Heartex, the company behind the leading open source data labeling platform Label Studio, today announced it has raised $25 million in Series A funding, bringing the company’s total raised to $30 million. Redpoint Ventures led the round, with participation from existing investors, including Unusual Ventures, Bow Capital, Swift Ventures and some notable angel investors. Satish Dharmaraj, managing director at Redpoint … Read more
Motif FoodWorks, the Boston-based food technology company making plant-based food better tasting and more nutritious, today announced an investment by Robert Downey Jr.’s FootPrint Coalition Ventures. Along with the investment, the companies will partner on the development of new-to-the-world plant-based food forms. Separately, Motif also unveiled an expanded product portfolio—in addition to its food technologies—for … Read more
Buildots, which uses AI and computer vision to modernize construction management, today announced a $60 million Series C round mutually led by Viola Growth and Eyal Ofer’s O.G. Tech along with existing investors TLV Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Future Energy Ventures and Maor Investments. Buildots will use the new funds, secured less than a year after the company’s series B … Read more
StartPlaying, the largest online platform to find tabletop role-playing games and professional Game Masters, announced a $6.5M seed round led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz general partners Jonathan Lai and Andrew Chen. The funds will go towards scaling marketing to reach new players, broadening StartPlaying’s network of industry partnerships, and hiring top talent. The company aims to double their … Read more
TIFIN, a fintech platform using artificial intelligence (AI) and investment-driven personalization to shape the future of investor experiences, today announced the successful closing of $109 million in a Series D financing round. Franklin Resources (NYSE: BEN), a global investment manager operating under Franklin Templeton, and Motive Partners, a next-generation investment firm focused on technology enabled companies that power … Read more
Katanox, the travel accommodation distribution and fintech platform, has raised $ 5.7 million from a group of financial, hospitality, and tech entrepreneur family offices to overhaul and reconfigure B2B distribution in hospitality. The group of investors includes Rappi and Yuno co-founder Juan Pablo Ortega, co-founder of fintech Dimebox and current co-founder and CEO of Founda Jan Joost Kalff, and … Read more
Stord, the cloud supply chain leader, announced today that it has raised an additional $120 million in Series D financing led by Franklin Templeton, bringing the total round to $210 million. Now valued at roughly $1.3 billion, Stord recently crossed $200 million in annualized revenue run-rate and has raised $325 million in total funding. Participants across the entire Series D financing included new investors Sozo … Read more
Evisort, the no-code contract intelligence platform loved by legal, procurement, and sales operations teams worldwide, today announced it has raised $100 million in capital, including equity and venture debt financing. This latest round of funding is led by global growth investor TCV, a key investor in Airbnb, LinkedIn, Netflix, and other market-defining companies. TCV General Partner Amol Helekar will join … Read more
Anja Health, the personalized doctor-backed cord blood banking company, today announced a $4.5M seed funding round led by Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six with participation from Harvest Ventures and Crista Galli Ventures, in addition to prominent athletes and executives including Aly Raisman, Cleo Abram, Chris Ovitz, Balaji Srinivisan, Zachariah Reitano – CEO and founder of Ro, and Tim Lenardo – CEO and founder of JetFuel. Through this strategic … Read more
Tomorrow Farms, a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands, announced today an $8.5 million seed round led by Lowercarbon Capital and additional key investors, including Maveron, Valor Siren Ventures, Simple Food Ventures and SV Angel. Working to become the trusted, household name for the future … Read more
Jobandtalent secured USD 250 million debt financing from US investment banks Citi, Goldman Sachs and European investor AnaCap Financial Partners (“AnaCap”). The debt financing will allow Jobandtalent to facilitate tangible benefits and enhance its foundation for innovative financial products offered to workers. For example, it will be used to enable daily payments and free early … Read more
ARC Group Ventures (venture capital arm of ARC Group) is pleased to announce the investment in the bridge round of Worky, a Mexico City-based HR software and payroll platform for small- and medium-sized businesses. Founded in 2018 by Maya Dadoo, Carlos Marina and Oscar Castillo, Worky allows employers to offer benefits by providing an end-to-end enterprise-grade platform to automate employee … Read more
LottieFiles, the leading motion graphics platform for designers and developers, today announced a $37 million Series B funding round, led by Square Peg Capital, with additional participation from XYZ Venture Capital, GreatPoint Ventures, and existing investors, 500 Startups and M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund. LottieFiles will use the funding to further its product roadmap, expand its operations to cater … Read more
VitroLabs Inc, a Bay-Area-based biotech company leading the development of a new scientific process to grow the world’s first cellular cultivated animal leather, today announced that it has closed its Series A financing to build and scale pilot production. The company has raised a total of $46 million. Series A funding is led by Agronomics; other … Read more
Next Earth has announced a 12.5M USD strategic investment in Limitless. This is an important step forward for Limitless, Next Earth and the metaverse as a whole. Next Earth believes that this investment will help create a thriving metaverse economy and enable new startups to be successful, and users to experience all that virtual reality has to offer. Limitless, … Read more
Yamaha Motor Ventures, the strategic business development and investment arm of Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announced it led a $7.5 million Series A funding round for Verge, developers of the world’s first AI-powered interactive software that enables farmers to plan, simulate, and validate the movement of equipment in the field and execute field operations efficiently. … Read more
