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Tristero is a company that is building stronger and safer crypto markets with new decentralized dark pool technology. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Tristero founder Sam Trautwein to learn more.

QED Investors was founded by Nigel Morris and Frank Rotman in 2007 and the firm is focused on investing in early-stage, disruptive financial services companies in the U.S., U.K., Latin America, and Southeast Asia. And QED Investors is dedicated to building great businesses and uses a unique, hands-on approach that utilizes the partners’ decades of entrepreneurial and operational experience, helping their companies achieve breakthrough growth. The firm’s notable investments include AvidXchange, Bitso, ClearScore, Current, Creditas, Credit Karma, GreenSky, Kavak, Klarna, Konfio, Loft, Mission Lane, Nubank, QuintoAndar, Remitly, and SoFi. Pulse 2.0 interviewed QED Investors co-founder, partner, and chief investment officer Frank Rotman to learn more.

Federato - which is the insurance industry's first RiskOps underwriting platform - recently announced that it has raised $25 million in Series B funding, led by Caffeinated Capital with participation from Emergence Capital and Pear VC. This round comes less than a year after the company announced its Series A.

Daasity is a rapidly growing retail- and CPG-focused data architecture and analytics company. Daasity’s CEO and co-founder Dan LeBlanc is an analytics, customer experience, and business technology expert who has a passion for helping consumer brands achieve their goals through more informed insights. Prior to founding Daasity, he held senior executive roles with companies such as Provide Commerce, Encore Capital Group, and Groundswell Equity. In his spare time, you can find LeBlanc outdoors enjoying the San Diego weather or visiting one of the city’s many great craft breweries. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Daasity CEO and co-founder Dan LeBlanc to learn more.

Cyware - a leading provider of AI-powered Cyber Fusion platforms for enterprises and MSSPs, and automated threat intelligence sharing for information sharing networks - recently announced a $30 million Series C financing round led by Ten Eleven Ventures, a leading multi-stage investment firm specializing in cybersecurity. And also participating are previous investors including Advent International, Zscaler, Emerald Development Managers, Prelude (the venture practice at Mercato Partners), and Great Road Holdings.

Author Health recently launched as one of the first platforms to provide comprehensive care and treatment for Medicare Advantage recipients with serious mental illness and substance use disorders. And the company has received $115 million in financing led by General Atlantic with participation from Flare Capital Partners.

Rubber Ducky Labs - a company focused on making recommender systems easier to build and imbue with human knowledge - recently announced a $1.5 million seed investment round led by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from Cadenza Ventures and angel investors including Brad Klingenberg (ex-Chief Algorithms Officer at Stitch Fix), Patrick Hayes (co-founder of SigOpt), and Dave Aronchick (co-founder of Bacalhau and Expanso). Rubber Ducky Labs completed Y Combinator in Winter 2023.

Gradient Health - a leading medical AI data-sharing company - recently announced the successful closure of a $2.75 million funding round led by ReMY Investors & Consultants.

Honey Homes - a membership service delivering complete home upkeep and maintenance - recently announced it has raised $9 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures. This funding round brings Honey Homes’ total funding raised to over $12.1 million - which includes participation from Pear VC, Teambuilder Ventures, and Moving Capital, along with DoorDash co-founders Tony Xu and Stanley Tang, Lyft co-founder Logan Green, Opendoor co-founder Eric Wu, and Mercury co-founder Immad Akhund, and several others.

Blueprint - a technology platform helping mental health clinicians deliver higher-quality care in less time - recently announced its $9 million Series A co-led by Ensemble VC and Lightbank with participation from Bonfire Ventures, Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, TAU Ventures, Data Tech Fund, and select angel investors.

Datapeople - a SaaS recruiting predictability platform - recently announced the completion of an oversubscribed $13 million Series A funding round. This funding round was co-led by GreatPoint Ventures and New Markets Venture Partners with the participation of existing investors including First Round Capital, NextView Ventures, and Uncork Capital as well as operator syndicates Gaingels and FOG Ventures.

Flywheel - a leading medical imaging data and AI platform - announced it raised $54 million in Series D funding with more to come soon. And this latest funding round was co-led by Novalis LifeSciences LLC and NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm). Microsoft also joined the funding round along with insiders Invenshure, 8VC, Beringea, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intuitive Ventures, iSelect, Gundersen Health System, Seraph, and Great North Ventures.

Insilico Medicine is an AI-based drug discovery company and its first drug fully generated by artificial intelligence entered clinical trials with human patients recently. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Insilico Medicine CEO and founder Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD to learn more.

VideaHealth is a venture-backed company developing artificial intelligence (AI) that helps dental clinicians more effectively and confidently detect potential signs of oral disease. Pulse 2.0 interviewed company founder and CEO Florian Hillen to learn more.

Cobalt is a company that developed a Pentest as a Service (PtaaS) platform, which has been modernizing traditional pentesting by combining a SaaS platform with an exclusive community of testers and the company delivers the real-time insights needed to remediate risk quickly and innovate securely. To learn more about the company, Pulse 2.0 interviewed Cobalt chief marketing officer Lisa Matherly.

Groundcover is a company that has a goal of reinventing the cloud-native application monitoring domain with eBPF. Pulse 2.0 interviewed groundcover CEO ​Shahar Azulay to learn more.

TTEC Holdings - one of the largest global customer experience (CX) technology and services innovators for AI-enabled CX solutions - announced the opening of the TTEC Digital Innovation Studio – Hyderabad to strengthen the company's capabilities by integrating and orchestrating exceptional customer experiences around the world.

Silent Push - a detection-focused threat intelligence company - recently announced the company's launch with a total of $10 million in seed funding led by global cybersecurity specialist investor Ten Eleven Ventures.

Meshcapade - a startup specializing in AI solutions for modeling, analysis, and synthesis of 3D digital humans in motion - recently announced a $6 million seed round led by Matrix with participation from a number of tech founders and investors.

Wherobots - a data platform for geospatial analytics and AI - recently announced that it has raised a $5.5 million seed funding round. This funding round was co-led by Wing Venture Capital and Clear Ventures. And Wherobots will be using the new capital to build products that enable every organization to extract business value from data via spatial location and time.

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT) - a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering the development of phage-based therapies to combat bacterial infections - announced that it has received a $12 million upfront investment from funds managed by Deerfield Management and the AMR Action Fund as part of a new $24 million total investment in a Series B1 round that is targeting $30 million in aggregate.

Unshackled Ventures - the only pre-seed venture capital fund that enables immigrant founders to start companies in the U.S. - announced the successful close of its $35 million Fund III, backed by high-profile limited partners, 73% of which is institutional LPs. Unshackled Fund III LPs include Cambridge Associates, Cendana, Emerson Collective, California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (IBank), and Sorenson Impact Advisory, more than doubling its assets under management (AUM).

Vessel Technologies - a mission-driven housing product development company and franchisor that offers a high-quality, sustainable, and attainably priced housing solution - announced it has secured Series A funding from co-lead investors Mastry Ventures and LENx, the venture arm of homebuilder Lennar.

Harbourfront Wealth Management is a firm that embodies a philosophy of independent and unbiased advice with a commitment to delivering more financial independence for Canadians. To learn more about the firm, Pulse 2.0 interviewed Harbourfront Wealth Management CEO Danny Popescu.

Keona Health is a company that develops software to improve communication in the healthcare industry. To learn more about the company, Pulse 2.0 interviewed Keona Health co-founder Stephen Dean.

Pelorus Capital Group is a leading provider of commercial real estate loans for the cannabis sector and its Pelorus Fund - which is a private mortgage real estate investment trust (mREIT) - is changing the commercial real estate lending landscape in the cannabis sector. To learn more about the company Pulse 2.0 interviewed Pelorus Equity Group President Rob Sechrist.

Invirsa - a privately held, clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on developing an innovative topically administered eyedrop formulation INV-102 for ocular conditions associated with DNA damage - announced the closing of a $7.7 million Series B financing completed in April earlier this year.

Celularity (CELU) is a public biotechnology company that is leading the next evolution in cellular and regenerative medicine by developing allogeneic cryopreserved off-the-shelf placental-derived cell therapies, including therapeutic programs using mesenchymal-like adherent stromal cells (MLASCs), T-cells engineered with CAR (CAR T-cells), and genetically modified and unmodified natural killer (NK) cells. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Celularity chairperson, CEO, and founder Dr. Robert Hariri to learn more.

Permira Credit - which is one of Europe’s leading specialist credit investors - announced the successful completion of fundraising for its fifth direct lending fund Permira Credit Solutions Fund V (PCS5). Including associated vehicles and leverage, the total investable capital for the strategy is €4.2 billion.

Ecovative Design LLC - a leading mycelium technology company - recently announced the initial closing of a Series E round of over $30 million. And $15 million of the raise is being reinvested into its MyForest Foods Co. subsidiary, founded in 2020.