ATLANTA, June 26, 2025 — Eagle Merchant Partners (“Eagle” or the “Firm”) has made the first investment from its recently closed Fund II, backing Aligned Fitness, a leading Southeast-based Franchisee of Club Pilates. The private equity firm is partnering with Aligned’s leadership to accelerate growth through new studio development and strategic acquisitions across the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States.
Founded in 2016, Aligned Fitness is led by CEO Jon Smith, along with founders Joe and Kerry Ruggieri, who will remain in their roles and continue to drive the platform. Eagle also completed two add-on acquisitions: Crescent Concepts, LLC, which operates Club Pilates studios in South Carolina and North Carolina, and Next Twenty, LLC, which operates Club Pilates studios in Georgia. The combined Aligned platform will operate 34 studios today across North Carolina, Georgia and South Carolina.
“The Club Pilates system represents a highly attractive opportunity given its market leading brand within the pilates sector, passionate and inclusive member base and strong unit economics,” said Jake Rubenstein of Eagle Merchant Partners. “Jon, Joe, Kerry and their team have built a differentiated platform focused on providing a consistent, high-quality experience to their members, and we are investing in their vision for growth.”
Aligned Fitness marks Eagle’s third transaction in the health and wellness sector, following its acquisition of AYA Medical Spa and previous investment in United Planet Fitness. The firm has deep experience in multi-unit and franchise businesses, with a focus on owner-operated companies across the Southeast.
“We were drawn to Eagle’s track record in wellness and franchising,” said Jon Smith, CEO of Aligned Fitness. “They understand the dynamics of growing a multi-unit consumer business and bring the right mix of operational and strategic support as we expand.”
The boutique fitness industry, estimated at $24 billion and growing at more than 12 percent annually, continues to benefit from post-COVID consumer focus on personalized offerings.
Piper Sandler advised Aligned Fitness and Williams Mullen acted as legal counsel. King & Spalding acted as legal counsel for Eagle Merchant Partners and Miller & Martin acted as legal counsel to Eagle & Aligned for the two add-on acquisitions.
Eagle closed its second fund, Eagle Merchant Partners Fund II, with $415 million in capital commitments in May 2025.
Funding was led by Cobalt Ventures to help Handspring grow its evidence-based behavioral health model for families
NEW YORK, June 26, 2025 — Handspring, a mental health provider focused on youth, young adults, and their families through high-quality virtual therapy, has announced a $12 million Series A round. The round was led by Cobalt Ventures, with participation from NextView Ventures, nvp capital, 25madison, Arkitekt Ventures, VamosVentures, Hyde Park Angels (HPA), Cornucopian Capital, and others. Two health plans also joined the round, underscoring strong payer alignment with Handspring’s clinically rigorous and cost-effective model of care.
Handspring is redefining youth mental health by building a workforce of fully employed, expertly trained therapists, addressing a national shortage of qualified pediatric providers. Unlike platforms that rely on gig-based networks with minimal oversight, Handspring invests in developing its clinicians through structured onboarding, weekly individual and group consultations, and ongoing training in evidence-based care. The Company’s model includes skills-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), exposure therapy, parent coaching, and a first-of-its-kind Complex Care program designed to support high-risk youth who are often underserved, turned away from traditional outpatient services, and often unnecessarily referred to higher levels of care such as emergency departments (ED) or intensive outpatient programs (IOP).
Handspring’s approach is working:
96% of families report improvement in daily life of their family upon discharge.
The company maintains a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 82, reflecting exceptional satisfaction and trust.
84% of patients in treatment for anxiety and 79% of patients in treatment for depression saw clinical improvement, as measured by validated clinical scales at the completion of their care.
Underpinning Handspring’s care delivery is a fully integrated technology platform, including custom-built patient and provider portals, a homegrown AI-powered clinical scribe, and a therapist matching engine that ensures strong clinical fit from day one. These tools streamline operations, minimize operational overhead, and create a more seamless experience for both families and providers.
“While we’ve made strides in expanding access to care, we’ve simultaneously allowed quality standards to erode. Patients deserve more than just an available therapist – they deserve evidence-based treatment, genuine therapeutic relationships, and measurable progress toward recovery,” said Sahil Choudhry, CEO and co-founder of Handspring. “This funding is so important because it helps us continue to build a system that truly cares about the long-term well-being of every child and family we serve.”
Kwasi Kyei, President and co-founder, said, “Handspring is meeting the needs of children, teens, and young adults with complex challenges that many providers can’t or won’t treat. And it doesn’t stop there — we take a whole family approach by working with parents so they can support their children outside of therapy sessions.”
The company also announced that Dipa Mehta of Valeo Ventures and Rob Go of NextView Ventures have joined its Board of Directors, bringing deep expertise in digital health and early-stage growth.
The investment will be used to deepen clinical programs for complex patient populations, expand value-based care partnerships, and enhance the company’s proprietary technology platform, including further development of AI tools focused on automating operations and improving outcomes of care.
About Handspring Handspring Health is reimagining mental health care for the next generation – serving children, adolescents, young adults, and their families through structured, measurable, and evidence-based virtual therapy. With a team of licensed clinicians trained in treating anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, trauma, and more, Handspring empowers young people and their families to thrive. Care is personalized, timely, and grounded in outcomes – because better mental health starts with better care. For more information, visit handspringhealth.com.
With funding led by Forgepoint Capital, the fast-growing startup is pioneering agentic AI to slash data costs, automate data engineering and prepare enterprises for AI at scale.
DALLAS, June 26, 2025 — DataBahn.ai, creator of a security-native data pipeline platform built for modern enterprise workloads, today announced it has raised $17 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Forgepoint Capital, with participation from S3 Ventures and returning investor GTM Capital, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $19 million.
AI-powered data pipeline management
The funding will accelerate the development of the DataBahn platform roadmap for agentic AI —autonomous agents that learn from enterprise data flows to automate data engineering tasks—and support global expansion as the company establishes itself as the trusted foundation for enterprises seeking clarity, control and composability in their data pipelines.
DataBahn.ai is setting a new benchmark for how modern enterprises manage and operationalize telemetry across security, observability, IOT/OT and AI ecosystems. The DataBahn platform delivers a dynamic, AI-native data fabric that allows organizations to seamlessly integrate, govern and optimize data pipelines from any source to any destination—with one-click simplicity and enterprise-grade control.
Unlike legacy streaming solutions that simply move logs, DataBahn goes further. Its new Phantom agents collect telemetry without deploying traditional agents, avoiding footprint bloat and preserving compute resources. Built on a revolutionary AI-driven architecture, DataBahn parses, enriches and suppresses noise at scale, all while also being mindful of egress costs. The platform’s new federated search capabilities deliver persona-based insights; it’s beyond just using SQL queries. For security teams, this means faster threat detection and streamlined compliance. For observability teams, better predictive analytics for IT outage prevention. For business teams, deeper application transaction visibility. For the enterprise as a whole, DataBahn unlocks the full value of data—without compromise.
Today’s enterprises don’t just need data pipelines; they need intelligent fabrics that adapt, govern and optimize data at scale,” said Nanda Santhana, co-founder and CEO of DataBahn.ai. “We’re building the foundation for a new era of observability, one where data is not just moved, but understood, enriched and made AI-ready in real time.”
In a blog post, Forrester Research observed that “data pipeline management tools can route, reduce, redact, enrich or transform data. The benefits of a purpose-built data pipeline tool are to reduce the data preparation necessary to interpret the streams of data and events specific to security insights. With increasingly distributed and disparate systems, a purpose-built data pipeline tool is designed to address complexity of classification, integration and modeling data for analysis.”
It is the above set of benefits outlined by Forrester that the DataBahn platform presently provides to a diverse set of enterprise customers. The company was founded by seasoned leaders in cybersecurity, data, infrastructure and risk—including alumni of top security vendors, Big Four consultancies and global financial institutions. The DataBahn platform has rapidly become a foundational layer in the modern enterprise data stack. In under two years, the platform has enabled Fortune 50 and Global 2000 organizations to reduce telemetry processing costs by over 50%, automate the majority of their data engineering workloads and eliminate blind spots across SIEM, observability and AI pipelines. Read more about customers using DataBahn at https://www.databahn.ai/.
“Enterprises aren’t just overwhelmed by data volume; they’re being outpaced by its complexity,” said Santhana. “Our mission is to transform telemetry from a liability into a strategic asset by making data pipelines smarter, leaner and AI-ready from the start.”
The need for more intelligent data storage and analytics pipelines is an existential question for large enterprises. The total amount of data created, captured, copied and consumed globally is forecast to increase rapidly, reaching 149 zettabytes in 2024. Global data creation is projected to grow to more than 394 zettabytes by 2028.
As part of the Series A round, Ernie Bio, managing director at Forgepoint Capital, has joined the DataBahn.ai board of directors. “DataBahn is tackling one of the most urgent infrastructure challenges: how to manage and extract value from fragmented, fast-growing data streams,” said Bio. “What’s truly rare is the customer enthusiasm. We heard consistent praise for the platform’s rapid ROI, forward-looking innovation and the team’s responsiveness—qualities that separate great companies from the rest.”
Originally designed to address the unique challenges of cybersecurity, IoT and OT telemetry, the DataBahn platform has rapidly evolved into a unified control plane for enterprise data. Its expansion into application, infrastructure and observability workloads reflects a growing demand for intelligent, end-to-end visibility across the modern data lifecycle.
“We didn’t set out to build just another pipeline. We built DataBahn to make data work for security and IT teams—not the other way around” said Nithya Nareshkumar, co-founder and president of DataBahn.ai. “By combining deep domain knowledge with plug-and-play AI, we’re helping teams break through complexity and unlock insight from day one—no rewiring, no retraining.”
CSL Behring is Using DataBahn at Enterprise Scale “This product has changed what data means to us. Our journey with DataBahn has transformed data from a cost center into a strategic asset. I’d recommend this to every CISO and IT leader looking to take control of their data,” said Greg Stewart, senior director of cybersecurity and threat intelligence at CSL Behring.
Additional Quotes “Enterprises face significant challenges converting security data into actionable insights due to significant longstanding limitations of legacy systems,” said Chris Inglis, former U.S. national cyber director, cybersecurity advisor to the president of the United States in the Biden administration, and an advisor to DataBahn.ai. “DataBahn’s innovative approach to scalable security data management represents a critical advancement in automating and optimizing data for next-generation security architectures. I’ve enjoyed working with the DataBahn team and look forward to continuing being a part of their journey to address the urgent need for intelligence and optimization in security data management.”
“Trusted by the world’s largest enterprises, DataBahn’s AI-powered data fabric is at the core of next-generation observability architectures,” said Aaron Perman, partner at S3 Ventures. “As data volumes exponentially outpace the limits of legacy SIEM and observability architectures, DataBahn puts enterprises back in control. We are excited to partner with DataBahn on this next phase of growth as they continue to enhance the product and build out the team.”
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About DataBahn DataBahn is an AI-powered data pipeline and fabric platform that enables enterprises to securely collect, enrich, orchestrate and optimize telemetry across security, application, observability and IoT/OT systems. Initially purpose-built for cybersecurity, the platform is rapidly expanding into IT and application transaction data—powered by its AI agent, Cruz, which automates complex data engineering tasks in real time. By eliminating fragmented toolchains and reducing operational overhead, DataBahn delivers real-time insights, intelligent automation and immediate ROI—without added complexity. Learn more at DataBahn.ai or contact [email protected].
About Forgepoint Capital Forgepoint Capital is a leading venture capital firm that partners with transformative cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and infrastructure software companies protecting the digital future. With the largest sector focused investment team, over $1 billion in AUM and an active portfolio of more than 40 companies, the firm brings over 100 years of collective company-building expertise and its global Advisory Council of more than 100 industry leaders to support exceptional entrepreneurs advancing innovation globally. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and London with a presence in Madrid and Paris, Forgepoint is proud to help category-defining companies reach their market potential. For more information, follow Forgepoint on LinkedIn.
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Tripling Growth Year-Over-Year, Certify Emerges as the Go-To Partner for Health Plans
NEW YORK, June 26, 2025 — Certify, the provider data intelligence company, today announced a $40 million Series B funding round led by Transformation Capital, with continued backing from General Catalyst and Upfront Ventures and new support from SemperVirens. The investment brings Certify’s total funding to $69 million and comes amid tremendous momentum for Certify, which has tripled its growth year-over-year.
“This funding is the latest marker in Certify’s dramatic growth trajectory,” said Anshul Rathi, Founder and CEO of Certify. “Provider data chaos remains one of the most overlooked drivers of cost, delay, and abrasion in healthcare today. Without addressing this foundational issue, patients won’t find needed care and provider burnout will reach a breaking point. We’re building what healthcare has always needed but never had – a single, intelligent source of truth for provider data that transforms fragmented, error-prone processes into a strategic asset.”
The company plans to use the funding to accelerate product, engineering and go-to-market efforts to meet growing market demand.
Reimagining Healthcare’s Provider Data Foundation While Certify entered the market as a credentialing platform, the company today serves health plans and digital health companies with end-to-end provider data needs, including credentialing, licensing, monitoring, and roster management – all using a single provider data layer that’s AI-powered and grows stronger with each new participant.
“Certify’s health plan market penetration and powerful network effects set it apart in the healthcare data infrastructure space,” said Scott Rosen, Partner at Transformation Capital. “Their team is modernizing provider data administration by rearchitecting the foundational layer that healthcare runs on. The opportunity ahead — to unify, simplify, and scale provider operations across the industry — is massive.”
The company’s growth is fueled by its incredible client impact, which includes 40% reduction in administrative costs, 30% improvement in provider data accuracy, 99.8% field-level accuracy, and provider onboarding time cut from months to days.
Certify’s platform unifies provider data from thousands of primary sources — like state boards, certifying bodies, and national clearinghouses — through automated pipelines and partnerships. It layers in self-reported data from providers, and uses AI and machine learning to attribute every data point to a unique provider record. Behind the scenes, the platform cleans, standardizes, and normalizes the data, creating a real-time source of truth. Their API-first infrastructure enables source of truth data to be used by customers to automate processes like credentialing and to bring accurate provider data seamlessly into any downstream system — whether for claims or directories — exactly when it’s needed.
This level of automation and accuracy is increasingly critical as health plans are under pressure to meet rising regulatory demands, improve provider and member experiences, and reduce administrative waste — all while managing fragmented systems and outdated workflows. Manual data entry drives up to 50% of inaccuracies, and up to 30% of claims are delayed or denied due to provider data issues. In a system that depends on trust, speed, and interoperability, Certify is laying the foundation for the next generation of provider network operations.
About Certify Certify is the architect of modern provider data infrastructure — combining best-in-class technology, best-in-class data, and deep domain expertise to transform how healthcare operates. Entering the market in 2021 as a credentialing platform, Certify now powers the full provider data lifecycle through a continuously updated source of truth powered by thousands of primary sources and available through one API. The provider data intelligence company is backed by esteemed investors including Transformation Capital, General Catalyst, Upfront Ventures, and SemperVirens. For more information, please visit us at certifyos.com.
Galaxy Ventures raises its inaugural venture fund with the support of a global base of limited partners to back early-stage startups building the onchain economy
NEW YORK, June 26, 2025 – Galaxy Asset Management, an affiliate of Galaxy Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: GLXY) (TSX: GLXY) and one of the world’s largest digital asset and blockchain investment managers, today announced the final close of its oversubscribed Galaxy Ventures Fund I, LP (“GVF I” or “the Fund”). Driven by strong investor demand for access to the growing digital asset venture ecosystem, the Fund closed with over $175 million in capital commitments, exceeding its target of $150 million.
The Fund is focused on investing in early-stage companies developing critical infrastructure and applications for the onchain economy. Its investment strategy spans the categories of financialized applications, blockchain protocols, and software infrastructure. The Fund specifically has and will continue to target investments in secular growth areas like stablecoins, payments, and tokenization, plus all the supporting infrastructure that makes such technologies viable.
This milestone marks a new chapter for Galaxy Ventures, which had previously invested from Galaxy’s balance sheet since 2018. Given Galaxy Ventures’ strong track record of supporting visionary founders at the earliest stages, GVF I attracted a diverse group of limited partners, including institutional investors, family offices, and strategic digital asset businesses. The portfolio already includes some of the most promising startups in the space such as 1Money, Arch Lending, Ethena, M^0, Monad, Plume, Rail, Rain, RedotPay, Ubyx, and Yellow Card, among others. Including historical balance sheet investments and the current GVF I portfolio, Galaxy Ventures has backed more than 120 companies to date.
“Galaxy Ventures closing its first fund above the target at a time when raising crypto venture is historically difficult showcases our team’s unique edge in the market,” said Mike Novogratz, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Galaxy. “With deep roots in onchain markets and blockchain infrastructure, we’re committed to backing founders and startups building real-world use cases that are shaping the next chapter of crypto adoption.”
The Galaxy Ventures team is headed by Will Nuelle and Mike Giampapa. They are supported by a team of investors and a dedicated Ventures Platform function that directly supports portfolio companies with in-house company building resources and connectivity to Galaxy’s global business lines including blockchain infrastructure, lending, trading, and more. With a global team of more than 550 employees, Galaxy offers portfolio companies deep industry connectivity, insight, and access to growth opportunities that help portfolio companies navigate the rapidly shifting crypto landscape.
“Blockchain infrastructure is poised to revolutionize global financial markets. We’re seeing an acceleration of adoption from both institutions and retail users globally—especially around use cases like payments, capital markets, and financial services more broadly,” said Mike Giampapa. “By investing in the teams that are building these core technologies and supporting their growth directly, we have a front-row seat to the most novel concepts and products in crypto.”
About Galaxy Galaxy (NASDAQ/TSX: GLXY) is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure, delivering solutions that accelerate progress in finance and artificial intelligence. Our digital assets platform offers institutional access to trading, investment banking, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization technology. In addition, we invest in and operate cutting-edge data center infrastructure to power AI and high-performance computing, meeting the growing demand for scalable energy and compute solutions in the U.S. The company is headquartered in New York City, with offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Additional information about Galaxy’s businesses and products is available on www.galaxy.com.
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NEW YORK, June 25, 2025 — Elfie, the free digital health super-app that rewards people for taking care of their health, today announced the closing of its $12m Series A funding round. The round was led by White Star Capital with participation from LifeX Ventures and follow-on support from Integra Partners, FEBE Ventures, and Hustle Fund.
Elfie is on a mission to make healthy living easier, and more rewarding, for the millions of people living with chronic conditions and for those who just want to monitor their health. By combining self-monitoring tools, AI-driven coaching, and real-world rewards, Elfie empowers users to stay on track with their treatment plans and build better health habits.
Non-communicable diseases account for over 70% of deaths globally, and 75% of healthcare spend in the US, creating urgency for scalable, patient-centric solutions that bridge gaps in traditional care models.
“It’s a privilege to lead a company with such meaningful social impact. Thanks to our strategic partnerships with the pharmaceutical industry, we’re able to offer the world’s most complete and engaging health app, for free. We believe the only scalable way to fight the global pandemic of non-communicable conditions is to make self-monitoring fun, rewarding, and accessible to all,” said Ofir Ejnes, CEO & co-founder of Elfie. “That’s our mission: to encourage everyone, everywhere, to take charge of their health. This funding round marks a significant milestone as we scale our impact through deeper collaborations with insurers and employers.“
Since its launch in 2021, Elfie has grown to over 700,000 users across four continents, helping individuals self-manage chronic illnesses like obesity, IBS, IBD, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes. The app’s unique approach combining clinically validated interventions with gamification mechanics and behavioral science has driven 30%+ improvement in adherence for key pharmaceutical partners and measurable health improvements among users.
Users are rewarded for completing simple but critical actions such as monitoring health metrics like blood pressure or glucose levels, logging medication, and engaging with educational content. This continuous positive reinforcement encourages sustained participation and leads to better health outcomes over time.
Elfie’s rapid traction has already led to multimillion-dollar partnerships with global pharma leaders. These partnerships aim to improve treatment adherence for patients with chronic conditions, while generating real-world data to support market access and ongoing research. In parallel, Elfie is also piloting programs with global insurance carriers, aiming to reduce medical claim costs and loss ratios through better health awareness and medication adherence.
“Elfie is tapping into three enormous markets, pharma, insurance, and clinical research, at exactly the right time,”said Eric Martineau-Fortin, Managing Partner at White Star Capital. “They’ve built a scalable, data-driven platform that improves outcomes for patients while creating measurable ROI for partners. We’re thrilled to support their next phase of growth.”
With this fundraise, Elfie plans to accelerate user acquisition through new pharma and insurance partnerships, expand the team in the United States, adding talent in product, engineering, and go-to-market, and launch Elfie Research, a decentralized clinical trial platform to generate real-world evidence and support clinical innovation.
Elfie’s app is currently available across 35 countries, with plans to scale to 10 additional countries by the end of 2025. The app is medically approved across multiple regions and remains 100% free for users, with all revenue generated through enterprise partnerships.
About Elfie Elfie is the super-app for better health. Free for all and backed by science, Elfie empowers people to take control of their chronic conditions through smart tracking, personalized coaching, and real rewards. Whether you’re managing hypertension, tracking medications, or just trying to build healthier habits, Elfie helps make it stick. It pays to get better.
Granite Asia invests in Centific’s $60M Series A, led by Midas List investor Jenny Lee, to fuel the company’s expansion as the independent AI data backbone for the next wave of global agentic AI systems.
SEATTLE, June 25, 2025 — Centific, the AI Data Foundry trusted by the world’s top model builders, AI labs, and enterprise innovators, today announced the close of its $60 million Series A funding round, led by long-time Midas Lister Jenny Lee of Granite Asia, an investment firm behind 56 unicorns and 31 IPOs globally.
Centific Raises $60M Series A
Founded in 2020, Centific has operated behind the scenes to power many of the world’s most transformative AI breakthroughs. Today, the company equips innovators with the infrastructure, oversight and deep expertise required to develop and safely deploy foundational models, multimodal systems and next-generation agentic AI; intelligent platforms that perceive, reason and act at scale.
Centific is a recognized innovation partner to NVIDIA, selected for its leadership in real-world Vision and Language AI inferencing. The company was recently featured by Jensen Huang at both CES and GTC as a leading innovation partner, underscoring its role in helping scale AI from prototype to production.
“Enterprises globally are moving from AI experimentation to enterprise-wide deployment, but the journey requires scale, trust, and deep integration with legacy systems. Centific is built for this moment.” Said Jenny Lee, Senior Managing Partner at Granite Asia. “With its global delivery infrastructure, strong existing client base, and commitment to safe, responsible AI, it is uniquely positioned to become a foundational partner in the enterprise AI stack. At Granite Asia, we back the builders of enduring infrastructure for the future of industry, and Centific reflects that vision.”
Powering the Frontier of AI with safety, speed, and scale
As organizations move beyond model training into large-scale, real-world AI applications, Centific delivers the technical sophistication, governance frameworks, and expert oversight required to succeed.
“AI is evolving from isolated models to fully agentic systems that perceive, reason, and act at scale,” said Venkat Rangapuram, CEO of Centific. “Our full-stack Data Foundry meets this moment by combining deep domain expertise, human-in-the-loop assurance, and true multimodal orchestration—all delivered with unmatched speed and scale.”
A future-ready platform for real-world AI
Centific’s AI Data Foundry brings together a global network of experts across 1000’s of domains in STEM, vertical and professional, and consumer and lifestyle, human-in-the-loop assurance with built-in QA checkpoints and escalation paths to eliminate bias, hallucinations, and failures, true multimodal orchestration supporting complex prompts across text, image, video, audio, 3D, and spatial data, and unmatched speed and scalability to deploy, localize, and contextualize AI at the enterprise, citywide, and national levels.
Centific’s AI Data Foundry integrates every component organizations need to power safe, scalable agentic AI deployments:
Infrastructure-Agnostic Deployment: Scale models seamlessly across cloud, core, edge, and far-edge environments to deliver truly transformational experiences
High-Precision Model Training: Workflow-orchestrated datasets fine-tune LLMs and domain-specific agents with unparalleled accuracy
Optimized AI Inferencing: Low-latency, high-assurance pipelines for perception-based Vision and Language AI in production
Agentic AI Experiences: Digital twins, avatars, and multi-agent coordination that bring Physical AI to life
Governance & Risk Mitigation: Human-in-the-loop validation, synthetic-data controls, and audit-ready compliance workflows integrated at every stage
Trusted by the Magnificent Seven, top model labs, and Fortune 500 organizations, Centific’s Data Foundry provides a secure, repeatable infrastructure that keeps pace with rapid innovation while minimizing operational and regulatory risk.
Deploying capital to drive next-gen AI innovation
With this foundation in place, Centific is channeling this new capital into four key areas:
Expand Functionality & Capabilities: Enhance our platform to accelerate the journey from prototype to production; delivering resilient, agile systems finely tuned for real-world impact.
Supercharge R&D Frontiers: Continue research and innovation programs fueling breakthroughs and pushing the frontiers of model architectures, Vision AI, and specialized AI; driving cutting-edge advancements.
Scale the Enterprise AI Backbone: Cement Centific’s position as the foundational partner; powering mission-critical AI deployments at the speed of innovation.
Amplify Strategic Ecosystem Alliances: Deepen collaborations with NVIDIA, Microsoft, AWS, Dell, Lenovo, and GPU-as-a-Service leaders; driving global adoption.
“This funding round isn’t about necessity, it’s about ambition. Having trained most the world’s leading AI models, our Zero Distance Innovation™ ethos now pivots to enterprise impact, unlocking industries’ ability to deploy safe, scalable AI at speed and scale.” said Venkat Rangapuram, CEO of Centific. “With significant interest from top-tier firms, we selected Granite Asia for their unrivaled track record in scaling early-stage tech innovators. Built profitably on a foundation of trust and global reach, this investment turbocharges our mission: to empower enterprises with AI systems that are resilient, agile, and meticulously fine-tuned.”
Looking ahead
As demand for sovereign, secure, and scalable agentic AI infrastructure surges, Centific is perfectly poised to lead the charge. The company envisions AI evolving into an unseen yet indispensable layer of everyday life. Fueled by this vision, Centific is building a unified ecosystem, bringing together world-class talent, robust platforms, and cutting-edge technology, to power the next generation of AI-driven innovation.
Centific powers the world’s most advanced AI. As the trusted data and infrastructure partner for thousands of production-grade systems, Centific empowers innovators to scale models and agents across the full lifecycle—faster, safer, and with expert oversight. From perception-based inferencing to HITL-evaluated datasets, Centific is the backbone for the future of AI.
DENVER, Colo., June 25, 2025 — Lux Aeterna, a next-generation space infrastructure company reinventing orbital operations through reentry and reusability, today emerged from stealth and announced its $4 million pre-seed funding round. The raise was led by Space Capital with participation from Dynamo Ventures, Mission One Capital, Alumni Ventures, Service Provider Capital, and strategic deep tech angels, including the co-founders of Dive Technologies (acquired by Anduril).
Delphi Render
Lux Aeterna is developing the world’s first fully reusable satellite bus, engineered for high reliability and designed to meet emerging demands from the U.S. Department of Defense for responsive space capabilities. The company is building a future in which satellites aren’t single-use assets but dependable infrastructure that can be launched, returned, and redeployed like reusable rockets.
The company plans to embark on its pathfinder demonstration in early 2027, when it will launch
its first spacecraft, Delphi, via Exolaunch on a rideshare mission with SpaceX.Delphi will demonstrate an end-to-end mission by hosting an onboard payload, conducting on-orbit tests, then re-entering Earth’s atmosphere to be recovered and refurbished for another flight, making it the first satellite ever to fly twice.
Unlike traditional satellite buses that burn up after each mission, Lux Aeterna’s platform is fully reusable. This breakthrough not only lowers costs but also sets a new standard for resilience and sustainability in orbital operations. As part of this shift, Lux Aeterna is rolling out multiple business models to give customers a range of ways to access and operate satellites. Whether a mission lasts six months or five years, the cost can align with time on station, unlocking new operational and economic agility.
Lux Aeterna’s approach is grounded in the recognition that market demand for downmass and reusable satellite infrastructure is not just emerging, but here today. The company is actively collaborating with other industry leaders to co-develop a market-focused framework that prioritizes customer flexibility, mission diversity, and operational choice in this expanding sector.
“We’re taking the high-risk, high-cost nature out of space missions and replacing it with reliability, flexibility, and reusability,” said Brian Taylor, Founder and CEO of Lux Aeterna, a former engineering leader at SpaceX, Amazon Project Kuiper, and Loft Orbital. “This funding is the first milestone in our mission to industrialize space through reusable infrastructure. While the satellite industry has evolved rapidly, its core infrastructure is still designed to be disposable. Lux Aeterna is changing that fundamental approach from the ground up.”
“We backed Lux Aeterna because this team has been at the leading edge of satellite innovation for years—building some of the most advanced spacecraft at the most ambitious companies,” said Justus Kilian, Partner at Space Capital. “That experience gave them a rare vantage point to rethink how satellites are designed, deployed, and reused. They’re not just iterating—they’re stepping boldly into what’s next. With the DoD actively seeking more dynamic and recoverable space platforms, this capability is urgently needed.”
About Lux Aeterna Lux Aeterna is transforming orbital operations with the world’s first reusable satellite platform, engineered for high reliability, accurate reentry, and rapid redeployment. With a newly operational 6,000-square-foot engineering and integration facility in Denver, Colorado, serving as its hub for development and testing, Lux Aeterna supports defense, commercial, and space manufacturing customers through a flexible, fleet-based model built to scale with the future of launch.
Investment in data center power infrastructure solutions provider will accelerate innovative solutions for powering data centers in constrained markets.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. and BOSTON and BOCA RATON, Fla., June 25, 2025 — Takanock, LLC, a provider of innovative digital and power infrastructure solutions, announced today new capital commitments totaling $500 million from ArcLight and DigitalBridge, two leading investors focused on digital infrastructure and electrification infrastructure, respectively.
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Takanock was formed in 2023 to address the power shortage limiting the development of data center sites in core markets. The company spent its inaugural year engineering a scalable, integrated approach to solving critical energy constraints faced by data centers.
Led by Kenneth Davies, founder of Google Energy and later head of Microsoft’s renewable strategy globally, Takanock leverages extensive experience in both energy and digital infrastructure. This expertise bridges the gap between the two sectors, delivering innovative solutions to meet the increasingly critical power challenges faced by today’s data-infrastructure sector.
“To meet the increasingly compute-intensive needs of hyperscalers and large-scale data center operators, it’s essential to combine expertise from both the energy and digital sectors,” said Kenneth Davies, founder and CEO, Takanock. “What makes this partnership so significant is our ability to deliver integrated solutions, accelerating time to power for new data center deployment while strengthening grid reserve margins and flexibility. ArcLight and DigitalBridge bring tangible operational capabilities and industry connectivity that will help us operationalize digital power solutions in premier Tier I data center markets where existing constraints are most acute.”
Takanock accelerates time to power by providing flexible on-site power solutions capable of serving as prime power until the completion of a substation and a wholesale grid resource thereafter. In doing so, Takanock eliminates the need for local utilities to build new offsite generation, reducing their burden and preventing the shifting of costs to existing utility customers—a challenge that has hindered industry growth. Unlike other generation solutions available in the market, Takanock sidesteps pipeline capacity constraints and the need for firm pipeline contracts, all while offering unparalleled resiliency during disruptions.
“Access to reliable power is the cornerstone for scaling the data center industry,” said Jon Mauck, Senior Managing Director and Head of Data Centers at DigitalBridge. “The Takanock team has a demonstrated ability to deliver innovative commercial structures that bridge the gap between the power and data infrastructure sectors, enabling scalable, long-term solutions for both power and land development.”
Takanock’s focus on sustainability is central to its business model. Takanock’s highly dispatchable power solution enhances the wherewithal of the grid to support greater integration of renewable energy sources and provides data center customers flexibility to procure their own energy resources. The company also uses best available emission control technologies and closed-loop cooling systems, which minimize environmental impact and ensure minimal demand on local water resources.
“As the cost and availability of grid-served power grows increasingly uncertain, the data center industry needs new power-infrastructure solutions tailored to accelerate time to power and to deliver on the prerogatives of reliability, sustainability, and affordability,” said Jake Erhard, Partner at ArcLight. “In a complex market that needs actionable solutions, we see Takanock’s team and strategy as compelling and differentiated.”
Since the beginning of 2024, Takanock has assembled a strategic portfolio of sites across the U.S. The company is currently in the process of executing digital power deployment under long-term contracts at late-stage projects in Northern Virginia and Phoenix.
Houlihan Lokey, a global investment bank with expertise in capital solutions, served as exclusive financial advisor to Takanock during this transaction.
ABOUT TAKANOCK, LLC Takanock is a leading provider of integrated power solutions for the digital infrastructure sector. Founded in 2023, the company is focused on addressing the critical energy constraints faced by data centers in Tier I and II markets. By leveraging innovative co-located generation, Takanock enhances grid stability, accelerates data center deployment, and supports the integration of renewable energy into the grid. The company’s turn-key solutions are designed to reduce reliance on traditional grid infrastructure, while simultaneously improving energy efficiency and minimizing environmental impact. Takanock’s experienced team combines deep expertise in renewable energy and digital infrastructure to deliver scalable, flexible solutions that help operators meet the growing demand for digital infrastructure in a sustainable way. For more information: www.takanock.com.
ABOUT ARCLIGHT ArcLight is a leading infrastructure investor which has been investing in critical electrification infrastructure since its founding in 2001. ArcLight has owned, controlled or operated over ~65 GW of assets and 47,000 miles of electric and gas transmission and storage infrastructure representing $80 billion of enterprise value. ArcLight has a long and proven track record of value-added investing across its core investment sectors including power, hydro, solar, wind, battery storage, electric transmission and natural gas transmission and storage infrastructure to support the growing need for power, reliability, security, and sustainability. ArcLight’s team employs an operationally intensive investment approach that benefits from its dedicated in-house strategic, technical, operational, and commercial specialists, as well as the firm’s ~2,000-person asset management partner. For more information, please visit www.arclight.com. References to “ArcLight” herein refers to ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC and/or its managed investment vehicles, as the context requires.
ABOUT DIGITALBRIDGE DigitalBridge (NYSE: DBRG) is a leading global alternative asset manager dedicated to investing in digital infrastructure. With a heritage of over 30 years investing in and operating businesses across the digital ecosystem, including cell towers, data centers, fiber, small cells, and edge infrastructure, the DigitalBridge team manages approximately $100 billion of infrastructure assets on behalf of its limited partners and shareholders. For more information, visit: www.digitalbridge.com.
