Venture Capital

Ownright: C$4.5 Million (Seed) Raised For Real Estate Law Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 20, 2025

Ownright (previously Doormat), an Ontario-based law service for real estate transactions, announced it has successfully closed a C$4.5 million seed funding round led by Alate and Relay Ventures, bringing the total capital raised to $6.5 million CAD. Along with accelerating growth, this latest funding round will enhance the client experience through expanded technological capabilities, solidifying Ownright’s position as the go-to legal solution for homebuyers and sellers.

RegCell: $45.8 Million Raised For T-Cell Reprogramming

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 20, 2025

RegCell - a biotechnology company developing first-in-class therapies for autoimmune diseases and transplantation with its epigenetic reprogramming platform utilizing the natural biology of regulatory T-cells (Tregs) - announced the closing of an oversubscribed seed round and its transition to a U.S.-based company.

Moonwatt: €8 Million Raised For Advancing Sodium-Ion Energy Storage Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 20, 2025

Moonwatt – an energy storage company founded by seasoned professionals with a track record at global leaders like Tesla, EDF, Siemens, Scatec, and Freyr Battery – announced it has raised €8 million to unlock the true, 24/7 power of solar with its disruptive sodium-ion battery system. The funding was co-led by daphni and LEA Partners, Founders Future, AFI Ventures (by Ventech) and Kima Ventures also participated along with strategic business angels and customers.

Decibel Bio: $12 Million Raised For Advancing Epigenetic Plant Programming Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 20, 2025

Decibel Bio, a plant biotechnology company building the first crop epigenetic platform, announced it recently emerged from stealth with the announcement of an oversubscribed $12 million financing round from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Future Ventures, and industry leaders Bayer and Syngenta. This funding round will advance Decibel’s proprietary platform for reading and writing the plant epigenome to create crop varieties with higher yield, efficiency, and resilience to a changing environment.

CaseBlink: $2 Million (Pre-Seed) Raised For Helping Transform Immigration Case Preparation With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 20, 2025

CaseBlink, an AI startup focused on immigration law, announced it has secured $2 million in pre-seed funding led by Tower Research Ventures, leading VCs, and immigration law firms, including Fakhoury Global Immigration (FGI).

Hillpointe: $750 Million Raised For Workforce Housing Partnership V

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 20, 2025

Hillpointe - a fully integrated real estate development and investment management firm focused on developing market-rate workforce housing in the Sun Belt - announced the closing of Hillpointe Workforce Housing Partnership V at its hard cap of $750 million.

Firsthand: $26 Million (Series A) Secured For Scaling AI-Based Brand Agent Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

Utila: $18 Million (Series A) Raised For Institutional MPC Wallet Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

Utila enables organizations to address the fast-growing market with a secure, seamless, institutional-grade platform for digital asset operations. In 18 months, the company has secured $35 billion in digital asset transactions, engaged hundreds of global clients, and leaped forward to become a leading institutional-grade digital asset operations platform.

Sienz: Strategic Funding Raised From Sunkist Growers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

Sunkist Growers announced it acquired a minority stake in Sienz, a leader in fruit and vegetable packinghouse technology. With this strategic funding, Sienz provided critical parts, service, and ongoing support to Sunkist's packinghouse equipment customers worldwide. Sienz will also collaborate with Sunkist to develop new technologies.

Sofinnova Partners: €165M Biotech Acceleration Fund Closed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

Sofinnova Partners, a leading European life sciences venture capital firm based in Paris, London, and Milan, announced the final close of Sofinnova Biovelocita II. This fund has exceeded its target, successfully raising €165 million, with substantial backing from the top global pharmaceutical companies, including Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Pfizer Ventures.

257: $9.2 Million (Seed) Secured For Transforming Residential Energy Market Using Data And AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

257 - a software and AI company with a vision to reshape the massive residential energy market - announced a $9.2 million seed funding round to transform how energy product and service providers analyze and engage with consumers. The funding round was led by longtime partner F2 Venture Capital and top energy and AI angels, including Mike Fallquist (Founder & CEO of Crius Energy, Co-Founder & CEO of Energywell), Jeff Hammerbacher (founder and co-CEO of Open Athena, founder of Cloudera, original Facebook data team manager), Otto von Troschke (a European growth capital investor focusing on the energy transition, co-founder of SUSI), and Gil Golan (former GM CTO and head of GM Ventures).

Telesis Bio: $21 Million Raised For Accelerating Adoption Of Gibson SOLA Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

Telesis Bio, a provider of DNA and mRNA synthesis solutions to accelerate therapeutic discovery with fast and flexible on-site automated foundries, announced that it has entered into a convertible preferred stock purchase agreement to sell shares of a new series of convertible preferred stock in a private placement. The financing was led by Novalis LifeSciences and Northpond Ventures and is expected to result in gross proceeds to the company of up to about $21 million.

Cenosco: Growth Investment Raised For Asset Integrity Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

Cenosco, a leading asset integrity management (AIM) software provider, announced a growth investment led by Summit Partners, with participation from existing investor Fortino Capital. This partnership will help accelerate Cenosco’s continued product innovation, international expansion, and team growth.

Curinos And University Of Washington Relaunching FinTech Incubator At Startup Hall

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

Curinos, a global data intelligence business combining expertise, insights, and analytics to help leading financial institutions grow their businesses, announced a new partnership with CoMotion, the collaborative innovation hub at the University of Washington, to relaunch its FinTech Incubator.

Myriad Venture Partners: Interview With Founder & Managing Partner Chris Fisher About The Early-Stage Venture Firm

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

Myriad Venture Partners is an early-stage venture firm defining the future of business solutions. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Myriad Venture Partners founder and managing partner Chris Fisher to learn more about the firm.

Bread & Butter Ventures: $40 Million Fund IV Announced For Investing In Seed-Stage Startups

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

Bread & Butter Ventures - an early-stage venture firm based in the bread and butter state of Minnesota, announced the closing of its fourth fund with a new $40 million vehicle. And their latest fund - which has already begun making investments - targets innovative seed-stage tech companies across North America that are shaping the future of food technology, digital health, and enterprise SaaS. Bread & Butter Ventures has invested in 66 companies across these sectors via their first three funds since 2017.

Coreshell: $24 Million Raised For Scaling Cell Production And Deliver Next-Generation EV Batteries

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

Battery technology company Coreshell announced $24million in strategic funding aimed at scaling production of its 60 Ah battery cells made with 100% domestically-sourced metallurgical silicon (MG-Si). The funding round was anchored by Coreshell's strategic partner Ferroglobe, a leader in the production of Silicon and Ferroalloys, and Zeon Ventures. And additional financial and returning investors include Lane Ventures, Entrada Ventures, Foothill Ventures, Helios Climate Ventures, Translink Investment, Trousdale Ventures, and Asymmetry Ventures.

brain.space: $11 Million (Series A) Closed To Accelerate Brain Data-Driven Mental Modeling

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

brain.space, the creator of the first-ever Brain-Data-as-a-Service Ecosystem for exclusive Generative AI Mental Modeling that better understands and predicts human behavior, announced an $11 million Series A Funding Round led by Toyota Ventures, with significant participation by Mangrove Capital Partners, The Group Ventures, and a $3.5 million non-dilutive Grant by the Israel Innovation Authority.

Equipt.ai: $3.2 Million (Seed) Funding Secured For Accelerating AI-Based Growth In Asset & Field Service Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

Equipt, a software company transforming asset and field service management, announced it has secured a $3.2 million seed funding round led by Moneta Ventures with participation from Cortado Ventures. This investment will drive product innovation, market expansion, and operational scaling to meet growing demand.

Crossmint: $23.6 Million Secured To Bring Businesses And AI Agents Onchain

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

Crossmint - an all-in-one platform for companies building onchain - announced the completion of a $23.6 million funding round led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from Franklin Templeton, Nyca, First Round, and Lightspeed Faction. This funding follows a year of explosive growth, with Crossmint's subscription revenue increasing by 1,100% last year.

Orion Security: $6 Million (Seed) Raised For AI-Based Data Protection Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

Orion Security, an AI-based data protection platform, announced a $6 million seed funding round led by Pico Partners and FXP with participation from Underscore VC and cybersecurity leaders like the founders of Perimeter 81 and the CISO of Elastic. Launched by CEO Nitay Milner, former product leader at Cisco-acquired Epsagon, and CTO Yonatan Kreiner, former application security lead at WalkMqe, Orion is already used by leading technology companies.

Bridge Data Centres: $2.8 Billion Loan Secured

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

Bridge Data Centres (Bridge DC), a Bain Capital-backed hyperscale data center platform, announced it had secured $2.8 billion in senior secured bank financing to advance its data center expansion, setting up one of the largest-ever bank facilities for pan-Asian data center operators.

Arcade.dev: $12 Million (Seed) Raised For Solving AI Agent Security Problems

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Arcade.dev, which is the first company to help AI agents securely take real-world actions on behalf of a user, announced a $12 million seed funding round for its agent auth and integration platform. The round was led by Laude Ventures (Pete Sonsini - Databricks, Perplexity) with participation from Flybridge Ventures (Chip Hazard - MongoDB, Firebase), Hanabi Capital (Mike Volpi - Cohere, Scale AI), Neotribe (Kittu Kolluri - Fortanix, Robinhood), and Andy Rachleff (Wealthfront, Databricks).

BadCarbon: $100 Million Equity Investment Raised

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Creating a new benchmark for renewable energy expansion in Texas, Nexus Renewable Power and Bad Carbon have announced a $100 million equity investment capitalizing Geologic Environmental Mineral Sequestration (GEMS) credits.

VIA: $28 Million (Series B) Raised For Accelerating Data & Identity Protection Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Via Science announced it has raised a $28 million Series B investment to accelerate its high-security, easy-to-implement data and identity protection platform for governments and enterprises. And VIA restricted this highly oversubscribed round to the most experienced and commercially relevant new investors, including Bosch Ventures (lead), BMW i Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, and Sentinel Global. The new investors joined Westly Group and selected existing investors to make up the minority investment.

Cordillera: $10 Million Investment In Professional Triathletes Organisation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Cordillera Investment Partners—an investment management firm that exclusively invests in niche, non-correlated assets—announced a $10 million investment in the Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO), a global sports body co-owned by its professional athletes. The funding will support the PTO’s growth initiatives.

Soluna: $5 Million In Non-Dilutive Debt Financing Raised From Galaxy Digital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Soluna Holdings - a developer of green data centers for intensive computing applications, including Bitcoin mining and AI - announced that it has successfully closed a $5 million loan facility with Galaxy Digital, a financial services and investment management innovator in the digital asset and blockchain technology sectors.

Madison Scientific: $7 Million (Seed) Raised To Develop Electro-Mechanical Solutions For Patients With Neurologic Conditions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Madison Scientific (MadSci) - a private medical device company developing smart electro-mechanical solutions for patients with neurologic conditions - announced it has secured $7 million in a fully subscribed seed financing round. The funding round was co-led by WARF Ventures, the Isthmus Project, and a medical device entrepreneur/investor, with participation from other institutional investors, family offices, and angel investors. Funds will be used to grow the MadSci team, expand preclinical testing, and advance prototype development of the company's innovative SmartShunt Hydrocephalus Management System.

Level: $2.6 Million Raised And DeFi Yield Stablecoin Debuted

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Peregrine Exploration (a blockchain development and research company) announced the official debut of Level USD (lvlUSD), a stablecoin with DeFi-native yield, and an additional $2.6 million in strategic funding led by repeat investor Dragonfly to accelerate its mission to unlock permissionless finance. And Polychain also participated again, along with new investors, including Flowdesk, Echo syndicates Native Crypto (formerly known as Comfy Capital) and Feisty Collective by Path, and angel investors Sam Kazemian (Frax) and Albert Chon (Injective). The company has now raised a total of over $6 million.

GrubMarket: $50 Million (Series G) Raised At $3.5+ Billion Valuation For Food Supply Chain Industry AI Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

GrubMarket, an AI-powered technology enabler and digital transformer of the American food supply chain industry and the largest private food technology company in the US announced that it raised around $50 million in a significantly higher valuated Series G funding round from Liberty Street Funds, 3Spoke Capital, ROC Venture Group, Portfolia, Pegasus Tech Ventures, Joseph Stone Capital, and other unnamed participants. This funding round values GrubMarket at over $3.5 billion.