Venture Capital

Mobly: $4.3 Million (Seed) Raised For Transforming Event Marketing Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 23, 2025

Mobly – a leader in event marketing technology - announced the closing of its $4.3 million seed round. This oversubscribed round was co-led by Jump Capital and Eniac Ventures with participation from Peterson Ventures, which also led Mobly's pre-seed round. And additional support came from existing investors Tenzing.VC, Peak Ventures, and notable angel investors, including Jeron Paul and Francis Santora.

EarnOS: $5 Million Raised For Transforming Brand User Interactions Online

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 23, 2025

EarnOS - a company that delivers global engagements where everyone wins – announced it raised $5 million in funding.

Guidesly: $9.5 Million (Series A) Raised For Outdoor Recreation Guide Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 23, 2025

Guidesly, a leading software platform for outdoor recreation guides, announced the closing of its $9.5 million Series A funding round. This funding round was led by Aspen Capital Group, with participation from YETI Capital, HalfCourt Ventures, and Derive Ventures, and with existing investors, including Elysian Park Ventures and Marquee Ventures, marking a pivotal step in Guidesly's journey.

Botika: $8 Million (Seed) Secured For AI-Generated Fashion Model Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 23, 2025

Botika, an innovator in AI-generated fashion models designed to empower online clothing companies of all sizes, announced the launch of its new mobile iOS app. Botika has also closed an $8 million seed funding round, co-led by Stardom and Secret Chord Ventures, with participation from Seedcamp.

Alium: Over $7 Million (Seed) Raised For Fixing Enterprise Software Buying

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 23, 2025

Alium announced it officially emerged from stealth mode to fix enterprise software buying, starting with marketing and e-commerce. The company has raised over $7 million from Greycroft and Primary and has a significant revenue pipeline from its vendor clients.

Healthfuse: Strategic Investment Raised From InTandem Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2025

InTandem Capital Partners, a healthcare services-focused private equity firm, announced that it has completed a strategic equity investment in Healthfuse, the industry leader in revenue cycle vendor management.

SwiftComply Secures Strategic Investment From M33 Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2025

SwiftComply - a leading provider of water and wastewater compliance software supporting over 300 cities in 45 states across North America - announced that it has secured a strategic investment from M33 Growth. This funding aims to accelerate SwiftComply’s growth by fueling innovation, expanding its product capabilities, and delivering exceptional value to water utilities.

Nevermined: AI Payment Infrastructure Company Raises Over $4 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2025

Nevermined, a leading provider of AI payment infrastructure for AI-to-AI transactions, announced it has raised over $4 million in funding to accelerate the adoption of AI-Commerce by enabling AI agents to pay and get paid. This funding round was led by Generative Ventures, with participation from Polymorphic Capital, NEAR, Halo Capital, Factor Capital, Lyrik Ventures, and Arca. This funding round includes funding from notable AI luminaries like David Minarsch and Oak from Valory, the builders of Olas, Richard Blythman and Mark Schmidt from Naptha, and Ben Fielding from Gensyn.

Good Springs Capital: $570 Million Closed For Inaugural Investment Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2025

Good Springs Capital LP, a private investment firm that is focused on partnering with founders, families, and entrepreneurial management teams in the industrial and services sectors, today announced the closing of its inaugural fund, Good Springs Capital Fund I. Fund I closed with a total committed capital of $570 million, bringing Good Springs' assets under management to approximately $611 million. And Fund I is anchored by the Chickasaw Nation and includes a diverse group of investors.

Eve: $47 Million (Series A) Closed To Build Legal AI For Plaintiff Law Firms

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2025

Eve, an AI platform for plaintiff law firms, announced it raised $47 million in Series A funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Menlo Ventures.

H2: $16 Million (Bridge) Raised For Expanding Flow Battery Manufacturing Capacity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2025

H2 - an industry-leading vanadium flow battery (VFB) developer and manufacturer based in South Korea – announced it raised $16 million in recent bridge funding, finalized in the second half of 2024. This brings the company's total financing accumulated to $77 million. The funding round was led by STIC Investments, one of Korea's most significant and leading private equity firms, with participation from KRUN Ventures and Lighthouse Combined Investment.

Core Sound Imaging: $80 Million Growth Investment Raised From PSG

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2025

Core Sound Imaging, a medical imaging platform Studycast provider, announced an $80 million growth investment from PSG. The funding will support Studycast’s plans to help accelerate its growth in core verticals, enter new clinical areas, and further enable AI usage on its platform. PSG Senior Advisor Brian Kelly joins Core Sound Imaging as Executive Chairman as part of the investment.

Omega Systems Raises Funding From Revelstoke Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2025

Revelstoke Capital Partners - a growth-oriented, healthcare-focused private equity firm - announced its strategic investment in Omega Systems. Omega, a provider of managed information technology and cybersecurity managed services, is the eighth investment from Revelstoke Capital Partners Fund III.

Teal: $7.5 Million (Series A) Closed For Expanding AI-Based Careers Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2025

Teal, an AI-based career platform, announced it raised $7.5 million in Series A funding, bringing the company's total capital to $19 million. The new financing, co-led by CityLight Capital and Flybridge, with participation from Rethink Capital Partners and Lerer Hippeau, will support product development to expand the Teal platform and its portfolio of advanced AI capabilities to help navigate the challenging job landscape.

Baton: SMB Acquisitions Company Closes $10 Million (Series A)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2025

Baton, a leading marketplace for small and medium-sized business acquisitions, announced a Series A funding round of $10 million, led by Obvious Ventures with participation from Burst Capital, FJ Labs, Fluent Ventures, and Spencer Rascoff (co-founder and former CEO of Zillow) via 75 & Sunny. And previous investors Divergent Capital, Bloomberg Beta, and Zeno Ventures also joined this round.

Vertice: Spend Optimization Company Raises $50 Million (Series C)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2025

Spend optimization platform Vertice announced $50 million in Series C funding led by Lakestar. This funding has raised the total to over $100 million. And additional participants include Perpetual Growth and CF Private Equity, along with existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners and 83North.

Keystone Education: €100 Million Bond Raised For Driving Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2025

Keystone Education Group, a leader in student recruitment, announced it has completed a first four-year senior secured bond issue of €100 million, further fueling ongoing expansion and growth.

Belfry: $12 Million (Series A) Raised For Accelerating Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2025

Belfry Software, a platform for physical security providers, announced it raised $12 million in a Series A funding round, bringing Belfry's total funding to $20 million. And the funding was led by Base10 Partners with continued support from existing investors Bienville Capital and Aglaé Ventures.

Lindus Health: $55 Million (Series B) Closed For Changing Clinical Trial Landscape

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2025

Lindus Health, which is the anti-CRO running faster and more reliable clinical trials, announced it raised $55 million in Series B funding. The funding round was led by new investor Balderton Capital, with support from Visionaries Club and existing investors Creandum, Firstminute, and Seedcamp.

Databricks: $15 Billion (Series J) Raised At $62 Billion Valuation For Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2025

Data and AI company Databricks announced the final closing of its Series J funding. Existing investor QIA, the sovereign wealth fund of the State of Qatar, along with new investors, including Temasek and entities administered by Macquarie Capital, participated in the funding round - which values the company at $62 billion. Plus, Meta has joined as a new strategic investor.

Upward Health: $12.5 Million Raised From Trinity Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2025

Trinity Capital, a leading alternative asset manager, announced the commitment of $12.5 million in growth capital to Upward Health, an in-home, multidisciplinary medical group providing 24/7 whole-person care.

Origen: Limestone-Based Carbon Removal Company Secures $13 Million (Series A)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2025

Origen Power Limited, a growing limestone-based carbon removal provider, announced that it had secured $13 million in Series A funding led by Barclays Climate Ventures. And Shell Ventures, Exascale Fund, Elemental Impact, and Hatch also participated in the round.

GT Medical Technologies: $37 Million (Series D) Raised For Improving Lives Of Patients With Brain Tumors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2025

GT Medical Technologies - a medical device company that aims to improve patients' lives with brain tumors - announced that the company has completed the $37 million first close of a Series D funding round.

Prophecy: Data Copilot Company Secures $47 Million (Series B Extension)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2025

Data copilot company Prophecy announced a $47 million Series B extension to accelerate the AI-powered transformation of the data integration market. Smith Point Capital led the round, with HSBC joining as a new investor and participation from existing investors including Berkeley SkyDeck, DallasVC, Insight Partners, JPMorgan Chase and SignalFire. This new funding comes from 3.5 times revenue growth in FY'24 with 160% net revenue retention from existing customers.

Moment Energy: $15 Million (Series A) Secured To Build Second-Life Gigafactory In The U.S.

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2025

Moment Energy, which is one of North America's leading EV battery repurposing companies, announced the closing of a $15 million Series A funding round. The Amazon Climate Pledge Fund and Voyager Ventures co-led the funding round. Along with Amazon Climate Pledge Fund and Voyager Ventures, this funding round received participation from In-Q-Tel (IQT), Version One Ventures, Overture Ventures, WovenEarth Ventures, Fika Ventures, MCJ, One Small Planet, and Climate Capital.

Insight Partners: $12.5 Billion Closed For Investing In Software Leaders

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 22, 2025

Global software venture firm Insight Partners announced the closing of its thirteenth flagship fund with a dedicated buyout co-invest fund (Fund XIII) and the closing of its structured equity fund, Opportunities Fund II. These funds represent $12.5 billion in capital for deploying in leading software companies across the globe to support growth at any stage. Insight's investment strategies saw strong support from both long-standing and notable new investors, with Insight's employees representing the most significant aggregate commitment to the funds. And the closing of these new funds brings Insight Partners' regulatory assets under management to over $90 billion. It marks a notable milestone in the firm's 30-year history of scaling transformative software companies worldwide.

Dfns: $16 Million (Series A) Raised For Expanding Crypto Wallet Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 21, 2025

Dfns - a leading wallet-as-a-service platform for crypto assets - announced it closed a $16 million Series A, led by Further Ventures (the venture arm of Abu Dhabi’s largest sovereign wealth fund ADQ). This funding round also included participation from investors such as White Star Capital, Hashed, Semantic, Techstars, and Bpifrance, alongside new backers including Motive Partners, Wintermute, and Motier Ventures.

Mountaingate Capital: Fund III Closed At $570 Million Hard Cap

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 21, 2025

Mountaingate Capital announced that it has closed its latest founder-focused lower-middle-market private equity fund Mountaingate Capital Fund III at its hard cap with $570 million in capital commitments. This brings Mountaingate’s total assets under management (AUM) to over $1.4 billion.

Thoras.ai: Reliability Platform Company Raises $5 Million (Seed)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 21, 2025

Thoras.ai announced the closing of a $5 million seed funding round led by Wellington Ventures, with participation from Sinewave Ventures, Focal Ventures, Storytime Capital, and other strategic investors. And this new funding will enable Thoras to scale its AI-driven platform.

Harbinger: Medium-Duty EV Company Secures $100 Million (Series B)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 21, 2025

Harbinger - a leading medium-duty electric vehicle (EV) company - announced it has raised $100 million in Series B funds. The funding round was co-led by Capricorn's Technology Impact Fund (a part of the VC firm with $10 billion under management and investments in leading electrification companies) and Leitmotif (a new U.S. venture capital firm anchored by European industrial interests). The Series B round also includes a significant additional investment from leading investment firm Tiger Global and continued support from other return investors, including The Coca-Cola System Sustainability Fund, managed by Greycroft; ArcTern Ventures, a prominent climate tech investment firm; THOR Industries and its investment partner TechNexus; as well as continuing investments by Ridgeline, Maniv Mobility, Ironspring Ventures, Schematic Ventures, and Overture Climate.