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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.

Orennia: Energy Transition Analytics Platform Company Lands $25 Million In Funding

By Annie Baker ● Jul 25, 2023

Orennia - recently announced the completion of its Series B financing - raising US$25 million to accelerate the growth of its best-in-class data and analytics platform. And the investment highlights Orennia’s differentiated solution for the energy transition with insights across the renewables, storage, clean fuels and decarbonization sectors. Orennia increases returns for the most sophisticated developers, investors, bankers, and corporations by providing up-to-date and reliable energy transition analytics.

CarbonCure: $80 Million Secured For Carbon Dioxide Removal Technology

By Noah Long ● Jul 25, 2023

CarbonCure Technologies - a global leader in carbon dioxide removal technologies for the concrete industry - recently announced a major investment led by Blue Earth Capital as part of a broader collaborative investment round totaling more than $80 million.

Rocsys: $36 Million Closed To Build Autonomous Charging Solutions For Electric Transportation

By Annie Baker ● Jul 25, 2023

Rocsys - a leading provider of autonomous charging solutions for electric transportation - recently announced a $36 million Series A funding round. SEB Greentech Venture Capital led the funding round, including participation from Graduate Entrepreneur, the European Investment Bank, and returning investor Forward.One. With this latest funding round (which includes a roughly equal split of debt and equity financing), Rocsys will expand the capabilities of its platform as it rapidly scales its presence in the United States and Europe.

GeoCue And Argosdyne Partnering To Expand Drone Mapping Solutions In East Asia

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 25, 2023

GeoCue - a leader in LiDAR mapping hardware and software solutions - announced its expansion into East Asia through a strategic partnership with Argosdyne, a prominent drone manufacturer and supplier. And this collaboration will strengthen GeoCue's global distribution network and enable Argosdyne to offer TrueView 3D Imaging Sensors and LP360 LiDAR Processing Software to customers in South Korea and East Asia.

Kearney Buying Silicon Foundry For Expanding Strategic Transformation And Innovation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 24, 2023

Kearney - a leading global management consulting firm - recently announced the acquisition of Silicon Foundry. And this acquisition represents the firm's commitment to helping C-suite executives truly transform their organizations by providing corporate executive leaders worldwide with access to the most cutting-edge new technologies, start-ups, and venture investors at the core of the innovation ecosystem.

KKR Buying Protective Materials Company Chase Corporation For $1.3 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 24, 2023

Chase Corporation (NYSE American: CCF) - a leading global manufacturer of protective materials for high-reliability applications across diverse market sectors - recently announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of investment funds managed by KKR, a leading global investment firm. This all-cash transaction is valued at approximately $1.3 billion, including the assumption of debt.

SpyGlass Pharma: Ophthalmic Therapeutics Company Closes $90 Million

By Annie Baker ● Jul 24, 2023

SpyGlass Pharma - a privately-held ophthalmic therapeutics company- recently announced the closing of $90 million in Series C financing. The financing, which RA Capital Management led alongside existing investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Vensana Capital, as well as new investors Samsara BioCapital and Vertex Ventures HC, will enable the company to conduct multiple US clinical trials of SpyGlass’ innovative drug delivery platform.

Arrive: Smart Mailbox Company Bags $1.3 Million

By Noah Long ● Jul 24, 2023

Arrive - an smart mailbox company (formerly known as Dronedek) - recently announced that it raised more than $1.3 million from 428 investors, most of them new to the Indianapolis-based innovator. This is the second time Arrive has eclipsed $1 million in crowdfunding efforts. And the company now has nearly 5,000 individual investors and has raised more than $9 million in its total fundraising efforts since the company was founded in 2014. The startup now employs 15 people worldwide.

EQT: Exeter Industrial Value Fund VI Closed At $4.9 Billion

By Annie Baker ● Jul 24, 2023

EQT announced that EQT Exeter Industrial Value Fund VI had held its final close at $4.9 billion in fee-generating assets under management. And the demand from existing and new investors was strong, with commitments coming from a diverse group of pensions, foundations, insurance, and sovereign clients across North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Origin Digital And Aspia Partner To Measure Grass From Space

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 24, 2023

Origin Digital and Aspia Space announced a breakthrough partnership that could revolutionize grassland farming was announced by technology companies. Launching in Ireland later this year as part of the Origin Digital ‘GrassMax’ service, the new technology accurately measures the height of grass from space, offering insight for increasing farm productivity and profitability and enabling organizations and businesses to verify sustainability practices in the livestock supply chain.

Figure: AI Robotics Company Closes $9 Million From Intel Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 24, 2023

Figure - an AI Robotics company building general-purpose humanoid robots - recently announced a $9 million equity investment made by Intel Capital. This funding round from Intel Capital helps strengthen Figure's balance sheet and will accelerate the development of Figure 01 (the company's autonomous humanoid robot), build out Figure's AI data pipeline for autonomous operations, and drive the Company toward commercialization. This announcement follows the company's most recent achievement of the Figure 01 robot taking its first steps.

Gearset’s DevOps Launchpad Passes 10,000 Users

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 24, 2023

DevOps Launchpad - a Salesforce DevOps training platform and community-powered by Gearset - recently announced that it had crossed the 10,000 users milestone. Launched in 2021, all of the content is free to access for Salesforce professionals, and courses are available as either stand-alone courses or as part of a certification program.

Runway: Strategic Planning Platform Company Secures $27.5 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 24, 2023

Runway - a leading Strategic Planning platform - recently announced $27.5 million in Series A funding led by Initialized Capital to accelerate its vision of empowering all teams to make better business decisions faster.

POLYN Technology: This Neuromorphic Analog Signal Processing Company Is Rapidly Growing In The Fabless Semiconductor Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 24, 2023

Noah Medical: Helping Physicians By Building Essential Endoluminal Technologies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 24, 2023

Noah Medical is a medical robotics company that delivers adoptable clinical solutions through innovative endoluminal technologies to enhance the quality of life for patients globally. To learn more, Pulse 2.0 interviewed Noah Medical founder and CEO Jian Zhang, Ph.D.

Snack It Forward: This Company Is Aiming To Upgrade America’s Snacks With Better-For-You Options

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 24, 2023

Gooten: Order Management Technology Company Closes $11 Million

By Noah Long ● Jul 23, 2023

Gooten - a global provider of order management technology for on-demand manufacturing - recently announced the closing of $11 million of Series A funding. The funding round was led by KEC Ventures, with participation from INX International, Tech Pioneers Fund, and other existing investors. As part of the funding round, Will Geiger of Touchdown Ventures will join Gooten as a board observer on behalf of INX International.

La La Land Kind Cafe: Coffee Shop Chain Closes $20 Million In Funding

By Noah Long ● Jul 23, 2023

La La Land Kind Cafe - a chain of coffee shops - recently announced that it raised a $20 million investment from John Phelan, former Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of MSD Capital, L.P. and Founder of Rugger Management LLC, and Andy Teller, a private investor.

Ten Thousand: Activewear Brand Company Secures $21.5 Million

By Dan Anderson ● Jul 23, 2023

New York-based men's activewear brand Ten Thousand recently announced a $21.5 million Series A raise and a partnership with Life Time, North America's premier Athletic Country Clubs and omnichannel Healthy Way of Life Brand. The funding round and partnership underscore Ten Thousand's strong following, differentiated positioning, and rapid growth. Provenance led this investment with participation from Fernbrook and Alfa. And this syndicate joins existing seed investors, including Dave Gilboa (co-founder of Warby Parker), Blue Scorpion, and Elizabeth St Ventures.

Optiversal Raises $4.2 Million To Help Large Retail Enterprises Accelerate Content Creation Using AI

By Dan Anderson ● Jul 23, 2023

Optiversal - a generative AI content provider accelerating content creation for large retail enterprises - recently announced that it has secured $4.2 million in seed funding led by Bling Capital with participation from Alpaca Ventures and Red Sea Ventures.

Metafold: $1.78 Million Raised To Drive Mass Industrial 3D Printing Adoption

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2023

Metafold - the only provider of a cloud- and API-based 3D engineering platform - recently announced it raised $1.78 million in seed funding to advance the mass adoption of industrial 3D printing with sustainability at the forefront of its mission. And Differential Ventures led the oversubscribed investment round with participation from Active Impact Investments, who led the company’s pre-seed round, climate-tech-focused Jetstream, and Standup Ventures.

RADAR: $30 Million Secured To Develop Platform For Combining RFID And Computer Vision

By Dan Anderson ● Jul 21, 2023

RADAR - a technology platform that combines RFID and computer vision technology to track and precisely locate in-store inventory with 99% accuracy - announced it secured $30 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funding to date to $63 million.

Tangibly: SaaS Trade Secret Management Platform Company Raises $6.5 Million

By Annie Baker ● Jul 21, 2023

Tangibly - a SaaS trade secret management platform - recently announced the successful completion of its Seed round. This funding round was led by Madrona and included Spike Ventures, Volo Ventures, Holt Ventures, MVP Ventures, Incisive Ventures, WS Investment Company (an affiliate of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati), and DLA Piper.

Laminar: This Agile Data Security Platform Company Is Quickly Growing In A $2.5 Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2023

Laminar is the first agile data security platform that provides organizations with the visibility and control they need to achieve security, privacy, and governance in the cloud. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Laminar co-founder and CEO Amit Shaked to learn more.

TARA Mind: This Company Provides Safe And Affordable Access To Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2023

TARA Mind is a company that offers safe, affordable, and effective access to psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT). Pulse 2.0 interviewed TARA Mind founder and CEO Marcus Capone to learn more.

OneRep: This Privacy Platform Company Helps Remove Unauthorized Personal Info From The Internet

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2023

OneRep is a fully automated privacy platform that removes unauthorized personal information from the internet. Pulse 2.0 interviewed OneRep founder and CEO Dimitri Shelest to learn more.

Teleskope Raises $2.2 Million To Automate Data Security, Privacy, And Compliance At Scale

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2023

Teleskope - a cybersecurity startup - recently announced it launched a data protection platform that automates data security, privacy, and compliance at scale, helping organizations comply with regulations like GDPR and CCPA, and reduce the manual and operation burden on security, data, and engineering teams. And the company raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding led by Lerer Hippeau.

Treedis: This Rapidly Growing Company Is Transforming Physical Spaces Into Virtual Experiences Using Digital Twins

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2023

Scaleworks Buys Full Circle Insights And Names New CEO

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2023

Scaleworks - a B2B SaaS-focused venture equity firm - recently announced its acquisition of Full Circle Insights. It is known for helping companies drive pipeline growth through their marketing attribution and campaign measurement platform. And Scaleworks' investment and partnership will accelerate Full Circle's strategic roadmap, enable product innovation, and enhance go-to-market strategy.