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Cambridge Innovation Capital: £100 Million Opportunity Fund Closed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC), a leading venture capital firm embedded in the Cambridge ecosystem, announced it has launched a new £100 million Opportunity Fund – which is anchored by Aviva Investors and British Patient Capital – to invest in growth-stage deep tech and life sciences companies.

Tandem: $10 Million (Pre-Seed) Closed For Transforming Pet Healthcare

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Tandem - a pet healthcare startup on a mission to deliver affordable healthcare to every pet - recently announced that it has secured $10 million in pre-seed funding to redefine veterinary care. And building on its mobile clinics and telemedicine services, Tandem will launch a 5,000 sq ft AI-based health hub this summer.

Breakout: $3.25 Million (Seed) Raised For Developing AI Sales Reps

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Breakout, a company developing AI sales reps, announced its launch from stealth and $3.25 million seed funding led by Village Global, with participation from Recall Capital, Z21 Ventures, and leading angels. And the company’s AI rep engages with customers at their highest point of intent and conducts an instant demo and discovery call.

Faireez: $7.5 Million Raised For Turning Residential Buildings Into High-End Hotel Experiences

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Faireez announced it is officially launching with $7.5 million in funding from leading investors including Aristagora VC, Longevity Venture Partners, Hetz Ventures, Secret Chord Ventures, including Gigi Levy-Weiss, RE Angels and other investors from the tech and real estate space. And Faireez's housekeeping platform brings 5-star hotel-quality service to residential buildings by combining dedicated professionals with AI technology.

Flex: $225 Million Raised For Building Personal Financial Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Flex, a fintech company that enables business owners to automate their back offices and grow, announced it has raised $225 million in equity and debt funding to accelerate the buildout of its payments infrastructure and personal finance software for business owners. And the capital raise includes a $25 million equity round led by Titanium Ventures, with participation from Companyon Ventures, Florida Funders, MS&AD Ventures, AAF Management and First Look Partners, and a $200 million credit facility from Victory Park Capital. And Yash Patel, General Partner at Titanium Ventures, will join Flex’s Board of Directors.

ResilienceVC: Debut Fund Launched At Over $56 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

ResilienceVC, a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in fintech startups driving financial resilience for all Americans, announced the closing of its debut and oversubscribed fund. With its inaugural fund attracting a diverse range of strategic investors and its management of early-stage investments for the Discover Financial Health Improvement Fund, the firm’s total assets under management stand at over $56 million.

White & Case: Richard Browne Named As Partner In London

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Global law firm White & Case expanded its Global Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Practice with the addition of Richard Browne as a partner in London.

Outmarket AI: $4.7 Million (Seed) Raised For Transforming Insurance With AI-Based Insights

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Outmarket AI, an intelligence platform purpose-built for transforming commercial insurance, has launched with $4.7 million in seed funding. This funding round was led by Fika Ventures, with participation from TTV and Dash Fund. This funding will accelerate Outmarket’s platform innovation, team expansion and strategic partnerships with leading brokers and carriers.

Paul Hastings: Sarah Gagan Joins As Co-Chair Of Technology Transactions Practice

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Paul Hastings announced that top-ranked technology and IP lawyer Sarah Gagan has joined in Boston as co-chair of its newly established Technology Transactions practice.

ServiceNow Buying Moveworks In $2.85 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Today, ServiceNow announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Moveworks. The acquisition will combine ServiceNow’s agentic AI and automation strengths with Moveworks’ front-end AI assistant and enterprise search technology to unlock new experiences for every employee in every corner of the business.

Mendix: Interview With Senior Director, Vertical Marketing Erika Arena About The Enterprise Low-Code Development Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Mendix is a leading enterprise low-code application development platform. And with Mendix you can convert a spreadsheet into an app, create an organization-wide app portfolio, modernize an entire core system. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Mendix’s Senior Director of Vertical Marketing Erika Arena to learn more about the company.

ThetaRay: Interview With CEO Peter Reynolds About The Financial Security Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

ThetaRay is transforming the way financial institutions detect and combat financial crime through the power of Cognitive AI. Pulse 2.0 interviewed ThetaRay CEO Peter Reynolds to learn more about the company.

Helfie: Interview With Founder & Director George Tomeski About The AI-Based Health Screening Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Helfie AI redefines human health by pairing everyone with their own health AI—checking key conditions, delivering intelligent insights, and enabling persistent monitoring, all via mobile for cents. It’s the world’s first preventative health and early detection system, accessible to all 8 billion+ humans. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Helfie AI founder and director George Tomeski to learn more about the company.

Quantum Machines: $170 Million (Series C) Secured For Advanced Quantum Control Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Quantum Machines (QM), a leading provider of advanced quantum control solutions, announced it has raised $170 million in Series C funding, bringing the company's total funding to date to $280 million. The highly oversubscribed round was led by PSG Equity with participation from Intel Capital, Red Dot Capital Partners, and existing investors.

Actual Veggies: $7 Million (Series A) Closed For Veggie-Forward Brand

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Actual Veggies, a CPG leader known for its chef-crafted veggie burgers and vegetable-forward products, announced its $7 million Series A round of funding led by Relentless Consumer Partners with participation from New Fare Partners and industry leaders Todd Lachman, Sovos Brands founder and Sauer Brands Chairman, and Ben Rawitz.

Rowan Digital Infrastructure: $1.24 Billion Construction Financing Closed For Hyperscale Campus In Maryland

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Rowan Digital Infrastructure, a sustainable hyperscale data center developer and portfolio company of Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, announced it closed a further $1.24 billion of construction financing to build the second phase of a flagship hyperscale data center campus in Maryland.

Winston & Strawn: Damien Diggs Named As Partner In Litigation Department

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 10, 2025

Winston & Strawn announced that Damien Diggs, former United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, has joined the firm’s Litigation Department as a partner in its Dallas office and a member of its Government Investigations, Enforcement, and Compliance Practice. And with 18 years of experience in the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and Texas, Damien brings a wealth of experience and an impressive record in all stages of criminal, civil, and appellate matters.

Mayer Brown: Frank Favia Joins As Partner In Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 9, 2025

Mayer Brown announced that Frank Favia has joined the firm as a partner in its global Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice in Chicago. Favia joins from Sidley Austin, where he was co-leader of its Private Equity Litigation practice.

Shield AI: $240 Million (F-1) Raised At $5.3 Billion Valuation For Defense Autonomy Software

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 9, 2025

Shield AI - a deep-tech company building state-of-the-art autonomy software products and defense aircraft - announced it has completed a $240 million F-1 strategic funding round, raising its valuation to $5.3 billion. The funding was completed with major participation from strategic investors L3Harris and Hanwha Aerospace and participation from existing investors including Andreessen Horowitz, U.S. Innovative Technology, and Washington Harbour. The funds will enable Shield AI to expand the deployment of Hivemind Enterprise to OEMs, governments, and companies to empower the more significant robotics and drone industrial base to build autonomy products.

Lorien Finance: $2.25 Million (Pre-Series A) Raised To Advance Global Education Financing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 9, 2025

Lorien Finance, a financial technology company bridging global capital markets with students from emerging economies, announced it has secured $2.25 million in Pre-Series A funding, setting the stage for a transformative shift in education financing worldwide. This funding round was led by FlatIronX, a New York-based early-stage VC firm investing in fintech solutions with ties to India. And additional investors include Seedstars International Ventures (SIV)—backed by IFC, Visa Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Symbiotics—as well as Ahimsa Capital, Bhavesh Gupta (Ex-Paytm President & COO), Ashneer Grover (ex-BharatPe MD), Play Holdings, and Silver Ridge Accelerator.

Bluebird Kids Health: $31.5 Million Raised For Delivering Value-Based Pediatric Primary Care

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 9, 2025

Bluebird Kids Health, a new healthcare services company designed to deliver value-based pediatric primary care, announced the closing of a $31.5 million capital raise co-led by F Prime and .406 Ventures, with participation from AIF and founding partner Juxtapose.

SimCare AI: $2 Million (Seed) Raised For Scaling Clinical Training

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 9, 2025

SimCare AI has announced $2 million in seed funding to rethink clinical training from first principles: using AI patients to bypass regulatory constraints and certify clinical skills with far fewer patient interactions. The funding round was led by Y Combinator and Drive Capital, with participation from Harper Court Ventures Fund, Singularity Capital, Triple S Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Asymmetry Ventures, Sand Hill North, and Transpose Platform.

Tenneco: Strategic Investment Raised From Apollo And American Industrial Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 9, 2025

Tenneco announced a strategic investment from Apollo Fund X into the company’s Clean Air and Powertrain businesses – which is essential for unlocking growth opportunities and strengthening the company’s long-term position as a leading global automotive supplier. And American Industrial Partners will invest along with Apollo Fund X.

Needle: $2.2 Million (Seed) Raised For AI-Based Agent Development Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 9, 2025

Needle, an AI-based search and agent development platform, announced it has raised $2.2 million seed funding in a round led by 468 Capital and Presight Capital . This funding will expand Needle’s engineering team, strengthen its core technology, and accelerate its go-to-market initiatives.

TECHCOOP: $70 Million (Series A) Raised For Transforming Vietnam’s Agriculture Industry

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 9, 2025

TECHCOOP, which is Vietnam’s integrated agritech platform, announced it has closed a $70 million Series A funding round, comprising equity and debt funding. This funding round was co-led by Southeast Asia-focused venture capital firms TNB Aura and AVV, with new equity investors Capria Ventures, AppWorks, FMO (Dutch entrepreneurial development bank) and BlueOrchard (an impact investment manager under Schroders Group) joining. And debt financing was supported by major Vietnamese banks and international debt funds.

Vayu: Revenue Management Software Company Raises $7 Million (Seed)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 9, 2025

Vayu, a company transforming billing and revenue management for B2B tech companies, announced it has raised $7 million in a seed funding round co-led by Flint Capital and The Garage. Previous investors Fresh.Fund, Secret Chord Ventures, and angel investors, including former Melio and Softbank executives, also participated.

Phison Electronics: Interview With President Michael Wu About The NAND Storage Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 7, 2025

Phison Electronics is a NAND flash total solution provider offering system and OEM services for major retail brands. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Phison Electronics President and General Manager Michael Wu to learn more about the company.

American Express To Buy Expense Management Software Company Center

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 7, 2025

American Express announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Center, which is a software company modernizing expense management.

Knostic: $11 Million Raised For Eliminating Enterprise AI Data Leaks

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 7, 2025

Knostic, the world's first provider of need-to-know access controls for Generative AI, announced an $11 million investment to secure enterprise large language models (LLMs). This funding round will support Knostic's offering, supporting enterprises in their AI transformation and adding a customizable safety layer to tools such as Microsoft 365 Copilot and Glean. This additional round brings the company's total funding to $14 million.

Epirus: $250 Million (Series D) Closed To Scale Production Of Leonidas

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 7, 2025

Epirus announced an oversubscribed $250 million Series D fundraising round, bringing the company's total venture funding to more than $550 million and positioning it to scale its Leonidas product line production to meet growing global demand. Leonidas is a scalable solid-state, high-energy, high-power microwave (HPM) technology for counter-electronics applications that has been proven effective in Department of Defense testing in countering drones, drone swarms, and other electronics.