Vantage | October 2025

Vertex Portfolio News

Here are the latest updates on our portfolio companies across the Vertex network. Stay connected by signing up for our monthly newsletter here.

• Databricks (China) confirms new $100B valuation on $4B ARR
• Horizon Robotics (China & Growth) raises $821M in Hong Kong
• Kapiva (SE Asia & India & Growth) raises $60M Series D led by 360 ONE Asset and Vertex Growth
• Lightelligence (China) raises $210M in Series C
• RedotPay (China) raises $47M, achieves unicorn status

• Sayata Labs (Israel) acquired by Penn-America Underwriters

• C8 Health (Israel) partners with the American Society of Anesthesiologists
• Databricks (China) launches a $100M strategic partnership with OpenAI
• Databricks (China) partners with LSEG to bring AI-ready financial data natively to Databricks
• METUB (SE Asia & India) and Virgin Music Group expands into Vietnam via JV
• Nium (SE Asia & India & Growth) deepens strategic collaboration with iPiD to advance VoP compliance and fraud prevention
• Quantified Energy (SE Asia & India) and Generali China Insurance partner to revolutionize solar power plant insurance with drone technology
• Verbit (Israel & Growth) partners with Deepdub to automate multilingual dubbing
• Verbit (Israel & Growth) partners with Wowza to deliver seamless live captions for streaming productions

• Virta (Growth) partners with Evailable to showcase AI-driven charging operations

• Augury (Israel) solutions delivered 310% ROI according to Forrester TEI Study
• Bicycle Therapeutics (HC & Growth) strengthens board of directors with new appointment
• ElevateBio (HC) appoints Larry Lockwood, Ph.D., as Chief Commercial Officer
• Epirium Bio (HC) announces positive Phase 1 clinical trial results evaluating MF-300 in healthy volunteers
• Nium (SE Asia & India & Growth) launches Global Collections to power cross-border collections for banks
• PatSnap (SE Asia & India) launches first AI patent novelty search benchmarking tool
• Septerna (HC & Growth) appoints veteran biotech leader Keith Gottesdiener, M.D., to its board
• SpyGlass Pharma (HC) appoints Anand Sundaram as Head of Commercial
• Vectara (US) launches conversational AI solution for enterprises

• Zenity (Israel) expands AI security platform to the U.S. public sectorhijacking of major enterprise AI agents

• Nium (SE Asia & India & Growth) wins Best Cross-Border Payments Solution for Banks & FIs at the PayTech Awards 2025
• Nium (SE Asia & India & Growth) wins Gold: Best Cross-border Payments Platform at Juniper Research’s Future Digital Awards 2025
• Trigo (Israel) announced as a finalist for the 2025 RTIH Innovation Awards in AI
• Zenity (Israel) named a 2025 Gartner Cool Vendor in Agentic AI TRiSM