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Arya Health: $18.2 Million Series A Closed For Advancing AI Agents For Post-Acute Care Administration

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

Arya Health has secured $18.2 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-driven administrative automation platform for post-acute and home health providers. The round was led by ACME Capital, with participation from Ridge Ventures, Twelve Below, OpenAI executives, and several leading post-acute care providers, bringing the company’s total funding to $25 million.

Barclays To Buy Best Egg For $800 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

Barclays has agreed to acquire Best Egg, a prominent personal loan originator, in an $800 million transaction aimed at strengthening its foothold in the U.S. consumer finance market. The deal marks a significant expansion of Barclays’ retail banking operations in the United States, positioning the bank to capture a larger share of the growing unsecured lending sector.

Maple Bridge Ventures: C$10.2 Million Closed To Back Immigrant Founders

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

Maple Bridge Ventures announced the first close of its $20 million CAD debut venture fund at $10.2 million CAD, led by anchor investors Farm Credit Canada and Realize Capital Partners. The fund, founded by Eric Agyemang, supports immigrant founders building high-growth companies in AgriFoodTech, HealthTech, and Enterprise Solutions.

Motive Partners Investing $100 Million In Electric Mind To Advance Financial Services Transformation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

Motive Partners has invested $100 million in Electric Mind, an AI-led services firm focused on engineering transformation for financial institutions. The partnership will drive Electric Mind’s U.S. expansion and deepen its AI and data engineering capabilities for clients in wealth management, banking, and alternative investments.

WideField Security: $11.3 Million Series A Raised For Protecting The Identity Lifecycle

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

WideField Security, a cybersecurity company providing complete visibility and protection across the identity lifecycle, has raised $11.3 million in a Series A round led by Crosspoint Capital, with participation from Engineering Capital and others. The company will use the funding to accelerate product development and market expansion amid rising identity-based threats.

RiPSIM: Strategic Investment Raised From Swisscom Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

RiPSIM Technologies, the creator of the world’s first cloud-native platform for generating and delivering mobile network authentication credentials on demand, has announced a strategic investment led by Swisscom Ventures, the venture capital arm of Swisscom AG.

EnCap Investments: $2 Billion PennEnergy Continuation Vehicle Closed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

EnCap Investments announced the closing of a continuation vehicle for PennEnergy Resources, with over $2 billion in capital commitments, marking the largest continuation vehicle formed to date in the upstream energy sector. The transaction enables PennEnergy to continue developing its extensive natural gas portfolio in the Marcellus Shale, while also providing growth capital for future bolt-on opportunities amid a favorable natural gas market.

FSS Technologies: Strategic Investment Raised From Lightview Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

Lightview Capital announced a strategic investment in FSS Technologies, a leading provider of integrated fire, security, life safety, and technology solutions for commercial and institutional clients. The partnership will enable FSS Technologies to expand its geographic reach, enhance its service capabilities, and pursue strategic acquisitions, further strengthening its position as a trusted provider of mission-critical safety infrastructure.

Sun Capital Partners Selling Cotton Holdings To Sullivan Brothers Family Of Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

Sun Capital Partners, a leading private investment firm focused on building market-leading companies, announced that an affiliate has completed the sale of Cotton Holdings to the Sullivan Brothers Family of Companies (SBFC). The transaction marks a significant milestone for both firms and positions Cotton for its next phase of growth as a global leader in restoration, recovery, and infrastructure support services.

Trinity Consultants Buys Jaros, Baum & Bolles To Expand Capabilities In Built Environment Engineering

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

Trinity Consultants, a global consulting firm specializing in natural and built environments, announced its acquisition of Jaros, Baum & Bolles (JB&B), a renowned New York-based provider of mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection (MEP/FP) engineering services. The acquisition enhances Trinity’s Built Environment division, adding JB&B’s century-long legacy of engineering excellence to its expanding suite of solutions in acoustic design, commissioning, facility operations, and technology strategy.

OpenSpace Buying Disperse To Enhance Leadership In Visual Intelligence For Construction

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

OpenSpace, a leader in construction site visualization and AI technology, announced the acquisition of Disperse, a leading provider of construction progress-tracking solutions. The deal advances OpenSpace’s position as the leading Visual Intelligence Platform for builders, uniting imagery, analytics, and verified progress tracking into a single trusted system that enhances visibility and decision-making across construction projects.

Homecourt: $8 Million Series A Raised For Scaling Luxury Fragrance And Homecare Brand

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

Homecourt, the fragrance and homecare brand founded by actor and entrepreneur Courteney Cox, has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by CULT Capital to accelerate brand awareness, team expansion, and operational infrastructure.

VentureMed: $28 Million Series C Raised For Expanding FLEX Vessel Prep System And Advancing Vascular Care

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

VentureMed Group, a Minnesota-based medical device company developing vessel preparation and access management technologies, has closed a $28 million Series C financing round led by S3 Ventures with participation from existing investor Endeavour Vision.

Mews Acquires DataChat For Accelerating Agentic AI In Hospitality Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

Mews, a global hospitality operating system provider, announced its acquisition of DataChat, a U.S.-based AI analytics company specializing in natural language data interaction and automation. The acquisition marks a significant step forward in Mews’ mission to usher in the era of agentic hospitality, where intelligent systems autonomously manage operations, optimize performance, and empower staff to focus on the guest experience.

Macquarie Asset Management: $450 Million Financing For Texas Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Project

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

Macquarie Asset Management has announced a $450 million bilateral financing facility for Sandow Lakes Energy Station (SLES) to support the construction of a 1.2-gigawatt combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) project in Lee County, Texas. The financing will enable SLES to secure essential long-lead equipment, including two Siemens SGT6-9000HL gas turbines, to advance development of a large-scale energy asset designed to power energy-intensive infrastructure.

Sweatpals: $12 Million Seed Funding Raised To Improve Social Connection Through Fitness

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

Sweatpals, the community-driven fitness platform pioneering social connection through movement, has raised $12 million in seed funding led by Patron, a16z speedrun, and Kevin Hart’s HartBeat Ventures. The funding will accelerate Sweatpals’ expansion across the United States and enhance its technology for gyms, studios, instructors, and wellness hosts to build thriving fitness communities.

Wild Moose: $7 Million Seed Funding Closed To Improve Site Reliability Engineering

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

Wild Moose, an AI-based Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) platform designed to act as a first responder for production incidents, has emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding. The round was led by iAngels, with participation from Y Combinator, F2 Venture Capital, Maverick Ventures, and several prominent angel investors, including Joel Pobar (AI researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs and formerly Anthropic), Jeremy Edberg (Founding SRE at Reddit and Netflix), and Arash Ferdowski (Co-founder of Dropbox).

Encoded Ventures Launched To Back Early-Stage Infrastructure Innovation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

Encoded Ventures, a new early-stage venture capital firm founded by longtime investor Alex Benik, has officially launched, marking a renewed focus on innovation across cloud, data, and cybersecurity infrastructure.

BroadOak Capital Partners Adds $200 Million In Permanent Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

BroadOak Capital Partners, a life sciences-focused investment and advisory firm, has secured more than $200 million in permanent capital, expanding its capacity to invest flexibly across the life sciences ecosystem. The new capital strengthens BroadOak’s ability to support companies in life sciences tools, diagnostics, and biopharma services while eliminating the traditional constraints of fund timelines.

OceanPal And NEAR Foundation Launch SovereignAI With $120 Million PIPE Investment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

OceanPal announced the closing of a $120 million private investment in public equity (PIPE) to launch SovereignAI, a wholly owned subsidiary focused on developing blockchain-native AI infrastructure built on the NEAR Protocol. And the new initiative positions SovereignAI as the first publicly listed company platform dedicated to advancing AI sovereignty, data privacy, and decentralized compute infrastructure at scale.

VeroSkills: $5.3 Million Raised To Expand AI-Based Staffing Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

VeroSkills, an AI-driven hiring platform dedicated to solving America’s $1 trillion blue-collar labor shortage, announced the closing of a $5.3 million funding round led by Yonder Ventures, with additional participation from Circadian Ventures, Motivate Ventures, Colchuck, and Tony Summerville, founder of Fleetio.

Level Acquires BAM Strategy To Create Unified Growth Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

Level, a digital marketing firm backed by Dubin Clark, has acquired BAM Strategy, combining two industry leaders to form a unified growth platform spanning the entire customer lifecycle from acquisition to loyalty.

PartnerOne To Buy Mortgage Cadence From Accenture

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

PartnerOne, one of the fastest-growing enterprise software groups, has announced an agreement to acquire Mortgage Cadence, a leading provider of cloud-based digital lending platforms serving banks, credit unions, and independent mortgage lenders, in partnership with Accenture.

FleetPride And TruckPro Merging To Form Leading Independent Heavy-Duty Parts Distributor

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

FleetPride and TruckPro have announced the completion of their merger, creating the largest independent distributor and service provider in the heavy-duty aftermarket parts industry. The combined company will operate under the FleetPride name, offering enhanced parts availability, expanded service capacity, and a unified ecommerce experience across more than 450 locations, 110 service centers, and six distribution hubs in the U.S. and Canada.

BMG Money: $300 Million Facility Secured From WebBank

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

BMG Money, a leading provider of employment-based lending solutions, has secured a $300 million financing facility with WebBank and Waterfall Asset Management, expanding its total financing capacity to approximately $1 billion. This new facility enhances BMG’s ability to offer responsible credit to financially underserved employees across the United States.

Mem0: $24 Million Raised For Powering Memory Layer For AI Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

Mem0, a leading memory infrastructure platform for AI agents, has raised $24 million in combined Seed and Series A funding to build what it calls the “default memory layer for AI.” Kindred Ventures led the Seed round, and the Series A was led by Basis Set Ventures, with participation from Peak XV Partners, GitHub Fund, and Y Combinator. Strategic investors include Scott Belsky, Dharmesh Shah, and the CEOs of Datadog, Supabase, PostHog, and Weights & Biases.

Xavo Buying Laboperator To Expand Digital Laboratory Execution Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

Xavo, a global leader in sample management and laboratory execution systems, has announced the acquisition of Laboperator from Labforward GmbH, marking a significant step toward its goal of delivering a fully unified digital ecosystem connecting research, development, and manufacturing.

Polygraf AI: $9.5 Million Seed Funding Closed To Scale Enterprise AI Security Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

Polygraf AI, a Texas-based artificial intelligence security company, has raised $9.5 million in seed funding to accelerate its mission of securing enterprise and government AI ecosystems against threats such as deepfakes, data leaks, and AI-generated fraud. The round was led by Allegis Capital, with participation from Alumni Ventures, DataPower VC, Domino Ventures, and existing backers.

Ryerson And Olympic Steel Announce Merger To Form $6.5 Billion Metals Leader

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

Ryerson Holding and Olympic Steel have entered into a definitive merger agreement to form the second-largest metals service center in North America, with combined revenue of approximately $6.5 billion. The transaction, expected to close in the first quarter of 2026, remains subject to regulatory clearance and shareholder approval.

Sesame: €50 Million Financing Secured From BBVA Spark

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 29, 2025

Spanish HR software leader Sesame has signed a €50 million financing agreement with BBVA Spark, the innovation and growth unit of BBVA, to accelerate its international expansion across Europe while channeling its own capital toward advancing artificial intelligence (AI) for human resources. The deal represents one of the largest non-dilutive financing rounds for a SaaS company in Spain to date.