Venture Capital

QIA Selects Rasmal Ventures Innovation Fund I As Part Of $1 Billion Fund Of Funds Program

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Rasmal Ventures, which is Qatar's first independent venture capital (VC) company that was established in 2023, announced funding from QIA as part of its Fund of Funds program.

Entos Pharmaceuticals Awarded $4 Million From The California Institute For Regenerative Medicine

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Entos Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage genetic medicines company committed to using its Fusogenix PLV technology to develop cures and improve the lives of patients and their families, announced that the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded the company a $4 million grant. These funds will support the completion of IND-enabling activities for the development of ENTLEP001, a durable genetic medicine for the treatment of congenital generalized lipodystrophy (CGL).

RepScrubs Raises Funding From Pittco

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Pittco Management announced an equity investment in Prescient Logistics (doing business as RepScrubs) through a special purpose entity formed and managed by Rockmont Partners Management.

Overlap Holdings: $33 Million Inaugural Flagship Fund Launched

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Overlap Holdings, a VC firm utilizing elements of Wall Street and Silicon Valley, today announced the final close of its first fund, Overlap Holdings Flagship Fund 1 (OHF1). The inaugural fund of $33 million will invest in early-stage (Seed through Series B) startups building technologies at the intersection of scientific innovation and hardware.

GetWhys: $2.75 Million (Seed) To Advance AI-Based Customer Insights Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

GetWhys announced $2.75 million in seed funding to accelerate the growth of its AI-based customer insights platform. The funding round was led by Next Frontier Capital, with participation from Tuesday Capital and Capital Eleven. This funding brings GetWhys' total funding to $3.5 million and will expand the engineering team, fuel product development, and support customer growth.

Digital Harmonic Raises Investment from Caladan Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Digital Harmonic, a leader in advanced video, signal, and image processing technologies, announced a strategic investment from Caladan Capital, led by Victor L. Vescovo, who is an accomplished private investor with over 30 years of experience in defense, aerospace, and electronics industries. This funding will accelerate Digital Harmonic’s growth and innovation across several vertical industries, including Media & Entertainment, Healthcare, and National Security.

Fay: $50 Million (Series B) Raised At $500 Million Valuation For Nutritional Therapy Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Fay, a leader in digital nutritional therapy, announced a $50 million Series B funding round led by Goldman Sachs at a $500 million valuation. And existing investors General Catalyst and Forerunner also participated in the round.

Astra Security: Funding Raised To Simplify Cybersecurity With Pentesting

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Astra Security, a security platform with continuous vulnerability scanning and pentests, announced the closing of a growth capital round—led by Emergent Ventures, with participation from the Neon Fund, Better Capital, Blume Ventures, and PointOne Capital.

Little Otter: $9.5 Million Raised For Whole-Family Mental Health Care Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Little Otter, an innovator in digital whole-family mental health care, announced it has raised $9.5 million in a strategic funding round led by top-tier impact investors, including Pivotal Ventures, Torch Capital, Springbank, CRV, Next Legacy, G9, Gratitude Railroad, and Carrie Walton Penner's Fiore Ventures. This round brings total funding to date to $36.35 million and solidifies Little Otter’s position as a defining leader in the rapidly growing family mental health market.

Bourque Logistics: Over $100 Million Growth Financing Raised From Sixth Street

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Bourque Logistics (a leader in rail logistics systems) and Sixth Street announced that Bourque has closed a $100+ million financing from Sixth Street. This growth financing supports Bourque's recently announced acquisition of AllTranstek, which combines the respective rail fleet logistics and asset management expertise of Bourque and AllTranstek into a comprehensive solution for the rail industry.

Epicore Biosystems: $26 Million (Series B) Raised To Advance Sweat-Sensing Wearables Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Epicore Biosystems - a digital health solutions leader developing advanced sweat-sensing wearables - announced that it has raised $26 million in Series B funding led by the Steele Foundation for Hope (SFFH).

Nirmata: $9.6 Million Raised For Expanding AI-Based Policy-As-Code Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Nirmata, a leader in cloud-native security policy automation and governance solutions, announced a $9.6 million funding round led by Peak XV Surge (formerly Sequoia Capital India & SEA). Dallas Venture Capital, Dreamit Ventures, and existing investors Z5 Capital and Uncorrelated Ventures participated as well.

Warner Music Group Buys Controlling Stake Of Tempo Music

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Warner Music Group announced that it acquired a controlling stake in Tempo Music Investments, which is an investment platform for premium music rights, from Providence Equity Partners. And Providence will remain a minority investor in Tempo and continue to work with WMG in an advisory capacity.