VCJ Staff

Mercury leads funding of cybersecurity start-up Blumira

Blumira raises $10.3m Series A round.

BuildDirect to list with close of RTO's qualifying transaction

BuildDirect, a Vancouver-based online building materials marketplace, has closed a qualifying transaction as part of its reverse takeover.

Boston's Companyon Ventures raises $27.5m for second fund

Companyon Ventures raises $27.5m for its second fund and has already begun deploying capital from it.

Presentation-tech company prezent.ai raises $4.3m seed

Prezent.ai raises seed-stage funding from Emergenct.vc and WestWave Capital, among others.

Machinery Partner closes $4.5m seed

Machinery Partner raises $4.5m seed round, led by One Way Ventures and Euclid Ventures.

Newark Venture Partners updates Fund II filing

The seed-stage firm closes on $73.6m for its sophomore fund from 35 LPs. The fund is targeted at $100m.

GaN Systems in talks to go public through SPAC: Bloomberg

Ottawa-based GaN Systems, a specialist in gallium-nitride technology for products like semiconductors and transistors, is in talks to go public through Ross Acquisition Corp II.

Generation Ventures leads $9m Series B financing of Blue J

Toronto-based Blue J, a machine learning and artificial intelligence-enabled predictive legal software platform, has raised $9 million in Series B financing.

FalconX sees its valuation soar to $3.75bn following latest fundraise

The San Francisco digital assets and cryptocurrency company FalconX announces a $210m round led by Altimeter Capital, Sapphire Ventures and existing investors B Capital Group and Tiger Global Management, with others participating.

Insight Partners leads funding of Tulip Interfaces

Boston company Tulip Interfaces raises $100m in Series C funding led by New York-based Insight Partners.