Private Equity
WeGift, a digital rewards platform, has secured 4 million pounds in Series A funding. Fred Destin of Stride.vc led the round with participation from other investors that included the SAP.iO Fund and Unilever Ventures.
1 min read · 27 June 2019
Homeroom, a platform for after-school enrichment programs, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding. Forerunner Ventures led the round with participation from other investors that included Felicis Ventures, Precursor Ventures and Kapor Capital.
1 min read · 27 June 2019
Austin, Texas and Irvine, California-based Restaurant365, a provider of cloud-based restaurant accounting software, has raised $88 million in funding. ICONIQ Capital led the round. In addition to the funding, Will Griffith, a partner at ICONIQ, will be joining Restaurant365's board of directors.
1 min read · 27 June 2019
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a fusion energy startup, has raised $115 million in Series A funding. The investors included Future Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Lowercase Capital, Moore Strategic Ventures, Safar Partners, Schooner Capital and Starlight Ventures.
1 min read · 27 June 2019
Montreal-based C2RO has secured C$2.25 million in funding. Fonds Innovexport led the round with participation from other investors that included GCI Capital Inc, Harbor Street Ventures, Tandemlaunch and Ministere de Economie et L'Innovation. The capital infusion will be used to accelerate the commercialization of C2RO's enterprise grade cloud A.I. services. C2RO is a high-tech software start-up that was incubated at Tandemlaunch Inc.
1 min read · 27 June 2019
TripActions, a business travel platform, has raised $250 million in Series D funding. Andreessen Horowitz led the round with participation from Zeev Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Group 11.
1 min read · 27 June 2019
Privitar, a data privacy software company, has named Bob Canaway as its chief marketing officer. Previously, Canaway was CMO at BlackDuck Software. Privitar is backed by IQ Capital, 24 Haymarket, Illuminate Financial, Partech, CME Ventures and Salesforce Ventures.
3 min read · 27 June 2019
Bicameral Ventures has made an investment in Balance, a fintech startup. No financial terms were disclosed.
3 min read · 27 June 2019
Bird Canada, a licensed affiliate of U.S. electric scooter provider Bird, has launched to bring the micro-mobility solution to Canadians. Bird Canada is backed by undisclosed financing from Obelysk, the investment arm of Canadian entrepreneur John Bitove, Canadian mobile venture capital firm Relay Ventures, and Alate Partners, a Toronto-based property technology platform. Stewart Lyons, a SiriusXM Canada co-founder, will serve as CEO. Bird Canada will begin operations in Alberta in July and eventually grow its fleet of electric scooters and other commuter solutions across Canada. Santa Monica, California-based Bird last year raised a US$300 million Series C financing led by Sequoia Capital.
3 min read · 27 June 2019
PanTheryx said June 26 that it raised $50 million in financing from Perceptive Advisors. PanTheryx, of Boulder, Colorado, is a biotech that is focused on addressing serious GI related health conditions. Armentum Partners acted as financial adviser to PanTheryx.
3 min read · 27 June 2019
