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SAN FRANCISCO — Dialpad Inc., which operates an AI-powered cloud communications and collaboration platform, has raised $170 million in funding. The funding valued the company at $2.2 billion. To date, Dialpad has raised $418 million in capital. ICONIQ Capital leads the funding round which includes participation from Amasia, GV, OMERS Growth Equity, Work-Bench, Section 32, […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Retool says it has raised $20 million Series C from existing investors: Sequoia Capital, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and John and Patrick Collison. These investors also led the company’s Series A and Series B rounds. Retool helps companies connect their apps and databases to build their own tools in minutes. […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Univfy, a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to personalize counseling and increase access to fertility care, has raised $6 million of its Series B funding round led by a portfolio company of Atlantic Street Capital. Known by fertility specialists and patients for its flagship Univfy PreIVF Report, Univfy has commercialized a […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Airtable, which operates a connected apps platform that helps companies modernize their business processes, has raised a massive $735 million Series F round. The new funding brings Airtable’s total investment to date to $1.36 billion and values the company at $11 billion (pre-money). This Series F round includes participation from: XN, which […]
SANTA CLARA — Glassbeam, Inc., a developer of machine data analytics for connected medical equipment, has raised $10 million in a Series B funding led by Appian Way Asset Management, along with a strategic investment from one of its flagship healthcare accounts, MultiCare Health System. The new money will be used to scale up global commercial infrastructure including sales and marketing […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Sequel, a startup developing a leakage-preventing tampon, has launched and raised $5 million in seed funding. Founded by two high-level athletes and Stanford engineers, Sequel’s mission is to raise the standard of women’s products with better design and superior technology. The seed funding will help Sequel brings its first novel product to […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Genesys, a cloud-based provider of customer service and call center technology, has raised a $580 million round of funding. The oversubscribed round was led by Salesforce Ventures with participation from other investors ServiceNow Ventures; Zoom Video Communications; funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, D1 Capital Partners and another large US-based West Coast mutual […]
PALO ALTO — Fable, a social platform for book clubs and stories, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Tiger Global with participation from Redpoint Ventures, Gaingels, Breyer Capital, defy.vc, and others. Fable was founded by tech industry veteran Padmasree Warrior and launched in April, 2021. Previously, the company had raised $7.25 million in seed funding led by Redpoint […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Verge Genomics, a drug discovery company that is using artificial intelligence (AI) and human data to develop new drugs, has closed an oversubscribed $98 million equity financing. The Series B financing was led by funds managed by BlackRock and includes new healthcare and technology investors Eli Lilly and Company, Merck Global Health […]
PALO ALTO — Noname Security, an API security company, has secured $135 million in Series C funding at $1 billion valuation. The funding round was led by Georgian and Lightspeed, with participation from existing investors including Insight Partners, Cyberstarts, Next47, Forgepoint, and The Syndicate Group (TSG). This new investment will fund the global expansion of Noname Security’s go-to-market and R&D teams. Noname Security […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Forethought, the Human-Centered AI Platform, announced a $65 million Series C funding round that will fuel the company’s growth and accelerate the digital transformation in customer service with human-centered AI. “The pandemic pushed individuals and businesses alike to quickly move to digital channels and processes, a shift that many weren’t prepared for,” […]
PALO ALTO — Dazz, a cloud security remediation company, has closed on a new round of funding and that it has raised a total of $60 million to date. The company will expand its engineering team and build a go-to-market organization in the United States with offices in Palo Alto and New York. Venture capital firms participating in the funding round […]