2021

AI-powered competitive enablement platform Klue lands $62M led by Tiger Global – TechCrunch
Klue, an AI-powered competitive enablement platform, has raised $62 million in Series B funding led by Tiger Global, with participation from Salesforce Ventures. The Vancouver-based company combines intel collection capabilities with a modern approach to content distribution aimed at providing user…

GRIN, the World’s Only Creator Management Platform, Closes $110 Million Series B Round Led by Lone Pine Capital – GRIN – Influencer Marketing Software
Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve raised $110M Series B that was led by Lone Pine capital, with participation from BOND and all our institutional

BeeHero’s precision pollination platform wings its way to $19M in new funding – TechCrunch
Move over, precision agriculture — precision apiculture is what’s on the minds of all future-focused farmers. BeeHero has been growing fast since its debut and seed round last year, and $19 million in new funding means it can scale beyond its initial markets and find more uses for its one-of-a-kind…

AON3D closes $11.5M Series A, partners with Astrobotic to send 3D-printed parts to the moon – TechCrunch
3D printing has garnered a lot of hype, much of it for good reason: The technology has unlocked new kinds of object shapes and geometries, and it uses materials that tend to be much lighter weight than their traditionally manufactured counterparts. But there remain high barriers to entry for many c…

Ubees Raises $8M in Funding
Ubees, a NYC-based precision beekeeping and pollination services provider, secured $8m in growth funding

Spendesk bags €100M to reinvent corporate credit cards in the UK – UKTN (UK Tech News)
Spendesk, an all-in-one spend management solution built particularly for finance teams raised €100M (approx £86.4M) funding.

Airbyte Raised a $26M Series-A to Change How Data Is Moved | Airbyte
We are proud to announce that we just raised a $26M Series-A round, led by Benchmark. It wasn’t so long ago that we announced our Seed round and so many things have changed over the past 2.5 months.

WeaveGrid Raises $15M Series A to Enable Widescale Adoption of EVs on the Electric Grid
WeaveGrid announced a $15 million Series A to accelerate deployment of its smart EV charging software for utilities, enabling EV adoption on the grid.

GRIN Adds $16 million to Series A – GRIN – Influencer Marketing Software
GRIN Adds $16 million to Series A at Increased Valuation with 300% Growth to Revolutionize the Creator Economy

Compass Agrees to Acquire Real Estate Transaction-Management Platform Glide
/PRNewswire/ — Compass, Inc. (NYSE: COMP) has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Glide Labs, Inc., a real estate transaction management platform…

Airbyte raises $5.2M for its open-source data integration platform – TechCrunch
Airbyte, an open-source data integration platform, today announced that it has raised a $5.2 million seed funding round led by Accel. Other investors include Y Combinator, 8VC, Segment co-founder Calvin French-Owen, former Cloudera GM Charles Zedlewski, LiveRamp and Safegraph CEO Auren Hoffman, Dat…
2020

GRIN Bites Into $10M Series A To Advance Influencer Marketing Software
The company’s platform enables direct-to-consumer brands to collaborate and manage relationships with influencers.

Spendesk raises another $18 million for its corporate card and expense service – TechCrunch
French startup Spendesk has added $18 million to its Series B round. The company already raised $38.4 million as part of its Series B last year, which means that it raised $56.4 million as part of this round. Eight Roads Ventures is investing in today’s extension round. Spendesk, as the name sugges…

Forage, formerly InsideSherpa, raises $9.3 million Series A for virtual work experiences – TechCrunch
Tech’s coveted internships were some of the first roles to be cut as offices closed and businesses shuttered in response to the coronavirus. A number of companies across the country, including Glassdoor, StubHub, Funding Circle, Yelp, Checkr and even the National Institutes of Health, either paused…

Paris-based Cuure secures €1.8 million to expand its personalised vitamin subscription box across Europe | EU-Startups
Paris-based health startup Cuure has landed funding of around €1.8 million from Kima Ventures and Newfund Ventures. The fresh funds come at a time when

AXDRAFT Has Been Acquired By Onit Company – AXDRAFT blog
We’re happy to announce that AXDRAFT is now part of Onit company, the world leader in the legal tech field specializing in enterprise workflow automation and AI solutions

Betterworks Acquires Hyphen | Betterworks Blog
Betterworks acquires Hyphen, a leading continuous employee listening and engagement platform based in San Francisco.
2019

Bullpen Capital leads $6 million VC round into Grin – Sacramento Business Journal
Grin, a provider of software to manage influencer-marketing campaigns, has raised a $6 million round of financing.

ViiBE completed a €1.2M Seed round
ViiBE, the Web technology of remote assistance designed for contact centers has successfully completed a €1.2M Seed round.

Akash Systems Raises $14.5 Million Series A
Akash Systems, Inc., a San Francisco-based startup focused on resolving the explosive growth of data collected from space by enabling faster, cheaper
2017
This Silicon Valley company just got $3.3 million so everybody can learn from the CEO’s past mistakes
Plato is a startup that connects you with a mentor, to help programmers become better managers.