Venture Capital

Closinglock: $34 Million (Series B) Raised For Protecting Real Estate Deals

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Closinglock, a fraud prevention technology provider for the real estate industry, announced it has closed a $34 million Series B funding round. This funding was led by Sageview Capital and supported by Headline and RWT Horizons.

Blackstone Energy Transition Partners To Buy Potomac Energy Center

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Blackstone recently announced that Blackstone Energy Transition Partners have agreed to acquire Potomac Energy Center, a 774-megawatt natural gas power plant in Loudoun County, Virginia.

Wingify: Majority Stake Raised From Everstone Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Singapore-based private equity firm Everstone Capital announced it acquired a majority stake in Wingify, a leading global provider of marketing technology SaaS product VWO. And this partnership includes a significant investment to accelerate VWO’s product innovation and international growth. This deal highlights Everstone’s focus on supporting two key technology sectors: SaaS and marketing technology across India and Southeast Asia.

Semperis: Cyber Resilience Company Surpasses $100 Million In ARR

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2025

According to venture capital firm Greylock Partners, cyber resilience company Semperis announced it surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), a milestone that fewer than one in every 1,000 venture-backed enterprise software companies achieve. Driving Semperis' rapid customer growth and ascension to centaur status is the company's comprehensive solution for enterprises combatting the ever-growing threat of identity-based attacks in Active Directory and Entra ID environments.

Nextworld: Enterprise Platform Company Raises $65 Million (Series F)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2025

Nextworld, a provider of enterprise platforms, announced the closing of a $65 million Series F funding round. The McVaney Investment Partnership led the round, which positions the company for significant growth this year as it continues to redefine how businesses build, extend, and optimize their technology stacks.

Semgrep: Application Security Company Raises $100 Million (Series D)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2025

Semgrep, a leading Application Security platform, announced $100 million in Series D funding led by Menlo Ventures. This round also included participation from existing investors including Felicis Ventures, Harpoon Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital. This funding round brings the company's total funding to $204 million.

ElevenLabs: AI Audio Company Raises $180 Million (Series C) At $3.3 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2025

ElevenLabs announced it has raised $180 million in Series C funding to make speech the new standard for digital interaction. This funding round was co-led by a16z and ICONIQ Growth, with additional new investors NEA, World Innovation Lab (WiL), Valor, Endeavor Catalyst Fund, and Lunate. And existing investors Sequoia Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Smash Capital, SV Angel, NFDG, BroadLight Capital are also increasing their support. The company is also further partnering with strategic investors, including Deutsche Telekom, LG Technology Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, NTT DOCOMO Ventures, and RingCentral Ventures. This latest funding values ElevenLabs at $3.3 billion, tripling its valuation from one year before and bringing the total funding to $281 million across four rounds since its founding in 2022.

Verde Clean Fuels: $50 Million Raised From Cottonmouth Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2025

Verde Clean Fuels closed the $50 million equity investment by Cottonmouth Ventures, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Diamondback Energy. This investment features the purchase of 12.5 million shares of Verde’s Class A common stock by Cottonmouth at a purchase price of $4.00 per share. The investment represents the second investment by Cottonmouth in Verde over the past two years, for a total investment of $70 million, making Cottonmouth the second largest shareholder of Verde.

Your.World: €800 Million Strategic Investment Raised From Ares And Carlyle

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2025

European online solutions provider Your.World announced that it has received €800 million in long-term partnership capital in the form of preferred equity from Ares Management Credit funds and Carlyle. Launched in 2016 by Strikwerda Investments, Your.World emerged as a leading European web hosting provider, online productivity, and managed IT services. And its growth has been driven by its serial acquirer model based on high quality, sustainable value creation and scalable M&A across verticals and geographies.

Petra Capital Partners: $270 Million Growth Fund V Closed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2025

Petra Capital Partners announced it completed fundraising on Petra Growth Fund V (PGF V) with $270 million of capital available to invest. The fund was oversubscribed and reached its hard cap.

Motif: $46 Million Raised For Transforming AEC Software Industry

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2025

Motif, a company founded by design software experts Amar Hanspal and Brian Mathews, announced it secured $46 million in seed and Series A funding to develop a next-generation platform for buildings. The Series A funding round was led by Alphabet’s independent growth fund, CapitalG, and the previously undisclosed Seed round was led by Redpoint Ventures. Pre-seed venture firm Baukunst participated in both rounds.