Ayar Labs, the leader in optical interconnect solutions for large-scale AI workloads, today announced it has secured $155 million in financing with Investments from AMD, Intel Capital, NVIDIA, Advent Global Opportunities and Light Street Capital.

Novoloop has been selected to be a part of Impact/100, a list of the world's most promising impact startups, created and selected by Norrsken Foundation and their partners. Earlier today, we were featured on the Nasdaq building at Times Square in NYC.

Congrats to all the listed startups for doing their good work! Let's fix the future together. 💪🌎 View the 2024 full list at norrsken.org/impact100

CurbWaste has been recognized as part of the 2024 SMBTech 50, an annual list compiled by Notable Capital that highlights the startups that are transforming the way small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) operate.

Doorvest, a full-service real estate investing platform that helps busy working professionals own passive income rental homes, today announced the acquisition of Getaway, a PropTech company that helps real estate investors find and finance investment properties.

Actuate, a leading innovator in computer vision technology for remote video guarding, proudly announces the successful closing of an $11.5 million funding round. This investment was led by Gray Line Partners, with significant contributions from existing investors Tribeca Venture Partners, Bling Capital, Tensility Venture Partners, and Upside Partnership.

Financial Recovery Technologies (FRT), the leading global securities class actions recovery provider, has acquired Skematic, a rapidly growing SaaS company with a suite of software solutions for enhanced compliance management.

Spacewise, a leading B2B Proptech SaaS company, is excited to announce the successful closure of a seven-figure post-seed funding round, led by Sandermoen with participation from Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB) and several family offices and business angels. This investment will propel product development and facilitate Spacewise’s strategic expansion into North America.

Accrete AI, a dual-use enterprise AI company that licenses expert AI agents to government and commercial customers struggling with information complexity and knowledge loss, announced today that it has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract from the U.S. Army to advance Argus Social’s capabilities for Army Information Operations use.

Zscaler has announced the next major step in its Zero Trust SASE leadership by signing an agreement to acquire Airgap Networks, which provides agentless segmentation for enterprise IT and OT environments.

Drata proudly announces the acquisition of Harmonize.io, backed by Ripple Ventures and Array Ventures, and a trailblazer in user access governance and automation, marking a significant step forward in enhancing our product offerings and further distinguishing ourselves in the market.

From selling Veggie Straws to Hain Celestial to helping SkinnyPop realize a $1.6 billion acquisition by Hershey, multi-exit founder Jason Cohen embarks on a new snacking journey with Pretzelized alongside long-time collaborator Samuel Kestenbaum. Operating under 7 Mile Brands packaged goods brand incubator, Pretzelized will take a classic snack and combine them into pretzels. The first products include Pretzel Crackers and Pretzel Pita Chips.

Una Terra, a Swiss-based early growth impact investment manager, is investing $2M in Another Tomorrow, a B-Corp certified sustainable luxury ready-to-wear collection and platform, as part of their Series A financing round. Una Terra, also a B-Corp, is committed to scaling circular economy solutions addressing biodiversity loss and climate change. Luca Zerbini, CEO and Founding Partner of Una Terra, will also join Another Tomorrow’s Board.

Vital Interaction, a healthcare technology company that combines healthcare data, business intelligence and workflow automation, today announced the closing of $15 million in Series A funding led by Austin-based Next Coast Ventures. Vital Interaction uses key practice and patient data to ensure patients follow through on prescribed care plans, recalling and reactivating both new and existing patients to encourage follow-up appointments and reduce patient churn. It uses appointment, clinical and billing data to generate automated, customizable campaigns for targeted patient outreach.

MIC Global (MIC), a full stack embedded microinsurance provider, today announced it has raised a US $6 million seed funding round. The round was led by Launchpad Capital, and joined by Greenlight Re Innovations, Ironsides Partners, and existing investors.

Novaphos announced today that it had reached a strategic agreement with Hatch, the globally recognized engineering, project management, and professional services firm, to assist its efforts to fundamentally change how phosphates are produced. Under the agreement, Hatch will become an investor in Novaphos and utilize its expertise in design and engineering, procurement support, equipment supply, project and construction management, and strategic, commercialization, environment, and permitting services. Hatch and Novaphos will be focused initially on building Novaphos’ first US commercial phosphoric acid production facility.

Curbwaste, a SaaS software and payments provider to the waste management industry, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Flourish Ventures

Waev Inc. has secured a new Asset-Based Lending (ABL) facility from J.P. Morgan to fund the growth of GEM, Tiger and Taylor-Dunn electric vehicles (EVs) into the future.

Data observability startup Acceldata today announced that it raised $10 million in an extension to its Series C round, bringing its total raised to over $100 million. New investor Prosperty7 Ventures was the sole contributor to the tranche, according to Acceldata co-founder and CEO Rohit Choudhary, which will be put toward go-to-market efforts, mergers and acquisitions, R&D (particularly in Canada, where Acceldata recently opened offices) and geographic expansion.

Pegasus Capital Advisors and the Global Fund for Coral Reefs announced an investment of up to $6 million into Carbonwave, the world’s leading developer of ultra-regenerative advanced biomaterials from seaweed.

Virtana, the leading IT operations management (ITOM) company accelerating hybrid, multi-vendor, and multi-cloud infrastructure innovation with artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps), has acquired cloud observability platform, OpsCruise, the only purpose-built cloud-native, and Kubernetes observability platform.