Venture Capital

Edera: $15 Million (Series A) Raised For Transforming Infrastructure Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2025

Edera, a strong workload isolation technology pioneer, announced $15 million in Series A funding led by M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund), with Mantis VC and In-Q-Tel (IQT) participation. Existing investors Eniac Ventures, 645 Ventures, FPV Ventures, Precursor Ventures, and Rosecliff Ventures also participated in the round.

Perfect: $23 Million (Seed) Raised For Addressing Recruitment Bottlenecks

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2025

Perfect, a leading agentic AI platform for recruitment, announced it has raised $23 million in total Seed funding, with the latest round led by Hanaco Ventures, with participation from Joule Ventures and Samsung Electronics' former President Young Sohn. This funding will enhance Perfect's AI development and fuel the journey to enhance the industry's leading Agentic AI recruiter.

Open Meta City: $20 Million Raised For Virtual Real Estate Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2025

Open Meta City, a virtual real estate platform that serves as a gateway to Real World Assets (RWA), announced that it has executed a token subscription agreement with GEM Digital. This strategic deal secures a $20 million commitment to drive the integration of advanced AI-powered features into Open Meta City, enhancing the immersive digital experience and transforming the real estate industry.

Lockchain.ai: $5 Million (Series A) Raised For Scaling On-Chain Compliance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2025

Lockchain.ai, a leading AI-based Blockchain Risk Management platform, announced it has closed its Series A funding. The nearly $5 million round will be used to fuel additional development, adding features that improve speed and efficiency for clients managing cryptocurrency positions. And White Star Capital led the round, with additional investment from Lerer Hippeau, Arrington Capital, and Sonic Boom Ventures, and others.

Goose: $13.4 Million (Seed) Raised For Transforming How Pet Care Businesses Operate

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2025

Goose, a company developing the next-generation operating system for pet care providers, announced it has raised $13.4 million in seed funding backed by B Capital, First Round Capital, The 81 Collection, Imaginary Ventures, and BoxGroup.

Variational AI: $5.5 Million Raised For Small Molecule Drug Discovery

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2025

Variational AI (the company behind Enki) - which is an advanced foundation model for small molecule drug discovery - announced the completion of its oversubscribed $5.5 million Seed extension round. Nimbus Synergies led the round, with participation from Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, Quimby Investments, Threshold Impact, and Defined Capital. Existing investors Flying Fish, A&E Investment, and Nepenthe Capital participated in the round.

COVU: Series A Increased To Over $22 Million For Insurance Customer Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2025

COVU, an AI-native leader in insurance customer management and risk advisory, announced that it has increased its Series A to $22 million after successfully hitting key milestones, bringing its total funding to $32 million.

Metronome: $50 Million (Series C) Raised For Advancing Usage-Based Pricing In Software And AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2025

Metronome, a leading usage-based billing platform, announced $50 million in Series C funding following an 8-fold increase in dollars billed on the platform in 2024. Existing investor NEA led the round, which also included a16z, Greyhound Capital, General Catalyst, Workday Ventures, Truebridge Capital Partners, Activant Capital, SineWave Ventures, and Megalith Ventures. The company has now raised $128 million.

Paradox Immunotherapeutics: $10 Million Raised For Development Of Antibody Therapies To Treat Protein Misfolding Diseases

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2025

Paradox Immunotherapeutics, a pharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative antibody therapies that treat protein misfolding diseases, announced a $10 million financing led by SymBiosis, an investment firm focused on advancing biotherapeutics innovations for serious and life-threatening diseases.

Camber Partners: Fund II Closed At $210 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2025

Camber Partners announced the closing of Fund II with total capital commitments of $210 million, surpassing the fund's original target of $150 million and the hard cap of $200 million.

Leonardo DRS: $45 Million U.S. Navy Investment Commitment Received

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2025

Leonardo DRS announced that it has received a $45 million U.S. Navy Submarine Industrial Base (SIB) investment commitment through contracts with HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding. This investment is expected to expand the capabilities of DRS’s new 140,000-square-foot naval propulsion manufacturing facility, which is currently under construction in Goose Creek, SC. It includes capital equipment and other infrastructure enhancements.

Wallbox: EV Charging Company Raises $10 Million Investment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2025

Wallbox, a leader in electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management solutions, announced an investment of approximately $10 million. Investors include Inversiones Financieras Perseo, S.L. (Iberdrola’s subsidiary), Orilla Asset Management, and Enric Asunción (CEO and Co-Founder).

Hyperlume: $12.5 Million (Seed) Secured For Transforming AI Data Center Connectivity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2025

Hyperlume announced it has completed a $12.5 million seed round to commercialize its high bandwidth, low latency, low power interconnects for AI data centers and high-performance computing systems. This oversubscribed round, led by BDC's Deep Tech Venture Fund and ArcTern Ventures with participation from MUUS Climate Partners, SOSV and Intel Capital also includes a strategic investment from LG Technology Ventures.

Guidde: $15 Million (Series A) Raised For Building Autonomous AI Video Platform For Digital Adoption

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2025

Guidde, a pioneer in AI-based video documentation, announced a $15 million expansion of its Series A funding round, bringing total funding to $30 million. The funding round was led by Qualcomm Ventures, with participation from existing investors, including Norwest Venture Partners, Entrée Capital, Honeystone Ventures, Tiferes Ventures, and Inkberry Ventures.

Lambda: $480 Million (Series D) Raised For Expanding AI Cloud Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2025

AI Developer Cloud Lambda announced it has raised $480 million in Series D, bringing the total equity capital raised to date to $863 million. The funding round was co-led by Andra Capital and SGW, with participation from new investors Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, and others. Strategic investment came from Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, and Wiwynn, and many existing investors, including 1517, Crescent Cove, and USIT.

Baseten: $75 Million (Series C) Raised To Advance Inference Platform For AI-Native Products

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2025

Baseten, a leading inference platform for AI-native products, announced the closing of a $75 million Series C round of funding co-led by IVP and Spark with additional participation from Greylock, Conviction, South Park Commons, 01 Advisors, and Lachy Groom.

VitalConnect: Ambulatory Cardiac Monitoring Company Raises $100 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2025

VitalConnect, a biosensor technology leader specializing in ambulatory cardiac monitoring, announced the closing of $100 million in financing through a combination of equity and debt capital. The equity funding was led by new investor Ally Bridge Group, with significant participation from the Company’s existing investors, including EW Healthcare Partners, MVM and Revelation Partners while Trinity Capital provided the debt financing.

EnPlusOne Biosciences: About $10 Million Raised For Delivering Better RNA At Scale

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2025

EnPlusOne Biosciences, a biotechnology company utilizing the power of enzymes to deliver better RNA at scale, announced that it had raised additional funding to scale and drive continued technical advancements of its ezRNA synthesis platform.

Aspen Power: Multiple Financings Raised To Advance Distributed Generation Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2025

Aspen Power, a leading distributed generation platform dedicated to building the clean energy future, announced multiple new financings to support its expansion across the U.S. And the company announced the closing of an additional investment from Carlyle, building on the firm’s initial commitment in 2022, while also securing a new $142 million construction-to-term credit facility with MUFG to fund its 2025 project pipeline.

Ochy: AI-Based Running Gait Platform Raises $1.7 Million (Pre-Seed)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2025

Ochy, a transformative AI-based running gait platform that is redefining how athletes enhance performance and prevent injuries, announced a $1.7 million pre-seed fundraising round. The funding round was led by Redstone’s Social Impact Fund, with participation from Look AI Ventures, BPI France, Berkeley SkyDeck, and strategic corporate investors, including Agile Physical Therapy.

Musubi: $5 Million (Seed) Raised To Transform Trust & Safety AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2025

Musubi, an AI platform transforming Trust & Safety through adaptive AI content moderation, announced it has raised $5 million in an oversubscribed seed round. This funding was led by J2 Ventures with participation from Shakti Ventures, Mozilla Ventures, and existing pre-seed investor J Ventures. Launched by the former CTO of Grindr and OkCupid, Musubi is set to revolutionize the Trust & Safety landscape with its unique approach.

Sawmills: $10 Million (Seed) Raised For Telemetry Data Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 25, 2025

Sawmills, the first smart telemetry data management platform, emerged from stealth with $10 million in seed funding. This highly oversubscribed round was led by Team8, with participation from Mayfield and Alumni Ventures. Launched by enterprise software veterans who were previously executives at New Relic, CloudBees, and Tricentis.

Corpay: Credit Facility Upsized By $750 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 25, 2025

Corpay - a global S&P 500 corporate payments company - announced that it closed on an amendment to its Term Loan B credit facility that resulted in an increase of $750 million. The deal is leverage neutral, and the interest rate and maturity remain consistent with the existing credit facility.

Ignis H2 Energy: $12.5 Million (Series A) Raised For Geothermal Exploration

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 25, 2025

Ignis H2 Energy, a geothermal exploration and development startup, announced the first closing of its Series A funding round, securing $12.5 million from a consortium of investors, including leading funds and private individuals. This funding round was led by alfa8 and includes a commitment from drilling contractor Nabors Industries, alongside investments from existing shareholders, private individuals, and family offices.

AiDEN Auto: $4.2 Million (Seed) Raised For Privacy-First Connected Vehicle Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 25, 2025

AiDEN Auto, a leader in privacy-first connected vehicle technology, announced the closing of a $4.2 million oversubscribed Seed funding round, bringing its total funding to $6.1 million. AiDEN’s seed round was led by Nuri Venture Partners, and additional investors included Tengro Ventures, Band of Angels, Mentors Fund, Start Equity Ventures, Conxcity and Weltham Capital, and a distinguished group of veteran angel investors and family offices. AiDEN’s angel round also saw participation from IF Insurance and several Silicon Valley angel investors.

73 Strings: $55 Million (Series B) Raised For Financial Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 25, 2025

73 Strings, the financial intelligence platform utilizing AI to transform data extraction, monitoring, and valuation for the $17.6 Trillion AUM Alternative Asset Management space, announced it has successfully closed a $55 million Series B round.

Cambium: $18.5 Million (Series A) Secured For Transforming The Wood Industry

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 25, 2025

Cambium, a supply chain technology company transforming the wood industry with sustainable materials and smarter supply and logistics, announced an $18.5 million Series A funding round, led by VoLo Earth Ventures, with participation from NEA, Dangerous Ventures, Tunitas Ventures, Woven Earth, Understorey, Groundswell and Ulu Ventures. And existing investors, including MaC Venture Capital, Rise of the Rest, 81 Collection, Alumni Ventures, and Soma Capital, also participated in this round.

Vellox Group: $20 Million Investment Secured From Arcadea

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 25, 2025

Vellox Group announced it has launched one of the most capable and fully unified software platforms integrating the capabilities of four historically independent, market-leading businesses: Spidertracks, Air Maestro, Flight Vector, and Complete Flight. This merger establishes Vellox Group as the premier choice for operators in diverse sectors like medical, industrial, public safety, energy, tourism, defense, charter, and government—delivering unparalleled functionality via a seamless platform built for the long term.

CrowdStrike And AWS Pick 36 Startups For 2025 Cybersecurity Accelerator (In Partnership With NVIDIA)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 25, 2025

CrowdStrike announced the 36 startups selected for the second annual AWS and CrowdStrike Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator, which was organized in collaboration with the NVIDIA Inception program for startups. This program powers the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud security startups across the U.S., Israel, and Europe.

Terra CO2: $82 Million (Series B) Raised For Accelerating Deployment Of Sustainable Cement Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 25, 2025

Terra CO2, a leading US-based low-carbon building materials company, has signed Series B equity commitments for $82M from a mix of financial and strategic investors. This funding was co-led by Just Climate (established by Generation Investment Management), Eagle Materials, and GenZero and it has also attracted interest from several industrial partners with formal announcements forthcoming. Seed and Series A lead investor Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) also participated in this round, reaffirming its commitment to Terra's mission.