Private Equity
Cannabis industry lender Bespoke Financial has secured $7 million in funding. Casa Verde, a venture firm where Snoop Dogg is a partner, led the round with participation from other investors that included Greenhouse Capital Partners and Outbound Ventures.
3 min read · 23 October 2019
Austin, Texas-based Literati, a subscription book service, has secured $12 million in funding. Nikhil Basu Trivedi at Shasta Ventures led the round.
1 min read · 23 October 2019
ABODO, a Madison, Wisconsin-based apartment hunting startup, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding. The investors were Novel Growth Partners and Flyover Capital.
1 min read · 23 October 2019
Boston-based Fairmarkit, a provider of AI-powered tail spend management software, has secured $11 million in Series A funding. Insight Partners led the round.
1 min read · 23 October 2019
Voca.ai, an Israeli provider of human artificial intelligence virtual agents, has secured an undisclosed amount of funding. The investors were American Express Ventures, lool ventures and Flint Capital.
1 min read · 23 October 2019
New York-based US Grid Company, which acquires and operates power plants, has secured an undisclosed amount of funding. The investors were EnCap Investments LP and Yorktown Partners LLC.
1 min read · 23 October 2019
Chicago and Belgium-based Showpad, a sales enablement solution, has named Helen Yu as chief customer officer. Yu was the founder and CEO of Tigon Advisory Corp. Showpad's investors include Dawn Capital and Insight Partners.
3 min read · 23 October 2019
Fabric, which was formerly known as CommonSense Robotics, said Oct. 23 that it raised $110 million in a Series B round led by Corner Ventures. Participating in the round were from Aleph, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), Innovation Endeavors, La Maison, Playground Ventures and Temasek. Fabric, of New York, provides a logistics platform for retailers.
4 min read · 23 October 2019
EduLab Capital Partners has hired Edwin Derecho as chief financial officer and Dahler Battle as senior associate. Derecho's work background includes serving as manager of international treasury for RCA and vice president in M&A at Citibank. Prior to working at EduLab, Battle was an associate at Village Capital.
2 min read · 23 October 2019
Maze Therapeutics, a company focused on translating genetic insights into new medicines, has secured funding from City Hill Ventures. No financial terms were disclosed. In addition to the funding, Dr. Jonathan Lim, founder and managing partner at City Hill, has joined the Maze board of directors.
1 min read · 23 October 2019
