Private Equity
Listo Financial said it raised $8.5 million of Series A capital in a round led by LEAP Global Partners and joined by Mexico Ventures, Continental Advisors and existing investors. Roman Leal, a managing partner at LEAP, and Paul Purcell of Continental Advisors will join the board.
3 min read · 07 June 2018
LendStreet Inc said June 7 that it raised $7 million in Series A funding led by Prudential Financial Inc and Radicle Impact. LendStreet also raised $110 million in debt financing from Prudential and Community Investment Management. LendStreet joined existing investors Accion, the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI), Serious Change, Crunchfund, Kapor Capital, and Cross Culture Ventures in participating in the round. LendStreet, of Oakland, California, is an online consumer debt restructuring and consolidation platform.
4 min read · 07 June 2018
Ra'anana, Israel-based data management company DocAuthority announced it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. Raine Ventures led the round, which included Greycroft, ff Venture Capital, Differential VC, as well as 2B Angels and Plus Ventures in Israel. The company was founded by Ariel Peled and Itay Reved in 2013.
1 min read · 07 June 2018
Priti Youssef Choksi has joined the consumer internet investment team at Norwest Venture Partners as a partner. Choksi joins Norwest from Facebook where she spent nine years in various executive roles, including leading the company's M&A efforts. Prior to Facebook, she spent six years at Google in strategic partnership roles.
1 min read · 06 June 2018
New Enterprise Associates has acquired Paladina Health, a provider of primary care clinics, from DaVita. No financial terms were disclosed; however, a CNBC.com report on the deal stated the amount was about $100 million. Paladina Health currently operates more than 50 physician offices in Colorado, Washington, Texas, Wisconsin, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, New Jersey and Florida.
3 min read · 06 June 2018
Gaithersburg, Maryland-based Sirnaomics Inc, a developer of RNAi therapeutics, has raised $25 million in Series C1 financing. Yuexiu New Industrial Investment led the round with participation from Sangel Biomedical Venture Capital, HuaKong Equity Investment and Qianhai Shenghui Investment.
1 min read · 06 June 2018
Protenus, a healthcare compliance analytics company, has appointed Brian Holtmeier as chief financial officer. Holtmeier is the former CFO of IBM Security Systems. Protenus is backed by Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Arthur Ventures, Lionbird Venture Capital, Cognosante Ventures and F-Prime Capital Partners.
2 min read · 06 June 2018
Meditation app 10% has raised $3.7 million in seed funding, adding to a total tally of $5 million. The investors include Khosla Ventures, Trinity Ventures and Correlation Ventures.
1 min read · 06 June 2018
Allos Ventures has set out to raise a $100 million venture-capital fund, according to a filing with the SEC.
1 min read · 06 June 2018
Berlin-based venture firm Target Global has raised 100 million euros for a new fund focused on mobility innovation in Europe and Israel. Ben Kaminski will join Target Global as a partner to lead the fund after previously working at Goldman Sachs. Correction: An earlier headline and report of this news item misstated the amount raised for this fund. It has since been corrected.
2 min read · 06 June 2018
