Venture Capital

SKF Invests In Anferra To Transform Steel Grinding Sludge Into Circular Resources

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

SKF announced a strategic investment in Anferra, a startup developing technology to recycle hazardous steel grinding sludge into secondary resources. The investment was made alongside Stephen Industries and Chalmers Ventures. SKF said the investment is the first initiative from SKF Ventures, the company’s program focused on accelerating new innovations.

H2SITE Raises Series B Funding To Over €42 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

H2SITE announced that it has completed a second closing of its Series B round, bringing total funding raised in the round to more than €42 million. The new closing adds the EIC Fund and a private investor to H2SITE’s shareholder base. They join Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Suma Capital, Hy24, Crane, Enagás Emprende, Calderion, and CRPV, which participated in the first closing.

WidePoint Wins $3.1 Billion DHS CWMS 3.0 Contract

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

WidePoint announced that it has been selected as the single awardee of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cellular Wireless Managed Services 3.0 contract.

Sazabi Raises $8 Million Seed Round To Build AI-Native Observability Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Sazabi announced that it raised an $8 million seed round to build an AI-native observability platform for fast-moving engineering teams. The round was led by J2 Ventures, Village Global, and Y Combinator, with participation from Orange Collective and more than 60 angel investors from AI, developer tools, and infrastructure companies. Investors included angels from Vercel, Cursor, LangChain, OpenAI, Anthropic, GitHub, Replit, Browserbase, and others.

Z Squared To Acquire A Majority Stake In Paradox Data

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Z Squared announced that it has entered into a binding letter of intent to acquire a majority membership interest in Paradox Data, a digital infrastructure company focused on high-density, immersion-cooled compute for data-intensive workloads.

Brightwood Capital Advisors Leads Growth Financing For I Love Produce

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Brightwood Capital Advisors announced that it served as lead lender on a new credit facility for I Love Produce, a portfolio company of Promise Holdings. The financing will support I Love Produce’s continued growth, including future acquisition opportunities. OFS Capital Management also participated in the financing.

Hatch BioFund Invests In Optimeos Life Sciences To Advance Nanoparticle Drug Delivery Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Hatch BioFund announced an investment in Optimeos Life Sciences, a Princeton University spinout developing a proprietary nanoparticle platform for the intracellular delivery of therapeutic macromolecules, including RNA, DNA, and proteins.

SUI Group Lends Additional 4 Million SUI To Bluefin

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

SUI Group Holdings announced an expansion of its strategic lending partnership with Bluefin, a decentralized exchange on the Sui blockchain. Under an amended and restated digital currency loan agreement, SUI Group will lend an additional 4 million SUI to Bluefin. This brings the total amount of SUI on loan to 6 million.

Samepage Raises $4.85 Million To Launch AI-Powered Product Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Samepage announced the launch of Samepage Signals, an AI-powered product intelligence platform designed to help product leaders stay informed across product, engineering, customer, and business systems. The launch comes alongside $4.85 million in funding from Craft Ventures, Freestyle VC, Glasswing Ventures, and angel investors, including Justin Kan, Matt Mullenweg, and others.

Upside Raises $20 Million Series A To Scale Housing Stability Platform For Healthcare

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Upside announced that it raised $20 million in Series A funding to scale its housing stability platform for healthcare. The round was co-led by Aquiline and Flare Capital Partners, with participation from existing investors including 645 Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Triple Impact Capital, and Techstars.

BankTech Ventures Invests More Than $15 Million In Early-Stage Fintech Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

BankTech Ventures announced that it has invested more than $15 million over the past six months in early-stage fintech companies.

Kalipso Raises $3.2 Million To Build Regulatory Compliance Operating System

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Kalipso announced that it raised $3.2 million in funding to build an operating system for regulatory compliance. The round was led by Varsity, with participation from Lanai Ventures, Plug and Play Tech Center, Kima Ventures, and Vento.

Talentir Raises €4 Million To Build AI-Powered Global Payout Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Talentir announced that it raised a €4 million funding round to build AI-powered payout infrastructure for companies paying creators, freelancers, and external teams globally. The round was led by Redstone, Shapers, and Inovia, with participation from Tenity.

British Business Bank Commits Up To £90 Million To Back Emerging UK Venture Capital Managers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

The British Business Bank announced a commitment of up to £90 million to support a new generation of UK venture capital fund managers.

Australian Financial Planning Group Receives Minority Investment From Kudu

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Australian Financial Planning Group announced that it has secured a minority investment from Kudu Investment Management. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Leyden Labs Raises €40 Million To Advance Respiratory Virus Protection Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Leyden Labs announced a €40 million investment to advance its mission of improving protection against influenza and other respiratory viruses.

Alan Raises €480 Million Round Led By Prosus At €5.5 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Prosus announced that it is leading a €480 million funding round in Alan, a European health and insurance technology company building an AI-powered healthcare platform.

Aquila Air Capital Upsizes Credit Facility To $400 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Aquila Air Capital announced the closing of a $400 million refinancing and upsizing of its warehouse facility with ATLAS SP Partners.

Orbital Composites Wins $1.9 Million U.S. Space Force Contract

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Orbital Composites announced that it has received a $1.9 million Tactical Funding Increase contract award from SpaceWERX, the innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force.

AiRANACULUS Wins $5 Million NASA Contract To Advance Lunar Communications Networks

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

AiRANACULUS announced that it has been awarded a $5 million Civilian Commercialization Readiness Pilot Program contract from NASA.

Asset-Map Launches Growth Partners Program And Growth Studio

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Asset-Map announced the launch of Asset-Map Growth Partners, a curated program designed to connect financial advisors with vetted companies that can help them grow their practices.

Patronus AI Raises $50 Million Series B To Build Digital World Models

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Patronus AI announced that it raised a $50 million Series B round and unveiled Digital World Models, a new class of large-scale simulation environments for AI agent training and evaluation.

LR Health & Beauty Completes Financial Realignment To Support Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

LR Health & Beauty announced it has successfully completed its financial realignment, strengthening its capital structure and laying the foundation for future growth.

Tombot Raises $7 Million Series A3 To Scale Robotic Companion Animals

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Tombot announced that it closed a $7 million Series A3 financing round to scale operations and expand its companion robotics product line.

Lumenai Secures Pre-Seed Investment From Corpora.ai

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Lumenai announced that it has secured pre-seed investment from Corpora.ai to advance its work around structured people intelligence for AI-era workplaces.

Hera Raises $27 Million Series A Led By Bain Capital Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Hera announced that it raised $27 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered senior care coordination platform. The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, with continued participation from Accel and IA Ventures. Angel investors also participated, including the CFO of Mount Sinai.

Cleantek Industries Secures $2 Million Credit Facility

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Cleantek Industries announced that it has secured a $2 million senior credit facility with a Canadian financial institution.

Nebulock Raises $25 Million Series A Led By FirstMark

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Nebulock announced that it raised $25 million in Series A financing to expand its AI-native contextual security platform. The round was led by FirstMark, with participation from existing investors Bain Capital Ventures, Decibel, Zetta Venture Partners, and Step Function.

ReliaQuest Invests $1.5 Million In AI And Cybersecurity Education At USF

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

ReliaQuest announced a $1.5 million investment to expand AI cybersecurity research and education at the University of South Florida’s College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing.

Mexedia Acquires A Majority Stake In Stantup Service

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Mexedia announced that it has completed the acquisition of a 51% stake in Stantup Service from Rocket Sharing Company for a total consideration of €16.5 million.