Private Equity
Science Inc, a Santa Monica, California-based venture firm and incubator, is raising its third $100 million venture fund, according to a filing with the SEC.
1 min read · 30 July 2019
Obvious Ventures has raised $154.3 million toward a third venture-capital fund, according to a filing with the SEC.
1 min read · 30 July 2019
Revolution has set out to raise a $150 million second Rise of the Rest seed fund, according to a filing with the SEC.
1 min read · 30 July 2019
Play Ventures has raised $40 million for its inaugural fund, according to an SEC filing. The Singapore-based venture firm invests in gaming startups.
1 min read · 30 July 2019
Calgary-based 3D robotics supply chain company Attabotics has raised nearly $33 million (US$25 million) in a Series B financing. The round's backers included new investors Coatue Management, Comcast Ventures and Honeywell Ventures, as well as returning investors Forerunner Ventures and Werklund Growth Fund. Founded in 2015, Attabotics provides a robotic warehousing and fulfillment system that helps retailers reduce space requirements and accelerate shipping processes to meet demand. Led by CEO and CTO Scott Gravelle, Attabotics will use the funds raised for continued growth, including new hires, scaling manufacturing operations and developing new technologies.
3 min read · 30 July 2019
Origin Ventures has promoted Scott Stern and Prashant Shukla to vice president, according to a company announcement. Also, the firm has upped Devon Leichtman to director of platform. Stern first joined Origin Ventures in 2016 while Shukla came on board in 2017. Leichtman also joined the firm in 2017.
1 min read · 30 July 2019
BMO's Technology and Innovation Banking group has provided US$37 million of debt financing to Kony, an Austin, Texas-based digital and mobile application development company. The investment includes US$10 million of new financing. The proceeds will be used by Kony to accelerate the growth of Kony DBX, a digital banking solutions platform, and Kony Quantum, a low-code solutions platform. Kony secured about US$112 million prior to the BMO deal, according to Refinitiv. That includes 2014's US$50 million round led by SoftBank Capital and Insight Venture Partners, and joined by Georgian Partners and others.
4 min read · 30 July 2019
Microsoft has acquired BlueTalon, a provider of unified data access control solutions for modern data platforms, according to a blog post on the Microsoft site. No financial terms were disclosed. BlueTalon's backers included Maverick Ventures, Arsenal Venture Partners, Signia Venture Partners, Data Collective, Divergent Ventures, Bloomberg Beta and Stanford-StartX Fund.
1 min read · 30 July 2019
DataGrail, a privacy management platform, has raised $5 million in funding, according to a blog post on its site. Cloud Apps Capital Partners led the round.
1 min read · 30 July 2019
UK-based PredictImmune, a developer of prognostic tools for guiding treatment options and improving patient outcomes in immune-mediated diseases, has closed its Series B funding round at 10 million pounds. The investors included Parkwalk, Cambridge Enterprise and BGF.
1 min read · 30 July 2019
