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Crosslake Technologies, a data-driven technology advisory service for private equity firms and their portfolio companies, announced the acquisition of Lucen Partners, a boutique advisory firm specializing in product and software advisory services for private equity-backed technology companies. The terms were undisclosed.

Simon Quick Advisors, a national independent wealth management and multi-family office firm, announced the acquisition of Proquility Private Wealth Partners, a boutique advisory firm with deep client relationships nationwide and decades of planning expertise. This deal reflects Simon Quick's values-driven approach to growth, which prioritizes cultural alignment and vision in every partnership.

Joby Aviation, a company that is developing electric air taxis for commercial passenger service, announced the closing of the first $250 million tranche of a previously announced strategic investment from Toyota. This funding marks a significant milestone in strengthening the long-term collaboration between the two companies and supports their shared vision for the future of air mobility.

SemperVirens Venture Capital, a venture firm investing in companies shaping the future of health, wealth, and work, announced the launch of the SemperVirens Accelerator — which is a founder-focused initiative designed to help early-stage startups sharpen their distribution strategy, connect with industry leaders, and scale faster by engaging directly with commercial decision makers across healthcare, benefits and work ecosystems.

Interactly AI announced the closing of a pre-seed funding round to support the growth of its multimodal AI platform for healthcare administration. Nava Davuluri (CEO) and Shiva Chaitanya (CTO) co-founded Interactly AI to address the pressing challenges of healthcare administration by streamlining both front- and back-office workflows, empowering providers to deliver more efficient and patient-focused care.

Portless, a U.S.-based global e-commerce fulfillment company, announced the closing of its latest funding round at $18 million. The funding round was led by Commerce Ventures, with participation from eGateway Capital, Ground Up Ventures, and FJ Labs. This funding will advance Portless's mission to transform the direct-to-consumer (DTC) industry by addressing critical pain points for U.S. and European brands navigating rising tariffs, regulatory changes, and supply chain inefficiencies.

KKR and Manipal Education and Medical Group (MEMG), a major diversified conglomerate in India, announced a $600 million financing arranged by KKR Capital Markets and anchored by KKR’s private credit and insurance platforms for the Manipal Group. This investment will enable the Manipal Group to accelerate its corporate expansion and growth objectives by providing flexible and structured capital matched to its long-term strategic needs.

MFV Partners, a deep technology venture capital firm, announced the launch of Harper Court Ventures Fund I, a new $25 million early-stage fund focused on identifying, investing in, and scaling transformative startups from the University of Chicago ecosystem. Harper Court Ventures Fund I will focus on pre-seed and seed-stage companies that utilize breakthrough research and innovation originating from UChicago labs, the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation's comprehensive programs, faculty and student ventures, and the extensive UChicago alumni network.

R1 (an industry leader in managing and intelligently automating healthcare revenue management with over 20 years of experience) announced an investment from Khosla Ventures. The funding follows the launch of R37, R1’s enterprise-grade AI lab developed in partnership with Palantir, which is dedicated to strengthening the financial health of providers through core agentic AI applications.

Unbound announced it has raised $4 million. This oversubscribed seed round was led by Race Capital, with participation from Wayfinder Ventures, Y Combinator, Massive Tech Ventures. The round also included Alpha Square Group, Northside Ventures, Liquid2, Pioneer Fund, Scale Asia Ventures, SBXI and notable angels including Ram Shriram (founding board member at Google), Dr. Trishan Panch (CSO LuminHealth), Dr. John Brownstein (Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children’s hospital), Taro Fukuyama (CEO, Fond), Eli Brown (CEO, Guilded, acquired by Roblox), Chris Siakos (CEO Sinefa, acquired by Palo Alto Networks), Joe Vadakkan (CISO, Ex- CRO), Zain Rizavi (Cloudflare, Ridge VC), Finbarr Taylor (CEO, Shogun) alongside other silicon valley and cybersecurity veterans.

LLR Partners announced a strategic growth investment in TruTechnologies, a provider of real-time clinical trial oversight. LLR’s growth capital and value creation resources will be dedicated to helping TruTechnologies’ expansion as it transforms how pharmaceutical companies, together with clinical research organizations and research sites, oversee, monitor, and manage biological samples and study workflows throughout the clinical trial lifecycle.

EOG Resources announced a definitive agreement with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP) and Encino Energy under which EOG will acquire Encino Acquisition Partners (EAP) for $5.6 billion, inclusive of EAP's net debt. And EOG currently expects to fund the acquisition through $3.5 billion of debt and $2.1 billion of cash on hand.

TicketManager, a leader in event ticket and guest management solutions for the corporate enterprise, announced Valeas Capital Partners (a growth-oriented private-equity firm) has acquired a majority stake in the company. Under the terms of the deal, Valeas is committing $110 million to support TicketManager’s strategic growth plans. TicketManager Co-Founder and CEO Tony Knopp and COO Ken Hanscom will retain a minority interest in the company.

EssilorLuxottica and MidEuropa announced that they have agreed for EssilorLuxottica to acquire Optegra, a fast-growing and highly integrated ophthalmology platform operating in five key European markets: the UK, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, and the Netherlands.

WiseTech, a developer of leading logistics execution software CargoWise, announced it has entered into a binding agreement to acquire U.S.-based E2open, a leading provider of SaaS-based solutions in the global logistics value chain, for $3.30 per share in cash, equating to an enterprise value of $2.1 billion. This deal will be fully debt-funded from a new syndicated debt facility and is subject to certain customary conditions precedent.

Rillet, an AI-native ERP (enterprise resource planning) platform, announced $25 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital. This funding round includes existing investors First Round Capital, Creandum, Susa Ventures and top angels, such as former NetSuite CFO, Ron Gill and Lee Kirkpatrick, former Twilio CFO.

Gebbia Media (a subsidiary of Siebert Financial) announced that it has acquired Big Machine Rock, the rock imprint of Big Machine Label Group - which has played a significant role in shaping the future of modern rock. This deal marks a bold new chapter in Gebbia Media's rapid ascent within the music and media industries, where it is focused on creating an artist-first platform that blends creative storytelling with strategic investment. Big Machine Rock's current roster includes Daughtry, Badflower, Sammy Hagar, Olive Vox, and Ryan Perdz, and others.

EnduroSat, a leading provider of satellite constellations-as-a-service, today announced a €43 million investment led by Founders Fund.

AECOM - a trusted global infrastructure leader - announced that it has been awarded an Optimized Remediation Contract (ORC) by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Los Angeles District to provide environmental remediation services at Vandenberg Space Force Base on California’s Central Coast. And the 10-year $81.3-million single award is one of the most significant optimized remediation contracts awarded by the USACE Los Angeles District, reinforcing AECOM’s position as a trusted partner in delivering mission-critical solutions.

Haber is a company with a mission to help industries become sustainable by converting data to actionable intelligence. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Haber co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Priya Venkat to learn more about the company.  

Clear Current, which is the first AI platform to offer a comprehensive virtual energy manager for enterprise businesses, announced it has secured over $4 million in an oversubscribed Seed Round. Rho Ignition led the round, with participation from Coreline Ventures and Avesta Fund.

Strive Asset Management and Asset Entities announced the signing of a $750 million private investment in public equity (PIPE), with an additional $750 million in potential financing available upon the exercise of warrants, which could increase total potential proceeds to $1.5 billion. Upon the closing of the deals, the proceeds are expected to support the company's first wave of Bitcoin acquisitions, to set up Strive Asset Management as the first Bitcoin treasury company focused on long-term Bitcoin outperformance through the implementation of alpha-generating strategies along with the company's plans to implement known beta strategies used by incumbent Bitcoin treasury corporations.

Pallet, which is the company behind CoPallet, the AI workforce for logistics, announced a $27 million Series B round led by General Catalyst, with continued support from Bain Capital Ventures, Activant Capital, and Bessemer Venture Partners. Dan Lewis (CPO at Microsoft, co-founder at Convoy), Amit Agarwal (former President at Datadog), Girish Rishi (former CEO at BlueYonder), Michael Capellas (former CEO at Compaq), Matt McKinney (CEO at Loop), and Aatish Nayak (Head of Product at Harvey) participated in this funding round.

Blues, an Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity solutions company, announced the closing of its latest $25 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Blues has previously raised $66 million in funding.

Quadria Capital, an Asia-based healthcare-focused private equity firm, announced the final closing of Fund III, with total commitments of $1.07 billion, significantly exceeding its original target of $800 million.

MariaDB announced the acquisition of Codership Oy, a Finnish-based company, and its flagship product, Galera Cluster, a powerful high-availability database solution that provides high uptime, no data loss, and scalability for database growth. With this deal, the core Galera team and its founders will join MariaDB, enhancing the company’s European engineering and technical support team.

Arcadea Group, an investor in global software companies, announced the acquisition of Intuitive Care, a leading provider of revenue cycle management services to the Brazilian healthcare industry. And this partnership marks a significant milestone in Intuitive Care’s growth journey, positioning the company for success while maintaining its commitment to innovation and excellence in healthcare financial operations.

Simi Capital Group, a real estate investment firm specializing in various equity and debt strategies, founded by Andrew Skydell and Jacob Diamond, has announced the acquisition of a coveted industrial portfolio in Miami, Florida, for $31 million.