Venture Capital

Axion: $37 Million Series B Raised To Expand AI Platform For Manufacturing Product Quality

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

Axion Ray, which operates as Axion, has raised a $37 million Series B funding round led by Salesforce Ventures with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Schneider Electric Ventures, and other existing investors. The New York-based company said the financing will support the expansion of its AI-powered product quality platform for manufacturers and accelerate product development as it scales deployments across industries.

PolyAI: $86 Million Series D Closed To Scale Enterprise Voice Agents And Agent Studio Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

PolyAI, an enterprise conversational AI company focused on automating customer interactions, has raised $86 million in Series D funding in a round co-led by Georgian, Hedosophia, and Khosla Ventures. Additional participants include NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), British Business Bank, Citi Ventures, Squarepoint Ventures, Sands Capital, Zendesk Ventures, and Point72 Ventures.

Cynch AI: $9 Million Raised To Accelerate Acquisition-Led Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

True Global Ventures has led a $9 million equity investment round in Cynch AI, a San Francisco-based company building AI native tax automation software and pursuing acquisition-led growth in the tax and accounting market. The round also included participation from existing investors Permanent Capital, AI Capital, Clear Ventures, and Factory HQ, according to the firms.

Impulse Dynamics: Over $158 Million Raised To Advance Next Generation Heart Failure Devices

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

Impulse Dynamics, a medical device company focused on therapies for heart failure, said it has raised more than $158 million in financing to expand commercialization and support development across its clinical and technology pipelines.

Locus FS: $40 Million In Strategic Investment Raised To Expand Biomanufacturing And Scale Bio-Based Additives

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

Locus Fermentation Solutions (known as Locus FS) has secured more than $40 million in growth capital this year as it ramps up biomanufacturing capacity and expands commercialization of its bio based additives across oil and gas, mining, agriculture, and industrial and consumer packaged goods markets.

Relation: Additional $26 Million Raised To Advance Lab In The Loop Drug Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

Relation Therapeutics has raised an additional $26 million from existing investors NVentures, DCVC, and Magnetic Ventures as it continues building an AI-driven drug discovery and development platform focused on improving confidence in the underlying biology of disease.

DISCO Pharmaceuticals: €36 Million Seed Funding Raised And Mark Manfredi Named As CEO

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

DISCO Pharmaceuticals has appointed biotech executive Mark Manfredi, Ph.D., as chief executive officer and completed the final close of a €36 million seed financing round to advance its pipeline of surfaceome-targeted drug candidates for hard-to-treat tumors.

Surf: $15 Million Raised To Scale AI Model Built For Digital Asset Research

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

Surf, an AI intelligence platform focused on digital assets, has raised $15 million in funding led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Digital Currency Group. The San Francisco-based company said the new capital will be used to develop Surf 2.0 and expand its enterprise offering as demand rises among crypto traders, researchers, and investors for faster and more reliable market intelligence.

Trendtracker: $7 Million Series A Raised To Scale AI-Based Strategic Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

Trendtracker, a Ghent, Belgium-based scale-up building an AI-powered strategic intelligence platform, has raised $7 million in Series A funding to accelerate global expansion and deepen product development. Armilar led the round with participation from existing investor Capricorn Partners.

Reel Power International: New Investment Secured From StoneTree

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

StoneTree Investment Partners, a private equity firm focused on lower-middle-market industrial businesses, has invested in Reel Power International, an Oklahoma City-based manufacturer of engineered equipment used in wire, cable, and flexible-material handling applications.

Avocet Partners Launches With $500 Million Equity Commitment And Buys EMC National Life

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

Avocet Partners has launched a new insurance-focused investment and operating platform backed by $500 million of committed equity capital from funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management and Lane42 Investment Partners. The New York-based firm said it was formed to acquire, operate, and grow life insurance platforms while establishing an ecosystem of related investment and service entities.

MML Capital: Over €630 Million Raised For Debut Continuation Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

MML Capital has closed its debut continuation vehicle, MML Dorchester SCSp, with more than €630 million of investor commitments after what the firm described as a significantly oversubscribed fundraising. MML said the continuation fund was created to acquire interests in two European business services companies currently held across prior MML Partnership Capital funds, alongside stakes owned by other shareholders. Under MML’s ownership, the firm said both companies delivered strong performance during the hold period, more than doubling EBITDA through a combination of organic growth and strategic acquisitions.

Soverli: $2.6 Million Pre-Seed Raised To Launch A Sovereign OS Layer That Runs Alongside Android And iOS

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

Soverli, an ETH Zurich spin-off building what it describes as a sovereign operating system layer for commercial smartphones, has raised $2.6 million in pre-seed funding as it looks to bring auditable, high-assurance mobile environments to governments, enterprises, OEMs, and consumers without requiring new hardware.

Finance Of America Lands $2.5 Billion Blue Owl Partnership Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

Finance of America Companies has expanded its strategic partnership with funds managed by Blue Owl Capital in a move the company expects will accelerate product innovation and distribution for retirement-age borrowers seeking access to home equity. The companies said the enhanced arrangement includes a $2.5 billion commitment intended to provide scale and liquidity to support origination growth across multiple asset classes, along with a $50 million equity investment in Finance of America designed to deepen alignment between the two firms.

AIR: $6.1 Million Seed Funding Closed To Bring Daily AI Credit Ratings To Private Credit And Public Markets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

AIR Platforms has raised a $6.1 million seed round co-led by Work-Bench Ventures and Lerer Hippeau as it builds an AI-powered credit intelligence platform designed to deliver continuous, bias-free credit ratings for both public and private companies. The New York-based company said its goal is to replace legacy credit ratings systems with autonomous, daily evaluations of corporate financial health.

MetaComp: $22 Million Pre-A Raised To Scale Web2.5 Fiat And Stablecoin Settlement Network For Cross-Border Payments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

MetaComp, a Singapore-licensed stablecoin cross-border payments and treasury management provider, said it has raised US$22 million in a Pre-A funding round to expand StableX Network, a hybrid fiat-and-stablecoin settlement layer designed for regulated, real-time cross-border payments.

ChemLex: $45 Million Raised To Open Singapore Headquarters And Self-Driving Lab For Drug Discovery

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

ChemLex, an AI-for-science company focused on accelerating chemical discovery for the pharmaceutical industry, said it has established its global headquarters and a self-driving laboratory in Singapore and closed a $45 million funding round led by Granite Asia.

Phia: $30 Million In Funding At $180 Million Valuation Raised To Expand AI Shopping App

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

Phia, an AI-powered shopping app co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, has raised $30 million in new financing that values the company at about $180 million, according to Bloomberg. A Phia spokesperson confirmed the round. The funding round was led by Notable Capital. Kleiner Perkins and Khosla Ventures also reportedly participated in the round along with several celebrity backers, including Hailey Bieber, Kris Jenner, Sheryl Sandberg, and Sara Blakely .

Outset: $30 Million Series B Raised To Advance AI-Native Customer Experience Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

Outset has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Radical Ventures as the company moves beyond AI-moderated research studies into what it calls the world’s first AI-native Customer Experience Management platform. The San Francisco-based company said the financing brings its total funding to $51 million and follows its Series A by six months. The round included participation from M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, along with returning investors Y Combinator, Adverb Ventures, and 8VC. Outset said the new capital will support continued development of its AI-moderated research technology while extending that capability across the entire customer journey through a new CXM category.

Esusu: $50 Million Series C At $1.2 Billion Valuation Raised To Expand Rent Reporting And Rental Data Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

Esusu announced it has raised $50 million in Series C financing at a $1.2 billion valuation as it expands its platform for credit building and economic mobility, with a focus on scaling rent reporting and using verified rental data more broadly across financial services. The New York-based fintech said the financing brings its total capital raised to more than $200 million.

InduPro Therapeutics Secures Sanofi Strategic Equity Investment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

InduPro, a biotechnology company developing therapeutics that leverage membrane protein spatial relationships, has entered into a strategic equity investment and research collaboration with Sanofi to advance a novel bispecific PD-1 agonist program for autoimmune and inflammatory disorders. The Seattle and Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company said the program is currently in preclinical development and that Sanofi will fund preclinical and IND-enabling research activities as part of the collaboration.

ECP: Major Level Equity Growth Investment Raised To Advance AI Development For Assisted Living Software Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

ECP, a software platform built specifically for assisted living communities, has secured a significant growth investment led by Level Equity, with participation from existing investors and the company’s management team. The Milwaukee-based company said it will use what it described as the largest growth investment in assisted living software history to accelerate product development, with a focus on AI, value-based care, and ease of use.

Corpay Finalizes Mastercard’s $300 Million Minority Investment Valuing Cross-Border Business At About $13 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

Corpay, the corporate payments company listed on the NYSE as CPAY, said it has completed Mastercard’s $300 million minority investment in Corpay’s cross-border business, concluding a transaction that Mastercard first announced in April and that places an enterprise valuation of approximately $13.0 billion on the unit.

Blue Current: Over $80 Million Series D Extension Anchored By Amazon To Commercialize Silicon Solid-State Batteries

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

Blue Current, a Hayward, California-based developer of silicon solid-state batteries, has closed a Series D extension funding round of more than $80 million, anchored by Amazon, with participation from Koch Disruptive Technologies, Piedmont Capital, Rusheen Capital Partners, and Allen & Company. The company said the financing is intended to accelerate the commercialization of its silicon composite solid-state battery platform for mobility and stationary energy storage applications, positioning the technology as a safer, higher-performing alternative to conventional lithium-ion batteries.

Westwood Financial Expands Corporate Credit Facility By $145 Million To $470 Million Total

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

Westwood Financial, a Los Angeles-based retail real estate investment firm, has raised additional capital by closing a recast and $145 million upsize to its corporate credit facility, increasing the total facility to $470 million. The 55-year-old firm said the expanded financing strengthens liquidity and flexibility as it pursues a long-term growth strategy centered on neighborhood retail, particularly grocery-anchored assets.

FoodLabs: Fund III Closed Above €105 Million To Back ‘Lab-To-Shelf’ Food Innovation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

FoodLabs said it has closed its third venture fund at more than €105 million, expanding the Berlin-based firm’s push to finance and build startups tackling food-system infrastructure, technology, and research challenges. The firm disclosed the fund close in a LinkedIn post, framing the raise as part of a broader effort to modernize an industry it described as massive, economically significant, and facing “existential challenges.”

Melt&Marble: €7.3 Million Series A Closed To Commercialize Precision-Fermented Designer Fats

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

Melt&Marble, a Gothenburg-based biotech company developing designer fats using precision fermentation, has raised €7.3 million (80 MSEK) in a Series A round to scale production and bring its first ingredients to market for personal care and food applications. The financing was led by Swedish deeptech investor Industrifonden and included participation from the European Commission’s European Innovation Council Fund, as well as strategic investments from Beiersdorf and Valio. Chalmers Ventures, Catalyze Capital, and other backers also participated. The company said the EIC Accelerator supported the effort with an additional €2.5 million grant last year, bringing the latest funding total to €10 million over the past year, including €2.76 million in EU grants.

Solve Intelligence: $40 Million Series B Raised To Expand AI Platform For Patent Claims

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

Solve Intelligence has raised $40 million in Series B financing to expand its AI platform for patent work and to support the launch of Charts, a new product aimed at claim charting and large-scale patent analysis. The round was co-led by Visionaries and existing investor 20VC, with Thomson Reuters and Y Combinator increasing their ownership. Operator Collective, led by former Cisco IP executive Mallun Yen, also participated, alongside other backers and a group of angel investors that includes founders of several high-profile technology companies, according to the company and third-party coverage. The angel investors include the founders of Tinder, Canva, Deel, Ironclad, Base44, Cleo, Hugging Face, Pigment, Higgsfield, Trouva, and many others, as well as Kevin Johnson, who founded Quinn Emanuel's IP litigation practice.

Algori: €3.6 Million Raised To Expand AI Shopper Insights Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

Algori, a purchase and behavioural data platform built for the FMCG industry, has raised €3.6 million in additional growth capital to support international expansion and broaden its data capabilities. The round included new investors Red Bull Ventures, Tech Transfer Agrifood (Clave capital), Co-Invest Capital, AttaPoll, and Firstpick, alongside participation from existing backers Shilling, Flashpoint, and Change Ventures.

KBC Group: €100 Million Committed To Start It @KBC Startups

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 15, 2025

KBC Group said it is investing €100 million through Start it @KBC to strengthen Belgium’s startup ecosystem, pairing the accelerator’s equity-free program with a new funding track that includes early-stage checks and the potential for later-stage follow-on financing via KBC Securities.