Private Equity
Dfinity Foundation, a blockchain-based cloud computing project, has raised $102 million in funding. The investors included Polychain Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, Aspect Ventures, Village Global, Multicoin Capital, Scalar Capital and Amino Capital.
3 min read · 29 August 2018
San Francisco-based SOCi Inc, a socical media marketing company, has raised $10.5 million in Series B funding. Vertical Venture Partners led the round with participation from Grayhawk Capital, Blossom Street Ventures and Tallwave Capital.
1 min read · 29 August 2018
Sempre Health, a provider of solutions for behavior-based healthcare pricing, has secured $8 million in Series A financing. Rethink Impact led the round with participation from other investors that included Social Capital.
1 min read · 29 August 2018
Planday, a Danish workforce collaboration platform, has raised $40 million in Series C funding. SEB Private Equity led the round with participation from other investors that included Creandum and Idinvest.
1 min read · 29 August 2018
UK-based KaNDy Therapeutics, a clinical-stage women’s health company, has raised 25 million pounds in Series C financing. The investors were Longitude Capital, Advent Life Sciences, Fountain Healthcare Partners, Forbion Capital Partners and OrbiMed.
1 min read · 29 August 2018
San Francisco and Boston-based Nebula Genomics, a human genome sequencing and health big data company, has secured $4.3 million in seed funding. The investors included Khosla Ventures, Arch Venture Partners, Fenbushi Capital, Mayfield, F-Prime Capital Partners, Great Point Ventures, Windham Venture Partners, Hemi Ventures, Mirae Asset, Hikma Ventures and Heartbeat Labs.
5 min read · 29 August 2018
Silicon Valley-based Cloudian, a software company, has secured $94 million in Series E funding. The investors included Digital Alpha, Eight Roads Ventures, Goldman Sachs, INCJ, JPIC, NTT DOCOMO Ventures Inc. and WS Investments.
4 min read · 29 August 2018
Atlanta-based Bark, which uses machine learning to help parents monitor their children's internet and social media habits, announced it has raised $9 million in a Series A round. The funding was led by Signal Peak Ventures, with participation from Two Sigma Ventures and existing investors, including Symmetrical Ventures, Fuel Capital, Hallett Capital and Atlanta Seed Company. The company, which was founded in 2015, previously raised $1.9 million in funding.
1 min read · 29 August 2018
Terra said Aug. 29 that it raised $32 million in seed funding form investors including Polychain Capital, FBG Capital, Hashed, 1kx, Kenetic Capital, Arrington XRP Capital and TransLink Capital. Terra, of Singapore, is designing a price-stable digital currency for payments.
4 min read · 29 August 2018
Sunnyvale, California-based TeleSense, a provider of environmental monitoring solutions for grain and food production, storage and transport, has secured $6.5 million in Series A funding. Finistere Ventures led the round with participation from Congruent Ventures, Maersk Growth, Rabobank’s Food & Agri Innovation Fund, Radicle Growth, Trailhead Capital and Plug and Play Ventures.
4 min read · 28 August 2018