Venture Capital

Harmony Intelligence: $3 Million (Seed) Raised For AI-Based Cyber Defenses

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

Harmony Intelligence announced it has raised $3 million in seed funding to accelerate the development of its defensive AI technology. And the funding was led by Airtree with participation from more than 30 strategic investors, including First Row Partners, Maxwell Capital, and Eric Ries (author of The Lean Startup).

Sola Security: $30 Million (Seed) Raised For Democratizing Cybersecurity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

Sola Security, a self-serve platform built to democratize cybersecurity, announced its launch from stealth with a $30 million seed round led by S Capital and veteran venture capitalist Mike Moritz. And investors also include S32, Glilot Capital Partners, and several angel investors.

Define Ventures: Carolyn Magill Named As Venture Partner

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

Define Ventures, which is one of the largest venture capital firms focused on early-stage health tech companies, announced that Carolyn Magill, former CEO of Aetion, has joined the firm as venture partner. Magill, utilizing her 25 years of invaluable experience scaling companies and driving innovation within payer, provider, and pharmaceutical organizations, will partner with Define founders to scale their companies and become category-defining companies.

Neuromod: €10 Million Closed For Tinnitus Treatment Device Commercialization

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

Neuromod Devices, an Irish medical device company specializing in tinnitus, announced it has closed a €10 million equity financing round to expand the availability of its tinnitus treatment device, Lenire. The equity funding is an expansion of its Series B fundraising. The funding was oversubscribed and led by existing investors Fountain Healthcare Partners and Panakès Partners, who support Neuromod's mission to advance tinnitus care for patients globally.

LiquidTrust: $4 Million (Seed) Secured For Building Scalable Payment Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

LiquidTrust, a fintech company pioneering secure payment solutions purpose-built for small and medium-sized businesses, announced the completion of a $4 million seed funding round, led by Anthemis Female Innovators Lab Fund, Resolute Ventures, and Motivate Ventures, after participation in WMNfintech by BMO and 1871.

Uthana: $4.3 Million Raised To Transform 3D Character Animation With GenAI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

Uthana, a pioneering generative AI company, announced the closing of a $4.3 million funding round led by IA Ventures. Participating companies included A16Z Speedrun, Acequia Capital, Cursor Capital, HustleFund, MetaVision, and JonesTrauber.

BVI Medical: $1 Billion Strategic Capital Raised

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

BVI Medical, a leading global ophthalmic device company at the forefront of advancements in eye surgery, announced the completion of a $1 billion strategic capital raise in partnership with TPG. This investment, which fully refinances BVI’s existing debt and adds new equity from both TPG and new investors, strengthens the company’s financial position as it looks to accelerate product innovation and expand its global footprint.

DirectH2: Seed Funding Raised For Hydrogen Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

DirectH2 - a pioneering hydrogen technology company - announced it has successfully closed its seed round funding from HL Energy Ventures. This funding marks a significant milestone in the company's journey to revolutionize modular hydrogen production.

August: $10 Million (Series A) Raised For On-Chain Prime Brokerage Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

August, an on-chain prime brokerage and execution platform, announced a $10 million Series A funding round led by Dragonfly Ventures with participation from SCB Limited, 6th Man Ventures (6MV), Foresight Ventures, FinTech Collective, Robot Ventures, Maven11, and others.

Noctal: $1.8 Million (Seed) Raised For Launching AI-Based Platform For Sound Effects Editing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

LA-based Noctal, an innovative audio engine designed to simplify and enhance sound design for content creators, announced a $1.8 million seed round as it preps for its 2025 product launch. Caruso Ventures led the round, joining past investors such as Media Empire Ventures - featuring Mac Boucher, Daouda Leonard and Grimes - X’s Head of Original Content Mitchell Smith, and Major League Baseball player Tony Kemp, to enhance Noctal’s vision.

pgEdge: Strategic Investment Raised From Akamai And QRT

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

pgEdge, an industry leader in distributed PostgreSQL solutions, announced that it has secured strategic investments from Akamai Technologies, the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects businesses online, and leading investment management firm Qube Research & Technologies (QRT). Existing investors Rally Ventures and Sands Capital also participated in the funding.

Scope: Strategic Investment Raised From Black Bay Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

Scope Computer Vision Technologies - a leading provider of AI-based inspections for the industrial landscape - announced a strategic growth investment from Black Bay Partners. This funding will enable Scope to rapidly accelerate its growth across North America, expand its AI product suite into adjacent market applications, and support the company's global expansion alongside its existing customer base.

Synvect: $3 Million (Seed) Raised For Combating Mosquito-Borne Diseases

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

Synvect - a biotechnology startup pioneering next-generation vector control solutions – announced it has raised a $3 million Seed Round from prominent investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Antler, NuFund, and Redbud. This funding round will advance the development and deployment of Synvect’s CRISPR-based technology, offering a scalable, eco-friendly solution to suppress disease-carrying mosquito populations.

Synctera: $15 Million Raised For Banking-As-A-Service Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

Synctera, a leader in banking-as-a-service and embedded finance, announced a $15 million round of funding, bringing the company to a total of $94 million raised to date. The funding round was co-led by Fin Capital and Diagram Ventures, with participation from other existing investors including First & Main, Evolution, and True Equity.

Podqi: $3.2 Million (Seed) Raised For Automated IP Protection Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

Podqi, an automated IP protection platform transforming how brands defend their digital rights, announced it has raised $3.2 million in seed funding. The funding round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Soma Capital, Afore Capital, and strategic angel investors. Podqi is prepared to address the rapidly evolving challenges of IP protection in the digital age.

Vori Health: $53 Million (Series B) Raised For Transforming Value-Based Musculoskeletal Care

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

Vori Health, which is one the nation's pioneering physician-led solutions for musculoskeletal care, announced a $53 million Series B funding round. The funding round was led by NEA and with continued support from AlleyCorp, Intermountain Health's Intermountain Ventures, Echo Health Ventures, and Max Ventures.

Carpool Logistics: $12 Million (Series A) Raised For Scaling Vehicle Shipping Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Carpool Logistics, a leading vehicle logistics platform, announced today that it has raised $12 million in Series A growth capital led by Wavecrest Growth Partners, with participation from CarMax, Impel founders Devin Daly and Michael Quigley, and automotive industry veteran David Metter.

WATTER: $5 Million (Seed) Raised For Transforming Computing Efficiency

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

WATTER, a company reimagining computing efficiency through energy repurposing, announced it has closed a $5 million seed round led by Hunt Innovative Technologies and 17Shoals. This funding commitment marks a key milestone as WATTER spins out from Hunt Innovative Technologies, positioning itself to scale its distributed computing model, which uses waste heat from computing devices to heat water in residential homes and commercial properties.

Quanta: $4.7 Million (Seed) Raised For Next-Generation Accounting Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Quanta, a next-generation accounting company powered by AI, announced the general availability of its platform, featuring a self-serve onboarding process that accomplishes in minutes what typically takes weeks with other solutions. And Quanta also raised $4.7 million in seed funding led by Accel with participation from basecase, Comma Capital, Designer Fund, and Operator Collective, as well as prominent angel investors including Elad Gil.

CIM Group And Novva Data Centers Reveal $2 Billion In New Financing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

CIM Group (a real estate and infrastructure owner, operator, lender and developer) and Novva Data Centers (a data center company providing purpose-built facilities across the Western U.S.) announced that they recently closed a new commitment of $2 billion in financing from J.P. Morgan and Starwood Property Trust to complete the build-out of Novva’s flagship 175MW Salt Lake City data center. Launched in 2019 by CIM Group and Novva’s management team, Novva has moved quickly to bring its vision of purpose-built, sustainable data centers to life amid the soaring demand for capacity driven by increasing adoption of cloud computing and AI.

SpecterOps: $75 Million (Series B) Raised For Adversary-Focused Cybersecurity Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

SpecterOps, a provider of adversary-focused cybersecurity solutions with targeted insights of advanced threat actor tradecraft, announced it has raised a $75 million Series B funding round led by Insight Partners, with participation from additional investors including Ansa Capital, M12, Ballistic Ventures, Decibel and Cisco Investments. This funding will support SpecterOps’ scaling of BloodHound Enterprise (BHE), the industry’s first platform for comprehensively removing Identity-based Attack Paths.

Freed: $30 Million (Series A) Closed For AI-Based Clinician Assistant

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Freed, an AI-based clinician assistant designed to reduce the burdens of medical documentation, announced it has raised $30 million in Series A funding, led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Scale Venture Partners, Daniel Gross, Gokul Rajaram, and Ted Zagat. This brings Freed’s total funding to $34 million as the company solidifies its position as one of the fastest-growing health-tech companies in the U.S.

Lumata Health: $23 Million (Series B) Raised For Expanding Access To Vision-Saving Care

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Lumata Health, a leader in personalized support for patients with vision-threatening chronic eye diseases, announced that it has raised $23 million in Series B funding to accelerate its mission of eliminating preventable vision loss, bringing its total raised since inception to $36 million. This funding round was co-led by LRVHealth, McKesson Ventures, and Cencora Ventures, with participation from existing investors, including Cortado Ventures.

MaxIQ: $7.8 Million (Seed) Closed For Customer Journey Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

MaxIQ, an AI-based Customer Journey Management platform designed to maximize customer lifetime value, announced it has raised $7.8 million in funding. The company’s Seed round was led by Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from Intel Capital. This funding will enable MaxIQ to advance operations, accelerate product innovation, and expand its leadership team as it redefines the future of customer journey management for B2B SaaS enterprises.

Ataraxis AI: $20.4 Million (Series A) Raised For Transforming Precision Medicine In Cancer Care

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Ataraxis AI, a leading AI precision medicine company, announced its $20.4 million Series A financing led by AIX Ventures with participation from Floating Point, Thiel Bio, Founders Fund, Bertelsmann Investments, and existing investors Giant Ventures and Obvious Ventures. The funding round also received backing from angel investors and healthcare pioneers, including Mario Schlosser (co-founder and former CEO of Oscar Health) and Ryan Fukushima (COO of Tempus), and others. And leading researchers from OpenAI and DeepMind also participated.

Dwight Capital And Affiliate REIT Closed $346.5 Million in February

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Dwight Capital and its affiliate REIT, Dwight Mortgage Trust (DMT), closed $346.5 million in real estate financings in February. Some of the significant transactions included a bridge loan for Waverly on the Lake in Michigan, a bridge loan and working capital line of credit for a six-property skilled nursing portfolio in Pennsylvania, and a bridge refinance for Mi Place at Brightmoor in New Jersey.

Liminal: $5.8 Million (Seed) Raised For AI In Gaming Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Liminal Experiences - a new UGC gaming startup dedicated to harnessing AI to enable human-centered creativity - has emerged from stealth with $5.8 million raised to date in seed funding. The funding comes from prestigious games industry backers, including BITKRAFT Ventures, Riot Games, and OTK Media Group, with participation from angel investors, including Marc Merrill, founder of Riot Games.

Good Job Games: $23 Million (Seed) Raised For Mobile Gaming Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Good Job Games, a rapidly growing mobile game company based in Türkiye, announced it has secured $23 million in a seed funding round led by Menlo Ventures and Tripledot co-founder Akin Babayigit’s new games fund Arcadia to build a legacy entertainment company for players of all ages. And Good Job Games raised the large seed financing with a proven track record of popular games, Zen Match, Wonder Blast and Match Villains.

GigaCrop: $4.5 Million (Pre-Seed) Secured For Advancing Photosynthesis For Boosted Crop Productivity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

GigaCrop announced it raised a $4.5 million pre-seed round of funding led by Playground Global.

SaySo: $4 Million Secured For Retail Clearance Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

SaySo is an end-to-end clearance solution and price optimization platform that emerged from stealth in late 2024 and immediately secured $4 million in seed funding, led by mobility VC firm UP.Partners.