Point Capital, a Houston-based growth equity firm. This partnership will advance Decision Logic's roadmap, drive team expansion, and strengthen its ability to deliver transformative outcomes for restaurant operators.

Luma Financial: $63 Million (Series C) Raised For Structured Products And Insurance Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 16, 2025

Luma Financial Technologies, a leader in structured products and insurance solutions, announced that it has closed a $63 million Series C financing led by Sixth Street Growth. And existing strategic investors including Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, UBS, and TD Bank Group participated in the round.

PolicyMe: C$30 Million Raised For Canada-Based Digital Insurance Provider Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 16, 2025

PolicyMe, which is known as Canada’s leading digital insurance provider, announced C$30 million in additional funding. The funding was secured through multiple tranches of equity and debt financing between 2023 and 2025 from strategic partners, including Blue Cross Life Insurance Company of Canada (Blue Cross Life) and Securian Canada.

Infinite Reality To Buy Touchcast For $500 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 16, 2025

Infinite Reality (iR), a company powering the next generation of digital media and e-commerce through extended reality (XR), AI, and other immersive technologies, announced the company has entered into a definitive agreement to buy Touchcast, a pioneering agentic AI company for $500 million in a combination of cash and stock. This deal is Infinite Reality’s largest yet and it values the company at $15.5 billion.

GoUpscale: Investment Raised From Accenture

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 16, 2025

Accenture announced it has invested through Accenture Ventures in GoUpscale, a content engagement technology company that helps wealth management companies across Asia reinvent client engagement strategies and elevate digital communications.

S&P And CME Selling OSTTRA To KKR For $3.1 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 16, 2025

S&P Global and CME Group announced the signing of a definitive agreement to sell OSTTRA, a provider of post-trade solutions for the global OTC market, to investment funds managed by KKR. The terms of the deal for OSTTRA equaled total enterprise value at $3.1 billion, subject to customary purchase price adjustments. This amount will be divided evenly between S&P Global and CME Group pursuant to their 50/50 joint venture.

Coder: Interview With CEO Rob Whiteley About The Browser-Based CDE

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 16, 2025

Coder has completely transformed software development with its browser-based cloud development environment (CDE). Pulse 2.0 interviewed Coder CEO Rob Whiteley to learn more about the company.

StoneX To Buy Futures Brokerage R.J. O’Brien

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 16, 2025

R.J. O'Brien & Associates (RJO), which is the oldest futures brokerage and clearing firm in the United States, announced that its parent company has reached a definitive agreement with StoneX Group to merge all of RJO's global businesses into StoneX, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.

Wealth.com: Strategic Investment Raised From Schwab

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 16, 2025

Charles Schwab announced today that it has made a minority investment in the real estate planning company Wealth.com. Schwab’s investment will help Wealth.com continue scaling its capabilities to make it easier for financial firms and advisors to provide valuable estate planning services to individuals and families. The terms of the investment were undisclosed.

MajorKey Technologies Buying Identity Specialist Company Oxford Computer Group

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 16, 2025

MajorKey Technologies, a leading identity security company backed by The Acacia Group, announced it has acquired Oxford Computer Group, a differentiated identity specialist with deep expertise in the Microsoft and Saviynt ecosystems.

Bridgepoint: John Dionne And Michelle Scrimgeour Named As New Independent Directors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 16, 2025

Bridgepoint announced the appointment of John Dionne and Michelle Scrimgeour as independent non-executive directors effective July 1, 2025.