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Santa Monica, California-based Outer, a direct-to-consumer outdoor furniture brand, has raised $4.3 million in funding.

New York City-based Kaia Health, a digital therapeutics company, has raised $26 million in Series B funding, according to a blog post.

Bullpen Capital is seeking to raise $150 million for its fifth fund, according to an SEC filing.

Rejection can be tough to swallow, but a recent webinar from Signature Bank’s Venture Banking Group and others highlights what LPs and GPs say are the helpful steps when raising a first-time VC fund.

UBS suggests investors seek out big platforms and key enabling technologies to capitalize on e-commerce adoption. Meanwhile, data centers are expanding to cope with increasing demand for cloud applications brought on in part by the at-home workplace environment.

Jakarta, Indonesia-based Shipper, a technology-enabled logistics platform has closed its Series A funding round, raising undisclosed sum.

Acquire, a software platform focused on customer communication, has raised $6.4 million in Series A funding, according to a blog post.

Sollum Technologies, a Montreal-based provider of smart LED lighting solutions to greenhouse producers, has received C$5 million from Sustainable Development Technology Canada.

New York City-based Payfone, a provider of digital identity verification and authentication solutions, has raised $100 million in funding.

Canada Business Growth Fund has made an undisclosed minority investment in ThoughtWire, a Toronto-based intelligent building management platform.