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Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that it has agreed to buy Excellicon. This will bring Excellicon’s software for the development, verification, and management of timing constraints to Siemens’ EDA portfolio of software for IC design.

YFM Equity Partners announced Jamie Roberts has been appointed as Managing Partner, with Eamon Nolan taking on a role as Head of Investor Relations & Fundraising.

TSG Consumer Partners, a leading specialist private equity firm focused exclusively on the consumer sector, announced the promotion of Jessica Duran to Chief Operating Officer. Duran will continue to serve as Chief Financial Officer, a role she has held since joining the firm in 2017.

New Mountain Capital, a growth-oriented investment firm with $55+ billion in assets under management, announced a definitive agreement to form Smarter Technologies, the automation and insights platform for healthcare efficiency, created through the strategic combination of portfolio companies SmarterDx, Thoughtful.ai, and Access Healthcare.

QuantumLight, a quantitative venture capital firm founded by Nik Storonsky, announced the final closing of its inaugural $250 million fund. And at the same time, the firm is publicly launching its second operating playbook Hiring Top Talent designed to help founders systematically scale world-class teams.

Paul Hastings announced the continued expansion of its transformative international energy and infrastructure team and broader corporate platform with the appointment of mergers and acquisitions lawyer Stefan Mrozinski and projects lawyer Habeeb Rahman as partners in Abu Dhabi. Both join from White & Case.

TXNM Energy announced an agreement under which Blackstone Infrastructure will acquire TXNM Energy for $61.25 per share in cash upon closing, reflecting a total enterprise value of $11.5 billion, including net debt (excluding securitization debt) and preferred stock.

OpenFX, an FX infrastructure company revolutionizing cross-border payments, announced its emergence from stealth with $23 million in funding led by Accel, with participation from NFX, Lightspeed Faction, Castle Island Ventures, Flybridge, Hash3 and strategic fintech investors.

Seniorverse, a mission-driven startup transforming the senior care landscape, announced that it has raised $2.1 million in seed funding from a diverse group of high-net-worth individuals, angel investors, founders, and senior care industry veterans. This strategic funding will support the development of Seniorverse’s software platform and the recruitment of key hires to accelerate growth.

Honeywell announced that it has agreed to buy Johnson Matthey's Catalyst Technologies business segment for £1.8 billion in an all-cash deal, representing about 11 times the estimated 2025 EBITDA, inclusive of tax benefits and run-rate cost synergies.

LIS Technologies, a proprietary developer of advanced laser technology and the only USA-origin and patented laser uranium enrichment company, announced that it has closed its third consecutive oversubscribed funding round of $11.93 million, bringing the total raised to over $47 million to date. The funding round saw continued support from repeat investors, including Innovating Capital, along with other prominent, seasoned, and industry investors in advanced nuclear technology.

BreachRx, a provider of the first intelligent incident response platform designed for the entire enterprise, announced the closing of an oversubscribed $15 million Series A funding round led by Ballistic Ventures, with participation from SYN Ventures, Overline, and Silver Buckshot Ventures. This brings the company’s total funding raised to over $23 million.

Leading GaN (Gallium Nitride) technology company Finwave Semiconductor announced a new $8.2 million bridge investment round, led by Fine Structure Ventures, Engine Ventures, and Safar Partners, with strategic participation from technology partner GlobalFoundries. This new funding round signals firm conviction from investors and industry leaders in the market potential of Finwave’s unique GaN-on-Si technology as the company transitions from a technology-centric innovator to a product-driven company prepared to deliver real-world solutions.

JumpCloud is simplifying IT with the acquisition of VaultOne. VaultOne delivers privileged access management (PAM) solutions that provide secure access to a wide range of critical assets, from SaaS applications to cloud infrastructure and databases. JumpCloud’s acquisition furthers its goal of simplifying IT operations across a secure access control platform for today’s global workforce.

Atlanta-based private equity firm Eagle Merchant Partners announced it closed its second fund, Eagle Merchant Partners Fund II, with $415 million in capital commitments.

Miter, a leading provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM), field operations, and expense management solutions for the construction and field service industries, announced it has raised a total of $38 million, including a recent $23 million round led by existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Coatue Management.

PHASE Scientific, a biotechnology company revolutionizing early disease detection through proprietary urine-based diagnostics, announced the completion of a $34 million Series A funding round. This funding round was led by Value Partners Group with significant backing from new healthcare-focused investors and continued support from existing global backers.

Teleskope Technologies, a leading employee experience platform for global enterprises, announced it received a significant minority investment from SEVA Growth, a growth equity firm exclusively focused on serving customer-centric founders building fast-growing, profitable, and technology-enabled companies.

RevenueCat, a leading platform for managing consumer app monetization, announced it has raised a $50 million Series C round led by Bain Capital Ventures (BCV). Returning investors Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Adjacent, Volo Ventures, and SaaStr Fund also participated. This added to the prior $12 million Series C raised last year, bringing the total raised to $100 million to date.

WellTheory, a leading whole-person care platform for autoimmune disease, announced the close of $5 million in new funding and the rollout of its AI tools Care Hub and Care Scribe across its care operations. New investors Samsung Next, Opal Ventures, and Up2 Fund joined the funding round, with continued support from existing investors Accel, OVO Fund, and BoxGroup.

FORE Biotherapeutics, a registration-stage biotherapeutics company focused on developing targeted therapies to treat cancer patients, announced a $38 million Series D-2 financing. For this initial close of the Series D-2, leading healthcare-dedicated investors participated, such as SR One, Medicxi, OrbiMed, HBM Healthcare Investments, Wellington Management, Novartis Venture Fund, Cormorant Asset Management, and 3B Future Health Fund.

Global Student Accommodation (GSA), a leader in student housing, announced the closing of a $500 million senior loan facility with Wells Fargo Bank, which is one of the world’s leading financial institutions.

STACK Infrastructure, a digital infrastructure partner to innovative companies and a leading global developer and operator of data centers, announced the closing of a $1.4 billion green financing facility, which was secured by a diversified pool of ten fully stabilized and revenue-generating data centers across its North American platform.

Pixee, which is the creator of innovative solutions that empower security teams to match the productivity of AI-powered development, announced that it has raised $15 million in seed funding. The funding round was led by Decibel and Wing VC, with participation from TEDCO, PrimeSet and strategic investors, including early GitHub engineer Zach Holman, HackerOne Founder and CTO Alex Rice, Oracle SVP of Cloud Operations Brian Chess, etc.

Forethought, a leader in agentic AI for customer experience, announced it had introduced the industry’s first multi-agent and omnichannel AI for customer experience. For driving the growth of its agentic CX system, the company secured a $25 million strategic investment, bringing total funding to $115 million.

StackHawk, a shift-left API security platform company, announced it has taken on $12 million in additional funding from Sapphire and Costanoa Ventures to help security teams keep up with the pace of AI-driven development. Sapphire and Costanoa Ventures also co-led StackHawk's Series B funding in 2022, bringing the company's total funding to $47.3 million.

Axle Health, a company transforming home healthcare operations, announced a Series A funding round of $10 million. This funding round was led by F-Prime, with participation from Y Combinator, Pear VC, and Lightbank.

SecureAuth believes more security shouldn’t mean more obstacles. Since 2005, SecureAuth has helped leading companies simplify identity and access management for customers and employees, creating experiences that are as welcoming as they are secure. SecureAuth is redefining authentication for the modern enterprise. Today’s evolving threat landscape demands innovative, adaptive security solutions. As the first-to-market provider of continuous facial authentication, the company goes beyond the initial authentication to deliver ongoing security throughout the entire session. SecureAuth’s mature AI-driven risk engine delivers dynamic (and often invisible) authentication, making enterprises more effective than ever at eliminating threats while ensuring frictionless, secure access for employees and customers. “Welcome to Better Identity.” Pulse 2.0 interviewed SecureAuth CEO Joseph Dhanapal to learn more about the company. 

NextSTEP (NextEnergy Sustainable TEchnology for the Planet) is an investment initiative dedicated to the capitalization and growth of innovative early-stage startups in the field of Environmental Sustainability (CleanTech). Pulse 2.0 interviewed NextSTEP Claudio Colombo to learn more about the company.

Archetype AI is a physical AI company pioneering a new form of technology that is capable of perceiving, understanding, and reasoning about the world. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Archetype AI co-founder, CEO, and CTO Dr. Ivan Poupyrev to learn more about the company.