Private Equity
San Jose, California-based AnChain.ai, an AI-powered blockchain security company, has raised $2 million in seed funding led by venture firm AMINO Capital. Also participating in the seed round are CRCM, Susquehanna Investment Group and Brain Robotics. Huican Zhu, managing partner of AMINO Capital, has joined the board. Joining AnChain’ai’s advisory board are Howie Xu and Chris McCann from Greylock Partners.
1 min read · 23 January 2019
San Francisco-based Limelight Health, provider of insurance underwriting and proposal platform for the employee benefits industry, has raised $33.5 million in a Series C round led by Principal Life. Also participating in the fund are AXA Venture Partners, MassMutual Ventures, Aflac Ventures, Transamerica Ventures, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital (a division of Wells Fargo Commercial Capital), LaunchPadDigital Health and Wanxiang America Healthcare Investments. The company, founded in 2014, will use the funds for product development, customer acquisition, global expansion and hiring efforts. Limelight Health previously raised a $7 million Series B round in 2017.
1 min read · 17 January 2019
3 min read · 06 November 2015
3 min read · 06 November 2015
Sale of cyber security company lifts deal total to $2.4 billion for the month.
2 min read · 24 September 2015
Just 19 venture-backed, U.S.-based acquisitions were completed in May, and only three disclosed their valuations
3 min read · 24 June 2015
Last year saw a spike in VC-backed M&A activity, but the latest quarter ranks as the slowest for disclosed deal valuations since the beginning of 2013
2 min read · 30 April 2015
Eight companies with disclosed deals were acquired in the month for $1.2 billion combined in proceeds
1 min read · 16 February 2015
IPOs slide back some, while deal value perks up in month
2 min read · 28 May 2014
Outside of Nest Labs and Air Watch, most VC-backed deals year-to-date are smaller in size
3 min read · 06 May 2014
