Funding

NEW YORK — BlocPower, a climate technology company focused on greening America’s buildings, has raised $150 million, including over $24 million of Series B corporate equity led by VoLo Earth Ventures and $130 million of debt financing led by Goldman Sachs. Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, Credit Suisse, Builders Vision, New York State Ventures, Unreasonable Collective, Kimbal and Christiana Musk, Gaingels, Van Jones, Kapor Capital, My […]

BROOKLYN — Litify, which has built an end-to-end legal operating platform, announced that venture firm Bessemer Venture Partners has acquired a majority stake in the company as it achieves profitability and continues its next phase of growth. With the backing of Bessemer, Litify plans to bolster its unique market position as the only secure and […]

NEW YORK — -Accenture says it has made a strategic investment through Accenture Ventures in Looking Glass Factory, a leading hologram company. Looking Glass, with headquarters in Brooklyn and additional operations in Hong Kong, has developed an end-to-end holographic platform, with a lineup of displays that can show content in life-like 3D, without requiring the […]

NEW YORK — Breef, which operates an online marketplace for companies to find marketing and advertising agencies, has landed $16 million in new funding led by Greycroft. The platform has transformed project outsourcing for global brands and emerging businesses by facilitating agency connections in under seven days – through a combination of proprietary technology and […]

NewsWhip, with offices in New York and Dublin, Ireland, announced that it has secured $13 million in funding from London-based AshGrove Capital. NewsWhip gives communications professionals and journalists clarity on the chaos of digital and social media. Its technology tracks which stories and narratives are gaining momentum in real time – and predicts which ones […]

NEW YORK — DailyPay, a company that helps employers pay their workers on a daily basis, has secured $260 million in new capital to fuel growth domestically, expand internationally and further invest in product innovation. The funding is divided between revolving credit facility capacity provided by Barclays and Angelo Gordon, and new term loan funding […]

NEW YORK — Fifth Wall— a venture capital firm focused on technology for the global real estate industry—announced the final close last month of its Real Estate Technology Fund III (“Fund III”) totaling $866 million. On the heels of its $147 million (€140 million) European Real Estate Technology Fund, which closed in February, this brings the […]

NEW YORK — Sweep, a platform helping businesses customize and deploy Google Tag Manager (GTM) playbooks directly to their Salesforce – without coding – has raised $28 million in funding – led by Bessemer Venture Partners, which seeded the company and Insight Partners, which led the most recent financing. Current Salesforce (and other CRM) configuration can be difficult to […]

NEW YORK — Laika, which operates a compliance platform for large businesses, has closed $50 million in Series C funding led by Fin Capital, with participation from new investor Centana Growth Partners as well as existing investors, including J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, Canapi, and ThirdPrime. The new funding will support Laika’s continued product development and accelerating sales, marketing, and strategic […]

BROOKLYN — Directus, an open source software company focused on democratizing data across the enterprise, has raised $7 million in Series A financing to build the industry’s first open data platform, which instantly adds an API and no-code app to any SQL database. True Ventures led the round with participation from seed investor Handshake Ventures. […]

ITHACA, NY — Exotanium, a startup offering a cloud resource optimization and management platform, has secured $12 million in series A funding. The round, led by Cambium Capital and Celesta Capital, provides vital funds needed to support the company’s future product roadmap, including the expansion to new platforms and hyperscalers, as well as the development of a self-service […]

NEW YORK — ARTA, a provider of fulfillment technology for high-value goods and collectibles, has secured $11 million in Series A financing. Led by AXA Venture Partners and with participation from Corazon Capital, Coelius Capital, Pari Passu Venture Partners, and Mu Ventures, the funding will help the company continue to reduce friction in fulfillment processes by expanding its technology platform, […]

NEW YORK — OatFi, a company that provides working capital infrastructure for B2B payments platforms, has landed an $8 million Seed round. The round was led by QED Investors with participation from existing investors Portage Ventures, Picus Capital and Cambrian Ventures, and the addition of new investors Fin VC, Dash Fund and Lorimer Ventures. Ziv […]

NEW YORK — VTS, which operates a technology platform for the commercial real estate industry, has raised a Series E funding round totaling over $125 million. The funding round is led by existing VTS customer and investor CBRE Group, the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, which is providing $100 million of […]

NEW YORK — Qloo, an artificial intelligence platform for culture and taste preferences, has raised $15 million in Series B funding from Eldridge and AXA Venture Partners. This latest round of funding brings Qloo’s total capital raised to $30 million, and will enable the privacy-centric AI leader to expand its team of data scientists, enrich its technology, […]