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Dimensional Energy - a global leader in cutting-edge carbon utilization technology Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production and advanced carbon emissions-derived fuels and materials – recently announced the successful closure of a $20 million Series A funding round. The climate tech company also announces their filing of the Delaware Public Benefit Corporation Charter, the first step in becoming a certified B Corporation.

Salvador Technologies – a pioneering cyber-attack recovery platform provider for critical infrastructures and industrial organizations – recently announced that it has secured $6m in funding. And Salvador Technologies' investment round was led by Pico Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors such as Pitango VC and Sarona Partners, who continue to play an essential role in shaping the company.

KOHO Financial - a leading Canadian fintech company – recently announced it successfully raised an additional $86 million in a series D extension at an $800 million valuation. The new and existing KOHO investors provided the capital, including Drive Capital, Eldridge Industries, HOOPP, Portage, Round13, BDC, and TTV.

Argonaut Private Equity - a private equity firm focused on investing in Middle America – recently announced the final closing of Argonaut Private Equity Fund V with $500 million in capital commitments, exceeding its initial target of $400 million and reaching its hard cap for the fund.

Mulberri - an AI-driven embedded business insurance platform for small and medium enterprises - recently announced its $6.75 million Series A led by Eos Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Hanover Technology Management, MS&AD Ventures, and Altamont Capital Partners (via insurance enterprises in its portfolio).

Pontera – a fintech company enabling 401(k) participants to receive comprehensive wealth management services by personal financial advisors – recently announced it secured $60 million in a funding round led by ICONIQ Growth. This funding round raises Pontera's total funding to $160 million, reinforcing its commitment to address the widespread neglect of workplace retirement accounts held by 85 million Americans—a critical element of the U.S. retirement crisis.

Chalk – a data platform for machine learning – recently announced that it has raised $10 million in seed funding led by General Catalyst, Unusual Ventures, and Xfund. And Chalk’s computation layer and LLM toolchain enable world-class teams to orchestrate data for real-time decisions. The funding will be used to accelerate development of Chalk’s platform, reach new customers, and grow its engineering and go-to-market teams.

Rhythms - an AI-powered enterprise productivity startup founded by industry veteran and serial entrepreneur Vetri Vellore – recently announced $26 million in seed funding, co-led by Greenoaks and Madrona with participation from Accel, Cercano (formerly Vulcan), and Founders’ Co-op, all of which were also investors in his previous venture, Ally.io (acquired by Microsoft in 2021).

Ampla - a leading provider of innovative financial solutions for consumer brands – recently announced the successful closure of a new $275 million credit facility with Citi and funds managed by Waterfall Asset Management. This brings the total capital raised by Ampla to over $600 million from top tier investors, including Goldman Sachs and Atalaya Capital.

Bicara Therapeutics - a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing dual-action biologics to elicit a potent and durable immune response – recently announced the completion of an oversubscribed $165 million Series C financing. The funding round was co-led by Braidwell LP and TPG, which is investing in the company through TPG Life Sciences Innovations (TPG LSI) and The Rise Fund, with additional new investors including Deerfield Management, Fairmount, Aisling Capital and a leading biotechnology investor associated with one of the largest alternative asset managers. All existing Series B investors also participated in the round.

Delphina - an LLM-powered copilot for data science – recently announced the closing of a $7.5 million seed round co-led by Costanoa Ventures and Radical Ventures with participation from 20+ prominent angel investors, including Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li. This funding round will be used to expand its team and accelerate product development.

Durable – an AI-powered website builder and small business platform on a mission to make owning a business easier than having a job – recently announced $14 million in Series A funding. Spark Capital led the funding round with participation from existing investors Torch Capital, Altman Capital, Dash Fund, South Park Commons, Infinity Ventures, and Soma Capital. With over $20 million in total funds raised to date, Durable is building the default platform to make every aspect of running a business 10X more efficient.

Falfurrias Management Partners, LP (FMP) recently announced it has closed its latest, oversubscribed lower middle-market private equity fund Falfurrias Growth Partners I (FGP) at $400 million in investor commitments. FGP is the firm's first dedicated growth buyout fund. And FMP manages its larger $850 million fund Falfurrias Capital Partners V and has raised over $2.2 billion of capital since being founded.

Ara Partners - a leading private equity and infrastructure investment firm specializing in industrial decarbonization – recently announced that it has closed over $3 billion of new capital commitments. The firm has also concluded a successful fundraising for Ara Fund III, closing on $2.8 billion of limited partner commitments alongside dedicated limited partner co-investment vehicles.

Turnspire Capital Partners – recently announced the closing of Turnspire Value Fund II, L.P. at its hard cap of $275 million in capital commitments. Since founding in 2013, Turnspire invested over $180 million in control investments across nine platform companies.

Sudo Biosciences - a biopharmaceutical company committed to designing and developing best-in-class precision TYK2 (tyrosine kinase 2) inhibitors – recently announced the close of a $116 million Series B financing round co-led by Enavate Sciences and TPG, which is investing in the company through TPG Life Sciences Innovations and The Rise Fund, with participation from Sanofi Ventures, Surveyor Capital , Monograph Capital, and Eventide Asset Management and existing investors Frazier Life Sciences and Velosity Capital. The company has raised a total of $157 million funding since its founding in 2020.

Salt Labs - a loyalty and financial technology company that bridges the gap between employers and employees – recently announced that Third Prime has invested $8 million. This brings the total funding to $18 million across its pre-seed and Seed financings. With this funding round, the company plans to bring Salt to employers as a catalyst for enhancing retention and productivity.

Aether Fuels - an advanced climate technology company – recently announced $8.5 million in pre-Series A financing via convertible notes. The global syndicate includes JetBlue Ventures, the corporate venture capital (CVC) division of JetBlue, as well as TechEnergy Ventures (the CVC division of the Techint Group), Doral Energy Tech Ventures (the CVC division of Doral Energy), Foothill Ventures, and existing investor Xora Innovation.

TuMeke - a computer vision platform that automatically assesses injury risk in manufacturing facilities – recently announced it raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by Intel Capital to expand and scale the TuMeke team of engineers, ergonomists, and academics.

Amide Technologies - a biotech synthesizing challenging peptides - recently announced that it has begun commercializing its novel peptide manufacturing platform. And the company also announced it has raised $16.5 million in total funding to date, which includes a $7.5 million Series A Extension investment closed in July 2023 led by Engine Ventures with participation from Forcefield Venture Fund. The previous rounds included a $3.55 million Series A, also led by Engine Ventures, and a $5.45 million Seed Round led by Biological Engineering Ventures.

Totus Medicines - a company transforming small molecule drug discovery and development using covalent libraries and AI tools - recently announced that Nassim Usman, Ph.D., has been named President & Chief Executive Officer and closed a $66 million Series B financing led by DCVC Bio. And Neil Dhawan, Ph.D, Totus co-founder, founding CEO, and CSO, will transition into a new role as CSO and Head of R&D, where he will continue to oversee the company's platform, programs, and data.

Datalogz – a pioneer in ending BI sprawl for data-mature organizations globally – recently announced that it has secured $5 million in funding, led by GreatPoint Ventures, with participation from Graphene Ventures, Squadra Ventures, Berkeley Skydeck, Defined, Mana Ventures, and Trajectory Ventures. And this significant milestone brings the startup’s total fundraising for 2023 to just under $8 million.

Tetra - a rapidly growing home services company helping homeowners transition from fossil fuels to clean energy - recently announced that it raised a $10.5 million seed funding round led by Greycroft, Gutter Capital, Lerer Hippeau and 1sharpe Capital. The funding will be used to expand Tetra's offering into new markets including New York and California, and to continue investment into developing its proprietary technology designed for making it easier and more affordable for homeowners to lower their carbon footprint.

Distributional recently announced that it has raised $11 million to build a modern enterprise platform for artificial intelligence (AI) testing and evaluation to make all forms of AI safe, secure, and reliable. The seed funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Operator Stack, Point72 Ventures, SV Angel, Two Sigma, Willowtree Investments and dozens of AI leaders and angel investors.

Encellin - a biotechnology company developing a cell encapsulation platform with an initial focus on Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) - recently announced the closing of a $9.9 million financing round led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator.

Friendlier - a Canadian leader in the reusable packaging industry – recently announced a successful seed extension raise to further its mission of helping businesses transition from single-use to reusable packaging.

Apple Tree Partners (ATP) - a leader in life sciences venture capital – recently announced $52 million in Series A funding for its portfolio company Deep Apple Therapeutics, created and incubated by ATP to rapidly discover novel small molecule therapeutics for high-value targets through virtual screening of AI-generated virtual libraries. Through a powerful discovery engine that combines ensemble cryo-EM, deep learning, and molecular docking screens of ultra-large libraries, Deep Apple could go from target identification to lead optimization in less than 12 months – a fraction of the industry standard time – and can pursue biological target signaling inaccessible to conventional discovery approaches.

1440 Foods - a leading portfolio of sports and active nutrition brands – recently announced the signing of a definitive agreement for Bain Capital Private Equity to acquire a significant stake in the company in partnership with existing investor and operator 4x4 Capital. And 1440 Foods will continue to be led by Chief Executive Officer Azania Andrews and her current management team. The financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.

Strike Graph - a Trust Operations (TrustOps) platform for operating and measuring security & compliance – recently announced that it has raised $8.5 million in funding. The funding round was led by BAMCAP with participation from existing investors Madrona and Information Venture Partners, and Rise of the Rest. Jim Sheward, partner at BAMCAP, will be joining the board.

ARTIS Ventures, a firm that partners with entrepreneurs who are driven to impact their world through innovation positively, announced recently that it closed $200 million in new capital for its second fund focused on the convergence of health and medicine TechBio II. The firm said it will continue making a firm-wide commitment to TechBio and fund and support its next generation of founders and startups.