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Paytient - the creator and leading provider of Health Payment Accounts (HPAs) - recently announced it has finalized a $7.5 million venture debt facility with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a division of First Citizens Bank

Ever After Foods is a company (spun out of the publicly traded company Pluri) that has developed a proprietary technology platform to produce cultivated meat with unmatched cost-efficient scalability. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Ever After Foods CEO Eyal Rosenthal to learn more.

Moogsoft is an AIOps incident management company for engineering teams responsible for maintaining high availability. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Field CTO Andrew "Spike" Hepburn to learn more.

Aktivate - a rapidly growing provider of scholastic sports management software, announced today the closing of a $3.7 million Series A funding round.

Rookout is a company that empowers developers to solve customer issues 5x faster by making debugging easy and accessible in any environment from cloud-native to on-prem and from dev to production. And with its live data collection and debugging platform, Rookout enables software engineers to handle the complexity of modern applications by seeing into their code in real-time as it is running. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Rookout co-founder and CTO Liran Haimovitch to learn more.

SES AI is known as a global leader in the development and production of high-performance Li-Metal rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and other applications. Launched in 2012, SES AI is an integrated Li-Metal battery manufacturer with strong capabilities in material, cell, module, AI-powered safety algorithms, and recycling. Pulse 2.0 interviewed SES AI founder and CEO Dr. Qichao Hu to learn more.

HighFive Healthcare - a leading specialty dental partnership organization focused on endodontics and oral surgery - recently announced that they have closed a $100 million growth investment led by Norwest. Norwest General Partner Dr. Ryan A. Harris and dental services industry veteran David Willens will be joining the company's board of directors.

Macro Trials - a new precision research clinical platform - recently launched to transform clinical trials. And the company’s founders incubated Macro Trials with INITIATE Studios, a venture studio that co-creates companies at the intersection of healthcare, life sciences, and technology. 

LIQID announced it has successfully closed the fourth generation of its private equity offering with a record volume of € 200 million. This makes the fourth-generation fund Europe's largest private equity fund of funds for affluent private investors. And LIQID, the bank-independent wealth manager, is moving closer and closer to its goal of democratizing high-return alternative asset classes. The fifth generation of its private equity offering has already been launched.

Boost Capital Partners announced the launch of its first fund to support founders who are building exceptional user experiences to solve real-life problems. Successfully completing its first close of $30 million, the fund is led by a team with a collective experience of over 25 years in the digital consumer and gaming industries. 

GoodBuy Gear - a leading online resale marketplace for baby and kid gear - announced a total of $14M in funding co-led by Interlock Partners and existing investor Revolution Ventures. The female-founded-and-led startup also received new funding from Crawley Ventures, Mana Ventures, Access Ventures, Relay Ventures, and Denver Angels. The funding will enable GoodBuy Gear to further scale its online marketplace and solidify its position as a leading and trustworthy baby and kid resale brand. 

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.