Venture Capital

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.

Featherless.ai: Investment Raised From Airbus Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Airbus Ventures announced it is investing in Featherless.ai, the leading serverless AI inference platform. And Featherless.ai’s innovation optimizes GPU utilization, eliminates costly downtime, and dramatically reduces operational costs, enabling Featherless.ai to offer AI inference at significantly lower costs.

JLL Income Property Trust: Richmond Distribution Center Acquired For About $40.7 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

JLL Income Property Trust, an institutionally managed daily NAV REIT with around $6.6 billion in portfolio equity and debt investments, announced the acquisition of Richmond Distribution Center, a Class A industrial building located in Richmond, VA, for a purchase price of about $40.7 million.

Investcorp Buying Majority Stake In Miebach

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Global alternative investment firm Investcorp announced it has signed a definitive agreement to buy a majority stake in Miebach Logistik Holding GmbH, a leading global supply chain and logistics consultancy services provider. Following the deal, Miebach’s existing equity partnership will retain a significant minority stake in the Company. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

PCMI: Strategic Growth Investment Raised From Thoma Bravo

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Thoma Bravo announced a strategic growth investment in PCMI, a leading provider of administration software for finance and insurance (F&I) products in the automotive and consumer end markets. As part of the deal, existing shareholders—including PCMI management, its employees, and Equality Asset Management (“EAM”), a growth-focused private equity firm—will retain minority positions in the company.

Vista: Private Aviation Group Raises $600 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Vista, which is the world’s leading global private aviation group, has signed a definitive agreement for an equity investment of $600 million from a consortium of investors led by leading Asian investment firm RRJ Capital. This funding marks another significant milestone in Vista’s historic growth journey and validates the confidence in the group’s strategic vision and business model.

Recurrent Energy: $183 Million In Project Financing Secured

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Recurrent Energy - a subsidiary of Canadian Solar and a global developer, owner, and operator of solar and energy storage assets - announced that it has closed project financing and tax equity for its Fort Duncan Storage project. This 200 MWh storage project, which is located in Maverick County, Texas, is currently under construction and is expected to be commercially operational by summer 2025 to support ERCOT's peak power demand.

Popfly: $2 Million (Seed) Raised For Outdoor Creator Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Popfly, a platform and team of experts helping brands and creators work seamlessly together, announced it has secured over $2 million in seed financing. Led by investor Rand Currier, early significant investor in ShopMy and other startups, the funding round saw participation from early TikTok leaders and founders of Meridian Link, Right Side Up, and Farmers Business Network.

Curevo: $110 Million (Series B) Raised For Advancing Amezosvatein Shingles

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Curevo Vaccine - a privately-held clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to developing varicella zoster virus (VZV) vaccines with improved tolerability - announcd the closing of a $110 million Series B round to advance the development of amezosvatein, its vaccine for shingles. Leading the round is new investor Medicxi (a European biotech-focused investment firm). And joining Medicxi is an international group of investment funds, including OrbiMed, HBM Healthcare Investments, and Sanofi Ventures along with existing investors RA Capital Management, Janus Henderson Investors, Adjuvant Capital, and founding investor GC Biopharma.

Lightkeeper: Growth Investment Raised From PSG

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Lightkeeper, a leading data, analytics, risk management, and reporting solutions provider for investment managers, announced a growth investment from PSG. This leading growth equity firm partners with software and technology-enabled services companies to drive transformational growth.

ResiQuant: $4 Million (Seed) Raised For Transforming How Property Carriers Scale In Regions Prone To Climate Risks

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

ResiQuant announced it closed a $4 million seed funding round led by LDV Capital, with participation from Foothill Ventures, Pear VC, Alumni Ventures, and several strategic angel investors. The funding will accelerate ResiQuant's mission to transform how property insurers assess and manage catastrophe risks, bringing much-needed stability to markets struggling with climate volatility and seismic hazards.

Gradial: $13 Million (Series A) Secured For Building AI Marketing Operations Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Gradial, an AI startup transforming enterprise marketing operations with AI agents, announced it has secured $13 million in Series A funding, bringing its total capital raised to nearly $20 million. The Series A funding round was led by Madrona and participated in by Pruven Capital, General Advance, Outsiders Fund, and DLA Piper.

360 Privacy: $36 Million Raised From FTV Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

360 Privacy, a leading digital executive protection platform, announced that it has secured a $36 million growth equity investment from FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity firm with a successful track record of investing across the enterprise technology landscape. And this investment will enable 360 Privacy to expand its engineering and revenue teams, accelerate technology and product innovation, and further enhance its ability to deliver customer service to safeguard organizations and their executives.

RedotPay: $40 Million (Series A) Secured For Crypto Payment Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

RedotPay, a leading crypto payment platform, announced the closing of a $40 million Series A funding round led by Lightspeed following a commitment in December 2024, with significant investments from HSG and Galaxy Ventures. The funding round also saw participation from DST Global Partners, Accel, Vertex Ventures (Temasek-backed VC), among other investors.

Maxion Therapeutics: £58 Million (Series A) Closed For Developing KnotBody Drugs For Ion Channel- And GPCR-Driven Diseases

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

Maxion Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing antibody-based KnotBody drugs for ion channel- and G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR)-driven diseases, announced that it has raised $72 million (£58 million) in a Series A financing. The funding reaffirms the potential of Maxion’s proprietary KnotBody technology and development pipeline and its opportunity to address significant global markets.

Blackstone: $8 Billion Closed For Latest Real Estate Debt Strategies Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

Blackstone announced the final closing of its most recent real estate debt fund, Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies V (BREDS V), which has about $8 billion of total capital commitments.

Nous Infosystems: Strategic Investment Raised From TA Associates

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

Leading global private equity firm TA Associates announced the completion of a strategic growth investment in Nous Infosystems, a global provider of AI-powered product and data engineering solutions to help drive digital transformation for its customers.

Occuspace: $6 Million Secured For Space Utilization Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

Real estate is known as the most significant and oldest asset class in the world, and one too often, which is being managed without data. And the inefficiency is notable, with an estimated 1 billion square feet of wasted space in the U.S. alone. By providing data on how property is used, Occuspace helps clients create smarter buildings that increase efficiency, reduce environmental footprints, and improve user experience.

Egle Therapeutics: €9.3 Million In State Funding Raised To Develop Therapies Targeting Regulatory T Cells

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

Egle Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing therapies targeting regulatory T cells (Tregs) for immuno-oncology and autoimmune diseases, announced that it secured €9.3 million in state funding under the Innovations in Biotherapies and Bioproduction call for projects from the France 2030 plan, managed on behalf of the French government by Bpifrance.