Lagrange Labs - a zero-knowledge startup driving cross-chain interoperability - announced it raised $4 million in a pre-seed round led by 1kx and joined by Maven11, Lattice Fund, CMT Digital, Daedalus Angels, and several more.
PermitFlow - a construction permit application and management software for builders and owners - announced it has raised a $5.5 million seed round led by Initialized Capital
Bloomfilter - a process intelligence platform for software development - recently announced the closing of a $7 million seed round of capital. This funding round included $5.5 million of equity financing led by Magarac Venture Partners (MVP) with participation from Sequoia, HPA, North Coast Ventures, Techstars, and others along with $1.5 million of venture debt from Pacific Western Bank.
Solarea Bio - a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Mass. developing food-derived microbial-based solutions to aid human health - announced recently a first closing of $15 million in a Series B financing led by S2G Ventures with the continued participation of Bold Capital Partners, Viking Global Investors, and GG 1978 SICAF SIF. There is a total of up to $25 million targeted for this round of financing.
Smart - a global retirement FinTech company that entered the US in 2020 - recently announced it has closed its $95 million Series E funding round, which was led by Aquiline Capital Partners LLC. Existing investors participating in the round included Chrysalis Investments, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, DWS, Barclays and Natixis Investment Managers.
Tangem AG - a leading provider of secure hardware wallet solutions - announced a new funding round. This funding round closed at $8 million and was led by Web3 venture capital firm Shima Capital with contributions from additional investors.
Makeswift - a visual builder platform for Next.js websites - announced it has raised $3 million to empower marketers to build and manage powerful websites without engineering intervention. This funding round was led by Active Capital with participation from several other investors including Uncommon Capital and Silicon Road Ventures.
Gigs - the job platform that connects companies to job seekers looking for hourly jobs in their neighborhood - recently announced the official launch of its employer portal to help retailers, food and beverage, logistics, and hospitality companies with their full-time and part-time hiring needs. The launch news comes jointly with the company announcing $2.7 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Slauson & Co with additional investment from Wonder Ventures and several angel investors.
Noble Capital - an Austin-based private equity firm - recently announced the launching of 4 new private equity funds to assist late-stage founders of small to medium businesses in Texas.
BrokerTech Ventures (BTV) - the industry's first broker-led convening platform and accelerator program - announced it has partnered with leading insurtech venture capital investor ManchesterStory Group to launch the BrokerTech Fund, LP, the first venture capital fund focused on early-stage insurtech companies developing broker-centric technology solutions.
Everseen - a leading provider of AI-powered computer vision and hyper-automation solutions - announced recently that it has raised a €65+ million Series A follow-on funding round led by Crosspoint Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on the cybersecurity, privacy, and infrastructure software markets.
Funderbeam - an angel investing and trading platform - announced a deal with VentureWave in which they have agreed to enter into a transaction to create a leading global entity that will serve institutional and angel investors in venture deal execution and secondaries. As part of the deal, VentureWave led the $40 million investment in Funderbeam. Mistletoe, Draper Associates, and Ruusalepp also joined the funding round.
Anavo Therapeutics - a global leader in unlocking the full therapeutic potential of human phosphatase biology - announced recently an €8.5 million seed round extension, adding MRL Ventures Fund as a new investor. And all existing investors, M Ventures, INKEF, Taiho Ventures, and Bioqube Ventures, participated in the extension, bringing the total seed round to €28 million.
Thesis - a company that offers a customized approach to cognitive performance products based on your unique brain chemistry - announced that it has raised over $13.5 million in funding.
Hygieia - a digital therapeutics company for insulin therapy - announced recently it is extending its Series B funding round to $22 million with a lead investment from Firstime Ventures and additional investment from two strategic partners.
Uwill - a leading mental health and wellness solution for colleges and students - announced it has completed a $30 million Series A funding round. This investment validates Uwill as one of the nation's fastest-growing EdTech companies and the preferred mental health partner of college leaders and students across the country. Education Growth Partners (EGP) - a private equity firm focused on providing growth capital in the education, workplace, and learning sectors - funded the investment.
Hero Bread - a food innovation company developing low-carb options - recently announced it raised $15 million in funding, bringing the total funding to $47.5 million. And Hero Bread also announced the national retail launch of its better-for-you bread and baked goods.
Foretellix - a leading provider of safety-driven verification and validation solutions for Automated Driving Systems and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) - announced recently it had raised $43 million in the first closing of its Series C funding round led by 83North, bringing its total raised capital to over $93 million.
Mavenir - a Network Software Provider building the future of networks with cloud-native solutions that run on any cloud - recently announced the closing of a $100 million capital raise following a successful $250 million fundraise in 2022.
OpenEnvoy - an AI company that has built the industry-leading solution for accounts payable (AP) automation - announced it raised $15 million in Series A financing led by RRE Ventures, including participation from Coelius Capital, Hack VC, Riot Ventures, and Uncorrelated Ventures.
Intrinsic - an omnichannel consumer health company - announced a $15 million equity fundraising to focus exclusively on women's health. And the new funding round - which brings the company's total funding to $128 million raised to date - includes participation from new investors FCA Venture Partners and MAP Investco along with existing investors Define Ventures, Link Ventures, Redesign Health, and others.
Aiden Technologies - a provider of modern and intelligent software packaging and deployment for Microsoft Windows announced it has secured $4.5 million in its second round of seed funding. The co-lead investors in this round of funding are Right Side Capital Management and Blu Venture Investors. Right Side was also the largest investor in Aiden's initial round of funding in 2021 when it raised its initial $2.9 million seed funding.
Fraud prevention innovator Moonsense announced they have raised $4.2 million in seed funding and the general availability of its user behavioral and network intelligence solution to help organizations future-proof their fraud detection and prevention. And Moonsense's new approach allows companies to better customize fraud management based on their unique business and is actively being used across several security and risk-sensitive industries including financial services, fintech, online merchants, online gambling, among others.
Autonomize AI - a trusted artificial intelligence (AI) company for healthcare and life sciences - announced it has closed a $4 million seed round to support the development and scaling of the company’s AI platform. And Asset Management Ventures led the round, with participation from ATX Venture Partners, Loop Ventures and The Next Practices Group.
Essenvia - a pioneer in regulatory submission management for the MedTech industry - announced it closed $4M in Pre Series A financing led by Benhamou Global Ventures and Wavemaker360 with participation from existing investors First Rays, Rebright partners, as well as Pasadena Angels. And the company announced the appointment of Wavemaker360 partner Kwame Ulmer and BGV Partner Yashwanth Hemaraj to Essenvia's board of directors.
Origin Investments - a leading real estate fund manager - announced the final close of Origin Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund II (QOZ Fund II) after raising over $300 million which follows raising more than $264 million for Origin Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund I (QOZ Fund I). And with that level of fundraising achieved, Origin ranks in the top 2% of QOZ managers that report equity raised, according to proprietary industry research by Novogradac.
Fedi - a U.S.-based developer of community-empowering financial and data technology - announced that it has raised $17 million in a Series A funding round and the company is set to pre-launch an alpha version of Fedi for builders later this month.
Embr Labs - the company behind Embr Wave, the leading wearable to treat the symptoms of menopause - announced that it has raised $35 million via intellectual property (IP)-based debt financing.