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SAN FRANCISCO — TrueNorth, a Y Combinator graduate that operates a business platform for independent truckers, has secured $50 million in a Series B funding round led by early-stage investors Lachy Groom and Sam, Max, and Jack Altman. Other investors include the Flexport Fund, Tribe Capital, Original Capital, K5 Global, 137 Ventures, and Fifth Down Capital, among […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Simplified, an AI-powered content creation, and marketing platform that’s looking to take on Canva, announced an $8.5 million seed funding round led by Craft Ventures with participation from Khosla Ventures and Wing Venture Capital. The round also included investors Uncorrelated Ventures, 8-Bit Capital, Mads Johnsen (CPO, Calm), Manik Gupta (Corporate Vice President, Microsoft) Ankur Nagpal (Founder of Teachable, […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Epic Cleantec, the San Francisco-based onsite water reuse firm, has successfully closed a $9.4 million financing round. The company has pioneered an approach to treat and reuse water in buildings and will use the funding to expand geographically and deepen its portfolio of technology offerings. Epic’s onsite water reuse approach captures and […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Dispatch Goods, a reusable packaging logistics startup that enables restaurants and delivery companies the ability to offer reusable, sustainable packaging, has completed a $3.7 million seed raise. The round was led by Congruent Ventures along with Bread and Butter Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Incite Ventures, MCJ, and Berkeley SkyDeck. Dispatch Goods says it successfully […]
SANTA CLARA — Dragonboat, which operates a product portfolio management platform, has reeled in a $12 million Series A round led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors Act One Ventures, Roble Ventures and GingerBread Capital. The round quickly follows the company’s $3 million seed announcement in July and the company says it had 500% growth […]
SAN FRANCISCO — LogDNA, which operates an observability data platform, announced that cybersecurity investment and advisory firm NightDragon will lead a Series D funding round of $50 million with participation from existing investors Emergence and Initialized Capital. In November, LogDNA made Deloitte’s 2021 Technology Fast 500, which highlighted the company’s 1293% revenue growth from 2017 […]
HAYWARD — Halio, builder of smart windows, says it has raised $100 million in financing led by inside investors SK and Capricorn Investment Group. SK is Korea’s third-largest company with more than $68 Billion in annual revenue. Halio develops and commercializes breakthrough advances in electrochromic technology that maximize natural light while mitigating solar heat and […]
MENLO PARK — Blue Lava, creator of the first security program management platform built by and for chief information security officers (CISOs), has completed a total of $25 million in series A funding, with the latest $7.5 million investment on top of $17.5 million raised previously. The latest financing round, led by Crosslink Capital with contribution […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Panther Labs, a cloud-scale security analytics platform, announced $120 million in Series B funding. The investment will be used to fuel rapid market expansion, bringing Panther’s fast, flexible and scalable platform for threat detection and incident response to security teams everywhere. The round was led by Coatue Management, with new participation from […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Uniform, which calls itself the first headless composable digital experience platform (DXP) company, has raised a $28 million Series A investment round led by Insight Partners. The round also includes participation from Elad Gil and Array Ventures. Uniform plans to use the new funds to accelerate the growth of its global team, deepen relationships with ecosystem […]
SAN FRANCISCO — CloudTrucks, a technology company that helps small trucking businesses and entrepreneurs, has secured $115 million in Series B funding, giving CloudTrucks’ a valuation of $850 million. The round was led by Tiger Global with participation from Menlo Ventures. The round also includes investment from Flexport as well as angel investors Michael Ovitz and Opendoor CEO Eric Wu, and […]
PALO ALTO — CyCognito has raised a $100 million Series C funding round led by The Westly Group—just 3.5 years after the company was founded in 2017. New investors Thomvest Ventures and The Heritage Group joined the round alongside existing investors Accel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sorenson Ventures and UpWest. This new round brings the company’s total amount raised […]