Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios • Juniper Square, an SF-based provider of connected fund software for private markets, raised $130m in Series D round funding at a $1.1b valuation. Ribbit Capital led, joined by Fifth Wall, Redpoint Ventures, HighSage Ventures, and Blue Owl Capital. 🚑 Nimbus Health, an Atlanta-based virtual pulmonary care provider, raised $12m led by 2048 Ventures, with participation from 8VC and K50. ⚡️Voltfang, a German battery storage installer, raised €15m in Series B funding led by Forward.One, joined by Interzero, PT1, Helen Ventures, Daphni, Aurum Impact, Fiege Ventures and Newberry Investments. • Lumion, a Salt Lake City-based operating platform for trade and technical schools, raised $10.7m in seed funding. TTV Capital led, joined by Tusk Venture Partners, CreativeCo Capital, and Nine Four Ventures. 🌎 Vegdog, a German vegan dog food brand, raised €9m in Series A funding led by the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund and Green Generation Fund, and joined by Select Alternative Investments and SFO. ⚡️Vecmocon Technologies, an Indian battery management tech developer, raised $18m in Series A funding led by Ecosystem Integrity Fund, joined by Aavishkaar Capital. • Digger, an SF-based maker of dev tools for infrastructure, raised $3.6m in seed funding led by Initialized Capital, with participation from Olivier Pomel (CEO, Datadog), David Cramer (Co-founder, Sentry), Michael Grinich (CEO, WorkOS), Zeno Rocha (CEO, Resend), Ben Porterfield (Co-founder, Looker), Peter Zaitsev (Co-founder, Percona), Eran Sandler (Co-author, oauth), Oana Olteanu (motiveforce VC), and Palumni VC. ⚡️Engrate, a Swedish distributed energy resource management provider, raised €2.5m in seed funding led by Maniv, and joined by Eviny Ventures and Course Corrected. • AE Industrial Partners acquired Air Transport Components, a Gilbert, Ariz.-based provider of aircraft component MRO services. • Aerial Machine & Tool, an Argosy Private Equity portfolio company, acquired Hazard Protection Systems, an Anchorage, Alaska-based provider of passive fire suppression solutions for military, industrial, and commercial vehicles. • Goldman Sachs acquired Danish telematics firm Trackunit from Hg (which retains a minority stake). • Integris, an OMERS Private Equity portfolio company, acquired TechMD, an Endicott, N.Y.-based managed service provider. • Paine Schwartz Partners invested in Chex Finer Foods, a Mansfield, Mass.-based food distributor to grocery stores. 🚑 Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe invested in Constitution Surgery Alliance, an Avon, Conn.-based operator of ambulatory surgery centers. • Kilcoy Global Foods, an Australian protein products supplier, filed for a $100m IPO. It reports US$2.2b in revenue for its most recent fiscal year and plans to list on the Nasdaq (KGF). Shareholders include Hosen Capital and Asia Alternatives Management. • Tron, the crypto company from Justin Sun, will go public via reverse merger with SRM Entertainment, a toymaker. The SEC put its case against Sun on hold earlier this year. • DoorDash (Nasdaq: DASH) completed its $1.2b acquisition of Sevenrooms, a New York-based restaurant ordering platform that had raised around $75 million from firms like PSG and Comcast Ventures. ⚡️Mitsubishi Corp. (Tokyo: 8058) is in advanced talks to buy the portfolio assets of Dallas-based energy investment firm Aethon Energy Management for nearly $8b, per Bloomberg. 🌎 Yasir Abdul, founder of infomercial company InveTel, is seeking to buy Meati, a Thornton, Colo., plant-based meat producer that's undergoing assignment for the benefit of creditors. • Coty (NYSE: COTY) is weighing a sale of its luxury and consumer divisions in separate pieces, per Women's Wear Daily. Interparfums is said to be interested in its high-end fragrance brands Burberry and Hugo Boss. • Advent International is prepping an APAC-focused fund, per PE International. • Joseph Cassanelli, former co-head of Lazard's financial institutions group, joined Blackstone Tac Ops as a managing director, per Bloomberg. • Erik Hansen joined Drake Star as a managing director. He previously was with Menalto Advisors. • Rob Rosin joined VC firm Antler as an SF-based partner. He previously was with Defy.vc. 💊 AstraZeneca, a British-Swedish pharma company, is paying Chinese biotech CSPC Pharmaceutical $110m upfront in a licensing deal to develop oral drugs for chronic disease. 🌎 JetZero, a Long Beach, Calif.-based developer of efficient blended-wing aircraft, plans to break ground next year on a nearly $5b manufacturing plant in Greensboro, N.C., targeting commercial production by 2032. ⚡️ Critical Metals, an NYC-based miner, received a letter of interest from the U.S. Export-Import Bank to provide up to $120m in financing for a proposed rare earths mining project in Greenland. - Erin Brodwin, Katie Fehrenbacher, Ryan Lawler, Chris Metinko, Alan Neuhauser, and Dan Primack contributed to this report. Trump with Steve Witkoff at the White House. Photo: Al Drago/Getty Images The White House is discussing with the possibility of a meeting this week between U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, according to four sources briefed on the issue. Senate Majority Leader John Thune at the Capitol on Monday. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Senate Finance Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) has picked a big intra-GOP fight on — all but ignoring some of the House's most delicate budget compromises. 🥊 Why it matters: Neither the House nor the Senate wants to go to a , but the Senate text released Monday afternoon showed just how extensive, and contentious, the conference-like negotiations will be. Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie. Photos: Drew Angerer, Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) plan to introduce a measure that would force to get approval to Congress to enter . 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