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Silverfort: Identity Protection Company Secures $116 Million In Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 23, 2024

Silverfort - a leading identity protection company - recently announced $116 million in series D funding, bringing the total amount raised to $222 million. Brighton Park Capital (BPC) led the funding round, with participation from existing investors, including Acrew Capital, Greenfield Partners, Citi Ventures, General Motors Ventures, Maor Investments, Vintage Investment Partners, and Singtel Innov8.

Elephas Biosciences: Oncology Imaging Diagnostics Platform Company Raises $55 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 23, 2024

Elephas Biosciences announced today that it has raised $55 million in Series C funding. Venture Investors Health Fund and State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) led the round.

Visit Group: Hospitality Software Solutions Company Raises Over €100 Million

By Annie Baker ● Jan 23, 2024

Visit Group - a market-leading Nordic-based hospitality and travel software company - recently announced more than €100 million in strategic growth investment from PSG Equity (“PSG”), a leading growth equity firm partnering with software and technology-enabled services companies to help accelerate their growth. PSG is acquiring a majority stake in the company.

EMPEQ Raises Funding From Leonid Capital Partners

By Annie Baker ● Jan 23, 2024

Leonid Capital Partners - a leading provider of alternative financing solutions for US Defense contractors - recently announced a strategic investment in EMPEQ, a technology company tackling critical National Security challenges through advanced materials analysis.

Why Deloitte Is Buying The Assets Of Giant Machines

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 23, 2024

Deloitte announced that it had acquired substantially all of the assets of Giant Machines, a digital product company based in New York City. The Giant Machines business focuses on strategizing, designing, and engineering innovative digital products, and will help bolster Deloitte Digital and Deloitte Engineering capabilities to offer clients a robust suite of services to deliver strategic and scaled engineering solutions.

XGS Energy: Geothermal Energy Technology Company Raises $9.7 Million

By Annie Baker ● Jan 23, 2024

XGS Energy - an innovator in next-generation geothermal energy technology - announced that it has raised an additional $9.7 million.

TPG Investing $228 Million In Sayari

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 23, 2024

Sayari (a counterparty and supply chain risk intelligence provider trusted by government agencies, multinational corporations, and financial institutions) and TPG (a global alternative asset management firm) announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for TPG Growth, the firm’s middle market and growth equity platform, to make an up to $228 million strategic majority investment in Sayari. And Sayari’s founders, employees, and existing investors will retain a significant stake in the company.

Daytrip: Global Travel Platform Company Secures $10 Million

By Annie Baker ● Jan 23, 2024

Daytrip - a global travel platform providing private door-to-door car transfers in over 110 countries worldwide - recently announced the closing of a Series B investment led by Taiwania Capital, with participation from existing investors Euroventures, J&T Ventures, and N1.

S2 Genomics: Tissue Sample Preparation Company Raises Series A

By Noah Long ● Jan 23, 2024

S2 Genomics - a leading manufacturer of tissue sample preparation systems for single-cell genomics assays - announced today that it has raised $16 million in Series A funding from BroadOak Capital Partners and Research Corporation Technologies (RCT).

ModernFi: $18.7 Million Secured To Help Financial Institutions Grow And Manage Deposits

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 23, 2024

ModernFi announced today that it has closed an $18.7 million Series A funding round to bring its tech-forward platform to community and regional banks to help them grow, retain, and manage their deposits. Led by Canapi Ventures, the Series A funding round also had participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Remarkable Ventures, and leading banks Huntington National Bank, First Horizon, and Regions.

Why Tiugo Technologies Is Buying Uploadcare

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 23, 2024

Tiugo Technologies (a PSG portfolio company offering a collection of strong developer tools and solutions in the content creation and digital collaboration markets) has announced the acquisition of Uploadcare. This is Tiugo Technologies’ fourth acquisition, with Uploadcare joining TinyMCE, CKEditor, and Butter.

Oxitope Pharma And Arxx Merge To Form Calluna Pharma And Raises €75 Million

By Dan Anderson ● Jan 23, 2024

Oxitope Pharma and Arxx Therapeutics - companies with a shared goal of utilizing the innate immune system to discover and develop disease-modulating therapies - announced today their merger to form Calluna Pharma today. Calluna has raised €75 million in a series A financing and is backed by Oxitope and Arxx’s existing lead investors, Forbion, Sarsia, p53, and Investinor.

Qdrant: Open-Source Vector Database Company Raises $28 Million

By Annie Baker ● Jan 23, 2024

Qdrant - a leading high-performance and open-source vector database - recently announced the successful completion of its Series A funding round, securing a $28 million investment led by Spark Capital, with participation from existing investors Unusual Ventures and 42CAP.

Health Assurance Transformation To Buy Summa Health: Details

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 23, 2024

Summa Health and General Catalyst’s Health Assurance Transformation Corporation (HATCo) recently announced that the two organizations have signed a non-binding Letter of Intent outlining HATCo’s planned acquisition of Summa Health. This strategic deal marks the beginning of a long-term, transformational journey to create a new, more proactive, affordable, and equitable system of community-based lifelong healthcare.

EquityZen: Providing Liquidity To Early Shareholders And Private Market Access To Accredited Investors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 23, 2024

EquityZen brings together investors and shareholders, providing liquidity to early shareholders and private market access to accredited investors. Pulse 2.0 interviewed EquityZen co-founder Atish Davda to learn more about the company and what the future holds for the private secondary market.

Bloomreach Buying Radiance Commerce To Advance AI Innovation For E-Commerce

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 23, 2024

Bloomreach - a platform driving limitless e-commerce experiences - announced today the acquisition of Radiance Commerce, an enterprise-grade conversational commerce platform powered by the latest in generative AI. Utilizing large language models (LLMs), Radiance guides customers on their shopping journey through expertise-based selling, product search, recommendations, and exploration. In joining Bloomreach, the Radiance team offers deep technical expertise in AI and conversational commerce to propel Bloomreach’s AI innovation for e-commerce further.

Lakeside Software: Offering An IT Platform Built For Providing A Comprehensive View Of Their Digital Landscape

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 23, 2024

Lakeside Software is a company focused on giving organizations with large and complex IT environments visibility across their entire digital estate, empowering IT teams to do more with less. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Lakeside Software CEO David Keil to learn more about the company.

Gulp Data: How This Company Performs Rapid Data Valuations For Accelerating Data Monetization Efforts

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 23, 2024

Gulp Data is a provider of data-backed loans and data valuations. The company is powered by proprietary machine learning and can perform rapid data valuations to accelerate data monetization efforts, with the capability to offer non-dilutive loans using copies of the borrowers’ data as collateral. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Gulp Data's founding partner, Lauren Cascio, to learn more about the company.

Colby Brock: An Interview With A Talented Hospitality Leader

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 23, 2024

Colby Brock is a businesswoman in the hospitality industry who earned her credibility the old-fashioned way. She worked at what is now Hotel NoMa as a teenager and started creating plans for the hotel’s success. Now working as a property manager, Brock was the mastermind behind the hotel’s recent renovation and rebrand, with a goal of creating a trendy space that still has an at home feel. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Colby Brock to learn more about her background.

Launchbay Capital: First Close Of New $100 Million Secondary Growth Fund Completed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 23, 2024

Launchbay Capital - a leading multi-stage investment firm committed to creating liquidity in the venture ecosystem - recently announced the first close of its new $100 million VC secondary growth fund with over 25% committed by a group of early investors.

Bolt Navigation: Series B Funding Round Closed

By Dan Anderson ● Jan 22, 2024

Bolt Navigation - a privately held leading developer of Handheld Surgical Navigation systems - recently announced that it has closed its Series B financing. The funding round was once again led by Grand Oaks Capital, the investment group for the family office of Paychex founder Tom Golisano, with participation from Impact Capital of New York. And Tom Bonadio, Impact Capital’s General Partner and Chairman of Board of Directors at The Bonadio Group, will join the company’s board.

Howard University Partners With Quantasy To Help Students Manage Mental Wellness

By Noah Long ● Jan 22, 2024

Quantasy has announced a partnership between Howard University and True Voice, the app known for its commitment to mindfulness and holistic well-being. Mental health is a major challenge for college students so that Howard will offer exclusive access to the wellness app. Howard University is the first academic institution to use True Voice to help create a culture of mindfulness that can be implemented daily.

Blackstone: Minority Growth Investment In Salas O’Brien

By Annie Baker ● Jan 22, 2024

Blackstone and Salas O’Brien (a leading employee-owned engineering and technical services firm) announced today a partnership where funds managed by Blackstone made a strategic minority growth investment to help accelerate the company’s continued expansion within the fast-growing architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) market.

ArcTern Ventures: $335 Million Fund III Closed To Address Climate Change And Sustainability

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2024

ArcTern Ventures - a Toronto-based venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco and Oslo investing globally in breakthrough technology companies addressing climate change and sustainability - recently announced $335 million in commitments for Fund III, including securing new investments from flagship limited partners, including TD Bank Group, Allianz, Church Pension Group, OPTrust, Credit Suisse Asset Management, and other large institutional investors.

ElevenLabs: Voice Technology Research Company Raises $80 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2024

ElevenLabs - a voice technology research company - announced today it has raised an $80m Series B round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and joined by Sequoia Capital, SV Angel, Smash Capital, BroadLight Capital, and Credo Ventures, to cement its position as the global leader in voice AI research and product deployment.

Sunoco LP Buying NuStar Energy For About $7.3 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2024

Sunoco LP and NuStar Energy L.P. has announced that the parties have entered into a definitive agreement whereby Sunoco will acquire NuStar in an all-equity transaction valued at approximately $7.3 billion, including assumed debt. These are the details.

Macquarie Asset Management: Fund 7 Hits €8 Billion In Investor Commitments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2024

Macquarie Asset Management announced that over €8 billion has been committed to Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 7 (MEIF7) upon the fund’s Final Close, making MEIF7 the industry’s largest-ever fund focused on European infrastructure.

MitoSense: $3.5 Million Raised To Develop Neurodegenerative Disease Treatments

By Dan Anderson ● Jan 22, 2024

MitoSense - a research and development company focused on neurodegenerative disease treatments - recently announced the successful closure of its Series Seed Funding Round led by Caydan Capital Partners, raising close to $3.5 million. The funding round will enable MitoSense to advance its innovative work in Mitochondria Organelle Transplantation (MOT).

Flowdesk: $50 Million Raised In Round Led By Cathay Innovation

By Annie Baker ● Jan 22, 2024

Flowdesk - a full-service digital asset trading technology firm - recently announced a $50 million Series B, led by Cathay Innovation, and the participation of Cathay Ledger Fund, Eurazeo, ISAI, Speedinvest, BPI, and Ripple.

KKR: Digital Global Education Platform Launched For Advisors And Investors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2024

KKR - a leading global investment firm - recently unveiled "KKR Alternatives Unlocked," a digital platform designed to empower financial advisors and their clients to understand the alternative investing landscape better.