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Nevermined, a leading provider of AI payment infrastructure for AI-to-AI transactions, announced it has raised over $4 million in funding to accelerate the adoption of AI-Commerce by enabling AI agents to pay and get paid. This funding round was led by Generative Ventures, with participation from Polymorphic Capital, NEAR, Halo Capital, Factor Capital, Lyrik Ventures, and Arca. This funding round includes funding from notable AI luminaries like David Minarsch and Oak from Valory, the builders of Olas, Richard Blythman and Mark Schmidt from Naptha, and Ben Fielding from Gensyn.

Good Springs Capital LP, a private investment firm that is focused on partnering with founders, families, and entrepreneurial management teams in the industrial and services sectors, today announced the closing of its inaugural fund, Good Springs Capital Fund I. Fund I closed with a total committed capital of $570 million, bringing Good Springs' assets under management to approximately $611 million. And Fund I is anchored by the Chickasaw Nation and includes a diverse group of investors.

Eve, an AI platform for plaintiff law firms, announced it raised $47 million in Series A funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Menlo Ventures.

H2 - an industry-leading vanadium flow battery (VFB) developer and manufacturer based in South Korea – announced it raised $16 million in recent bridge funding, finalized in the second half of 2024. This brings the company's total financing accumulated to $77 million. The funding round was led by STIC Investments, one of Korea's most significant and leading private equity firms, with participation from KRUN Ventures and Lighthouse Combined Investment.

Core Sound Imaging, a medical imaging platform Studycast provider, announced an $80 million growth investment from PSG. The funding will support Studycast’s plans to help accelerate its growth in core verticals, enter new clinical areas, and further enable AI usage on its platform. PSG Senior Advisor Brian Kelly joins Core Sound Imaging as Executive Chairman as part of the investment.

Revelstoke Capital Partners - a growth-oriented, healthcare-focused private equity firm - announced its strategic investment in Omega Systems. Omega, a provider of managed information technology and cybersecurity managed services, is the eighth investment from Revelstoke Capital Partners Fund III.

Teal, an AI-based career platform, announced it raised $7.5 million in Series A funding, bringing the company's total capital to $19 million. The new financing, co-led by CityLight Capital and Flybridge, with participation from Rethink Capital Partners and Lerer Hippeau, will support product development to expand the Teal platform and its portfolio of advanced AI capabilities to help navigate the challenging job landscape.

Baton, a leading marketplace for small and medium-sized business acquisitions, announced a Series A funding round of $10 million, led by Obvious Ventures with participation from Burst Capital, FJ Labs, Fluent Ventures, and Spencer Rascoff (co-founder and former CEO of Zillow) via 75 & Sunny. And previous investors Divergent Capital, Bloomberg Beta, and Zeno Ventures also joined this round.

Spend optimization platform Vertice announced $50 million in Series C funding led by Lakestar. This funding has raised the total to over $100 million. And additional participants include Perpetual Growth and CF Private Equity, along with existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners and 83North.

Keystone Education Group, a leader in student recruitment, announced it has completed a first four-year senior secured bond issue of €100 million, further fueling ongoing expansion and growth.

Divvy Homes, a leader in the property-technology industry, announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement where a Brookfield private real estate fund will buy Divvy Homes’ property portfolio and platform for a total consideration of approximately $1 billion. And Maymont Homes, Brookfield’s single-family home rental business, will manage the portfolio.

Belfry Software, a platform for physical security providers, announced it raised $12 million in a Series A funding round, bringing Belfry's total funding to $20 million. And the funding was led by Base10 Partners with continued support from existing investors Bienville Capital and Aglaé Ventures.

Lindus Health, which is the anti-CRO running faster and more reliable clinical trials, announced it raised $55 million in Series B funding. The funding round was led by new investor Balderton Capital, with support from Visionaries Club and existing investors Creandum, Firstminute, and Seedcamp.

Data and AI company Databricks announced the final closing of its Series J funding. Existing investor QIA, the sovereign wealth fund of the State of Qatar, along with new investors, including Temasek and entities administered by Macquarie Capital, participated in the funding round - which values the company at $62 billion. Plus, Meta has joined as a new strategic investor.

Trinity Capital, a leading alternative asset manager, announced the commitment of $12.5 million in growth capital to Upward Health, an in-home, multidisciplinary medical group providing 24/7 whole-person care.

Angel Kids AI is a new way for children to interact with the digital world. With Angel’s unique AI technology, content is customized to ensure all online interactions are age-appropriate. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Angel Kids AI co-founder and Chief Operating Officer (COO) Josh Thurman to learn more about the company.

Origen Power Limited, a growing limestone-based carbon removal provider, announced that it had secured $13 million in Series A funding led by Barclays Climate Ventures. And Shell Ventures, Exascale Fund, Elemental Impact, and Hatch also participated in the round.

Cohere Capital Partners - a Boston-based private equity firm focused on investing in leading tech-enabled lower middle market companies - announced that it has closed Cohere Capital Fund II with over $215 million in commitments. And the firm has also received a strategic minority investment from TPG NEXT, TPG’s strategy focused on seeding and scaling the next generation of investment firms.

StreamNative offers fully managed cloud-native event streaming and messaging powered by Apache Pulsar. Pulse 2.0 interviewed StreamNative co-founder and CEO Sijie Guo to learn more about the company.

GT Medical Technologies - a medical device company that aims to improve patients' lives with brain tumors - announced that the company has completed the $37 million first close of a Series D funding round.

Data copilot company Prophecy announced a $47 million Series B extension to accelerate the AI-powered transformation of the data integration market. Smith Point Capital led the round, with HSBC joining as a new investor and participation from existing investors including Berkeley SkyDeck, DallasVC, Insight Partners, JPMorgan Chase and SignalFire. This new funding comes from 3.5 times revenue growth in FY'24 with 160% net revenue retention from existing customers.

Moment Energy, which is one of North America's leading EV battery repurposing companies,  announced the closing of a $15 million Series A funding round. The Amazon Climate Pledge Fund and Voyager Ventures co-led the funding round. Along with Amazon Climate Pledge Fund and Voyager Ventures, this funding round received participation from In-Q-Tel (IQT), Version One Ventures, Overture Ventures, WovenEarth Ventures, Fika Ventures, MCJ, One Small Planet, and Climate Capital.

Netflix announced it added a record 18.9 million subscribers for the holiday quarter. With this increase in subscribers, Netflix’s global subscriber base is now more than 300 million. Including extra member accounts, Netflix said that its global audience is higher than 700 million.

CBRE Group announced a definitive agreement to acquire Industrious National Management Company, a leading provider of flexible workplace solutions. CBRE will create a new business segment called Building Operations & Experience (BOE) in connection with the acquisition. This new segment will combine building operations, workplace experience, and property management, positioning CBRE to deliver scalable and future-ready solutions for offices, data centers, warehouses, and other facilities. The deal is expected to close later this month.

Quai Network is crypto for the global and computing economies. And Quai is the only fully scalable and smart contract enabled Proof-of-Work Layer-1. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Quai Network co-founder Alan Orwick to learn more about the company.

LPL Financial announced that financial advisor Marcus Alexander, CPFA, MBA, has joined LPL’s employee advisor channel, Linsco by LPL Financial, to launch Alexander Wealth Solutions. He reported serving approximately $340 million in advisory, brokerage, and retirement plan assets and joined LPL from Merrill Lynch. He will serve clients from LPL’s newest Linsco office in Newport Beach, California.

Orrick announced that tax advisor Cécile Mariotti will join the Paris team as a partner. Mariotti advises on the tax aspects of French and international transactions, such as M&A and private equity, venture capital, restructurings, private credit and other financings. She also advises on matters involving employee stock offerings and management packages. Mariotti joins from Latham & Watkins and previously practiced with Cleary Gottlieb.

The Kyle David Group (KDG), a professional services firm specializing in technology, accounting, and strategy for small to mid-sized organizations, announced it has completed its asset acquisition of Kennedy & Associates, Certified Public Accountants. This move significantly enhances KDG's portfolio in small to midsized business tax, managed accounting, and fractional CFO services.

TeamBridge is a company that helps teams unlock their potential by organizing their process in one place, then automating it like never before possible. Pulse 2.0 interviewed TeamBridge co-founder and co-CEO, Arjun Vora, to learn more about the company.

Global software venture firm Insight Partners announced the closing of its thirteenth flagship fund with a dedicated buyout co-invest fund (Fund XIII) and the closing of its structured equity fund, Opportunities Fund II. These funds represent $12.5 billion in capital for deploying in leading software companies across the globe to support growth at any stage. Insight's investment strategies saw strong support from both long-standing and notable new investors, with Insight's employees representing the most significant aggregate commitment to the funds. And the closing of these new funds brings Insight Partners' regulatory assets under management to over $90 billion. It marks a notable milestone in the firm's 30-year history of scaling transformative software companies worldwide.