Private Equity
Cowboy, a Belgian electric bike startup, has raised 10 million euros in Series A funding. Tiger Global led the round with participation from Index Ventures and Hardware Club.
1 min read · 23 October 2018
Silicon Valley-based Synthego, a genome engineering innovation company, has raised $110 million in Series C financing. Founders Fund led the round with participation from return backers 8VC and Menlo Ventures.
1 min read · 23 October 2018
San Diego-based Decoy Biosystems, a cancer immunotherapy company, has secured an undisclosed amount of funding. The investor was Mountain Pacific Venture Fund.
1 min read · 23 October 2018
Bellevue, Washington-based CoreStack, a multi-cloud governance platform, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding. Z5 Capital led the round.
1 min read · 23 October 2018
San Francisco-based People.ai, the artificial intelligence platform for enterprise revenue, has raised $30 million in Series B funding. The investors were Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, GGV Capital and Y Combinator. In conjunction with the funding, Peter Levine, a general partner at a16z, will join the People.ai board.
1 min read · 23 October 2018
Snappy, an employee recognition and incentive platform, has secured $10 million in funding. The lead backer was 83North with participation from Hearst Ventures.
1 min read · 23 October 2018
Australia and Colorado-based Assignar, an construction operations management platform provider, has raised $6.2 million in Series A funding. Tola Capital led the round with participation from Our Innovation Fund.
1 min read · 23 October 2018
Stockholm, Sweden-based Resolution Games, a virtual reality and augmented reality games company, has secured $7.5 million in Series B funding. MizMaa Ventures led the round.
1 min read · 23 October 2018
Assent Compliance, an Ottawa-based supply-chain data management company, has secured a $130 million investment from Warburg Pincus, a U.S. private equity firm. As a result, Warburg's Justin Sadrian and Sam Lipsick will join the board. BDC Capital, Greenspring Associates, OpenText Enterprise Apps Fund and Volition Capital, which backed Assent's Series A and B rounds, will remain as investors. Assent provides cloud-based enterprise supply-chain data management software to help companies manage and reduce third-party market access, reputational, financial and operational risks. It will use the deal's proceeds to enhance the platform and expand product compliance, vendor management and social responsibility solutions.
5 min read · 23 October 2018
Santa Clara, California-based Ushur, a provider of a SaaS service engagement platform leveraging enterprise data, announced it raised a $12 million Series A round. 8VC led the funding, with participation from new and existing seed investors. As part of the funding, Pankaj Patel, former executive vice president and chief development officer of Cisco, and Bhaskar Ghosh, partner and CTO at 8VC, have joined the board. David Moskowitz, a principal at 8VC, has joined as a board observer.
1 min read · 23 October 2018
