Venture Capital

Accenture Investing In OPAQUE For Advancing Confidential AI And Data Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 16, 2025

Accenture announced it has made a strategic investment in OPAQUE, a provider of a confidential AI platform that empowers organizations to run cloud-scale, general-purpose AI-based workloads using encrypted data and governed data sharing, with a focus on privacy, sovereignty, and compliance. This funding, made through Accenture Ventures, underscores Accenture’s commitment to accelerating AI adoption by helping enterprises unlock the full value of sensitive data.

MicroTransponder: $65 Million (Series F) Raised For Enhancing Vivistim Adoption For Chronic Stroke Recovery

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 16, 2025

MicroTransponder - which is one of the fastest-growing stroke companies - announced it is transforming the stroke continuum of care with its FDA-approved Vivistim Paired VNS System. The company also announced it has raised $75 million led by US Venture Partners (USVP) and the syndicate of current investors, Osage University Partners, Action Potential Venture Capital, GPG Ventures, The Vertical Group and Exceller Hunt Ventures, as well as two new investors, Gilde Healthcare and Longitude Capital.

GS Power Partners: $22 Million Financing Secured With Amalgamated Bank

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 16, 2025

GS Power Partners (GSPP), a leading Independent Power Producer in the distributed generation (DG) solar sector, announced it has secured a $22 million term financing commitment from Amalgamated Bank. This funding package encompasses five GSPP community solar projects in New York, totaling 25.5 megawatts (MWdc).

Motivity: $27 Million Raised For Applied Behavior Analysis Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 16, 2025

Motivity, a provider of clinical SaaS solutions for Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) providers who treat children with autism, announced a $27 million investment from Five Elms Capital. This funding enables Motivity to accelerate product innovation, expand its team, and strengthen support for ABA providers worldwide.

JAB: New Strategy And Team Structure Implemented

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 16, 2025

JAB announced it has strengthened and reorganized its team to support its strategic transformation, building on the firm’s success in pet insurance with the addition of a global life insurance platform. And with its commitment to consumer goods and services, this new strategy will further diversify JAB’s portfolio and position the investment firm for sustainable long-term growth.

Porter: Growth Investment Raised From Eir Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 16, 2025

Eir Partners, a middle-market private equity firm focused on healthcare technology and tech-enabled services, announced a growth investment in Porter, the only platform dedicated to connecting plan members with the resources, services, products, and education they need to live their best lives at home.

bd-capital: €430 Million Raised For Second Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 15, 2025

bd-capital, a pan-European and operator-led investment firm, announced the final closing of its second fund, bd-capital Fund 2, at €430 million. After less than a year in the market, this fund closed more than 20% over its target of €350 million. With the closing of Fund 2, bd-capital’s assets under management have increased to over €800 million.

Perfuze: €22 Million Raised And Clearance Received For Zipline Access Catheters

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 15, 2025

Perfuze, a leading medical device company dedicated to advancing stroke treatment, has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Zipline Access Catheters. This milestone strengthens Perfuze’s growing portfolio of innovative neurovascular devices, enabling physicians to treat acute ischemic strokes rapidly, easily, and precisely. Plus, Perfuze has secured €22 million in follow-on funding in a round led by existing investors, including Earlybird, EQT Life Sciences, Seroba, and SV Health.

Phoenix: $50 Million Raised For Digital Health Clinic For Men

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 15, 2025

Phoenix, which is Canada’s leading digital health clinic for men, announced it has signed a CAD 50 million Series A financing round. This funding round was led by Valspring Capital, with renewed investment from Y Combinator, and support from CIBC Innovation Banking.

Infleqtion: $6.2 Million ARPA-E Award Received For Advancing Quantum-Powered Energy Grid Optimization

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 15, 2025

Infleqtion, a leader in quantum information technologies, announced it has been awarded $6.2 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop quantum-enhanced solutions for energy grid optimization. This deal marks the first-ever quantum technology award granted by ARPA-E and represents the most extensive grant awarded under the agency’s OPEN program this year.

Human Computer: $5.7 Million (Seed) Raised For Creating Story-Driven Games

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 15, 2025

Human Computer, an independent game studio and a collaborative creative powerhouse, announced it has raised $5.7 million in a seed round led by Makers Fund. a16z and former Airbnb COO Belinda Johnson have also invested in the company, bringing the total funding to date to $7.7 million.

Terabase: $130 Million (Series C) Raised For Utility-Scale Solar Power Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 15, 2025

Terabase Energy, a leader in digital and automation solutions for utility-scale solar power, announced the closing of its $130 million Series C financing round. The funding round—led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and with participation from both existing and new strategic investors—brings the company's total funding to over $200 million.

W3i Software: $1.5 Million Raised From Hoskinson Family Office

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 15, 2025

Hoskinson Family Office (HFO) announced it has invested $1.5 million in W3i Software, Inc., the development company behind USDM—Cardano’s first MiCA-compliant, fiat-backed stablecoin. This investment is a major step toward bridging decentralized finance (DeFi) with the regulated financial system and accelerating Cardano’s global adoption.

Catalyze: $400 Million Financing Raised From ATLAS SP Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 15, 2025

Catalyze, a fully integrated developer and Independent Power Producer (IPP) of distributed renewable energy assets, announced it has secured a $400 million multiyear debt facility from ATLAS SP Partners, the warehouse finance and securitized products business majority owned by Apollo funds.

Insilico Medicine: $110 Million (Series E) Raised For Advancing AI-Based Drug Discovery

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 15, 2025

Insilico Medicine, a clinical-stage generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company, announced that it has successfully secured a $110 million Series E financing led by a private equity fund of Value Partners Group with strong participation from industry- and technology-focused new investors, and continued support from global existing backers.