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Sunday, 06/01/2025

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Grammarly

Funding Amount: $13 Billion

Grammarly, a writing assistant valued by VCs at $13 billion, raised $1b in non-dilutive financing from General Catalyst.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(15), Marketing(8), Sales/Business Development/Growth(7), Design(4), Customer Success(4), Data(3), Product(3), Legal/Compliance(3), Operations(2), Content Creation(1), Supply Chain/Logistics(1), Other(9)

Strava

Funding Amount: $2.2 Billion

Strava, an SF-based fitness tracking platform, raised new funding at a $2.2b valuation, per the WSJ Sequoia Capital led, joined by TCV, Jackson Square Ventures, and Go4it Capital.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(18), Data(7), Product(3), Marketing(3), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), Customer Success(1), Content Creation(1), Legal/Compliance(1), Supply Chain/Logistics(1), Other(5)

ClickHouse

Funding Amount: $350 Million

ClickHouse, a Palo Alto, Calif-based database startup, raised $350m at a $6.35b valuation. Khosla Ventures led, joined by Bond Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Index Venture, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Benchmark and Coatue.

Hiring For: Remote(45), Engineering/Technology(45), Customer Success(7), Data(4), Finance/Accounting(4), Product(2), Design(1), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), Marketing(1)

Airwallex

Funding Amount: $300 Million

Airwallex, an Australian payments firm, raised US$300m in Series F funding at a $6.2b valuation. Backers include Square Peg, Visa Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, Blackbird, and Airtree, and undisclosed Australian pension funds.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(119), Sales/Business Development/Growth(77), Marketing(63), Customer Success(55), Product(36), Operations(26), Data(24), Finance/Accounting(19), Supply Chain/Logistics(11), Design(9), HR/People(9), Remote(5), Content Creation(5), Legal/Compliance(3), Other(48)

SnorkelAI

Funding Amount: $100 Million

SnorkelAI, a Redwood City, Calif.-based provider of AI model evaluation tools, raised $100m in Series D funding at a $1.3b valuation. Addition led, joined by Prosperity 7 Ventures, Greylock and Lightspeed, BNY and QBE.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(16), Remote(13), Data(8), Sales/Business Development/Growth(4), Operations(2), Design(1), Marketing(1), Customer Success(1), Legal/Compliance(1), Other(6)

LMArena

Funding Amount: $100 Million

LMArena, an SF-based AI model reliability platform, raised $100m in seed funding co-led by a16z and UC Investments co-led, joined by Lightspeed, Laude Ventures, Felicis, Kleiner Perkins, and The House Fund.

Hiring For: Remote(10), Engineering/Technology(10), Data(4), Design(2), Product(2), Operations(1), Marketing(1), Customer Success(1), Other(4)

Keep

Funding Amount: $76 Million

Keep, a Toronto, Canada-based provider of a financial platform for small businesses, raised $76M in funding. The round consisted of:

Hiring For: Remote(4), Product(2), Marketing(2), Engineering/Technology(1), Data(1), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), HR/People(1), Finance/Accounting(1), Supply Chain/Logistics(1), Other(1)

Butternut Box

Funding Amount: €75 Million

Butternut Box, a UK-based fresh dog food company, raised €75M+ in Debt funding from Liquidity. The company intends to allocate the amount to consolidate its market position in Europe with the development of a second manufacturing facility in Poland.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(6), Product(3), Sales/Business Development/Growth(3), Operations(2), Marketing(1), Customer Success(1), HR/People(1), Finance/Accounting(1), Supply Chain/Logistics(1), Other(29)

CloudZero

Funding Amount: $56 Million

CloudZero, a Boston, MA-based company which specializes in proactive cloud cost efficiency, raised $56M in Series C funding. The round was led by BlueCrest Capital Management and Innovius Capital, with participation from Matrix Partners, Threshold Ventures, Underscore VC, G20 Ventures and MongoDB.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(10), Data(2), Product(2), Design(1), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), Marketing(1), Customer Success(1), Content Creation(1), HR/People(1), Other(1)

Wander

Funding Amount: $50 Million

Wander, an Austin, TX-based company combining luxury hotel experiences with the comfort of a private vacation home, raised $50M in Series B Funding. The round was led by QED Investors and Fifth Wall with participation from Redpoint Ventures, Uncork, Starwood, and Breyer Capital and many other returning and new investors.

Hiring For: Remote(19), Engineering/Technology(8), Sales/Business Development/Growth(4), Customer Success(2), Supply Chain/Logistics(2), Cybersecurity(1), Design(1), Product(1), Marketing(1), Content Creation(1), Other(11)

RevenueCat

Funding Amount: $50 Million

RevenueCat, a startup powering subscription apps, raised $50m in Series C funding at a $500m valuation. Bain Capital Ventures led, joined by Index Ventures, YC, Adjacent, Volo Ventures, and SaaStr Fund.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(4), Marketing(2), Product(1), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), Content Creation(1)

Vivodyne

Funding Amount: $40 Million

Vivodyne, a San Francisco, CA-based company developing drug testing on lab-grown 3D human tissues, raised $40M in Series A funding. The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from new investors Lingotto Investment Management, Helena Capital, Fortius Ventures, and existing investors Kairos Ventures, CS Ventures, Bison Ventures, and MBX Capital.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(4), Data(1)

Miter

Funding Amount: $38 Million

Miter, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM), field operations, and expense management solutions for the construction and field service industries, raised $38M in funding. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Coatue Management.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(4), Sales/Business Development/Growth(2), Customer Success(2), HR/People(2), Other(4)

Conduit

Funding Amount: $36 Million

Conduit, a Boston, MA-based provider of a cross-border payments platform empowered by stablecoins, raised $36M in Series A funding. The round was led by Dragonfly and Altos Ventures, with participation from Sound Ventures, Commerce Ventures, DCG, Circle Ventures, and existing investors Helios Digital Ventures, and Portage Ventures.

Hiring For: Product(2), Customer Success(2), Design(1), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), HR/People(1), Other(2)

Pillar Biosciences

Funding Amount: $34.5 Million

Pillar Biosciences, a Natik, MA-based decision medicine company, raised $34.5M in funding. Backers included Illumina, Soleus Capital and existing investors.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(1), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), Other(1)

Hedra

Funding Amount: $32 Million

Hedra, a San Francisco Bay Area-based multimodal content creation platform, powered by Character-3, raised $32M in Series A funding. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Matt Bornstein joining the board. Existing investors including a16z speedrun, Abstract, and Index Ventures also participated in the round.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(10), Data(4), Product(1), HR/People(1)

Simplify Compliance

Funding Amount: $28 Million

Simplify Compliance, a Brentwood, TN-based provider of a diversified B2B information services platform, received $28M in debt funding from o15 Capital Partners. The company intends to allocate the amount to expand operations and its development efforts.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(1), Data(1), Product(1), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), Marketing(1), Supply Chain/Logistics(1), Other(1)

Pallet

Funding Amount: $27 Million

Pallet, a San Francisco, CA-based company behind CoPallet, the AI workforce for logistics, raised $27M in Series B funding. The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Activant Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Dan Lewis (CPO at Microsoft, co-founder at Convoy), Amit Agarwal (former President at Datadog), Girish Rishi (former CEO at BlueYonder), Michael Capellas (former CEO at Compaq), Matt McKinney (CEO at Loop), and Aatish Nayak.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(3), Sales/Business Development/Growth(2), Data(1), Product(1), Customer Success(1), Other(1)

Clair

Funding Amount: $23 Million

Clair, a NYC-based fintech company offering earned wage access (“EWA”) originated by national bank, Pathward, N.A., raised over $23M in Series B funding. The round was led by Upfront Ventures, with participation from existing investors including Thrive Capital.

Hiring For: Remote(2), Finance/Accounting(2), Engineering/Technology(1), Data(1), Product(1), Other(1)

OpenFX

Funding Amount: $23 Million

OpenFX, a NYC-based company developing a multi-layer liquidity architecture for financial technology, raised $23M in initial funding. The round was led by Accel, with participation from NFX, Lightspeed Faction, Castle Island Ventures, Flybridge, Hash3 and strategic fintech investors.

Hiring For: Remote(6), Engineering/Technology(2), Product(1), Customer Success(1), Legal/Compliance(1), Finance/Accounting(1), Other(2)

Superblocks

Funding Amount: $23 Million

Superblocks, a NYC-based secure enterprise app development company, raised $23M in Series A funding. Backers included Kleiner Perkins, Spark Capital, Greenoaks, Meritech Capital, and Box CEO Aaron Levie and Workday Founder Aneel Bhusri.

Hiring For: Remote(5), Engineering/Technology(4), Data(1), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), Customer Success(1), HR/People(1), Other(1)

Sweep

Funding Amount: $22.5 Million

Sweep, a NYC-based agentic workspace company for business systems, raised $22.5M in Series B funding. The round was led by Insight Partners with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(2), Sales/Business Development/Growth(2), Product(1), Marketing(1), Customer Success(1), Other(1)

Kincell Bio

Funding Amount: $22 Million

Kincell Bio, a cell therapy CDMO, raised $22m led by NewSpring Capital.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(2), Data(1)

Converge

Funding Amount: $22 Million

Converge, a London, UK-based technology company which specializes in concrete usage and production for the construction sector, raised $22M in funding. The round was led by ABN AMRO Sustainable Impact Fund (SIF), with participation from existing investors, including Climate Investment (CI), alongside new investors Move Energy, PI Impact, J-Impact and existing investors TO Ventures, Force Over Mass Capital and others.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(2)

CloudSEK

Funding Amount: $19 Million

CloudSEK, a Bangalore, India-based company which specializes in AI-powered cyber threat prediction and intelligence, has raised $19M across its Series A2 and B1 funding. The rounds included participation from a mix of India- and US-based investors, such as MassMutual Ventures, Inflexor Ventures, Prana Ventures, Tenacity Ventures, and select strategic investors, including Commvault. Meeran Family (founders of Eastern Group), StartupXSeed, Neon Fund and Exfinity Ventures also participated.

Hiring For: Remote(3), Cybersecurity(3), Sales/Business Development/Growth(3), Engineering/Technology(1), Product(1), Operations(1), Marketing(1), Customer Success(1), HR/People(1), Other(7)

Filed

Funding Amount: $17.3 Million

Filed, a New York-based tax prep platform, raised $17.3m in pre-seed and seed funding from Northzone, Day One Ventures, J Ventures, Neo, Raine, and Greens Ventures. filed.com

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(2), Design(1), Product(1), Other(1)

Sylndr

Funding Amount: $15.7 Million

Sylndr, an Egyptian auto financing startup, raised $15.7m led by Development Partners International.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(12), Operations(8), Customer Success(6), Sales/Business Development/Growth(5), Finance/Accounting(5), Data(4), HR/People(4), Supply Chain/Logistics(3), Marketing(2), Design(1), Content Creation(1), Other(15)

Creatify

Funding Amount: $15.5 Million

Creatify, a Mountain View, Calif.-based AI video advertising platform, raised $15.5m in Series A funding co-led by WndrCo and Kindred Ventures.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(2), Product(2), Sales/Business Development/Growth(2), Marketing(2), Design(1), Customer Success(1), Other(1)

Rhino Federated Computing

Funding Amount: $15 Million

Rhino Federated Computing, an Israeli AI platform for regulated industries, raised a $15m Series A led by AlleyCorp, with participation from LionBird, Fusion Fund, Arkin Digital Health, Qiming Venture Partners USA, and Telus Global Ventures.

Hiring For: Sales/Business Development/Growth(2), Engineering/Technology(1), Product(1)

remberg

Funding Amount: €15 Million

remberg, a Munich, Germany-based AI-powered maintenance software company, raised €15M in Series A+ funding. The round was led by Acton Capital and Oxx, with participation from existing investors Earlybird, Speedinvest, and Fly Ventures.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(4), Sales/Business Development/Growth(3), Operations(1), Customer Success(1), HR/People(1), Other(1)

Kota

Funding Amount: $14.5 Million

Kota, an Irish employee benefits startup, raised $14.5m in Series A funding. Eurazeo led, joined by EQT Ventures, Northzone, Frontline Venture, 9Yards, and Plug and Play.

Hiring For: Remote(3), Sales/Business Development/Growth(3), Engineering/Technology(2), Data(1), Product(1), Operations(1), Marketing(1), Legal/Compliance(1), Other(1)

SpAItial

Funding Amount: $13 Million

SpAItial, a German developer of AI-native 3D apps, raised $13m in seed funding. Earlybird VC led, joined by Speedinvest.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(5), Data(2), Design(1)

Rad AI

Funding Amount: $8 Million

Rad AI, a San Francisco, CA-based generative AI company developing radiology solutions, raised additional $8M in funding. The round was led by Advocate Health, Memorial Hermann Health System, Corewell Health, and Atlantic Health System. This funding extended Rad AI’s $60M Series C financing round.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(12), Data(2), Product(2), Customer Success(2), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), Other(2)

sensmore

Funding Amount: $7.3 Million

sensmore, a Berlin/Potsdam, Germany-based robotics startup, raised $7.3M in funding. The round was led by Point Nine Capital, and joined by international backers from the US and UK including Acequia Capital, Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company, Prototype Capital, and Entrepreneur First. Investors also included Amar Shah (Wayve), Michael Wax (Forto), Arnoud Balhuizen (former CCO of BHP, board member at Teck Resources), Thilo Konzok, Roby Stancel, Robin Dechant, Alexey Zhigarev, and Elmar Leiblein (former CEO of Thyssenkrupp Mining). Additional funding has been received from the State of Brandenburg and the European Union.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(7), Data(2)

RoboForce

Funding Amount: $5 Million

RoboForce, a Milpitas, CA-based AI robotics startup, raised $5M in additional funding. Backers were not disclosed.

Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(7), Data(3)

Ad Signal

Funding Amount: £3 Million

Ad Signal, a York, UK-based provider of content intelligence for the media and entertainment industry, raised an investment of £3M. Foresight Group made the investment.

Hiring For: Remote(2), Engineering/Technology(2)


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