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🌎 Claros Technologies, a Minneapolis-based developer of PFAS-destruction tech, raised $55m in Series B funding. Treehouse Family Capital led, joined by Daikin America, Veralto, Bush Foundation, Nord Asset Management, and Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation. Go deeper

• Fish Audio, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based text-to-speech voice platform, raised a $52m seed round. Coreline Ventures and Capital Today led, joined by 359 Capital, Play Time, HF0, 645 Ventures, Parable, Carya Venture Partners and Alphalist Partners. Go deeper

• Harmony, an AI platform for employee support, raised $34m in seed funding. Lightspeed led, joined by Hitachi Ventures, Fin Capital, Mercer Ventures, and Operator Partners. Go deeper

🌎 Greyparrot, a London-based waste intelligence startup, raised $27m in Series B funding led by Omar Mir. Go deeper

• Array Labs, a Redwood City, Calif.-based radar satellite developer, raised $21m. Mitsubishi Electric led, joined by Catapult Ventures, Kompas VC, and YC. Go deeper

• Weave, an SF-based engineering intelligence layer to stop tokenmaxxing, raised $13.5m in Series A funding. Standard Capital led, joined by YC, Moonfire, Burst Capital, IrregEx, and the Agent Fund. Go deeper

• Credible Data, a Boulder, Colo.-based business context platform for enterprise AI, raised $10m in seed funding from Gradient, SignalFire, K5 Global and SV Angel. Go deeper

🌎 Alpen High Performance Products, a Louisville, Colo.-based maker of high-efficiency windows and glazing systems, raised $6m toward a targeted $10m Series B led by Inherent Capital and Arborview Capital. Go deeper

🚑 Mirae, an NYC-based continuous care platform for autoimmune disease and other complex chronic conditions, launched from stealth with a $5.4M seed round led by Oxford Science Enterprises. Go deeper

🚑 Decera Clinical, a health care portfolio company of The Riverside Co., invested in Onviv, a health-care insights platform. Go deeper

• Golub Capital made a growth equity investment in Church's Texas Chicken, an Atlanta-based chicken chain. Go deeper

• Stonepeak and CMA CGM completed the formation of a shipping joint venture called United Ports, which included Stonepeak investing $2.4b for a 25% stake. Go deeper

• Tower Arch Capital recapitalized Boxzooka, a Secaucus, N.J.-based 3PL and fulfillment provider for e-commerce brands. Go deeper

• GrubMarket, an SF-based food supply chain startup, filed confidential IPO papers, per Bloomberg. It's raised $665m in VC funding, most recently at a $4.5b valuation, from firms like GGV Capital, Battery Ventures, Great Oaks VC, Celtic House, WI Harper, Fosun International, Reindeer Investments, Kinzon Capital, Future Food Fund, Portfolia Funds, Liberty Street Funds, RD Heritage Group, Flume Ventures, and MY Securities. Go deeper

🚑 Included Health, a care navigation company valued at $1.3b, agreed to acquire Firefly Health, a Watertown, Mass.-based health plan and primary care company that had raised over $115m from firms like F-Prime Capital, Mana Ventures, and What If Ventures. Go deeper

• Frasers Group (LSE: FRAS) a roughly 4% equity stake in Burberry (LSE: BRBY), making it the luxury brand's third largest outside shareholder. Go deeper

• Pentair, a water technology and pool equipment company, agreed to buy Taco Group, a hydronic and water-based solutions company, for $1.4b. Go deeper

• DLA Piper added four attorneys to its global private markets team: Partners Kfir Abutbul, Jacob Durkin and Kristine Manoukian, and of counsel Brady Lambeth. Abutbul and Lambeth joined from A&O Shearman, Durkin from Simpson Thacher, and Manoukian from McDermott. Go deeper

• AMD signed a deal with Core Scientific to secure up to 2.5 gigawatts of data center capacity. Go deeper

⚡️ Thea Energy (fka Princeton Stellarators), a Kearny, N.J.-based fusion developer, received a $20m DOE grant to manufacture high-temperature superconducting magnets. Go deeper

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