Private Equity
Swedish virtual reality therapy company Mimerse has raised $730,000 in seed funding. Almi Invest led the round.
1 min read · 04 May 2018
Miami-based venture firm Rokk3r Fuel has named Vicente Quesada as a general partner. Quesada is a former high yield director at Santander Investments in London.
3 min read · 04 May 2018
San Francisco-based Foresite Capital, a healthcare and life sciences investment firm, has closed its fourth fund at $668 million. The fund's limited partners include university endowments, pension funds, insurance companies and foundations.
3 min read · 03 May 2018
San Francisco-based Loom.ai, a provider of mobile solutions for building and animating personalized 3D avatars, has raised $3 million in seed funding. The investor was Samsung Venture Investment Corporation.
1 min read · 03 May 2018
Dawn Capital has raised over $12.4 million for its third fund, according to an SEC filing. No target was listed on the document. London-based Dawn Capital is an early-stage venture firm that invests in European startups.
1 min read · 03 May 2018
Brisbane, California-based Unity Biotechnology Inc, a developer of treatments that prevent, halt, or reverse numerous diseases of aging, has raised $85 million for its IPO after pricing its 5 million shares at $17 per share. The stock began trading May 3, 2018 on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "UBX." Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup are serving as the underwriters. Unity's pre-IPO backers include EcoR1 Capital Fund, 6 Dimensions Capital, Altitude Life Science Ventures, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Baillie Gifford, Partner Fund Management, Pivotal Alpha Limited, Invus Opportunities, ARCH Venture Partners, Venrock, Founders Fund and the Longevity Fund.
2 min read · 03 May 2018
Hatton Consulting has acquired a majority stake in Quantvex, a tech startup focused on digital engagement for the wealth management industry. No financial terms were disclosed. Quantvex's backers include Fika Ventures.
2 min read · 03 May 2018
Zola, a wedding company, has raised $100 million in Series D financing. Comcast Ventures led the round with participation from NBCUniversal and Goldman Sachs Investment Partners.
1 min read · 03 May 2018
Durham, North Carolina-based Carpe, which produces products to combat hyperhidrosis (or excessive sweating), has secured an undisclosed amount of funding. The investors were Triangle Angel Partners and Rubicon Venture Capital. Recently, the company closed $2.3 million in seed funding.
1 min read · 03 May 2018
Salesforce Ventures has launched Canada Trailblazer Fund, a $100 million fund that will invest in Canadian startups. So far the fund has invested in Tier1CRM, a provider of cloud-based CRM solutions for the capital markets industry built on Salesforce; Traction Guest, a developer of cloud-based visitor management systems; Tulip, a mobile application provider focused on empowering workers in retail stores; and OSF Commerce, a digital cloud transformation specialist focused on building multi-cloud and unified commerce projects using Salesforce.
4 min read · 03 May 2018
