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April 30, 2025

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ChEmpower, a firm that develops and supplies chemically reactive pads for planarization, offering an abrasive-free alternative to traditional polishing processes, raises $18.7MM Series A from M Ventures.

Chemicals • Beaverton, OR • Post-Money Valuation

 

ElectraSteel, a company engaged in decarbonizing iron and steelmaking using lower grade ores and intermittent renewable energy, raises $186MM Series B from Breakthrough Energy Ventures.

Renewable Energy • Boulder, CO • Post-Money Valuation

 

Overture Life, a firm that specializes in embryology lab procedures, raises $20.6MM Equity Funding from GV.

Femtech • Palo Alto, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

SixMap, a platform developer that detects and remediates network security policy, raises $7MM Equity Funding from IAG Capital Partners.

Cyber Security • Columbia, MD • Post-Money Valuation

 

Alternative Finance, a provider of payments and checkout infrastructure to businesses, raises $22MM Equity Funding from MissionOG.

SaaS • New York, NY • Post-Money Valuation

 

Theo, a company that operates in the software & internet services industry, raises $20MM Equity Fundng from Hack VC.

Fintech • New York, NY • Post-Money Valuation

 

Augur Security, a cybersecurity platform using AI-powered behavioral modeling and agentic automation to reliably predict, decide, and act to transform intelligence into immediate, preventative action, raises $7MM Seed from General Advance.

Big Data • San Diego, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

TAD Health, a company that develops a mental health software-as-a-service platform designed to enhance care delivery for education, government, and enterprises, raises $5.5MM Series A from Robin Richards.

SaaS • Newport Beach, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Inco Network, a developer of a confidentiality layer of Web3, powered by fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and secured by Ethereum, enabling the development of next-frontier decentralized applications (dApps), providing confidentiality to existing blockchains, and breaking down the final barrier to Web3 adoption at scale, raises $5MM Equity Funding from Andreessen Horowitz.

Blockchain • New York, NY • Post-Money Valuation

 

Coologics, a medical device company for the treatment of vaginal infections, raises $3MM Seed from Prevail Ventures.

Women Health • Cleveland, OH • Post-Money Valuation

 

Push Security, a company that develops a browser-native identity security platform, raises $30MM Series B from Redpoint Ventures.

Identity Management • Boston, MA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Rise Robotics, a company that designs, makes and sells robotic products, raises $1.5MM Equity Funding from Walt Winshall.

Robotics • Somerville, MA • Post-Money Valuation

 

SquareX, a company that operates a Browser Detection and Response (BDR) solution that detects, mitigates, and threat-hunt client-side web attacks in real time, raises $20MM Series A from SYN Ventures.

Cyber Security • Palo Alto, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Araceli, a developer of scientific tools for tissue and cell-based biomarker discovery, drug discovery and drug development, raises $11.2MM Seed from Bill Cortelyou.

Drug Research • Hillsboro, OR • Post-Money Valuation

 

Amplifier, a company that develops a workplace security system, raises $5.6MM Seed from Cota Capital.

Security • Atlanta, GA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Noveome, a clinical stage company focused on breakthrough therapies for the regenerative repair of inflamed or damaged tissues, raises $51MM Series E from MAK Capital.

Therapeutics • Pittsburgh, PA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Cloud Capital, a company that develops a cloud cost forecasting tool intended to forecast and optimize cloud spending, raises $7.7MM Equity Funding from Connect Ventures.

Forecasting • Dover, DE • Post-Money Valuation

 

Blackrock invests in Flo Network, a company that provides business-to-business fiber bandwidth.

Fiber Optics • El Paso, TX • Deal

 

Peloton Equity invests in Grenova, a company developer of tip washing devices designed to reduce biohazard waste in the environment.

Biotechnology • Richmond, VA • Deal

 

Cvent acquires Prismm, a developer of a cloud-based event planning platform intended to offer event planning tools to save time and streamline planning.

Events • San Francisco, CA • Deal

 

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