Venture Capital

Neuron Factory: $6 Million Seed Funding Raised For Transforming The Construction Industry

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 29, 2025

Neuron Factory, a company dedicated to transforming the construction industry through AI software, announced its seed funding round and a strategic partnership with Cordeel Group. The company also raised $6 million in seed funding in an over-subscribed round, from Activant Capital, Colle Capital, Karman Ventures, Punch Capital and strategic investors including Filip Cordeel, Chairman of Cordeel Group.

Tradeverifyd: $4 Million In Additional Series A Raised For Addressing Supply Chain Risks

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 29, 2025

Tradeverifyd, a supply chain risk management platform designed to help enterprises identify, assess, and mitigate risks before they impact operations, announced the company raised $4 million in new funding from SJF Ventures.

CloudZero: $56 Million Series C Raised For Transforming Cloud Optimization

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2025

CloudZero, a leader in proactive cloud cost efficiency, announced a $56 million Series C funding round following another year of triple-digit growth. The round was led by BlueCrest Capital Management and Innovius Capital, with participation from Matrix Partners, Threshold Ventures, Underscore VC, and G20 Ventures. MongoDB also made a strategic investment.

Cerby: $40 Million Series B Raised For Automating Identity Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2025

Cerby, a rapidly growing platform for identity security automation globally, announced a $40 million Series B funding round. DTCP led the funding round with participation from existing backers, including Okta Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Two Sigma Ventures.

University Of Chicago: New Venture Challenge Features 10 Finalists Competing For Over $1 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2025

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation announced that 10 teams have advanced to the finals of the 29th annual Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge (NVC), the University of Chicago’s signature startup accelerator for MBA students at the Booth School of Business.

Smith Anglin: Strategic Investment Raised From Hightower

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2025

Hightower announced that the firm has made a strategic investment in Smith Anglin, a financial planning and wealth management practice based in Dallas, Texas, with about $2 billion in assets under management. Originally founded in 1967, the 34-person Smith Anglin team offers an integrated retirement preparedness and tax preparation experience tailored to the aviation industry.

GCL: Strategic Controlling Investment Raised From Providence Equity

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2025

GCL, a leader in live events and luxury goods specialty logistics, announced a strategic investment from Providence Equity Partners, a premier private equity firm with significant experience investing in and supporting the growth of companies in the entertainment and media sectors.

Bespoken Spirits: Over $11 Million Series C Closed For Sustainable Spirits

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 27, 2025

Bespoken Spirits, an innovator in sustainable and precision-aged spirits, announced the closing of its Series C funding round. The funding round, which culminates on May 30, highlights the market's confidence in Bespoken's revolutionary maturation technology, its unprecedented speed to market for private labels of all sizes, and its bold vision for the future of the spirits industry.

Cerebro Capital: Series A Raised And $1 Billion In Loan Closings Completed

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 27, 2025

Cerebro Capital, a fintech company transforming access to debt capital for middle market businesses and helping lenders generate new borrower relationships, announced the completion of its Series A funding round led by JAM FINTOP. And the new equity capital comes on the heels of the platform facilitating $1B in cumulative loan closings.

Cathay Innovation: $1 Billion VC Fund Closed

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 27, 2025

Cathay Innovation announced today the final close of its latest venture capital fund at $1 billion, making it the largest AI-focused fund in the European Union.

Consolidated Communications: $1.344 Billion Securitization And $1.5 Billion Revolving Warehouse Facility Closed

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 27, 2025

Consolidated Communications announced the closing of its inaugural fiber securitization transaction consisting of asset-backed term notes totaling $1.344 billion, secured by all existing and future fiber-enabled customers across certain states and the fiber optic and network infrastructure to support these customers.

Avangrid: $41 Million Raised For Rebuilding Aging Grid Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 27, 2025

Avangrid - a leading energy company and member of the Iberdrola Group - announced five projects in Ithaca, NY, totalling $41 million in new investment, to improve the capacity and reliability of the area’s electrical grid.

Crestline Investors: $1.7 Billion Raised For NAV Lending Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 27, 2025

Crestline Investors, a leading provider of fund liquidity solutions, announced the final close of its third commingled dedicated NAV financing fund, branded the Portfolio Finance Sentry Fund (PF Sentry), with $1.7 billion of investable capital across the Fund, related vehicles, and anticipated leverage.

Turkcell: €100 Million Raised For Boosting Data Center Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 27, 2025

Turkcell announced that its subsidiary, TDC Veri Hizmetleri (TDC), has secured €100 million in murabaha financing through a strategic agreement with Emirates NBD Bank, a leading banking group in the Middle East and Turkiye (MENAT) area.

Reperio Health: $14 Million Raised For At-Home And Onsite Health Screening Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 27, 2025

Reperio Health, a provider of at-home and onsite comprehensive health screenings with instant results, announced that it has successfully closed a $14 million funding round, led by Caduceus Capital Partners.

Lendflow: $15 Million Growth Capital Raised From Trinity

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 27, 2025

Trinity Capital (a leading alternative asset manager) announced the commitment of $15 million in growth capital to Lendflow, a software development company that provides embedded credit infrastructure to fintechs, lenders, and vertical software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies.

Gravitee: $60 Million Series C Closed For Agentic API And Event Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 27, 2025

Gravitee, a leading Agentic API and Event Management company, announced it has raised $60 million in Series C funding. The funding round was led by Sixth Street Growth, the growth investing business of Sixth Street, with participation from existing investors Riverside Acceleration Capital and AlbionVC.

Catena Labs: $18 Million Secured for Establishing AI-Native Financial Institution

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 27, 2025

Catena Labs announced its plan to establish the first fully regulated AI-native financial institution (FI) designed for serving the unique needs of the emerging AI economy. The company also confirmed an $18 million funding round led by a16z crypto, with participation from Breyer Capital, Circle Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund, Pillar VC, Stanford Engineering VF, and visionary angels including Tom Brady, Bradley Horowitz, Hamel Husain, Kevin Lin, Peter Mattoon, Sam Palmisano, and Balaji Srinivasan. Additionally, the company has released a new open-source project that defines protocols and patterns for agentic commerce.