Private Equity
San Francisco-based ClassDojo, consumer education brand, has raised $35 million in Series C funding. GSV and SignalFire led the round.
1 min read · 28 February 2019
San Mateo, California and Israel-based Mintigo, a B2B customer intelligence platform for marketing and sales teams, has secured $7 million in funding. Glilot Capital Partners and JAL Ventures led the round.
1 min read · 28 February 2019
SiFive, a Silicon Valley-based provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP and silicon solutions, has appointed Hiren Majmudar vice president of business development. Previously, he led Intel Capital's corporate development practice for silicon and IP. SiFive is backed by Sutter Hill Ventures, Spark Capital, Osage University Partners, Chengwei, Huami, SK Hynix, Intel Capital and Western Digital.
3 min read · 28 February 2019
Los Angeles-based Contrast Security, which embeds vulnerability analysis and exploit prevention directly into modern software, has raised $65 million in Series D funding. Warburg Pincus led the round.
1 min read · 28 February 2019
New York City-based Socure, a provider of identity verification and fraud prevention services, has raised $30 million in Series C funding. Scale Venture Partners led the round with participation from other investors that included Commerce Ventures, Flint Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, Synchrony and Sorenson Capital. In conjunction with the funding, Rory O’Driscoll, a partner at Scale Venture Partners, is joining Socure's board of directors.
1 min read · 28 February 2019
Beam, a compliance technology platform, has raised $9 million in funding. The company's investors include Greycroft Partners, Canaan, Broadhaven, Conversion Capital, Plug and Play and Slow Ventures. In addition, Beam has secured a $2 million debt facility from Silicon Valley Bank.
1 min read · 28 February 2019
ATX Seed Ventures, an Austin-based early-stage venture firm, has raised $32 million for its second fund. The fund will focus on Texas and South Central startups.
5 min read · 28 February 2019
Maze Therapeutics said Feb. 28 that it raised $191 million in funding led by Third Rock Ventures and ARCH Venture Partners. Also participating were GV, Foresite Capital, Casdin Capital, Alexandria Venture Investments and other undisclosed investors. Maze, of San Francisco, develops medicines based on genetic modifiers.
4 min read · 28 February 2019
Hortau said Feb. 27 that it raised $20 million in funding from Export Development Canada ($7 million) and Fonds de solidarité FTQ ($5.9 million). Also participating were existing investors Avrio Ventures LP II, Advantage Capital Agribusiness Partners LP, BDC Capital Inc and Capital régional et coopératif Desjardins. Hortau provides precision irrigation management services for commercial agriculture.
4 min read · 28 February 2019
GIC Pte, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, was among investors that helped Coinbase raise $300 million last year, Bloomberg reported. GIC’s involvement in the fundraise wasn’t previously reported, the story said, noting that Tiger Global Management, Wellington Management and Andreessen Horowitz participated in the round.
1 min read · 28 February 2019
