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KTX.Finance - a decentralized perpetuals exchange on BNB Chain - recently announced a $4 million seed round financing led by Hashed. And other participants in the round include AlphaLab Capital, CRIT Ventures, 100&100 Ventures, Trinito Corporation / Morpheus, GSG Asset, KuCoin Ventures and Sky9 Capital.

Arrcus - a hyperscale networking software company and a leader in the core, 5G/edge and multi-cloud routing and switching - recently announced a significant new investment from Hitachi Ventures, the venture arm of Hitachi, for an additional closing of its Series D.

Wellington Management - one of the world’s largest independent investment management firms - recently announced the close of its private late-stage growth strategy Wellington Hadley Harbor IV with US $2.6 billion in commitments and over $200 million in co-invest capacity to invest alongside the Fund.

Arrive, the smart mailbox company (formerly known as Dronedek), has raised more than $9 million in support of its smart mailboxes designed for autonomous delivery.  The company also recently closed on a crowdfunding raise of more than $1.3 million from 428 investors, most of them new to the Indianapolis-based innovator. Plus Arrive now has nearly 5,000 individual investors and employs 15 people worldwide.

Kettering University and the charitable organization Robotics Education and Competition Foundation (RECF) announced that they have formalized a partnership that has existed for years to promote science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) through robotics competitions, workshops, summer camps, and more.

Atlas Credit Partners is known as an opportunistic credit manager that invests in public and private opportunities that are facing disruption - either cyclical, secular, or regulatory. Pulse 2.0 interviewed a representative at Atlas Credit Partners Team to learn more.

Gradia Health - an integrated concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions - recently announced its seed funding totaling $4.2 million.

BigPanda - a leader in Incident Intelligence and Automation powered by AIOps - recently announced Generative AI for Automated Incident Analysis, a new capability that uses advanced AI to estimate incident impact, suggest likely root causes and provide clear, natural language incident titles and summaries.

ElevenLabs -a voice technology research company and world leader in audio AI software - recently announced it has raised a $19 million Series A round to continue its voice AI research and product deployment - part of its mission to make all content universally accessible. The $19 million Series A round was co-led by Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Andreessen Horowitz with further participation from Credo Ventures, Concept Ventures, and an array of strategic angel investors including Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger, Oculus VR co-founder Brendan Iribe, Ubiquity6 co-founder Anjney Midha, Deepmind & Inflection co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, Runway co-founder Siqi Chen, Inkitt co-founder Ali Albazaz, Reface co-founder Dima Shvets, Perplexity AI co-founder Aravind Srinivas, Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch,// O’Reilly Media founder Tim O’Reilly, Creator Ventures and SV Angel. Embark Studios, Storytel, and TheSoul Publishing also join this round as investors. And Andreessen Horowitz is taking a board seat.

Solenic Medical - a developer of a device that uses alternating magnetic fields (AMF) to treat prosthetic joint infections (PJI) - recently announced it has raised a $5.1 million Series A funding round.

Sharrow Marine - a subsidiary of Sharrow Engineering LLC, a leading manufacturer of revolutionary propellers for boats and ships - recently announced the successful completion of over $30 million series of debt and equity financings.

NewHaptics - an innovative tactile display technology company - recently announced it has raised growth capital from the Accelerate Blue Fund.

Danti - the pioneers in helping users find relevant information about physical places on our planet - recently announced the closing of its $2.75 million pre-seed funding round. These are the details.

Leap - a retail platform for modern brands - recently announced a $15 million infusion of capital. These are the details.

ECFX recently revealed that Growth Street Partners made a minority growth investment in the company, the leading provider of electronic court notice management for law firms and corporate legal teams. The LegalTech Fund, which is a leading investor in innovative legal technology companies, also participated, as did Cove Fund and other existing investors. ECFX will be using the $7 million investment to expand its platform and further its leadership position in a rapidly adopting market.

Illuminate Financial - a financial services-focused venture firm - recently announced it has closed its third fund, a $235 million fund to invest in early-stage businesses solving problems for financial institutions.

Alamar Biosciences (a company powering precision proteomics to enable the earliest detection of diseases) and Frazier Life Sciences recently announced the launch of Attovia Therapeutics, which is a newly formed company focused on creating a pipeline of biotherapeutics in immune-mediated disease and cancer. The company - based on Attobody, Alamar’s novel proprietary biparatopic nanobody platform - concurrently closed a $60 million Series A financing led by Frazier and joined by venBio and Illumina Ventures.

Cleareye - the provider of a category-leading digital trade finance solution ClearTrade for digital automation of trade compliance and operations - recently announced it has secured a strategic investment from J.P. Morgan.

Groupon recently announced that it has appointed Jason Harinstein, CFO of Collectors Holdings as a new independent member of the company’s Board of Directors. Harinstein will also sit on the Board’s Audit Committee.

Paymerang is a leading innovator in Accounts Payable (AP) Automation that is committed to helping organizations overcome the immense economic pressures they face today. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Paymerang CEO Nasser Chanda to learn more.

EUV Tech is known as a global leader in the production of metrology equipment to enable leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing using extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL). To learn more about the company Pulse 2.0 interviewed EUV Tech CEO Dr. Patrick Naulleau.

Turing is a company that connects world-class engineers with companies to help them achieve their respective career and business goals. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Turing Senior Director of Engineering Yuzhao Ni to learn more.

TealBook - a leading supplier data platform that autonomously enhances supplier data - announced its new Vice President of Engineering Quentin Schmick.

Hypar - a cloud-based design automation platform for buildings - recently announced a $5.5 million Series A round led by Brick & Mortar Ventures with participation from Building Ventures.

DUOS - a digital health company that is focused on empowering older adults to live independently - recently announced that it raised $10 million in funding led by Primetime Partners, SJF Ventures, and CEOC's Aging Innovation Fund managed by Castellan Group.

Focused Energy - a laser-based fusion startup dedicated to developing fusion as a means of generating clean alternative energy - recently announced that it raised an additional $11 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funding to $82 million. The funding round was led by Prime Movers Lab, and previous investors VCP Capital and Tony Florence joined the round as well.

HUNGRY - a food-tech marketplace company recently announced it closed a $10 million Series C1 funding round.

Tagworks Pharmaceuticals BV - the pioneer of Click-to-Release chemistry designed to deliver more effective and safer systemic therapies - recently announced a $65 million Series A financing led by Ysios Capital and Gilde Healthcare with participation from Novartis Venture Fund, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), and Lightstone Ventures. And they join existing investors including Meneldor and Oost NL.

Caraway announced $16.75 million in Series A funding. The funding round was led by Maveron, an investor in consumer-only and early-stage companies, and GV. Returning investors include 7wireVentures and Hopelab Ventures with new participation from Wellington Access Ventures, Ingeborg Investments, and The Venture Collective. OMERS Ventures (a seed-stage investor in Caraway) will remain on the Board.

AccurKardia - a medical AI software company delivering clinical-grade ECG interpretation software - recently announced the final closing and completion of its $2.7 million seed funding. The investors include the Popular Impact Fund, an early-stage investment vehicle from Popular Inc. (NYSE: BPOP) alongside other private investors. This funding milestone marks a significant step towards AccurKardia’s goal of improving patients’ outcomes and saving millions of lives regardless of geography.