Venture Capital

Neros: $75 Million Series B Raised To Scale Domestic Drone Manufacturing And Support U.S. Defense Programs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 10, 2025

Neros has secured a $75 million Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Vy Capital US and Interlagos. The funding follows a period of rapid production scaling, increased revenue, and successful deployments across key U.S. defense customers. The company recently fulfilled a significant drone order for the U.S. Marine Corps. And it was selected as a primary supplier of first-person view drones to the U.S. Army through its Purpose-Built Attritable Systems program.

AirOps: $40 Million Series B Raised For Advancing Growth As Brands Adapt To AI Search

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 10, 2025

AirOps announced that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding led by Greylock, with participation from Unusual Ventures, Wing Venture Capital, XFund, Village Global VC, Frontline VC, and more than two dozen growth and marketing leaders. This brings the company’s total funding to $60 million. The new investment follows a period of rapid expansion as brands increasingly look to position themselves within AI-driven search experiences.

Majestic Labs: Over $100 Million Raised To Launch Next Generation AI Server Architecture

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 10, 2025

Majestic Labs has emerged from stealth with more than $100 million in financing and unveiled a next-generation AI server architecture designed to resolve the growing mismatch between memory capacity and compute power in advanced AI workloads. Founded by former Google and Meta engineering leaders, the company has introduced a system capable of delivering 1000 times the memory capacity of current top-tier GPU servers and consolidating what typically requires multiple racks of equipment into a single server.

Iambic: $100 Million Raised To Advance AI-Discovered Therapeutics And Platform Technologies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 10, 2025

Iambic, a clinical-stage life science and technology company headquartered in San Diego, announced that it has raised more than $100 million in an oversubscribed financing round. The round drew participation from a broad group of new and existing investors spanning life sciences, growth equity, technology, and sovereign wealth funds. Participating investors included Abingworth, Alexandria Venture Investments, Alumni Ventures, ARK, Ascenta, Catalio, Everbright Biofund, Freeflow Ventures, Illumina Ventures, Mubadala, Pegasus Tech Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Regeneron Ventures, Sequoia, Tao Capital Partners, Terra Magnum Capital Partners, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and others.

Ventures Platform Secures $64 Million First Close For Pan-African Fund II

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 10, 2025

Ventures Platform has announced the $64 million first close of its second fund, VP Pan-African Fund II, which aims to expand seed investments, catalyze Series A rounds, and strengthen the firm’s pan-African reach to support the continent’s next wave of technology companies. The fund is targeting a final close of $75 million.

Digitail: $23 Million Series B Closed For Expanding AI Platform For Veterinary Clinics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 10, 2025

Digitail has secured $23 million in Series B funding, led by Five Elms Capital, bringing the company’s total investment to over $37 million. The funding will support the company’s expansion efforts and accelerate product development, including enhancements to its artificial intelligence capabilities designed to reduce the administrative workload for veterinary professionals and improve patient outcomes.

1mind Launched With $40 Million To Advance AI-Led Sales With Emotionally Intelligent Digital Superhumans

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 10, 2025

1mind announced its public launch with a total of $40 million in funding, including a recently closed $30 million Series A round led by Battery Ventures with participation from Primary Ventures, Wing Venture Capital, Operator Collective, Harmonic Growth Partners, Success Venture Partners, and executives from Monday.com, ZoomInfo, Databricks, Box, Gong, Braz,e and Verkada. The company, founded by Amanda Kahlow, is introducing an AI-led growth model that uses digital Superhumans to guide buyers across the entire customer journey.

Scribe: $75 Million Series C At $1.3 Billion Valuation Raised For Workflow AI Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 10, 2025

Scribe has closed a $75 million Series C funding round at a $1.3 billion post-money valuation as the company rolls out Scribe Optimize, a new platform designed to map workflows across entire enterprises and identify where automation and AI will generate measurable returns. According to TechCrunch, the funding round was led by StepStone, with participation from existing investors Amplify Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Tiger Global, Morado Ventures, and New York Life Ventures.

Evidium: $22 Million Series A Raised To Scale Computational Medical Knowledge

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 10, 2025

Evidium has announced the close of a $22 million Series A funding round as the company expands its healthcare AI platform focused on computational medical knowledge and transparent clinical reasoning. The round was co-led by Health2047, the venture studio founded by the American Medical Association, and WGG Partners, with participation from Interwoven Ventures and Mindset Ventures.

Glasswing Ventures: $200 Million Fund III Closed To Back AI-Native And Frontier Technology Startups

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 10, 2025

Glasswing Ventures announced the close of Fund III, with more than $200 million in capital commitments dedicated to pre-seed and seed-stage investments in AI-native and Frontier Technology companies. The fund is the largest in the firm’s history and exceeded its target amount through support from both existing and new Limited Partners. Two investments have already been made from the new fund. The firm has invested in 70 startups since its founding in 2018 and was the first institutional investor in more than 90 percent of those companies.

Gamma: $68 Million At $2.1 Billion Valuation Raised As It Surpasses $100 Million In ARR

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 10, 2025

Gamma announced that it has raised $68 million in Series B funding at a valuation of $2.1 billion. Andreessen Horowitz led the round with participation from Accel, Uncork Capital, and other existing investors. The company also revealed that it has surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue. This financing includes a secondary component to provide liquidity to early employees, reflecting the founders’ intent to share the company’s success with the team members who helped build it.

Addi Secures $71 Million Credit Upsize To Advance Growth And Expand Access To Credit

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 10, 2025

Addi announced that it has secured a $71 million increase in its credit facilities from longstanding financial partners Goldman Sachs, Fasanara Capital, and BBVA Spark. The upsizing includes a $57 million increase from Goldman Sachs and Fasanara and a $14 million increase from BBVA Spark. This renewed commitment from globally recognized institutions reinforces strong confidence in Addi’s business model, growth performance, and long-term market potential as the company closes out a year marked by expansion and profitability.

Grab Announces Strategic Investment In Vay For Remote Driving Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 10, 2025

Grab Holdings announced that it has signed definitive agreements to invest $60 million in Vay Technology, a provider of remote driving technology that enables on-demand car rentals without requiring customers to search for parking.

FCDE Reaches €400 Million Hard Cap For Third Buyout Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 10, 2025

FCDE announced the first and final closing of its third local specialist strategy buyout fund, FCDE Fund III, at €400 million. The fund was oversubscribed and represents an increase of approximately 45 percent from the prior fund, FCDE Fund II, which closed in 2023 at €277 million. The fundraising was completed in slightly more than six months despite a competitive fundraising environment.

Forbion Bioeconomy Fund I Reaches €200 Million Hard Cap

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 10, 2025

Forbion announced that its Forbion BioEconomy Fund I has closed at its hard cap of €200 million, marking one of the most significant dedicated bioeconomy funds in Europe. The fund focuses on biotechnology-driven solutions that support planetary health and industrial sustainability, building on Forbion’s established expertise in life sciences and its track record of investing in scientific innovation.

Walker & Dunlop: $625 Million Refinancing Arranged For IMT Capital’s Multifamily Portfolio

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 10, 2025

Walker & Dunlop announced that it has arranged $625,299,000 in fixed-rate financing through Freddie Mac to refinance a portfolio of eight multifamily properties owned by IMT Capital. The refinance encompasses properties located in six major high-growth markets: San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Atlanta, and Nashville. The portfolio consists of 3,096 units across garden-style apartment communities.

Lighthouse Canton: Global Investment Firm Raises $40 Million In Strategic Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 10, 2025

Lighthouse Canton has secured a $40 million strategic investment led by Peak XV Partners, with participation from Nextinfinity, the investment holding company of Shyam Maheshwari, who was a founding partner of SSG Capital before Ares SSG acquired it. Qatar Insurance Company, an early backer of Lighthouse Canton, continues to support the firm as it enters its next phase of expansion.

MyPhysicianPlan: Seed Round Closed To Expand Affordable Healthcare Nationwide

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 10, 2025

MyPhysicianPlan, a healthcare technology company based in New Jersey, announced the closing of its Seed Round. The round was backed by private investors along with a matching investment from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority through the Angel Match Program.

Section Partners: $189 Million Raised For Two New Funds

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 10, 2025

Section Partners announced the final closing of two investment vehicles totaling $189 million in capital commitments, reflecting continued backing from existing investors and interest from new limited partners. The capital was raised across Section Capital V, LP, and Section Ventures II, LP, along with a parallel co-investment vehicle.

Wyndham Wealth Invests $7 Million In Gliding Deer For Accelerating AI Integrated Game Creation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 10, 2025

Wyndham Wealth has signed a $7 million investment term sheet with Gliding Deer, the independent gaming studio known for creating the global hit Bingo Drive. The funding will be used to advance the development of its GamePro Platform, which is deeply integrated with artificial intelligence capabilities as part of the company’s broader Game Factory model. And the funding will also support the rollout of new mobile gaming titles across international markets.

Nationwide Announces $1.5 Billion Technology And AI Investment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 9, 2025

Nationwide announced a $1.5 billion investment through 2028 to accelerate technology innovation, with $100 million allocated annually to advancing artificial intelligence over the next three years. And Nationwide stated that the strategy is designed to deliver more personalized and dependable service to customers, while enabling innovative solutions and more efficient support for business partners.

DeepJudge: $41.2 Million Series A Raised To Advance Enterprise Legal AI Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 9, 2025

DeepJudge has raised $41.2 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round led by Felicis with continued participation from Coatue. The company plans to expand product development and support growing demand in the United States and the United Kingdom. DeepJudge reported more than 500% year-over-year revenue growth as law firms seek systems that enable attorneys to access institutional knowledge securely at scale.

Red Cell Partners: Trase Launched With $10.5 Million Pre-Seed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 9, 2025

Red Cell Partners announced the launch of Trase, a new agentic platform designed to deliver and implement autonomous AI agents and specialized language models within regulated industries. The company aims to address the challenge of enterprise AI adoption by providing solutions that automate complex workflows securely and at scale. Alongside the launch, Red Cell appointed Dr. Baskar Sridharan, former Vice President and General Manager of AI and Machine Learning Services and Infrastructure at Amazon Web Services, as President of Trase.

Upstart: $1.5 Billion Forward Flow Agreement Secured With Castlelake

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 9, 2025

Upstart announced a new forward-flow commitment from funds managed by Castlelake, L.P., in which Castlelake has agreed to purchase up to $1.5 billion in consumer loans originated through the Upstart platform. Upstart is a lending marketplace that uses artificial intelligence to match consumers to credit products offered by banks and credit unions.

RAAAM Memory: $17.5 Million Series A Raised To Advance On-Chip Memory Production

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 9, 2025

RAAAM Memory Technologies announced that it has raised $17.5 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round to support the mass production and full qualification of its patented on-chip memory technology, GCRAM. The round was led by NXP Semiconductors and included participation from a leading multinational networking corporation, IAG Capital Partners, EIC Fund, LiFTT, Alumni Ventures, and existing investors J-Ventures, Silicon Catalyst Ventures, and Serpentine Ventures. The new funding brings the company’s total capital raised to over $24 million, combining equity financing with the EIC Accelerator grant.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Shifts Focus to AI-Powered Biology, Expands Biohub As Core Effort

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 9, 2025

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is restructuring its philanthropic strategy to concentrate primarily on AI-driven biological research, marking a significant shift in its mission a decade after its founding. The organization, launched by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan in 2015, announced that its Biohub network will now be its primary focus and will receive the majority of its resources.

Gates Foundation: $1.4 Billion Committed For Smallholder Farmer Climate Resilience

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 9, 2025

The Gates Foundation has announced a four-year, $1.4 billion commitment to climate adaptation initiatives, aimed at supporting smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The announcement was made at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, where global leaders emphasized the importance of locally led solutions to climate-related challenges. The funding focuses on increasing access to innovations that help farmers manage the growing risks of droughts, floods, heat, and other extreme weather events. Smallholder farmers in these regions are among the most affected by climate pressures, despite receiving a relatively small share of global climate finance.

University Of Georgia: Dan Geller Named Director Of Innovation Gateway Startup Program

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 8, 2025

Innovation Gateway at the University of Georgia has appointed Dan Geller as the new director of its Innovation Gateway Startup Program. Geller assumed the role on October 1 after serving as assistant director since 2020.

CampusKnot: $1.1 Million Raised To Expand AI Teaching Assistant Platform Nationwide

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 7, 2025

CampusKnot announced that it has raised $1.1 million to expand its AI-powered teaching assistant platform across universities in the United States. The funding round includes investments from Tulane Ventures, Boot 64 Ventures, Invest Mississippi Impact Fund, Momentum Fund, and Greaux Innovation Ventures, as well as private investors from Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arizona. The raise reflects momentum across the Mississippi and Louisiana innovation corridor, where research-driven startups are increasingly commercializing new technologies for higher education.

ReNew: $331 Million Secured From Asian Development Bank For Large-Scale Renewable Energy Project

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 7, 2025

ReNew Energy Global announced that it has secured $331 million in financing from the Asian Development Bank as part of a US$477 million package to develop an integrated renewable energy project in Andhra Pradesh. The remaining US$146 million will be arranged by ADB through additional lenders. The project combines 837 MWp of wind and solar capacity with a 415 MWh battery energy storage system designed to deliver 300 MW of peak power while providing a stable and reliable clean energy supply.