Venture Capital

Lumia: $7 Million Raised To Launch Smart Earrings That Track Real-Time Blood Flow

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 20, 2025

Boston-based health-tech startup Lumia has raised $7 million in new funding as it launches Lumia 2, a smart earring that continuously tracks real-time blood flow to the head and translates those signals into insights on energy, focus, and mental clarity.

Wafra Makes Minority Investment In Ardian To Expand Global Private Markets Reach

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 20, 2025

Wafra has completed a minority investment in Ardian, marking a significant partnership between two major forces in global private markets. The transaction, announced from New York, brings Wafra into Ardian's shareholding structure, a private investment firm that manages $192 billion in assets.

Modern Life: $20 Million Series A Closed To Advance AI-Based Life Insurance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 20, 2025

Modern Life has raised $20 million in Series A funding as it scales its AI-driven life insurance brokerage designed to help financial advisors navigate a historically complex sector. Thrive Capital led the round with participation from New York Life Ventures, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, and Allegis. This investment brings the company’s total funding to $35 million following its previous $15 million seed round, also led by Thrive Capital.

Suno: $250 Million Series C Raised At A $2.45 Billion Valuation For Generative Audio Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 20, 2025

Suno has secured a $250 million Series C round, bringing the company’s valuation to $2.45 billion, marking one of the most significant funding events to date in the rapidly expanding AI-powered music creation sector. The round was led by Menlo Ventures with participation from NVentures, Hallwood Media, Lightspeed, and Matrix, reinforcing investor conviction in the company’s ability to reshape how music is produced, shared, and experienced.

Orion: $3.5 Million Closed To Scale AI Risk Intelligence For Real-World Threats

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 20, 2025

Denver-based Orion has raised $3.5 million in funding to expand its AI-powered risk intelligence platform, which helps enterprises detect, measure, and respond to real-world threats before they disrupt operations. The round is led by Dynamo Ventures, with participation from Bravo Victor Venture Capital (BVVC), Techstars, and Service Provider Capital, as well as a government grant from Puerto Rico.

Profluent: $106 Million Raised To Advance Frontier AI Models For Programmable Biology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 20, 2025

Profluent has secured $106 million in new financing to accelerate the development and deployment of frontier artificial intelligence systems designed to program biology at scale. The round was co-led by Altimeter Capital and Bezos Expeditions with participation from Spark Capital, Insight Partners, and Air Street Capital. The latest investment brings the company’s total funding to $150 million as it aims to expand its protein design platform, enhance commercial capabilities, and support progress toward bringing AI-designed therapeutics into the clinic.

alphaXiv: $7 Million Seed Funding Closed To Bridge The AI Research To Practice Divide

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 20, 2025

alphaXiv has secured a $7 million seed round as the company accelerates its mission to close the widening gap between rapid AI breakthroughs and real-world implementation. The financing was co-led by Menlo Ventures and Haystack with additional participation from Shakti VC, Conviction Embed, and Upfront Ventures. Several prominent angel investors also joined the round, including Eric Schmidt, Sebastian Thrun, Sara Hooker, and Gokul Rajaram.

Stuut Technologies: $29.5 Million Series A Secured To Advance Autonomous Accounts Receivable Automation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 20, 2025

Stuut Technologies has closed a $29.5 million Series A round to accelerate the expansion of its autonomous accounts receivable platform. Andreessen Horowitz led the funding with additional participation from Activant Capital, Khosla Ventures, 1984.vc, Page One Ventures, Vesey Ventures, Carya Venture Partners, and Valley Ventures. As part of the financing, Seema Amble from Andreessen Horowitz and Steve Sarracino from Activant Capital will join Stuut’s board.

Revenium: $13.5 Million Seed Funding Closed To Advance Full-Stack AI Economic Intelligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 20, 2025

Revenium has closed a $13.5 million seed round led by Two Bear Capital with participation from WestWave Capital, marking a significant step forward for the company as it expands its financial intelligence platform built to manage and optimize AI spending.

Vector Capital Provides $50 Million Loan To Support Sylvan’s Combination With Andy J. Egan Co.

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 20, 2025

Vector Capital Management has originated a $50 million loan to Sylvan to support the company’s strategic combination with Andy J. Egan, marking the first investment for E-3 Tech’s flagship multi-trade construction platform. The financing, completed through Vector’s direct credit strategy Vector Velocity, reflects growing momentum behind E-3 Tech, the applied-AI and M&A-driven platform backed by Andreessen Horowitz.

NcodiN: €16 Million Seed Round Closed To Advance Nanolaser Photonic Interposers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 20, 2025

NcodiN has closed a €16 million Seed round to accelerate the industrialization of its photonic interposer platform built around what the company calls the world’s smallest laser. The Paris-based startup, founded in 2023, is developing optical interposer technology to break through the performance and efficiency ceiling of copper interconnects, which currently limit the scalability of advanced AI systems.

Kaaj: $3.8 Million Seed Funding Closed To Advance Agentic AI Credit Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 20, 2025

Kaaj, a San Francisco-based fintech developing an agentic AI credit intelligence platform for small business lending, has raised $3.8 million in seed financing. The round was led by Kindred Ventures with participation from Better Tomorrow Ventures and several additional investors. The new capital will support product development and expand Kaaj’s presence across the United States' small-business and equipment finance markets, which total more than $3 trillion in combined annual lending volume.

Emm: Over $9 Million Secured To Launch Smart Menstrual Health Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 20, 2025

Emm, a UK-based femtech company developing what it calls the world’s first smart menstrual health solution, has raised over $9 million (£6.8 million) in an oversubscribed funding round. The investment represents a significant milestone for the company as it prepares for a 2026 consumer launch.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management Closes $1 Billion Co-Investment Fund II To Expand Small And Middle Market Buyout Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 20, 2025

J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s Private Equity Group has closed its second dedicated co-investment vehicle, PEG Co-Investment Fund II, at $1 billion, surpassing its original $750 million fundraising target. The close marks a significant expansion of the firm’s long-standing small- and middle-market buyout strategy, which remains a central focus of the Private Equity Group’s investment platform.

Brookfield Unveils $100 Billion Global AI Infrastructure Program

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 20, 2025

Brookfield has launched a $100 billion global AI infrastructure program, supported by NVIDIA and the Kuwait Investment Authority, marking one of the largest capital mobilizations to date for AI infrastructure. The initiative establishes a comprehensive investment platform spanning the complete AI value chain, including energy, land, data centers, and compute systems.

Broad Creek Capital: First Close For $150 Million Multifamily Fund Secured

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 20, 2025

Broad Creek Capital announced a significant expansion of its real estate investment platform with the first close of its new BCC Multifamily Advantage Fund I, a value-add focused multifamily fund targeting $150 million in commitments. The fund is backed by U.S. municipal institutions and family offices across the United States and Europe, marking the firm’s broadening reach beyond its long-standing partnerships with select family office investors.

The LegalTech Fund Secures $110 Million For Oversized Second Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 20, 2025

The LegalTech Fund has closed a $110 million second fund, nearly quadrupling the size of its inaugural $28.5 million vehicle and marking one of the most significant dedicated raises in the legal technology sector. The announcement comes as the legal market experiences a profound shift toward technology-driven service delivery, expanded access, and new business models.

CSL: $1.5 Billion U.S. Manufacturing Expansion Launched To Strengthen Plasma-Derived Therapy Production

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 20, 2025

Global biopharmaceutical company CSL announced a significant expansion of its United States operations, committing approximately US$1.5 billion in new capital investments over the next five years to increase the nation’s manufacturing capacity for plasma-derived therapies. The initiative reflects the company’s long-term strategy to meet rising clinical demand for immunoglobulin treatments and further reinforce the reliability of the U.S. medicine supply chain.

PhysicsX: Series B Extended As New Investment From NVentures Pushes Valuation Toward $1 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 20, 2025

PhysicsX has expanded its Series B financing following a new investment from NVentures, the venture capital arm of NVIDIA, bringing the company’s total Series B funding to more than $155 million and placing its valuation near $1 billion. The extension builds on the original Series B round led by Atomico in June 2025, which included participation from Temasek, Siemens, Applied Materials, and July Fund, alongside continued support from General Catalyst, NGP, Radius Capital, Standard Investments, and Allen & Co.

Guardio: $80 Million Raised To Advance Global Expansion of Consumer Cybersecurity Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 20, 2025

Guardio has secured $80 million in new financing, marking a major milestone in its mission to modernize personal cybersecurity and provide enterprise-grade protection to everyday internet users. The round was led by ION Crossover Partners, with participation from existing investors Union Tech Ventures, Vintage Investment Partners, and Emerge Ventures.

DigitalBridge: $11.7 Billion Closed For Third Digital Infrastructure Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 19, 2025

DigitalBridge Group has secured $11.7 billion in combined commitments for DigitalBridge Partners III, comprising $7.2 billion in fund commitments and $4.5 billion in LP co-investment commitments. The raise marks one of the firm’s most significant capital-raising milestones to date and positions the platform to meaningfully expand into infrastructure areas that support AI and hyperscale computing.

MacKenzie Scott Donates Record $38 Million To Xavier University Of Louisiana

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 19, 2025

Xavier University of Louisiana has received a historic $38 million unrestricted donation from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, marking the most significant private gift in the institution’s history. The contribution represents Scott’s second significant investment in Xavier after her $20 million gift in 2020, which recognized Xavier’s national significance as the only historically Black and Catholic university in the United States.

BVP Forge Raises $1 Billion For Second Fund To Accelerate Growth Investment Strategy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 19, 2025

BVP Forge has secured $1 billion in capital commitments for its second fund, marking a significant expansion of the firm’s private equity platform and signaling continued investor confidence in its model of supporting growth-oriented, self-sustaining technology and services companies. The fund, named Forge II, was oversubscribed and closed in 4 months, bringing BVP Forge’s total assets under management to $2.3 billion.

TAHO: $3.5 Million Seed Round Raised To Accelerate Distributed Compute Platform For Expanding AI Workloads

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 19, 2025

TAHO has secured a $3.5 million seed round to advance development of its distributed compute platform, designed to meet the rapidly expanding demands of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. The company, founded by veterans of Meta, Google, and Snap, is building an infrastructure fabric that unifies cloud resources into a single intelligent environment capable of significantly increasing processing speeds while sharply reducing operating costs.

Amperesand: $80 Million Series A Raised To Advance Deployment Of Medium Voltage Power Platform For AI Data Centers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 19, 2025

Amperesand has raised an $80 million Series A round co-led by Walden Catalyst Ventures and Temasek, marking one of the largest early-stage financings in next-generation power infrastructure amid intensifying demand from AI data centers. The funding positions the company to scale commercialization of its Medium Voltage Solid State Transformer technology, which aims to remove major power bottlenecks limiting the growth of AI, defense, and other high-density electrified systems.

Maxima: $41 Million Raised To Advance AI-Driven Transformation Of Month-End Accounting

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 19, 2025

Maxima has secured a combined $41 million in Seed and Series A funding as the company aims to redefine the month-end close process through agentic AI systems that work directly alongside accounting teams. The round includes investment from Redpoint Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and Audacious Ventures, along with participation from experienced finance and operations leaders such as former BlackLine CMO and Chief Strategy Officer Andres Botero, former BlackLine SVP of Operations Eric Borrmann, Rubrik CFO Kiran Choudary, Vanta CFO David Eckstein, and Liquid 2 Managing Partner and NFL Super Bowl Champion Joe Montana.

Barker: $3.5 Million Closed To Expand Warrantied AI Valuations For Asset-Backed Lending

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 19, 2025

Barker, a New York-based Fintech company specializing in insurer-backed AI valuations for illiquid assets, has raised $3.5 million in new funding led by Walkabout VC. The investment will support the company’s plan to broaden adoption of its agentic valuation system, which aims to provide lenders with real-time, enforceable valuations for a wide range of complex assets used in asset-backed finance.

Federato: $100 Million Series D Raised For AI-Native Insurance Software

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 19, 2025

Federato has raised $100 million in new capital through a Series D round led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, marking one of the most significant recent financings in the insurance technology sector and reinforcing the industry’s accelerating shift from legacy systems toward AI-native platforms. Returning investors Emergence Capital, Caffeinated Capital, StepStone Group, and Pear VC also participated.

Asseta AI: $4.2 Million Seed Funding Closed To Advance Intelligent Family Office Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 19, 2025

Asseta AI has raised a $4.2 million seed round co-led by Nyca Partners and Motive Partners, marking a significant step forward in the company’s mission to modernize financial infrastructure for family offices. The New York based startup, founded in 2023, has quickly gained traction among wealth management organizations seeking purpose built systems that can handle the growing complexity of multi entity portfolios.

Infracost: $15 Million Series A Raised To Expand AI-Driven Cloud Cost Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 19, 2025

Infracost has raised a $15 million Series A round to accelerate the adoption of its platform, which enables engineers to see cloud infrastructure costs directly within their existing workflows. Pruven Capital led the funding with participation from Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Mango Capital, Alumni Ventures, TIAA Ventures, and notable angel investors, including Paul Copplestone of Supabase and Timothy Chen of Essence VC.