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What a week! Our clients have been building and announcing: Pomo launched with a $4.5M raise, featured in Business Insider where they spoke with Lucia Moses about reimagining the modern marketing platform.  https://bit.ly/4c47sWj Collide Capital raised an oversubscribed $95M Fund II to back fintech, supply chain and future-of-work startups, as well as to grow Collide Campus, mentoring the next generation of founders and VCs. Aaron Samuels and Brian Hollins shared their story with Dominic-Madori Davis at TechCrunch. https://bit.ly/3Q1iRNT Axoft commenced a new clinical research study with Mass General Brigham, bringing the total number of implantations using their Fleuron™ probes to 11 patients across three clinical sites. https://bit.ly/4czluPI HumanX crushed it again with the AI conference to see and be seen – great participation from Sadi Khan of Aven and Songyee Yoon of Principal Venture Partners, two leaders building and investing in the frontier of AI. A solid start to Q2. We're excited to continue working alongside these exceptional leaders – and looking forward to the weekend!

What a week! Our clients have been building and announcing: Pomo launched with a $4.5M raise, featured in Business Insider where they spoke with Lucia Moses about reimagining the modern marketing platform.  https://bit.ly/4c47sWj Collide Capital raised an oversubscribed $95M Fund II to back fintech, supply chain and future-of-work startups, as well as to grow Collide Campus, mentoring the next generation of founders and VCs. Aaron Samuels and Brian Hollins shared their story with Dominic-Madori Davis at TechCrunch. https://bit.ly/3Q1iRNT Axoft commenced a new clinical research study with Mass General Brigham, bringing the total number of implantations using their Fleuron™ probes to 11 patients across three clinical sites. https://bit.ly/4czluPI HumanX crushed it again with the AI conference to see and be seen – great participation from Sadi Khan of Aven and Songyee Yoon of Principal Venture Partners, two leaders building and investing in the frontier of AI. A solid start to Q2. We're excited to continue working alongside these exceptional leaders – and looking forward to the weekend!

When people ask what our industry focus is, our answer is “most of them,” a contradiction of advice we give our clients to “be direct, be specific.” But it’s the beauty of the opportunities we have to work with founders who are inventing, building and growing in fintech, life sciences & biotech, climate, advanced computing, cybersecurity and martech. February is off to a quick start and we’re only halfway through: Levl, a platform powering global fiat and stablecoin payments, hit $1B annualized volume in 4 months and raised a $7M seed. Carlos Garcia has more on Fortune https://bit.ly/4qzjcnm MAXEX, the largest digital exchange for trading U.S. residential mortgage loans through a single centralized clearinghouse, announced a partnership with Tradeweb to expand the institutional marketplace for U.S. residential mortgages. https://bit.ly/4aMKWjQ Cav, the continuous cyber assurance company, trusted by government agencies and Fortune 500 enterprises launched Compliance OS™an agentic AI system to help high-reliability organizations achieve 100% compliance, 100% of the time. https://bit.ly/3Moun4y Trener Robotics (formerly T-ROBOTICS), an AI-powered platform for skilling robots used in manufacturing, raised $32m in Series A. Natalie Breymeyer at Axios has more here https://bit.ly/4kxUKkZ We feel privileged to work alongside such exceptional founders and teams. A huge thank you to our partners at SINK, the journalists who help us tell these stories, and the network of investors who connect us to these extraordinary founders.

Reprise's Greer Lynch joined #PipelineVisionaries to discuss effective marketing strategies and tactics for scaling enterprises. Refreshing to hear her take that even with an AI-first product that helps some of the biggest enterprise brands close deals with compelling software demos, creative storytelling is core to connecting with and winning over your target audiences. Check out the episode here: https://lnkd.in/eQk-dpSt

Kargo's $42M Series B is a demonstration of product market fit and perseverance. After raising its Series A in the go-go days of supply chain and logistics investing in 2022, the market retreated as ports opened up and supply and demand balanced. Under Sam Lurye's leadership, Kargo doubled down on its AI strategy and deployed its towers at the loading docks serving Fortune 500 enterprises, helping companies like Mercedes Benz and Wayne-Sanderson understand the exact status of their inventory. WSJ has more on Kargo's growth here: https://lnkd.in/ez7pse2d

Congratulations to Friendship Bench, Lwala Community Alliance, StrongMinds, Tiko, We Care Solar on their recognition as a DEVEX Bold Ideas Awardee! 🎉 The work these organizations are doing in women's health and well-being is often so crucial, but women's health is too often overlooked. We applaud all of the organizations recognized by Pivotal Ventures and are energized by the strides being made through their dedication. Tagging in all the Rippleworks Experts who have partnered with these awesome organizations as we celebrate their impact!  Erica Yamamoto Margriet Glazenborg Emma Dawson Miriam Malaley Wardak Marwa Farouq 🍉 Brooke Rufo-Hill Odiaka Gonzalez, SHRM-SCP Aron Kirschner Vincent Huang Rick Levenson Michelle Kagari Roxanne Ivory Rebekah Raleigh Lou Moore Dawn Sharifan, MCC Kathy Jeffery #DevexSeries, #BoldIdeas, #WomensHealth 

We’re thrilled to announce our $4.6M seed round led by Frontline Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator , 1984 Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, and BOOOM💥 . This year has been a rollercoaster. From dropping out of grad school for YC to signing customers and building a killer product. So many incredible learnings and experiences. Very grateful to be on this journey with my cracked cofounders: Bryan Guin, Moritz Bartusch, and Leander Peter . At Avallon AI (YC X25), we automate the repetitive claims work drowning TPAs and their partners: phone calls, emails, documents. The insurance industry is losing 400,000 workers by 2026. Our AI agents fill that gap. Massive thanks to our early customers for their trust and to our investors for their conviction. This funding lets us expand across more insurance lines and segments. We’re building AI for the real economy and we’re just getting started. If that fires you up and you love solving gnarly problems, we’re hiring in NYC. Link in comments.

It's an ambitious vision to change the world. With its 11th annual Change the World list out today, Fortune recognizes a diverse set of both Fortune 500 and smaller players making measurable impact. Special shout out to Semilla Nueva, included this year for their inspiring work combatting malnutrition and poverty with better corn -- a $5M investment delivered $15M in economic impact. Last year its high-yielding maize was planted by ~30,000 farmers in Guatemala that ultimately helped feed more than 1 million people, deliver a 76% rise in income for farmers and reduce climate-related crop losses by 54%. By 2030, Semilla Nueva plans to be in five African countries, reaching 100 million people. With a team led by Curt Bowen and partners like Rippleworks, we have no doubt this vision will be realized.