Private Equity
IQ Capital, a UK-based venture firm, has raised 92 million pounds for its third fund. The target is 125 million pounds. The fund will invest in UK-based deeptech companies.
4 min read · 27 June 2018
Balbix Inc, a cybersecurity company, has raised $20 million in Series B funding. Singtel Innov8 and Mubadala Ventures led the round.
1 min read · 27 June 2018
Charlottesville, Virginia-based Social SafeGuard, a provider of software for digital risk protection, has raised $11 million in new funding. The investors were AllegisCyber and NightDragon Security.
1 min read · 27 June 2018
Philadelphia-based Carisma Therapeutics Inc, a developer of macrophage-based immunotherapeutics, has raised $53 million in Series A financing. AbbVie Ventures and HealthCap led the round with participation from other investors that included IP Group, Penn Medicine, Grazia Equity, Wellington Partners, TPG Biotech, MRL Ventures Fund and Agent Capital.
1 min read · 27 June 2018
SimpleNexus, an enterprise digital mortgage platform, has raised $20 million in funding. The investor was Insight Venture Partners.
1 min read · 27 June 2018
CloudBees, a builder of an automated software delivery system, has secured $62 million in funding. The investors included Delta-v Capital, Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Ventures, Verizon Ventures and Unusual Ventures. UPDATE: Golub Capital also participated in the round.
1 min read · 27 June 2018
Santa Monica, California-based InvolveSoft, a community engagement software vendor, has raised $2.5 million in funding. Bonfire Ventures led the round with participation from other investors that included Greycroft, Bertelsmann, Launch Capital, CrowdSmart and Noname Ventures.
1 min read · 27 June 2018
San Francisco-based Preempt, a cybersecurity firm, has secured $17.5 million in Series B funding. The investors were ClearSky, Blackstone, Intel Capital and General Catalyst. In conjunction with the funding, Patrick Heim, an operating partner at ClearSky, will join Preempt’s board of directors.
5 min read · 27 June 2018
IMGN Media, a tech-driven media company, has raised $3 million in Series A financing. The investors included Dot Capital, Rhodium, talent agency UTA, KDC Media Fund (joint venture of Keshet and Dick Clark Productions), Big Block Media and Ron Zuckerman.
1 min read · 26 June 2018
Atlanta-based Cypress.io, the next generation automated testing framework built for the modern web, has secured $4 million in seed funding. Las Olas Venture Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners led the round. As part of the financing, Esteban Reyes, founding partner of LOVC, has joined the Cypress board of directors.
1 min read · 26 June 2018
