Private Equity
Decent, a healthcare startup, has secured $8 million in funding. Decent's investors included Foundation Capital, Menlo Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Lux Capital, Maverick Ventures, Core Innovation Capital, Meridian Street Capital, Healthy Ventures, ChinaRock Capital Management, Abstract Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Ride Ventures, Sequoia Capital Scouts, Fenwick & West and Sure Ventures.
1 min read · 18 May 2018
Austin, Texas-based OJO Labs, a learning chatbot provider, has raised $20.5 million in Series B funding. The investors included LiveOak Venture Partners, Silverton Partners, Realogy Holdings Corp., Royal Bank of Canada, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures and ServiceMaster.
1 min read · 18 May 2018
EAT Club has acquired San Francisco Bay Area-based Farm Hill's personal meal business. No financial terms were disclosed. EAT Club's backers include August Capital, Trinity Ventures, First Round Capital and Sodexo.
4 min read · 18 May 2018
Berkeley, California and Sydney, Australia-based Indee Labs, a developer of hardware for gene delivery, has raised $2.6 million in funding. Founders Fund led the round with participation from other investors that included Main Sequence Ventures.
1 min read · 18 May 2018
Lexington, Massachusetts-based Accent Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company focused on treating cancer patients, has raised $40 million in Series A funding. The investors were The Column Group, Atlas Venture and EcoR1 Capital.
1 min read · 18 May 2018
London-based Incopro, an online IP and brand protection company, has secured $21 million in funding. The investor was Highland Europe. Houlihan Loukey was financial adviser to Incopro on the deal. In addition to the funding. Sam Brooks and Gajan Rajanathan from Highland Europe will join Incopro's board of directors.
4 min read · 18 May 2018
UK-based Adzuna, a job search engine, has secured 8 million pounds in Series C funding. The investor was Smedvig Capital.
4 min read · 18 May 2018
SVB Capital has raised a $392 million Sprout Endurance Partners venture capital fund, according to a filing with the SEC.
1 min read · 17 May 2018
Highline BETA has relaunched Female Funders Angel Academy, an accelerator program for women executives pursuing angel investing. Highline BETA's Female Funders will partner with the National Angel Capital Organization to sponsor an eight-week training program covering the fundamentals of angel investing. In the year following the training, Angel Academy members will be able to write their first investment cheque for startups sourced independently or through the Female Funders syndicate, and to co-invest with Highline BETA. Toronto-based Highline BETA is a startup co-creation and new venture development firm.
4 min read · 17 May 2018
Sapphire Ventures has named Paul Levine as a partner. Recently, Levine was president and chief operating officer at Trulia.
3 min read · 17 May 2018
