[subscription] Bespoke Labs, a Mountain View-based startup building realistic company-like environments for training and evaluating AI agents for business tasks, raised $40 million in combined seed and Series A funding. Seed led by 8VC, Series A led by Wing VC, with participation from Mayfield and The House Fund.. Bespoke Labs

[subscription] Five Point Infrastructure is seeking $2.5 billion for a new fund to invest in energy infrastructure assets including water management, natural gas treatment, and data centers.. Five Point Infrastructure. Fwd: CCMP sells BGIS to Veritas in companies-for-sale update; Building products companies attract PE buyers like CD&R and Truelink

Piezoelectric energy-harvesting power. Jim Smith portfolio.

[subscription] Applied Computing, a three-year-old London startup developing foundation models for energy operations, raised $20 million round led by KBR with Databricks Ventures.. Applied Computing. Chinese AI Startup Takes on Anthropic and OpenAI with New Model

KKR portfolio company. Asset class: Infrastructure. Industry: Utilities. Region: Asia Pacific.

Developing compact, portable nuclear reactors deployed on a barge to advance clean nuclear power generation. Raised a $10M round led by Slauson & Co., with participation from Precursor Ventures, Harlem Capital, LMNT Ventures, Chris Larsen, and Michael Brune of the Clean Break Fund.

[subscription] Carlyle has exited its investment in Copia, a solar and energy storage developer, to EQT for $2.6 billion. This represents a significant exit from the clean energy sector.. Copia. Fwd: Mill Point closes deal for Littlejohn-backed Total Safety Supplies & Solutions; Lower mid-market firm Comvest Private Equity rebrands as Vesterra

[subscription] Carlyle agreed to sell Copia Energy, a US power and AI infrastructure platform developed from the ground up, to EQT for $2.6 billion. Copia focuses on developing, constructing and owning large-scale energy and digital infrastructure assets across the US.. Copia Energy. Fwd: Carlyle’s Pooja Goyal: ‘Building platforms from scratch has become a deliberate part of how we invest’; Kayne Anderson, Warburg Pincus agree to $4.06bn exit from WildFire Energy

[subscription] EQT agreed to acquire Copia Power, a developer of energy campuses for high-voltage transmission and AI infrastructure, from The Carlyle Group in a $2.6 billion deal.. Copia Power. Fwd: AI's musical chairs

[alert] KKR and Energy Capital Partners increase takeover offer for Irish energy distribution group DCC to potential £5.8bn (approximately $7.3bn USD).. DCC (Irish energy distribution group). Google Alert - kkr

[subscription] Mercor agreed to acquire Deeptune, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed company that develops simulation environments for AI agents.. Deeptune. Fwd: AI's musical chairs

Shared corporate/administrative services subsidiary across the Dominion Energy enterprise. From FY2025 10-K Exhibit 21.1.

[subscription] Blackstone to acquire Dresser Utility Solutions, a utility metering equipment company. First deal by Blackstone Energy Transition Partners Fund V.. Dresser Utility Solutions. Fwd: 3 reasons PE is targeting European water treatment

Energy storage / batteries (IPO). Jim Smith portfolio.

[subscription] Seraya Partners announced investment of up to $500 million equity in Faraday Energy, a new energy infrastructure business developed in partnership with Schneider Electric for energy generation and decarbonization technology.. Faraday Energy. Fwd: Stripe and Advent's lowball bid

[subscription] Firmus Technologies, an Australian power grid/energy storage company, raised a $541 million funding round in 2025 as a mega-deal in the grid tech sector.. Firmus Technologies. Fwd: The VC hubs of the World Cup stage