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Vyzer: Digital Wealth Management Platform Company Closes $6.3 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2023

Vyzer - an innovative digital wealth management platform - recently announced it has successfully raised a seed round of $6.3 million from leading VCs, angel investors, and family offices. These are the details.

Cicada: Non-Custodial Credit Risk Management Company Raises $9.7 Million

By Annie Baker ● Oct 11, 2023

Cicada Partners - a non-custodial credit risk management company bringing greater transparency and accountability to institutional lending over public blockchain infrastructure - recently announced a $9.7 million funding round with equity and debt capital commitments led by Choppa Capital.

Shorla Oncology: Specialty Pharmaceutical Company Closes $35 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2023

Shorla Oncology - a U.S.-Ireland specialty pharmaceutical company - recently announced that it has raised $35 million in Series B funding, led by Kurma Partners’ Growth Opportunities Fund.

Cyviation: Aircraft Cybersecurity Company Lands $4 Million In Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2023

Cyviation - a first cybersecurity company focusing on aircraft security by providing multiple layers of resilience ranging from fleet assessment and aircrew training to Aviation SIEM - aircraft cyber event management - recently announced an additional $4 million funding round. This funding is part of a larger round that is is expected to enter Series A by the first half of 2024.

Electric Hydrogen: $380 Million Secured To Build Powerful Electrolyzers For Critical Industries

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2023

Electric Hydrogen (EH2) recently announced the successful completion of an oversubscribed $380 million Series C financing. The new funding round will accelerate the company’s manufacturing and deployment plans to meet strong customer demand for its power-dense green hydrogen systems.

Muir AI: $3.25 Million Secured To Address Climate Change

By Annie Baker ● Oct 11, 2023

Muir AI - an early-stage startup building a talented team passionate about solving climate change - recently announced that it raised $3.25 million in a seed funding round led by venture capital firm Base10 Partners. Other participants in the seed round included existing investors Madrona Venture Labs and Soma Capital. The funding will accelerate Muir’s development of AI technology to reduce emissions within corporations’ supply chain.

Blackbird Labs: $24 Million Secured To Help Restaurants Directly Connect And Reward Guests

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2023

Blackbird Labs - a hospitality technology company whose platform helps restaurants directly connect and reward their guests and incentivize these customers to return - recently announced it has raised a $24 million Series A round.

LANGaware: Mental Health Diagnostics Company Raises $2 Million

By Annie Baker ● Oct 11, 2023

LANGaware - a US-based company revolutionizing cognitive and mental health diagnostics through AI-driven technology - recently announced it successfully raised $2 million in funding. Eleven Ventures, a leading early-stage venture capital firm in Southeast Europe, led the seed funding round.

Peak Energy: $10 Million Raised To Develop Low-Cost Giga-Scale Storage Technology

By Dan Anderson ● Oct 11, 2023

Peak Energy - a U.S.-based company developing low-cost, giga-scale energy storage technology for the grid - recently launched from stealth following a $10 million funding round led by Eclipse.

Centro: Inventory Platform Company Secures $2 Million

By Noah Long ● Oct 11, 2023

Centro - an automated inventory control center for growing e-commerce brands - recently announced $2 million in pre-seed funding led by Ripple Ventures and 2048VC, with participation from Valia Ventures and Comma Capital.

At One Ventures: $375 Million Climate Tech Fund Launched

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2023

At One Ventures - a climate tech venture capital firm launched in 2020 by Tom Chi, founding member of Google X - recently announced the closing of a $375 million second fund. Like Fund I, Fund II is going to focus on backing early-stage startups with disruptive technologies that could improve planetary health by resetting the industries causing the most damage to the planet like buildings and construction, energy and transportation, and food and agriculture.

Lendbuzz: $345 Million Secured To Ramp Up Auto Finance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2023

Lendbuzz, a financial technology company that utilizes alternative data, machine learning, and deep neural networks to provide auto loans for a wide spectrum of borrowers, announced recently that they raised $345 million in a combination of $45 million in equity funding and $300 million in a forward flow facility. Group 1001 led the funding round with participation from existing investors including, 83North, O.G. Venture Partners, and MUFG Innovation Partners.

Mitiga: Strategic Investment Received From Cisco Investments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2023

Mitiga - a cloud and SaaS incident response leader - recently announced that Cisco Investments has made a strategic investment in the company. These are the details.

Swag Golf: Golf Equipment And Apparel Company Closes $10 Million In Funding

By Annie Baker ● Oct 11, 2023

Swag Golf - a leading premium, limited-edition golf accessory, equipment, and apparel company - recently announced it has closed a $10 million growth round led by Verance Capital.

Smileyscope: Immersive Digital Therapeutics Company Raises Seed Round

By Noah Long ● Oct 11, 2023

Smileyscope - a global pioneer in immersive digital therapeutics - recently announced the successful closing of its seed prime round. The funding round included investments from Breakthrough Victoria, Ten13, Alice Anderson Fund and MedAngels. This funding round will enable Smileyscope to grow its clinical-stage pipeline, and rapidly expand across the health systems in the United States and Australia.

Paytient Launches Platform To Expand Suite Of Health Plan Affordability Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2023

Paytient recently announced the launch of their Paytient Health platform to expand their suite of health plan affordability solutions for employers and their employees to save money on care and pharmaceuticals.

Clearco: $60 Million In Series D Raised And Recapitalization Announced

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2023

Toronto-based fintech company Clearco recently announced the completion of multiple actions to recapitalize its business and solidify its position as the leading provider of growth capital to e-commerce businesses.

rabbit: Consumer Hardware And Foundation Model Research Company Closes $20 Million

By Annie Baker ● Oct 11, 2023

Rabbit - an AI company focusing on consumer hardware and foundation model research - recently announced that it had raised a $20 million round led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from existing investors, including Synergis Capital, and strategic partners, including Kakao Investment. The funding round will be used to scale the company's engineering and product development efforts and prepare for its hardware launch early next year.

Impact Capital Acquires Majority Stake In JUNKLESS

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2023

Impact Capital - the Private Equity group of Mike Repole’s family office - recently announced it had acquired a majority stake in JUNKLESS Foods.

Why HITS Corporation Is Acquiring 5i Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2023

HITS Corporation - a leading provider of information technology services and management - recently announced it is accelerating growth with the acquisition of 5i Solutions in Indianapolis. 5i Solutions offers expertise in transforming digital chaos into streamlined systems.

PAXON Energy: This Leader In Quality And Building Infrastructure Has Grown Over 22,000% In The Last Few Years

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2023

PAXON Energy & Infrastructure is a fast-growing engineering professional services firm in the energy sector. Our proprietary process and business model, coupled with our nationally experienced execution team, allows PAXON to act as a strategic and operational partner for our clients throughout the entire value chain. Pulse 2.0 interviewed PAXON Energy CEO Nooshin Behroyan to learn more.

Lineaje: Offering Continuous Software Supply Chain Security Management In A $3 Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2023

Lineaje is a company that provides Continuous Software Supply Chain Security Management to companies that build, buy or use software. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Lineaje co-founder and CEO Javed Hasan to learn more.

Valencell: Incorporating Digital Health Solutions To Prevent And Manage Chronic Diseases

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2023

Rantizo: Spray Drone Services Company Secures Over $6 Million

By Annie Baker ● Oct 11, 2023

Rantizo - a leading operator network for spray drone services - recently announced an expansion of its oversubscribed Series A funding round. The funding round - led by Leaps by Bayer, with Fulcrum Global Capital and Innova Memphis - will enable the new executive team to lean into a new growth strategy for Rantizo.

Daash Intelligence: Retail Market Predictive Intelligence Platform Company Raises $2.75 Million

By Dan Anderson ● Oct 11, 2023

Daash Intelligence, a predictive retail market platform, recently announced closing its $2.75 million seed investment round. Silicon Road Ventures led the funding round with New Stack Ventures, with participation from Red Bike Capital, Willow Growth Partners and OpenSky Ventures. First developed within incubator 100.co, Daash notches a significant milestone with this funding as it aims to transform the commerce intelligence industry through targeting eCommerce, brick & mortar, and direct-to-consumer (DTC) channels.

TRG Screen Receives Strategic Growth Investment From Vista Equity Partners

By Noah Long ● Oct 11, 2023

TRG Screen - a leading provider of enterprise subscription spend and usage management software - recently announced a strategic growth investment from Vista Equity Partners, a leading global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled businesses. TRG Screen is going to use the capital to accelerate product innovation, talent, and go-to-market functions to meet the growing demand for transparency, compliance, and control of market data and information consumption.

Jingle: $2.9 Million Closed To Enable Local Stores To Go Mobile

By Noah Long ● Oct 11, 2023

Jingle - a platform that enables local stores to go mobile, connect with consumers directly, and do their own deliveries - recently announced that Bessemer Venture Partners has joined its seed round, totaling the amount raised to $2.9 million. Other participants of the round are angel investors.

Akura Medical: $35 Million Raised To Address The Challenges Of Venous Thromboembolism

By Dan Anderson ● Oct 11, 2023

Akura Medical - a Shifamed portfolio company focused on a differentiated approach to effectively address the major challenges of venous thromboembolism (VTE) - recently announced the closing of its $35 million Series B financing. The funding round will be used to apply for FDA 510(k) clearance for the Akura Mechanical Thrombectomy Platform, support clinical trials for additional indications, and scale manufacturing capabilities.

Relocalize: Food & Beverage Industry Autonomous Micro-Factory Company Raises $2.5 Million

By Noah Long ● Oct 11, 2023

Relocalize - the developer of the world's first autonomous micro-factory for the food & beverage industry - recently announced that it has raised US$2.5 million in the initial closing of a US$3.5 million seed round led by i4 Capital and Waterpoint Lane.

Stampli: Accounts Payable Automation Solution Company Raises $61 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2023

Stampli - a leader in AI-powered accounts payable automation - recently announced that it has raised $61 million in a Series D venture funding round led by funds managed by Blackstone, with the participation of existing investors Insight Partners, SignalFire, Bloomberg Beta, and NextWorld Capital. This funding round takes the total amount raised by the company to over $148 million.