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LearnUpon: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Brendan Noud About The LMS Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

LearnUpon was founded on a belief: learning should be simple, and its impact should be big. Pulse 2.0 interviewed LearnUpon co-founder and CEO Brendan Noud to learn more about the company.

Prophetic: Seed Funding Raised For Real Estate Development Opportunity Analysis

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Prophetic, a leading software platform for real estate development opportunity analysis and land acquisition, announced its national expansion and completion of its seed funding round, led by Entrada Ventures with participation from SilverCircle, Progression, and others.

Prowler: $12.5 Million (Seed) Closed For Open Cloud Security Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Prowler, a leader in open cloud security, announced an additional $6.5 million investment in its seed round, taking its total seed financing to $12.5 million, led by Decibel VC. SNR and IrregEx joined the round, as did several prominent angel investors.

TwinKnowledge: $3.7 Million (Seed) Closed For AI-Based Insights Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

TwinKnowledge, an AI-based company transforming data intelligence for real estate and the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO) industries, announced the completion of its $3.7 million Series Seed equity funding round. The funding round was led by Camber Creek, the leading venture capital firm focused on driving innovation in the real estate industry, with participation from Great Wave Ventures.

Sturdy.ai: $6 Million (Seed) Raised For AI-Based Customer Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Sturdy.ai, a rapidly growing AI-based customer intelligence company, announced it has raised $6 million in Series Seed funding. Voyager Capital led this funding round, with participation from Fortson VC and existing investor, Grotech Ventures.

Ropes: $3.1 Million (Seed) For Scaling AI-Driven Skills-Based Hiring

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Ropes, an AI-based platform transforming how engineering talent is evaluated, announced it has raised $3.1 million in seed funding. The seed funding round, led by GSV Ventures with participation from Box Group, will advance the company's goal of bridging the gap between technical assessment and real-world performance.

vopemed: C$2.29 Million (Pre-Seed) Closed For Transforming Surgical Visualization With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Vopemed (Vope Medical), a medical technology startup enhancing surgical vision with AI-powered image clarification, announced it has secured an oversubscribed $2.29 million pre-seed funding round to accelerate the development of its technology and clinical validation. This funding round marks a significant milestone in vopemed's vision of empowering surgical teams with next-generation tools for safer, more efficient surgeries.

Opsera: $20 Million (Series B) Secured For AI-Based DevOps Platform Innovation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Opsera, an AI-based DevOps platform trusted by many companies, announced it has raised $20 million in Series B funding, led by Prosperity7 with participation from Hitachi Ventures. This funding round represents a breakout year with several product releases that position Opsera as one of the market's most flexible and intelligent AI-powered DevOps platforms for all apps and teams.

Weave: Interview With CEO Brett White About The Customer Experience Software Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Weave is a leading all-in-one customer experience software for healthcare practices. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Weave CEO and board director Brett White to learn more about the company.

Cyberhaven: $100 Million (Series D) Raised At $1 Billion Valuation For AI-Based Data Security Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Cyberhaven, a leader in AI-based data security, announced $100 million in Series D funding, led by StepStone Group and new investors Schroders and Industry Ventures, to advance its growth and cement its position as the leader in AI-based data protection.

Flagship: $3.75 Million (Seed) Raised For Visual Merchandising Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Flagship announced its expansion into the US market with one of the largest and fastest-growing U.S. performance apparel brands and several significant retail partnerships, including Mejuri and Mad Happy. The company also recently closed a $3.75 million seed funding round led by Coreline and Veridical Ventures, with participation from Tidal Ventures and Macdoch Ventures.

Hi Auto: $15 Million (Series A) Secured For Scaling Conversational AI For Quick-Service Restaurant Drive-Thrus

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Hi Auto, a startup pioneering AI-based voice technology for the quick-service restaurant (QSR) industry, has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Delek Motors, the Zisapel Family, Vasuki Tech Fund, and a publicly traded strategic investor from the restaurant sector. This new funding round, which brings Hi Auto's total capital raised to $23 million, also included participation from Allied Group, Goldbell Investments, and the Meir Barel Group. Along with the funding, Hi Auto has secured a $4 million credit line to support its growth and expansion efforts.

Runtime Ventures: $32 Million Debut Fund Launches For Seed Stage Cybersecurity Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Runtime Ventures, a VC fund focused exclusively on seed-stage cybersecurity investments, announced the launch of its debut fund, with a capital commitment of $32 million. Runtime Ventures is dedicated to supporting and nurturing innovative pre-seed and seed-stage cybersecurity startups.

Phonic: $4 Million Raised For Speech-To-Speech Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Phonic, an end-to-end speech-to-speech platform for building lifelike conversational voice agents, announced a $4 million funding raise from leading investors including Lux Capital and visionary leaders in the AI space including the founders of Replit (Amjad Masad), Hugging Face (Clem Delangue), Applied Intuition (Qasar Younis), and Modal (Erik Bernhardsson).

VulnCheck: $12 Million (Series A) To Address Demand For Exploit Intelligence Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Exploit intelligence company VulnCheck announced a $12 million Series A funding round led by Ten Eleven Ventures. Existing investors, including Sorenson Capital and In-Q-Tel(IQT), participated. And the latest investment brings VulnCheck's total funding raised to nearly $20 million.

FirstPartyCapital Raises Strategic Funding From DoubleVerify

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

FirstPartyCapital (FPC), an early-stage venture capital firm specialising in adtech, martech, and digital media, announced a strategic investment from DoubleVerify, a leading software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics.

StrategiQ: £3 Million Investment Raised For Communications And Marketing Agency

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

StrategiQ, a rapidly growing strategic communications and marketing agency, announced a significant £3 million investment in growth to advance its goal of becoming a leading force in the creative services industry.

HyperSciences: $1.7 Million Phase 2 SBIR Contract Award Received

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

HyperSciences, a leader in advanced hypersonic propulsion and projectile technologies, announced it has been awarded a $1.7M Phase 2 SBIR (Small Business Industry Research) contract with the U.S. Department of Defense as a follow-on to its 2018-2019 NASA SBIR Phase 1 contract.

PGIM Real Estate: $2 Billion Raised For Final Close Of Global Data Center Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

PGIM Real Estate announced it has completed the fundraise for its first Global Data Center Fund (GDCF) with $2 billion of capital allocated to the strategy. And PGIM Real Estate secured capital commitments for the GDCF from a range of global investors.

Actively AI: $22.5 Million Secured For Maximize Revenue For Sales Teams

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Actively AI, a company that applies AI reasoning for revenue teams, announced it has raised $17.5 million in Series A funding led by Bain Capital Ventures. And First Round Capital, which led their previously unannounced $5 million seed round, also participated. Plus, prominent angel investors include Jason Boehmig, co-founder and CEO at Ironclad; Ali Rowghani, former Y Combinator managing partner and Twitter COO; and Frederic Kerrest, vice chairman and co-founder at Okta. With this funding round, Actively has raised $22.5 million to date.

Reed Smith: Eugenie Rogers Joins Global Commercial Disputes Group And International Arbitration Team

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

Reed Smith recently announced that Eugenie Rogers has joined the firm’s Global Commercial Disputes Group and international arbitration team as a partner in its Dallas office.

SandboxAQ: Over $450 Million (Series E) Raised For Enterprise Quantitative AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

SandboxAQ, a leader in enterprise quantitative AI, announced the addition of Ray Dalio, Horizon Kinetics, BNP Paribas, Google, and NVIDIA to its Series E funding round that raised over $450 million. These investments emphasize the confidence in SandboxAQ's vision and the transformative power of its Large Quantitative Models (LQMs), which are transforming how enterprises leverage AI to address complex scientific and quantitative challenges.

Paul Hastings: Din Eshanov And George Kazakov To Co-Head Abu Dhabi Office

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

Paul Hastings announced the significant expansion of its global energy and infrastructure practice with the addition of a premier European team and the opening of a new Abu Dhabi office situated as the firm’s regional hub serving clients across the UAE, Europe and Asia.

Tower MSA Partners: Strategic Investment Raised From Ambler Brook

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

Tower MSA Partners - a leading national provider of Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) compliance technology and settlement services to self-insured enterprises, insurance carriers, and third-party administrators - announced that it received a significant growth investment from Ambler Brook.

LPL Financial Buying Commonwealth Financial For $2.7 Billion In Cash

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

LPL Financial announced that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Commonwealth Financial Network, the country's largest independently owned wealth management firm.

Mercer Advisors Brings In $583 Million Vishria Bird Team

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

Mercer Global Advisors - a national Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) - announced the acquisition of Vishria Bird Financial Group, a Memphis-based financial planning and advisory firm. This deal further enhances Mercer Advisors' footprint in Tennessee, complementing its existing offices in the Nashville area.

Dentons: Richard Brown Named As Partner In Competition Team In London

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

Dentons announced it welcomes Richard Brown as a partner in its Competition team in London. Brown joins Dentons from Travers Smith, where he worked on merger control, foreign investment review, and complex investigations.

DLA Piper: Charles Rix Added To International Insurance Team

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

DLA Piper recently announced the appointment of Charles Rix to its International Insurance team. Joining the firm's London office, Charles has almost 30 years of industry experience advising leading global insurance companies on complex cross-border M&A transactions, insurance business transfers, business restructurings and regulatory matters. And during his career, Charles has been in senior leadership roles at other firms, including Global Head of Insurance and Head of UK M&A.

Redpanda: $100 Million (Series D) Raised For Agentic AI Service for the Enterprise

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

Redpanda announced it has closed $100 million in Series D funding led by GV, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners. With this latest funding round, Redpanda is now valued at $1 billion, with a total of $265 million raised.

restor3d: $38 Million Raised For 3D Printed Patient Specific Musculoskeletal Implants

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 4, 2025

restor3d - a leader in 3D-printed and personalized orthopedic implant care - announced the completion of capital raising efforts totaling $38 million. These funding rounds included participation from both existing and new private investors, including Summers Value Partners.