Graph Ventures

RideOS, a technology platform designed to accelerate the roll-out of self-driving vehicles, has raised $9 million in Series A funding. Sequoia Capital led the round with participation from Graph Ventures and SV Angel. In conjunction with the funding, Sequoia Partner Mike Vernal has joined the RideOS board of directors.

Birdies, a maker of home slippers, has secured $2 million in funding. Forerunner Ventures led the round with participation from other investors that included Slow Ventures, Graph Ventures and Social Capital.

Picsart raises $130m in Series C funding, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and is now valued at more than $1bn.

San Francisco-based Canopy, which provides premium shared workspace and private offices, said it has raised $2 million in strategic funding. Canopy, which is looking to raise a Series A, said the strategic funding came from Structure Capital, Erik Blachford (venture partner at TCV and former CEO of Expedia, Montage Ventures, Graph Ventures, Mark Pincus (former CEO of Zynga) and Spencer Rascoff (co-founder and former CEO of Zillow).

Bain Capital Ventures said it named Sarah Smith as a partner. Smith will focus on early-stage investments across business and consumer technologies and marketplaces. Smith was most recently an investor at Graph Ventures and has served in executive roles at Facebook and Quora.

HubHaus, a provider of co-living housing solutions for working professionals, has raised $10 million in Series A funding, according to a blog post https://blog.thehubhaus.com/exciting-news-we-just-raised-our-series-a-round-of-funding-to-build-the-worlds-best-co-living-5a681ba9aff2 on its site. The investors included Fuel Capital, Mike Stoppelman, Jeff Fluhr, Andrew Swain and Graph Ventures.

Yummly has acquired San Francisco-based The Orange Chef, a smart nutrition scale developer. No financial terms were disclosed. Also, Yummy has named Santiago Merea as its first chief revenue officer. Previously, Merea was CEO and founder of Orange Chef. Yummly is backed by Bauer Venture Partners, Physic Ventures, Unilever Corporate Ventures, First Round Capital, Harrison Metal Capital and Intel Capital. The Orange Chef's backers included Melo7 Tech Partners, Google Ventures, SparkLabs Global Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Kima Ventures, The Social+Capital Partnership and Graph Ventures.

The Orange Chef Company has raised $1.2 million in seed funding. Google Ventures and SparkLabs Global Ventures led the round with participation from Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Kima Ventures, The Social+Capital Partnership, Graph Ventures and several unnamed angel investors. Based in San Francisco, The Orange Chef Company is a maker of connected kitchen items.

Sparkcentral, formerly known as TwitSpark, has closed $4.5 million in Series A funding. Sigma West led the round with participation from Social+Capital Partnership, Graph Ventures and Sebastien de Halleux, co-founder of Playfish. Based in San Francisco, Sparkcentral is a customer service platform.