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Global Venture Capital Funded

Startups

December 2017

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10 Most Active Venture Capital Firms in

December’ 2017






Breakout By Funding Rounds






Series - A Funded Companies

Company Country Description Investors Amount

Raised

Guardian

Optical

Technologies

Israel

Guardian optical Technologies is an

innovative israeli startup developing an

advanced 3D sensor.

Maniv Mobility

Mirai Creation Fund

$5.1 million

Noodle

Partners Inc

United

States

Noodle Partners helps colleges and

universities create and manage first-rate

online and hybrid programs.

Owl Ventures

$14 million

Earny

United

States

Earny, santa Monica, California-based a

personal finance service company.

Mayfield

Comcast Ventures

Science Inc

$9 million

Ironscales

Israel

Tel Aviv-based Ironscales, an automated

phishing prevention, detection and

response provider.

K1 Investment

Management LLC

RDC

$6.5 million

Pilotworks

(formerly

Foodworks)

United

States

Pilotworks (formerly Foodworks), a

community of food incubators, mentors,

and entrepreneurs.

Techstars Ventures

Acre Venture Partners

$13 million

HealthiPass

United

States

HealthiPASS is a digital check-in and

patient payments platform that brings

transparency and clarity to the patient

payment experience.

FCA Venture Partners

OCA Ventures

Healthy Ventures

HealthX Ventures

Waterline Ventures

$7.2 million

Obsidian

Therapeutics

Inc

United

States

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Obsidian

Therapeutics Inc, a biotechnology

company.developing next-generation cell

and gene therapies with pharmacologic

operating systems

GV

Atlas Venture

Takeda Ventures Inc

Vertex Ventures HC

Amgen Ventures

Alexandria Venture

Investments

ShangPharma Investment

Group

$49.5

million

Neumentum

United

States

Palo Alto, California-based Neumentum, is

developing and plans to commercialize

products that effectively treat pain,

without the risks of abuse, misuse and

diversion seen with opioid analgesics.

Brookline Capital Markets

$6 million






PerceptIn

United

States

PerceptIn (www.perceptin.io), a full-stack

visual intelligence company, is leading the

way to a new reality where everyday

machines see, interpret, learn and take

action.

Samsung Ventures

Matrix Partners

Walden International

$11 million

Prose

United

States

Prose offers fresh and custom-made hair

care, combining expertise from a

professional stylist (online or in-salon),

clients unique needs and the highest-

quality ingredients to help clients achieve

great hair.

Forerunner Ventures

Correlation Ventures

$5.2 million

Cedar

United

States

New York City-based Cedar, a provider of

patient payment solutions. Cedar provides

a smarter way for hospitals, health systems

and medical groups to manage the patient

payment ecosystem

Founders Fund

Thrive Capital

Martin Ventures

SV Angel

$13 million

LUX Fund

Technology &

Solutions

United

States

LUX Fund Technology and Solutions (LUX

FTS) deploys disruptive business

technology systems for the alternative

asset management industry.

Credit Suisse Asset

Management s

NEXT Investors

$6 million

Senseye

Limited

United

Kingdom

Senseye is an intelligent and easy-to-use

automatic condition monitoring and asset

health product.

MMC Ventures

Breed Reply

IQ Capital

Momenta Partners

3.5 million

Pounds

Discngine

France

Discngine is a Paris-based software

company specializing in applications for

the research departments of life sciences

companies.

Extens Développement e-

Santé

$1.3 million

Ouster

United

States

San Francisco-based Ouster is a leading

developer of LIDAR and perception

technology for the autonomous vehicle

and robotics sectors.

Cox Enterprises

Fontinalis Partners

Amity Ventures

Constellation Technology

Ventures

Tao Capital Partners

Carthona Capital

$27 million

Linear Health

Sciences

United

States

Linear Health Sciences is the developer of

the Orchid Safety Release Valve and other

safety technology solutions for medical

tubing.

i2E Inc

$1.538

million

SevenRooms

United

States

SevenRooms is a platform for hospitality

operators to acquire, engage and

understand their guests.

Comcast Ventures

$8 million

FRISS

The

Netherlands

FRISS is a European provider of analytics

software for fraud, risk and compliance to

P&C insurers.

Aquiline Technology

Growth

Blackfin Capital Partners

15 million

Euros






GenXComm

United

States

GenXComm Inc. is commercializing the

world s first true full-duplex radio that

operates reliably even under the toughest

real-world conditions.

Intel Capital

Azure Capital Partners

Bandgap Ventures

Capital Factory

FAM Capital Partners

Lip-Bu Tan

UT Horizon Fund

WS Investment Co

$7 million

Clubhouse

Software

United

States

Clubhouse builds product management

tools to improve the way that software

engineering teams work together.

Battery Ventures

Resolute Ventures

Lerer Hippeau Ventures

Neu Venture Capital

RRE Ventures

Zeitgeist Partners

$10 million

CrossBorder

Solutions

United

States

CrossBorder Solutions employs technology

to help multinational corporations comply

with worldwide transfer pricing

regulations.

Kennet Partners

$6 million

Upstream

Security

Israel

Upstream Security is the first cloud-based

cybersecurity solution that protects the

technologies and applications of connected

and autonomous vehicles.

Charles River Ventures

Glilot Capital Partners

Maniv Mobility

$9 million

Workboard

United

States

Workboard, Inc. is a fast-growing provider

of Active Strategy Management solutions

that enable leaders and teams to iterate,

measure and achieve their strategic

priorities faster.

Floodgate

Microsoft Ventures

$9.3 million

SBDA Group

Ltd

Ireland

SBDA Group Ltd. is an AI company that

provides retail banks with solutions for

boosting customer engagement and cross-

selling in digital channels.

FinSight Ventures

Digital Space Ventures

Undisclosed

CGTrader

Lithuania

3D model marketplace for VR / AR and CG

projects, and professional 3D designer

community.

Karma Ventures

Intel Capital

Practica Capital

$2.3 million

Joblift

Germany

Joblift is a job-search platform providing

job seekers with the most intuitive and

frictionless experience during the

recruiting process.

DN Capital

Picus Capital

Cherry Ventures

Btov

TruVenturo

10 million

Euros

Gremlin

United

States

Gremlin builds resilient systems through

chaos engineering - a new engineering

philosophy that safely injects failure into

systems to proactively identify and fix

unknown faults.

Index Ventures

Amplify Partners

$7.5 million






Manticore

Games

United

States

Manticore Games is an independent

developer of high quality hardcore

multiplayer PC and console games and

services.

Benchmark

BITKRAFT Esports

Ventures

Correlation Ventures

CrunchFund

Macro Ventures

SV Angel

$15 million

NorthSea

Therapeutics

BV

The

Netherlands

NorthSea Therapeutics B.V. (NST) is a

biotech company focused on developing

structurally engineered fatty acids ( SEFAs )

for the treatment of inflammatory and

liver diseases.

Forbion and BGV

Novo Seeds

New Science Ventures

25 million

Euros

FreightHub

Germany

FreightHub is a digital asset-free freight

forwarding company located in Berlin.

Northzone

Global Founders Capital

Cherry Ventures

Cavalry Ventures

La Famiglia

$20 million

Bay Labs, Inc

United

States

Bay Labs is a San Francisco-based privately

held company focused on increasing

quality, value and access to medical

imaging by combining deep learning and

ultrasound.

Khosla Ventures

Data Collective

Greenbox Venture

Partners

Minneapolis Heart

Institute Ventures

Georges Harik

$5.5 million

Kyn

Therapeutics

United

States

Kyn Therapeutics is a biotechnology

company advancing new

immunometabolic therapies for cancer.

Atlas Venture

OrbiMed

$49 million

Univercells

Belgium

Univercells is a technology company

offering novel biomanufacturing platforms,

aimed at increasing the availability and

affordability of biologics

Takeda Ventures Inc

$3.56

million

Loot

United

Kingdom Loot is an online digital banking platform.

Portag3

Speedinvest

Power Corporation s

corporate VC arm

2.2 million

Pounds

Jnana

Therapeutics

United

States

Jnana is committed to discovering and

developing medicines that will make a

transformative difference for patients

using the first drug discovery platform

dedicated to targeting the solute carrier

(SLC) family of transporters.

Polaris Partners

Avalon Ventures

Versant Ventures

AbbVie Ventures

Pfizer R&D Innovate

$50 million

Aunt Fannies

United

States

The company is developing microbiomic

friendly cleaning and pest control products

for households, food service

establishments and food companies.

Monica Nassif, founder of

Mrs. Meyer s and Caldrea

David Charne, CEO at

Fyrn

Stuart Erickson, senior

managing partner at

Guggenheim Securities

Kay Hong, CEO at Torrid

Brian Durst, CEO at Tribe

$2.4 million






9 Foods

Stitch Health

United

States

San Francisco-based Stitch Health, a care

coordination platform for healthcare

teams

Bill Gurley of Benchmark

Y Combinator

Undisclosed

Springboard

United

States

Springboard is a workforce upskilling

company that offers online courses and

extensive mentor-based learning for early-

and mid-level professionals in data science,

UX design, digital marketing, and other

new-economy fields where the demand for

talent exceeds supply.

Costanoa Ventures

Learn Capital

Blue Fog Capital

Rocketship.vc

Moneta Ventures

$9.5 million

Airwallex

Australia

Airwallex is a financial technology company

that offers integrated solutions for cross-

border payments.

Square Peg Capital

$6 million

ThinkForce

China

ThinkForce is a Chinese artificial

intelligence chip maker.

YITU Tech

Yunfeng Fund

Sequoia Capital

Hillhouse Capital

$68 million

Ample Hills

Creamery

United

States

Brooklyn-based chain of ice cream shops

filled with quirky and decadent creations.

Rosecliff Ventures

Bullish

Lerer Hippeau

RiverPark Ventures

The Allana Group

Charles Cohen of Cohen

Media

$8 million

Ataata

United

States

Bethesda, Maryland-based Ataata, a cyber

security training platform.

Next Frontier Capital

TEDCO

2M

SaaS Ventures

ARRA Capital

$3 million

Canvas

Technology

United

States

Canvas Technology is a robotics company

with a mission to provide end-to-end

autonomous transport of goods.

Playground Global

Xplorer Capital

AME Cloud Ventures

Morado Ventures

$15 million

DigitalGenius

United

States

San Francisco-based DigitalGenius, provide

rof artificial intelligence solutions for the

customer service industry.

Global Founders Capital

MMC Ventures

Paua Ventures

Kairos

Salesforce Ventures

Spider Capital

Runa Capital

RRE Ventures

Lumia Capital

Compound

$14.75

million






Lerer Hippeau Ventures

Framer

The

Netherlands

Framer is the best screen design and

interactive prototyping tool. Create your

designs and then easily turn your work into

high-fidelity prototypes.

Accel

Foundation Capital

Designer Fund

AngelList

$7.7 million

Nuritas

Ireland

Nuritas combines artificial intelligence and

genomics to discover and unlock natural

Bioactive Peptides with extraordinary

health benefits.

Cultivian Sandbox

Ventures

$20 million

SendBird

United

States

SendBird provides the chat API and

messaging SDK for in-app messaging on

your mobile apps and websites.

Shasta Ventures

August Capital

Y Combinator

FundersClub

$16 million

Alpark

China

AIpark is a startup company that utilizes

fourth-generation parking technology to

manage city-wide road-side and garage

parking systems.

U.S.-China Green Fund

Banyan China Capital

$15.3

million






Series - B Funded Companies


Raised

Aaptiv

United

States

A digital health company. aaptiv use

technology to make that experience

accessible anytime, anywhere –

whether you re working out at your

local gym in LA or running outside

while traveling in London.

Insight Venture

Partners Arena

Ventures

Pear Ventures

Switch VC

$26 million

ChemomAb

Israel

ChemomAb is a clinical stage

biopharmaceutical company,

specializes in the development of

proprietary monoclonal antibodies,

directed towards novel targets, for the

treatment of immune-mediated and

fibrotic disorders including orphan

indications.

OrbiMed Israel

Founders Fund

SBI Japan-Israel

Innovation Fund

Milestone Venture

$10 million

Qvella

Canada

Qvella, a Canadian molecular

diagnostics company.the primary goal

of dramatically reducing time to results

in microbiology

RA Capital

Whitecap Venture

Partners

Hatteras Ventures

Sands Capital

bioMérieux

$20 million

Sonim Technologies

United

States

Sonim Technologies is the provider of

the world's most rugged, water-

submersible mobile phones designed

specifically for workers in demanding

and hazardous environments.

Riley Financial Inc.

$37 million

VirtualHealth

United

States

New York City-based VirtualHealth, a

provider of population health and care

management technologies.

Edison Partners

$7 million

Simplus

United

States

Utah-based Simplus, a provider of

quote-to-cash solutions. Simplus has

outpaced all ecosystem partners in

Salesforce Quote-to-Cash

implementations.

EPIC Ventures

Salesforce Ventures

Cross Creek Advisors

$9.3

million

WM Motor

Technology Co Ltd

China

WM Motor Technology Co., Ltd.

designs, develops, and manufactures

electric motor cars.

Baidu Capital

Baidu Inc (BIDU.O)

$32 million

Prevoty

United

States

Prevoty is developing application-

protection technology that helps

applications defend cyber-security

attacks.

Trident Capital

Cybersecurity

USVP

$13 million






BitPay

United

States

BitPay, a bitcoin payments solutions

provider.

Aquiline Technology

Growth

Aquiline Capital

Partners

$30 million

Metacrine

United

States

Metacrine is a privately held

biotechnology company

headquartered in San Diego, CA. The

company is focused on efficiently

developing innovative drugs that

materially benefit patients with

metabolic disease.

New Enterprise

Associates ARCH

Polaris

venBio

Alexandria Venture

Investments

$22 million

Modsy

United

States

Modsy, a home decor company based

in San Francisco.

Advance Venture

Partners

NBCUniversal Cable

Entertainment

Comcast Ventures

Norwest Venture

Partners Birchmere

Ventures

Ame Cloud Ventures

BBG Ventures

GV

$23 million

XOi Technologies

United

States

Nashville-based XOi Technologies a

provider of field service

communication solutions.

Vocap Investment

Partners

Nashville Capital

Network

$4.5

million

Simility

United

States

Simility provides a cloud-based and on-

premise fraud detection software

solution that combines the power of

machine learning and human analysis.

Accel

PayPal Inc

The Valley Fund

Trinity Ventures

$17.5

million

Aspiration

United

States

Aspiration is a financial firm with a

conscience dedicated to bringing fair,

sustainable banking and investment

products that help its customers.

Social Impact Finance

Allen Company

Omidyar Network

Alpha Edison

AGO Partners

Reyl & Cie

Capricorn

Investments Orlando

Bloom

$47 million

MindTickle

United

States

MindTickle offers the industry's most

comprehensive readiness solution for

closing the knowledge and skill gaps

found in customer-facing teams.

Canaan Partners

Accel Partners

New Enterprise

Associates Qualcomm

Ventures

$27 million

Digital House

United

States

Digital House is an education company

born under the premise of creating a

next generation of talent and

professionals for the tech world to

dream, innovate, and create a digital

future that can transform industries.

The Rise Fund

TPG Growth

$20 million






Virtual Incision

Corporation

United

States

Virtual Incision Corporation is a

privately held medical device company

based in Lincoln, Neb.

PrairieGold Venture

Partners

Sinopharm Capital

Bluestem Capital

$18 million

Dreamscape

Immersive

Switzerland

Dreamscape Immersive is a location-

based VR entertainment company that

was founded in January 2017.

AMC Entertainment

Nickelodeon

Majid Al Futtaim

Bold Capital Partners

21st Century Fox

Warner Bros

$30 million

Pionyr

Immunotherapeutics

United

States

Pionyr is exploiting novel target

discovery and antibody generation

platform technologies to create the

next generation of immuno-oncology

therapeutics after checkpoint

inhibitors and CAR-T.

New Enterprise

Associates Sofinnova

Ventures

Vida Ventures

OrbiMed

SV Health Investors

Osage University

Partners and Mission

Bay Ventures

$62 million

Kasisto

United

States

Kasisto is on a mission to enable

companies to attract, engage, support,

and transact with their customers via

human-like, intelligent conversations,

anytime, anywhere.

Oak HC/FT

Propel Venture

Partners Two Sigma

Ventures Commerce

Ventures Mastercard

Partnership Fund for

New York City

$17 million

Paddle

United

Kingdom

Paddle is a checkout, eCommerce,

marketing and analytics platform for

Software developers.

Notion

BGF Ventures

Kindred Capital

MacPaw

$12.5

million

nWay

United

States

nWay is the game studio behind Power

Rangers: Legacy Wars and

ChronoBlade, a competitive and

cooperative multiplayer action RPG for

mobile, TV, and browser platforms.

March Capital

Partners

Ridge Ventures

$11 million

Relay Therapeutics

United

States

Relay Therapeutics is committed to

discovering and developing medicines

that will make a transformative

difference for patients by building the

first dedicated drug discovery pipeline

centered on protein motion.

BVF Partners

GV

Casdin Capital

EcoR1 Capital

Section 32

Third Rock Ventures

Alexandria Venture

Investments

$63 million

Instana

United

States

Leading provider of Application

Performance Management solutions

for containerized microservice

applications, Instana applies

automation and artificial intelligence

to deliver the visibility needed to

effectively manage the performance of

today's dynamic applications across

the DevOps lifecycle.

Accel

Target Partners

$20 million






Splice

United

Kingdom

Splice is a music creation and

collaboration platform that connects

modern musicians to world class music

production tools, creative assets and a

growing global community of over 1

million musicians and artists.

DFJ Growth

True Ventures

Union Square

Ventures

Flybridge

$35 million

Fyusion United

States

Fyusion is a 3D computer vision and

machine learning company.

New Enterprise

Associates Presence

Capital

2020

$22 million

Bigfoot Biomedical

United

States

Bigfoot Biomedical was founded by

people affected by and living with Type

1 Diabetes (T1D) and is committed to

leveraging data, people, and smart

technology to create a connected

ecosystem of solutions that will deliver

improved outcomes valued by

patients, providers, and payers.

Janus Henderson

Investors Quadrant

Capital Advisors

Cormorant Asset

Management

Senvest Capital Inc.

Senvest Management

LLC Visionnaire

Ventures

JDRF T1D Fund

T1D Exchange

$37 million

Aptinyx Inc

United

States

Aptinyx Inc. is a clinical-stage

biopharmaceutical company

discovering and developing

transformative therapies for

challenging disorders of the brain and

nervous system.

Bain Capital Life

Sciences Adage

Capital

Agent Capital

HBM Healthcare

Investments

Nan Fung Life

Sciences Partner Fund

Management

Rock Springs Capital

New Leaf Venture

Partners

Frazier Healthcare

Partners

Longitude Capital

Osage University

Partners Adams

Street Partners

Beecken Petty

O Keefe Company

$70 million

Anodot, Ltd. Israel

Anodot illuminates business blind

spots with AI analytics, so companies

will never miss another revenue leak

or brand-damaging incident.

Redline Capital

Management

Aleph Venture Capital

Disruptive

Technologies Venture

Capital

$15 million

Daily Harvest

United

States

Founded in 2015, Daily Harvest offers a

solution to the challenge of eating

nutrient-rich, unprocessed meals while

leading a busy life.

Lightspeed Venture

Partners

VMG Partners

Chef and restaurateur

Bobby Flay

Olympic gold

medalist Shaun White

Actress Haylie Duff

$43 million






Happy Returns

United

States

Happy Returns enables free in-person

returns for online shoppers by

accepting returns from participating

retailers at a network of physical

Return Bar® locations.

U.S. Venture Partners

Upfront Ventures

Trunk Club founder

Brian Spaly

$8 million

Orchard Therapeutics

United

Kingdom

Orchard Therapeutics is a

biotechnology company incorporated

in September 2015 and dedicated to

bringing transformative gene therapies

to patients with serious and life-

threatening orphan diseases.

Baillie Gifford

ORI Capital

Temasek

Cowen Healthcare

$110

million

Ripcord Inc United

States

Ripcord is the world's first robotic

digitization company, offering the

simplest all-inclusive records

management solution on the market.

GV

$25 million

Nylas United

States

The Nylas Cloud API powers your

application with email, calendar &

contacts features. Built-in features for

better email, calendar, and contact

management.

8VC

Crunchfund

Great Oaks Venture

Capital

Rubicon Venture

Capital

$4 million

NodeSource United

States

NodeSource's flagship product N|Solid

delivers unrivaled security,

performance and extensibility for

Node.js.

Silicon Valley Bank

Industry Ventures

Crosslink Capital

RRE Ventures

$17.5

million

LaunchDarkly United

States

LaunchDarkly is a Feature

Management Platform. Feature

flagging is an industry best practice of

wrapping a new or risky section of

code or infrastructure change with a

flag.

Redpoint

Vertex

$21 million

Fetch Robotics

United

States

San Jose, California-based Fetch

Robotics, a platform for collaborative

robotic solutions. Fetch Robotics

develops and manufactures

collaborative AMR (Autonomous

Mobile Robot) solutions for the

warehousing and intralogistic markets.

Sway Ventures

O Reilly AlphaTech

Ventures

Shasta Ventures

SB Group US

$25 million

ESS Inc United

States

ESS Tech, Inc. develops and

manufactures the low-cost, long-

duration Energy Warehouse (EW) all-

iron flow battery for commercial and

utility-scale energy storage

applications.

BASF

Cycle Capital

Management Presidio

Partners Investment

Management

InfraPartners

Management

Pangaea Ventures

$13 million






Series - C Funded Companies


Raised

NGDATA Belgium

Belgium-based NGDATA, a provider of

customer experience management

solutions. NGDATA helps brands in

data-driven industries, such as financial

services, telecom, utilities and

hospitality, to drive connected

experiences.

Idinvest Partners

Pamica

SmartFin Capital

Capricorn Venture

Partners

Nausicaa Ventures

$19 million

Kespry

United

States

Silicon Valley-based Kespry, a drone

company.

G2VP

Shell Technology

Ventures

Cisco Investments

ABB Ventures

$33 million

Contentful Germany

Contentful provides a content

infrastructure that enables teams to

power content in any digital product.

General Catalyst

Partners

Benchmark Capital

Balderton Capital

Point Nine Capital

$28 million

WorldRemit

United

Kingdom

WorldRemit, a digital money transfer

service.

LeapFrog

Investments Accel

Technology

Crossover Ventures.

$40 million

Lumicell

United

States

Wellesley, Massachusetts-based

Lumicell a developer of a novel system

that enables real-time detection of

tumor tissue in patients.

Launch Capital

BlueIO

$28.7

million

Hookipa Biotech AG Austria

Hookipa Biotech AG is a clinical stage

biotech company aiming

to develop best-in-class active

immunization therapies for infectious

diseases and oncology.

HBM Partners

Hillhouse Capital

Sirona Capital

Gilead

Sofinnova Partners

Forbion Capital

Partners

Boehringer

Ingelheim Venture

Fund

Takeda Ventures

BioMedPartners

$59.6

million

Menlo Security

United

States

Palo Alto, California-based Menlo

Security protects organizations from

cyberattacks by seeking to eliminate

the threat of malware from the web,

documents and email.

American Express

Ventures

Ericsson Ventures

HSBC

JPMorgan Chase

General Catalyst

Sutter Hill Ventures

Osage University

Partners

Engineering Capital

$40 million






Creditas Soluções

Financeiras Ltda Brazil

Creditas is a digital lending platform

focused on secured lending.

Headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.

Vostok Emerging

Finance $50 million

Skillz United

States

San Francisco-based Skillz, a provider

of a sports tournament mobile gaming

platform.

Telstra

Liberty Global

Accomplice

Wildcat Capital

$25 million

Bizzabo

United

States

Bizzabo is an award-winning holistic

event cloud providing marketers with a

modern suite of tools to create

impactful and rewarding professional

events.

Pilot Growth Equity $15 million

Vayyar Imaging Israel

Vayyar Imaging is changing the imaging

and sensing market with its

breakthrough 3D imaging sensor

technology.

Walden Riverwood

ITI

Claltech

Battery Ventures

Bessemer Ventures

Israel Cleantech

Ventures

Amiti

$45 million

Huddly Norway

Huddly builds flexible, inclusive and

easy-to-use technology for modern

collaboration that evolves with team

dynamics and needs.

Huddly Chairman

Graham Williams $10 million

Leadspace

United

States

Leadspace s Audience Management

Platform enables B2B companies to

better engage customers and drive

faster growth by allowing marketers to

find and know their audiences.

Arrowroot Capital

Jerusalem Venture

Partners

$21 million

Label Insight, Inc

United

States

Chicago-based Label Insight, provider

of a data-as-a-service platform for the

consumer packaged goods industry.

Delta-v Capital

River Cities Capital

Funds

$21 million

MAANA, Inc. United

States

Maana is the Knowledge Platform that

accelerates knowledge discovery to

increase profitability for industrial and

oil & gas companies.

China International

Capital Corporation

Eight Square Capital

Accenture Ventures

Sino Capital

Intel Capital

GE Ventures

Chevron

Technology

Ventures

Saudi Aramco

Energy Ventures

Shell Technology

Ventures

$28 million

Common United

States

A modern, urban lifestyle that values

openness, collaboration and

relationship building.

Norwest Venture

Partners $40 million






Passport

United

States

Passport mobile payment software for

cities, universities, and private

operators, creating better parking and

transit through mobile payment

platforms.

Bain Capital

Ventures $43 million

FLX Bio Inc United

States

FLX Bio, Inc. is a privately-held

biopharmaceutical company focused

on the discovery, development and

commercialization of novel immuno-

oncology agents.

GV

The Column Group

Kleiner Perkins

Topspin Partners

Celgene

Corporation

$60 million

Aura Biosciences, Inc United

States

Aura Biosciences is developing a new

class of therapies to target and

selectively destroy tumor cells.

Lundbeckfonden

Ventures

Arix Bioscience plc

Advent Life

Sciences Chiesi

Ventures

Ysios Capital

Alexandria Venture

Investments

Columbus Venture

Partners

LI-COR Biosciences

$30 million

UrWork(Beijing)Venture

Investment Co., Ltd. China

UrWork(Beijing)Venture Investment

Co., Ltd. offers co-working space

solutions. The company provides long-

term leasing, hot desk, and corporate

customization and professional

solutions.

Qianhai Wutong

Mergers and

Acquisitions Funds

CK Home — Key

Investment Group

Context Lab

$45 million






Series - D Funded Companies


Raised

Hellobike China

China s Hellobike, a bike-sharing firm.

Alibaba s Ant

Financial

Chengwei Capital

GGV Capital

Fosun International

Ant Financial

Services Group Fuji-

ta

$350

million

Tilson Technology

Management

United

States

Tilson Technology Management, Inc. is an

information technology professional services and

network construction company.

Rand Capital $5 million

Insikt, Inc

United

States

INSIKT, a white label lender to underbanked

families. Grupo Coppel $50 million

Ginkgo Bioworks United

States

Headquartered in Boston, Ginkgo Bioworks uses

the most advanced technology on the planet –

biology – to grow products instead of

manufacturing them.

Viking Global

Y Combinator s

Continuity Fund

Cascade Investment

General Atlantic

$275

million

Carbon, Inc.

United

States

Carbon, Inc. designs and develops a full print and

post processing solutions.

Baillie Gifford

Fidelity

Management &

Research Company

Hydra Ventures

GE Ventures

Sequoia Capital

Silver Lake

Kraftwerk

Reinet Investments

$200

million






Series - E Funded Companies


Raised

Affirm Inc

United

States

Affirm Inc is a financial services firm. based in San

Francisco.

GIC

Khosla Ventures

Lightspeed Venture

Partners Founders

Fund

Spark Capital

Caffeinated Capital

Ribbit Capital

$200

million

iZettle Sweden

iZettle is best known for offering small businesses and

individuals a way to take payments using mini credit card

readers that turn smartphones or tablets into cash

registers.

Dawn Capital

Fourth Swedish

National Pension

Fund (AP4)

$47 million

Convercent United

States

Convercent's global compliance and ethics software

solution invites users to share, listen and learn to help

build a more ethical corporate culture.

Rho Ventures

Sapphire Ventures

Tola Capital

$25 million

Series - F Funded Companies


Raised

Moda

Operandi

United

States

Moda Operandi, the first online luxury retailer to provide

consumers access to full collections straight from the runway.

Adrian Cheng

Apax Digital

New Enterprise

Associates LVMH

Fidelity

$165

million






Series - G Funded Companies


Raised

Beyond

Meat

United States

Based in Los Angeles, California, Beyond

Meat is a privately held company with a

mission of building meat directly from

plants.

Cleveland Avenue

Humane Society of the

United States

Tyson Foods

General Mills

$55 million

Seed Funded Companies


Raised

Elsen Inc

United

States

Elsen is the financial services industry. Elsen

nPlatform helps large financial institutions

stay competitive in an evolving industry

landscape.

Accomplice

Launch Capital $2.4 million

NS8 Inc United

States

Arlington, Virginia-based NS8, an ecommerce

fraud prevention solutions provider.

Arbor Ventures

TDF Ventures

Hanna Ventures

$7.5 million

Stateless

United

States

The company is based in Boulder, CO.

Stateless has developed first of its kind

technology to allow network functions to be

easily offered and consumed through the as

a service model.

Speedinvest

EVO Venture

Partners Techstars

PV Ventures

Service Provider

Capital

$1.4 million

Alcide Israel

Alcide is the Israeli company is developing

technology for container and data-center

workload protection.

Intel Capital

Elron $5.2 million

Maxwell Financial

Labs Inc

United

States

Maxwell empowers mortgage lenders to be

more connected, productive and successful

by intelligently automating their workflow

with homebuyers and real estate agents. The

platform is used by hundreds of mortgage

lenders nationwide to serve their customers.

Anthemis Group

Route66 Ventures

Assurant Inc.

$3 million






Sanctuary

United

States

Sanctuary is a online astrological services

provider company.

Advancit Capital

Broadway Video

Ventures Greycroft

Partners

KEC Ventures

Blue Collective

$1.5 million

ParaGen

Technologies

United

States

ParaGen Technologies is the parent of a

family of companies focused on diverse

clinical areas including wound care,

orthopedics, peripheral vascular and hernia

repair.

Ikove Venture

Partners $4.1 million

Burrow

United

States

Burrow is fixing the broken furniture industry

by delivering clever, comfortable, modular

furniture directly to consumers that fits both

their lives and their living rooms.

Blue Ventures

Interplay Ventures $4.3 million

Overhaul

United

States

Austin-based Overhaul a transportation

security technology company.

Abbey International

Finance Group $4.5 million

Dosh United

States

Dosh is an app that finds cash for consumers

and helps businesses acquire and retain

customers.

Goodwater Capital

Extol Capital

Next Coast Ventures

$4.9 million

Alpin United

States

Alpin created the most comprehensive SaaS

management tool that enables companies of

all sizes to monitor and manage their SaaS

ecosystems.

Rockies Venture Club

Nebraska Angels

Plains Angels

Keiretsu Capital

Techstars

$1 million

Fuzzy Pet Health United

States

San Francisco-based Fuzzy Pet Health,

provider of a subscription-based pet

healthcare company.

Eniac Ventures

CrossCut Ventures

Precursor Ventures

SV Angel

FJ Labs

$4.5 million

OncoTartis United

States

OncoTartis, Inc. is a private biotechnology

company. OncoTartis has built a strong

international team of collaborators, including

cancer biologists from the Roswell Park

Cancer Institute, unique animal models

experts from the Children's Cancer Institute

of Australia, and medicinal chemists from

Russia.

Norma Investments

Roman Abramovich

Pharmstandard

International S.A.

$6 million

EcoWorth Tech Singapore

EcoWorth Tech is a waste-to-worth solution

partner that specialises in transforming waste

materials into reusable products while

delivering social and environmental benefits.

Budding Innovations

FundedHere $1 million

Clora

United

States

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Clora, a

medical tech startup.

Spark Capital

Social Capital

Ludlow Ventures

Notation Capital

iSeed Ventures

v1 VC

KohFounders

$3.3 million






Pegasus

Resources LLC

United

States

Based in Fort Worth, Texas, Pegasus

Resources is a well-funded private company

focused on acquiring mineral and royalty

interests in proven oil and gas resource plays,

specifically the Permian Basin.

EnCap Investments $300 million

Heartbeat

United

States

Heartbeat provides a two-way endorsement

platform that enables brands to engage in a

direct conversation with millennial-aged

consumers through trusted friends.

Sinai Ventures

Right Side Capital

Management

$1 million

Aeonian

Pharmaceuticals

Inc

United

States

Aeonian Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is an R&D-

stage biopharmaceutical company aiming to

discover, develop and commercialize

innovative therapeutics for the treatment of

rare and age-related diseases.

Apollo Ventures

James Peyer Undisclosed

Slingshot

Aerospace

United

States

Slingshot Aerospace develops computer

vision based solutions to extract intelligence

and insights from ultra high-volume satellite,

aerial and drone imagery to optimize decision

making for the Department of Defense and

industries such as insurance, financial services

and energy.

ATX Seed Ventures

Okapi Venture

Capital

Sway Ventures

NoName Ventures

$3.25

million

Inflect

United

States

San Francisco-based Inflect, an online

platform that connects buyers and sellers of

internet infrastructure services.

Greenpoint

Technologies Global

Communications

Network

$3 million

Girlboss

United

States

Girlboss is a mission-driven company helping

women define success on their own terms—and offering them the tools they need to

achieve, advance, and own their power.

Lightspeed Venture

Partners

Atom Factory

$2 million

Myonexus

Therapeutics Inc

United

States

Myonexus Therapeutics is a clinical stage,

rare disease gene therapy company

developing first ever treatments for Limb-

girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMDs) based

on research at Nationwide Children s

Hospital, a leader in neuromuscular gene

therapy discovery and translational research.

CincyTech LLC

Rev1 Ventures

The Jain Foundation

GFB ONLUS

$2.5 million

Kami

United

KIngdom

Kami is a deep-tech startup developing a next

generation trusted conversational Artificial

Intelligence (AI) platform.

ARM Innovation

Ecosystem

Accelerator Limited

X Technology Fund

Tin Fu Fund

$1.7 million

Bitwise Asset

Management

United

States

Founded in 2017, Bitwise Asset Management

is a partner to individuals, financial advisors,

family offices, investment managers and

institutions in navigating cryptocurrency.

Khosla Ventures via

Keith Rabois

General Catalyst via

Hemant Taneja

Blockchain Capital.

$4 million

Landoop Ltd United

KIngdom

Landoop Ltd, a provider of modern data

streaming management platform. Landoop

Ltd., the company behind the data streaming

product Lenses, and a significant contributor

in the Apache Kafka ecosystem.

Marathon Venture

Capital $1 million






Aeronyde

United

States

Aeronyde Corporation is building a fully

autonomous, unmanned traffic management

system (UTM) to ensure commercial

unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) - commonly

known as drones - can fly in a safe,

transparent and secure way in urban areas.

JASTech Co. Ltd $4.7 million

Pace United

KIngdom

Pace is a science and technology company

that uses machine learning and proprietary

algorithms to provide real-time pricing for the

hotel industry.

InterGlobe

Seedcamp

Speedinvest

Amadeus Capital

Partners

2.5 million

Pounds

Curisium Inc.

United

States

Curisium is a healthcare technology and

services company based in Manhattan Beach,

CA that provides scalable innovative

contracting solutions with its blockchain-

based platform.

Flare Capital Partners

New Enterprise

Associates Shuttle

Fund

Sanofi Ventures

Green Bay Ventures

$3.5 million

Elemeno Health United

States

Founded in 2016 in Oakland, Calif., Elemeno

Health is a digital health start-up backed by

leading seed stage digital health investor,

Launchpad Digital Health, Silicon Valley tech

accelerator, Y Combinator, and leading

regulatory tech venture investor, Fenway

Summer

Launchpad Digital

Health $1.3 million

3TEN8, Inc United

States

3TEN8 is a San Jose-based startup poised to

make wireless networks more efficient and

set the stage for 5G using artificial

intelligence for network operations.

Social Capital

500 Startups

Citrix

The Alchemist

$2 million

Farmcrowdy Nigeria

Farmcrowdy is an agric-tech platform that

gives Nigerians the opportunity to participate

in agriculture by selecting the kind of farms

they want to sponsor.

Cox Enterprises

Techstars Ventures

Social Capital

Hallett Capital

Right-Side Capital

$1 million

AEPONYX INC. Canada

AEPONYX is a micro optical switch leader

designing and marketing chips for fiber optic

access to the cloud.

Fonds Innovexport

Ecofuel Fund $4.3 million

FiiT HUB United

KIngdom

FiiT HUB aims to inspire clients to live a fit and

healthy lifestyle.

Connect Ventures

JamJar Investors

Rooks Nest Ventures

Westminster Capital

2.4 million

Pounds

Luna DNA

United

States

Luna DNA is the first and only genomic and

medical research database powered by the

blockchain and owned by its community.

Illumina $2 million

Heretik, LLC

United

States

Founded in 2016, Heretik is a contract review

solution that enables attorneys to identify

risks, obligations, and opportunities in

contracts.

Corazon Capital

Chicago Ventures

Relativity

$2.4 million






Bigfinite Spain

Bigfinite is a provider of data analytics and AI

solutions for optimizing the pharmaceutical

manufacturing process.

Crosslink Capital

Uncork Capital

(formerly SoftTech

VC)

La Famiglia

$8.5 million

Streem Inc

United

States

Streem is a technology company that

enhances real-time communication and

collaboration through intelligent, on-demand

video streaming.

GVR Fund

Flying Fish

Columbia Ventures

Corp Rogue Venture

Partners Curious

Capital

Greycroft

GGV Capital

$1.7 million

Zesty.io

United

States

SaaS WCMS website platform for mid-market

and enterprise companies. Empower your

marketing team while still having agility for

your developers.

ClearVision Equity

Partners $1.5 million

Asimov, Inc. United

States

Asimov is a startup that programs living cells

with genetic circuits.

Andreessen Horowitz

Data Collective

Pillar

AME Cloud Ventures

$4.7 million

FarmWise Labs,

Inc

United

States

FarmWise builds smart and autonomous

robots to solve the problem of weeds in

agriculture, saving farmers time and money,

and providing their consumers with healthier

products.

Playground

Felicis Ventures

Basis Set Ventures

Valley Oak

Investments

$5.7 million

OutboundWorks United

States

Intelligent sales software that combines AI

with Human personalization to deliver highly

qualified prospects for your growing

company.

True Ventures

NextGen Ventures

$2.25

million






Venture Funded Companies


Raised

Powerful

United

States

Miami-based Powerful, a food and beverage

company. The Powerful product line was born out

of commitment to create delicious high protein

products to fuel an active lifestyle.

Cambridge

Companies SPG River

Hallow Partners

Gerber Finance

$4 million

Continuum

Security Spain

Continuum Security, a Spain-based cybersecurity

company. Continuum Security provides security

solutions such as tools and services to help you

build secure software and applications.

Swanlaab Venture

Factory JME Venture

Capital

Sonae IM

$1.79

million

Integrated

Biometrics

United

States

Spartanburg, South Carolina-based Integrated

Biometrics, a maker of FBI-certified fingerprint

sensors.

$2 million

Greenlight

Planet Inc

United

States

Greenlight Planet Inc, a solar home energy

company. Greenlight Planet is a for-profit social

business that designs, distributes, and finances

solar home energy.

Apis Partners

Eight Roads Ventures

Bamboo Capital

Partners

$60 million

Genies United

States

Genies Inc. is a media and technology company

that s disrupting the way millennials and gen z

consume and share news. Formerly known as

Blend, Genies is based in Los Angeles with offices

in San Francisco and Bucharest, Romania.

Shawn Mendes

Russell Westbrook $3 million

NexWafe

GmbH Germany

NexWafe GmbH headquartered in Freiburg,

Germany. supply to solar cell producers superior

quality monocrystalline wafers that are fully

compatible with standard cell and module

fabrication processes.

Saudi Aramco Energy

Ventures

Green Gateway Fund

2 Wermuth Asset

Management GmbH

Lynwood (Schweiz)

AG

8 million

Euros

OTA Insight

United

Kingdom

OTA Insight delivers innovative, easy-to-use,

cloud-based revenue management solutions to

hotels, resorts, apartments, hostels and

accommodation businesses globally.

Eight Roads Ventures

F-Prime Capital

Partners

$20 million

rENIAC United

States

rENIAC (Mountain View, California, U.S.) reduces

latency and accelerates throughput for critical

workloads in public cloud, hybrid and on-premise

data centers without software changes to existing

applications.

Intel Capital Undisclosed






Quinyx United

Kingdom

Quinyx is a leading provider of cloud-based,

workforce-management solutions. With a mobile-

first approach, Quinyx helps to reduce workforce-

related costs by automating labour-intensive

processes like scheduling, payroll, time punching,

communication and forecasting—all while

creating a smiling workforce.

Battery Ventures $12 million

Respicardia,

Inc

United

States

Respicardia is a private medical technology

company dedicated to improving the lives of

patients by developing implantable therapies

designed to improve respiratory and

cardiovascular health.

ZOLL Medical

Corporation

$58.5

million

ACL Services

Ltd Canada

ACL is the world's largest pure play multi-tenant

SaaS GRC provider. Norwest $50 million

Hyperloop

One

United

States

Hyperloop One is the only company in the world

that has built a fully operational hyperloop

system.

Caspian Venture

Capital

DP World

$50 million

Didja, Inc.

United

States

Didja is based in the heart of Silicon Valley and

specializes in consumer apps that help users

engage with live linear television.

Vestech Partners $12 million

Blue Frog

Robotics France

Blue Frog Robotics, a French company dedicated

to create innovative robots, designed BUDDY, a

companion & social robot accessible to everyone.

Fenox Venture

Capital Undisclosed

Tessa

Therapeutics

Pte Ltd.

Singapore

Tessa Therapeutics is a clinical-stage

biotechnology company conducting the world's.

Temasek

EDBI

Karst Peak Capital

Heliconia and

Heritas

$80 million

Avora

United

States

AVORA a company that delivers next-generation

Business Intelligence (BI) and machine learning as

a service, enables users to connect hundreds of

disparate data sources and view insights in

minutes.

Crane Venture

Partners

1.5 million

Pounds

Talenya

Israel

Israel-based Talenya, a technology-based

recruitment company.

Lool Ventures

Gal Ventures

$3 million






Private Equity Funded Companies


Raised

Didi

Chuxing China

Didi Chuxing formerly Didi Kuaidi is a major Chinese ride-sharing

company founded by Cheng Wei, providing transportation services

for more than 450 million users across over 400 cities in China.

Mubadala

Capita

SoftBank

Group Corp

$4 billion

Companies with Undisclosed Funding


Raised

SQZ Biotech United

States

Massachusetts-based SQZ Biotech, a preclinical stage

biotechnology company. SQZ Biotechnologies cell

engineering platform allows one to deliver a diverse set of

materials into patient cells,

JDRF T1D Fund Undisclosed

Enveil

United

States

Enveil is a pioneering data security company. Enabling a

ZeroReveal security posture, Enveil s technology allows

enterprises to securely operate at scale on both encrypted

and unencrypted data in the Cloud, on prem, or anywhere in

between.

In-Q-Tel Undisclosed

Contrast

Security

United

States

Contrast Security is the world's leading provider of security

technology that enables software applications to protect

themselves against cyberattacks, heralding the new era of

self-protecting software.

AXA Strategic

Ventures

Microsoft

Ventures

Undisclosed

18Birdies

United

States

18Birdies is reimagining the world of golf through

technology, transforming the way golf is played, experienced

and perceived, and building a more diverse, positive and

relevant golf community

Peter Gotcher

Milwaukee

BucksJason Kidd

Undisclosed

Sequentum

Inc

United

States

Sequentum is a software development company which

focuses on web data extraction and web automation

technologies, and provides related consulting and managed

data services.

WorldQuant

Ventures Undisclosed



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