Internet Company EQT Secures $2.9 Billion in Funding Round

ShareChat

ShareChat is India’s leading social media platform that operates exclusively in Indic languages. We empower our 160 million strong monthly active user community to share their opinions, record their lives and make new friends - all within the comfort of their language of choice. Our short video platform Moj, is today India's preferred short video destination with tens of millions of users from across the world. The platform has been designed for artists and creators to create innovative short video content and display their creativity to millions, globally. At ShareChat we are spearheading India's internet revolution. By providing a meaningful social experience, we are determining how the next billion users will interact on the internet.

Kibu, Inc

Your connection to reality. Kibu ensures you always know who's on the other end of every conversation, wherever it happens. Kibu is a security protocol that enables groups to collaborate in digital spaces secured by real-world trust. Kibu’s application and API allow organizations to protect critical workflows with a vote-based approval system. By relying on real-world trust and biometrics instead of emails or passwords, Kibu is creating a digital ecosystem where humans know who and what is real: No spam, no bots.

Scout AI

Scout AI is a frontier AI lab for U.S. defense. It was founded in 2024 by Colby Adcock and Collin Otis with a mission to deploy mission-ready AI agents across unmanned systems for the Department of War and its allies. Its Fury foundation model transforms uncrewed ground, air, sea, and space platforms and payloads into intelligent, collaborative teammates that multiply warfighter effectiveness. Scout AI is based in Sunnyvale, CA and is backed by leading institutional investors including Booz Allen Ventures, Align Ventures, Draper Associates, and Perot Jain.

Checkstep

Checkstep is the trusted AI content moderation software that helps global platforms detect harmful content, enforce policies, and stay compliant at scale. Combine powerful automation with human expertise to deliver safe, relevant, and compliant digital experiences. Checkstep was founded in 2020 by serial entrepreneur Guillaume Bouchard, Facebook’s former AI Integrity Manager in London, who successfully exited his first business, Bloomsbury AI, to Facebook in 2018, and by Jonathan Manfield, former Software Engineering Lead at JP Morgan with an initial focus on misinformation. The company is backed by influential personalities of the tech industry from the U.S. and U.K., including many previous founders of online platforms, such as Joe White MBE, co-founder of Moonfruit.com and British Consul General in San Francisco, Jon Oringer who founded Shutterstock, a leading stock photography provider, as well as technology specialists, such as William Tunstall-Pedoe, who founded Evi, which became Amazon Alexa, and Diana Hu, who leads the AR platform at Niantic the company behind Pokemon Go.

Liquid

Liquid is a group of people who build cultural currency and business impact for our partners. We specialise in cultural strategy, creative execution and brand scaling services.