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Community solar provider Common Energy recently announced that it has raised a new round of funding, providing the business with additional capital to continue its expansion.

Lunar.dev - the first-ever API Consumption Management solution - recently announced the launch of its open-source platform, along with $6 million in Seed funding. Uncork Capital led this funding round with the participation of existing investor Angular Ventures.

Informed.IQ is a company that helps financial institutions fund more loans faster while reducing risk and fraud. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Informed.IQ’s Director of Lending Strategies Jessica Gonzalez.

Coinchange - a digital asset platform enabling businesses to trade and access yield as a service through its unique Earn API - recently announced that it has raised $10 million to grow its services. The funding round was led by key investment players, including G1.VC, Spirit Blockchain, Good News Ventures, K2.CA, and Atoia Ventures, with additional participation from Mintfox.

Travel discovery platform company Layla recently announced a €3 million investment from an esteemed group of travel leaders, including the co-founders of Booking.com (Andy Phillips) and Skyscanner (Barry Smith) and entertainment star and entrepreneur Paris Hilton. The funding round was led by Firstminute Capital (Brent Hoberman, co-founder of travel industry titan lastminute.com) and M13.

Ediphi - an advanced cloud-based estimating solution on the market - recently announced it has secured $6.5 million in seed funding. The funding was provided by Suffolk Technologies, a venture capital platform investing in the next generation of companies solving built environment challenges.

BlueVoyant - a cybersecurity company that illuminates, validates, and mitigates internal and external risks - recently announced the acquisition of Conquest Cyber, a cyber defense company renowned for its innovative SaaS technology that streamlines risk management across an organization's entire cyber program. And Conquest Cyber has proven successful within high-security environments, including the U.S. Defense Industrial Base (DIB) and Government organizations. BlueVoyant also raised over $140 million in Series E funding to accompany the acquisition of Conquest Cyber.

May Mobility - a leader in developing and deploying autonomous vehicle (AV) technology - recently announced the company's $105 million Series D funding round. And the company also revealed that Anna Brunelle has joined as CFO.

OpsLab recently announced the company closed a seed fundraising round totaling $5 million, led by Cultivation Capital and joined by Storm Ventures. Completing this funding round during economic uncertainty proved the strength of the company's fundamentals and OpsLab's market opportunity.

Tola Capital - a venture capital firm investing in the next generation of enterprise software enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) - recently announced the closing of Tola Capital III, LP at $230 million. This fund will be deployed to Seed and early-stage startups that are revolutionizing the enterprise software industry with AI. The latest fund brings Tola Capital's total funds raised to date to $688 million.

Quoherent - a company developing room-temperature edge-capable quantum processors that promise to change quantum computing radically - recently announced the closing of its $4.7 million Series Seed financing. This funding round was led by Morpheus Ventures and joined by Draper Associates, Khosla Ventures, and Alpha Edison.

Pathway - an AI-driven medical knowledge platform - recently announced it has secured $5 million in seed funding to advance its solutions to information overload among healthcare professionals. And Pathway distills practice guidance from millions of evidence-based sources into concise summaries, helping clinicians stay up-to-date and provide efficient, high-quality care.

Radiology Partners (RP) - a leading radiology practice in the U.S. through its owned and affiliated practices - recently announced the launch of its RPX AI orchestration platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS). And RPX AI is RP’s AI orchestration and integration platform, and it utilizes AWS HealthImaging, a HIPAA-eligible service for storing, analyzing, and sharing medical images at petabyte scale. RP selected AWS HealthImaging to advance its ability to seamlessly deploy a suite of AI tools across any reading platform, creating a highly accessible and adaptable solution for hospitals and health systems to deliver high-quality, technology-enabled care.

KeraLink International (KLI) recently announced $2.5 million in seed funding in Pantheon Vision (PV) to launch the development of a novel advancement to help eradicate corneal blindness in both developed and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). And Pantheon Vision (an early-stage ophthalmic medical device company KLI established) will use the funding to develop bioengineered corneal implants to reduce reliance on donated corneal tissue – often unavailable in LMICs.

Jana Care - a pioneering developer of at-home self-administered testing technologies for chronic kidney and heart disease management - recently announced the initial closing of a Series B financing from a syndicate of new and existing venture firms. Along with its ongoing partnerships with global leaders in diagnostic technologies and pharmaceutical development, Jana Care welcomes lead investor IAG Capital Partners.

Bazooka Tango - a game studio led by former creators of Vainglory, Bo Daly and Stephan Sherman - recently announced that it has successfully raised $5 million USD in a funding round led by BITKRAFT Ventures, with participation from RW3 Ventures, Sfermion, 1Up Ventures, and others.

SEVA - a newly launched growth equity firm serving customer-centric founders and companies based in New York - recently announced the closing of its $85 million oversubscribed debut fund (SEVA Fund I), reaching its hard cap and exceeding its original target of $50 million.

Second Front Systems (2F) - a public-benefit software company accelerating the delivery of mission-critical software solutions to the government - recently announced a Series B funding round of $40 million.

DXC Technology (a leading Fortune 500 global technology services company) and ServiceNow (a leading digital workflow company making the world work better for everyone, have expanded their strategic partnership to transform service and workflow management for customers globally).

CoordinateHQ - a project management system for client service organizations - recently announced the closing of a $5.5 million seed round. The funding round was led by Initialized, with investments from Webb Investment Network and several prominent angel investors.

Pika - an AI video platform that is transforming the video-making and editing experience - recently announced its Series A funding round of $35 million led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. With this latest funding round, Pika has raised a total of $55 million in the company’s first six months with Pre-Seed and Seed rounds led by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross. And additional investors include other prominent angel investors in AI, including Elad Gil, Adam D’Angelo (Founder and CEO of Quora), Andrej Karpathy, Clem Delangue (Co-Founder and CEO of Hugging Face and Partner at Factorial Capital), Craig Kallman (Chairman and CEO of Atlantic Records) and Alex Chung (Co-Founder of Giphy), as well as venture firms such as Homebrew, Conviction Capital, SV Angel and Ben’s Bites.

Composability platform company Canopy recently launched with $4 million seed funding from leading venture capital firms Kindred Ventures and Village Global. Canopy is known for removing the complexity, custom code, and time needed to integrate, serve, and observe all the critical data companies need to grow their business.

Scalestack - an AI-powered all-in-one data enrichment, prioritization & activation platform for RevOps - recently announced that it has raised $1 million in its first round of funding. The investors in this round include Ripple Ventures, Forum Ventures, Flyer One Ventures, Founders Network Fund, and others. This round of capital will help the platform expand its offerings and grow its reach in the market.

Cantai Therapeutics recently announced the formation and completion of a seed financing co-led by Agent Capital and 82VS (the affiliated venture studio of Alloy Therapeutics) with additional participation from Tellus BioVentures. The proceeds from the funding will be used to develop drug candidates to treat autoimmune and inflammatory disorders by developing cytokine-targeting bispecific antibodies that meaningfully improve the status quo for the millions of patients suffering from immune-mediated and autoimmune diseases.

Route 92 Medical - a privately held medical technology company dedicated to improving outcomes for patients undergoing neurovascular intervention - recently announced it has raised over $31 million in Series F financing to accelerate the commercial adoption of a neurovascular intervention portfolio focused on acute ischemic stroke. The oversubscribed funding round was led by existing venture capital investors U.S. Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, InnovaHealth Partners, and The Vertical Group.

PlainID is a company that provides business and admin teams with a simple and intuitive means to control your authorization processes. To learn more, Pulse 2.0 interviewed PlainID's co-founder and CTO/CPO Gal Helemski (she/her).

AireXpert - a leading provider of aerospace and aviation collaboration and automation solutions - recently announced the successful closure of a $3 million oversubscribed investment round. Miami-based growth equity firm Reformation Partners led this funding round, marking a significant milestone for AireXpert as it continues redefining the technology landscape for airlines and MRO (Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul) organizations.

VISO TRUST is a company that puts reliable, comprehensive, and actionable vendor security information directly in the hands of decision-makers who need to make informed risk assessments. Pulse 2.0 interviewed VISO TRUST CEO Paul Valente to learn more about the company. 

The Cumulus Coffee Company recently announced that it will soon introduce the first-ever solution for making premium cold brew at home in seconds. And the company also announced it has raised $20.3 million in seed funding led by Valor Siren Ventures and Valor Equity Partners, with participation from investors including Maveron, Howard Schultz, Linden Ventures, Carter Reum, and Ryan Tedder. This moment in the evolution of cold coffee results from cutting-edge technology coupled with world-class expertise in the science and craft of coffee.

Artifact Lab - a platform transforming how mobile games monetize players in an era driven by privacy - recently announced the successful completion of its $2 million pre-seed funding round. RW3 Ventures and IOSG Ventures are the co-leaders in this funding round, accompanied by Raptor Group, Cypher Capital, and HerculesDAO to round out the investors' group.