Private Equity
New York-based Blueprint Power, a real estate and energy tech company, has raised $3.5 million in Series A funding. Congruent Ventures, MetaProp Ventures, Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham led the round with participation from other investors that included Fifth Wall Ventures.
1 min read · 31 July 2018
Serverless Inc, creators of the open source Serverless Framework, has secured $10 million in Series A funding. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round with participation from Trinity Ventures.
1 min read · 31 July 2018
San Diego-based Omniome Inc, a developer of a new DNA sequencing platform, has raised $60 million in financing. Decheng Capital and Hillhouse Capital Group led the round with participation from Lam Research Capital, Nan Fung Life Sciences, ARCH Venture Partners, Domain Associates, Biomatics Capital Partners and Altitude Life Science Ventures.
1 min read · 31 July 2018
Washington, D.C.-based Optoro, a provider of returns optimization software, has raised $75 million in funding. Franklin Templeton led the round with participation from other investors that included Revolution Growth, Generation Investment Management and Tenfore Holdings.
1 min read · 31 July 2018
San Francisco-based Xwing, an autonomous aviation company, announced it has raised $4 million in seed-stage funding. Eniac Ventures led the round, which included Array Ventures and angels and aviation buffs, including John and Patrick Collison, founders of Stripe, as well as the tech executive Nat Friedman, currently with Xamarin. Xwing was founded in 2016 by Marc Piette.
1 min read · 31 July 2018
New York-based Veritonic, an audio measurement platform, has secured $3.5 million in seed funding. Newark Venture Partners led the round with participation from Imagination Capital, Kiwi Venture Partners, MDC Ventures and SWaN & Legend Venture Partners.
1 min read · 31 July 2018
Strawberry Creek Ventures is seeking to raise $4 million for its maiden fund, according to an SEC filing. Strawberry Creek Ventures is a venture fund for alumni of University of California, Berkeley that invests in companies with a UC Berkeley connection.
1 min read · 31 July 2018
San Francisco-based Gusto, a payroll, benefits and HR technology platform for small businesses, has raised $140 million in Series C funding round. The investors included T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., MSD Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, Y Combinator, General Catalyst, CapitalG, Kleiner Perkins, 137 Ventures and Emergence Capital.
1 min read · 31 July 2018
Bulletproof 360 Inc, a food, beverage and content company, has raised more than $40 million in financing. The lead investor was CAVU Venture Partners. Other backers included Trinity Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.
1 min read · 31 July 2018
Santa Clara, California-based Espressive, an artificial intelligence provider for enterprise service management, has raised $23 million in funding. The investors included General Catalyst Partners and Wing Venture Capital.
1 min read · 31 July 2018
