Granite Ventures

The Carlyle Group has agreed to make an investment in HireVue, a provider of AI-driven talent assessment and video interviewing solutions. No financial terms were disclosed. TCV, Granite Ventures and Sequoia will remain minority investors.

Allegis Capital led a $21 million venture capital round in Lucidworks, which provides tools for companies to create data applications. Additional investors in the funding included Shasta Ventures and Granite Ventures.

Mountain View, California-based cloud security automation company HyTrust Inc has raised $33 million in funding. Accelerate-IT Ventures led the round with participation from other investors that included Vanedge Capital, Epic Ventures, Granite Ventures, Trident Capital, Cisco, Fortinet, Intel Corp and VMware. In addition to the funding, HyTrust has added Brian Nugent, a general partner at AITV, to its board of directors while AITV co-founder and General Partner Bill Malloy III, and Moe Kermani, a partner at Vanedge Capital, have been named as board observers.

Global law firm DLA Piper has hired Tom Furlong to join its corporate practice. Most recently, Furlong was a managing director at Granite Ventures.

Workboard said Tuesday that it has closed $2.75 million in Series A financing. Granite Ventures and Opus Capital led the round with participation from Crosslink and Shea Ventures. Workboard will use the funding for product development and customer acquisition. In addition to the financing, Chris Hollenbeck of Granite Ventures and Carl Showalter of Opus Capital have joined the company's board of directors. Based in Redwood City, Calif., Workboard is a provider of execution intelligence solutions for managers.

MartiniMedia has secured $14 million in financing led by long-term investors Venrock, Granite Ventures, Reed Elsevier Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank. Fort Mill, S.C.-based Martini is a media and advertising company.

Quantance Inc. said it has raised $12 million in Series D funding from TD Fund, Granite Ventures, InterWest Partners and DoCoMo Capital. The company manufactures 4G/LTE power supplies.

Social marketplace Rewarder has announced its public launch after an initial phase of private beta testing. The business has also has closed a $7 million Series A funding round led by Granite Ventures and Radar Partners, which also includes leading angels such as Ron Conway, David Lee, and Kenny Lerer.

Oakland, California-based Marqeta, a provider of a modern card issuing platform, has gone public after pricing its over 45 million shares at $27 per share.

Oakland, California-based Marqeta, a modern card issuing platform, is seeking to hire investments banks that will help prepare the company for an IPO, reported Reuters.

Oakland, California-based Marqeta, a modern card issuing platform, has raised $150 million in funding.

ConversionPoint Technologies Inc has acquired Emeryville, California-based Sellpoints Inc, an ecommerce tech provider. No financial terms were disclosed. Sellpoints' backers included Menlo Ventures, Granite Ventures and IBM.

Oakland, California-based Marqeta, a card processing startup, has raised $25 million in Series D funding, according to a blog post https://medium.marqeta.com/a-big-step-forward-for-marqeta-a-new-global-partnership-with-visa-and-new-funding-24b234091db2 Visa led the round with participation from Commerce Ventures, 83 North, Granite Ventures, IA Capital, CommerzVentures GmbH and CreditEase.