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Take Command: Personalized Health Benefits Company Raises $25 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 26, 2023

Take Command - a Dallas-based SaaS platform and leader in the rapidly growing employer sponsored, personalized health benefits space - recently announced it secured $25 million in growth stage financing led by growth equity investor Edison Partners, with participation from current investors LiveOak Venture Partners and SJF Ventures.

Gather AI: This Company Uses Drone-Powered Inventory Monitoring Solutions To Improve Warehouse Visibility

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 26, 2023

Gather AI is the world leading autonomous inventory management company. Their solution uses autonomous commodity drones and artificial intelligence (AI) software to automate inventory monitoring for warehouse operators to decrease inventory costs, improve productivity, and boost revenue. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Gather AI Vice President of Customer Success Sean Mitchell to learn more.

BoxHero: How This Inventory Management Solution Is Improving A $5 Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 26, 2023

Meet Nellie Wartoft: The CEO Who Developed A Platform Revolutionizing Talent Development In A $370 Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 26, 2023

Tigerhall is a social learning platform that provides professional learners with a genuinely personalized and engaging experience, unlike traditional corporate learning programs or LMSs. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Tigerhall founder and CEO Nellie Wartoft to learn more.

Harmonix: A Venture Firm Investing In Data-Driven Healthcare And Life Science Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 26, 2023

Harmonix is a venture capital firm that is investing in data-driven platform companies at the nexus of healthcare, life sciences, and critical infrastructure (deep tech). Pulse 2.0 interviewed Harmonix founder and general partner Maximilian Winter to learn more.

Irrigreen: How This Company Saves Billions Of Gallons Of Water

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 26, 2023

Irrigation is considered the biggest use of household water in the U.S. at nine billion gallons every day. And half of this water is wasted by inefficient irrigation systems that overlap and spray on sidewalks and streets. Irrigreen is a company that designs and manufactures a sprinkler system that uses software-controlled precision sprinkler heads to deliver water uniformly across your landscape and reduce unnecessary water usage. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Irrigreen CEO Shane Dyer to learn more.

Ceramic King Coatings: This Company Offers Advanced Exterior Automotive Protection Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 26, 2023

Ceramic King Coatings is a company that offers auto detailing services, professionally installed Icon Rocklear coatings, and DIY ceramic coatings products. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Ceramic King Coatings founder Leland Jones to learn more.

Dragonfly Energy Successfully Uses Lithium Hydroxide From Aqua Metals To Manufacture Battery Cells

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2023

Dragonfly Energy (the maker of Battle Born Batteries and an industry leader in energy storage), in collaboration with Aqua Metals (a pioneer in sustainable lithium battery recycling), has successfully used high-purity lithium hydroxide that recovered by Aqua Metals from recycled lithium-ion batteries to manufacture a lithium-based battery cell using Dragonfly Energy’s patented dry battery electrode coating technology.

Amazon To Invest Up To $4 Billion In Anthropic

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2023

Anthropic announced that online retail giant Amazon is going to invest up to $4 billion in the AI research startup company. This agreement is part of a broader collaboration to develop the industry's most reliable and high-performing foundation models. Our frontier safety research and products, together with Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) expertise in running secure, reliable infrastructure, will make Anthropic’s safe AI widely accessible to AWS customers.

Why Acceldata Is Buying AI Platform Company Bewgle

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2023

Acceldata – a market leader in enterprise data observability – recently announced that it has acquired Bewgle, a cutting-edge AI platform to expand its enterprise data observability capabilities into AI and large language models (LLMs).

Ventus: Building Better Respiratory Protection for Military and Law Enforcement In A $2+ Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2023

Ventus Respiratory Technologies is dedicated to delivering a new standard of respiratory protection to the military, law enforcement, first responders, and related sectors across the globe. The company has created the only fully CE-certified particulate respirator of its kind, designed to provide maximum breathability without hindering job performance. Furthermore, it seamlessly integrates with existing protective systems. To delve deeper into this innovation, Pulse 2.0 interviewed the CEO of Ventus Respiratory Technologies, Arjun Grewal, to learn more.

Liquid Instruments: Delivering Test And Measurement Solutions That Provide Advanced Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2023

Liquid Instruments is a company that delivers modern, software-defined test and measurement solutions that provide advanced capabilities, a great user experience, and custom programmability for maximum flexibility and performance in a range of applications. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Liquid Instruments CEO Daniel Shaddock to learn more.

Acies: This Built A Rapidly Growing No-Code Platform In A $25+ Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2023

Acies is known as a leading multinational firm in the technology and advisory space. The company strives to provide practical and tangible outcomes rooted in using new-generation technologies and applications. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Acies Head - Strategy, Finance, and Operations and Co-founder Muzammil Patel to learn more.

Brainlabs: Major Investment Secured From Falfurrias Capital

By Annie Baker ● Sep 25, 2023

Brainlabs recently announced that it has secured major investment from private equity firm, Falfurrias Capital Partners (FCP). This partnership reinforces the success of the independent agency’s high-performance approach to media - which has seen it deliver measurable, profitable and sustainable business impact to clients worldwide, powered by data and technology.

Practus: How This Global Management Consulting Firm Helps Clients Achieve ROI Multiples

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2023

Practus is a global management consulting practice that has delivered over $200 million in ROI to over 1,000 clients ranging from funded startups to Fortune 500 companies through their CFO office, business transformation services, and performance improvements. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Practus Chief Business Officer - North America Graham Kitching to learn more.

Salt Security: Providing End-To-End API Security To Help Businesses Accelerate Digital Transformation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2023

Salt Security is a company that provides end-to-end API security so businesses can innovate safely and accelerate digital transformation initiatives. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Salt Security Executive Vice President of Product Ori Bach to learn more.

Revenue Grid: How This Revenue Intelligence Platform Helps Businesses Grow At Scale

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2023

Revenue Grid is a revenue intelligence platform that helps businesses identify and fix revenue leaks to grow revenue at scale. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Revenue Grid CEO and co-founder Vlad Voskresensky to learn more.

Indxx: A Leading Index Provider Offering Innovative Solutions To The Investment Industry At Large

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2023

Indxx is a company that endeavors to deliver innovative solutions to the investment management community at large, ranging from end-to-end indexing solutions to index services and technology products. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Indxx President and Co-CEO Rahul Sen Sharma to learn more.

Datadobi: Discussion With Michael Jack About Illegal Data Within Business Environments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2023

In a recent interview, Pulse 2.0 had the pleasure of conversing with Michael Jack, the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and Co-Founder of Datadobi, a trailblazing company offering vendor-neutral unstructured data management and movement solutions. And the focus of the discussion revolved around the escalating issue of illegal data within business environments, a subject of tremendous importance and relevance in today's data-driven world.

ZeroFox: Delivering Proactive External Cybersecurity To Dismantle Adversaries

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2023

ZeroFox, an enterprise software-as-a-service leader in external cybersecurity, provides full-spectrum threat intelligence, protection, and response solutions to help organizations expose and disrupt attacks that occur daily across the social media and digital landscape. Pulse 2.0 interviewed ZeroFox CEO and Chairman James Foster to learn more.

Hippocratic AI: This Company Is Building A Safety-Focused LLM To Improve Healthcare

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2023

Hippocratic AI is a company that is building a safety-focused large language model (LLM) for the healthcare industry. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Hippocratic AI CEO and co-founder Munjal Shah to learn more.

Proceptual: CEO And Founder John Rood On Using AI For Hiring

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2023

Proceptual is a company that provides compliance solutions for emerging regulations of automated hiring systems and AI. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Proceptual founder and CEO John Rood to learn more.

Tredence: How This Company Solves The Last Mile Problem In AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2023

Tredence is a global data science solutions provider that is focused on solving the last-mile problem in AI. The “last mile” is the gap between insight creation and value realization. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Tredence CEO and co-founder Shub Bhowmick to learn more.

Leverage Shares: Democratizing Investor Access to Innovative Investment Strategies on Global Exchanges

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2023

Leverage Shares’ innovative exchange-traded products (ETPs) have disrupted the leveraged and non-leveraged product space in the EU and UK by bringing transparency and access. To learn more, Pulse 2.0 interviewed Oktay Kavrak, CFA, Director of Product Strategy at Leverage Shares to find out more about the evolution of their firm, their unique positioning, and what is to come from a leading issuer on the LSE.

FERNRIDE: $50 Million Secured To Advance Autonomous Yard Trucking

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2023

FERNRIDE - a Germany-based autonomous trucking innovator - recently announced that it has closed a further $19 million in its Series A funding. This pushed the total round amount to $50 million.

Nanofiber Quantum: Fiber Connectable Computing Hardware Company Raises $8.5 Million

By Annie Baker ● Sep 24, 2023

Nanofiber Quantum Technologies recently announced that it has raised $8.5 million from leading venture capital investors. And Phoenix Venture Partners (PvP) in the US, JAFCO Group Co Ltd, SPARX Group Co Ltd, Keio Innovation Initiative, Inc. (KII), and Waseda University Ventures (WUV) financed the round through convertible notes.

Kettering University: Over 70 High School Robotics Teams Competing At Annual Kickoff Event

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 24, 2023

Kettering University became the center of the robotics universe this weekend when it hosted the annual Kettering Kickoff. Over 70 FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) high school teams from Michigan, Illinois and Ohio have registered to compete in the two-day event.

Bevz: $3.1 Million Closed To Support Convenience Stores

By Annie Baker ● Sep 24, 2023

Bevz - a leading Software as a Service (SaaS) platform for independently operated and small chain liquor/convenience stores - recently announced it raised $3.1 million in funding. The recent funding round will go towards increased sales and marketing efforts, national expansion, ongoing product development, and additional customer success resources.

Catalyte: $1.5 Million Raised To Discover And Develop High-Potential Talent

By Annie Baker ● Sep 23, 2023

Catalyte recently announced it closed $1.5 million in funding from Green Street Impact Partners, a leading ed-tech private equity fund.

Boxbot: $12 Million Closed To Build Vertical Automation Solution To Sort Packages for Last-Mile Carriers

By Dan Anderson ● Sep 23, 2023

Boxbot - a vertical automation solution that sorts and stores packages for last-mile carriers - recently announced a $12 million Series A round led by Playground Global. Maersk Growth (the venture arm of A.P. Moller), Toyota Ventures, Pear Ventures, and Artiman Ventures also participated in the round - which brings the company’s total funding to $29.5 million.