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Crowley has appointed Eric Cunningham as vice president of Shared Services, where he will focus on growing the company’s business relationships and capabilities for customers across the U.S., Central America, and strategic markets. 

Cipher Sports Technology Group’s vision is to be at the center of a bettor’s most exciting moments by creating memorable content powered by proprietary predictive analytics, machine learning and AI models. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Cipher Sports Technology Group CEO Adam Fiske to learn more.

DuploCloud is a DevOps platform for automating infrastructure provisioning, built-in compliance, and security. Pulse 2.0 interviewed DuploCloud founder and CEO Venkat Thiruvengadam to learn more.

Sampler - a shopper promotions and insights platform - recently announced its acquisition of AdMass. This AI-powered SaaS platform enables brands and their agencies to create data-driven user-generated content promotions. And this marks Sampler’s second acquisition in just four months, following the successful completion of their acquisition of beauty digital sampling agency abeo in March 2023. The back-to-back deals are part of the company's strategic efforts to expand its product offering and accelerate growth.

SmileDirectClub - the med tech oral care company with the first telehealth platform for teeth straightening - recently announced the opening of 18 new locations of its patented SmileShop concept, bringing the company’s retail footprint to 128 locations across the globe. The expansion comes as SmileDirectClub celebrates its two-millionth aligner customer served through its orthodontic telehealth platform.

Vaxcyte - a clinical-stage vaccine innovation company engineering high-fidelity vaccines to protect humankind from the consequences of bacterial diseases - recently announced that the ongoing Phase 2 study of VAX-24 in healthy infants is advancing to the second and final stage of the study. The independent Data Safety Monitoring Board approved moving to the second stage of the study following the review of the safety and tolerability results from the first stage. The Phase 2 study evaluates the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of VAX-24, the Company’s lead, broad-spectrum 24-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) candidate designed to prevent invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). Vaxcyte expects to share topline data from the primary three-dose immunization series of the study by 2025, followed by topline data from the booster dose approximately nine months later.

Rhino Health is a company that enables AI/data science developers and medical researchers to collaborate without sharing data or compromising data privacy. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Rhino Health co-founder and CEO Dr. Ittai Dayan to learn more.

Everseen is a company that has developed computer vision AI technology, which is trusted by over half of the world’s top 15 retailers to mitigate and reduce shrink, streamline operations, and help deliver a better customer experience. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Everseen co-founder and CEO Alan O’Herlihy to learn more.

Full Harvest is the first business-to-business marketplace for imperfect and surplus produce. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Full Harvest founder and CEO Christine Moseley to learn more.

Sonio - a French medtech specializing in pregnant people and children's health - recently announced it had finalized a series A round of funding of $14 million following the initial commitment of the EIC Fund (European Innovation Council) last December. This funding round was led by Cross Border Impact Ventures, a North American impact fund dedicated to the health of women and children, and the Elaia funds, French Tech Seed managed on behalf of the State by Bpifrance in the framework of France 2030, OneRagtime, and business angels very active in the health field, including Dominique Gaillard (former president of France Invest), Alain Decombe (Dechert) and Yann Fleureau (founder of Cardiologs).

The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator has welcomed ten health-tech companies worldwide to its ninth accelerator class. These businesses are building a variety of healthcare solutions-from monitoring devices for sepsis, heart failure, and stroke to virtual reality video games aimed at helping children manage pain and anxiety during medical procedures.

Erudit is an AI-SaaS platform company empowering executives to leave employee surveys in the past with updated workforce insights, metrics, and analytics. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Erudit's Chief Science Officer Ricardo Reyes to learn more.

Alice & Bob - a global leader in the race for fault-tolerant quantum computing - recently announced the appointment of Elie Girard as its new Executive Chairman. Girard will utilize his decades of business strategy experience to advise Alice & Bob in its pioneering efforts to develop high-quality, logical qubits based on Cat Qubits technology.

FononTech recently announced it has landed €2.3 million in a seed investment round. Five investors participated in this round. This first investment round was made possible through convertible loans of the TTT Smart Industries Fund, SHIFT Invest, Brabantse Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij (BOM), the Brabant Startup Fonds (BSF), and renowned investor Sake Bosch. Rabobank has also granted a loan.

Captions - a leading AI-powered creative studio - recently announced that they had raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Kleiner Perkins. And other esteemed investors, including Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and SV Angel, also participated, bringing the total capital raised to $40 million.

bitewell - the first-ever corporate food health benefits provider - recently announced an oversubscribed close of their $4 million seed round spearheaded by Lake Nona Sports & Health Tech Fund and Refinery Ventures. The participants in the round include Alex Morgan's Trybe Ventures, Mudita Venture Partners, Harvest Ridge Capital, and Bertelsmann's BDMI, among others.

Trax Technologies - a global leader in Transportation Spend Management solutions - recently announced a minority equity investment by TBK Bank, SSB d/b/a TriumphPay, and a strategic relationship with TriumphPay, the premier payments network for freight brokers, factors, shippers and carriers in the North American trucking industry.

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.