Alastair Goldfisher

Emerging manager Pillar seeks $75 mln for AI and machine-learning startups

Danish company Templafy raises $15 mln

Copenhagen, Denmark-based Templafy, a provider of enterprise template management and document creation, announced it has raised an additional $15 million in its Series B round. The funding comes from existing investors, including Insight Venture Partners and Dawn Capital, as well as Series A investors SEED Capital, Preben Damgaard, the company’s founders and management and other private investors. The company, founded in 2014, also has offices in London and New York and has now raised $40.2 million in total funding.

Engineer.ai raises $29.5 mln

Obvious Ventures adds Di-Ann Eisnor as venture partner

Di-Ann Eisnor, a onetime director of growth at Waze and currently incubating new urban systems at Google’s Area 120, was named venture partner at Obvious Ventures. The San Francisco firm said Eisnor will help to find and fund world positive startups across the full stack of urban infrastructure.

CRV boosts its team with new partner, venture investor

Bi-coastal venture firm CRV, which raised $600 million for its 17th fund earlier this year, announced Matt Heiman has joined the firm as a partner and Erica Van was named venture investor. Heiman, most recently at Greylock Partners, joins the San Francisco office of CRV, focusing on consumer investments and helping shape the firm's growth investments. He’ll be working closely with Saar Gur. Van, formerly at Presidio Partners and J.P. Morgan before that, joins the enterprise team in Boston as a venture investor, working closely with Izhar Armony to focus on companies based in Boston and New York.

ScienceLogic raises $25 mln growth funding from Square 1 Bank

Reston, Virginia-based ScienceLogic, a provider of artificial intelligence software for IT operations management, announced that it has secured $25 million in growth financing from Square 1 Bank, a division of Pacific Western Bank. The company, founded in 2003, previously raised more than $80 million in funding from Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital and New Enterprise Associates.

Greylock, Sequoia back Rockset

San Mateo, California-based Rockset, provider of a cloud-based search and analytics company, emerged from stealth today and announced that it has raised $21.5 million in seed and Series A funding from Greylock Partners and Sequoia Capital. The Series A round was $18.5 million. Jerry Chen, a partner at Greylock, and Mike Vernal, a partner at Sequoia, are on the board. The company was founded in 2016 by former Facebook engineers Venkat Venkataramani and Dhruba Borthakur.

IVP leads funding of cloud infrastructure company HashiCorp, valued at $1.9 bln

San Francisco-based HashiCorp, a cloud infrastructure automation company, announced it has raised $100 million in Series D funding at a company valuation of $1.9 billion. New investor IVP led the round, which included Bessemer Venture Partners, also a new investor. Existing HashiCorp investors GGV Capital, Mayfield, Redpoint Ventures and True Ventures also participated in the round. The company, founded in 2012, has now raised $174 million in total funding.

Foundry Group leads $25 mln funding in Molekule

San Francisco-based Molekule, which develops air purification technology, announced it has raised a $25 million Series B round of funding. Foundry Group led the funding, which included participation from existing investors Crosslink Capital and Uncork Capital. The company, founded in 2014, previously raised a $10 million Series A round of funding.

VC-backed 3D custom-printed eyewear company King Children launches

New York-based King Children, which provides custom-made eyewear, announced its launch and disclosed that it has raised $2 million in funding. Investors include Great Oaks VC, RBC Venture Partners, Gen Z Capital and Casper co-founder Neil Parikh.