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mogul: How This Company Is Radically Disrupting Residential Real Estate Investing By Onboarding It Onto Web3

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2023

mogul is known as a blockchain-based platform that enables anyone to directly invest in cash-flowing properties for as little as $100 and property owners are provided with cost-cutting and equity-unlocking blockchain-based solutions and connects them to investors. To learn more about the company, Pulse 2.0 interviewed Alex Blackwood, co-founder and CEO of mogul.

How Digibee Is Enabling Organizations To Scale Up Integration Architectures

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2023

Digibee is a rapidly growing enterprise integration platform as a service company. Last month Digibee hired Matt Durham as the head of market strategy. To learn more about the company and the role as the head of market strategy, Pulse 2.0 interviewed Durham.

Alitheon: Counterfeit Goods Are A $3 Trillion Problem That This Company Is Addressing

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2023

Alitheon is a company that is known as a developer of machine vision software designed to trace the lifecycle of goods without labels, markings, or packaging. To learn more about the company, Pulse 2.0 interviewed Alitheon CEO Roei Ganzarski.

e2ip technologies: Printed Electronics Company Secures $120 Million Growth Funding Round

By Annie Baker ● May 5, 2023

e2ip technologies - a global printed electronics and embedded system technologies innovation leader of the Human Machine Interface (HMI) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) sectors - announced the completion of its oversubscribed global growth funding round. The Series B funding round was co-led by Export Development Canada (EDC) and McRock Capital with existing investor Investissement Québec, which more than doubles its position, and new investor DNA Fund. This round is also supported by the National Bank of Canada (BNC). Founding investors W and Namakor remain.

Relay: $13 Million Raised To Develop Cloud Platform For Frontline Teams

By Dan Anderson ● May 5, 2023

Relay - a cloud platform for frontline teams - announced the closing of a $13 million Series A funding round from Sovereign's Capital, Wind River Ventures, and existing shareholders.

Evommune: $50 Million Secured To Develop New Ways To Treat Inflammatory Diseases

By Annie Baker ● May 5, 2023

Evommune - a clinical-stage biotechnology company discovering and developing new ways to treat inflammatory diseases - announced the completion of a $50 million Series B financing. The funding round was co-led by new investor Arix Bioscience and current investors EQT Life Sciences and SymBiosis with participation from new and existing investors including Amplitude Ventures, and Series A leads Pivotal bioVenture Partners and Andera Partners.

AirOps: $7 Million Raised To Deploy AI-Powered Apps For The Workplace

By Noah Long ● May 5, 2023

AirOps - a company that enables businesses to deploy powerful, easy-to-use, AI-powered apps - announced it has raised $7 million in seed funding led by Wing VC with participation from Founder Collective, XFund, Village Global, Apollo Projects, and Lachy Groom. This funding round will go toward building out its product suite, supporting new hires, and growing its customer base.

Cata Labs: $4.2 Million Secured To Connect The World’s Blockchains

By Annie Baker ● May 5, 2023

Cata Labs announced that it has raised $4.2 million in seed funding to support its development of a cross-chain liquidity layer to accelerate the economic activity between blockchains. And Spartan Group led the round, with participation from Robot Ventures, Maven11, Alchemy Ventures, HashKey Capital, Circle Ventures, Superscrypt, and others. And notable angel investors include Calvin Liu, Aditi Sriram, and David Phelps.

Redaptive: Energy-As-A-Service Solutions Company Raises $250 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2023

Redaptive - a leading provider of Energy-as-a-Service solutions - announced an additional investment in its series E funding round from long-term investor Linse Capital. This latest funding round follows recent contributions to the round made by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), Honeywell, CBRE, and others, which brings the total amount raised for this round to approximately $250 million.

Greycroft Closes Over $1 Billion Of Capital Commitments Across New Funds

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2023

Greycroft - a seed-to-growth venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs who build category-defining companies - recently announced the closing of over $1 billion of capital commitments across new funds. And the firm’s 2 flagship vehicles Greycroft Partners VII and Greycroft Growth IV closed on over $980 million, enabling the firm to continue to invest in early and growth-stage enterprise and consumer businesses.

Ares Strategic Income Fund Launched With $1.5 Billion In Initial Investible Capital

By Dan Anderson ● May 4, 2023

Ares Management - a leading global alternative investment manager - announced recently the launch of Ares Strategic Income Fund (ASIF), which is a perpetual capital, continuously offered, non-traded business development company seeking to primarily invest in directly originated, senior secured, floating-rate loans to U.S. middle-market companies. And this fund has launched with approximately $1.5 billion in initial investible capital, including over $847 million of equity commitments raised from certain existing institutional relationships in a private placement, and approximately $625 million in credit facility commitments.

Cowen Healthcare Investments: Over $550 Million Raised For Fourth Fund

By Annie Baker ● May 4, 2023

Cowen Healthcare Investments announced the successful closing of Cowen Healthcare Investments IV (CHI IV) with total committed capital of $555.6 million. CHI IV had received commitments from a wide cross-section of limited partners including institutional investors, wealth managers, family offices, and high net-worth individuals. CHI IV is going to invest primarily in mid to late-stage life sciences opportunities.

TheGuarantors: This Renter/Landlord Insurance Solution Company Has Now Secured Over $110 Million

By Dan Anderson ● May 4, 2023

TheGuarantors - a fintech company building smart financial and insurance solutions for renters and landlords - announced it has raised $35 million in growth capital financing from CIBC Innovation Banking.

Ansa: Digital Wallet Infrastructure Company Raises $5.4 Million

By Noah Long ● May 4, 2023

Ansa announced a first-of-its-kind digital wallet infrastructure platform for merchants along with its first round of funding of $5.4 million. This funding round was led by Christina Melas-Kyriazi at Bain Capital Ventures with participation from Nimi Katragadda at Box Group, Nichole Wischoff at Wischoff Ventures, Cambrian Ventures, The Fintech Fund, and Susa Ventures. Female investors and angels contributed over 75% of the funding round.

Openlayer: $4.8 Million Raised To Build On A Machine Learning Evaluation Platform And Address A $6 Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 4, 2023

How Nexterus Helps Companies Optimize Global Supply Chains

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 3, 2023

Nexterus is a Pennsylvania-based supply chain engineering and technology company (founded in 1946) that helps small to mid-sized companies effectively compete in today’s global marketplace. To learn more about the company, Pulse 2.0 interviewed Nexterus Director of Sales & Accounts Chris Schramm.

AaDya Security: All-In-One Cybersecurity Solutions Company Raises $5 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 3, 2023

AaDya Security - a software company founded by cybersecurity veteran Raffaele Mautone - announced the closing of a $5 million Series A funding round.

LiquidStack: How This Company Is Taking On The $2.2 Billion Immersion Cooling Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 3, 2023

LiquidStack is one of the world's largest liquid cooling companies for hyper-scale, edge, and high-performance computing. To learn more about the company, Pulse 2.0 interviewed Joe Capes, CEO and co-founder of LiquidStack.

aiXplain: No-Code/Low-Code Development Company Secures $8 Million

By Noah Long ● May 3, 2023

aiXplain - one of the industry's first no-code/low-code integrated AI development platforms - announced that it has raised $8 million in seed funding led by Transform VC and Calibrate Ventures.

Backslash Security: How This Cloud-Native Company Is Redefining The $6 Billion AppSec Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 3, 2023

Backslash Security is known as the first Cloud-Native Application Security solution for enterprise AppSec teams to offer unified security and business context to cloud-native code risk, coupled with automated threat modeling, code risk prioritization, and simplified remediation across applications and teams. To learn more about the company, Pulse 2.0 interviewed Backslash Security co-founder and CEO Shahar Man.

Amboss Technologies: Bitcoin Lightning Network Analytics Company Raises $4 Million

By Annie Baker ● May 3, 2023

Amboss Technologies - a pioneering data analytics company for the Bitcoin Lightning Network - announced it raised $4 million in Seed funding from Stillmark, which is a leading Bitcoin-native VC. The funding round also includes participation from such VCs as Valor Equity Partners, Draper Associates, Fulgur Ventures, and Ride Wave Ventures.

How AutoScheduler Helps Companies Scale Up Warehouse Management Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 3, 2023

AutoScheduler is a company that accelerates the capabilities of existing Warehouse Management Systems to help organizations solve challenges such as on-time in full (OTIF), dock schedule conflicts, and inefficient workforce allocation. To learn more about the company, Pulse 2.0 interviewed AutoScheduler CEO Keith Moore.

Ohmium: Green Hydrogen Company Secures $250 Million In Series C Funding

By Noah Long ● May 3, 2023

Ohmium International - a leading green hydrogen company that designs, manufactures, and deploys advanced proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer systems - announced the closing of a$250 million Series C growth equity financing.

Orbital Therapeutics: $270 Million Raised To Unleash The Potential Of RNA Medicines

By Annie Baker ● May 3, 2023

Orbital Therapeutics - a company that is focused on enhancing global health by unleashing the full potential of RNA medicines to treat human disease - announced the successful closing of $270 million Series A financing.

CareSource Investing $1 Million In Augment Therapy

By Noah Long ● May 3, 2023

CareSource - a nationally recognized nonprofit managed care organization - announced a $1 million investment in Augment Therapy, a digital health company enhancing rehabilitative health care and exercise through immersive and gamified technology. And this investment will further CareSource’s mission to connect its members to the latest digital technologies for helping address care gaps and ensure all people have access to innovative care.

How BrillDog Will Aid SMBs Manage Complex Supply Chains

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 3, 2023

BrillDog is a company that provides real-time, cloud-based supply chain analysis, management, and actionable insights specifically for small- to medium-sized businesses. And to learn more about the company, Pulse 2.0 interviewed Sam Polakoff, CEO and founder of BrillDog.

Ten63 Therapeutics: $15.9 Million Raised To Combine Generative AI And Physics-Based Models

By Dan Anderson ● May 3, 2023

Ten63 Therapeutics - a company combining generative AI and physics-based models to develop first- and best-in-class therapeutics - announced the closing of an oversubscribed $15.9 million Series A financing led by new investor Hatteras Venture Partners. And Morpheus Ventures, SOSV, Draper Associates, Alexandria Venture Investments, the Sigma Group, and other new investors also participated in the round.

ProvisionAI: How This Company Is Helping Manage Transportation Plans In Supply Chains

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 2, 2023

ProvisionAI is a company that offers the Patented LevelLoad SaaS platform to create accurate, executable, and optimal Deployment Transportation Plans. To learn more about the company, Pulse 2.0 interviewed ProvisionAI founder and CEO Tom Moore.

True I/O: How This Company Enables IT Teams To Track Assets Across Multiple Networks On The Blockchain

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 2, 2023

True I/O is an ecosystem of blockchain-enabled solutions that include a cross-network security solution called the Universal Communications Identifier (UCIDTM) and Digital Names, an alias solution for public keys. To learn more about the company Pulse 2.0 interviewed True I/O chief executive officer Thomas Carter.

Blank Rome Welcomes 7 New Attorneys And 2 International Trade Pros

By Annie Baker ● May 2, 2023

Blank Rome LLP announced it is welcoming seven new attorneys and two international trade professionals to the firm’s International Trade practice group in Washington, D.C., which further strengthens the firm’s capabilities in this area.