Anthropic, a San Francisco, CA-based artificial intelligence startup, secured $100 million in funding from SK Telecom (SKT), one of South Korea's largest mobile carriers. The funding from SKT is part of a strategic collaboration between the two companies. They plan to co-develop a multilingual large language model (LLM) that will …

Clinetic, a Durham, North Carolina-based healthtech company focused on streamlining clinical research, announced that it closed Series A financing. The round was led by Sopris Capital, a venture capital firm focused on technology-enabled healthcare solutions. The financing will enable Clinetic to accelerate its patient recruitment and real-world data capabilities, deepen …

Simon Data, a New York-based customer data platform (CDP), secured $54 million in a Series D funding round led by Macquarie Capital. Several existing investors, including Polaris, .406, and F-Prime, also participated in the round. The Series D funding follows the recent launch of Simon Data's innovative tool called Connected …

Swotzy, a Riga, Latvia-based logistics startup, raised €500,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by Black Pearls VC. The round was joined by a previous investor, the Lithuanian-based FIRSTPICK. Jarosław Pilarczyk from Black Pearls VC and Andra Bagdonaitė from FIRSTPICK will join the company’s Supervisory Board. The company intends to …

Sweet Security, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based cloud security company, raised $12 million in seed funding and launched its Cloud Runtime Security Suite. The round was led by Glilot Capital Partners, with participation from CyberArk Ventures and angel investors including Gerhard Eschelbeck, former CISO at Google, and Travis McPeak, who led …

SphereX, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based web3 security company, raised $8.2 million in seed funding, with investors including Aleph, Pillar VC, Fabric Ventures, Mensch Capital Partners, and other angel investors. The company also launched its advanced security solution for smart contracts, SphereX Protect, which is a decentralized exploit-prevention solution, that integrates …

Persefoni, a Tempe, Arizona-based Climate Management & Accounting Platform (CMAP), announced that it secured $50 million in a Series C-1 funding round, bringing its total investment to over $150 million. TPG Rise led the round and saw participation from notable investors including Clearvision Ventures, ENEOS Innovation Partners, NGP Energy Technology …