Venture Capital

ClickHouse: $350 Million Series C Raised For Columnar Database Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 3, 2025

ClickHouse - a leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI/ML - announced it has raised $350 million in Series C funding. The funding round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from new investors BOND, IVP, Battery Ventures, and Bessemer Venture Partners, as well as existing investors including Index Ventures, Lightspeed, GIC, Benchmark, Coatue, FirstMark, and Nebius.

Minset: Seed Funding Raised For Addressing Healthcare Revenue Cycle Problem

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 3, 2025

Minset, a company behind the first multi-skilled agentic AI platform purpose-built for healthcare revenue cycle management, announced a seed funding round led by leading digital health venture firm HealthX Ventures.

Ripple Fiber: Debt Capacity Expanded To $350 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 3, 2025

Ripple Fiber, a Charlotte-based provider of high-speed fiber internet services, announced it has secured a significant expansion of its existing credit facility to $350 million. Led and arranged by Post Road Group, this agreement is a significant increase in the company’s debt capacity and a vote of confidence, providing substantial resources to support Ripple Fiber’s accelerated network deployment across the US.

VOX Funding: $150 Million Credit Facility Signed With Raven Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 3, 2025

VOX Funding, a leading provider of flexible financing options for U.S. businesses, announced closing a $150 million credit facility with Raven Capital, an investment firm specializing in asset-based direct lending.

ProteinQure: $11 Million Series A Raised For Computational Peptide Therapeutics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 3, 2025

ProteinQure, a computational peptide therapeutics company, announced the closing of an $11 million Series A financing round. The funding round was led by Tom Williams of Heron Rock Fund, with participation from Golden Ventures, Kensington Capital, and select returning investors. This brings ProteinQure’s total funding to $16 million across seed and Series A rounds.

Heron Power: $38 Million Series A Raised For Energy Infrastructure Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 3, 2025

Energy infrastructure company Heron Power announced that it raised $38 million in Series A funding led by Capricorn Investment Group’s Technology Impact Fund, with participation from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Energy Impact Partners, Gigascale Capital, Powerhouse Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, and former Tesla CFO Zach Kirkhorn. This funding round brings the total raised by Heron Power to $43 million.

Dojo: $190 Million Raised For Payments Technology Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Dojo, a leading UK payments technology provider, announced it has secured an investment of $190 million from Vitruvian Partners. The funding marks the first equity raise in Dojo’s history.

Javara: Series C Raised For Delivering Clincal Trial Access At Point Of Care

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Javara, a leading integrated research organization (IRO) that delivers clinical trials at the point of care through strategic partnerships with healthcare organizations, announced it has secured significant growth investment in Series C funding from existing and new community-based investors.

Zeal Capital Partners: $82 Million Fund II Closed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Zeal Capital Partners, a leading Washington, D.C.-based venture capital firm, announced the closing of Zeal Fund II. This milestone brings Zeal’s total assets under management (AUM) to $186 million across three funds, highlighting the firm’s disciplined approach to identifying and scaling high-potential opportunities across financial technology, healthcare, and the future of learning and work.

AssistIQ: $11.5 Million Secured For Helping Hospitals Manage Supply Chains

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

AssistIQ, an AI company utilizing computer vision to transform how hospitals manage surgical and procedural supply chains, announced it has closed an $11.5 million Series A round led by Battery Ventures, with participation from return investor Tamarind Hill.

Conduit: $36 Million Series A Secured For Cross-Border Payments Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

HJF-MDC Raising $20 Million To Invest In Military Medicine Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJF) and MDC Studio announced their collaboration through the HJF-MDC Venture Fund. This collaboration aims to transform the development and commercialization of medical technology, benefiting both military and civilian healthcare sectors.

Wander: $50 Million Series B Raised For Vacation Rental Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Wander is a company aiming to address problems with the short-term rental market that announced a $50 million Series B funding round, co-led by QED Investors and Fifth Wall with participation from Redpoint Ventures, Uncork, Starwood, and Breyer Capital and many other returning and new investors.

Chalk: $50 Million Series A Raised At $500 Million Valuation For AI Inference Data Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Chalk, a data platform for AI inference, announced that it has raised a $50 million Series A at a $500 million valuation. Felicis led the round with participation from Triatomic Capital and existing investors General Catalyst, Unusual Ventures, and Xfund.

Creatify: $15.5 Million Series A Raised For AI Ad Agent For Video Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Creatify, an AI platform that powers high-performance video advertising, announced $15.5 million in Series A funding, co-led by WndrCo and Kindred Ventures. The funding round brings Creatify’s total funding to $23 million, with early investors including NFDG, Millennium New Horizons, Creator Ventures, and Leadout Capital.

Joby Aviation: $250 Million Closed For Growing Electric Air Taxi Business

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Joby Aviation, a company that is developing electric air taxis for commercial passenger service, announced the closing of the first $250 million tranche of a previously announced strategic investment from Toyota. This funding marks a significant milestone in strengthening the long-term collaboration between the two companies and supports their shared vision for the future of air mobility.

SemperVirens Venture Capital: Accelerator Program Launched To Help Startups Grow

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

SemperVirens Venture Capital, a venture firm investing in companies shaping the future of health, wealth, and work, announced the launch of the SemperVirens Accelerator — which is a founder-focused initiative designed to help early-stage startups sharpen their distribution strategy, connect with industry leaders, and scale faster by engaging directly with commercial decision makers across healthcare, benefits and work ecosystems.

Interactly AI: Pre-Seed Funding Raised For Healthcare Administration Automation Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Interactly AI announced the closing of a pre-seed funding round to support the growth of its multimodal AI platform for healthcare administration. Nava Davuluri (CEO) and Shiva Chaitanya (CTO) co-founded Interactly AI to address the pressing challenges of healthcare administration by streamlining both front- and back-office workflows, empowering providers to deliver more efficient and patient-focused care.

Portless: $18 Million Raised For Transforming Global E-Commerce

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Portless, a U.S.-based global e-commerce fulfillment company, announced the closing of its latest funding round at $18 million. The funding round was led by Commerce Ventures, with participation from eGateway Capital, Ground Up Ventures, and FJ Labs. This funding will advance Portless's mission to transform the direct-to-consumer (DTC) industry by addressing critical pain points for U.S. and European brands navigating rising tariffs, regulatory changes, and supply chain inefficiencies.

Harper Court Ventures: $25 Million Fund I Launches To Invest In University Of Chicago Ecosystem

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

MFV Partners, a deep technology venture capital firm, announced the launch of Harper Court Ventures Fund I, a new $25 million early-stage fund focused on identifying, investing in, and scaling transformative startups from the University of Chicago ecosystem. Harper Court Ventures Fund I will focus on pre-seed and seed-stage companies that utilize breakthrough research and innovation originating from UChicago labs, the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation's comprehensive programs, faculty and student ventures, and the extensive UChicago alumni network.

R1: Investment Raised From Khosla Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

R1 (an industry leader in managing and intelligently automating healthcare revenue management with over 20 years of experience) announced an investment from Khosla Ventures. The funding follows the launch of R37, R1’s enterprise-grade AI lab developed in partnership with Palantir, which is dedicated to strengthening the financial health of providers through core agentic AI applications.

Unbound: $4 Million Raised For Helping Enterprises With AI Tools

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Unbound announced it has raised $4 million. This oversubscribed seed round was led by Race Capital, with participation from Wayfinder Ventures, Y Combinator, Massive Tech Ventures. The round also included Alpha Square Group, Northside Ventures, Liquid2, Pioneer Fund, Scale Asia Ventures, SBXI and notable angels including Ram Shriram (founding board member at Google), Dr. Trishan Panch (CSO LuminHealth), Dr. John Brownstein (Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children’s hospital), Taro Fukuyama (CEO, Fond), Eli Brown (CEO, Guilded, acquired by Roblox), Chris Siakos (CEO Sinefa, acquired by Palo Alto Networks), Joe Vadakkan (CISO, Ex- CRO), Zain Rizavi (Cloudflare, Ridge VC), Finbarr Taylor (CEO, Shogun) alongside other silicon valley and cybersecurity veterans.

TruTechnologies: Significant Growth Investment Raised From LLR

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

LLR Partners announced a strategic growth investment in TruTechnologies, a provider of real-time clinical trial oversight. LLR’s growth capital and value creation resources will be dedicated to helping TruTechnologies’ expansion as it transforms how pharmaceutical companies, together with clinical research organizations and research sites, oversee, monitor, and manage biological samples and study workflows throughout the clinical trial lifecycle.

Valeas Capital Buying Majority Stake In TicketManager

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

TicketManager, a leader in event ticket and guest management solutions for the corporate enterprise, announced Valeas Capital Partners (a growth-oriented private-equity firm) has acquired a majority stake in the company. Under the terms of the deal, Valeas is committing $110 million to support TicketManager’s strategic growth plans. TicketManager Co-Founder and CEO Tony Knopp and COO Ken Hanscom will retain a minority interest in the company.

Rillet: $25 Million Series A Raised For AI-Based ERP Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Rillet, an AI-native ERP (enterprise resource planning) platform, announced $25 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital. This funding round includes existing investors First Round Capital, Creandum, Susa Ventures and top angels, such as former NetSuite CFO, Ron Gill and Lee Kirkpatrick, former Twilio CFO.

Endurosat: €43 Million Raised For Satellite Constellations-As-A-Service Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

EnduroSat, a leading provider of satellite constellations-as-a-service, today announced a €43 million investment led by Founders Fund.

Clear Current: Over $4 Million Secured For Launching AI-Based Virtual Energy Manager for Enterprises

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Clear Current, which is the first AI platform to offer a comprehensive virtual energy manager for enterprise businesses, announced it has secured over $4 million in an oversubscribed Seed Round. Rho Ignition led the round, with participation from Coreline Ventures and Avesta Fund.

Strive Asset Management Signs $750 Million Investment To Advance Alpha-Generating Bitcoin Treasury Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Strive Asset Management and Asset Entities announced the signing of a $750 million private investment in public equity (PIPE), with an additional $750 million in potential financing available upon the exercise of warrants, which could increase total potential proceeds to $1.5 billion. Upon the closing of the deals, the proceeds are expected to support the company's first wave of Bitcoin acquisitions, to set up Strive Asset Management as the first Bitcoin treasury company focused on long-term Bitcoin outperformance through the implementation of alpha-generating strategies along with the company's plans to implement known beta strategies used by incumbent Bitcoin treasury corporations.

Traceloop: $6.1 Million Secured For Making AI Agents Production-Ready

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Pallet: $27 Million Series B Raised For Logistics AI Workforce Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2025

Pallet, which is the company behind CoPallet, the AI workforce for logistics, announced a $27 million Series B round led by General Catalyst, with continued support from Bain Capital Ventures, Activant Capital, and Bessemer Venture Partners. Dan Lewis (CPO at Microsoft, co-founder at Convoy), Amit Agarwal (former President at Datadog), Girish Rishi (former CEO at BlueYonder), Michael Capellas (former CEO at Compaq), Matt McKinney (CEO at Loop), and Aatish Nayak (Head of Product at Harvey) participated in this funding round.