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Little Otter picks up $22m Series ALittle Otter, a digital mental health company, has raised $22 million in Series A funding.
Medchart attracts $17m in seed, Series A financingsToronto-based Medchart, a cloud-based platform for aggregating and analyzing patient-authorized health information, has raised $17 million in seed and Series A financings.
- ASAPP nets $185m Series B
New York-based ASAPP Inc, an artificial intelligence company, has closed $185 million in Series B funding.
Lygos attracts $13 mln Series ALygos, a specialty chemicals company, has raised $13 million in Series A financing. IA Ventures and OS Fund led the round with participation from other backers that included First Round Capital, Y Combinator and Vast Ventures.
- Inverse nets $6 mln Series A
New York and San Francisco-based Inverse, a digital media startup focused on millennial men, has raised $6 million in Series A funding. Crosslink Capital led the round with participation from other investors that included Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Social Starts, Bialla Venture Partners and Vast Ventures. In addition to the funding, Omar el-Ayat, a vice president at Crosslink Capital, has been added to Inverse's board.
Artis Ventures, VCs betting you’ll love high-tech JuiceroVenture-backed Juicero emerged from stealth today, makes its high-tech juicer available for sale.
- Eight gets $6 mln seed for sleep technology
New York-based Eight, which makes a smart mattress cover to track sleep patters, closed a $6 million seed funding round. Investors in the round include Y Combinator, Yunqui Partners, Azure Capital, Cota Capital, Comcast Ventures, Vast Ventures, Stanford University, Galvanize Ventures, Y Combinator partner and Scribd co-founder Jared Friedman and others. Eight was formerly known as Luna.
- Ripple Labs raises $28 mln
Ripple Labs said Tuesday it closed a $28 million Series A funding round that includes IDG Capital Partners and the venture arms of CME Group and Seagate Technology. Other new investors include Jerry Yang's AME Cloud Ventures, ChinaRock Capital Management, China Growth Capital and Wicklow Capital. Also participating in this round were Bitcoin Opportunity Corp., Core Innovation Capital, Route 66 Ventures, RRE Ventures, Vast Ventures, and Venture 51. San Francisco-based Ripple Labs is a digital currency startup.
- Ginkgo Bioworks nabs $9 mln Series A
Boston-based organism design company Ginkgo Bioworks has received $9 million in Series A funding. The investors were Felicis Ventures, OS Fund, Data Collective, iGlobe Partners and Vast Ventures.