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Sudozi, a financial software company, has raised $4.3 million in seed funding.

Pear Therapeutics, a developer of prescription digital therapeutics, has agreed to go public via a merger with Thimble Point Acquisition Corp, a blank check company whose management team is associated with the Pritzker Vlock Family Office.

San Francisco and Palo Alto, California-based Nightfall AI, formerly known as Watchtower AI, a cloud-native data loss prevention platform, has secured $20.3 million in funding. Bain Capital Ventures and Venrock led the round with participation from Pear VC, Sri Viswanath, CTO of Atlassian, and Kelvin Beachum of the New York Jets.

Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson, co-founders of Pejman Mar Ventures, have filed to raise a new fund. Pear Ventures II LP is targeting $75 million in capital commitments and has not reported a first close, according to an SEC document https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1667210/000166721016000001/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml Founded in 2013, Pejman Mar https://medium.com/@pejmannozad/tech-s-most-unlikely-venture-capitalist-bb002488f297#.8jr4cckdy is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. The firm has backed companies including Branch Metrics, Guardant Health and Door Dash.

Boston and San Francisco-based Pear Therapeutics, a maker of digital therapies, has raised $20 million in funding. 5AM Ventures, Arboretum Ventures and JAZZ Venture Partners led the round with participation from other investors that included Bridge Builders Collaborative.

PEAR Sports has raised a second round of funding reaching $5 million. Existing investors Innovate Partners and Nordic Ventures. PEAR Sports is a designer of innovative and personalized coaching technologies.

LPs include “individual founders” from Arch Venture Partners, Lux Capital, Polaris Partners, Third Rock Ventures.

Jacquie Marshall Siegmund isn't shy about calling a company she's a customer of and asking how they're financed. She helped pre-empt a deal at one before Origin invested in it.

DCVC and Andreessen Horowitz led the round with participation from Pear VC.

We crunched the data we’ve been collecting about women-led firms and found that they have closed on a combined $1.8bn for 24 funds so far this year.

Pear is made up of 'some of the hardest working VCs I’ve ever met,' says Joanna Rupp, who manages the $2.8bn PE portfolio for the University of Chicago's endowment.

The firm expects to make 40 to 50 investments, ranging from $250,000 to $500,000, from its first fund.

Neura Health, a telehealth company, has raised $2.2 million in funding.

Learn To Win, an active learning platform for high-performance teams, has raised $4 million in seed funding.