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Alpaca Real Estate: $50 Million Credit Facility With Stifel Bank Closed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 27, 2025

Alpaca Real Estate (ARE), an alternative investment management firm, announced the closing of a $50 million credit facility with Stifel Bank. This financing marks another milestone in the firm’s growth, reflecting both the significant progress made in advancing its opportunistic investment strategy and the growing confidence that leading institutions have in its ability to deliver strong results.

Vermont Tech Hub Raises Nearly $24 Million In Federal Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 27, 2025

The Vermont Gallium Nitride (V-GaN) Tech Hub — a consortium led by the University of Vermont (UVM) and GlobalFoundries and the State of Vermont — was awarded $23.7 million in federal funding. This funding from the U.S. Economic Development Administration is the most significant research award in UVM history.

Degree Analytics: Data-Informed Campus Solutions Company Raises $5 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 27, 2025

Degree Analytics, a leader in data-informed campus solutions, announced the closing of a $5 million funding round led by LiveOak Ventures. This funding will drive the development and rollout of its facilities optimization platform, empowering colleges and universities to unlock new efficiencies, cut costs, and enhance student experiences by harnessing real-time data insights.

Fundraise Up: Nonprofit Fundraising Platform Company Raises $70 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 27, 2025

Fundraise Up, a fundraising platform for nonprofits, announced a minority growth investment led by Summit Partners with participation from existing investor Telescope Partners. And the new funding round reinforces Fundraise Up’s leadership position in the nonprofit technology sector. It will support the company’s commitment to expand product offerings, accelerate global market reach, and provide innovative, AI-based solutions purpose-built to unlock the fundraising potential and impact of nonprofit organizations.

esVolta: $243 Million Preferred Equity Investment Raised For Battery Energy Storage Projects

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 27, 2025

esVolta - a leading developer, owner, and operator of utility-scale battery energy storage projects across North America - recently completed a preferred equity transaction structured by Captona, an established energy transition investment firm. This funding and the sale of ITC transfer proceeds are expected to provide a total of $243 million in funding.

Satisfi Labs: Growth Funding Raised For Expanding Conversational Experience Platform Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 27, 2025

Satisfi Labs, a premier conversational experience platform designed to transform customer engagement for destinations and experiences, announced the securing of new growth financing. And Level Structured Capital, an affiliate of Level Equity, a private investment firm with over $3 billion in assets under management focused on providing capital to software and technology-enabled businesses, provided the funding.

MarkeTeam.ai: $3 Million (Seed) Raised For Accelerating Transition To AI-Based Autonomous Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 27, 2025

MarkeTeam.ai - a developer of advanced AI technology for the marketing industry - announced the completion of a $3 million seed funding round. After recently launching its next-generation autonomous marketing agents, the company already operates a team of virtual experts across core marketing disciplines, such as brand marketing, strategic planning, paid media, social media management, and content marketing.

TrueDialog: Interview With CMO Amanda McGuckin Hager About The Business Texting Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 27, 2025

TrueDialog is a simple and reliable SMS platform to boost engagement and streamline communications. Pulse 2.0 interviewed CMO Amanda McGuckin Hager to learn more about the company.

Highnote: Modern Card Issuance Company Raises $90 Million (Series B)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 27, 2025

Highnote - a leader in modern card issuance and program management - announced the closing of $90 million in Series B funding and the launch of its acquiring solution. This funding round was led by Adams Street Partners with participation from existing investors including Oak HC/FT, Costanoa, WestCap, and Pinegrove Venture Partners.

Aligned Data Centers: Over $12 Billion Raised To Fund Platform Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 27, 2025

Aligned Data Centers - a leading technology infrastructure company offering innovative and sustainable Scale Data Centers and Build-to-Scale solutions for global hyperscale and enterprise customers - announced it completed another round of capital raising totaling over $5 billion of new primary equity and over $7 billion of new debt commitments to fund accelerated platform expansion and ongoing innovation.

Render: Cloud Application Platform Company Raises $80 Million (Series C)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 27, 2025

Render, a leading modern cloud application platform adopted by over 2 million developers, announced that it raised $80 million in Series C funding led by Georgian, with participation from 01A (Dick Costolo) and avra, and existing investors Addition, Bessemer Venture Partners, General Catalyst, and the South Park Commons Fund. This funding will accelerate Render’s mission to disrupt the $400B+ cloud market by enabling the company to expand enterprise-focused features, build AI-native capabilities, increase its global footprint, and grow its R&D team.