AiFi, the most flexible AI platform that enables retailers to affordably deploy and scale autonomous shopping solutions, today announced a $65 million Series B funding round with participation from ALDI South Group, Żabka Group, REWE, Verizon Ventures, and Qualcomm Ventures LLC, among others. The strategic investments from our retail partners reflect a commitment to scale … Read more
Immutable, which is powering the world of NFTs as the leading carbon-neutral, scalable platform for trading NFTs on Ethereum, today announced it secured $200 million in Series C financing led by Temasek, with investments from leading blockchain game juggernaut Animoca Brands and technology company Tencent, bringing its valuation to $2.5 billion. ParaFi Capital, Princeville Capital, … Read more
Turnt Gaming, a developer of interactive NFT-based entertainment products and media, today announced it has secured $4.3M in funding from Polygon’s gaming/NFT arm, Polygon Studios, and blockchain investor Shima Capital. These partnerships will accelerate community building for Taunt Battleworld, Turnt’s skill-based fighting game simulator featuring legendary boxing icon Floyd Mayweather and newly announced Mixed Martial … Read more
Stella, a San Diego-based organization that equips, champions and funds women-led startups, has reached a momentous milestone by helping to connect women-led startups with $71 million in funding in 2021. Building on this momentum, the organization is broadening its investor network by launching a five-city Oxytocin Tour which kicks off on March 10, 2022 in … Read more
Volocopter, the pioneer of urban air mobility, has raised USD 170 million in the initial signing of its Series E funding round led by South Korean investor WP Investment, at a pre-money valuation of USD 1.7 billion. Composed of funds by new and existing investors, the money raised will assist with the certification of Volocopter’s … Read more
Calyptia, providers of the leading platform for First-Mile Observability, today announced it has closed a seed funding round of $5 million led by Sierra Ventures and Carbide Ventures, with participation from Bill Tai’s ACTAI Ventures and other angel investors. Calpytia Enterprise, based on the wildly popular open source projects Fluent Bit and Fluentd, enables every company to scale and … Read more
Our Next Energy, Inc. (ONE), a Michigan-based energy storage technology company, has raised $65M following its $25M Series A that was led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures in October 2021. This new funding round, led by BMW i Ventures, will allow ONE to expand its operations and prepare for increasing demand and customer activity. In addition, … Read more
Whistle, a new generation of employee experience platform, announced today it has raised a $3.2 million seed funding round led by Dundee Venture Capital (VC). Other investors include Chicago-based M25. “Whistle has an experienced team, a clear vision, a plan for growth and the team is executing well – the key elements we look for … Read more
Stämm, an early-stage biotechnology company based in Buenos Aires, recently announced raising $17 million in its Series A round. The round was led by Varana Capital, along with other existing and new investors. The funding will help Stämm prepare for commercialization of its technology; further develop biopharma partnerships into pilot scale; enhance its operational infrastructure; and continue growing … Read more
Aurora Solar, the industry’s leading software platform for solar sales and design, announced it closed a $200 million Series D funding round co-led by current investors Coatue and Energize Ventures with participation from Fifth Wall, ICONIQ and new investors, Lux Capital and Emerson Collective. With this funding, Aurora Solar will accelerate its mission to create … Read more
The Israeli digital health company CVAid Medical, which has developed a platform based on artificial intelligence for diagnosing and treating cerebrovascular accidents (CVAs, or strokes), has announced the completion of capital raising from Philips together with Sanara Capital. The Israeli Rad Biomed investment fund led the capital raising. The CVAid solution provides an answer for … Read more
XRHealth, the gateway to the healthcare metaverse, announced today that they raised $10M in funding to expand virtual healthcare treatment in the Metaverse. The funding was backed by HTC, Bridges Israel impact investment fund, AARP, and crowdfunding on StartEngine.com and existing investors. “Together, we’re taking the next step in growing the open ecosystem and providing greater access … Read more
Redpanda Data (formerly Vectorized) today announced it has raised $50M in Series B funding, led by GV with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners (LSVP) and Haystack VC. Released in early 2021, Redpanda is a modern streaming platform that gives developers a simple, fast, reliable, and unified “engine of record” for both real-time and historical enterprise data. With its … Read more
BlueVoyant, an industry-leading internal and external cyber defense platform, announced today the close of its Series D round. Liberty Strategic Capital, a private equity firm founded and led by former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin, led the $250-million round with participation from new investors as well as existing investors, including ISTARI (a Temasek company), Eden … Read more
Less than two years after purchasing it, Reddit has officially shut down video site Dubsmash. In an auction in 2020, the social media company purchased Dubsmash in order to expand its position as the leading short video-sharing app. Once-viral app Dubsmash allowed users to share videos of themselves dancing and lip-syncing to popular tunes. The … Read more
Facilio, a property operations software platform provider based in New York, has acquired $35 million in Series B funding. Dragoneer Investment Group led the round, which also included Brookfield Growth, Accel India, and Tiger Global Management. The money will be used to grow the company’s market leadership, develop sales and marketing, and empower more businesses … Read more
