Venture Capital

Simply.TV: Majority Growth Investment Raised From Summit Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

Simply.TV, a video metadata provider, announced the acquisition of Red Bee Media’s Content Discovery Business. This move accelerates Simply.TV’s global expansion strengthens its position in the U.S. market. In connection with this deal, Simply.TV has secured a majority growth equity investment from Summit Partners, marking the company’s first institutional funding.

Sycamore Tree Capital Partners: Sixth CLO Closed At $505 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

Sycamore Tree Capital Partners—a specialist asset manager with private and alternative credit investment expertise—announced the closing of its sixth CLO STCP 2025-6 (STCP CLO 6), a $505 million CLO investing in the broadly syndicated loans of US companies. This fund was initially offered at $400 million and increased to $505 million based on strong investor demand.

Linden Capital Partners: Structured Capital Fund II Closed At $400 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

Linden Capital Partners - a Chicago-based healthcare private equity firm - announced the closing of Linden Structured Capital Fund II (SCF II. This fund closed with $400 million of commitments, exceeding the prior structured capital fund (SCF I) size of approximately $355 million.

HarbourVest Launches Private Investment Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

HarbourVest Partners, a leading global private markets investment specialist with over $143 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2024, announced the launch of the HarbourVest Private Investment Fund (HPIF). HPIF was designed to provide a single entry point to HarbourVest’s multi-manager, direct private equity (PE) platform.

IK Partners: Fund X Closed At €3.3 Billion Hard Cap

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

IK Partners - a leading European private equity firm - announced that it has closed its 10th Mid Cap fund the IK X Fund, having reached its hard cap of €3.3 billion and representing the largest fund the firm has raised to date. And IK’s previous Mid Cap fund IK IX raised €2.85 billion in 2020.

VCU Startup Wins Grant For Infection-Fighting Surgical Gel

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

A Virginia Commonwealth University startup with an innovation that could enhance brain and spinal surgeries received a $800,000 state grant to support the development of its infection-fighting gel. Pascal Medical is one of four grant recipients to receive awards from Virginia Catalyst, a nonprofit created by the General Assembly and funded via the state’s general fund and seven public research universities, including VCU. Catalyst CEO Mike Grisham said the nonprofit's goal is to provide funding that helps industry partners and academic investigators raise follow-on investments.

Israel Secondary Fund: Ophir Reshef Named As Partner

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

Ophir Reshef was appointed a partner at Israel Secondary Fund (ISF), joining Dror Glass, Nir Linchevski, and Eva Hubsman. Reshef brings diverse experience as an investor, tech executive, entrepreneur, and consultant.

Emovid: Seed Funding Raised For Advancing Authentic Business Communication

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

Emovid, a platform built to enable unified and asynchronous video, text, and audio communication for businesses, announced its seed funding round closing, bringing total funding to nearly $7 million. The seed funding round was led by o-kaisha Investments, the investment arm of the Oki Family Office (Scott Oki led the first billion dollars worth of sales for Microsoft).

CEAR: Funding Raised From Ancor Capital Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

Ancor Capital Partners - an operations-focused private investment firm based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area - announced an investment in CEAR, a leading electronics recycling and IT asset disposition (ITAD) service based in Mather, California.

Unframe: Turnkey AI Platform Company Raises $50 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 3, 2025

Unframe, an all-in-one turnkey AI platform for global enterprises, emerged from stealth today with $50 million in funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, TLV Partners, Craft Ventures, Third Point Ventures, SentinelOne Ventures, Cerca Partners, and Terra Nova Ventures. The funding will support Unframe’s global expansion and sales growth while enhancing its platform by accelerating R&D and innovation.

Xcellerant Ventures Partners With AZ Venture Capital To Invest In Arizona-Based Startups

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 2, 2025

Xcellerant Ventures (XVC) announced a strategic partnership with AZ Venture Capital (AVC), bringing $7 million in new funding to Arizona-based health technology startups. The $7 million in total funding, which is available for Arizona startups, was made possible by a $5 million investment by AVC into XVC’s Fund.

Vivere Partners: $7.5 Million (Series A) Secured For Launching Specialty Insurance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 2, 2025

Vivere Partners, a specialty insurance platform established to focus on niche insurance lines, announced the completion of a $7.5 million Series A funding round led by General Catalyst, Pathlight Ventures, and Greenlight Re.

ControlTheory: $5 Million (Seed) Raised For Controllability For Observability

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 2, 2025

ControlTheory, a company focused on controllability for observability, announced it has raised $5 million in seed funding from Silverton Partners. This milestone supports the launch of its innovative Observability Control Platform, enabling technology leaders to regain control of their observability through cost control, operational control, and adaptive control.

UC Berkeley Student Launches Startup Code Blue For Detecting Stroke Signs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 2, 2025

This UC Berkeley student launched a startup for detecting stroke signs.

Iron Prairie Ventures: $15 Million Fund Launched For Investing On Seed-Stage Investments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 2, 2025

Iron Prairie Ventures announced it has raised a $15 million fund focused on pre-seed and seed-stage investments in startups fueling the industrial sector's digital transformation. This fund will support companies in developing innovative solutions across the construction, manufacturing, infrastructure, logistics, and supply chain sectors.

VQ Biomedical: $5 Million (Seed) Raised For Duke University Medical Tech Spin-Out

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 2, 2025

VQ Biomedical, a medical technology company developing an innovative oxygenation catheter for treating acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), announced it has closed a $1.65 million round. The funding is led by Harbright Ventures, the Wolfpack Investor Network (WIN), and Duke Capital Partners (DCP) with a collective $970,000 investment.

University Of Tennessee Research Foundation Invests In VisualizAI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 2, 2025

The University of Tennessee Research Foundation’s (UTRF) Accelerate Fund announced its second investment of $150,000 to VisualizAI, a pioneering AI startup focused on transforming healthcare claims processing.

InfiniLink: $10 Million (Seed) Funding Raised For Advancing Development Of Optical Connectivity Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 2, 2025

InfiniLink - a semiconductor startup specializing in advanced optical data connectivity chips for AI-driven data centers - announced the closing of a $10 million funding round. This seed-stage funding round was joined by MediaTek, a leading fabless semiconductor company, and Sukna Ventures, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with participation from the Egyptian VC firm Egypt Ventures and angel investor M Empire Angels.

Contoro Robotics: $12 Million (Series A) Secured For AI-Based Trailer Unloading To Scale

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 2, 2025

Contoro Robotics announced a $12 million Series A round to scale its AI-powered trailer and container unloading robots, solving one of the most grueling and labor-intensive challenges in logistics. The funding round brings in new investors Doosan, Coupang, Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, and IMM, along with continued backing from SV Investment, KB Investment, Kakao Ventures, and Future Play, bringing Contoro's total funding to $22 million.