Private Equity
Emeritus, an edtech company that partners with U.S. and European universities to provide online courses to working professionals globally, has raised $40 million in Series C funding. Sequoia India led the round with participation from Bertelsmann India Investments.
1 min read · 10 January 2019
Badi, a room-rental marketplace, has raised $30 million in Series B funding. Goodwater Capital led the round.
1 min read · 10 January 2019
San Francisco-based OneLogin, a provider of unified access management solutions, has secured $100 million in growth financing. Greenspring Associates and Silver Lake Waterman led the round with participation from other investors that included CRV and Scale Venture Partners.
1 min read · 10 January 2019
Way Past Shelter has acquired Listingly.com, a provider of virtual realtor services. No financial terms were disclosed. The acquisition follows Listingly raising $2.2 million in a funding round led by WPS Capital.
2 min read · 10 January 2019
Woburn, Massachusetts-based Boston Metal, a provider of metals production solutions, has raised $20 million in Series A funding. Breakthrough Energy Ventures led the round with participation from Prelude Ventures and The Engine.
1 min read · 10 January 2019
N26, a mobile banking startup backed by Peter Thiel, has raised $300 million in funding from Insight Venture Partners, GIC and existing investors, according to the Techregister UK. The deal values N26, of Germany, at $2.7 billion, the story said.
1 min read · 10 January 2019
Sequoia Capital is leading a funding round of at least $500 million for Aurora, a self-driving car start-up, Recode reported. Aurora, founded in 2016 by Chris Urmson, one of the creators of Google’s self-driving car project that later became Waymo, is expected to be valued at more than $2 billion, the story said.
1 min read · 10 January 2019
Talentsoft said Jan. 9 that it raised a $50 million round of funding led by Francisco Partners. Existing investors, Bpifrance and Goldman Sachs, also participated. Talentsoft, of Paris, provides learning and human capital management software.
5 min read · 09 January 2019
Vena Solutions, a Toronto-based provider of cloud financial planning and analysis software, has secured $115 million in its latest financing. The round was led by U.S. software growth equity firm JMI Equity. It was joined by Centana Growth Partners, which led the company's $30 million financing in 2016. Vena's other backers include Difference Capital Financial and Klass Capital. Founded in 2011 by CEO Don Mal, Chief Solutions Architect Rishi Grover and CTO George Papayiannis, Vena helps medium and large-sized companies manage their budgeting, forecasting and business planning. The funds raised will be used to accelerate Vena's growth and scale its operations.
4 min read · 09 January 2019
Tiger Global Management LLC has invested $18 million Olo, a digital ordering and delivery platform for the restaurant industry.
3 min read · 09 January 2019
