Venture Capital

Median Technologies: €19 Million EIB Financing Raised To Boost AI-Enabled Cancer Diagnosis Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Median Technologies announced that it has received a €19 million payment under the first tranche of its new financing agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB), executed July 11, 2025 and representing the initial drawdown of a facility totaling up to €37.5 million.

BridgePeak Energy Capital: Over $1.3 Billion In U.S. Energy Loans Closed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

BridgePeak Energy Capital, a national leader in energy project finance, announced that it originated over $1.3 billion in loans during the first nine months of 2025. These financings include development facilities, construction loans and term debt, and span technologies and geographies with a significant focus on solar, energy storage and biofuels projects.

Hemab Therapeutics: $157 Million Series C Secured For Advancing Treatments For Underserved Bleeding Disorders

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Hemab Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel prophylactic therapeutics for serious bleeding and thrombotic disorders, announced that it has completed a $157 million Series C financing.

Bridge: $5.1 Million Seed Funding Raised For AI-Native Operating System For Private Markets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Bridge, an AI-native operating system designed for private markets allocators, announced that it has raised $5.1 million in seed financing led by Thicket Ventures, with participation from investors across the private equity and wealth management sectors.

XNRGY: Strategic Investment Raised To Accelerate Sustainable Cooling Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

XNRGY Climate Systems, a North American leader in sustainable liquid and air-cooling technologies, announced that it has secured growth equity financing from Decarbonization Partners (a joint venture between BlackRock and Temasek), Climate Investment (CI), and Activate Capital. The investment will accelerate XNRGY’s rapid expansion, expand its U.S. manufacturing footprint, and support the rollout of next-generation cooling solutions to meet the growing global demand from data centers and mission-critical infrastructure.

Pave Bank: $39 Million Raised To Scale Programmable Bank For The Digital Assets And AI Era

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Pave Bank, a fully licensed commercial bank built for the era of programmable money and digital assets, announced it has raised over $39 million in funding led by Accel, with participation from Tether Investments, Quona Capital, Wintermute Ventures, Helios Digital Ventures, Yolo Investments, Kazea Fund, and GC&H Investments. The round brings the company’s total funding to more than $44 million.

Yanne Capital: Senior-Led Transaction Excellence Platform Launched

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Yanne Capital, an independent global investment banking boutique, has launched its Transaction Excellence offering, a senior-led advisory service for lower middle-market transactions ranging from $10 million to $600 million. This initiative focuses on efficient, outcome-oriented deal execution in capital raises, mergers and acquisitions, refinancings, restructurings, and carve-outs.

Turtle: $5.5 Million Closed For Enhancing Leading Liquidity Distribution Network

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Turtle, a protocol focused on on-chain liquidity distribution, has raised an additional $5.5 million in funding, bringing its total capital raised to $11.7 million. The new investment will accelerate Turtle’s expansion as it continues to build what it calls the “Liquidity Distribution Protocol,” designed to coordinate capital and protocols across Web3 through a transparent, data-driven infrastructure.

Adaptam Therapeutics: €3 Million Raised To Develop Immunotherapies Targeting Tumor-Associated Myeloid Cells

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Adaptam Therapeutics, a biotechnology company pioneering cancer immunotherapies designed to overcome immunosuppression within the tumor microenvironment, announced the successful completion of a €3 million (~$3.5 million) pre-seed financing round led by Criteria Bio Ventures.

Pavewise: $2.5 Million Seed Funding Closed For Bringing Real-Time Intelligence To Road Construction

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Pavewise, a construction technology company improving efficiency and compliance across complex road construction projects, announced it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding led by C2 Ventures, with participation from Connectic, Service Provider Capital, Geoff Judge, and Tom Stemm (former CEO of Ryvit, acquired by Trimble). Existing investors M25, gener8tor 1889, and Broadwater Capital also joined the round, which remains open to a small number of additional investors.

Volta: €11 Million Raised To Advance AI-Based Transformation Of European B2B Commerce

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Volta, a French-Italian startup building an AI-powered commerce platform for B2B distributors and suppliers, announced today that it has secured €11 million in funding, including a recent €5 million extension to its prior round. This funding round was led by RTP Global, with participation from existing investors including Emblem, Robin Capital, Founders Future, and new strategic backer Pascal Houillon (former CEO of Cegid and Sage) who has joined as an investor and advisor.

Ceres AI: Growth Financing Raised From Decathlon To Expand Global Agricultural Analytics Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Ceres AI, a leading provider of AI-powered agricultural risk analytics, announced that it has received a multi-million-dollar growth financing package from Decathlon Capital Partners. The investment will enable Ceres AI to expand its platform and support a growing portfolio of enterprise clients across the global agricultural sector.

Dawson: Portfolio Finance 6 Closed At Over $7.7 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Dawson Partners announced the final closing of Dawson Portfolio Finance 6 LP (PF6) and its affiliated co-investment vehicles, securing more than $7.7 billion in total capital commitments. The fund, which exceeded its $6 billion target and reached its $7 billion hard cap, represents Dawson’s largest fund since inception and marks a significant milestone as the firm surpasses $25 billion in assets under management (AUM) just over a decade after its founding.

Amalgamated Bank Committing $250 Million To FASTPACE Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Amalgamated Bank announced a capital commitment of up to $250 million to fund commercial real-estate projects originated through the FASTPACE platform, operated by Allectrify. The investment will expand access to long-term, flexible Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing across the United States—especially for middle-market projects ranging from $250,000 to $10 million.

Venus Aerospace: Strategic Investment Raised From Lockheed Martin To Advance Propulsion Innovation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Venus Aerospace, a startup developing next-generation rocket and hypersonic propulsion systems, announced a strategic investment from Lockheed Martin through its venture arm, Lockheed Martin Ventures. The funding was disclosed at the Axios Future of Defense Summit in Washington, D.C., and follows Venus Aerospace’s May 2025 high-thrust test flight of its rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE), described as a “world first.”

Redwood Materials: $350 Million Series E Raised To Advance U.S. Energy Storage Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Redwood Materials announced the close of its $350 million Series E funding round, led by Eclipse with participation from new strategic investors, including NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm. The oversubscribed round underscores strong investor confidence in Redwood’s mission to build a vertically integrated domestic supply chain for energy storage and critical materials.

Iris Ventures: €100 Million Fund Closed For New Consumer Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Growth-equity investor Iris Ventures announced the first closing of its second fund, IRIS Fund II, securing approximately €100 million toward a larger target of €200 million. This fund was completed in record time and it is backed by a select group of family offices, many of whom have deep expertise in the consumer space.

Endowus: $70 Million In Funding And $10 Billion In Client Assets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 27, 2025

Wealth technology platform Endowus has announced a significant milestone: client assets under management and advice have surpassed US$10 billion (S$13 billion), driven by strong growth in the high-net-worth segment and increased demand for alternatives, including hedge funds and private markets. Simultaneously, the company closed a new funding round exceeding US$70 million (S$90 million), led by Illuminate Financial, with participation from existing investors, including Prosus and Citi Ventures, as well as several Asian family offices. This latest funding brings Endowus’ total funding raised to over US$130 million since its founding.

Valthos: $30 Million Raised For Biotechnology Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 26, 2025

Valthos, a newly launched biotech company, announced recently that it has emerged to safeguard humanity from the accelerating threat of programmable biology. In a company blog post, Valthos stated that as artificial intelligence continues to advance, life itself has become increasingly programmable with access to dual-use biotechnologies that could be used either to eliminate disease or to create it. Valthos announced that it has raised $30 million from a consortium of prominent investors, including OpenAI Startup Fund, Lux Capital, and Founders Fund.

Valink Therapeutics: $11.8 Million Raised To Advance Bispecific ADC Pipeline And Expand U.S. Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 26, 2025

Valink Therapeutics, a biotechnology company pioneering next-generation oncology therapeutics, announced it has closed an $11.8 million pre-A financing round to accelerate development of its bispecific antibody-drug conjugate (bsADC) pipeline and expand its presence in the United States with new headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Milvus Advanced: $6.9 Million Seed Funding Raised For Scaling Industrial-Scale Substitution Of Critical Elements

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 26, 2025

Oxford-based startup Milvus Advanced, a company focused on creating rare metal alternatives through “modern alchemy,” announced it has raised approximately $6.9 million in a seed funding round led by Hoxton Ventures, with participation from LQD Ventures, Übermorgen, Tuesday Capital, Mark Leslie Enterprises, van Den Bosch Dynasty Fund, Bluebirds, Md One, EQT Foundation, and returning investor Lowercarbon Capital.

Dialogue AI: $6 Million Seed Funding Closed For AI-Based Customer Research

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 26, 2025

Los Angeles-based Dialogue AI announced that it has secured a $6 million seed funding round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and joined by Seven Stars, Uncommon Projects, the Tornante Company, and a group of notable angel investors, including the CPO of Discord, the former CPO of Nextdoor, and the former CTO of Match Group.

Fourier Health: $8.4 Million Closed To Modernize Clinical Care Intake And Unstructured Data Processing With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 26, 2025

Miami-based health-tech company Fourier Health, a clinician-in-the-loop artificial-intelligence platform that streamlines and consolidates patient clinical data into use-case specific summaries to reduce administrative burden, announced it has raised $8.4 million in seed funding, led by Yosemite, with participation from Innospark Ventures, NextGen Venture Partners, and Tau Ventures, and pre-seed funding from Lasagna, NextGen Venture Partners, Myelin, and Despierta.

Creditstar Group: $10 Million Facility Secured From Kilde

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 26, 2025

Creditstar Group, a European consumer finance and investment fintech operating across eight lending markets, has secured an additional $10 million in funding from Singapore-based Kilde, bringing the total commitment to $20 million. The new facility builds on the initial $10 million agreement signed in November 2024, deepening the two-year relationship between the two firms.

Hyperlayer: £30 Million Closed To Power Faster Financial Innovation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 26, 2025

Fintech company Hyperlayer is dedicated to helping banks, wealth managers, and asset managers launch innovative financial products more efficiently and rapidly. Recently, the company announced it has successfully raised £30 million (around US$40 million) in venture funding, marking a significant milestone in its growth trajectory.

LuxQuanta: €8 Million Series A Closed For Advancing Deployment Of Quantum-Safe Cybersecurity Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 26, 2025

Barcelona-based deep-tech company LuxQuanta recently announced that it has closed a Series A funding round of €8 million, led by Big Sur Ventures and with A&G as the largest investor. New participants in the round include GMV, Wayra and the EIC Fund, alongside renewed support from existing investors Corning and GTD, and soft-financing from the European Innovation Council (EIC) via the EIC Accelerator program after a €2.5 million grant awarded in March 2024.

Sage Care: $20 Million Raised For AI-Based Care Navigation System

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 26, 2025

Sage Care, a newly publicly-launched platform aimed at addressing inefficiencies in healthcare navigation, announced it has raised $20 million in funding. Yosemite led the round with support from General Catalyst, Metrodora (backed by Chelsea Clinton), OVTR.VC, SV Angel, Liquid 2, Seven Stars, Refract Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, and Apollo Ono.

Force Electrical Services: Strategic Growth Investment Raised From SkyKnight Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 26, 2025

Force Electrical Services, a leading provider of electrical transmission and distribution infrastructure services across the South-Central United States, has secured a growth investment from SkyKnight Capital. SkyKnight partners with entrepreneurs in industry-defining businesses.

CoreStack: $50 Million Raised To Help Enterprises Manage And Govern Multi-Cloud Environments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 26, 2025

CoreStack, a platform specializing in multi-cloud governance and automation spanning CNAPP, SecOps, FinOps, and CloudOps, announced it has secured a $50 million growth financing led by Post Road Group, with potential additional capital to fuel its global ambitions. The deal, structured as funded debt, is designed to optimize CoreStack’s capital structure while supporting product innovation, accelerated market expansion, and inorganic growth, all without sacrificing operational agility.

Avid: $6.5 Million Seed Funding Closed For Advancing AI-Based Fundraising Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 26, 2025

Avid, an AI-driven fundraising technology company, announced that it has raised $6.5 million in seed funding led by Silverton Partners. The funding will advance the company’s mission to help nonprofit organizations plan, personalize, and deploy fundraising campaigns faster and with greater intelligence.