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Rockfish Data - a pioneer in synthetic data generation platform for operational workflows - announced the closing of a $4 million seed fundraising round. This funding round was led by Emergent Ventures with participation from Foster Ventures, TEN13, Dallas VC, NewBuild Venture Capital, and others. This brings the total amount raised close to $6 million.

Rainbow, a digitally-enabled managing general underwriter (MGU) building tailored small business insurance products, announced it raised $8 million in Series A funding, led by Zigg Capital.

Granata Bio - a biopharma company focused on invigorating the global infertility medication market - announced its $15 million Series A+ funding round. The funding round was exclusively supported by existing investors, including Gedeon Richter, CooperSurgical, Amboy Street Ventures, and other strategic investors. And Granata has raised over $30 million to date.

Colbeck Capital Management - a leading middle-market private credit firm focused on strategic lending - announced that it has raised $700 million in capital commitments for the third flagship fund, Colbeck Strategic Lending III, exceeding its target by 40%.

Owlstone Medical, a leader in Breath Biopsy for early disease detection and precision medicine applications, announced the first closing of $27 million (circa £22 million) in its Series E financing round. The fundraiser was led by Ventura Capital, joined by Aviva Ventures, Horizons Ventures, and other existing investors. The close also saw the completion of the investment from the Gates Foundation.

Maki – a conversational AI agent transforming talent acquisition – announced the closing of its $28.6 million Series A funding round. The funding round was led by Blossom Capital, with participation from DST Global and existing investors Frst, GFC, and Picus Capital.

Hinge Bio, a privately-held biotechnology company, announced the closing of a Series A’ financing led by Point72. Joining Point72 are Ridgeback Capital, InVivium Capital, and Lightswitch Capital, and others.

Stoke Space, a rocket company building the world’s first 100% reusable medium-lift rocket, announced that it has raised $260 million in new Series C investment to drive continued growth and innovation. This round brought the company's total funding to $480 million.

Be Biopharma, Inc. (Be Bio), a leader in B Cell Medicines (BCMs), announced the closing of its $92 million Series C financing. The funding round includes participation from new investor Nextech with existing investors, including ARCH Venture Partners, Atlas Venture, RA Capital Management, Alta Partners, Longwood Fund, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Takeda Ventures. In connection with the funding, Melissa McCracken, Ph.D. of Nextech will join Be Bio’s Board of Directors.

qbiq, one of the largest and first AI companies focused on automating architectural planning, announced the closing of a $16 million Series A round led by global software investor Insight Partners. The funding round included participation from JLL Spark, 10D, Ocean Azul, Random Forest and M-Fund.

Hildred Capital Management - a lower middle-market healthcare private equity firm - announced the final closing of its third fund, Hildred Equity Partners III. This fund was significantly oversubscribed, exceeding its $600 million target and hitting its hard cap in seven months. With total capital commitments over $800 million, the fund represents more than double the size of its predecessor fund, Hildred Equity Partners II, which closed in 2021 with $363 million of capital commitments.

Solera Health, a technology platform for connecting people seamlessly and easily to health solutions that work, announced $40 million in new funding. The insider funding round was co-led by Health Care Service Corporation and includes Adams Street, Cobalt Ventures, and Horizon Mutual Holdings.

Allara Health – a virtual care platform bridging the care divide for women battling chronic hormonal conditions - announced a $26 million Series B funding round, bringing the company's total funding to $38.5 million. Index Ventures led the funding round, and partner Martin Mignot will join Allara's board. And existing investor GV (Google Ventures) also participated in the round. This Series B funding will enable Allara to bring specialized care to women nationwide struggling with hormonal conditions.

Komainu, a regulated digital asset services provider and custodian backed by Laser Digital (a Nomura company), announced it has raised $75 million in strategic funding from Blockstream Capital Partners, subject to relevant regulatory approvals. This funding round enables Komainu to accelerate its international strategic growth plans whilst adopting and integrating class-leading technologies developed by Blockstream Corporation to maximize efficiencies and enhance client services in collateral management and tokenization.

3LS Ventures, an early-stage investor specializing in behavioral health solutions, announced a strategic investment in Xuron. This innovative healthcare technology company offers virtual and intelligent provider training to simulate the patient experience. And this partnership demonstrates 3LS Ventures' unwavering commitment to accelerating advancements in healthcare through technology and innovation.

Ardian, a leading private investment house, announced that it has raised $30 billion for its ninth-generation secondaries platform, making it the largest secondaries fundraise globally to date and solidifying Ardian’s leadership of the secondaries market. And this represents a significant increase over the $19 billion raised for Ardian’s eighth-generation platform in 2020 and brings Ardian’s Secondaries & Primaries Assets Under Management to $97 billion.

1Money, a company developing the world's first purpose-built Layer 1 exclusively designed for stablecoins payments, emerged from stealth and announced over $20 million in funding. This seed funding round includes participation from financial institutions, venture capital firms and strategic investors including F-Prime Capital, Galaxy Ventures, Hack VC, Tribe Capital, Portage, Ethereal Ventures, CMT Digital, Kraken Ventures, KuCoin Ventures, BitGo Ventures, Bing Ventures, MoonPay Ventures, CoinFlip, Bankless Ventures, Perry Creek Capital, A100x Ventures, VARIV, Anagram, Generative Ventures, Lvna Capital, Ambush Capital, Borderless Capital, Pharsalus Capital, Protagonist, gumi Cryptos Capital, Hexa Capital, Karman Ventures, and R3D3 Ventures.

Corient, one of the largest and fastest-growing national wealth advisors in the U.S., announced it acquired the multi-family office business of Geller & Company (Geller MFO). And Geller MFO is a premier New York City-based multi-family office with $10.4 billion in assets under management and advisement. This move reinforces Corient’s presence in one of the nation’s largest markets and deepens the firm’s family office capabilities.

Integrated Partners, a national financial planning and registered investment advisory (RIA) firm serving over $20 billion in assets under advisement (AUA), announced San Diego-based RetirementDNA as the latest advisory team to join its network. This deal marks a significant expansion of both firms' capabilities in retirement plan services and wealth management.

Next-generation monetization platform HYPERLINE announced it has raised $10 million in a seed extension round led by Index Ventures to help small and medium-sized businesses transform revenue management.‍

Indigo, an AI-based platform for home negotiations, announced it secured $8 million to offer insight, collaboration, and transparency to real estate teams, buyers, and sellers nationally. The seed funding round was led by Pete Flint at NFX, Clelia Warburg Peters at Era Ventures, and Paul Irving at GTM Fund. They were joined by 1Sharpe Ventures and Jake Seid. In the three months following the launch, Indigo experienced tremendous growth, exceeding 20% market share of home offers in its initial markets.

NEURA Robotics, a cognitive robotics pioneer and the only humanoid robotics company in Germany, announced it has raised €120 million in a Series B funding round. The funding round was led by Lingotto Investment Management, with participation from BlueCrest Capital Management, Volvo Cars Tech Fund, InterAlpen Partners, Vsquared Ventures, HV Capital, Delta Electronics, C4 Ventures, L-Bank, founder David Reger, and others.

LPL Financial announced that financial advisors Larry Forlenza, CRPC, and Carl Hanks, CRPC, have joined LPL Financial’s broker-dealer, RIA and custodial platforms. And they reported serving about $430 million in advisory, brokerage and retirement plan assets and join LPL from Raymond James Financial Services.

Leading global law firm Morrison Foerster announced the arrival of Xiaoxi Lin, who joins the firm as a partner in the Corporate Group based in Hong Kong. And Lin brings over 15 years’ experience to Morrison Foerster, with a private equity and M&A practice with established client relationships in the Greater China, Asia, and U.S. markets.

Amogy, a provider of scalable and efficient ammonia-to-power solutions, announced that it raised $56 million in venture financing, bringing the total raised since inception to over $270 million. The funding round was co-led by existing investor Aramco Ventures and new investor SV Investment. And additional new investors participating in the round include Samsung Heavy Industries, BHP Ventures, Hanwha Investment & Securities, AFW Partners, Quantum Ventures Korea, Kibo Invest, and Seoul IP, along with existing investors Temasek, MOL Switch, Yanmar Ventures, AP Ventures, and Marunouchi Innovation Partners.

First Round's On Me (FROM) is a social dating app designed to foster genuine, in-person connections. Pulse 2.0 interviewed First Round's On Me’s founder and CEO Joe Feminella to learn more about the company.

Method Financial, a provider of consumer permissioned financial connectivity, announced it raised $41.5 million in its latest Series B funding round led by Emergence Capital with participation from avra and Samsung Next, and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Y-Combinator and Ardent Venture Partners. This most recent funding round brings the total to $60 million.

Clutch announced the completion of a Series B funding round at $65 million to transform how credit unions deliver products and services to their members and communities. Alkeon Capital Management led the Series B funding round with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, TruStage Ventures, and Peterson Partners.

Mobly – a leader in event marketing technology - announced the closing of its $4.3 million seed round. This oversubscribed round was co-led by Jump Capital and Eniac Ventures with participation from Peterson Ventures, which also led Mobly's pre-seed round. And additional support came from existing investors Tenzing.VC, Peak Ventures, and notable angel investors, including Jeron Paul and Francis Santora.

EarnOS - a company that delivers global engagements where everyone wins – announced it raised $5 million in funding.