Private Equity
Knotel, a provider of workspaces for companies, has secured $60 million in funding. Norwest Venture Partners led the round. In addition to the funding, Jeff Crowe, a managing partner at Norwest, will join Knotel's board.
3 min read · 24 October 2018
Silicon Valley-based Alpaca, a fintech startup, has secured $3 million in funding. The investors included Japanese venture firm Global Brain and seed/early-stage tech-driven venture firm Archetype.
1 min read · 24 October 2018
UK-based Futrli, a provider of forecasting and reporting solutions for business owners and accountants, has raised 4 million pounds in Series A funding, according to a blog post on its site. The lead investors were e.ventures, Notion Capital and firstminute Capital.
1 min read · 24 October 2018
Hong Kong-based Neat, a provider of mobile current account solutions for underbanked people and companies in Asia, has raised $3 million in funding, according to a blog post. Linear Capital led the round.
1 min read · 24 October 2018
Boston-based Algorand, a blockchain payments platform, has raised $62 million in funding. The investors were not named. Also, Algorand has named Steve Kokinos and W. Sean Ford as CEO and COO, respectively.
1 min read · 24 October 2018
San Francisco-based Teamable, which leverages social networks to operate a hiring platform, has raised $5 million in additional funds and acquired Simppler, which developed machine learning-based matchmaking technology that focuses on finding people to hire. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Teamable raised the funds from new investor Foundation Capital and previous investors True Ventures and SaaStr Fund. The company has now raised $10 million since it was founded in 2013. Foundation was also an investor in Simppler, along with Greylock Capital. Simppler, which had raised more than $3 million in funding, was the brainchild of Vipul Sharma, who earlier in his career ran machine learning engineering at Eventbrite.
1 min read · 24 October 2018
Promethium, a provider of self-service data governance and business intelligence analytics, has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. Zetta Venture Partners led the round.
1 min read · 23 October 2018
Raleigh, North Carolina-based K4Connect, a provider of solutions that serve and empower older adults and individuals living with disabilities, has raised $12 million in Series B funding. AXA Venture Partners led the round.
1 min read · 23 October 2018
San Francisco-based tech company Envoy has raised $43 million in Series B funding, according to a blog post on its site. Menlo Ventures led the round with participation from Initialized Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. In addition to the funding, Matt Murphy from Menlo and Andrew Chen from a16z, will join Envoy's board.
1 min read · 23 October 2018
WiredScore, a provider of a digital connectivity rating system for commercial real estate buildings, has secured $9 million in Series A funding. The investors included Bessemer Venture Partners, Fifth Wall, Sterling.VC, Legal & General, KingSett Capital, U+I, Town Centre Securities, MOMENI Digital Ventures and Savitt Partners.
3 min read · 23 October 2018
