North America

Nkarta Therapeutics racks up $114 mln Series B

South San Francisco-based Nkarta Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company focused on fighting cancer, has raised $114 million in Series B financing. Samsara BioCapital led the round.

VC-backed Grabango hires product and engineering VP

Berkeley, California-based Grabango, a checkout-free technology service provider to existing brick-and-mortar grocers and convenience store chains, has named Ryan Smith as vice president of product and engineering. Previously, Smith was vice president of product and engineering at Sight Machine. Grabango's backers include Propel Venture Partners, Ridge Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Commerce Ventures and Founders Fund.

Clean food tech provider Terramera locks in Series B

Vancouver, British Columbia-based Terramera, a clean food technology provider, has raised US$45 million in Series B funding. Ospraie Ag Science and Seed2Growth Ventures led the round. The capital will be used to enable Terramera to scale its technology. In addition to the funding, Terramera has named Jeff Booth as board chair and Carl Casale, lead investor of Ospraie Ag Science, to its board of directors.

Ori amasses $20 mln Series B

Ori Inc, a maker of robotic interior products and systems, has raised $20 million in Series B funding. The investors were Sidewalk Labs, Ingka Group, Geolo Capital and Khosla Ventures.

Dapix nets $5.7 mln Series A

Dapix Inc, the company behind the development of the FIO Protocol, has secured $5.7 million in Series A funding. Binance Labs, the venture arm of global cryptocurrency exchange and blockchain ecosystem Binance, led the round.

DappRadar pockets $2.33 mln seed

Kaunas, Lithuania-based DappRadar, a platform for discovering and analyzing blockchain-based decentralized applications, has raised $2.33 million in seed funding, according to a Medium blog post. Naspers led the round with participation from Blockchain.com Ventures and Angel Invest Berlin.

Toronto fintech firm PayBright nabs $34 mln

Toronto-based PayBright, a fintech lending and payments provider, has raised $34 million in funding. The backer was goeasy Ltd. This transaction follows a recent fundraising led by the Canadian Business Growth Fund with participation from PayBright's return backers that included iA Financial Group. The total equity raised in the two transactions were $60 million.

Repare Therapeutics picks up Series B funding

Montreal and Boston-based Repare Therapeutics, a precision oncology company, has closed US$82.5 million in Series B financing. Cowen Healthcare Investments led the round. Other participants in the financing included OrbiMed, Redmile, BVF Partners LP, Logos Capital, Versant Ventures, MPM Capital, Fonds de solidarité FTQ and BDC Capital. In addition to the funding, Kevin Raidy, managing partner at Cowen Healthcare Investments and Dr. David Bonita, a partner at OrbiMed, will join Repare’s board of directors.

Fieldin gathers $12 mln

Fresno, California and Israel-based Fieldin, a provider of a farm management platform, has secured $12 million in financing. Zeev Ventures led the round.

BrightInsight fetches $25 mln Series A

San Jose, California and Switzerland-based BrightInsight Inc, a provider of a digital health platform for biopharma and medtech, has secured $25 million in Series A funding. New Leaf Venture Partners and Eclipse Ventures led the round.