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Avangrid: $20 Billion Investment Plan For U.S. Grid Infrastructure Through 2030

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Avangrid, a leading energy company and member of the Iberdrola Group, announced plans to invest $20 billion in U.S. electrical grid infrastructure by the end of the decade.

Aescape: $83 Million Raised For Wellness Robotics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Aescape, a lifestyle robotics company pioneering AI massage for personalized recovery, announced it has raised $83 million in a strategic round led by Valor Equity Partners. The round also saw participation from existing investors, including Alumni Ventures, and NBA Champion and All-Star Kevin Love. With this latest funding, Aescape’s total funding is now at $128 million, enabling the company to scale operations, expand into new markets, and grow its partnerships with global brands.

Osivax: €10 Million Raised For Developing Vaccines To Provide Protection Against Respiratory Viruses

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Osivax - a biopharmaceutical company developing vaccines to provide broad-spectrum protection against highly mutating respiratory viruses - announced the first closing of its Series B financing, raising €10 million from new and existing investors.

DataPelago: Interview With CEO Rajan Goyal About The Universal Data Processing Engine Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

DataPelago is on a mission to make it viable to extract value from all data in the world so people can capture every insight, cure, invention, and opportunity. Pulse 2.0 interviewed DataPelago CEO Rajan Goyal to learn more about the company.

Sofinnova Partners: €1.2 Billion Raised For Advancing Next Wave Of Life Sciences Innovation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Sofinnova Partners - a leading European venture capital firm in life sciences based in Paris, London, and Milan - announced it had raised €1.2 billion across its platform of investment strategies over the past year, including over €1 billion secured in the last quarter.

Tandem PV: $50 Million Secured For Perovskite Solar Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Tandem PV, an innovator in American perovskite solar technology, today announced it has secured $50 million in Series A funding and debt, led by Eclipse, with participation from Constellation Energy, Planetary Technologies, Uncorrelated Ventures, Trellis Climate, Tom Werner (former CEO of SunPower), Stifel Bank, CSC Leasing, and other existing and new investors. This funding will enable Tandem PV to construct a commercial-scale manufacturing facility in the U.S., accelerating the adoption of its high-efficiency solar panels and allowing the U.S. to reduce its dependency on foreign manufacturers while increasing its energy security.

LlamaIndex: $19 Million (Series A) Raised For Enterprise-Grade Knowledge Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

LlamaIndex, an agent development platform for automating knowledge work over unstructured enterprise data, closed a $19 million Series A round of funding, led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from existing investor Greylock. This funding round brings the total to $27.5 million.

Alta: $7 Million (Seed) Closed For AI Revenue Workforce Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Alta, an AI-based revenue workforce solutions provider, announced today that it has raised a $7 million seed financing round and has launched out of stealth. The funding round was led by Entrée Capital and Target Global, with additional funding from angel investor Ben Lang and others. Gavin Patterson, former President and Chief Revenue Officer at Salesforce, Nir Goldstein, Operating Partner at Greenfield Partners, and Yoram Teitz, Partner at General Atlantic, serve as strategic advisors.

Lila Sciences: $200 Million (Seed) Raised For Scientific Superintelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Bioplatform innovation company Flagship Pioneering has unveiled Lila Sciences, a company building the world's first scientific superintelligence platform and fully autonomous labs for life, chemical, and materials sciences. Lila raised $200 million in committed seed capital from Flagship Pioneering, along with General Catalyst, March Capital, ARK Venture Fund, Altitude Life Science Ventures, Blue Horizon Advisors, State of Michigan Retirement System, Modi Ventures and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) to support the further development of the AI platform, autonomous labs, and infrastructure for rapid scaling.

Nirvana Insurance: $80 Million (Series C) Secured For Transforming Commercial Insurance With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Nirvana Insurance, a leading AI-based commercial trucking insurer, announced an $80 million Series C funding round, valuing the company at nearly $850 million. This funding round arrives after a momentous year for Nirvana, which exceeded $100 million in Premiums, more than doubling year over year. This funding round was led by General Catalyst with continued support from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Valor Equity Partners.

Ambrose: Over $400 Million Raised For Fund IV

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Ambrose, a leading investor, developer, and operator of industrial, logistics and e-commerce real estate, announced the final close of Ambrose Fund IV, LP. Ambrose had raised $400,625,000 through equity commitments to the Fund and related vehicles.

Netforce: €45 Million Raised For Law Enforcement Technology Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Netforce, a law enforcement technology development company, announced a strategic investment commitment of €45 million from GEM Global Yield LLC SCS - which is a $3.4 billion private equity and alternative investment group.

ŌURA: Interview With Chief Design Officer Miklu Silvanto About The Wearable Health Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Garuda Therapeutics: $50 Million (Series A-1) Secured For Advancing Blood Stem Cell Therapies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Garuda Therapeutics - a biotechnology company creating off-the-shelf and HSC therapies for a multitude of blood disorders - announced the completion of an approximately $50 million Series A-1 funding round. Investors included OrbiMed, Northpond Ventures, and Cormorant Asset Management, with new strategic investment from Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd., a Japan-based Global Specialty Pharmaceutical Company.

Mitel: Interview With CISO Bill Dunnion About The Business Communications Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Mitel is a global leader in business communications. It provides more than 70 million users in over 100 countries with advanced communication, collaboration, and contact center solutions. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Mitel CISO Bill Dunnion to learn more about the company.

Supergut: Gut Health Company Raises New Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Supergut, a leading gut health and GLP-1 nutrition brand, announced the closing of a significant minority growth investment. To support this next chapter, Tracey Warner Halama, former CEO of Vital Proteins and industry veteran, will join Supergut as CEO. This funding round was led by Full Frame Growth Partners. And other participants in the investment include Supergut founding investor Dave Friedberg via The Production Board along with Cultivian Sandbox, Strand Equity, Access Capital, Alpha Edison, LivWell Ventures, and Rocana Ventures. Full Frame Founder & Managing Partner Bader Alam will join the board of directors.

Mote: $7 Million Raised For Advancing Carbon-Negative Biomass-To-Energy Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Mote - a technology leader in carbon-negative energy production - announced the first closing of its Series A funding round, securing $7 million in investment led by Nella Next and Preston-Werner Ventures. The funding round also included Counteract and other strategic partners committed to advancing U.S. energy security. And this first phase is part of a targeted $15 million Series A funding round.

Compound Planning: Digital Family Office Grows To $3 Billion AUM

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Compound Planning—a leading digital family office committed to reimagining wealth management for next-generation advisors—announced that seven financial advisors, including a four-person advisory team that previously managed $1.2 billion, have joined the firm. The latest additions cement what has been a period of rapid growth for the firm. And Compound eclipsed $3 billion in total assets under management (“AUM”) as of January 31, after the firm added 30 total advisors and doubled its AUM in 2024.

Swap: $40 Million (Series B) Raised For E-Commerce Operating System

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Swap, an e-commerce operating system (OS) that connects operations on one platform for e-commerce brands, announced a $40 million Series B led by ICONIQ Growth, with participation from prior lead investors Cherry Ventures, QED Investors, and 9900 Capital. With this funding, Swap will enhance its dominance in the U.K. market, accelerate expansion into the U.S. and EU, and open new regions, including Australia and Canada. Swap also plans to penetrate underserved verticals like beauty, home goods, and consumer technology.

Hello Alice: Interview With Co-Founder & President Elizabeth Gore About The Financial Technology Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Hello Alice is a financial technology serving over 1.5 million small business owners in all fifty states. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Hello Alice co-founder and President Elizabeth Gore to learn more about the company.

Archipelo: $12 Million Raised For Developer Security Posture Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

San Francisco-based cybersecurity company Archipelo announced it emerged from stealth with $12 million in funding to launch a transformative approach to software security: Developer Security Posture Management (DevSPM). This funding includes a $4 million pre-seed and an $8 million seed round, led by Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Tai, David Weisburd (10X Capital), Gil Penchina, Ed Roman (Hack VC), Anima Anandkumar, Samsung NEXT, Nima Capital, and Sangha Capital.

Odeko: $126 Million (Series E) Raised For Empowering Independent Food Businesses

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Odeko, an all-in-one operation and technology partner for thousands of local coffee shops, cafes, and other food and beverage businesses, announced it has raised $126 million in Series E funding. The funding consists of $96 million in equity led by B Capital and a $30 million credit facility from Banc of California.

Nervonik: $13 Million (Series A) Raised For Improving Peripheral Nerve Stimulation For Chronic Pain Relief

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Nervonik - a medical device company developing an opioid-free peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) system – announced it has closed a $13 million Series A funding round. This funding round was led by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), with participation from Foothill Ventures, Correlation Ventures, and other investors. And this funding follows Nervonik's earlier $4.4 million in SAFE and convertible note financings from Shangbay Capital, Camford Capital, Joyance Partners, Life Science Angels, Seraph Group, and other investors.

LoneTree: Inaugural Fund Closed At $200 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

LoneTree Capital announced the final closing of LoneTree I, its inaugural $200 million growth equity fund, bringing total assets under management of LoneTree and its affiliates to $308 million. And LoneTree I saw strong investor demand with capital commitments from a wide range of institutional investors.

Nitricity: $10 Million Closed For Organic Fertilizer Plant

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Nitricity, a California startup electrifying the production of nitrogen fertilizer, announced $10 million in project funding from a strategic mix of capital providers that includes Elemental Impact and Trellis Climate to build a first-of-its-kind (FOAK) organic fertilizer facility in Delhi, California.

DoiT: $250 Million Fund Established For Accelerating AI-Based Cloud Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

DoiT, a leader in enterprise-grade FinOps and cloud intelligence, announced the establishment of a $250 million fund dedicated to buying companies specializing in autonomous cloud optimization, AI-driven CloudOps, and cloud reliability, performance, and security. This reinvestment is supported by a 40% growth in 2024 annual revenue, a testament to the monumental success of DoiT Cloud Intelligence.

CollegeNET: Majority Investment Raised From Rubicon

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

CollegeNET, a software solutions provider for higher education, announced it has secured a majority investment from Rubicon Technology Partners, a private equity firm specializing in middle-market enterprise software investments. And this partnership will help accelerate CollegeNET’s growth and drive continued product innovation across its core offerings. Plus, founder Jim Wolfston will continue to lead the business and remain a significant shareholder. The terms of the investment were not disclosed.

Lingokids: Interview With Founder & CEO Cristobal Viedma About The Play & Learn Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Lingokids is a company on a mission to Help parents raise amazing kids through Playlearning. The company combines the entertainment that kids love with an exceptional curriculum of many different subjects to complement children’s education. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Lingokids founder and CEO Cristobal Viedma to learn more about the company.

Alchemer: Interview With CEO Martin Mrugal About The Feedback Program Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 11, 2025

Alchemer is a company that empowers you to do more with feedback. Ranging from a one-time survey to a powerful feedback program, Alchemer provides customer-obsessed teams with the clarity to move from asking to action, driving your business forward. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Alchemer CEO Martin Mrugal to learn more about the company.

Celestial AI: $250 Million (Series C1) Raised For Transforming AI Infrastructure With Photonic Fabric

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 11, 2025

Celestial AI, creator of the Photonic Fabric optical interconnect technology platform, announced today that it has raised $250 million in its Series C1 funding round led by Fidelity Management & Research Company, bringing the total capital raised to date to more than $515 million. Along with Fidelity Management & Research Company, new investors include funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Maverick Silicon, Tiger Global Management and Lip-Bu Tan, and participation from existing investors including AMD Ventures, Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), Temasek, Temasek’s wholly-owned subsidiary Xora Innovation, Porsche Automobil Holding SE and The Engine Ventures.