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Funded & Hiring
Sunday, 09/22/2024
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Funding Amount: $645 Million
Twelve, a Berkeley, CA-based carbon transformation company that converts captured carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals, fuels, and other essential products typically made from fossil fuels, raised $645m in funding.
This raise was a strategic mix of capital which included:
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(2), Remote(1), Finance/Accounting(1), Other(2)
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Funding Amount: €173 Million
Alan, a French health insurer, raised €173m in Series F funding at a $4.5b valuation from insiders Teachers Venture Growth, Temasek, Coatue, and Lakestar.
Hiring For:
Customer Success(9), Sales/Business Development/Growth(5), Product(4), Engineering/Technology(3), Design(2), Operations(2), Supply Chain/Logistics(2), Data(1), Marketing(1), Content Creation(1), Finance/Accounting(1), Other(20)
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Funding Amount: $150 Million
ZeroAvia, a Hollister, Calif., developer of hydrogen-powered airplane engines, raised $150m in Series C funding from Scottish National Investment Bank, Airbus, Barclays Sustainable Impact Capital and Saudi Arabias NEOM Investment Fund.
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(6), Operations(1), Supply Chain/Logistics(1), Other(3)
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Funding Amount: $140 Million
Nura Bio, a San Francisco, CA-based clinical-stage, biopharmaceutical company developing neuroprotective, small molecule therapies for the treatment of debilitating neurological diseases, raised more than $140M in Series A funding.
This included the addition of $68M to the initial Series A round of $73M which was announced in 2020.
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(2)
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Funding Amount: $130 Million
AtoB, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of modern payment solutions for the transportation industry, raised $130M in funding.
AtoB raised the amount in a combined Series C equity and debt funding round, led by General Catalyst and Bloomberg Beta along with participation from Mastercard and other industry players.
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(2), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), Customer Success(1), Content Creation(1), Finance/Accounting(1), Other(1)
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Funding Amount: $112 Million
SafetyCulture, an Australian enterprise ops company, raised US$112m at a $1.7b valuation. Airtree Ventures led, and was joined by insiders Blackbird and Morpheus Ventures.
Hiring For:
Customer Success(7), Remote(1), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), Other(10)
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Funding Amount: $100 Million
Virtuous, a Phoenix, AZ-based provider of responsive fundraising software for nonprofits, raised $100m in funding.
The round was led by Susquehanna Growth Equity.
Hiring For:
Remote(7), Customer Success(5), Engineering/Technology(1), Product(1), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), Other(9)
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Funding Amount: $Unknown
Kasisto, a NYC-based creator of a conversational AI platform for the financial services industry, raised an undisclosed amount in Series D funding.
The round, which brought the total amount to $90M, saw participation from undisclosed investors. The company also announced the appointment of Don Layden as Executive Chairman of its Board of Directors.
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(2), Customer Success(1)
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Funding Amount: $75 Million
Forterra, a Clarksburg, MD-based self-driving technology company, raised $75M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Moore Strategic Ventures, XYZ Venture Capital, and Hedosophia, with participation from Standard Investments and existing investors, including Enlightenment Capital, Crescent Cove Advisors, and Four More Capital.
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(24), Remote(12), Data(6), Design(3), Other(3)
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Funding Amount: $70 Million
Second Front Systems, a Wilmington, DE-based public-benefit software company focused on enabling the delivery of mission-critical software solutions, closed a $70m Series C funding round.
The round was led by Salesforce Ventures, with participation from new investors, Battery Ventures, and existing investors, NEA, Moore Strategic Ventures, and Artis Ventures.
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(4), Product(2), Customer Success(2), Cybersecurity(1), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), Marketing(1), Other(1)
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Funding Amount: $69 Million
Air Company, a NYC-based carbon conversion technology company, raised $69M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Avfuel, with participation from Lowercarbon Capital, IQT (In-Q-Tel), Alaska Airlines, Connecticut Innovation’s Climate Tech Fund, Duncan Aviation, JSSI, the owners of Sheltair Aviation, Carbon Direct Capital, JetBlue Ventures, and Toyota Ventures. As part of this investment, Avfuel will join the company’s board of directors.
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(2), Design(2), Other(2)
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Funding Amount: $Unknown
webAI, an Austin, TX-based provider of an AI development platform that provides enterprises with localized AI infrastructure, raised an additional undisclosed amount in funding.
The round, which brought the total amount to $60M, included participation from undisclosed investors.
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(6), Remote(3), Data(1), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), Marketing(1)
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Funding Amount: $55 Million
Strider Technologies, a Salt Lake City, UT-based provider of strategic intelligence, raised $55M in Series C funding.
The round was led by Pelion Venture Partners. Other investors included participation from AXA Venture Partners (AVP), and existing investors Valor Equity Partners, DataTribe and Cyfr Capital. Blake Modersitzki, Partner at Pelion, will join Strider’s Board of Directors.
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(9), Data(3), Operations(1), Legal/Compliance(1), Supply Chain/Logistics(1), Other(5)
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Funding Amount: $50 Million
Habitat Health, a San Francisco, CA-based integrated health care payer and provider, raised more than $50M in funding
Backers included Town Hall Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, and Kaiser Permanente.
Hiring For:
Remote(1), Other(6)
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Funding Amount: $50 Million
finally, a Miami, FL-based AI-powered, all-in-one finance and HR suite, raised $50M in Series B funding and $150M in Credit Facility.
The Series B was led by PeakSpan Capital while the credit facility was provided by Encina.
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(3), Customer Success(3), Finance/Accounting(3), Marketing(2), Data(1), Product(1), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), Content Creation(1), Other(4)
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Funding Amount: $41 Million
Buyerlink, a Walnut Creek, CA-based online auction marketplace for performance-based marketing, raised $41M a debt facility with Citigroup.
This new financing arrangement bolsters the company’s capital structure, enabling it to continue to pursue growth strategies both organically and through strategic acquisitions.
Hiring For:
Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), Customer Success(1), Other(2)
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Funding Amount: $40 Million
Pairwise, a Durham, NC-based technology company which specializes in gene editing to improve plant breeding in specialty and commodity crops, raised $40M in Series C funding.
The round, which brought the total amount to $155M, was led by Deerfield Management with participation from Aliment Capital and Leaps by Bayer, Corteva, Inc. (NYSE: CTVA).
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(5), Data(1), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1)
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Funding Amount: $38 Million
Arzeda, a Seattle, WA-based protein design company,raised $38M in funding.
The round was led by Sofinnova Partners, Fall Line Capital, Sucden Ventures, Silver Blue, and the venture arm of W.L. Gore & Associates. Previous investors also participated, including the venture arm of the Continental Grain Company, Bunge Ventures, and Lewis & Clark Agrifood.
Hiring For:
Other(1)
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Funding Amount: $35 Million
Mangomint, a Los Angeles, CA-based salon and spa software provider, raised $35M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Altos Ventures, with participation from Jason Lemkin’s SaaStr Fund and existing investor OpenView Venture Partners. In addition to the equity round, Mangomint also secured $12M in venture debt issued by Avidbank.
Hiring For:
Customer Success(3), Engineering/Technology(1), Other(3)
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Funding Amount: $34.5 Million
FlexiLoans, an Indian SME lender, raised $34.5m in Series C funding. Maj Invest led, and was joined by Accion Digital Transformation, Nuveen and Fundamentum.
Hiring For:
Finance/Accounting(1)
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Funding Amount: $33.2 Million
XP Health, a San Carlos, CA-based company providing a digital-first vision care platform, raised $33.2M in Series B funding.
The round was led by QED Investors with other investors including Canvas Ventures, American Family Ventures, HC9 Ventures, Valor Capital Group, and Manchester Story, who were all also part of a $17.1M Series A round announced in fall 2022.
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(4), Sales/Business Development/Growth(2), Data(1), HR/People(1)
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Funding Amount: $33 Million
Datamaran, a London, UK- and NYC-based provider of a software analytics platform that identifies and monitors external risks, including ESG, raised $33m in Series C financing.
The round was led by investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital.
Hiring For:
Sales/Business Development/Growth(4), Engineering/Technology(3), Product(1), Customer Success(1), Content Creation(1), Other(2)
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Funding Amount: $30 Million
Motion, a Toronto, Canada-based provider of creative analytics and research platform used by creative strategists, raised USD$30m in Series B funding.
The round, which brought total funding to USD$42m, was led by Inovia with participation from Threshold Ventures as well as existing investors Headline, Abstract Ventures, and Sugar Capital.
Hiring For:
Customer Success(11), Engineering/Technology(2), Operations(1), Other(10)
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Funding Amount: $30 Million
Cherre, a NYC-based provider of a real estate data management and intelligence platform, raised $30M in Series C funding.
The round was led by HighSage Ventures, with participation from Nuveen Real Estate, RXR (RADV), certain principals of TA Realty, and others, as well as current investors Trustbridge Partners, Glilot Capital Partners, Intel Capital, and Carthona Capital.
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(11), Data(8), Remote(3), Product(1)
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Funding Amount: $30 Million
Slingshot Aerospace, an El Segundo, CA-based provider of AI-powered solutions for satellite tracking, space traffic coordination, and space modeling and simulation, received $30M in Growth Capital.
Trinity Capital Inc. (NASDAQ: TRIN) provided the capital.
Hiring For:
Remote(5), Customer Success(2), Finance/Accounting(2), Engineering/Technology(1), Operations(1), Other(3)
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Funding Amount: $28 Million
TeamBridge, a San Francisco, CA-based Workforce OS (workforce operating system) company empowering hourly workforces, raised $28M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Mayfield, with participation from existing investors General Catalyst and Abstract Ventures.
Hiring For:
Customer Success(1), Other(1)
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Funding Amount: $25 Million
Orb, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a billing platform for businesses to monetize software, raised $25M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Mayfield, with participation from existing investors Menlo Ventures, Greylock Partners, South Park Commons, Basecase, and Scribble Ventures and new investor Uncorrelated Ventures.
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(7), Remote(4), Customer Success(3), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), Finance/Accounting(1), Other(2)
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Funding Amount: $25 Million
Pieces Technologies, an Irving, Texas-based provider of solutions for inpatient care teams, raised $25m from Childrens Health, Concord Health Partners, OSF HealthCare, and Rittenhouse Ventures.
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(1), Other(1)
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Funding Amount: $24 Million
11x, a San Francisco, CA-based AI startup transforming the modern workforce with autonomous digital workers, raised $24M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Benchmark, with participation from Quiet Capital, SV Angel, Abstract Ventures, Lux Capital, Operator Partners, Visionaries, Activant, HubSpot Ventures, Project A, 20VC, 20Growth, and 20Sales.
Hiring For:
Product(2), Customer Success(2), Engineering/Technology(1), Design(1), Other(4)
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Funding Amount: $22.2 Million
Roots Automation, a NYC-based creator of the AI-powered Digital Coworker and InsurGPTTM, raised $22.2M in funding.
The round was led by Harbert Growth Partners, with participation from MissionOG, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures and Vestigo Ventures.
Hiring For:
Remote(4), Engineering/Technology(1), Design(1), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), Customer Success(1), Other(2)
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Funding Amount: $21 Million
Darkhive, a San Antonio, CA-based defense tech startup focused on open architecture Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) integrated with a secure software delivery system, raised $21M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Ten Eleven Ventures with participation from Crosslink Capital, RTX Ventures, and Stellar Ventures.
Hiring For:
Operations(2), Engineering/Technology(1), HR/People(1), Other(2)
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Funding Amount: $20 Million
Connectly, a San Francisco, CA-based company which specializes in conversational commerce, raised $20M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Alibaba, with participation from Unusual Ventures, Volpe Capital, RX Ventures, Falabella Ventures and Philippos Kourkoulos Latsis.
Hiring For:
Customer Success(3), Engineering/Technology(2), Finance/Accounting(2), Product(1), Other(3)
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Funding Amount: $17 Million
Aifleet, an Austin, TX-based tech-driven trucking company, raised $17M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Tom Williams at Heron Rock, with participation from Volvo Group Venture Capital, Obvious Ventures, Ibex Investors, Compound, Winthrop Square, and Cooley, bringing its total funding to almost $50M.
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(2), Operations(2), Remote(1), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), HR/People(1)
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Funding Amount: $17 Million
Hippocratic AI, a Palo Alto, CA-based company building a safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare, received an investment from NVentures.
NVentures, along with Greycroft and Leo Shapiro of 7Wire Ventures, contributed a combined total of an additional $17M to the round, bringing the total invested in the company to $137M.
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(18), Data(6), Sales/Business Development/Growth(4), Operations(1), Customer Success(1), Other(1)
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Funding Amount: €15 Million
Retraced, a German provider of sustainability SaaS for fashion brands, raised €15m in Series A funding. Partech led, and was joined by insiders Alante Capital, Alstin Capital, Samaipata, and F-Log Ventures.
Hiring For:
Customer Success(5), Remote(3), Other(5)
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Funding Amount: $13 Million
Aclima, a San Francisco-based climate-tech company that has developed a software and hardware solution for hyperlocal measurement and analysis of air pollution, toxics, and greenhouse gasses (GHG), received a $13M Term Loan from Leonid Capital Partners.
The company intends to use the amount to expand operations and its development efforts.
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(5), Data(2), Product(1), Other(2)
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Funding Amount: $11 Million
Metabase Q, a San Francisco, CA-based IT cybersecurity management company, raised $11M in Series A extension funding.
Backers included SYN Ventures and John Watters.
Hiring For:
HR/People(1)
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Funding Amount: $10 Million
Operant AI, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a runtime AI application protection platform, raised $10M in Series A funding.
The round, which brought total funding to $13.5M, was led by SineWave Ventures and Felicis, with participation from Alumni Ventures, Massive, Calm Ventures, Gaingels, alongside angel investors. As part of this announcement, Patricia Muoio, partner at SineWave Ventures and former NSA/DoD leader, and Nancy Wang, Venture Partner at Felicis and former General Manager / Director of Data Protection at AWS, will join Operant AI’s Board of Directors.
Hiring For:
Remote(7), Engineering/Technology(7), Data(1), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1)
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Funding Amount: $10 Million
Protege, a NYC-based provider of a platform for AI training data, raised $10M in Seed funding.
The round was led by CRV with participation from SV Angel, Liquid 2 Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Flex Capital, Adam D’Angelo, Travis May, and others.
Hiring For:
Remote(4), Engineering/Technology(1), Data(1), Other(3)
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Funding Amount: $10 Million
Momos, a customer engagement platform for multi-location brands, raised $10m in Series A funding, per Axios Pro. 645 Ventures led, and was joined by Alpha Wave Global, Peak XV, Soma Capital, FJ Labs, Taurus Ventures, and Correlation Ventures.
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(3), Design(2), Marketing(2), Customer Success(2), Remote(1), Data(1), Product(1), Content Creation(1), Finance/Accounting(1), Other(2)
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Funding Amount: $9 Million
Martian, a San Francisco, California-based technology company that has built a patent-pending large language model (LLM) router, raised $9m in funding.
The round was led by NEA, with participation from Prosus Ventures, Carya Venture Partners, General Catalyst, and Accenture Ventures.
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(3), Remote(1), Data(1), Operations(1)
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Funding Amount: $6 Million
Delli, a London, UK-based online platform for independent food and drink, raised $6M in Seed funding.
The round was led by existing investors Balderton and HV Capital, alongside Simon Beckerman, Delli’s founder and Chief Creative Officer.
Hiring For:
Supply Chain/Logistics(3), Engineering/Technology(2), Operations(1), Finance/Accounting(1)
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Funding Amount: $5 Million
Hgen, a Hawthorne, CA-based company that makes clean hydrogen to decarbonize heavy industry, raised $5M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Seven Seven Six, with participation from Founders Fund and Fontinalis Partners.
Hiring For:
Engineering/Technology(7), Design(2), Other(2)
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Funding Amount: $5 Million
Midi Health, a Los Altos, CA-based virtual care clinic for women 35+, raised further funding via a $5M Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) formed and managed by Operator Collective.
Backers included Amy Schumer, Connie Britton, Meena Harris, Brandi Chastain, Tory Burch, Kara Nortman, Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners, the venture fund run by former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and her husband, Tom Bernthal, Tekedra Mawakana, Jennifer Tejada, Claire Hughes Johnson, and Elena Gomez, among other women leaders and icons spanning entertainment, professional sports, media, beauty and fashion, health and wellness, technology, and business. In total, 80 investors participated with individual check sizes ranging from $10K – $500K+. They joined Midi’s investors in the $63M Series B round including Emerson Collective, GV (Google Ventures), Memorial Hermann Health System, SemperVirens, Felicis, Icon Ventures, Black Angel Group, Gingerbread Capital, Ingeborg Investments, G9, and Operator Collective.
Hiring For:
Remote(23), Engineering/Technology(2), HR/People(2), Data(1), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), Marketing(1), Finance/Accounting(1), Other(20)
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