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These initiatives, once a niche strategy aimed at improving a firm’s public image, have been thrust into the spotlight after 2020’s historic social movements. Does the VC community know what to do with them?

Allergy Amulet, a food allergen sensor, has raised $4.1 million in funding.

Winnipeg-based Callia Flowers, a technology company focused on the floral industry, has completed a C$1.1 million seed-stage financing.

Qihan Biotechnology Co, a Chinese provider of genome editing technology to cell therapies and organ transplantation, has raised $67 million in financing.

PaceMate, a digital healthcare company in compliant cardiac data management, has raised $8 million in Series A funding.

Tyltgo, a Waterloo, Ontario-based company that enables white-labelled delivery for retailers through technology, has secured $1.8 million (C$2.3 million) in a seed-stage financing.

Montreal-based retail software company QuoteMachine has raised C$1 million in a seed-stage financing.

Staffbase, a provider of digital solutions for internal communications, has secured $145 million in funding.

San Francisco-based Udemy, a marketplace for learning and teaching online, has raised an undisclosed amount of Series F funding.

Different Funds looked at GP and LP terms to see how the past year has impacted operations, and found only modest changes, with management fees holding steady. Although the advisory service is seeing an increase in funds looking to originate deals across multiple stages.