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SoftBank Group And Symbotic Launching New $100 Million Joint Venture

By Noah Long ● Jul 28, 2023

SoftBank Group and Symbotic (a leader in A.I.-powered automation technology for the supply chain) recently announced the establishment of GreenBox Systems LLC, a new joint venture to address the more than $500 billion annual warehouse-as-a-service market opportunity.

Sk3w Technologies: Financial Exchange Access Company Closes $7 Million In Funding

By Dan Anderson ● Jul 28, 2023

Financial exchange access company Sk3w Technologies recently announced that it had raised $7M in a Series A round led by Tower Research Ventures, IMC, and Citadel Securities. And previous investors include Optiver, IMC, Jump Trading, Tower Research Ventures, XR Trading, and Tom Joyce.

H.I.G. Capital Buying RBmedia From KKR

By Annie Baker ● Jul 28, 2023

KKR and H.I.G. Capital announced that an affiliate of H.I.G. will acquire RBmedia and support its next phase of growth and development. RBmedia is the leading audiobook publisher in the world, with a robust digital distribution network that reaches millions of listeners around the globe.

Hitachi Vantara Collaborates With Microsoft For Unified Compute Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 28, 2023

Hitachi Vantara - a modern infrastructure, data management, and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501) - recently announced the next evolution of its collaboration with Microsoft to launch Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) for Azure Stack HCI.

Airvet: Leading Pet Telehealth Company Secures $18 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 28, 2023

Airvet - a leading pet telehealth company - announced it has closed an oversubscribed $18.2 million Series B round led by Mountain Group Partners (MGP) with participation by Canvas Ventures, Headline, and Burst Capital, as well as strategic investors including Bob Antin, Founder and xCEO of VCA Animal Hospitals.

Very Good Ventures: Leading Flutter Consulting Company Raises $3.4 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 28, 2023

Very Good Ventures (VGV) - a leading full-service Flutter consulting firm - recently announced it expanded its Series A round with $3.4 million from Celesta Capital for a total raise of $6.6 million. This funding round will be used to scale up VGV's service to a wider variety of clients and to deliver high-quality contributions throughout the Flutter ecosystem.

Bridges Capital: This Financial Advisory Firm Runs An ETF That Provides Opportunistic Exposure To Equities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 27, 2023

Bridges Capital is a financial advisory firm that combines specialized accounting and investment expertise. To learn more, Pulse 2.0 interviewed Bridges Capital Managing Member Raymond Bridges, CPA.

Q-CTRL: Morpheus Ventures Added As New Investor In $54 Million In Series B Round

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 26, 2023

Q-CTRL - a leader in developing useful quantum technologies through quantum control infrastructure software - announced the addition of Morpheus Ventures as a new investor in their record-setting Series B funding round, which has raised $54 million.

GETIDA: Helping Amazon Sellers Get The Maximum FBA Reimbursements They Are Eligible For

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 26, 2023

GETIDA is a company that analyzes your Amazon data, reconciles your FBA inventory, and files claims for reimbursements on your behalf. Pulse 2.0 interviewed GETIDA co-founder and chief growth officer Yoni Mazor to learn more.

Kinetica: Fusing Geospatial And Time-Series Data Sets And Processing Spatiotemporal Analytics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 26, 2023

Kinetica is a real-time analytic database company ideal for sensor and machine data workloads. And Kinetica leverages GPUs and modern many-core CPUs to achieve robust performance and efficiencies. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Kinetica co-founder and CEO Nima Negahban to learn more.

Adaptive Shield: Strategic Investment Raised From Blackstone

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 26, 2023

Adaptive Shield - a leader in SaaS security - recently announced a new investment from Blackstone Innovations Investments, which is Blackstone's strategic investment arm, bringing its total capital raised to $44 million. This funding round will accelerate Adaptive Shield’s mission to protect companies as the number of SaaS applications enterprises use has snowballed. This growth creates a new and complex mesh of business-critical applications increasingly targeted by attackers.

Atly: This App Helps You Discover Interesting New Places In Over 6,500 Topic-Based Maps

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 26, 2023

Endor Labs: This Company Helps Developers Spend Less Time On Security Issues Through Safe OSS Adoption

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 26, 2023

Endor Labs is a company that helps developers spend less time dealing with security issues and more time accelerating development through safe Open Source Software (OSS) adoption. The company’s Code Governance Platform helps organizations maximize software reuse by enabling security and development teams to select, secure, and maintain OSS at scale. It also enables organizations to prioritize risk across CI/CD pipelines, and meet compliance objectives such as SBOMs. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Endor Labs co-founder and CEO Varun Badhwar.

Finaloop: This E-Commerce Focused Bookkeeping Solution Reconciles Financial Data With Actionable Insights

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 26, 2023

Finaloop is the only e-commerce-tailored, real-time, and 100% accurate bookkeeping solution. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Finaloop CEO Lioran Pinchevski to learn more.

HumanFirst: Low-Code Productivity Suite Company Raises $5 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 26, 2023

HumanFirst - a leader in low-code data productivity suite - recently announced CAD 5 million in seed funding. This total seed funding round has been accumulated throughout three smaller safe-note financing rounds. And this funding round was led by Panache Ventures with participation from Inovia, Real Ventures, BoxOne Ventures, and a prominent group of angel investors, including Kevin Mahaffey.

SpecterOps Raises $33.5 Million To Drive Adoption Of BloodHound Enterprise

By Dan Anderson ● Jul 26, 2023

SpecterOps - a provider of adversary-focused cybersecurity solutions born out of unique insights of advanced threat actor tradecraft - recently announced it extended its Series A to include an $8.5 million investment from Ballistic Ventures. This brings SpecterOps’ Series A total to $33.5 million.

Public Storage Acquiring Simply Self Storage For $2.2 Billion From Blackstone

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 25, 2023

Self-storage company Public Storage announced it entered a deal to acquire Simply Self Storage from Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust (BREIT) for $2.2 billion.

Insilico Medicine Reveals Inhalable Formula And New Device For AI-Designed IPF Drug

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 25, 2023

Insilico Medicine - a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven clinical-stage drug discovery company - nominated the preclinical candidate of an inhalation solution for ISM001-055, which is the first anti-fibrotic small molecule inhibitor developed leveraging its proprietary AI drug discovery platform Pharma.AI for the treatment of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF). And with promising preclinical results, Insilico is proceeding with IND filing as the first AI drug discovery company to venture into nebulized formulations.

TextUs Launches Automated Sequences In Messaging Engagement Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 25, 2023

TextUs - a leading messaging engagement platform - announced the release of Sequences, enabling users to automate touch points to nurture leads and candidates at scale. Sequences has been intentionally designed to help users increase candidate and buyer engagement and build pipeline faster.

Divert: The Company Leading The Fight Against The Wasted Food Crisis

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 25, 2023

Divert is an impact technology company that is on a mission to Protect the Value of Food™ as it creates advanced technology and sustainable infrastructure to prevent wasted food, driving real social and environmental impact. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Divert CEO and co-founder Ryan Begin to learn more.

nSure.ai: This Advanced Fraud Prevention Company Is Rapidly Growing In A $30 Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 25, 2023

nSure.ai is a world leader in AI-powered advanced fraud prevention for high-risk digital transactions, as the company provides a unique multi-tenant platform that empowers customers with their own AI/Machine learning model. Pulse 2.0 interviewed nSure.ai CEO and co-founder Alex Zeltcer to learn more.

Myxt: This Company Enables Creators To Stream, Share, And Collaborate On Audio

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 25, 2023

Myxt is a collaborative workplace app for audio creators - which was built to confront the industry-wide problem of file sharing. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Myxt founder Chris Wetherell to learn more.

Sirion: A Contract Lifecycle Management Company That Is Quickly Growing In A $30 Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 25, 2023

Sirion is a global leader in Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) software and the company’s end-to-end enterprise-grade CLM solution drives digital transformation across the entire enterprise. Sirion’s AI-driven CLM technology is trusted by some of the world’s most successful organizations to manage over 5 million contracts worth over $450 billion across 70+ countries. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Sirion co-founder and president Kanti Prabha.

Whatfix: This Digital Adoption Platform Is Quickly Growing In A $30 Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 25, 2023

Whatfix is a leading Digital Adoption Platform that enables companies to deliver modern and easy onboarding, effective training, and better support to users through contextual content displayed at the time of need. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Whatfix CEO and co-founder Khadim Batti to learn more.

Equabli: Financial Tech Company Completes $3.35 Million Funding Round

By Annie Baker ● Jul 25, 2023

Equabli - a leading financial technology company - recently announced the successful completion of its recent financing round. This funding round secured $3.35 million of additional capital and was led by Social Leverage. Additional commitments were received by BankTech Ventures and Cross River Digital Ventures.

RightRev: $12 Million Secured For Helping Companies Automate Revenue Recognition

By Noah Long ● Jul 25, 2023

RightRev - a cloud-based finance and accounting solutions provider for Revenue Recognition Automation - recently announced that it had raised $12 million in funding co-led by Norwest Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures with participation from Correlation Ventures and IDEA Fund Partners.

Flagship: Retail Inventory Planning Platform Company Raises $5 Million

By Noah Long ● Jul 25, 2023

Retail inventory planning leader Flagship recently announced that it had raised $5 million in seed funding led by global software investor Insight Partners. Dream Ventures, Essential Capital, Klemhurst, Future Archives, AUFI Ventures, the Kleiner Perkins Scout Fund, and several strategic angel investors participated in the round.

Sigo Seguros: Insurtech Company Secures $5.1 Million To Accelerate Growth

By Annie Baker ● Jul 25, 2023

Sigo Seguros - a rapidly growing insurtech company with a Spanish-first approach to providing auto insurance services for immigrant and working-class communities - recently announced it had raised an additional $5.1 million in its pre-Series A funding round, co-led by Zeal Capital Partners and Listen Ventures with participation from existing investors Chingona Ventures, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest, Fiat Ventures, and Remarkable Ventures.

RecruitBot: Hiring Platform Company Closes $8.2 Million In Funding

By Annie Baker ● Jul 25, 2023

RecruitBot - a powerful hiring platform that transforms the entire recruiting experience - recently announced it has raised $8.2 million in additional seed funding to fuel the growth of its AI-powered software. The investment was led by Slow Ventures with participation from OCA, Freestyle, Parade, and Kevin Mahaffey. Through RecruitBot, recruiters get access to modern sales and marketing technologies built for their specific recruiting activities.

CoJourney: Contract Manufacturing And Development Company Pulls In $30 Million In Funding

By Dan Anderson ● Jul 25, 2023

CoJourney - a global innovator in the manufacturing and development of cell and gene therapies - recently announced the completion of a $30 million Series A financing and expansion of its US organization and commercial manufacturing capabilities. This funding round was led by Legend Capital and supported by GL Ventures, Legend Star Investment Management, and Lake Bleu Capital.