Venture Capital

Iambic Therapeutics: $100 Million Oversubscribed Series B Funding Raised

By Annie Baker ● Oct 13, 2023

RQD Clearing: Correspondent Clearing Services Company Secures Series A Funding Round

By Annie Baker ● Oct 13, 2023

RQD Clearing, LLC (RQD) - a leading provider of correspondent clearing services - recently announced its Series A financing round, led by Nyca Partners and ABN AMRO Clearing Investments B.V. This strategic funding round will enable RQD to more rapidly expand its service offering, global reach, and onboard larger, more demanding clients.

Connections Health Solutions: Immediate-Access Behavioral Health Crisis Care Company Raises $28 Million

By Noah Long ● Oct 13, 2023

Connections Health Solutions - the leading innovator in immediate-access behavioral health crisis care - recently announced the closing of a $28 million growth financing raise led by Town Hall Ventures, a firm that invests in healthcare solutions for underserved communities, with participation from existing investor, Heritage Group. The company will use the funding to accelerate new market entry, meeting community demand for value-based mental health crisis services.

Electric Era: EV Fast Charging Infrastructure Secures Funding From Chevron

By Annie Baker ● Oct 13, 2023

Electric Era Technologies - a leader in revolutionizing the world’s EV fast charging infrastructure with its proprietary PowerNode EV high-speed charging stations - recently announced an investment from Chevron Technology Ventures.

REGENT Craft: All-Electric Seaglider Company Secures $60 Million

By Noah Long ● Oct 13, 2023

REGENT Craft - a Rhode Island-based manufacturer of all-electric seagliders - recently announced today it has raised $60 million in Series A funding co-led by 8090 Industries and Founders Fund. The funding round includes previously announced strategic investments by Japan Airlines Innovation Fund, Lockheed Martin, and Yamato Holdings.

Class Companion: $4 Million Raised To Empower Teachers And Support Students

By Dan Anderson ● Oct 13, 2023

Glydways: On-Demand Personal Rapid Transit Raises $56 Million

By Dan Anderson ● Oct 13, 2023

Glydways - a leader in developing on-demand Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) - recently announced a $56 million Series B round, including the conversion of notes valued at more than $28 million and led by New Science Ventures with participation from The ACS Group and Gates Frontier. Khosla Ventures, Glydways first investor, is also participating in this latest round. The company raised over $70 million to date.

CAZ Investments: $200 Million Commitment Received From Grafine Partners

By Dan Anderson ● Oct 13, 2023

CAZ Investments (a Houston-based investment manager) and Grafine Partners (an investment management firm that identifies differentiated sources of alpha by investing in new firms led by experienced private equity investors) recently announced that CAZ has made a $200 million commitment to Grafine.

Atalan Tech: Funding Raised To Transform The Future Of Healthcare Workforce

By Noah Long ● Oct 13, 2023

Atalan Tech - a women-led and mission-driven company at the forefront of AI technology for predicting and preventing clinician burnout and turnover in healthcare systems - recently announced the successful completion of its growth financing. This funding round was led by Excelerate Health Ventures and OCA Ventures, and other notable investors.

CropX: Newtree Impact Joins Series C Round

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2023

CropX Technologies - a leader in digital solutions for agronomic farm management - recently announced that Newtree Impact has joined the CropX Series C funding round. Newtree Impact is a Brussels-based impact investment firm dedicated to fighting climate change by investing in innovative agri-food technologies.

Wanda Fish: $7 Million Closed To Grow Fish Filets Using Cell-Cultivation Practices

By Dan Anderson ● Oct 13, 2023

Saronic: Maritime Autonomy Company Secures $55 Million

By Noah Long ● Oct 13, 2023

Saronic - a maritime autonomy company focused on surface vessels - recently announced a $55 million Series A funding round led by Caffeinated Capital, with participation from 8VC, U.S. Innovative Technology Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Point72 Ventures, Silent Ventures, Overmatch Ventures, Ensemble VC, and Cubit Capital.

MDisrupt: Healthtech Marketplace Company Closes $3 Million In Funding

By Annie Baker ● Oct 13, 2023

MDisrupt - a leading expert marketplace for the health-tech industry - recently announced the successful completion of a $3 million seed funding round to accelerate its pivotal role in reshaping the health-tech innovation landscape.

Commons Clinic: $19.5 Million Raised For All-Inclusive Expert Care For Spine And Pain Management

By Noah Long ● Oct 13, 2023

Commons Clinic - a branded value-based health system offering all-inclusive, expert care for spine, orthopedics, and pain management - recently announced its $19.5 million Series A financing led by RA Capital Management with participation from existing investors Floating Point and Courtside Ventures and new investor Time BioVentures. This financing round brings Commons Clinic's total funding to $33.5 million including investments from industry-pioneering angels like Elliot Cohen (Co-Founder, Pillpack), Mike West (former CEO, Rothman Orthopedics), and founders from Cityblock Health, CityMD, PatientPing, Elemy and more.

gaiia: Connectivity Operating Systems Company Secures $13 Million

By Noah Long ● Oct 13, 2023

gaiia, an emerging force in connectivity operating systems (OS), recently marked a significant milestone with the successful closure of a $13 million seed funding round. And notable investors include Y Combinator, Kima Ventures, and oxio alumni - which underscores the industry's recognition of gaiia's transformative potential in reshaping the connectivity landscape.

Thread: Data-Driven Infrastructure Lifecycle Management Company Raises $15 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2023

Thread (formerly Airtonomy) - a leader in enterprise-scale autonomous data collection for delivering precise inspection insights - recently announced that it closed a Series A funding round at $15 million. Badlands Capital led the funding round with notable participation from an early utility partner of Thread's, Minnkota Power Cooperative, Generational Partners, Rosecliff Ventures, Excell Partners, Homegrown Capital, and Kevin O'Leary's Wonder Fund North Dakota.

FluidAI Medical: AI-Driven Postoperative Patient Monitoring Company Secures $15 Million

By Annie Baker ● Oct 13, 2023

FluidAI Medical - a pioneer in utilizing AI for postoperative patient monitoring - recently announced that it has raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by SOSV and Graphene Ventures with participation from Boutique Venture Partners, Threshold Impact, Cur8 Capital, Leva Capital, Kyto Technology & Life Science, Juno Pharmaceuticals, and several esteemed angels, funds and government funding organizations.

Opsera: Unified DevOps Platform Company Closes $12 Million In Funding

By Noah Long ● Oct 13, 2023

Opsera - a Unified DevOps platform used by top Fortune 500 companies - recently announced a Series A Plus round of $12 million in funding. This latest funding round will support Hummingbird AI, a new generative AI initiative, and accelerate the growth of Opsera. Hummingbird AI will introduce new and exciting features into the DevOps and DevSecOps categories. And the latest funding round is led by Taiwania Capital with support from existing investors Felicis Ventures, Clear Ventures, and others.

Aliro Quantum: Funding Raised To Advance Entanglement-Based Secure Networking

By Dan Anderson ● Oct 13, 2023

Aliro Quantum recently announced it has secured new funding from top-tier venture capital firms, including Accenture Ventures and lead investor Leaders Fund. The funding round will enable Aliro Quantum to boost its ability to help utility companies, telecommunications providers, public sector organizations, enterprises, researchers, etc., to design and deploy multipurpose entanglement-based secure networks. Aliro Quantum plans to increase research and development funding and expand its go-to-market programs and professional services offerings.

TileDB: Modern Data Management Closes $34 Million In Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2023

TileDB recently announced the closing of its Series B funding round, raising $34 million to advance its vision of the “modern database” as a single secure product for enterprises, developers and scientists. The funding round was led by AlleyCorp, founded by Kevin Ryan (co-creator of MongoDB, Business Insider co-founder, and former DoubleClick CEO), with participation from Two Bear Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Big Pi Ventures, Intel Capital, Uncorrelated, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Amgen Ventures, NTT Docomo Ventures, Verizon Ventures, S Ventures, LDV Partners and Scale Asia Ventures. Joining TileDB’s Board of Directors are Jorge Colindres (Partner at AlleyCorp) and Jeff Miller (ex-CRO at Cockroach Labs - who brings over two decades of experience in leading and growing successful sales teams).

Appian Capital Advisory: $2.06 Billion Closed For Fund III

By Noah Long ● Oct 13, 2023

Appian Capital Advisory LLP - an investment advisor to long-term value-focused private capital funds that invest solely in mining and mining-related companies - recently announced the final close of its third fund. Fund III was heavily oversubscribed despite difficult fundraising conditions for the private equity sector, raising its hard cap to $2.06 billion following strong support from both large, new investors and existing top-tier investors globally.

SGP BioEnergy: $250 Million Raised To Transform How The World Consumes Energy Sustainably

By Annie Baker ● Oct 13, 2023

SGP BioEnergy recently announced a $250 million equity commitment from Global Emerging Markets (GEM), a European private alternative investment group, to support the development of the Golden City Biorefinery in Colon, Panama, and lay the groundwork for SGP’s transformative Zero-Waste Ecosystem.

Kinetic: Infrastructure-As-A-Service Company Raises $10 Million

By Dan Anderson ● Oct 13, 2023

Kinetic - an Infrastructure-as-a-Service company that delivers digital maintenance and servicing for EVs and AVs through its network of service centers - recently announced it has secured $10 million in Series A funding. These are the details.

Clarix Imaging: $10 Million Closed To Transform Surgical Oncology

By Dan Anderson ● Oct 12, 2023

Clarix Imaging - a medical technology company revolutionizing surgical oncology - recently announced $10 million in funding from kineo finance, a Swiss-headquartered investment firm.

Treetoscope: Precision Irrigation Management Company Raises $7 Million

By Annie Baker ● Oct 12, 2023

Precision Irrigation Management company Treetoscope announced its latest seed funding round at $7 million to aid with R&D, fuel overall growth, and accelerate commercial agriculture expansion in North America and beyond. The funding round was led by the Champel Capital venture capital fund, a leading European-Israeli fund focusing on impact technology investments, together with strategic investors that include Leon Recanati's GlenRock fund, SeedIL, YYM-Ventures, Agrovision, NEOME, GN-Z11 and Earth.vc.

Cove: Funding Round Raised To Transform Sustainable Packaging

By Annie Baker ● Oct 12, 2023

Cove recently announced the closing of its latest funding round, which will enable it to supply its biodegradable materials and packaging technologies to consumer-packaged goods companies trying to reduce plastic use in the industry. And Cove's packaging is biodegradable and home-compostable - naturally occurring and completely free of synthetic plastics or microplastics.

Ounce Closes $5.2 Million To Build Bridges Between Housing And Health

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2023

Ounce - a company bridging the gap between health and housing - recently announced it has raised $5.2 million in seed funding and partnered with AmeriHealth Caritas D.C. and National Housing Trust to bring care coordination and wraparound services to over 2,000 residents of affordable housing across 9 properties in D.C. This round of funding was co-led by Meridian Street Capital and Flare Capital, with participation from: Chelsea Clinton's Metrodora Ventures, Wilshire Lane Capital, Chris Nassetta (Hilton CEO), Taylor Justice (Unite Us cofounder), and others.

Clinical Trial Intelligence Platform Lokavant Raises $8 Million

By Noah Long ● Oct 12, 2023

Clinical trial intelligence platform company Lokavant recently announced an $8 million strategic investment from global business titan Mitsui & Co. Ltd. to expand its AI-optimized platform across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. One of Lokavant’s earliest customers CMIC Group is the largest contract research organization (CRO) in Japan and Lokavant’s foray into Japan’s established clinical research market. Now, with Mitsui’s support, Lokavant is poised to open a new APAC headquarters in Tokyo.

Pow.Bio Closes $9.5 Million To Develop Intelligent Continuous Fermentation Technologies

By Annie Baker ● Oct 12, 2023

Pow.Bio recently announced a $9.5 million Series A round. Re:Food and Thia Ventures led the funding round, and they were joined by Hitachi Ventures - the strategic corporate venture capital arm of Hitachi, Ltd. - with participation from Possible Ventures, XFactor Ventures, Bee Partners, iSelect, Climate Capital, Vectors Angel, Better Ventures, and Cantos.

Saleo: Sales Demo Experience Platform Company Raises $13 Million

By Noah Long ● Oct 12, 2023

Saleo - the creator of the first and only live demo automation platform - recently announced that it has raised $13 million from Emergence Capital and Tech Square Ventures to help revenue teams create unprecedented demo experiences with real data that are so personalized for prospects, they've been shown to cut sales cycles in half.