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JVP promotes two to GP

Jerusalem Venture Partners, an Israeli venture firm, has promoted Yoav Tzruya and Fiona Darmon to general partners and members of the executive committee. Previously, Tzruya was a partner and head of the JVP Labs in Beer Sheva, Israel while Darmon was a partner and chief operating officer at JVP.

ThreatQuotient nabs $30 mln Series C

ThreatQuotient, a provider of a threat intelligence platform, has raised $30 million in Series C funding. Adams Street Partners led the round with participation from Cisco Investments, NTT DOCOMO Ventures Inc, New Enterprise Associates and Silicon Valley Bank. In conjunction with the funding, Fred Wang, a partner at Adams Street Partners, will join ThreatQuotient's board of directors.

Nathan Benaich joins Berlin's Point Nine Capital

Berlin-based venture firm Point Nine Capital announced it has added Nathan Benaich, an AI specialist, as a venture partner. Benaich most recently was a partner at Playfair Capital, where he led investments in such companies as Mapillary, Ravelin, Numerai and Thought Machine. He becomes the third venture partner at Point Nine, joining Janis Zech and Kolja Hebenstreit.

Lemnos co-founder Jeremy Conrad steps down

Jeremy Conrad, co-founder of San Francisco-based Lemnos, announced he is stepping down from the hardware-focused firm and incubator, to head a stealth robotics startup. In announcing the transition, Conrad said he will stay on as a venture partner. Lemnos raised $50 million for its third fund earlier this year. The two other co-founders of Lemnos are Helen Boniske and Eric Klein.

Draper Associates adds Siri Srinivas as analyst

Draper Associates has added Siri Srinivas to its team as an investment analyst. Srinivas was most recently a venture analyst at FundersClub and before that was a reporter covering money and business at The Guardian in New York.

Streamlined Ventures to raise $30 mln opportunity fund

Streamlined Ventures has set out to raise a $30 million opportunity fund, according to a filing with the SEC.

Embodied Intelligence grabs $7 mln seed

Emeryville, California-based Embodied Intelligence, which "brings modern deep learning and AI technology to robotics," has raised $7 million in seed funding. Amplify Partners led the round with participation from Lux Capital, SV Angels, FreeS, 11.2 Capital and A.Capital.

Nanomix attracts $9 mln

Nanomix Inc, a developer of next-generation, mobile, point-of-care diagnostics, has raised $9 million. The investors were not named.

VC-backed Bandwidth goes public

Raleigh, North Carolina-based Bandwidth, a telecom company, has raised $80 million for its IPO after pricing its 4 million shares at $20 per share. The stock began trading November 10, 2017 on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "BAND." Morgan Stanley, KeyBanc Capital Markets and Baird are the lead underwriters. Bandwidth is backed by Carmichael Partners.

Data security company Enveil picks up $4 mln

Data security company Enveil has secured $4 million in funding. The investors included Thomson Reuters, a USAA affiliate, Bloomberg Beta and DataTribe.