-DRUID AI recauda 31 millones de dólares en la Serie C para acelerar el crecimiento de la plataforma de IA con agentes bajo la dirección del nuevo consejero delegado Joseph Kim

LONDRES, NUEVA YORK y BUCAREST, Rumania, 17 de septiembre de 2025 — DRUID AI anunció hoy la obtención de 31 millones de dólares en financiación de Serie C para impulsar la expansión global de su plataforma de IA de agentes empresarial bajo el liderazgo de su nuevo consejero delegado, Joseph Kim. La inversión estratégica fue liderada por Cipio Partners, con la participación de TQ Ventures, Karma Ventures, Smedvig y Hoxton Venture.

“El éxito del cliente es fundamental, y para obtener resultados comerciales reales es necesario comprender los puntos débiles de las empresas e introducir innovaciones que ayuden a esos clientes a abordar sus complejos desafíos”, mencionó Kim. Anteriormente, Kim fue consejero delegado de Sumo Logic. Forma parte de las juntas directivas de SmartBear y Andela. También fue socio operativo sénior en Francisco Partners, director de operaciones de Citrix, SolarWinds y Hewlett Packard Enterprise, y arquitecto jefe en GE.

Roland Dennert, socio director de Cipio Partners, el principal fondo de capital de crecimiento global, explicó: “Nuestra inversión ayudará a acelerar la expansión de DRUID AI en EE.UU. y otros países, impulsará nuevos avances tecnológicos y fortalecerá su posición como líder mundial en soluciones de inteligencia artificial empresarial”.

El nombramiento de Kim como consejero delegado y la nueva financiación llegan tras la obtención de DRUID AI como un Challenger en el Gartner Magic Quadrant for Conversational AI Platforms para 2025. Este es solo el último avance que valida la madurez de la plataforma de DRUID AI y su preparación para generar resultados comerciales en un mercado que experimenta un rápido avance y adopción

En 2024, DRUID AI multiplicó sus ingresos anuales recurrentes (ARR) por 2,7 respecto al año anterior. Su galardonada plataforma ha impulsado más de mil millones de conversaciones entre miles de agentes. Además, el ecosistema global de socios de DRUID AI ha atraído a gigantes del sector como Microsoft, Genpact, Cognizant y Accenture.

Más de 300 clientes globales confían en DRUID AI en los sectores de la banca, los servicios financieros, la administración pública, la sanidad, la educación superior, la industria, el comercio minorista y las telecomunicaciones. Organizaciones líderes como AXA Insurance, Carrefour, la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA), la Universidad del Sur de Georgia, Kmart Australia, Liberty Global Group, MatrixCare, el Servicio Nacional de Salud y Orange Auchan han adoptado DRUID AI para redefinir su forma de operar.

Impulsada por IA de agentes avanzada y potenciada por DRUID Conductor, su motor de orquestación principal, la plataforma DRUID permite a las empresas implementar agentes de IA y aplicaciones inteligentes que optimizan los procesos sin esfuerzo, se integran a la perfección con los sistemas existentes y atienden solicitudes complejas de forma eficiente. La plataforma integral de DRUID AI ofrece una precisión de primera respuesta del 98 %.

Para obtener más información, visite www.druidai.com.

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The company’s modular Cubelets™ optimize compute, memory, power, and thermal management to unlock exponential performance improvements 

PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 17, 2025 — Mueon, a company developing semiconductor-based systems for AI and hyperscale computing, today announced its launch from stealth with $15.5M in seed funding and the debut of Cubelets™, stackable, modular components designed to redefine compute efficiency at scale. Intel Capital led the round with participation from Geodesic Alliance Fund and Oregon Venture Fund. Intel Capital Managing Director Srini Ananth will join Mueon’s board of directors.

As adoption of generative AI accelerates, the world’s data centers are approaching breaking points in cost, power, and cooling. The International Energy Agency projects that by 2030, data centers could consume up to 10% of global electricity demand. Meanwhile, hyperscale operators are forecast to invest more than $200 billion annually in new capacity by 2027, much of it constrained by power-hungry rack-based systems. Traditional architectures create hotspots, drive up costs, and restrict scalability, making the need for a new design clear.

Mueon addresses these challenges with Cubelets™, compact building blocks that provide a platform to tightly integrate compute, memory, power delivery, and thermal management. The architecture enables up to 10x improvements in density, energy efficiency, and faster deployment, while remaining fully compatible with today’s AI and cloud software stacks. By enabling clusters that scale linearly with demand, Cubelets™ reduce upfront capital expenditures, simplify deployment, and minimize the need for massive cooling and power infrastructure.

“Mueon was founded to rethink the system building blocks of the data center from the ground up,” said Wilfred Gomes, co-founder and CEO of Mueon Corporation. “Cubelets™ give our partners a new unit of compute by bringing together compute, memory, and power delivery, thermals, delivering efficiency and cost savings that today’s data centers urgently need.”

“The Mueon team is reimagining data center design at the fundamental level,” said Srini Ananth, Managing Director at Intel Capital. “Their modular approach offers customers a practical path to scale AI systems with better economics and sustainability, while Mueon’s deep technical expertise and vision for data center efficiency could redefine how AI infrastructure is built globally.”

Cubelets at a Glance:
Mueon’s vision is to democratize high-performance computing by making infrastructure more flexible and sustainable. Its modular approach allows cloud providers, enterprises, and research institutions to deploy dense compute clusters in locations and environments that were previously cost- or power-prohibitive.

To enable this vision, Mueon is closely working with industry, government, and academia partners to deliver:

• All-in-one integration: Compute, memory, power, and thermals in a single modular unit
• Exponential efficiency: Up to 10x gains in density, energy savings, and deployment speed
• Sustainability built in: Lower cooling and power demands, cutting both costs and environmental footprint
• Seamless adoption: Works with existing AI and cloud software stacks

“Mueon’s Cubelets™ architecture has unlocked new possibilities for d-Matrix. Combined with d-Matrix’s digital in-memory compute technology, it’s helping us build a new class of smaller, denser infrastructure tailored for AI workloads that require ultra-low latency,” said Sudeep Bhoja, founder and CTO at d-Matrix. “This modular approach has allowed us to experiment faster, optimize performance, and deploy AI models at scales that were previously impractical.”

“For decades, large-scale data centers have been constrained by power and cooling limits,” said Subramanian Iyer, Distinguished Professor at UCLA and Director of UCLA CHIPS, former Director of the NAPMP, and Ex-IBM Fellow. “Mueon’s approach leverages the scale down and scale out capability of advanced packaging with innovative system architectures that can make the infamous ‘memory wall’ a relic of the past. This will result in a versatile HPC platform with a high degree of modularity and extensibility, and one where most of the energy is spent in compute rather than communication and power delivery inefficiencies.”

What’s Next
The funding will accelerate prototype development, system scaling, and top engineering hires. Mueon is initially focused on AI inference and training workloads that are constrained by today’s rack-based systems, with strong demand for deploying large models at scale at lower cost and power. The company is collaborating with leading fabrication, manufacturing, and foundry partners to validate Cubelets™ and bring the architecture to market.

About Mueon
Mueon Corporation is pioneering exponential computing by rethinking data center architecture. Its core innovation, Cubelets™, replaces racks of servers and cables with modular, stackable units that combine compute, memory, power delivery, and thermal management – reducing space, improving efficiency, and simplifying integration.

Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, the Mueon team brings together experts in CPU, GPU, memory architecture, system Integration, Power Delivery, Thermals, and IO design, leaders who have shipped billions of units and helped shape three decades of Moore’s Law. For more information, visit: https://mueon.com/.

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The AI-native platform streamlines complex government services and has returned and applied over $40 million to Americans since its inception 10 months ago.

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 17, 2025 — Turnout, an AI-powered consumer service that reimagines how Americans navigate complex government and financial processes, today announced $21 million in seed funding. The proceeds will further the product’s development and automation, allowing millions of Americans to navigate rigid bureaucratic processes more efficiently, giving them a chance to “beat the system.” The seed round was co-led by Shine Capital and LGVP with participation from Swish Ventures, Jaz Capital Partners, Zeev Ventures, HoneyStone, Conversion, Four Aces, and other GPs and Angel investors.

Americans are buried in government paperwork, spending a staggering 12.1 billion hours each year on federal forms. Current applications are notably time-consuming, difficult, and prone to error. Turnout modernizes the process of navigating government agencies, starting with tax debt relief and Social Security Disability claims, with more services to follow.

Turnout’s technology eliminates the burden of government forms by handling the entire process with AI and expert advocacy, ensuring consumers no longer face the complexity themselves. Its AI orchestrator, Jake, already automates nearly 60% of tasks by pulling transcripts, checking eligibility, pre-filling and filing applications, gathering medical and wage records, tracking deadlines, and sending status updates. In parallel, licensed professionals review the critical steps and complete the forms. As a result, applications have fewer errors, faster resolutions, and raving reviews  on Trustpilot.

“Our goal is to become the ‘AI for everyone,’ and this funding gives us the ability to answer the call of Americans who are fed up with outdated government infrastructure,” said Itai Hirsch, Turnout’s Founder and CEO. “Complex processes are buried under layers of bureaucracy and aging technology, leaving too many Americans feeling ignored, overwhelmed, and stuck. Turnout is being built by experts to cut through that complexity, putting time and money back in consumers’ hands.”

“Itai is a force of nature that embodies the American dream and is uniquely suited to help others achieve it,” said Mo Koyfman, Founder and General Partner of Shine Capital. “Turnout is using  AI to transform the lives of everyday Americans, helping them navigate their finances, secure the benefits they are entitled to, and establish themselves on a firm footing. Shine is privileged to be a part of this mission.”

The company plans to increase its team by 50% this year and is actively hiring for various roles from its headquarters in San Diego. In addition, the company will expand into various services across other complex government use cases.

Turnout’s platform is available nationwide. To learn more, visit www.myturnout.com.

About Turnout Technologies

Turnout is a modern consumer advocacy that uses AI to deliver compassion, speed, and results. Alongside licensed human professionals, Jake, our AI case orchestrator, is at the heart of the experience, handling onboarding, documents, deadlines, and proactive follow-ups, ensuring the matter moves forward and the consumer remains informed at every step. Turnout is proving that advocacy at scale doesn’t have to mean bureaucracy, and that millions of Americans can beat the system. To learn more, visit www.myturnout.com.

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LONDON, Sept. 17, 2025 — Omnea, a leading AI-native procurement intake and orchestration platform, has raised $50M in Series B funding to accelerate its shift to a new era of AI-powered supplier relationship management. The round was led by Insight Partners and Khosla Ventures, with participation from Accel, Point Nine, First Round Capital, and Prosus bringing total funding to over $75M.

This announcement comes after another year of hypergrowth for Omnea. The company has grown revenue 5x and more than tripled headcount in the past 12 months, adding a number of high-profile enterprise businesses to its customer base across North America and Europe, including Spotify, Albertsons, Wise, Adecco and MongoDB. Omnea will use the fundraise to scale the next phase of its vision—AI-powered Supplier Relationship Management (AI SRM)—and accelerate hiring across the US and UK.

Enterprise-level procurement in an AI era

Omnea’s momentum is set against the backdrop of the growing financial pressure faced by businesses of all sizes driven by increased interest rates, rising costs and an evolving regulatory landscape. At the same time, they’re managing more suppliers than ever before. Every department is using more technology providers, consultants, and other third-party providers, driven by the advent of AI.

Procurement sits at this crossroads, tasked with keeping spend disciplined while constantly assessing and mitigating the third-party risk associated with every potential supplier. Despite its strategic importance, it remains chronically underserved by software, hampered by clunky processes that make it slow, manual and often dismissed as an administrative function. Omnea exists to change that. The company is expanding its agentic capabilities to unlock the strategic power of procurement.

Since being founded in 2022, Omnea has focused on making the procurement process more efficient for procurement teams, their employees and suppliers, and the varied stakeholders involved across finance, risk, IT and legal. The platform creates a single front door for employees to make requests in natural language, orchestrates workflows that seamlessly involve the right stakeholders and systems, and acts as a source of truth for every supplier used across the business.

Jeff Lieberman, Managing Director at Insight Partners, noted customers’ evangelism of the platform: “Of the many players we looked at in the market, Omnea had the happiest customers out there. The company uses AI to deliver a modern, seamless procurement process that helps employees get the suppliers they need in a quick and compliant manner. From disruptive tech companies to Fortune 500 giants, Omnea’s customers are saving millions of dollars a year by reducing duplicative and underutilised suppliers. We are thrilled to partner with the Omnea team in this next chapter of growth.”

Ben Kung, VP Finance at Spotify commented: “Omnea’s AI capabilities and workflow automation can replace fragmented systems, endless email threads, and manual spreadsheets. This enables the possibility of a single source of truth for every request, review, and risk check, while also getting rid of the manual busywork that slows procurement teams and the rest of the business down.”

Evolving from orchestration to intelligence

Omnea is using the funds raised to scale the next phase of its AI SRM vision—built on the company’s single source of truth for vendor data, which is continuously refreshed through a two-way orchestration layer spanning the entire finance tech stack. “Businesses hold a treasure trove of supplier data, but its value is locked away in spreadsheets, inboxes and siloed point solutions,” said Ben Freeman, Omnea Founder and CEO. “Our AI SRM platform unlocks that data at every level of the organization: proactively flagging expired certifications for risk teams, launching RFPs for procurement, and delivering relevant reports to CFOs—all through a modern, intuitive interface.”

Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures, said: “AI is reshaping how work gets done inside large enterprises, especially in outdated areas like procurement. Omnea is the first full AI supplier relationship management platform, automating everything from sourcing and onboarding to tracking performance and risk, to turn procurement from an administrative burden into a growth driver.”

Freeman attributes Omnea’s rapid progress to an obsession with “talent density,” maintaining a lean team of rigorously selected high performers. Shortly after Omnea’s launch, Freeman reunited with former Tessian executives Abhirukt Sapru (CCO) and Sabrina Castiglione (CFO), who previously scaled Tessian into a cybersecurity innovator acquired by Proofpoint. With AI SRM, Omnea brings a transformative, competitive edge to the traditionally antiquated world of procurement.

About Omnea

Omnea is an AI-native platform that streamlines procurement across teams and systems. It improves the buying experience, centralises supplier management, and builds commercial and risk governance into every step. Founded in 2022, Omnea is trusted by global enterprises including Spotify, Adecco Group, Entrust, Wise, MongoDB, and Monzo.

About Insight Partners
Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. As of December 31, 2024, the firm has over $90B in regulatory assets under management. Insight Partners has invested in more than 800 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO. Headquartered in New York City, Insight has offices in London, Tel Aviv, and the Bay Area. Insight’s mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with tailored, hands-on software expertise along their growth journey, from their first investment to IPO. For more information on Insight and all its investments, visit insightpartners.com or follow us on X @insightpartners.

About Khosla Ventures
Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investments in artificial intelligence, financial services, healthcare, consumer, enterprise, and sustainability. It is known for making early capital investments in startups such as OpenAI, Instacart, Affirm, DoorDash, and Block. https://www.khoslaventures.com/

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Investment will enable Bria to expand its visual generative AI Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and redefine the future of content creation at scale.

NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2025 — Bria, a leading visual generative AI platform-as-a-service (PaaS) empowering enterprises to create scalable and compliant visual content, today announced a notable strategic investment from Bright Pixel Capital. This partnership will enable Bria to expand its cutting-edge AI technology, enhancing the development of AI-driven visual products for businesses with an emphasis on transparency, control, and privacy protection, and to accelerate the adoption of its platform across industries such as advertising, media, retail, gaming, and e-commerce.

The investment is an extension of Bria’s $40 million Series B funding round, led by Red Dot Capital with participation from Maor Investment, Entrée Capital, GFT Ventures, Intel Capital, and In-Venture.

Bria’s visual generative AI PaaS is designed to help businesses generate high-quality visual assets tailored to their needs while avoiding the risks associated with IP infringement and privacy concerns. Its unique attribution engine ensures that content creators and data owners are properly compensated for their contributions, creating a fair and transparent ecosystem for the use of generative AI in commercial applications.

The investment marks a milestone in Bria’s mission to redefine the future of content creation at scale. Bolstered by Bright Pixel, a global investor, Bria will accelerate its goal of providing enterprises with the tools to produce on-brand content, all while maintaining strict compliance with data privacy and copyright laws.

“At Bria, we’re committed to building a responsible, flexible, and scalable AI platform that empowers enterprises to leverage generative AI safely,” said Dr. Yair Adato, Founder and CEO of Bria. “With the support of Bright Pixel, we are well positioned to scale globally at the intersection of creativity and technology, magnifying our impact and delivering responsible, world-class AI solutions that empower both businesses and creators.”

Through this investment, Bria will continue to expand its platform offerings, including enhanced tools for fine-tuning and personalizing content, and to extend its patented attribution engine to other forms of creative media, such as music and text. This broader application of Bria’s technology will empower enterprises to produce a wide variety of high-quality assets while maintaining the same rigorous standards for transparency and fairness.

“Bria is setting a new standard for how companies create and deliver visual content,” said Daniela Coutinho, Principal at Bright Pixel. “As AI becomes increasingly ubiquitous in the modern enterprise, Bria’s state-of-the-art technology and legal-first approach make it an invaluable solution for businesses, ensuring compliance with evolving AI regulations. We’re thrilled to support Bria at this critical juncture in their growth as they lead the charge in responsible generative AI.”

With Bria, enterprises have complete control over visual content generation, enabling teams to create images, videos, and other multimedia assets that are aligned with their brand’s visual language. The solution integrates seamlessly with industry-standard tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Figma, and AWS, making it easier for enterprises to adopt AI-driven content creation workflows without sacrificing control or compliance.

About Bria

Bria’s visual generative AI platform-as-a-service (PaaS) enables developers, product teams, and enterprises to build commercial-ready content. Our foundation models, trained on 100% licensed data from 30+ partners, ensure legal compliance with proper attribution to data owners and artists. Bria provides technical teams full access to source code and weights, production-grade APIs/SDKs, and the flexibility to incorporate these AI building blocks into their preferred builder environments. Bria’s pre-built pipelines offer the fastest path to market-ready visual AI implementation. At the same time, advanced teams leverage our ControlNets, LoRAs, and LCMs for pixel-perfect precision and maximum control over visual outputs. Bria offers complete IP/privacy indemnity and EU AI Act-compliant architecture with flexible commercial terms that leverage existing cloud commitments. Leading advertising, gaming, media, and retail enterprises rely on Bria to deliver precise, on-brand visual content at scale. Looking ahead, Bria is pioneering the future of premium content generation—where visual AI, data ownership, and artistic contribution coexist to create sustainable value. For more information, visit Bria.ai.

About Bright Pixel

Bright Pixel Capital is the technology investment arm of the multinational group Sonae. With special focus on cybersecurity, infrastructure software, retail technologies, business applications and emerging tech, it has a portfolio of more than 60 companies, from early to growth stages. Bright Pixel acts as a partner that brings specialized know-how, global footprint, and a wealth of experience in helping companies from early stage to IPO. For more information, visit brpx.com  

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SEATTLE, Sept. 17, 2025 — Envive AI, the intelligence layer for the future of digital commerce, announced the close of its $15 million Series A round led by Fuse VC today, bringing total funding to $20 million. The company is pioneering a new era of brand-safe, self-improving AI agents designed to drive every customer interaction towards business outcomes, enabling performance and growth at scale.

Consumer behavior is shifting rapidly as shoppers embrace AI in their purchasing journeys. According to McKinsey, over 25% of Gen Z consumers have already used AI tools to help make purchasing decisions, a number that’s expected to rise quickly in the next 12 months. This shift has created a new imperative: brands must become agentic themselves to thrive in this future. Envive is helping them by building a reinforcement learning-based intelligence layer that learns from every user behavior and orchestrates cooperative, brand-aligned agents to drive outcomes across the funnel.

“We have all experienced the fatigue of endlessly scrolling a website looking for the perfect item. Consumers deserve a better online shopping experience, and with Envive AI, brands can finally deliver that to their customers,” said Cameron Borumand, General Partner at FUSE.

“Commerce is entering the agentic era,” said Aniket Deosthali, CEO and co-founder of Envive AI, who previously led generative AI at Walmart. “Brands need more than just wrappers around LLMs. They need a system that continuously learns from real-world behavior and drives the outcomes they care about. That’s what we are building: self-improving agents with performance, control, and safety at their core.”

Envive integrates signals from every user touchpoint across the stack: awareness, browse, consideration, and post-purchase, then intelligently directing action in real time. These agents are not siloed; they are cooperative, sharing context and adapting together to optimize outcomes across the customer journey. As foundation models advance, this intelligence layer grows in capability, enabling brands to orchestrate simple actions today and multimodal experiences tomorrow.

“In an AI-driven future, I believe retailers need to balance innovation with responsibility and Envive provides the only platform designed from the ground up to meet this need,” said Sri Chandrasekar, Managing Partner at Point72 Ventures, an early investor in Envive AI. “I think their combination of advanced AI expertise and retail execution makes them uniquely positioned to lead the industry.”

Envive’s agentic growth engine has already helped iconic brands like Spanx, Supergoop!, Coterie, and Wine Enthusiast materially increase onsite conversion, elevate rankings in generative search, and drive retention across the customer journey. Envive is scaling rapidly, with 5x growth projected in 2025.

Backed by Fuse VC, Point72 Ventures, and the AI2 Incubator. The founding team blends deep AI pedigree and commerce experience:
Iz Beltagy, Chief Scientist, creator of AI2’s OLMo
Matt Peters, Chief Architect, inventor of ELMo
Sameer Singh, CTO and reinforcement learning researcher
Aniket Deosthali, CEO, former Gen AI leader at Walmart

“Our mission is simple: build agents that learn in the real world and drive outcomes,” said Deosthali. “We are just getting started, but the future is already here.”

About Envive AI
Founded in 2023 and based in Seattle, Envive AI builds the intelligence layer for commerce. Envive powers self-improving, brand-safe AI agents that optimize for revenue, customer loyalty, and discoverability across search, sales, content, support, and beyond. By integrating every interaction into a seamless learning and action system, Envive transforms static websites into living commerce platforms. Brands adopting Envive benefit from control, performance, and safety at scale.

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NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2025 — GridStrong, the all-in-one platform for automating electric grid compliance and operations, today announced it has raised an oversubscribed seed funding round to transform how power asset owners navigate increasingly complex regulatory and reliability frameworks. GridStrong’s solution automates costly and tedious interconnection and compliance processes—reducing time, improving quality, and enabling higher system reliability. The $10 million round was led by Congruent Ventures with participation from Energize Capital, along with strategic investments from Engie Renewables North America and other major utilities.

The grid faces unprecedented strain driven by load growth, interconnection bottlenecks, evolving generation mix, and underinvestment in new transmission. As capacity constraints intensify, regulators are introducing highly technical, time-critical requirements. As a result, owners and operators of generation, transmission, and large-load assets face mounting compliance pressures. But compliance is still managed through fragmented systems, spreadsheets, and labor-heavy processes that were never designed for the pace or sophistication required for the modern grid.

GridStrong’s solution combines AI-native software with deep technical understanding to streamline complex workflows and give asset owners clarity, control, and confidence without the usual rework, delays, and audit risk. 

“Standards are evolving faster than ever, data is multiplying, and the stakes for noncompliance are high,” said Tom Scaramellino, GridStrong Co-Founder and CEO. “GridStrong replaces the unscalable model of manual, consultant-heavy workflows with end-to-end automation built by engineers who helped write the very standards shaping our industry.” 

Founded in February 2025 by Tom Scaramellino, an energy software industry veteran, and Ryan Quint, the former Director of Engineering at the NERC, the company already boasts more than half of the 25 largest renewable asset owners as customers, representing hundreds of gigawatts of power across North America. Strategic utility investors, including Engie, have been among GridStrong’s early adopters and design partners. 

“Leading asset operators have seen that GridStrong combines deep domain expertise with proven software execution capability,” said Kevin Kopczynski, Partner at Congruent Ventures. “Their unique insights are exactly what is required to unlock the potential of Vertical AI to  address today’s challenges and achieve the speed and performance the grid demands.”

“From the beginning of Energize, we have tracked how shifts in consumer behavior, industrial development, and digital technology are reshaping the grid,” said John Tough, Managing Partner of Energize Capital. “Grid congestion, reliability, and rising demand have made compliance requirements more complex than ever — and platforms like GridStrong’s are vital to deliver the operational scale to meet this need.”

GridStrong takes a unique approach by seamlessly integrating dispersed plant information into intelligent workflows and clearly structured data frameworks. Their enterprise-class platform serves the complete asset lifecycle, from the initial interconnection request to post-COD operations across all AC plant functions.

About GridStrong. GridStrong is the unified platform for electric grid compliance and operations, serving generation, load and transmission owners across North America. Built by engineers who have written many of the industry standards, GridStrong automates compliance workflows to reduce audit risk and deliver results faster. Asset owners like Southern Company, Orsted, AES, Engie, NextEra Energy, Invenergy, Intersect Power, Akuo, Recurrent Energy, and many more rely on GridStrong to meet the demanding requirements of today’s grid. Visit gridstrong.ai to learn more.

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Vie Ventures welcomes additional strategic collaborators, expanding the coalition to more than ten leading disease philanthropies focused on autoimmune and inflammatory disease

BOSTON, Sept. 17, 2025 —  Vie Ventures, a new life sciences investment firm focused on bridging venture capital and disease philanthropy to develop breakthrough therapies for patients, today announced the successful convening of its inaugural Therapeutics Advisory Council (TAC). The event brought together leaders from disease-focused philanthropy, industry, and venture capital to shape a new model for advancing therapies in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Held on September 9, 2025, in New York City, the TAC is designed as a coalition where foundations and investors collaborate to identify common biology, de-risk therapeutic development, and accelerate cures across autoimmune disease.

Vie Ventures also announced the expansion of its Strategic Collaborator network, with new organizations joining the inaugural members. The new collaborators include American Diabetes Association, Arthritis Foundation, Beyond Celiac, Food Allergy Fund, Immune Boost Capital, and National Psoriasis Foundation. These organizations join Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation, Lupus Research Alliance, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Scleroderma Research Foundation, and Sjögren’s Foundation.

The expanded group represents leading organizations spanning multiple autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, providing unmatched expertise, patient networks, and research infrastructure in alignment with Vie Ventures’ strategy to unite venture capital and disease foundation expertise to accelerate therapies for autoimmune and immune-mediated diseases. Together, these organizations underscore the TAC’s role as a unique cross-disease coalition committed to advancing innovation and improving patient outcomes.

“We launched the Therapeutics Advisory Council to create a forum where foundations, industry innovators, and investors can work side by side to accelerate progress in autoimmune disease,” said Steven St. Peter, MD, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Vie Ventures. “This first meeting demonstrated the power of that collaboration, surfacing shared challenges and opportunities that no single organization could address alone. We are especially pleased to welcome the new Strategic Collaborators, expanding our coalition of disease-focused philanthropies whose expertise and patient networks will be essential as Vie Ventures seeks to advance the development of cutting-edge solutions across a range of autoimmune diseases.”

“The inaugural TAC meeting clearly demonstrated the value of bringing foundations together with industry and venture capital to accelerate progress in autoimmune disease,” said Luke Evnin, PhD, Co-Founder and Senior Advisor to Vie Ventures, and Chairman of the Scleroderma Research Foundation. “By sharing insights across diseases and working collectively, we have the opportunity to address the heterogeneity and complexity that too often slows innovation.”

“To my knowledge an endeavor like the TAC, which was organized to unite two powerful but often siloed forces, with its mission-driven commitment and market-driven innovation, has not been done at such scale and certainly not across autoimmunity. The opportunity here is immense,” said Lou DeGennaro, Ph.D., Senior Advisor to Vie Ventures.

The following is a recap of key topics from the event:

The TAC’s first scientific discussion –”Fibrosis Across Autoimmune Diseases” – focused on fibrosis as a common pathway across autoimmune diseases, providing a forum to explore shared biology and therapeutic gaps. Presenters emphasized the absence of approved anti-fibrotic therapies, the need for reliable biomarkers and clinical endpoints, and the regulatory challenges of measuring fibrosis across organs. The session underscored the value of cross-disease collaboration, as many mechanisms and trial design hurdles are common across indications, offering opportunities to accelerate drug development by sharing expertise and data.

The afternoon panel – “The Funding Environment: Discovery Research, Venture Capital, Public Markets and Partnering with Big Pharma” – involved experts from academia, finance, and industry discussing the state of biomedical innovation. Panelists highlighted challenges in U.S. research funding and the markets, noting that capital scarcity and investor risk aversion are reshaping company formation and financing. They emphasized the opportunity for innovative funding vehicles and novel collaborations backed by pharma, which remains a consistent buyer of innovation, making close alignment essential for success.

The closing session brought together disease philanthropy CEOs and senior leaders to reflect on the day’s discussions. Speakers emphasized opportunities to leverage shared infrastructure like biorepositories and trial networks, while also acknowledging the challenges of disease heterogeneity and diagnostic gaps. The session closed with a strong sense of momentum and a collective commitment to advancing therapies more effectively together.

About the Therapeutics Advisory Council
The Therapeutics Advisory Council was established by Vie Ventures to provide a structured forum for disease-focused philanthropies, scientists, and investors to collaborate on the advancement of treatments for autoimmune and immune-mediated diseases. Founding discussions centered on the collective mission to align patient-focused philanthropies and venture capital to advance innovation and accelerate the development of therapies across autoimmune disease. To learn more, visit  vieventures.com.

About Vie Ventures
Vie Ventures is a life sciences investment firm operating at the intersection of venture capital and disease philanthropy. Vie Ventures invests alongside other leading venture capital investors and strategic partners in private biotech companies focused on advancing novel therapeutics for autoimmune disease and other disorders of the immune system, an area of significant unmet medical need. Our team leverages decades of experience, a proven track record in life sciences venture capital, a returns-oriented approach, and a network of strategic collaborators from across the biotech and disease philanthropy ecosystems to advance life-changing therapies and cures for patients. To learn more, visit vieventures.com

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Positions firm to build on investments across real assets, operations and technology, creating the infrastructure of tomorrow

NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2025 — GreenPoint, a global investment firm building the next generation of real assets, today announced it has raised more than $1 billion in equity commitments across its inaugural flagship fund and associated vehicles (the “Fund”). The commitments reflect strong support from a global base of institutional investors, including La Caisse (formerly CDPQ), Texas TRS and funds managed by GCM Grosvenor, that underscores GreenPoint’s differentiated model.

The Fund targets Real Assets investments primarily in North America, Europe and Australia with a focus on emerging sectors that are undergoing technology driven transformation, such as digitization, electrification, and automation. Today, these target sectors span across Transport and Logistics, Energy and Environment, Digital Infrastructure, and Living.

“The significant support we have received from institutional investors validates our thesis,” said Chris Green, Founder and CEO of GreenPoint. “We’ve built GreenPoint to do more than deploy capital — we build vertically integrated platforms that are positioned to define the next era of real assets. We believe that building the infrastructure of tomorrow in the digital era is a generational opportunity that will provide compounding value to our stakeholders.”

The Fund has made a number of significant investments to date, including in Lysara, where GreenPoint is building a £1 billion EV charging, urban densification and fleet infrastructure platform across Europe and Outpost, which GreenPoint is similarly developing into a dedicated $1 billion platform focused on modernizing U.S. freight through a national network of automated truck terminals, with the goal of unlocking greater efficiency and resilience across the supply chain. Each of these fully integrated platforms incorporates physical assets, specialist management teams, operations and enabling technology.

“GCM Grosvenor has been a long-term backer of nascent real estate platforms and GreenPoint’s integrated model represents an exciting evolution of the industry,” said Peter Braffman, Managing Director at GCM Grosvenor. “Outpost is another great example of their ability to combine operational expertise, innovation in technology, and long-term capital which is a point of differentiation in the market and within our broader portfolio.

Latham & Watkins LLP acted as fund counsel.

About GreenPoint 
GreenPoint is a global real assets investment firm building the infrastructure of tomorrow. With over $1 billion of equity committed, GreenPoint invests in vertically integrated businesses that are reshaping sectors including transport and logistics, energy and environment, digital infrastructure and living. By combining operational expertise, technology and a disciplined, long-term approach, GreenPoint focuses on delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns for our investors and portfolio companies while providing tailored solutions and lasting value for customers. GreenPoint is headquartered in New York, with offices in London and Sydney.

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