Gen.G, a global esports organization, has raised $46 million in funding. The investors included actor Will Smith, Los Angeles Clippers minority owner Dennis Wong, New Enterprise Associates, Conductive Ventures, Battery Ventures, Canaan Partners, SVB Capital and Stanford University.
1 min read · 18 April 2019
Los Angeles-based PopBase, a creator of interactive digital fan clubs for social media influencers, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding. The investor was Queen City Angels.
1 min read · 18 April 2019
Boston and Louisville-based Talaris Therapeutics Inc, a biotechnology company, has secured $100 million in Series A financing. Blackstone Life Sciences led the round with participation from Longitude Capital and Qiming Venture Partners USA.
1 min read · 18 April 2019
Waltham, Massachusetts-based Arrakis Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company, has raised $75 million in Series B funding. VenBio Partners and Nextech Invest led the round with participation from Omega Funds, HBM Healthcare Investments, GV, WuXi AppTec Venture Fund, Alexandria Venture Investments, Canaan Partners, Advent Life Sciences, Pfizer Ventures, Celgene Corporation, Osage University Partners and the estate of Henri Termeer.
1 min read · 18 April 2019
Galvanize, a technology workforce educator, has named Harsh Patel as CEO. He is the former CEO of Hack Reactor. Galvanize's backers include Catalyst Investors, ABS Capital Partners, University Ventures, New Markets Venture Partners and Colorado Impact Fund.
3 min read · 17 April 2019
Kindbody, a women's healthcare startup, has secured $15 million in Series A financing. RRE Ventures and Perceptive Advisors led the round with participation from other investors that included Green D Ventures, Trail Mix Ventures and Winklevoss Capital. In conjunction with the funding, Ellen Hukkelhoven from Perceptive Advisors and Alice Lloyd George from RRE will join Kindbody's board of directors.
1 min read · 17 April 2019
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Zapata Quantum, a quantum computing startup, has raised $21 million in Series A financing. Comcast Ventures and Prelude Ventures led the round with participation from other investors that included Pitango Ventures, BASF Venture Capital, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Pillar VC and The Engine.
1 min read · 17 April 2019
Redox, which provides a way for healthcare providers and vendors to share data, has raised $33 million in Series C funding. Battery Ventures led the round with participation from return backers .406 Ventures, RRE Ventures and Intermountain Ventures.
1 min read · 17 April 2019
Israel and Massachusetts-based EarlySense, a provider of continuous monitoring solutions for the healthcare continuum, has named Matt Johnson as CEO. He succeeds Avner Haperin, the company-co-founder and founding CEO who has led EarlySense since its 2004 launch. Johnson is a former managing director at Sowell & Co. EarlySense's backers include Hill-Rom, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, BlueRed Capital, Israel Innovation Fund, Argos Capital, Hotung Capital, Pitango Venture Capital and JK&B Venture Capital.
3 min read · 17 April 2019
Armory Square Ventures has raised $31 million for its second fund, according to an SEC filing. No target was listed in the document. Armory Square Ventures is a seed and early-stage venture firm based in Syracuse, New York and New York City.
1 min read · 17 April 2019
