Venture Capital

Walter Global Asset Management Invests In Saranac Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 27, 2024

Walter Global Asset Management (Walter GAM) announced an investment in Saranac Partners. This independent European multi-family office delivers personalized advice across a broad spectrum of wealth management services to help ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families deploy/access capital.

Staffing Engine Raises Strategic Investment From LRS Healthcare

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 27, 2024

LRS Healthcare - a leading healthcare staffing services provider and part of the Jackson Healthcare family of companies - announced a strategic investment in Staffing Engine. Staffing Engine is an AI innovator for the staffing industry, developing the world’s first Recruiting Acceleration AI Platform for staffing firms.

Storyteller Overland Receives Strategic Investment From L Catterton And Additional Investors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 27, 2024

L Catterton announced a significant investment in Storyteller Overland, a leading innovator in adventure vehicle manufacturing. RX3 Growth Partners, Wheelhouse, and Virentes Partners Group are also joining L Catterton.

Be Fulfilled: Growth Funding Raised From Decathlon Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 27, 2024

Be Fulfilled (a full-service platform that helps creators grow businesses) announced it had raised a significant investment from Decathlon Capital Partners. The details of the revenue-based investment were undisclosed.

Amazon Completes $4 Billion Investment In Anthropic

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 27, 2024

Amazon has completed its largest external investment in company history by placing a $2.75 billion tranche in Anthropic. Anthropic is one of the fastest-growing generative AI (GenAI) companies. It was founded by former OpenAI research executives and has built a chatbot called Claude, which competes against OpenAI/ChatGPT.

Fieldguide: AI-Based Advisory And Audit Services Company Raises $30 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 27, 2024

InnovationForce: Ecosystem Relationship Management Company Raises Pre-Seed Round

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 27, 2024

InnovationForce – an Ecosystem Relationship Management (ERM) platform - announced an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round led by the Sondergaard Group with angel investments from the Skybridge Group, former Salesforce.com executive Jason Wild, and 13 HBS Alumni investors from six countries.

OpenPipe: LLM Fine-Tuning Company Secures $6.7 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 27, 2024

OpenPipe – a company that enables developers to create their own application-specific Large Language Models (LLMs) - announced the closing of a $6.7 million seed round. This funding round was led by Costanoa Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator and prominent angel investors, including Logan Kilpatrick (former head of developer relations at OpenAI), Alex Graveley (creator of GitHub Copilot), and Tom Preston-Werner (co-founder of GitHub). This funding round will scale the team and accelerate the product.

Viam: $45 Million Raised To Advance Software Platform For Smart Machines

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 27, 2024

Viam – a software platform for smart machines - announced that it has closed $45 million in Series B funding. This funding round includes participation from continuing investors, Union Square Ventures and Battery Ventures. Including this funding round, Viam has raised a total of $87 million.

Activeloop: Database For AI Company Raises $11 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 27, 2024

Chiyo: Maternal Nutrition Company Closes $3 Million In Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 27, 2024

Chiyo, a maternal nutrition company rewriting what care looks like from fertility through postpartum, announced the completion of a $3 million financing round led by Bread & Butter Ventures, Ingeborg, Union Heritage Ventures, Peterson Ventures, Detroit Venture Partners, Palette Ventures, and The Helm. With this funding round, the company has raised a total of $3.4 million to fuel its goal of better maternal nutrition.

Mobius Institute Raises Significant Investment From Battery Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 27, 2024

Battery Ventures announced a significant investment in Mobius Institute, an organization specializing in reliability improvement, conditioning monitoring, and precision maintenance training and certification.