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SpotlightNews: The company closed on $6.3 million of an undisclosed targeted amount of venture funding on August 24, 2025. The company is a developer of an online news and content aggregator platform.

Agenda Hero: The company raised $5.6 million of venture funding in a deal led by Upfront Ventures on August 22, 2025. K9 Ventures and Precursor Ventures also participated in the round. The company is a developer of an AI-powered scheduling platform designed to simplify organization and collaboration.

Greptile: The company raised $41.4 million of Series A venture funding in a deal led by Benchmark Capital Holdings on August 22, 2025. The company is a developer of programming tools designed to streamline codebase management.

Domino: The company raised an undisclosed amount of venture funding from UBS Group on August 21, 2025. The company is a developer of an enterprise data science management platform designed to build and deploy ideas with collaborative, reusable, and reproducible analysis.

Forterra: The company raised $93.3 million of venture funding from undisclosed investors on August 21, 2025. The company is a developer of a robotic vehicle autonomy technology designed for defense and commercial markets.

Loft Dynamics: The company raised $24 million of venture funding in a deal led by The Friedkin Group on August 21, 2025. Alaska Star Ventures, Sky Dayton, Craft Ventures, and UP. Partners also participated in the round. The company is a developer of virtual reality-based flight simulation training systems designed for pilot instruction.

Quantinuum: The company raised $593.8 million of venture funding from undisclosed investors on August 21, 2025. The company is an operator of a technology business intended for developing, commercializing, and applying quantum computing.

Bluefish: The company raised $20 million of Series A venture funding in a deal led by NEA on August 20, 2025, putting the company’s pre-money valuation at $53 million. Bloomberg Beta, Salesforce Ventures, Laconia Capital Group, Trajectory Ventures, Crane Venture Partners, Swift Ventures, Evolution VC Partners and other undisclosed investors also participated in the round. The company is a developer of an AI-powered marketing solution platform designed to help businesses automate and optimize their marketing campaigns.

FieldAI: The company raised $315 million of venture funding in a deal led by Bezos Expeditions, Prysm Capital, Khosla Ventures and Temasek Holdings on August 20, 2025, putting the company’s pre-money valuation at $1.7 billion. Samsung NEXT Ventures, Nvidia, BHP Ventures, Intel Capital, Gates Frontier, Transform Investments, Yaletown Partners, Canaan Partners, Play Time and Emerson Collective also participated in the round. The company is a developer of a field-proven artificial intelligence technology designed to unlock the full potential of robots in real-world environments.

Temi: The company raised $10 million of Series D venture funding from Q-Run Holdings on August 20, 2025. The company is a developer of personal robots designed to interact with humans.

Ursa Space: The company raised an undisclosed amount of venture funding from Sumitomo Corporation of Americas on August 20, 2025. The company is a provider of geospatial data and analytics services intended to gather data from radar satellites.

Zed Industries: The company raised $32.4 million of Series B venture funding in a deal led by Sequoia Capital on August 20, 2025, putting the company’s pre-money valuation at $120 million. Nimble Partners and Prototype Capital (San Francisco) also participated in the round. The company is a developer of a fully native high-performance, multiplayer code editor.

ZeroClick: The company raised $55 million of venture funding from Wonder Group, Protagonist and Ludlow Ventures on August 20, 2025. Anthos Capital, Anfa and Ryan Hudson also participated in the round. The company is a developer of an AI-based advertising platform designed to integrate sponsored context into AI assistants’ reasoning processes.

Databricks: The company is in the process of raising Series K venture funding on August 19, 2025, putting the company’s post-valuation at an estimated $100 billion. The company is a developer of a unified, open analytics platform for building, deploying, sharing, and maintaining enterprise-grade data, analytics, and AI solutions at scale.

GeologicAI: The company raised $44 million of Series B venture funding in a deal led by Blue Earth Capital on August 19, 2025. BHP Ventures, Rio Tinto, Breakthrough Energy and other undisclosed investors also participated in the round. The company is a developer of a cloud-based platform designed to host, visualize, and analyze geological, production, and other oil and gas data.

Murray Mentor: The company raised an undisclosed amount of venture funding from Fireroad on August 19, 2025. The company is a developer of a digital mentor platform designed to preserve manufacturing expertise and transfer critical knowledge from experienced operators to new workers.

Pylon: The company raised $31 million of Series B venture funding in a deal led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bain Capital Ventures on August 19, 2025, putting the company’s pre-money valuation at $334 million. General Catalyst, Y Combinator, and other undisclosed investors also participated in the round. The company is a developer of an AI-powered customer operations platform designed for B2B companies to manage post-sales communication and automate support workflows across multiple channels.

Balanced Media|Technology: The company is in the process of raising $8 million of Series A venture funding on August 18, 2025, putting the company’s pre-money valuation at $37 million. The company is a developer of an artificial intelligence platform designed to support workforce augmentation for small and medium organizations and governments.

Gumloop: The company raised an undisclosed amount of venture funding from Shopify Ventures on August 18, 2025. The company is a developer of a no-code platform designed for automating workflows with AI.


M&A Transactions

Tecton / Databricks: The company was acquired by Databricks for an undisclosed amount on August 23, 2025. The company is a developer of an enterprise-ready feature store for powering machine learning and AI applications.

Unbabel / Transperfect: The company was acquired by Transperfect for an undisclosed amount on August 22, 2025. The company is a developer of a language operations platform providing scalable translation services through a combination of AI and human expertise.

FOSAI / Pasteur Labs: The company was acquired by Pasteur Labs for an undisclosed amount on August 21, 2025. The company is a developer of space systems and autonomy software designed for the aerospace and defense sectors.

Industrial Brothers / Boat Rocker Media: The company was acquired by Boat Rocker Media for an undisclosed amount on August 21, 2025. The company is a provider of animated content intended for children’s entertainment.

Trag / Aikido Security: The company was acquired by Aikido Security for an undisclosed amount on August 21, 2025. The company is a developer of an AI-native code quality platform intended to streamline and enhance the software code review process.

XMAD.ai / Workato: The company was acquired by Workato for an undisclosed amount on August 21, 2025. The company is a developer of an AI-driven platform designed for optimizing digital marketing strategies.

Detekt / CycloMedia Technology: The company, a subsidiary of EnliteAI, was acquired by CycloMedia Technology, via its financial sponsor Volpi Capital, through an LBO on August 20, 2025 for an undisclosed amount. The company is a developer of data intelligence software designed for road infrastructure management.

OpsVerse / StackGen: The company was acquired by StackGen for an undisclosed amount on August 20, 2025. The company is a developer of a DevOps tools platform designed for coding.

Quantagonia / Strangeworks: The company was acquired by Strangeworks for an undisclosed amount on August 20, 2025. The company is a developer of a quantum algorithm platform designed to provide data analysis and decision-making processes for immediate actionable insights in real time.

Tally / Wit: The company was acquired by Wit for an undisclosed amount on August 20, 2025. The company is a developer of a predictive gaming platform designed to offer real-time audience engagement solutions.

Gatsby / Klaviyo: The company was acquired by Klaviyo for an undisclosed amount on August 19, 2025. The company is a developer of an online community management platform intended to offer promotional services for brands.

Tegna / Nexstar Media Group: The company reached a definitive agreement to be acquired by Nexstar Media Group for $6.6 billion on August 19, 2025. Tegna Inc is a media company with a portfolio of broadcast stations and digital sites.

Gett / Mizrahi Tefahot Bank: The company was acquired by Mizrahi Tefahot Bank, Phoenix Financial, Klirmark Capital, Leumi Partners, Meitav Investment House and an undisclosed investor through a $190 million LBO on August 18, 2025. The company is a developer of a technology travel platform intended for corporate ground transportation management.

Kinsetsu / Kiniot Ltd: The company was acquired by Kiniot Ltd for an undisclosed amount on August 18, 2025. The company is a developer of software systems designed to track assets such as inventory, equipment, fleets, and people.

Presentable / Farsight AI: The company was acquired by Farsight AI for an undisclosed amount on August 18, 2025. The company is a developer of an AI-based productivity platform designed for automating repetitive PowerPoint and Excel work.

Vayu Robotics / Serve Robotics: The company was acquired by Serve Robotics for a reported $240M on August 18, 2025. The company is a developer of robotics technology designed for autonomous systems using bio-inspired sensors and scalable machine learning to enable safer and more efficient autonomous systems, particularly for last-mile delivery.


Source: Pitchbook Data, Inc.

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