Venture Capital

ServerLIFT Raises Funding From American Pacific Group Affiliate

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

American Pacific Group (APG), a San Francisco Bay Area-based private equity firm, announced that an APG affiliate has invested ServerLIFT, a manufacturer of purpose-built material handling and lifting equipment for critical IT infrastructure. And the funding is in partnership with Ray and David Zuckerman, who represent two generations of family ownership and leadership of the company.

MoneyHash: Payment Orchestration Platform Company Raises $5.2 Million (Series Pre-A)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

MoneyHash, one of the first and leading payment orchestration platforms operating in the Middle East and Africa (MEA), announced it secured $5.2 million in pre-A funding. The funding round was led by Flourish Ventures, a global fintech investor known for backing industry leaders such as Chime and FlutterWave. New investors include Saudi's Vision Ventures, Arab Bank Venture Capital, and Emurgo Kepple Ventures.

Bogart Wealth: Minority Investment From Constellation Wealth Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

Bogart Wealth, an independent wealth management and Registered Investment Advisory firm, announced that it has closed on a minority, long-duration investment from Constellation Wealth Capital (CWC). This long-term strategic investor provides capital solutions exclusively to wealth management businesses and multi-family offices. This minority investment in Bogart Wealth will be used to further enhance the firm’s client services, technology solutions, recruitment initiatives, marketing activities, and more. And Bogart Wealth remains a proudly independent registered investment adviser (RIA), with employees being the overwhelming majority owners of the business.

VCFA Group: Venture Partners VII Fund Closed With $122.5 Million In Commitments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

VCFA Group, a pioneer in the secondary private equity industry, announced the closing of its latest fund VCFA Venture Partners VII, L.P. (VCFA VP VII), with capital commitments totaling $122.5 million. This fund continues VCFA's leadership in the secondary market, focusing on smaller and more complex purchases of later-stage venture capital and growth equity assets.

Reshop: $17 Million Raised And Anthony Eisen Named As CEO

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

Reshop, a platform redefining refunds for consumers and merchants, announced the appointment of Anthony Eisen as Chief Executive Officer. Eisen has been a part of Reshop since its founding, serving as Chairman of the Board and a founding investor at Reshop. Reshop also announced a $17 million fundraise, with leading investments from Matrix Partners, Sound Ventures (venture-capital firm co-founded by Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary), Woodson Capital, and Touch Ventures.

Origis Energy: Over $1 Billion Strategic Investment Raised From Brookfield And Antin

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

Origis Energy, which is one of America's leading renewable energy platforms, announced a new strategic investment from Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. alongside new commitments from existing sponsor, Antin Infrastructure Partners, which could exceed $1 billion in the aggregate.

Reeco: $15 Million (Series A) Secured For Modernizing Hotel Procurement

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

Reeco, a leading AI-based procure-to-pay platform for the hospitality industry, announced today it has secured $15 million in Series A funding. This funding will advance the company's strategic growth initiatives, including the accelerated advancement of the Reeco platform.

ButterflyMX Raises Significant Growth Equity From FTV Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

ButterflyMX, a cloud-based property access platform for multifamily and commercial properties, announced a significant growth equity investment from FTV Capital. And with nearly 17,000 buildings and 1.5 million people using ButterflyMX daily, this funding will enable expansion into new markets, accelerate new product offerings, and solidify its position as the leading provider of property access control and security solutions.

Rockfish Data: Funding Raised To Help Enterprises Leverage Synthetic Data For Operational Workflows

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

Rockfish Data - a pioneer in synthetic data generation platform for operational workflows - announced the closing of a $4 million seed fundraising round. This funding round was led by Emergent Ventures with participation from Foster Ventures, TEN13, Dallas VC, NewBuild Venture Capital, and others. This brings the total amount raised close to $6 million.

Rainbow: $8 Million (Series A) Secured For Expanding Small Business Insurance Offerings

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

Rainbow, a digitally-enabled managing general underwriter (MGU) building tailored small business insurance products, announced it raised $8 million in Series A funding, led by Zigg Capital.

Granata Bio: $15 Million (Series A+) Raised To Expand Reproductive Health Pipeline

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

Granata Bio - a biopharma company focused on invigorating the global infertility medication market - announced its $15 million Series A+ funding round. The funding round was exclusively supported by existing investors, including Gedeon Richter, CooperSurgical, Amboy Street Ventures, and other strategic investors. And Granata has raised over $30 million to date.

Colbeck Capital: $700 Million Closed For Vintage Strategic Lending Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

Colbeck Capital Management - a leading middle-market private credit firm focused on strategic lending - announced that it has raised $700 million in capital commitments for the third flagship fund, Colbeck Strategic Lending III, exceeding its target by 40%.

Owlstone Medical: $27 Million First Close Of Series E Closed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

Owlstone Medical, a leader in Breath Biopsy for early disease detection and precision medicine applications, announced the first closing of $27 million (circa £22 million) in its Series E financing round. The fundraiser was led by Ventura Capital, joined by Aviva Ventures, Horizons Ventures, and other existing investors. The close also saw the completion of the investment from the Gates Foundation.

Maki: Conversational AI Agent Company Raises $28.6 Million (Series A)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

Maki – a conversational AI agent transforming talent acquisition – announced the closing of its $28.6 million Series A funding round. The funding round was led by Blossom Capital, with participation from DST Global and existing investors Frst, GFC, and Picus Capital.

Hinge Bio: $30 Million (Series A) To Develop Therapies For Autoimmune Disease

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

Hinge Bio, a privately-held biotechnology company, announced the closing of a Series A’ financing led by Point72. Joining Point72 are Ridgeback Capital, InVivium Capital, and Lightswitch Capital, and others.

Stoke Space: Rocket Company Raises $260 Million (Series C)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

Stoke Space, a rocket company building the world’s first 100% reusable medium-lift rocket, announced that it has raised $260 million in new Series C investment to drive continued growth and innovation. This round brought the company's total funding to $480 million.

Be Bio: Clinical Stage Company Closes $92 Million (Series C)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

Be Biopharma, Inc. (Be Bio), a leader in B Cell Medicines (BCMs), announced the closing of its $92 million Series C financing. The funding round includes participation from new investor Nextech with existing investors, including ARCH Venture Partners, Atlas Venture, RA Capital Management, Alta Partners, Longwood Fund, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Takeda Ventures. In connection with the funding, Melissa McCracken, Ph.D. of Nextech will join Be Bio’s Board of Directors.

qbiq: Automated Architectural Solutions Company Raises $16 Million (Series A)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

qbiq, one of the largest and first AI companies focused on automating architectural planning, announced the closing of a $16 million Series A round led by global software investor Insight Partners. The funding round included participation from JLL Spark, 10D, Ocean Azul, Random Forest and M-Fund.

Hildred Capital: Equity Partners III Fund Closed At Over $800 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

Hildred Capital Management - a lower middle-market healthcare private equity firm - announced the final closing of its third fund, Hildred Equity Partners III. This fund was significantly oversubscribed, exceeding its $600 million target and hitting its hard cap in seven months. With total capital commitments over $800 million, the fund represents more than double the size of its predecessor fund, Hildred Equity Partners II, which closed in 2021 with $363 million of capital commitments.

Solera Health: $40 Million (Series E) Raised To Streamline Digital Healthcare Delivery

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

Solera Health, a technology platform for connecting people seamlessly and easily to health solutions that work, announced $40 million in new funding. The insider funding round was co-led by Health Care Service Corporation and includes Adams Street, Cobalt Ventures, and Horizon Mutual Holdings.

Allara Health: Virtual Care Platform Company Raises $26 Million (Series B)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

Allara Health – a virtual care platform bridging the care divide for women battling chronic hormonal conditions - announced a $26 million Series B funding round, bringing the company's total funding to $38.5 million. Index Ventures led the funding round, and partner Martin Mignot will join Allara's board. And existing investor GV (Google Ventures) also participated in the round. This Series B funding will enable Allara to bring specialized care to women nationwide struggling with hormonal conditions.

Komainu: Digital Assets Service Provider Raises $75 Million (Series B)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

Komainu, a regulated digital asset services provider and custodian backed by Laser Digital (a Nomura company), announced it has raised $75 million in strategic funding from Blockstream Capital Partners, subject to relevant regulatory approvals. This funding round enables Komainu to accelerate its international strategic growth plans whilst adopting and integrating class-leading technologies developed by Blockstream Corporation to maximize efficiencies and enhance client services in collateral management and tokenization.

Xuron Raises Funding From 3LS Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

3LS Ventures, an early-stage investor specializing in behavioral health solutions, announced a strategic investment in Xuron. This innovative healthcare technology company offers virtual and intelligent provider training to simulate the patient experience. And this partnership demonstrates 3LS Ventures' unwavering commitment to accelerating advancements in healthcare through technology and innovation.

Ardian: $30 Billion Raised For Ninth-Generation Secondaries Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

Ardian, a leading private investment house, announced that it has raised $30 billion for its ninth-generation secondaries platform, making it the largest secondaries fundraise globally to date and solidifying Ardian’s leadership of the secondaries market. And this represents a significant increase over the $19 billion raised for Ardian’s eighth-generation platform in 2020 and brings Ardian’s Secondaries & Primaries Assets Under Management to $97 billion.

1Money: Over $20 Million Raised To Develop Stablecoin Payments Network

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

1Money, a company developing the world's first purpose-built Layer 1 exclusively designed for stablecoins payments, emerged from stealth and announced over $20 million in funding. This seed funding round includes participation from financial institutions, venture capital firms and strategic investors including F-Prime Capital, Galaxy Ventures, Hack VC, Tribe Capital, Portage, Ethereal Ventures, CMT Digital, Kraken Ventures, KuCoin Ventures, BitGo Ventures, Bing Ventures, MoonPay Ventures, CoinFlip, Bankless Ventures, Perry Creek Capital, A100x Ventures, VARIV, Anagram, Generative Ventures, Lvna Capital, Ambush Capital, Borderless Capital, Pharsalus Capital, Protagonist, gumi Cryptos Capital, Hexa Capital, Karman Ventures, and R3D3 Ventures.

Hyperline: Monetization Platform Company Raises $10 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 25, 2025

Next-generation monetization platform HYPERLINE announced it has raised $10 million in a seed extension round led by Index Ventures to help small and medium-sized businesses transform revenue management.‍

Indigo: AI-Based Home Negotiation Company Raises $8 Million (Seed)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 24, 2025

Indigo, an AI-based platform for home negotiations, announced it secured $8 million to offer insight, collaboration, and transparency to real estate teams, buyers, and sellers nationally. The seed funding round was led by Pete Flint at NFX, Clelia Warburg Peters at Era Ventures, and Paul Irving at GTM Fund. They were joined by 1Sharpe Ventures and Jake Seid. In the three months following the launch, Indigo experienced tremendous growth, exceeding 20% market share of home offers in its initial markets.

Amogy: $56 Million Raised For Supporting Commercialization Of Ammonia-To-Power Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 24, 2025

Amogy, a provider of scalable and efficient ammonia-to-power solutions, announced that it raised $56 million in venture financing, bringing the total raised since inception to over $270 million. The funding round was co-led by existing investor Aramco Ventures and new investor SV Investment. And additional new investors participating in the round include Samsung Heavy Industries, BHP Ventures, Hanwha Investment & Securities, AFW Partners, Quantum Ventures Korea, Kibo Invest, and Seoul IP, along with existing investors Temasek, MOL Switch, Yanmar Ventures, AP Ventures, and Marunouchi Innovation Partners.

Method: $41.5 Million (Series B) Secured For Expanding Financial Account Connectivity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 23, 2025

Method Financial, a provider of consumer permissioned financial connectivity, announced it raised $41.5 million in its latest Series B funding round led by Emergence Capital with participation from avra and Samsung Next, and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Y-Combinator and Ardent Venture Partners. This most recent funding round brings the total to $60 million.

Clutch: $65 Million (Series B) Closed For Transforming Credit Unions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 23, 2025

Clutch announced the completion of a Series B funding round at $65 million to transform how credit unions deliver products and services to their members and communities. Alkeon Capital Management led the Series B funding round with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, TruStage Ventures, and Peterson Partners.