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DataBlend: iPaaS Provider Company Raises Seed Funding Round

By Annie Baker ● Sep 28, 2023

DataBlend - a leading finance-focused Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) provider - recently announced that it raised seed funding led by FreshTracks Capital and The Dudley Fund. And DataBlend founder Ethan Carlson noted that investors from Vermont joined the company's mission to provide secure and stress-free data integrations for finance and accounting professionals. And as a native of Vermont, Carlson finds it exciting to see the local investment community supporting his company's vision.

HealNow: $5.5 Million Secured To Bring Modern Solutions To Pharmacies And Their Patients

By Noah Long ● Sep 28, 2023

HealNow recently announced a $5.5 million seed round led by Bonfire Ventures. And additional investors participating in the round include Walkabout Ventures, Remarkable Ventures, Alabama Futures Fund, Impulsum Ventures and a number of prominent fintech and healthcare investors.

Cecilian Partners: Proptech Company Closes $11 Million In Series A

By Annie Baker ● Sep 28, 2023

Cecilian Partners - a leading proptech firm providing end-to-end digital solutions for home builders and land developers - recently announced that it has raised $11 million in its first institutional equity round led by Resolve Growth Partners. And Cecilian plans to use the growth funding to accelerate product innovation, expand headcount in critical areas, and continue developing the industry's most client-centric customer success team.

Harbinger Motors: Commercial Electric Vehicle Company Secures $60 Million

By Annie Baker ● Sep 28, 2023

Harbinger Motors - a Southern California-based automotive manufacturer - recently announced it has secured $60 million in Series A funding from a diverse consortium of investors led by Ridgeline and THOR Industries. Along with Greycroft, Harbinger is also excited to welcome new investors Riverstone Holdings, Acequia Capital, and Squarepoint Capital as contributors to Harbinger's Series A through deeply-rooted energy, sustainability, transport, and infrastructure-focused investment funds. And each of these investors shares a commitment to sustainability through mobility transformation.

Enko: Designing Safe And Sustainable Solutions For Crops In A $60 Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 28, 2023

Enko is a company that designs safe and sustainable solutions to farmers’ biggest crop threats today, from pest resistance to new diseases. By applying the latest drug discovery and development approaches from pharma to plants, Enko is bringing an innovation model to agriculture and meeting farmers’ evolving needs. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Enko Chem CEO and Founder Jacqueline Heard to learn more.

Merchants Fleet: How This Company Offers Flexible Funding And Services For Utilizing Vehicles To Run Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 28, 2023

Merchants Fleet is a rapidly growing fleet management company that provides flexible funding and service options for organizations that utilize vehicles to run their operations. Merchants Fleet offers comprehensive and customizable fleet solutions, serving as a single source for all vehicle needs. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Merchants Fleet Chairman, CEO, and President Brendan P. Keegan to learn more.

Radix: A Mission To Transform Decision-Making Processes By Offering Teams Data Visualization Tools

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 28, 2023

Radix Technologies aims to change how the industry makes decisions by equipping teams with real-time data and visualization tools that produce reliable and insightful market trends. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Radix Technologies chief marketing officer Nadav Avni to learn more.

TimelyCare: Offering Complete Clinical Care At More Than 300 Campuses

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 28, 2023

TimelyCare is a company that provides complete clinical care, advanced technology, and expert guidance to improve college students’ physical and mental health. And as the leading virtual health and well-being solution for students,TimelyCare provides a comprehensive virtual solution that expands the breadth of campus resources and empowers students to be well and thrive. Pulse 2.0 interviewed TimelyCare CEO and co-founder Luke Hejl to learn more.

Centinel: How This Financial Firm Assists Families And Businesses Accumulate Wealth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 28, 2023

Centinel Financial Group is a select team of financial advisors and professionals with backgrounds in finance, business, insurance and investments. And many individuals, families and businesses have chosen to work with Centinel Financial Group for the relationships and trust that they build. With a team of more than 70 advisors and representatives, Centinel Financial Group assists individuals, families and businesses in the accumulation and protection of their wealth. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Centinel Financial Group financial advisor Greg Fortier to learn more.

Magentiq Eye: Offering A Sophisticated AI-Aided Colonoscopy Solution In Over A $1 Billion ARR Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 28, 2023

Magentiq Eye is a company that offers an AI-aided colonoscopy solution that offers one of the best performances known today. And with worldwide recognition from the gastroenterology community, and dozens of procedures performed every day with the assistance of MAGENTIQ-COLO, MAGENTIQ-EYE is setting the new standard of colonoscopy, and saving more and more lives. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Magentiq Eye CEO Dr. Dror Zur to learn more.

Swing Education: Connecting Substitute Teachers With Schools In Need

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 28, 2023

Swing Education is a company that connects high-quality substitute teachers with schools in need. The company recruits, screens, and supports a large group of substitute teachers, and they make it easy for schools to find the right sub at the right time. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Swing Education co-CEO and co-founder Mike Teng to learn more.

Zadara: This IaaS Company Simplifies Cloud Operational Complexity In A $482 Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 28, 2023

Zadara, the company behind the Edge Cloud Platform, simplifies operational complexity through automated end-to-end infrastructure provisioning of compute, storage, and network resources. To learn more, Pulse 2.0 interviewed Zadara President and CEO Yoram Novick.

Black Salmon: The Story Behind This $2.1 Billion Real Estate Firm

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 28, 2023

Black Salmon is a real estate investment and development firm that is focused on multifamily, industrial, hospitality and mixed-use opportunities in the United States. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Black Salmon managing director Stephen Evans to learn more.

Bessemer Venture Partners Expanding Growth Stage Team Across Europe

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 28, 2023

Bessemer Venture Partners works with audacious founders at every stage of the entrepreneurial journey and the firm invests all over the world, wherever great founders are building.

Correcto: Spanish Grammar Writing Tool Company Raises $7 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 28, 2023

Correcto - the first and only real-time AI-based writing tool for Spanish - is providing a way to help Spanish speakers communicate in writing with confidence: correcting spelling, grammar, and usage including explanations of why something should be fixed. And the company also announced its $7 million seed funding.

Luge Capital: CA$71 Million First Close Of Second Fund Completed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 28, 2023

Luge Capital recently announced that it has raised CA$71 million in the first close of its second fund, Luge Capital Fund II, towards an ultimate fund size of $100 million. And the LPs in Fund II include returning investors CDPQ, Desjardins, BDC Capital, Sun Life, Industrial Alliance Financial Group (iA), Fonds de solidarité FTQ, and new investor Inovia Discovery Fund I.

BioLoomics: $8.7 Million Raised To Drive Directed Evolution Of Target Degrading Antibodies Using Human Cells

By Noah Long ● Sep 28, 2023

BioLoomics, the company pioneering the directed evolution of target degrading antibodies using human cells, recently announced it has raised $8.7 million in seed financing to advance its proprietary platform technology and antibody degrader programs. The round was led by Innovation Endeavors, with participation from Horizons Ventures, TechU Ventures, Boom Capital Ventures, Hummingbird Nomads Fund, Cooley GC&H, BoxOne Ventures and Viswa Colluru (Enveda founder).

Yurts: Enterprise-Ready Generative AI Platform Company Secures $16 Million

By Annie Baker ● Sep 27, 2023

Yurts - an enterprise-ready Generative AI platform - recently announced a $16 million Series A to support its acceleration into the market. This oversubscribed funding round was led by Nava Ventures, with additional investments from XYZ Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Mango Capital, and Essence VC.

Why Knowles Is Buying Cornell Dubilier For $263 Million

By Dan Anderson ● Sep 27, 2023

Knowles Corporation - a leading global supplier of high-performance components and solutions, including ceramic capacitors and radio frequency (RF) filters, advanced medtech microphones, and balanced armature speakers and audio solutions - recently announced strategic actions to accelerate its transformation to an industrial technology company focused on higher growth and higher value opportunities. Knowles has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cornell Dubilier (CD) in an all-cash transaction.

Virtual Incision: Miniaturized Robotic-Assisted Surgery System Company Closes $30 Million

By Annie Baker ● Sep 27, 2023

Virtual Incision - the developer of the world’s first miniaturized robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) system - recently announced a $30 million extension to its previous $46 million Series C financing. This funding round was led by current investors Bluestem Capital, Endeavour Vision, Baird Capital, cultivate(MD) Capital Funds, PrairieGold Venture Partners, and new health-tech investors Arboretum Ventures and InVivium Capital.

Tabular: Data Platform Company Receives $26 Million In Funding

By Dan Anderson ● Sep 27, 2023

Tabular - the provider of the only independent data platform based on Apache Iceberg- recently announced it has closed a $26M funding round, bringing the total investment in the company to $37 million. This funding round was led by Altimeter Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, who led the previous funding round, and Zetta Venture Partners.

Why indie Semiconductor Is Buying EXALOS For $45 Million

By Annie Baker ● Sep 27, 2023

indie Semiconductor - an autotech solutions company - recently announced it has entered into a definitive agreement and completed the acquisition of privately held EXALOS AG, a Swiss photonics company specializing in the design of high-performance optical semiconductors.

Boston Scientific To Buy Relievant Medsystems For Over $850 Million: Details

By Noah Long ● Sep 27, 2023

Boston Scientific recently announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Relievant Medsystems. These are the details.

Johnson Financial Group To Buy The Appleton Group

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 27, 2023

Johnson Financial Group (JFG) recently announced they have signed an agreement to acquire The Appleton Group, a registered investment advisor with $210 million in assets under management (AUM) based in Appleton, Wisconsin, at the end of this month.

Giftpack: Global Corporate Gifting Company Completes Seed Round, Bringing Total Raised To $4.3 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 27, 2023

Giftpack AI - a leading AI-powered corporate gifting platform - recently announced the completion of a seed round led by Chang Hai Lin, bringing the total raised to $4.3 million.

Cognota: LearnOps Platform Closes $5.5 Million In Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 27, 2023

Cognota - a LearnOps platform that facilitates corporate learning and development teams to manage end-to-end operations and measure ROI - announced today the closing of $5.5 million USD in Series A funding.

Slope: Enterprise B2B Payments Platform Company Raises $30 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 27, 2023

Slope - a B2B payments platform for enterprise companies - recently announced a $30 million equity round led by Union Square Ventures, with major participation from OpenAI’s Sam Altman. This brings Slope's combined equity and debt funding to $187 million.

Socure: 3-Year Revenue Growth Hits 376% And New CFO Announced

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 27, 2023

Socure - a leading provider of digital identity verification and fraud solutions - recently announced that it has achieved 376% revenue growth from 2019 to 2022, and the company appointed seasoned technology leader Aaron Barfoot as the company's new Chief Financial Officer to help drive Socure’s next phase of hypergrowth.

Pliable: $2.5 Million Secured To Simplify The Organization Of Data

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 27, 2023

Pliable - an AI-powered SaaS platform that simplifies organizing and utilizing data without an engineer - recently announced that it launched out of stealth with a $2.5 million seed round led by Resolute Ventures, including participation from CEAS, Counterview Capital and other investors.

Medius: Linking Invoice, Processing, And Payment To Manage Accounts Payable In Over A $2.5 Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 27, 2023

Medius is a company that links invoice capture, processing, and payment to replace the worry and wondering of managing AP with calm and confidence. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Medius CEO Jim Lucier to learn more.