Private Equity
Self-driving company Aurora has raised a total of $90 million in funding, according to a blog post. Aurora's investors include Greylock Partners and Index Ventures.
1 min read · 28 February 2018
Syracuse, New York-based TCGplayer, a marketplace and software business serving buyers and sellers of collectible items, has secured $10 million in funding. The investor was Radian Capital.
1 min read · 28 February 2018
Pasadena, California-based Virtualitics, a data analytics and visualization company, has raised $7 million in Series B funding. Centricus led the round with participation from the Venture Reality Fund.
1 min read · 28 February 2018
Viela Bio, which spun off from MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca, has raised $250 million in funding. The investors included Boyu Capital, 6 Dimensions Capital, Hillhouse Capital, Temasek and Sirona Capital. AstraZeneca will remain the largest minority shareholder of Viela Bio. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, Viela Bio will focus on developing medicines for severe autoimmune diseases.
1 min read · 28 February 2018
Edgybees, an Israeli creator of an augmented reality development platform for fast-moving platforms, has raised $5.5 million in seed funding. The investors included Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, Verizon Ventures, OurCrowd, 8VC, NfX and Aspect Ventures.
1 min read · 28 February 2018
Nashville-based Cybera, a provider of secure virtual application networks, has named Jeff Manning as executive vice president of worldwide sales and channels and Jayesh Patel as senior vice president of business development. Manning is the former VP of sales at Cradlepoint while Patel previously worked at Brocade where he led business development efforts in the cloud and service provider segments. Cybera's investors include Sumeru Equity Partners.
4 min read · 28 February 2018
London-based venture firm Kindred Capital has closed its debut seed fund at 80 million pounds (about $110 million). Kindred focuses on European tech companies. The firm gives entrepreneurs the opportunity to co-own the fund that invested in their business.
4 min read · 28 February 2018
Triplebyte said it raised $10 million of Series A capital in a round led by Initialized Capital and joined by existing investors Jessica Livingston, Paul Graham, Emmett Shear, Kyle Vogt and Caffeinated Capital.
1 min read · 28 February 2018
Cupertino, California-based Mist, maker of a self-learning wireless network powered by artificial intelligence, announced it has raised an over-subscribed $46 million Series C round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins. Other investors included Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, GV, NTT Docomo Ventures and Dimension Data. The company has now raised about $88 million in total financing. As part of the funding round, Mamoon Hamid, general partner at Kleiner Perkins, and Rob Lopez, group executive of networking at Dimension Data, have joined the board.
1 min read · 28 February 2018
Cloudian said it agreed to a $125 million joint venture with Digital Alpha that includes a $100 million financing facility from Digital Alpha and its limited partners, and a $25 million equity commitment.
1 min read · 28 February 2018
