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California-Based Levi Strauss & Co. Appoints John Vandemore as CFO
Appointment October 1, 2026
AlgoX2 Raises $10M in Seed Extension Funding Led by Fin Capital
Funding October 1, 2026
Fortem Technologies Secures $50M in Series B Funding
Funding October 1, 2026
Alex Yeh Co-Founded GMI Cloud Raises Over $660M in Funding
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California-Based Flow Engineering Secures $50M in Series B Funding
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Tamara Darling Rejoins Capital Square as Managing Director
Capital Square, a sponsor of tax-advantaged real estate investments and a developer and manager of housing communities, has announced that Tamara Darling has rejoined the firm as Managing Director, Northwest Sales. Darling will focus on building relationships with broker-dealers and registered investment advisers across Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Northern California. She will report […]
October 1, 2026
California-Based Levi Strauss & Co. Appoints John Vandemore as CFO
Levi Strauss & Co. has appointed John Vandemore as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective November 1, 2026. Vandemore brings more than 25 years of finance leadership experience across global consumer, retail and entertainment companies. He joins Levi Strauss & Co. from Skechers, where he served as CFO for nine years. He led […]
October 1, 2026
AlgoX2 Raises $10M in Seed Extension Funding Led by Fin Capital
AlgoX2, a NYC-based provider of a data streaming operating system, has raised $10 million in a Seed extension funding round. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Fin Capital, with participation from Alumni Ventures, Somersault Ventures, Octave, Motivate VC, and AAL VC. The company will use the funds to hire engineers to support […]
October 1, 2026
Fortem Technologies Secures $50M in Series B Funding
Fortem Technologies, a Lindon, Utah-based provider of an airspace security and defense platform, has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Lockheed Martin. The round also saw participation from Unusual Machines and other strategic and institutional investors. The company plans to use the funding to expand manufacturing at its Lindon facility […]
October 1, 2026
Alex Yeh Co-Founded GMI Cloud Raises Over $660M in Funding
GMI Cloud, a Mountain View, CA-based provider of GPU infrastructure and inference services, has raised $668 million in funding, comprising $223 million in equity for Series B and a $445 million credit facility led by CTBC. The Series B was led by ARCHIV, with participation from NVIDIA, DSC Investment, Trend Micro, KB Investment, Kyobo Life, […]
October 1, 2026
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California-Based Flow Engineering Secures $50M in Series B Funding
Flow Engineering, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an agentic platform for hardware development, has secured $50 million in a Series B funding round at a $750 million valuation. The round was co-led by Antonio Gracias (founder of Valor Equity Partners) and Gavin Baker (Managing Partner at Atreides Management), with participation from Sequoia Capital, Human […]
October 1, 2026
Varda Space Industries Secures $251M in Series D Funding
Varda Space Industries, an El Segundo, CA-based microgravity-enabled life sciences company, has secured $251 million in a Series D funding round led by Lux Capital and Natural Capital, bringing the total amount to $598 million. The round also saw participation from Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Caffeinated Capital, General Catalyst, 8090 Industries, Giant Step, and Also […]
October 1, 2026
Relay Bags $36M in Funding Led by International Paper
Relay, a Raleigh, NC-based provider of a system of action platform for physical operations, has secured $36 million in a funding round led by International Paper, bringing the total amount to $90 million. The round also saw participation from Cerity Partners, Harmonic Growth Partners, Thayer Investment Partners, G2 Venture Partners, and Wind River Ventures. The […]
October 1, 2026
Connor Watumull Co-Founded Miter Bags $40M in Series B Funding
Miter, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an AI-powered workforce management platform, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round, bringing the total amount to $78 million. The round was led by Battery Ventures with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners and Coatue. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and […]
October 1, 2026
AI Startup Ascerta Secures $18M in Series A Funding
Ascerta (fka Pay-i), a Bellevue, WA-based provider of an enterprise AI management platform, has secured $18 million in a Series A funding round, led by Dell Technologies Capital, bringing the total amount to $22.9 million. The round also saw participation from Hitachi Ventures, BGV, Wipro Ventures, and earlier investors. The company will use the funding […]
October 1, 2026
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