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Venture Capital
• Nooks, a Crystal City, Va.-based startup specializing in secure access to classified facilities, closed a $25m Series A round from Zigg Capital, Upper90, SAIC, and Lockheed Martin. Go deeper
• Thread AI, a New York-based composable AI infrastructure business, raised $20m in Series A funding led by Greycroft, with participation from Index Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Plug-and-Play, Meritech Capital, and Homebrew. Go deeper
🚑 MyLaurel, a NYC-based acute and transitional care provider, raised $12m in a round led by Deerfield Management and GV with participation from Emerson Collective, Pinta Partners, and Ochsner Health. Go deeper
• Coral Vita, a coral reef restoration startup, raised $8m in Series A funding. Builders Vision led, joined by Katapult Ocean, iAlumbra, BDT & MSD, 2050, Rypples, Colorado Coral, Rising Tide, Aureolis Ventures, and Wilson Sonsini. Go deeper
🚑 Salvo Health, a virtual gastrointestinal care company, raised $4m in seed extension funding from new backer The Artemis Fund and insiders City Light, Human Ventures, Threshold Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Felicis Ventures, and Torch Capital. Go deeper
🚑 Clara, an SF-based provider of tools for securing home caregivers, raised $3.1m in seed funding led by Torch Capital, Virtue, and Y Combinator, joined by angel investors. Go deeper
• Row64, a Cheyenne, Wyo.-based business intelligence platform for big data, raised $4m in seed funding. Galaxy Interactive led, joined by Alumni Ventures and Differential Ventures. row64.com
• PFx Biotech, a Portuguese human milk protein startup, raised €2.5m in seed funding led by Buenavista Equity Partners, joined by EIT Food and Beta Capital. Go deeper
• RetroRate, a San Diego-based provider of assumable real estate loan software, raised $2.2m in seed funding. Swift Ventures led, joined by Eniac, Cooley Ventures, Keshif Ventures, Interlock Capital, Launch Factory and Arkus Nexus. retrorate.com
Private Equity
• Argosy Private Equity acquired HEC, a Las Vegas-based provider of heavy equipment, crane, directional drilling, and HVAC training programs. heavyequipmentcollege.edu
• Eurazeo and Nordic Capital are among those circling Capital Four, a Danish credit manager backed by Ernesto Bertarelli, per Bloomberg. Go deeper
• GFL Environmental reportedly is weighing a sale of a stake in Green Infrastructure Partners, its infrastructure arm, per Bloomberg. A deal could value it at $3.7b. Go deeper
• GSC Technologies, backed by Speyside, acquired F&M Tool and Plastic, a manufacturer of plastic goods in North America. Go deeper
• GTCR formed Maris Investment to acquire maritime tech companies. It will be led by Manish Singh, former CEO of Ocean Technologies Group. Go deeper
• Security 101, a West Palm Beach, Fla.-based portfolio company of Gemspring Capital, acquired JAC Security, franchise partner in the Houston market. security101.com
Odds & ends
🌎 Arkeon, an Austrian CO2-to-products developer, filed for insolvency. It had raised $13m+ from investors including ICL, AWS Gründungsfonds, Square One Foods, Synthesis Capital, and ReGen Ventures, per AgFunder News. Go deeper
It's Personnel
• Josh Lederman joined Clearlake Capital Group as head of capital markets. He previously was with KKR. Go deeper
• Bradley Noojin and Christopher Zochowski joined Paul Hastings as partners in the law firm's private equity practice. They previously were with A&O Shearman. paulhastings.com
• Allison Pearce and Brian Rose joined Troutman Pepper Locke as Houston-based partners in the law firm's private equity and investment funds practice group. They previously were with Porter Hedges. troutman.com
- Ryan Barwick, Colin Campbell, Katherine Davis, Katie Fehrenbacher, Ryan Lawler, Alan Neuhauser, Chris Metinko, and Dan Primack contributed.
