Private Equity
San Francisco-based Lively Inc, which operates a Health Savings Account platform, announced it has raised $11 million in a Series A funding round led by Costanoa Ventures. Other investors include Y Combinator, Point Judith Capital and Transmedia Capital. As part of the financing, Costanoa Partner Mark Selcow will join the board.
1 min read · 30 October 2018
Menlo Park, California-based Clear Labs, provider of a platform for food safety testing, announced it has raised $21 million in funding. The Series B2 round was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Wing VC, Dentsu Ventures, Felicis Ventures and Khosla Ventures, along with a number of food production companies. The company, founded in 2014, has now raised $45 million in total funding.
1 min read · 30 October 2018
Mobile performance testing service provider HeadSpin announced it has raised $20 million in a Series B round of funding. The round includes new investors ICONIQ, Battery Ventures, EQT Ventures, Kearny Jackson, Adam D’Angelo, Ross Mason and Ryan Hoover. They join existing investors GV, Telstra Ventures, Danhua Capital, Nexus Ventures Partners, NextWorld Capital and others. The company was founded in 2015.
1 min read · 30 October 2018
Pharos Capital Group LLC said Oct. 30 it acquired a majority stake in Charter Health Care Group. Financial terms weren’t announced. Charter Health is a post-acute care provider offering hospice, home health, and transitional care services.
3 min read · 30 October 2018
GTR Ventures said Oct. 30 that it invested in Orbitt. Financial terms weren’t announced. Orbitt, with headquarters in London and operations in Mauritius, is an African-focused fintech deals platform.
2 min read · 30 October 2018
San Francisco-based Ethos, a life insurance company that uses predictive analytics, announced today that it has raised $35 million in Series B funding. Accel led the round, which include GV and previous investors Sequoia Capital and Arrive, a subsidiary of Roc Nation, as well as a debt facility from Silicon Valley Bank. The company, founded in 2016, has now raised $46 million in total funding. As part of the latest round, Accel Partner Nate Niparko will join the board and GV General Partner Tyson Clark will join the board as an adviser.
1 min read · 30 October 2018
Los Angeles-based WAYV, a provider of B2B ecommerce solutions for the cannabis industry, today announced a $5 million seed round led by Craft Ventures. The company was launched earlier this year by Keith McCarty, co-founder of Eaze.
1 min read · 29 October 2018
StarkWare, an Israeli blockchain startup, has raised $30 million in funding, according to a blog post. Paradigm led the round with participation from other investors that include Intel Capital, Sequoia, Atomico, DCVC, Wing, Consensys, Coinbase Ventures, Multicoin Capital, Collaborative Fund, Scalar Capital, Semantic Ventures, Pantera and Floodgate.
1 min read · 29 October 2018
New York City-based Work-Bench, an enterprise-focused venture fund and community, raised more than $46.2 million for its second fund, according to a regulatory filing. Work-Bench was co-founded by General Partners Jonathan Lehr and Jessica Lin in 2013. It is based in a 32,000-square-foot office in Union Square where it hosts events and operates an enterprise tech hub.
1 min read · 29 October 2018
San Francisco-based Properly Inc, a cleaning and quality management platform to Airbnb hosts and vacation rental managers, has secured $8.5 million in Series A funding. Asset Management Ventures led the round.
3 min read · 29 October 2018
