Venture Capital

Exsilio Therapeutics: $82 Million Closed To Develop Genomic Medicines For Broad Range Of Diseases

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 6, 2024

Exsilio Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing genomic medicines for a broad range of diseases, announced its emergence from stealth with $82 million in Series A financing. This funding round was co-led by Novartis Venture Fund and Delos Capital, with participation from OrbiMed, Insight Partners, J.P. Morgan Life Sciences Private Capital, CRISPR Therapeutics, Innovation Endeavors, Invus, Arc Ventures, and Deep Insight. Exsilio was seed funded by OrbiMed.

Sift: Hardware Sensor Observability Platform Secures $17.5 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 6, 2024

Sift, the first unified observability platform for hardware sensor data, announced it had raised $17.5 million in Series A funding led by GV (Google Ventures). This funding round brings Sift's total funding to $25 million.

CereTax: Sales Tax Solution Company Secures $9 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 6, 2024

Next-generation sales tax solution CereTax announced a $9 million financing led by S3 Ventures, with participation from Wild Basin Investments and Leaders Fund.

Endogenex: $88 Million Raised To Improve Outcomes In Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 6, 2024

Endogenex, a clinical-stage medical device company dedicated to improving outcomes in individuals with type 2 diabetes, announced it closed an oversubscribed Series C financing totaling $88 million.

Stonebriar: C$130 Million Term Loan Closed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 6, 2024

Stonebriar Commercial Finance announced the closing of a seven-year CAD$130 million term loan for a leading provider of specialty industrial and environmental services to oil and gas, chemical, and manufacturing end markets. This loan, part of a leveraged buyout, is secured by all fixed assets of the company. This is the second deal closed with the company’s sponsor in the last 12 months, totaling CAD$186 million.Stonebriar Commercial Finance announced the closing of a seven-year CAD$130 million term loan for a leading provider of specialty industrial and environmental services to oil and gas, chemical, and manufacturing end markets. This loan, part of a leveraged buyout, is secured by all fixed assets of the company. This is the second deal closed with the company’s sponsor in the last 12 months, totaling CAD$186 million.

U.S. International DFC Finalizes $50 Million For TIG’s Latin American Reforestation Strategy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 5, 2024

The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) announced a $50 million commitment to help mobilize $1 billion for the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group’s (TIG) Latin American reforestation strategy. This announcement was made in Oslo, Norway, on the margins of the Tropical Forest Forum, at a signing ceremony attended by White House Senior Advisor John Podesta, DFC Chief Climate Officer Jake Levine, and TIG Chief Sustainability Officer Mark Wishnie.

TwoStep Therapeutics: $6.5 Million Secured To Advance Applicable Targeting Platform for Solid Tumors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 5, 2024

TwoStep Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing new targeted therapeutics for solid tumors, announced its official launch following a successful $6.5 million seed round led by NFX, with participation from other investors including 2048 Ventures, Alexandria Venture Investments, Cooley’s affiliated fund GC&H Investments, and the family office of the founder of Arcadia Investment Partners.

Stellantis Invests $55 Million In Archer Aviation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 5, 2024

Stellantis and Archer Aviation, a leader in electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, announced Archer had received an additional $55 million investment from Stellantis under the companies’ strategic funding agreement following its transition flight test milestone last month.

Route: Package Tracking Platform Company Raises $40 Million At $1.4 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 5, 2024

Route, a leading post-purchase package tracking and protection solution, announced a $40 million Series C funding round at a valuation of $1.4 billion. The funding round was led by Hanaco VC with participation from JAWS Ventures, Madrona Ventures, and Granger.

BoldHue Raises Nearly $3.4 Million In Oversubscribed Seed Round

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 5, 2024

BoldHue, a female-founded technology company transforming the beauty-tech industry with its personalized foundation device, announced it has successfully closed an oversubscribed seed round, raising nearly $5.2 million in funding to date.

Prodia: Distributed GPU Cloud Company Raises $15 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 5, 2024

Prodia, a leading distributed network of GPUs for AI inference solutions, today announced it raised a $15 million seed round led by Dragonfly Capital to build more scalable, affordable AI solutions powered by Web3. Investment firms HashKey, Web3.com, Index Ventures, Symbolic Capital, OKX Ventures, EV3, Artichoke, TRGC, Folius, Tangent Capital, Southern Equity, Balaji Srinivasan, Sandeep Nailwal (founder of Polygon), Matthew Roszak, Jeremy Voss (Director of Gen AI at Meta), Amit Vasudev (founder of Clearbit), Thomas France founder of Ledger, Leon Marshall (CEO of Galaxy Europe), Nicolas Pinto, Kenzi Wang, Jermaine Brown, and more

Douglas Elliman Raises $50 Million From Kennedy Lewis

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 5, 2024

Douglas Elliman announced the closing of a $50 million growth investment from Kennedy Lewis Investment Management, a leading credit-focused alternative asset management firm. This investment enhances Douglas Elliman’s balance sheet to drive its strategic growth and expansion.

Co-Created: An Interview With Ron J. Williams About This Sophisticated Venture Studio And Why Good Growth Should Always Be The Goal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 5, 2024

Co-Created is a venture development studio that partners with organizations to identify, explore, build, and launch innovative new businesses. Since 2010, Co-Created has partnered with over 70 companies to help bring more than 100 concepts to market. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Co-Created Partner Ron J. Williams to learn more.

Thiozen: MIT Clean Hydrogen Spinout Raises $3.2 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 3, 2024

Thiozen, the first company to produce clean hydrogen from "sour gas" waste streams, announced it has received $3.2 million in funding for a clean hydrogen project in Alberta, Canada. Administered by Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) and Alberta Innovates, this funding is part of a $57 million commitment by the Government of Alberta to support 28 projects that advance the hydrogen economy, reduce emissions, and create jobs in Alberta.

The Westly Group Raises Oversubscribed $100 Million Seed Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 3, 2024

The Westly Group announced it successfully raised an oversubscribed $100 million seed fund to invest in entrepreneurs transforming the energy, mobility, building, and industrial sectors that make up more than 50% of the world’s GDP.

EpilepsyGTx: $10 Million Raised To Develop Therapies For Treating Focal Refractory Epilepsy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 2, 2024

EpilepsyGTx, a biotechnology company focused on the research and development of gene therapies to treat focal refractory epilepsy, announced it has raised $10 million in seed funding. The funding was led by the UCL Technology Fund, with participation from Health Technology Holding.

NXT Capital: Strategic Partnership With Cresset Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 2, 2024

NXT Capital, a subsidiary of ORIX USA, announced it has entered into a strategic investment partnership with Cresset Partners. Cresset is the private investment arm of Cresset Capital, a $50 billion wealth management and multi-family office platform. The bespoke program provides individuals and family offices on Cresset’s platform with access to direct private lower middle market investment opportunities.

TMRW Sports Raises Series A Funding At $500 Million Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 2, 2024

TMRW Sports, a company focused on building progressive approaches in sports, media, and entertainment, announced the closing of its Series A investment round. The funding round was co-led by Dynasty Equity, which recently closed a strategic minority investment in Liverpool FC, and Connect Ventures - which co-led the initial fundraising round for TMRW Sports and included participation from other leading institutional investors, sports team owners, business leaders, etc. TMRW Sports was founded by Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, and Mike McCarley.

IGM Technology: Strategic Growth Investment Raised From Lead Edge Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 2, 2024

IGM Technology, a provider of financial software to state and local governments, announced a strategic growth investment from Lead Edge Capital. IGM has experienced significant revenue growth since the adoption of its leading disclosure management, budgeting, and reporting software solutions.

India-Based Venture Highway Merging With General Catalyst

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 1, 2024

India-based venture capital firm Venture Highway (VH) announced it is merging with General Catalyst (GC).

Zing Coach: AI-Based Fitness App Company Raises $10 Million In Series A

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 1, 2024

Zing Coach, a health tech company reducing growing rates of physical inactivity with its AI-powered fitness app, announced that it has raised a Series A funding round in equity and debt financing totaling $10 million led by Zubr Capital and Triple Point Capital.

Authentica Solutions: Education-Focused Data Integration Company Raises $6.2 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 1, 2024

Authentica Solutions, a leader in data integration and intelligence management solutions for the education sector, announced the successful completion of a $6.2 million Series Seed funding round led by Owl Ventures.

Feon Energy: Battery Electrolyte Stanford Spin Out Raises $6.1 Million In Seed Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 1, 2024

Feon Energy, an advanced battery electrolyte startup that spun out of Stanford University, announced the recent closing of a $6.1 million seed round enabling the development of next-gen batteries. The funding round was led by Fine Structure Ventures, with participation from Eight Roads, Foothill Ventures, MassVentures, EPS Ventures, and Valkyrie Fund.

Li Industries: Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Company Secures $42 Million In Series B

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 1, 2024

Li Industries announced it closed a Series B funding round with an additional $6 million commitment from investors. The company's new investors include General Motors (GM) Ventures, DNX Ventures, and Tech Energy Ventures.

Pear Commerce: Retail Enablement Company Raises $10 Million In Series A

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 1, 2024

Pear Commerce, a retail e-commerce enablement platform for omnichannel brands, announced that it had closed a $10 million Series A funding round. The funding round was led by Stage 2 Capital. Additional participation in the round includes Heartland Ventures, Homegrown Ventures, Dundee Venture Capital, M25, and Daren Cotter.

illumex: $13 Million Closed To Automate Creation Of A Semantic Layer That Unifies Data Silos

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 1, 2024

illumex, a Generative Semantic Fabric platform for structured enterprise data, announced that it has raised $13 million in seed funding. The round was led by Cardumen Capital, Amdocs Ventures, and Samsung Ventures, with participation from ICI Fund, Jibe Ventures, Iron Nation Fund, Ginossar Ventures, ICON Fund, Today Ventures, and several angel investors.

RareCyte: $20 Million Raised To Expand Orion Spatial Biology Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 1, 2024

RareCyte, a life sciences company offering advanced Precision Biology platforms, including instruments, reagents, software, and services, announced the completion of $20 million in funding from new and existing investors. New investor Forest Road has joined existing investors Arboretum Ventures and F-Prime Capital (which co-led the round) and investors HealthQuest Capital, 5AM Ventures, Agilent Technologies, Company founder Ron Seubert, Sheatree capital, and GKCC LLC.

Odaseva: Enterprise Data Security Platform Company Secures $54 Million In Series C

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 30, 2024

Odaseva, a leading enterprise data security platform for Salesforce, announced $54 million in Series C funding, bringing the total company funding to over $90 million. Silver Lake Waterman led the round with participation from existing investors F-Prime, Eight Roads and Serena Capital, and new investors Eurazeo and Crescent Cove.

KLAR Partners: Fund II Closed At €870 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 30, 2024

KLAR Partners announced the final closing of KLAR Partners II, which has secured total capital commitments of €870 million. This 40% increase in fund size over KLAR's prior fund highlights the strong confidence and support received from both existing and new investors.

Zoi Capital: $200 Million Fund To Invest In AI Solutions For Healthcare

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 30, 2024

Zoi Capital, a VC firm specializing in artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for healthcare was founded by Mayo Clinic-trained cardiologist Dr. Ronald M. Razmi and Brian K. Beeler (former Executive VP and General Counsel of Horizon Therapeutics), announced they have closed a fundraising goal of $200 million for their Health AI Fund I.