Advanced materials startup Uplift360 has raised €7.4M in a seed funding round aimed at scaling its proprietary tech, giving a second life to materials like carbon fibre, Kevlar and hybrid laminates. The oversubscribed round was led by Extantia with contributions from the NATO Innovation Fund, Promus Ventures, and Fund F.

Spiked Ade secures $10M and lines up wider distribution as a new vodka “sports drink” category takes shape.

Founded by serial entrepreneur Jason Cohen (Sensible Portions, SkinnyPop, CORE Hydration, OWYN), the zero-sugar, 4.5% ABV brand raised $10M in under two weeks—reportedly with several pro athletes participating. After a New Jersey debut that depleted 15,000+ cases in three months and drove 100% reorder rates at Total Wine, Spiked Ade is expanding via Manhattan Beer Distributors and existing Molson Coors/Constellation networks, with a national partner expected soon. Framed as a play to replace “big beer” volume, the launch targets a slice of the $48B hydration market—just as competitors begin to surface.

LWK Partners (“LWK”), a real estate private equity firm focused on the acquisition and operation of attainable value-add multifamily assets, and Cypress Equity Investments (“CEI”), an institutional multifamily developer and real estate investment company, are pleased to have secured a $100M bespoke credit facility from Ascent Developer Solutions (“AscentDS”) to accelerate LWK-CEI’s Workforce Housing Density Addition strategy.

OneAM, the category-defining early pay solution for a $4 trillion segment of the U.S. economy, today announced it has raised a $4.7 million seed round led by TTV Capital, with participation from Correlation Ventures, ThirdStream Partners, and early-stage private investors. The company is among the first to use AI and machine learning to underwrite fragmented receivables at scale, turning working capital into an investable asset class for quantitative investors.

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.

Ping Identity, a leader in securing digital identities for the world's largest enterprises, announced their acquisition of Procyon, a cloud-native startup founded in 2021 by Sukhesh Halemane, Suman Sharma, and Mahantesh Pattanshetti that enables simple, seamless, and secure privileged access to both cloud and on-prem infrastructure.

Docyt, a Mountain View, CA-based leader in AI-powered accounting automation, raised $12M in Pre-Series B funding. The round was led by Pivot Investment Partners and existing investors.

Cleantech company Uplift360 has been awarded an Innovate UK Smart Grant: July 2024 round, to scale its pioneering low-energy chemical recycling technology, ChemR.

Novoloop, a pioneer in advanced chemical recycling, announced today the successful close of its Series B funding round, led by Taranis. The investment will accelerate Novoloop’s commercial scale-up of its proprietary Lifecycling™ technology, which transforms post-consumer polyethylene into high-performance polyol and polyurethane, and support the launch of key customer programs. With continued backing from existing investor Valo Ventures, the round also welcomed new investment from SHOP Limited, the Family Office of the Bata Shoe Company.

Finlete, the platform where athletes can raise capital from fans in exchange for a piece of their future earnings, announced their oversubscribed Angel Round, with participation from Draper Startup House, North Texas Angel Network, and other angels.

 XOi, a leading provider of jobsite-focused technology solutions for the field service ecosystem, today announced the acquisition of Specifx, an on-demand data enrichment and metadata retrieval platform for field service equipment. The acquisition was enabled by an investment from funds managed by leading global investment firm KKR. The funding from KKR marks the most significant milestone yet in XOi’s journey to build out its system of work for the field service ecosystem. 

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.