Venture Capital

Egnyte: Majority Investment Raised From GI Partners And TA

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 5, 2025

Egnyte, a provider of secure content collaboration and governance solutions, announced a strategic growth investment from leading investment firms GI Partners and TA Associates. This partnership will provide Egnyte with the funding and expertise needed to expand its global market presence and accelerate innovation through continued investment in research and development.

SpyneAI: $16 Million (Series A) Secured For AI-Based Visual Merchandising Platform For Auto Industry

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 5, 2025

SpyneAI, a leading AI-based visual merchandising platform for the automotive industry, announced it has secured $16 million in Series A funding led by Vertex Ventures. Existing investors, including Accel and Storm Ventures, doubled their investment in this round. This funding round will accelerate SpyneAI's U.S. expansion and innovation in its GenAI-driven automotive retail suite.

Vermillio: $16 Million (Series A) Closed For AI Licensing And Protection Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 5, 2025

Vermillio, an AI licensing and protection platform, announced that it has raised $16 million in Series A funding, led by Sony Music Entertainment and DNS Capital.

Sanas: $65 Million (Series B) Secured To Accelerate Real-Time Speech Understanding Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 5, 2025

Sanas, a Real-Time Speech Understanding Platform provider, recently announced a $65 million Series B funding round, advancing the company’s momentum and customer growth. Quadrille Capital led the round with strong participation from existing investors, including Insight Partners, Quiet Capital, and DN Capital.

Loxo: Growth Investment Raised In $115 Million Deal For Advancing AI & Product Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 5, 2025

Loxo, a talent intelligence platform and recruiting software company, announced the closing of a growth investment led by Tritium Partners, a private equity firm focused on partnering with talented founders with the goal of building market leading companies. And this investment will enable Loxo to expand its market reach and further its advantage as an AI-based recruiting platform.

SpecterOps: $75 Million (Series B) Raised For Advancing Identity Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 5, 2025

SpecterOps, a provider of adversary-focused cybersecurity solutions with targeted insights of advanced threat actor tradecraft, announced it has raised a $75 million Series B funding round led by global software investor Insight Partners, with participation from additional investors including Ansa Capital, M12, Ballistic Ventures, Decibel and Cisco Investments. This funding round will support SpecterOps’ scaling of BloodHound Enterprise (BHE), the industry’s first platform for comprehensively removing Identity-based Attack Paths.

Daisy: $15 Million (Series C) Secured For Tech Installation And Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 4, 2025

Daisy, which is the first national home and small business technology installation and services company, announced the completion of its $15 million Series C funding round. And this new funding round will reinforce the company's continued investments in acquisitions and propel further growth for its franchise operations. So far, Daisy has raised $35 million, emphasizing its exceptional financial and operational performance in its first year in business.

Helios: $15.5 Million (Seed) Closed For AI-Based Workforce Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 4, 2025

Helios Global Payments Solutions, an AI-based workforce management platform focusing on localized automation workflows, announced it has raised $15.5 million in funding as it launches its highly anticipated product worldwide across 125+ countries. And with backing from global corporate investors, private angel investors, and several Family Office investors, Helios is positioned to disrupt how companies hire, manage, and pay their global workforce.

Proximity: $3 Million (Seed) Raised To Optimize 340B Drug Discount Revenue For Healthcare Providers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 4, 2025

Proximity, the intelligent automation platform maximizing 340B drug discount revenue for qualified healthcare providers, launched with $3 million in funding to help uncover and secure revenue critical to operating budgets. Proximity’s seed round was led by LRVHealth with participation from Commonweal Ventures and will accelerate the development of its technology, which has already been proven with pilot customers to improve 340B program values by an average of 20%.

Callio Therapeutics: $187 Million (Series A) Secured For Realizing Promise Of Multi-Payload Antibody-Drug Conjugates

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 4, 2025

Callio Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on realizing the promise of multi-payload antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) to improve cancer therapy, announced its launch with the closing of a $187 million Series A financing round. This funding was led by Frazier Life Sciences with significant participation from Jeito Capital along with other life sciences investors, including Novo Holdings A/S, Omega Funds, ClavystBio, Platanus, Norwest, Pureos Bioventures, SEEDS Capital, and EDBI.

GEM HEALTH: $7 Million (Series A) Secured For Scaling Virtual Sleep Care

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 4, 2025

Gem Specialty Health, a nationwide virtual specialty care company transforming sleep care, announced a $7 million Series A funding round co-led by HealthTrend Capital and LFE Capital. Existing investors Base10 Partners and Mairs & Power Venture Capital participated.

CTGT: $7.2 Million (Seed) Raised To Help Enterprises Scale AI Efforts

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 4, 2025

CTGT, a company that is enabling enterprises to scale their AI efforts with a new approach to customizing, training, and deploying AI models that is up to 500 times faster, announced that it has raised an oversubscribed $7.2 million seed round to accelerate product development and sales and marketing.

Credcore: $16 Million (Series A) Secured For Transforming Enterprise Debt Investment With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 4, 2025

CredCore, a vertical AI company transforming debt capital markets for lenders and borrowers, announced $16 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Avataar Ventures and participated in by Inspired Capital, Fitch Group, BellTower Partners, and senior executives in asset management and financial services.

Together AI: $305 Million (Series B) Secured At $3.3 Billion Valuation For Scaling AI Acceleration Cloud

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 4, 2025

Leading AI-based acceleration cloud company Together AI announced a $305 million Series B investment led by General Catalyst and co-led by Prosperity7. The funding round saw participation from a distinguished group of global institutional and strategic investors including Salesforce Ventures, DAMAC Capital, NVIDIA, Kleiner Perkins, March Capital, Emergence Capital, Lux Capital, SE Ventures, Greycroft, Coatue, Definition, Cadenza Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Brave Capital, Scott Banister, and technology pioneer John Chambers.

Arize AI: $70 Million (Series C) Closed For AI Observability And LLM Evaluation Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 4, 2025

Arize AI, a leader in AI observability and LLM evaluation, announced a $70 million Series C round to accelerate its goal of making AI work reliably in production. The funding round was led by Adams Street Partners, with participation from M12 (Microsoft's venture fund), Sinewave Ventures, OMERS Ventures, Datadog, PagerDuty, Industry Ventures, and Archerman Capital. Existing investors Foundation Capital, Battery Ventures, TCV, and Swift Ventures also cemented their confidence in Arize's vision.

Resynergi: $18 Million (Series B Extension) Raised For Modular Advanced Plastic Recycling Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 4, 2025

Resynergi, an in-modular advanced plastic recycling technology, announced it has raised $18 million in Series B extension funding led by Taranis, the investment and asset management company of Perenco Group. This funding round enables Resynergi to commission its first commercial-scale site, equipping the company to address the outsized demand for sustainable, circular plastic resin and advance its mission to accelerate the transition to a circular economy.

Henry AI: $4.3 Million (Seed) Secured For Automating Commercial Real Estate Deals

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 4, 2025

Y Combinator-backed company Henry AI, an AI analyst for the commercial real estate (CRE) sector, announced that it has raised $4.3 million in seed funding. Susa Ventures and 1Sharpe Ventures co-led the funding round. Additional investors include RXR, Arden Venture Arms, Singularity Capital, Unwritten Ventures, Coalition Operators, Pioneer Fund, Orange Collective and Storyhouse ventures. Bill.com's head of product Rami Essaid, Truebill.com founder Yahya Mokhtarzada, ROOM founder Brian Chen, and Slack's chief strategy officer Joe Teplow also participated.

IdentifySensors Biologics; $20 Million Secured For Advancing New Digital Diagnostics Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 4, 2025

IdentifySensors Biologics, a leading developer of digital diagnostic technologies, announced it has raised $20 million to commercialize a software platform utilizing semiconductors that function as rapid biosensors. And when connected to a dedicated Bluetooth device, the sensors are intended to rapidly detect targeted gene sequences indicative of infectious diseases and potentially various cancers using a patient sample.

1848 Ventures: Interview With Managing Partner Kal Amin About The Investment Firm

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 4, 2025

1848 Ventures is a firm that brings the brightest minds together to solve the real-world challenges faced by small and medium businesses. Pulse 2.0 interviewed 1848 Ventures Managing Partner Kal Amin to learn more about the firm.

Ramp: $150 Million In Secondaries Acquired At $13 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 4, 2025

Financial operations platform Ramp announced that new and existing investors including Stripes, GIC, Avenir Growth, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, 137 Ventures, and Definition Capital have purchased $150 million in Ramp secondaries from employees and early investors, most recently valuing the company at $13 billion.

Anthropic: AI Research Company Raises $3.5 Billion At $61.5 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 3, 2025

AI safety and research company Anthropic has raised $3.5 billion at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation. The funding round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, General Catalyst, Jane Street, Menlo Ventures and Salesforce Ventures, among other new and existing investors.

Subsense: $17 Million (Seed) Secured For Non-Surgical Brain-Computer Interface

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 3, 2025

Subsense, a neurotechnology company developing the first non-surgical, nanoparticle-based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), emerged from stealth to formally reveal its efforts in the emerging field of non-invasive brain connectivity. Founded by neurotech entrepreneur Tetiana Aleksandrova and serial entrepreneur Artem Sokolov, Subsense has raised $17 million in seed funding led by Sokolov’s Golden Falcon Capital to accelerate the development of bidirectional nanoparticle-based technologies that connect the human brain with external sources.

Paperplane Therapeutics: $1.5 Million Secured For Transforming Pain Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 3, 2025

Paperplane Therapeutics, a Quebec-based company specializing in therapeutic virtual reality solutions for pain and anxiety management in healthcare, announced the closing of a $1.5 million funding round. Glen Ventures led the round, which received financial support from the Gouvernement du Québec through Investissement Québec. Strategic investors such as CABHI (Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation), Cedars-Sinai Intellectual Property Company, Anges Québec, and Aventure Capital also participated.

Altitude Lab: Incubated Startups Raised $154 Million In Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 3, 2025

Altitude Lab announced that its incubating startups have collectively raised $154 million in early-stage funding since its launch in 2020. Created by Recursion, Altitude Lab supports diverse life science entrepreneurs in Utah by providing fully equipped laboratories, investor access, business operations education, and a collaborative founder community.

Tevogen Bio To Receive $8 Million In Grant Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 3, 2025

Tevogen Bio, a clinical-stage specialty immunotherapy biotech, announced in January 2025 that it received $2 million in non-dilutive grant funding from KRHP. An additional $8 million will be contributed, contingent on KRHP’s review of the company’s activities.

Nuvation Bio: Up To $250 Million In Non-Dilutive Financings Secured

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 3, 2025

Nuvation Bio, a global biopharmaceutical company addressing some of the greatest unmet needs in oncology, today announced non-dilutive financings of up to $250 million with Sagard Healthcare Partners. The deal features a royalty interest financing of $150 million and a senior term loan of up to $100 million.

Atmosic Technologies: $40 Million (Series D) Raised For Ultra-Low Power Wireless Connectivity Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 3, 2025

Atmosic Technologies, a leader in ultra-low power computing and connectivity solutions, announced it has successfully raised $40 million in Series D funding. Sutter Hill Ventures led the round and was joined by Clear Ventures, Quantum Innovation Fund, and other institutional and private investors.

Wooptix: Over €10 Million (Series C) Raised For Semiconductor Metrology Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 3, 2025

Wooptix, a leader in semiconductor metrology utilizing wavefront phase imaging technology, announced it has raised over €10 million in a Series C funding round. The funding round was led by Samsung Venture Investment Corporation and Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT) with participation from existing investors, including the European Innovation Council Fund (EIC Fund), Intel Capital, MONDRAGON, and TEL Venture Capital.

KKR Signs Strategic Partnership With Energy Service Provider EGC

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 1, 2025

Global investment firm KKR announced that it has signed agreements to enter into a strategic partnership with EGC, an energy service provider based in Düsseldorf, Germany. The engineering service provider ITG is also part of this group.

CohnReznick: Strategic Growth Investment From Apax Funds

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 1, 2025

CohnReznick – which is one of the leading advisory, assurance, and tax firms - announced a strategic growth investment from funds advised by Apax Partners. The deal marks the first institutional investment in CohnReznick and is expected to help accelerate the firm’s growth strategy to deliver best-in-class client solutions and create greater career opportunities for employees.