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Saronic - a maritime autonomy company focused on surface vessels - recently announced a $55 million Series A funding round led by Caffeinated Capital, with participation from 8VC, U.S. Innovative Technology Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Point72 Ventures, Silent Ventures, Overmatch Ventures, Ensemble VC, and Cubit Capital.

MDisrupt - a leading expert marketplace for the health-tech industry - recently announced the successful completion of a $3 million seed funding round to accelerate its pivotal role in reshaping the health-tech innovation landscape.

Commons Clinic - a branded value-based health system offering all-inclusive, expert care for spine, orthopedics, and pain management - recently announced its $19.5 million Series A financing led by RA Capital Management with participation from existing investors Floating Point and Courtside Ventures and new investor Time BioVentures. This financing round brings Commons Clinic's total funding to $33.5 million including investments from industry-pioneering angels like Elliot Cohen (Co-Founder, Pillpack), Mike West (former CEO, Rothman Orthopedics), and founders from Cityblock Health, CityMD, PatientPing, Elemy and more. 

gaiia, an emerging force in connectivity operating systems (OS), recently marked a significant milestone with the successful closure of a $13 million seed funding round. And notable investors include Y Combinator, Kima Ventures, and oxio alumni - which underscores the industry's recognition of gaiia's transformative potential in reshaping the connectivity landscape.

Thread (formerly Airtonomy) - a leader in enterprise-scale autonomous data collection for delivering precise inspection insights - recently announced that it closed a Series A funding round at $15 million. Badlands Capital led the funding round with notable participation from an early utility partner of Thread's, Minnkota Power Cooperative, Generational Partners, Rosecliff Ventures, Excell Partners, Homegrown Capital, and Kevin O'Leary's Wonder Fund North Dakota. 

Atlassian - a leading provider of team collaboration and productivity software - recently announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Loom. This video messaging platform amassed over 25 million users. This global movement towards distributed work has driven a need for new ways to help teams collaborate when they are not in the same location or even the same hemisphere. And asynchronous (async) video has been at the forefront of this movement, with Loom’s business users recording nearly 5 million videos monthly.

FluidAI Medical - a pioneer in utilizing AI for postoperative patient monitoring - recently announced that it has raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by SOSV and Graphene Ventures with participation from Boutique Venture Partners, Threshold Impact, Cur8 Capital, Leva Capital, Kyto Technology & Life Science, Juno Pharmaceuticals, and several esteemed angels, funds and government funding organizations.

Opsera - a Unified DevOps platform used by top Fortune 500 companies - recently announced a Series A Plus round of $12 million in funding. This latest funding round will support Hummingbird AI, a new generative AI initiative, and accelerate the growth of Opsera. Hummingbird AI will introduce new and exciting features into the DevOps and DevSecOps categories. And the latest funding round is led by Taiwania Capital with support from existing investors Felicis Ventures, Clear Ventures, and others.

Aliro Quantum recently announced it has secured new funding from top-tier venture capital firms, including Accenture Ventures and lead investor Leaders Fund. The funding round will enable Aliro Quantum to boost its ability to help utility companies, telecommunications providers, public sector organizations, enterprises, researchers, etc., to design and deploy multipurpose entanglement-based secure networks. Aliro Quantum plans to increase research and development funding and expand its go-to-market programs and professional services offerings.

TileDB recently announced the closing of its Series B funding round, raising $34 million to advance its vision of the “modern database” as a single secure product for enterprises, developers and scientists. The funding round was led by AlleyCorp, founded by Kevin Ryan (co-creator of MongoDB, Business Insider co-founder, and former DoubleClick CEO), with participation from Two Bear Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Big Pi Ventures, Intel Capital, Uncorrelated, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Amgen Ventures, NTT Docomo Ventures, Verizon Ventures, S Ventures, LDV Partners and Scale Asia Ventures. Joining TileDB’s Board of Directors are Jorge Colindres (Partner at AlleyCorp) and Jeff Miller (ex-CRO at Cockroach Labs - who brings over two decades of experience in leading and growing successful sales teams).

Appian Capital Advisory LLP - an investment advisor to long-term value-focused private capital funds that invest solely in mining and mining-related companies - recently announced the final close of its third fund. Fund III was heavily oversubscribed despite difficult fundraising conditions for the private equity sector, raising its hard cap to $2.06 billion following strong support from both large, new investors and existing top-tier investors globally.

TeachMe.To (the nation's premier marketplace for finding and booking in-person sports and skills instruction) and Swimply (a marketplace that connects owners of underutilized spaces — swimming pools, pickleball and tennis courts, and basketball courts, with people looking to escape locally) recently announced that they have teamed up to make it easier for pickleball players, coaches and enthusiasts to find a place to play, and the expert instruction to get going or to sharpen skills.

SGP BioEnergy recently announced a $250 million equity commitment from Global Emerging Markets (GEM), a European private alternative investment group, to support the development of the Golden City Biorefinery in Colon, Panama, and lay the groundwork for SGP’s transformative Zero-Waste Ecosystem.

Kinetic - an Infrastructure-as-a-Service company that delivers digital maintenance and servicing for EVs and AVs through its network of service centers - recently announced it has secured $10 million in Series A funding. These are the details.

Clarix Imaging - a medical technology company revolutionizing surgical oncology - recently announced $10 million in funding from kineo finance, a Swiss-headquartered investment firm.

Precision Irrigation Management company Treetoscope announced its latest seed funding round at $7 million to aid with R&D, fuel overall growth, and accelerate commercial agriculture expansion in North America and beyond. The funding round was led by the Champel Capital venture capital fund, a leading European-Israeli fund focusing on impact technology investments, together with strategic investors that include Leon Recanati's GlenRock fund, SeedIL, YYM-Ventures, Agrovision, NEOME, GN-Z11 and Earth.vc.

Cove recently announced the closing of its latest funding round, which will enable it to supply its biodegradable materials and packaging technologies to consumer-packaged goods companies trying to reduce plastic use in the industry. And Cove's packaging is biodegradable and home-compostable - naturally occurring and completely free of synthetic plastics or microplastics.

Ounce - a company bridging the gap between health and housing - recently announced it has raised $5.2 million in seed funding and partnered with AmeriHealth Caritas D.C. and National Housing Trust to bring care coordination and wraparound services to over 2,000 residents of affordable housing across 9 properties in D.C. This round of funding was co-led by Meridian Street Capital and Flare Capital, with participation from: Chelsea Clinton's Metrodora Ventures, Wilshire Lane Capital, Chris Nassetta (Hilton CEO), Taylor Justice (Unite Us cofounder), and others.

Clinical trial intelligence platform company Lokavant recently announced an $8 million strategic investment from global business titan Mitsui & Co. Ltd. to expand its AI-optimized platform across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. One of Lokavant’s earliest customers CMIC Group is the largest contract research organization (CRO) in Japan and Lokavant’s foray into Japan’s established clinical research market. Now, with Mitsui’s support, Lokavant is poised to open a new APAC headquarters in Tokyo.

Pow.Bio recently announced a $9.5 million Series A round. Re:Food and Thia Ventures led the funding round, and they were joined by Hitachi Ventures - the strategic corporate venture capital arm of Hitachi, Ltd. - with participation from Possible Ventures, XFactor Ventures, Bee Partners, iSelect, Climate Capital, Vectors Angel, Better Ventures, and Cantos.

Saleo - the creator of the first and only live demo automation platform - recently announced that it has raised $13 million from Emergence Capital and Tech Square Ventures to help revenue teams create unprecedented demo experiences with real data that are so personalized for prospects, they've been shown to cut sales cycles in half.

Bolt.Earth - India's leading EV infrastructure and software company - recently announced the successful completion of its funding round, securing a substantial $20 million in investment. This funding round was spearheaded by a consortium of longstanding and new investors, featuring notable names including Union Square Ventures, Prime Venture Partners, ITIGO Funds, and several others - who share Bolt.Earth's vision for a sustainable and electrified transportation ecosystem.

SafeRide Health— a leading technology-first platform connecting patients of the nation’s largest Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, and provider programs to life sustaining care— recently announced a Series C funding funding round to further scale its non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) technology and services, led by Sands Capital.

Observe - a SaaS observability company reinventing the way machine-generated data is stored, managed and analyzed - recently announced Hubble, its biggest and most innovative product release to date. The company also announced a $50 million Series A3 funding round led by Sutter Hill Ventures, bringing total funding raised to date to $164.5 million.

Experic - a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) and clinical supply services company serving the biopharmaceutical industry - recently announced the successful completion of a Series B extension round of financing. And the additional funding round is earmarked to support the company’s double-digit organic growth and strategic investments in key operational assets.

Carson Life - a natural health and beauty products company focused on the Hispanic community - recently announced that it has scored a multi-million dollar investment from Decathlon Capital Partners. The details of the revenue-based investment were not disclosed.

Gradient - an API platform for AI developers - recently announced it has raised $10 million in seed funding led by Wing VC, with participation from Mango Capital and Tokyo Black.

Lemurian Labs recently announced it has secured $9 million in seed funding to develop an accelerated computing platform tailored explicitly for AI applications. This funding round was led by Oval Park Capital, with participation from Good Growth Capital, Raptor Group, and Alumni Ventures. Additional investments were from Untapped Ventures, Plug and Play Ventures, Silicon Catalyst Angels, Blue Lake Capital, Futureland Ventures, AI Operators Fund, and Tola Capital.

Konect.ai - a pioneering SaaS company at the forefront of conversational AI technology for the automotive retail industry - recently announced a $5.5 million seed investment from Silverton Partners. This funding round will fuel Konect.ai's mission to transform how auto dealerships and auto tech companies engage with their customers through advanced AI-driven communication.

Betterworks has recently taken a significant step in its mission to rethink performance management and help companies cultivate more productive employees and teams. The company recently announced the next generation of its Intelligent Performance Management solution featuring three new generative AI capabilities that make creating clear goals, giving impactful employee feedback, and having meaningful and productive performance conversations easier.