Venture Capital

Ridgeline Raises $250 Million Series E At $1.425 Billion Valuation To Expand AI-Native Investment Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Ridgeline, an AI-native investment management platform for asset and wealth managers, has raised $250 million in Series E funding at a $1.425 billion valuation as the company expands its artificial intelligence capabilities, managed services business and international footprint.

Portage Closes $600 Million Ventures IV Fintech Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Portage has closed Portage Ventures IV at approximately $600 million, giving the global fintech investment platform a substantial new pool of capital to back companies across wealth and asset management, banking, insurance, payments and other areas of financial services.

Apollo And KKR Complete €3 Billion Capital Solution For Bayer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Apollo-managed funds and affiliates have completed a €3 billion capital solution for Bayer, with KKR joining the transaction as a significant minority participant.

BlueOrchard Climate Action Mobilisation Fund Reaches $250 Million First Close For Emerging Markets Climate Finance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

BlueOrchard has reached a $250 million first close for its Climate Action Mobilisation Fund, creating a blended-finance strategy designed to channel institutional capital into climate-related investments across emerging and frontier markets.

Factory Raises $200 Million At $5 Billion Valuation To Scale Self-Improving Software Development Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Factory has raised $200 million in new financing at a $5 billion valuation as the enterprise AI software company scales its platform for autonomous and self-improving software development. The round included Blackstone, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners, Evantic Capital, Sound Ventures, NEA, Mantis VC and Clearlake, along with angel investors including Nico Rosberg, Brad Gerstner and Marc Benioff. The financing brings Factory's total funding to more than $400 million.

Reckitt Invests Up To $600 Million To Expand U.S. R&D And Healthcare Manufacturing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Reckitt has announced plans to invest up to $600 million in a multi-year transformation of its U.S. operations, expanding research and development capabilities in New Jersey and significantly increasing manufacturing capacity at its over-the-counter healthcare facility in North Carolina.

BackOps Raises $42 Million Series B To Scale AI Resolution Layer For Supply Chain Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

BackOps, an AI platform that automates complex operational workflows for companies that make or move physical goods, has raised $42 million in Series B funding to expand its resolution layer across supply chain, finance, and customer service processes. Insight Partners led the round, with participation from existing investors Theory Ventures, Construct Capital, Gradient Ventures and 10VC.

Decimal AI Raises $4 Million Seed Round To Expand Customer Engineering Platform For Technical Support Teams

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Decimal AI, an AI-powered customer engineering platform for technical support teams, has raised $4 million in seed funding to expand technology that helps software companies investigate and resolve complex customer issues using code, logs, production data and other technical context. The round was co-led by Khosla Ventures and Kearny Jackson, with participation from Atlassian Ventures and Weekend Fund. Additional investors include former Stripe COO Claire Johnson, Anrok founder and Executive Chairman Michelle Valentin, and former Eightfold Chief Customer Officer Rimple Patel.

Hang Ten Systems Raises Additional $53 Million For Enterprise AI Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Hang Ten Systems, an enterprise AI services company founded by former SAP CEO Vishal Sikka, has raised an additional $53 million in seed funding led by Xora, a Temasek-backed investment fund, bringing the company's total funding to $85 million.

Footprint Raises $25 Million Series B To Expand AI Financial Crime Compliance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Footprint has raised $25 million in Series B funding to expand Percy, its agentic AI operating system for financial crime compliance, and Trust Fabric, the underlying infrastructure designed to turn individual investigations into reusable organizational knowledge.

Matter Venture Partners Closes $450 Million Fund II For HardTech, Robotics, And Physical AI Startups

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Matter Venture Partners has closed its second fund at $450 million to invest in early-stage HardTech companies spanning semiconductors, robotics and Physical AI, AI infrastructure, quantum computing, advanced manufacturing, energy technologies and AI applications for scientific research.

ETFBOOK Raises $13 Million To Expand ETF Data And Analytics Platform Into U.S. And Asia-Pacific

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

ETFBOOK, a Zurich-based ETF data and analytics platform, has raised $13 million to expand its intelligence infrastructure beyond Europe and accelerate growth across the U.S. and Asia-Pacific markets.

UCL Spinout AcouBatt Raises £1.1 Million Pre-Seed Round For AI-Powered Battery Diagnostics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

AcouBatt, a University College London spinout developing AI-powered acoustic sensing technology for battery manufacturing and monitoring, has raised £1.1 million in pre-seed funding to help manufacturers produce lithium-ion batteries faster, with less waste and greater visibility into potential safety defects.

May Mobility To Go Public In $1.4 Billion SPAC Deal With ACP Holdings, Raising Up To $337 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

May Mobility, an autonomous vehicle technology company focused on commercial ride-hail services, has agreed to go public through a business combination with ACP Holdings Acquisition Corp. that implies a pro forma enterprise value of approximately $1.4 billion.

Embodied AI Launches With Funding To Automate European Manufacturing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Embodied AI, a Lausanne-based robotics startup developing intelligent machines for manufacturing and logistics, has launched with a first financing round led by Faber VC as it seeks to build a robotic workforce capable of learning directly on industrial production lines. The company did not disclose the size of the round.

Hackuity Raises $19 Million For AI-Powered Vulnerability Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Hackuity, an AI-powered Vulnerability Operations Center platform, announced that it has raised $19 million in new funding led by Forgepoint Capital International, with participation from existing investors Bright Pixel, Bpifrance, and Seventure Partners. The round brings Hackuity's total funding to $38 million.

Phil And Penny Knight Commit $1.1 Billion To Providence For Oregon’s First Women’s Hospital And Heart Care Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Phil and Penny Knight have committed $1.1 billion to Providence St. Vincent Medical Center and Providence Heart Institute, one of the largest gifts to a healthcare institution in U.S. history. The funding will help create Oregon's first hospital dedicated to women's health while supporting a major expansion of cardiovascular care, research and technology.

OpenAI Reportedly Explores New Funding At $1.2 Trillion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with major investors about a new funding round that could value the artificial intelligence company at approximately $1.2 trillion, according to Reuters.

LNL Capital Appoints Former Ares Managing Director Joel Tomlinson Managing Partner As Net Lease Pipeline Tops $2 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

LNL Capital, a vertically integrated net lease capital platform, has appointed former Ares Management Managing Director Joel Tomlinson as Managing Partner to expand its structured debt and equity strategy across single-tenant retail, industrial and healthcare net lease investments.

VerifAIX Raises $5 Million Seed Round To Build Trust Layer For Semiconductor Design

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

VerifAIX, an AI-native semiconductor verification company, has raised $5 million in seed funding to develop a verification platform designed to independently determine whether increasingly AI-generated chip designs are correct. The round was co-led by Endiya Partners and Bluehill VC and represents the company's first major institutional financing.

G5 Labs Raises $14 Million Seed Round To Turn Natural Language Into Source Code

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

G5 Labs, a spinout from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, has emerged from stealth with $14 million in seed funding to develop a new abstraction layer for AI-native software development that treats natural language as source code.

Planted Raises $31.8 Million To Scale Robotic Fleet And Launch Sage

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Planted, a company developing robotic systems and software to accelerate solar power deployment, has raised $31.8 million in new funding to expand its autonomous construction fleet and launch Sage, its next-generation field robot. The round was co-led by Piva Capital and RA Capital Management Planetary Health, with participation from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Gigascale Capital, Google and Khosla Ventures.

InspereX Crosses $5 Billion In Impact Investment Underwriting And Distribution

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

InspereX, a technology-driven distributor of fixed income, structured products, ETFs and alternative investments, has surpassed $5 billion in impact investments underwritten and distributed through its platform.

Redwood Trust Prices Upsized $185 Million Convertible Notes Offering To Refinance 2027 Debt And Repurchase Shares

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Redwood Trust has priced an upsized $185 million offering of 7% convertible senior notes due 2030, raising additional capital to refinance existing convertible debt, repurchase shares and support its housing finance businesses.

Tenable Prices Upsized $725 Million Convertible Notes Offering And Plans $170.5 Million Share Repurchase And Term Loan Payoff

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Tenable Holdings has priced an upsized $725 million offering of 0.25% convertible senior notes due 2031, with proceeds earmarked for a major share repurchase, repayment of term loans and additional strategic flexibility.

CPP Investments And Brookfield Launch C$50 Billion Maple Fund For Large-Scale Canadian Infrastructure And Strategic Industries

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

CPP Investments and Brookfield Asset Management have launched the Maple Fund, a new cooperation framework that could deploy up to C$50 billion of equity into large-scale infrastructure projects and strategic industries across Canada.

Vivo Capital Appoints Neetesh Kumar Managing Partner To Co-Lead U.S. Healthcare Private Equity And Establish New York Presence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Vivo Capital has appointed Neetesh Kumar as Managing Partner as the approximately $7 billion healthcare investment firm expands its U.S. buyout and private equity strategy and establishes a presence in New York.

RobotPlusPlus Raises Series C Worth Hundreds Of Millions Of RMB To Scale Working-At-Height Industrial Robots

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

RobotPlusPlus has raised a Series C round worth hundreds of millions of RMB, equivalent to tens of millions of U.S. dollars, as the industrial robotics company expands internationally and develops embodied AI systems for hazardous industrial work. Qianggang Capital Fund led the financing, with participation from GIG Capital Group, Sealand Innovation and Juntong Capital. Existing investor Fosun RZ Capital increased its stake.

Forty.5 Ventures Closes $30 Million First Fund For Pre-Seed And Seed Investments Across Southeastern Europe

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Forty.5 Ventures has closed its inaugural $30 million venture fund to invest in pre-seed and seed-stage companies, primarily backing founders building from Southeastern Europe for global markets. The firm will selectively invest in startups in the United States and Asia Pacific as well.

Zero Raises $10.3 Million Seed Round Led By Primary Venture Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Zero has raised $10.3 million in seed funding led by Primary Venture Partners, giving the startup fresh capital as it moves into its next stage of product development and commercial expansion. The financing also included participation from Inception Fund, Defiant and Greens Ventures, along with a group of technology founders and operators connected with companies including Lovable, Supercell, Langdock and AMD Silo AI, according to an announcement shared by Zero Chief of Staff Markus Vapaavuori.