Venture Capital

Helical Fusion: $5.5 Million Series A Extension Raised To Advance Commercial Fusion Power Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Helical Fusion, a Tokyo-based developer of next-generation clean energy technologies, has closed a $5.5 million Series A Extension round, bringing the company’s cumulative fundraising to $38 million. The new capital expands the company’s investor base through participation from Ecrowd NEXT, a fund tailored for individual investors, as well as multiple corporate and individual backers.

Tracktile: $1.25 Million Seed Round Raised To Advance AI Operating System For Food And Beverage Manufacturers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Tracktile, a Canadian AI software company focused on modernizing operations for small and medium-sized food and beverage manufacturers, has secured a $1.25 million Seed investment to accelerate the development and expansion of its AI-powered Operating System. The funding round was led by BDC Seed Venture Fund and Island Capital Partners, with participation from Graphite Ventures, marking a significant step in Tracktile’s plan to bring enterprise-grade intelligent manufacturing tools to underserved operators across North America.

Multifactor: $15 Million Seed Funding Raised To Advance Post-Quantum Account-Sharing Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Multifactor, a post-quantum security platform designed to safeguard online accounts for both humans and AI agents, has secured a $15 million seed round amid accelerating demand for provably secure, shareable account access. The financing was led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Y Combinator, Taurus Ventures, Honeystone Ventures, Flex Capital, Pioneer Fund, Ritual Capital, Liquid2 Ventures, and several prominent operators in security, AI, and enterprise software, including Mohan and Padma Warrior, Gokul Rajaram, and Mathilde Collin.

Modo Energy: £25 Million Series B To Expand Global Electrification Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Modo Energy has secured £25 million in Series B financing to accelerate the global rollout of its data and valuation platform for electrification assets. The round was led by Molten Ventures, with additional participation from ETF Partners, MMC Ventures, and Fred. Olsen Limited.

Orq.ai: €5 Million Seed Funding Closed To Advance Enterprise AI Agent Deployment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Orq.ai has raised €5 million in an oversubscribed seed round to accelerate the development and adoption of production-grade AI agents across global enterprises. The round was led by seed + speed Ventures and Galion exe, with continued participation from Curiosity VC, Spacetime, XO Ventures, xdeck ventures, Waves Capital, and GoldenEggCheck. The new investment brings Orq.ai’s total funding to €7.3 million since its launch in 2022.

500 Global And Sanabil Investments Announce New Startup Cohort

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

500 Global and Sanabil Investments have unveiled the tenth cohort of the Sanabil Accelerator, selecting nine startups from more than 735 applications submitted across the MENA region. The program, based in Riyadh, continues to expand its influence as a growing number of founders from earlier cohorts return with new ventures, signaling a heightened level of maturity and ambition in the regional ecosystem.

Ripple Foods: $17 Million In New Funding Raised And Becky O’Grady Named As CEO

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Ripple Foods has secured $17 million in new financing and appointed longtime board member Becky O'Grady as its new Chief Executive Officer, marking a significant leadership and capital infusion milestone for the Emeryville-based company. The funding round includes new participation from Material Impact and Rich Products Ventures, joined by continued support from S2G Ventures, Prelude Ventures, Fall Line Capital, Euclidean Capital, Tao Capital Partners, and Tim Koogle.

Siren: Strategic Investment Raised From Elastic

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Siren has secured a strategic investment from Elastic, expanding a decade-long collaboration focused on real-time search, AI technologies, and cross-agency investigative capabilities. The investment strengthens the companies’ unified platform, which is designed to help national security, law enforcement, compliance, and financial crime teams detect threats and resolve investigations more efficiently.

Walker & Dunlop Arranges $153 Million Refinance For Hathaway Multifamily Portfolio

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Walker & Dunlop has arranged $153.3 million in refinancing for a three-property multifamily portfolio developed by Hathaway Development, providing new capital to strengthen the borrower’s financial position across key Southeastern markets. The financing package refinances existing construction debt and replaces outstanding preferred equity for three garden-style communities located in Louisiana, Florida, and North Carolina.

American Casting Company: Strategic Investment From Arcline Investment Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Arcline Investment Management has completed a strategic investment in American Casting Company, expanding its portfolio within the aerospace, defense, medical, energy, and industrial manufacturing markets. The investment establishes a new phase of growth for the California-based casting specialist as demand rises for mission-critical, high-complexity components.

Bitfury: $50 Million Committed To Accelerate Growth Of Gonka Decentralized AI Compute Network

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Bitfury announced a $50 million investment in Gonka, a rapidly expanding decentralized network designed to provide high-efficiency AI computation by enabling global GPU contributors to supply processing power directly to AI workloads. The commitment marks the first investment under Bitfury’s recently launched $1 billion initiative to advance ethical, science-driven emerging technologies.

Quanta: $15 Million Series A Raised And Prism Real-Time Finance Platform Launched

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Quanta has secured a $15 million Series A round led by Accel, with participation from Operator Collective, Naval Ravikant, Designer Fund, Basecase, and several notable operators, including Akshay Kothari of Notion, Claire Hughes Johnson of Stripe, and Huey Lin of Affirm. The company also announced the launch of Prism, a new agentic reporting layer built on top of Quanta’s real-time accounting infrastructure.

YUV: $12 Million Series A Raised For Beauty Technology Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 5, 2025

YUV, a beauty-technology company founded by industry veteran and serial entrepreneur Francisco Gimenez, has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Nineyards Equity. The company is aiming to modernize one of the beauty sector’s largest and least digitized categories: professional hair coloring.

pH7 Technologies Secures $25.6 Million Series B To Advance Commercial Critical Metals Extraction

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 5, 2025

pH7 Technologies has raised an initial $25.6 million in Series B financing to scale its next-generation critical-minerals extraction platform, positioning the Vancouver-based company for broader commercial deployments across the global mining sector. The round was led by Fine Structure Ventures, with BHP Ventures joining as a strategic investor.

Helmet Security: $9 Million Raised To Advance Protection For Agentic AI Communications

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 5, 2025

Helmet Security has secured $9 million in funding from SYN Ventures and WhiteRabbit Ventures, positioning the company to expand its end-to-end security platform built for the fast-growing agentic AI ecosystem.

Oxzo: $25 Million Raised From S2G To Accelerate Global Expansion In Aquaculture Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 5, 2025

Oxzo has received a US$25 million strategic investment from S2G Investments, marking one of the company’s most significant milestones as it accelerates its expansion across the global aquaculture sector. The investment, which adds to existing support from Fiordo Austral and Altis, positions Oxzo to broaden its presence beyond its core markets of Chile, Norway, and Canada and bring its patented oxygenation technologies to additional international regions.

Accenture Makes Strategic Investment In WEVO To Expand AI-Driven Customer Research Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 5, 2025

Accenture has made a strategic investment in WEVO, a customer research platform that uses generative AI to simulate and validate user behavior before companies launch new products or services. The investment, led by Accenture Ventures, will integrate WEVO’s technology into Accenture Song’s GrowthOS platform, which is designed to help enterprises convert customer needs into scalable revenue with greater accuracy and speed.

Connectbase Secures Investment From EAM And Acquires Cloud Age

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 5, 2025

Connectbase announced a significant expansion of its platform with the acquisition of Cloud Age, a SaaS provider of telecom invoice automation and spend management serving more than 1,700 global vendors. The deal strengthens Connectbase’s position as the Operating System for transacting across the global connectivity ecosystem by unifying discovery, quoting, spend intelligence, and automation within a single end-to-end workflow. The company also revealed a new growth investment from Equality Asset Management, which will support the Cloud Age acquisition and accelerate Connectbase’s global expansion and continued platform innovation.

Michigan State University Receives Record $401 Million Commitment From Greg And Dawn Williams

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 5, 2025

Michigan State University announced a landmark $401 million commitment from Greg and Dawn Williams, marking the largest single gift in the institution’s history and one of the largest ever recorded in college athletics. The contribution, made through the university’s “Uncommon Will, Far Better World” campaign and in support of MSU Athletics’ FOR SPARTA initiative, represents a transformative investment in both academic excellence and long-term athletic competitiveness. The university said the funds will reshape the athletic department’s national ambitions while strengthening MSU’s broader mission to advance research, support student success, and serve communities across Michigan and beyond.

Tiger Infrastructure Partners Makes Growth Investment In Raptor Waste Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 5, 2025

Tiger Infrastructure Partners has completed a major growth capital investment in Raptor Waste Solutions, an integrated waste logistics platform serving the Greater Kansas City region. The investment marks a significant expansion milestone for Raptor, which was founded by Shawn Polowniak and Kit Starr and currently operates two transfer stations and a hauling business. Both founders will retain a meaningful equity stake as part of the transaction.

Track Titan Raises $5 Million Seed Round To Expand Simracing Coaching Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 5, 2025

Track Titan has raised a $5 million seed round co-led by Partech and Game Changers Ventures, with additional participation from Sequel. Existing backers Axel Springer and Porsche also invested in the round.

Velvære: $555 Million Secured To Advance Luxury Wellness Residential Community In Deer Valley’s East Village

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 4, 2025

Velvære, a wellness-focused, ski-in/ski-out residential community within Deer Valley’s East Village expansion, has secured an additional $197 million in capital financing from Anchor Loans, bringing its total financing to $555 million following a restructuring of existing capital. The funding was arranged and advised by LFB Ventures, with equity backing from Toba Capital.

UpTerra: New CEO Appointed And Investment Secured From Generation Food Rural Partners Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 4, 2025

UpTerra has appointed Stephen Birch as its new Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and has also secured a strategic investment from Big Idea Ventures’ Generation Food Rural Partners (GFRP) Fund. The announcement marks a significant step for the agricultural water-innovation company as it scales its technology across the United States.

Antares: $96 Million Raised To Advance Nuclear Microreactor Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 4, 2025

Antares, a rapidly growing advanced nuclear energy startup, has secured $96 million in Series B financing to accelerate development of its compact nuclear microreactor platform. The round was led by Shine Capital, with participation from Alt Capital, Caffeinated, FiftyThree Stations, Industrious, and others. The financing includes $71 million in new equity and $25 million in debt earmarked for equipment, factory expansion, and uranium procurement.

Ansley Park Capital: $400 Million Asset-Backed Securitization Closed, Marking First-Time Issuance In U.S. Equipment Finance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 4, 2025

Ansley Park Capital has completed its inaugural asset-backed securitization valued at more than $400 million, marking the largest first-time issuance ever recorded in the U.S. large-ticket equipment finance market. The transaction closed on November 26, 2025.

Burns Engineering Announces Investment From OceanSound Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 4, 2025

Burns Engineering, a nationally recognized engineering solutions provider for transportation, critical infrastructure, and the broader built environment, has received a strategic investment from OceanSound Partners, a private equity firm focused on technology and technology-enabled services supporting government and highly regulated sectors. Existing leadership — including Matthew and John Burns — will retain significant ownership and continue in their current roles.

Mujin: $233 Million Closed To Scale Its Intelligent Robotics Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 4, 2025

Mujin, the Tokyo- and Atlanta-based automation technology company, has closed $233 million in the first tranche of its Series D round to speed global deployment of MujinOS, its intelligent robotics operating system. The raise includes $133 million in equity led by NTT Group with co-lead Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), and participation from Mitsubishi HC Capital Realty and Salesforce Ventures, alongside $100 million in debt financing from leading Japanese financial institutions.

Curative: $150 Million Series B At $1.275 Billion Raised To Accelerate AI-Driven Health Insurance Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 4, 2025

Curative has secured more than $150 million in Series B funding as the company pushes to scale its $0-out-of-pocket health insurance model and expand nationally. The new raise values the Austin-based insurer at $1.275 billion, marking its official arrival as a health-tech unicorn.

Lyric Bio: $6.6 Million Seed Funding Closed To Advance Donor-Derived Therapeutics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 4, 2025

Lyric Bio, a San Carlos–based biomanufacturing startup spun out of Prellis Biologics, has raised $6.6 million in oversubscribed seed financing to scale its next-generation production platform for donor-derived therapeutics. The round was led by The Venture Collective, with participation from Black Diamond Ventures, Draper Associates, Lucas Venture Group, Meiji Seika Pharma, SOSV, and other investors.

Nada: $10 Million Series A Raised To Scale Its Home Equity Investment Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 4, 2025

Nada has raised $10 million in Series A funding to accelerate the expansion of its home equity investment platform. The round was led by Interlock Partners, with participation from LiveOak Ventures and Riverwalk Capital Partners, alongside an expanded venture debt facility from Nomura Strategic Ventures.