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San Francisco-based Envoy announced it has raised $3 million in seed funding from SoftTech VC, Lowercase Capital and others to provide what it calls "family concierge" service for seniors and family caregivers in 17 U.S. markets. Other investors in the seed-stage deal include ENIAC Ventures, Structure Capital, Technicolor Ventures and Vayner/RSE, In addition, individual investors include Douglas Feirstein (founder of LiveOps, Hired); Raj Gajwani, Fabrice Grinda and Jose Marin of FJ Labs; Edward Park (COO of Athenahealth); Gary Swart (former CEO of ODesk); and Tyler Willis. Stephanie Palmeri, a principal at SoftTech VC, has joined the board.

Hyper, a newly launched curated video platform for short-term content, has raised $1.1 million in seed funding. Advancit Capital led the round with participation from Lowercase Capital, Broadway Video Ventures, Freeland Ventures and Mesa Ventures.

New York-based Common, a community that offers shared housing in major cities, has raised $7.35 million in Series A funding. Maveron led the round with participation from other investors that included Lowercase Capital and Slow Ventures. In addition to the funding, Jason Stoffer, general partner at Maveron, has been added to Common's board.

New York-based storage startup MakeSpace has closed $8 million in Series A funding. Upfront Ventures led the round with participation from Founders Fund, OATV, Lowercase Capital, High Peaks Venture Partners and Collaborative Fund.

Next Games has received $6 million in Series A funding. IDG Ventures and Jari Ovaskainen led the round with participation from Lowercase Capital, AMC Networks Ventures and York Ventures. Based in Finland, Next Games is a games developer.

StyleSeat said Wednesday that it has closed $10.2 million in Series A funding. Lightspeed Ventures led the round with participation from previous backer Lowercase Capital. According to the firm, the capital will be used for growth. Based in San Francisco, StyleSeat is an online beauty and wellness marketplace.

MakeSpace, a startup in New York City, has launched with $1.3 million in funding from Upfront Ventures (the former GRP Partners), Lowercase Capital, High Peaks Venture Partners and Collaborative Fund. The company, which provides on demand storage for people moving, traveling or who simply need more space, plans to raise another $200,000 through Angel List.

Cambridge, Mass.-based Backupify has closed on $5 million in a Series B round led by Avalon Ventures. The company provides data protection and management services for cloud-based applications. General Catalyst and Lowercase Capital also contributed to the round, bringing the company’s total financing to date to $10.4 million.

The funds raised will support the advancement of Carbon Engineering’s direct air capture technology.

Industry Ventures Partnership Holdings VI focuses on emerging and seed-stage venture capital managers through both primary LP commitments and selective early secondary LP commitments.

A trio of well-known investors in the span of a week said they are calling it quits, for now. The Twitterverse wonders what they will do next and what it all means.

The VC's tweet came within moments of a risk alert from the SEC.

Ivanhoé Cambridge becomes the first investor in Fifth Wall's Climate Tech Fund, which made its first publicly disclosed investment this month.

Reddit has acquired video platform Dubsmash, according to a blog post on Reddit's site.

Stensul Inc, a first agile email creation platform for the enterprise, has raised $16 million in Series B funding.

Oxy Low Carbon Ventures and Rusheen Capital Management have agreed to finance the deployment of Carbon Engineering's direct air capture technology.