Bigfinite, a biotech and pharma software provider, completed $8.5 million in seed financing, led by Crosslink Capital, Uncork Capital, and La Famiglia. Industry Ventures and Krohne also participated in the funding. The company’s SaaS platform acquires, visualizes, and records regulated data from biotech and pharma
Daily Harvest raised $43 million in Series B financing, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. VMG Partners and M13 also participated. Rachel Drori founded the company, which delivers 14 different flavored, frozen, ready-to-blend smoothies and ready-to-heat soups made of whole ingredients to customers in New York
SendBird, a messaging solution for enterprises, secured $16 million in financing, led by Shasta Ventures and August Capital. Y Combinator and FundersClub also participated. SendBird helps add one-on-one messaging and group chat to marketplaces/ecommerce, media, and consumer apps for customers including Nexon, GO-JEK, Traveloka,
Insurance technology company Lemonade raised $120 million in Series C financing, led by SoftBank Group. Aleph Venture Capital, Allianz Digital Corporate Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, GV, Sequoia Capital, Sound Ventures, Thrive Capital, Tusk Ventures, and XL Innovate also participated. Lemonade is a licensed insurance carrier
DGraph, the makers of an open source, low-latency, high throughput, native and distributed graph database, closed $3 million in financing. Four investors contributed to the round, including Bain Capital Ventures, Blackbird Ventures, and AirTree Ventures. According to the company, Dgraph can handle terabytes of structured data
Insurance technology company BIMA secured $96.6 million in financing from Allianz X. BIMA uses mobile technology to provide insurance and health services to emerging markets. It has established partnerships with mobile operators and international insurers in 14 countries across Africa, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. The new
Ataata, a universal security awareness platform provider designed to reduce human error in the workplace, completed $3 million in Series A financing, led by Next Frontier Capital, with participation from TEDCO, 2M, SaaS Ventures, and ARRA Capital. According to the company, its platform delivers content to employees
Heretik, a Chicago-based software company, completed $2.4 million in seed financing, led by Corazon Capital, with participation from Chicago Ventures and Relativity Capital. Heretik’s goal is to use machine learning to make the contract review process easier and smarter in Relativity by enabling attorneys in litigation and other
Maana closed $28 million in Series C financing, led by China International Capital Corporation and Eight Capital. Accenture Ventures, Intel Capital, GE Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, Shell Technology Ventures, and Sino Capital also participated. According to the company, its Maana Knowledge
Label Insight, a SaaS company that provides insights on food label data to governments, retailers, manufacturers, and app developers, completed $21 million in Series C financing, led by Delta-V Capital and River Cities Capital Funds. Label Insight’s data enables users to provide transparency through accurate,