Funding

NEW YORK — Stake — a company offering renters Cash Back rewards —announced that it has closed its seed funding of over $4 million. The round was led by Shadow Ventures with Hometeam Ventures, Olive Tree Holdings, Blue Field Capital, Hampton VC, Gaingels, and Ellen Levy, Managing Director at Silicon Valley Connect. The capital will accelerate Stake’s mission to make renting financially […]

NEW YORK — Blueground, which operates a network of furnished rental apartments, has raised $180 million in Series C financing, led by WestCap Group with additional participation from Geolo Capital, VentureFriends, and Prime Ventures. Blueground has secured $140 million in equity, as well as a $40 million debt facility from Silicon Valley Bank. The company […]

NEW YORK — Boom Entertainment, the creator of sports gaming apps such as NBC Sports Predictor, has landed a $15 million Series A led by Sands Capital to fuel the company’s expansion into real-money gaming products. Joining Sands Capital in the round includes investors: Defy Partners, Golden Nugget Online Gaming, Rush Street Interactive, TEGNA, Bettor Capital, […]

BUFFALO, NY — Centivo, a new health plan for self-funded employers that is anchored around leading providers of value-based care, has raised an additional $51 million in funding, less than 10 months after its previous round. These funds will support Centivo’s rapid growth and expansion amid increased demand from employers for health plans that are structurally built […]

NEW YORK — Bilt Rewards, which provides a loyalty program for renters, has raised a funding round of $60 million, with investment from Wells Fargo, Mastercard, and a group of the nation’s largest real estate owners including Blackstone, AvalonBay Communities, Douglas Elliman, New Valley Ventures, Equity Residential, GID, LEN×, The Moinian Group; Morgan Properties, Related Group, and Starwood […]

NEW YORK — Walnut, which bills itself as the world’s first sales experience platform, has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Eight Roads Ventures. Walnut is based in NY, London and Tel Aviv, Israel. This funding round comes just several months after a $6 million seed round, bringing the total funding raised […]

NEW YORK — Quip, a company that sells electric toothbrushes and oral healthcare products with over 7.5 million users, announced it has raised $100 million in growth funding from Cowen Sustainable Investments (CSI) an environmental sustainability focused growth investment strategy. “quip is well on its way to becoming the iconic oral care brand in the […]

NEW YORK — Vic.ai announced $50 million in Series B funding to spur adoption of its pioneering AI platform for real-time, autonomous accounting and financial intelligence. The Series B funding was led by ICONIQ Growth with participation from existing investors GGV Capital, Cowboy Ventures and Costanoa Ventures, bringing total capital raised to $63 million. Vic.ai plans to use the new funding […]

NEW YORK — Botify, an enterprise software company for performance-driven organic search, has closed $55 million USD in Series C funding led by InfraVia Growth, with participation from Bpifrance through its Large Venture fund, as well as existing investors Eurazeo and Ventech. Nicolas Herschtel from InfraVia and Antoine Izsak from Bpifrance Large Venture will join Botify’s Board […]

NEW YORK — Knoetic, a startup “built with Chief People Officers, for Chief People Officers,” made its debut last month, announcing an $18 million Series A round of funding led by Accel. Over 100 angel investors also participated in this round, including New York Times bestselling author Adam Grant, and executives from Box, Figma, Johnson & Johnson, LinkedIn, Scale, […]

NEW YORK — Maven Clinic, which operates a virtual clinic for women’s and family health, announced the close of its $110 million Series D funding round, co-led by Dragoneer Investment Group and Lux Capital, with participation from BOND and existing investors Sequoia, Oak HC/FT, and Icon Ventures. Maven also welcomed celebrity Oprah Winfrey as an investor in its […]

NEW YORK — Urbint, an AI platform for predicting and stopping threats to critical telecom and energy infrastructure and workers, announced a $60 million Series C investment round led by Energize Ventures, with participation from American Electric Power, OGCI Climate Investments, and existing investors Energy Impact Partners, National Grid Partners, Blue Bear Capital, and Salesforce Ventures. Critical […]

NEW YORK — Bravely, a technology platform connecting people to on-demand professional coaching and development, has landed a $15 million funding round led by Telescope Partners. Also participating are prior investors Primary Ventures, Bling Capital, Correlation Ventures, RiverPark Ventures, and Tuesday Fund, as well as new investor SemperVirens Venture Capital. Bravely is used by employees in […]

NEW YORK — Prospr, a platform revolutionizing frontline (deskless) workforce management, has completed an oversubscribed seed fundraising round of  $3.2 million. The seed funding was led by Bonfire Ventures and joined by Quiet Capital and Animo Ventures. Prospr plans to use the capital to enhance its suite of offerings, expand its customer base, as well […]

NEW YORK – Dataiku, which operates a platform for companies to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in everyday business situations, has raised $400 million in Series E investment led by Tiger Global, with participation from several existing investors, including ICONIQ Growth, CapitalG, FirstMark Capital, Battery Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, and Dawn Capital, as well as new investors, […]