Venture Capital

Dubai Holding And ICD Complete Strategic Transaction In Emaar Properties

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 13, 2026

Dubai Holding and the Investment Corporation of Dubai have completed a strategic transaction in which Dubai Holding acquired a 22.27% equity stake in Emaar Properties from ICD. With this acquisition, Dubai Holding’s total ownership in Emaar Properties rises to 29.73%, making it the company’s largest shareholder. The move strengthens Dubai Holding’s long‑standing partnership with Emaar and reflects its confidence in both the developer’s market position and the long‑term fundamentals of Dubai’s real estate sector.

L&T Technology Services And Emerson Announce Global Strategic Partnership To Accelerate Engineering Innovation

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

L&T Technology Services has announced a strategic global partnership with Emerson, a global automation leader and provider of advanced test and measurement solutions. Under the engagement, LTTS will serve as a global system integrator and technology development partner, supporting the design, deployment, and lifecycle enablement of advanced systems engineering platforms across industries. The collaboration will focus on product engineering and solution development for industrial, transportation, semiconductor, aerospace, and defense sectors where system performance, resilience, and sustainability are critical.

Bisedge Secures $20 Million From Metier Private Equity To Expand Electric Intralogistics Fleet Across Africa

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Bisedge Logistics and Infrastructure has announced a $20 million investment from Metier Private Equity, a pan-African private equity firm, to accelerate expansion across African markets and grow its fleet of electric material handling equipment. The capital will be deployed to meet strong customer demand for outsourced and long-term rental electric material handling fleets across Sub-Saharan Africa, where businesses are increasingly looking to eliminate capital expenditure on equipment while improving fleet reliability and uptime.

Vapi Raises $50 Million Series B After Reaching One Billion Calls On Its Enterprise Voice AI Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Vapi, the leading platform for deploying configurable voice agents at scale, has announced a $50 million Series B funding round, bringing total funding to $72 million. The round was led by Peak XV with participation from M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners, and earlier investors. The raise follows 10-times growth in enterprise annual recurring revenue and the milestone of one billion calls processed on the platform, which now supports more than one million developers and more than 2.7 million unique agents created.

Antares Capital: $8.5 Billion Raised For Senior Loan Fund III

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Antares Capital announced that it closed approximately $8.5 billion in total commitments for its third Senior Loan Fund, SLF III, and related strategy vehicles, exceeding the fund’s initial fundraising targets.

Govineer Solutions Receives Strategic Growth Investment From TA To Expand AI-Powered Government Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Govineer Solutions announced that it has secured a strategic growth investment from TA Associates as the company accelerates its evolution into an AI-powered operating system for local governments.

Exaforce Raises $125 Million Series B To Scale AI-Native Security Operations Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Exaforce has announced a $125 million Series B financing round, one of the largest ever in the emerging AI security operations center space, bringing the San Francisco-based company's total funding to $200 million. The round includes participation from HarbourVest, Peak XV, Mayfield, Khosla Ventures, Seligman Ventures, and AICONIC. The capital will be used to scale the company's AI-native security operations platform, deepen its real-time reasoning capabilities, and expand globally, including into Japan and Europe. The raise comes just one year after Exaforce's $75 million Series A.

Photonic Closes $200 Million Round At $2 Billion Valuation To Advance Distributed Quantum Computing

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Photonic has announced the final close of more than $200 million in investment at a $2 billion post-money valuation, bringing the Vancouver-based quantum computing company's total capital raised to more than $350 million. The round was led by Planet First Partners, a UK-based sustainable technology growth equity firm, and adds new investors Business Development Bank of Canada, Export Development Canada, Bell Ventures, Firgun Ventures, and InBC Investment Corp., alongside existing investor Mubadala Capital. The round's first close, announced in January 2026, attracted strategic investors Royal Bank of Canada and TELUS alongside returning investors British Columbia Investment Management Corporation and Microsoft.

Forus Raises $160 Million To Build AI-Powered Network Connecting Doctors, Pharmacies, Payers, And Biopharma

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Forus, formerly known as Tandem, has announced it has raised more than $160 million to accelerate its mission of connecting the fragmented systems that stand between medical breakthroughs and the patients who need them. The New York-based company is backed by Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Redpoint, BoxGroup, and Pear VC. The raise comes as provider adoption of the platform has grown 10 times year-over-year for the past two years, driven entirely by word of mouth.

Ditto Raises €7.6 Million To Transform European Healthcare With AI For Patients

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Ditto, the Rotterdam-based patient-facing healthcare AI app, has raised €7.6 million to fund its European rollout. The round is led by Heal Capital, with participation from Optiverder and Rubio Impact Ventures. The company won the 2026 Dutch National Healthcare Innovation Award and has been recommended to all policyholders by health insurer Menzis.

Gaiia Raises $40 Million Series B To Modernize Telecom Operating Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Gaiia, the AI-native operating system for communications service providers, has announced a $40 million Series B led by JMI Equity, with participation from Inovia Capital. The minority growth investment brings the Quebec City-based company's total funding to $66 million, leaves its founding team in control, and follows three consecutive years of more than three-times revenue growth. Customers have run more than 10 million workflows on gaiia to date, with workflow execution growing 10 times in the past year alone.

Tolemy Bio Raises €1.4 Million Pre-Seed To Build AI-Native Platform For Understanding Cellular Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Tolemy Bio, the London-based biology software startup, has raised €1.4 million in pre-seed funding to develop Orbit, an AI-native software platform designed to help scientists understand, predict, and direct cellular behavior. The round was led by Norrsken Evolve and Big Sur Ventures, with participation from JME Ventures, Masia, Redbus Ventures, and a group of angel investors including David Ola, Marcel Hedman, Simon Franks, and Amar Shah.

Dessn Raises $6 Million To Let Product Teams Design Directly In The Real Codebase

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Dessn, the collaborative product design platform, has raised $6 million in seed funding led by Connect Ventures, with participation from betaworks, N49P, and a group of angel investors including Declan Kelly, Roeland Delrue, Nicolas Steegmann, and Zoe Mohl. The round also includes support from Moxxie Ventures, which led the company’s pre‑seed, and reflects growing investor conviction in Dessn’s approach to unifying design and engineering workflows.

Greenboard Raises $20 Million And Launches GreenboardGo To Extend AI Compliance Across Entire Financial Institutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Greenboard, an AI-native platform for securities compliance, has announced $20 million in total funding including a previously unannounced $15.5 million Series A led by Base10 Partners. Other investors include Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Wayfinder Ventures, Commerce Ventures, Transpose Platform, Liquid2 Ventures, and strategic industry investors. Alongside the funding, the New York-based company is launching GreenboardGo, a conversational AI layer built on top of a firm's compliance books and records that answers employee questions instantly, routes decisions to the right compliance expert, and prepares compliance tasks automatically for human review and sign-off.

S2G Investments Closes $1 Billion Solutions Fund I To Scale Growth-Stage Companies Across Food, Energy, And Oceans

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

S2G Investments has announced the final closing of Solutions Fund I, a $1 billion growth-stage investment fund focused on food and agriculture, energy, and oceans. The Fund received strategic commitments from a diverse coalition of new and existing institutional investors, including pension funds, funds of funds, and family offices across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Webidoo: $25 Million Raised To Build AI Operating Layer For SMBs

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Webidoo announced the closing of a $25 million funding round led by IXC3, a fund within Azimut Group, as the company expands its AI-driven technology platform for small and medium-sized businesses.

Casimir: $12 Million Oversubscribed Seed Round Raised To Commercialize Quantum Energy Chips

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Casimir announced the closing of a $12 million oversubscribed seed funding round led by Scout Ventures as the company advances commercialization plans for what it describes as the world’s first quantum vacuum energy semiconductor chip.

White Circle Raises $11 Million Seed Round To Scale Real-Time AI Monitoring And Control Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

White Circle, the Paris-based AI control platform, has raised $11 million in seed funding from a group of prominent investors drawn from the highest levels of the AI industry. Backers include Romain Huet of OpenAI; Dirk Kingma, formerly of OpenAI and now at Anthropic; Guillaume Lample of Mistral; Thomas Wolf of Hugging Face; Olivier Pomel of Datadog; François Chollet of Keras; Mehdi Ghissassi, formerly of DeepMind; Paige Bailey of DeepMind; and David Cramer of Sentry. The funding will be used to accelerate product development, expand the team across the US, UK, and Europe, and grow White Circle's global customer base.

Ciridae: $20 Million Seed Funding Closed To Bring AI Transformation To Real Economy Businesses

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Ciridae, the San Francisco-based AI transformation firm building operating systems for real economy businesses, has raised $20 million in seed funding led by Accel, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Sunflower Capital, and Backcountry Ventures. The company was founded by CEO Jack Soslow, a former partner at Andreessen Horowitz and data scientist at Meta, and CTO Jack Weissenberger, a former engineering team leader at Salesforce and Head of ML at Teneyx.

Star Catcher Raises $65 Million Series A To Build First Power Grid In Space

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Star Catcher Industries, the company building what it describes as the first power grid in space, has raised $65 million in an oversubscribed Series A round, bringing its total capital raised to $88 million. The round was led by B Capital and co-led by Shield Capital and Cerberus Ventures, the venture arm of Cerberus Capital Management, with additional participation from GreatPoint Ventures, Helena, Oceans Ventures, and MVP Ventures.

Isomorphic Labs Raises $2.1 Billion Series B To Scale AI Drug Design Engine And Advance Therapeutic Pipeline

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Isomorphic Labs, the London-based AI-first drug design and development company, has raised $2.1 billion in Series B funding to accelerate its evolution from pioneering novel AI models to applying them at scale. The round is led by Thrive Capital and includes participation from existing backers Alphabet and GV alongside new investors MGX, Temasek, CapitalG, and the UK Sovereign AI Fund, significantly expanding the company's global capital base.

Green Street Launches Green Street Infrastructure As Dedicated Real Assets Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Green Street has announced the official launch of Green Street Infrastructure, a dedicated infrastructure intelligence platform now integrated into the Green Street ecosystem. The Newport Beach, California-based company said the launch marks a significant step in its mission to deliver the most powerful real assets intelligence platform in the market, combining trusted infrastructure data and exclusive news coverage from IJGlobal with Green Street's existing infrastructure research and analytics capabilities. The platform was commercially introduced to the global infrastructure finance community at IFF Europe in Madrid on May 12, 2026.

Havoc Raises $100 Million Series A To Scale All-Domain Collaborative Autonomy For Defense And Commercial Markets

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Havoc, the all-domain collaborative autonomy company, has announced a $100 million Series A funding round, bringing total capital raised to approximately $200 million since 2024. The round included participation from new investors CCM Capital Markets, Clear Street, Cobalt Capital, Boardman Bay Capital Management, Meet Perry, Mute Ventures, Soren Ventures, SAIC, and JA Green, alongside existing investors including Outlander VC, Scout VC, B Capital, Lockheed Martin, Taiwania Capital, UP.Partners, The Veteran Fund, and Vanderbilt University's endowment.

TriSpan Closes Continuation Vehicle For Maman

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

TriSpan has closed a single‑asset continuation vehicle to support the next phase of growth for Maman, the fast‑growing café‑bakery and lifestyle brand that has expanded rapidly across the United States and Canada. The transaction was led by Kline Hill Partners, with participation from Norwest and a major Ivy League endowment, and provides liquidity to existing investors while positioning the company for broader national and international expansion.

Judgment Labs Closes $32 Million In Seed And Series A Funding To Build Improvement Layer For AI Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Judgment Labs has raised a combined $32 million across its seed and Series A rounds to accelerate its mission of helping AI‑native teams turn production data into continuously improving agents. The funding was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, which backed both rounds less than six months apart, signaling strong conviction in the company’s approach to solving one of the most complex challenges in the AI agent ecosystem. Additional participation came from Nova Global, SV Angel, Valor Equity Partners, and Dynamic, all supporting Judgment Labs’ push to become foundational infrastructure for agent‑native companies.

Snowhawk Announces Final Close Of Inaugural Digital Infrastructure Fund With About $1.3 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Snowhawk has announced the final close of its inaugural digital infrastructure fund, Snowhawk Capital Digital Opportunities Fund I, with approximately $1.3 billion in total commitments across the fund and associated deal‑level co‑investments. The close marks a major milestone for the firm, which launched in 2022 and now manages $1.8 billion in assets.

Knit Health Secures $11.6 Million Seed Funding To Launch Its Large Clinical Behavior Model

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Knit Health has emerged from stealth with $11.6 million in seed funding to build a new category of clinical intelligence AI that learns directly from real‑world clinician behavior. The round was co‑led by Uncork Capital and Frist Cressey Ventures, with the pre‑seed round led by Moxxie Ventures and participation from Coalition Operators. The company, spun out of the University of California, Berkeley, plans to accelerate development and deployment of its Large Clinical Behavior Model across health systems nationwide.

Top Down Ventures Closes $28 Million Founders Fund I

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Top Down Ventures, the Vancouver-based venture capital firm focused on software and AI companies serving the Managed Service Provider market, has announced the final close of its Founders Fund I at $28 million, surpassing its original $25 million target.

Embat: €30 Million Series B Raised To Expand AI-Powered Treasury Management Across Europe

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Embat, the Madrid-based fintech specializing in AI-driven treasury management, has closed a €30 million Series B round led by Cathay Innovation, a Paris-based global venture capital firm with more than €2.5 billion under management. Existing investors Creandum, Samaipata, 4Founders, and Venture Friends also participated. The raise brings Embat's total funding to more than €50 million since its founding in 2021.

Adfin Raises $18 Million Series A To Build Agentic Finance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 12, 2026

Adfin, the London-based payments and finance automation company, has closed an $18 million Series A round, bringing total investment in the company to over $30 million in less than two years. Index Ventures led the round and tripled down on its prior commitment, with existing investor Visionaries Club also participating. The round additionally welcomed Stéphane Kurgan and Miro founder Andrey Khusid as new individual investors.