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CivilGrid Raises $26M to Map the Underground
CivilGrid (US) — raises $26M Series A led by Spark Capital to consolidate utility, ownership, and environmental data for underground infrastructure, with PG&E as a client.
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Funding rounds, valuations, acquisitions, and IPOs - daily coverage of the companies shaping the private markets
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Retro's $21M Series A Values Anti-Instagram App at $100M+
Retro (US) — ex-Instagram engineers raise $21M Series A for a private, friend-focused photo-sharing app that surfaces memories from your camera roll.
Cybersecurity
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Echo Snaps Up Minimus Assets After $51M Startup Folds
Echo acquires Minimus (US) — vulnerability-free container image startup Echo picks up the technology assets of hardened-software company Minimus after the latter winds down operations, despite having raised $51M; Echo integrates Minimus's minimal OS work to become the first distro-agnostic hardened software platform.
FundingFintech
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Bevel Raises $6M Seed to Chase High-Net-Worth Insurance
Bevel (US) raises $6M seed backed by Bessemer, Resolute, and Shakti VC — the Austin insurtech, born after the 2025 LA Palisades fire destroyed the CEO's childhood home, is pivoting from free wildfire-claims AI tools (used by a quarter of Palisades and Eaton survivors) into a licensed high-net-worth personal lines brokerage.
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Yardstik Raises $30M to Monitor Workers Post-Hire
Yardstik (US) raises $30M Series B led by Harbert Growth Partners — the workforce screening startup is expanding beyond pre-hire background checks into continuous post-hire fraud monitoring, with new tools that give HR teams live risk signals across their entire workforce.
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AusperBio Closes $120M Series C for Hepatitis B Drug
AusperBio (US) closes a $120M Series C bringing total raised to $360M — the San Jose-based biotech is advancing its lead hepatitis B therapy AHB-137 into a Phase 3 registrational trial toward a potential functional cure for chronic HBV.
FundingEnergy
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Valar Atomics Raises $1B Series B at $6B Valuation
Valar Atomics Raises $1B Series B at $6B Valuation Sequoia leads a $1 billion Series B in microreactor startup Valar Atomics, valuing the company at $6 billion amid surging AI data center power demand.
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Entravel's $7.5M Seed: From Crypto Wallets to Hotels
Entravel Group (Denmark) raises $7.5M seed co-led by Ethereal Ventures and Finality Capital to scale its white-label hotel booking infrastructure beyond crypto-native clients (Kraken, MetaMask, KuCoin) into mainstream travel, adding a stablecoin settlement layer for treasury and working-capital management.
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Cytix Raises $7M to Police AI Code Risk
Cytix (UK) raises $7M Series A led by Northern Gritstone, with KPMG and NCC Group as strategic users, to police AI-generated code changes and flag the security risks introduced by accelerated software development cycles.
Energy
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Boldr's $5M Bet on HVAC as Grid Hardware
Boldr (UK) raises $5M pre-Series A from Unconventional Ventures and Ada Ventures to turn HVAC contractors into grid infrastructure providers by connecting home heating, cooling, and energy devices into flexible distributed grid capacity.
FundingFintech
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Solace Care Raises €2.1M to Take Death Admin Digital
Solace Care (Sweden) raises a €2.1M pre-seed led by Spintop Ventures to expand its digital end-of-life planning and post-loss administration platform from 25,000 covered lives across Scandinavia into the Netherlands and UK.
MAJOR
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DAZN Buys EverPass, Wins NFL Sunday Ticket Venues
EverPass Media (US) is acquired by UK sports streaming giant DAZN — EverPass holds exclusive NFL Sunday Ticket commercial venue distribution rights — rebranding as DAZN for Business, with RedBird Capital Partners, 32 Equity, and TKO Group becoming DAZN minority shareholders.
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