Venture Capital News

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TDK Corporation (TSE:6762) announced today that TDK Ventures Inc. has invested in C2i Semiconductors, a pioneer in software-defined Voltage Regulator (VR) platforms. The investment is part of C2i’s $16.7 million Series A funding round, which includes participation from Peak XV Partners and other prominent semiconductor industry leaders. Solving the “Last-Inch” power challenge As AI workloads drive global data center electricity demand toward an estimated 1,000...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ClearNote Health announced the close of $52 million in Series D financing and appointment of Kevin Keegan as president and chief operating officer....

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LexAxiom today announced LexSuite™, the agentic revenue engine that runs a law firm’s revenue and business operations, so owners can focus on legal work instead of running the business. Customers are being onboarded today across multiple practice segments; the waitlist is open for additional firms. LexSuite is built on LexAxiom’s Privilege-Native ArchitectureTM, which enforces guardrails on every human and agent interaction inside and outside the firm....

TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Google DeepMind has featured Hirundo’s security-hardened variant of Gemma 4 in its Gemmaverse – the official showcase for the Gemma open-model ecosystem. The feature validates Hirundo’s weight-level machine unlearning approach as a production-grade solution to one of the most persistent vulnerabilities in enterprise AI deployments: prompt injection attacks. The hardened model is built on Google’s Gemma 4 E4B instruction-tuned base. At 4 billion parameters, it...

MANCHESTER, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imperagen, a Manchester-based techbio company using AI and quantum physics to engineer better enzymes faster, has closed a £5 million seed funding round led by PXN Ventures with participation from Imperagen’s existing investors IQ Capital and Northern Gritstone. The raise brings Imperagen's total funding to £8.5 million and will accelerate research and development, expand its wet lab capabilities, and build out its go-to-market function over the next 18 mon...

DURANGO, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Payman AI, a fintech building AI agents for community banks, announced its selection to the Independent Community Bankers of America’s (ICBA) ThinkTECH Accelerator Program, which kicks off at the ICBA Center for Innovation in Atlanta. “Agentic banking will redefine how customers interact with their money, turning friction into seamless execution,” said Tyllen Bicakcic, co-founder and CEO of Payman AI. “By participating in the ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator, we’re cr...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Daversa has been named to Forbes’ America’s Best Executive Recruiting Firms list for the fifth consecutive year. Based on more than 18,000 survey recommendations from recruiters, HR leaders, and candidates, the list recognizes firms setting the standard across the industry. Daversa operates alongside founders and investors building the most ambitious companies of this generation across frontier AI, defense, enterprise software, digital health, and consumer. These...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Stephens Group, LLC (“Stephens Group”) announced today that it has exited its investment in IMA Financial Group, Inc., a North American insurance brokerage firm specializing in risk management, employee benefits and investment advisory services, via the completion of an equity recapitalization transaction. Oak Hill Capital and New Mountain Capital are each taking minority positions, with additional participation from HarbourVest and a select group of prominent insti...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sverica Capital Management LP (“Sverica”) announced today that its Fund V portfolio company, WinWire Holdings, LLC (“WinWire” or the “Company”), has entered into a definitive agreement to be sold to NTT DATA. This transaction marks the culmination of a successful five-year partnership with WinWire, during which the Company more than doubled in size, reinforced its position as a leading Microsoft services partner, and emerged as a differentiated provider of AI-led...

HAYWARD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OnQ’s Converge platform now integrates directly with IBM AS/400 systems, connecting real-time inventory data to in-store digital experiences....