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OnChain Studios raised $7500000 on 2021-10-25 in Seed Round

OnChain Studios is a software company that intends to bring ownership to interactive experiences. The company was founded in 2021 by Will Weinraub and is headquartered in Miami Shores, Florida, United States.

OnChain Studios

SVAcademy raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-12-17 in Venture Round

SVAcademy is a 15-month business development apprenticeship paid for by employers. SVAcademy’s team has started and sold SaaS companies to Oracle and HP, hired and trained more than 400 SaaS sales reps, conducted admissions at Harvard, and coached more than 100,000 students across the country.

SVAcademy

Medinas Health raised $500000 on 2017-10-02 in Grant

Medinas, Inc. owns and operates a data driven marketplace that enables healthcare organizations to buy and sell their surplus and short date medical supplies and equipment. It serves healthcare organizations, including hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, vet practices, and nursing homes and product suppliers, such as original equipment manufacturers. Medinas, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Medinas, Inc.

Bright raised $15000000 on 2021-08-26 in Venture Round

Bright is a live video platform that lets fans engage in live conversations with their favorite creators and celebrities.

Bright

Pearpop raised $6000000 on 2021-04-15 in Seed Round

Pearpop is the marketplace for social collaborations between the teeming hordes of musicians, craftspeople, chefs, clowns, diarists, dancers, artists, actors, acrobats, aspiring celebrities, and actual celebrities.

Pearpop

Zapper raised $15000000 on 2021-05-17 in Series A

Manage all your DeFi assets from one simple interface.

DeFiZap

WOMBO raised $6000000 on 2021-06-01 in Seed Round

WOMBO

Community raised $40000000 on 2021-04-09 in Venture Round

Shimmur is a new social engagement platform that makes two-way communication between influencers and their followers simple, effective, and scalable.

Shimmur

Vendr raised $60000000 on 2021-03-08 in Series A

Vendr buys and renews software for companies. Vendr is the way that scaling companies buy software. Vendr helps companies save a significant amount of time, and a material amount of money, every time they buy and renew SaaS. Vendr is trusted by the world's fastest-growing b2b and b2c companies.

Vendr, Inc.

Fondeadora raised $14000000 on 2020-08-27 in Series A

Fondeadora is a provider of digital banking services used to eliminate the inefficiencies related to the traditional banking system. The company offers a completely free debit card linked to a powerful app to save, use, and manage money. Its first product is a mobile app and an international MasterCard debit card where anyone can pay, store, and distribute money without complications.

Fondeadora was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico.

Fondeadora

Calm raised $88000000 on 2019-02-06 in Series B

Calm offers an application designed to help its users meditate and relax.

The company is driven by a mission to make the world happier and healthier by developing a range of digital and physical products that enhance mental fitness and alleviate some of the most important mental health issues of the modern age including anxiety, depression, insomnia, and stress. Calm was named by Apple as the 2017 iPhone App of the Year and by Google Play as an Editors’ Choice in 2018.

The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Calm

Infinite Objects raised $6000000 on 2021-05-27 in Seed Round

Infinite Objects, Inc operates an online design store that sells homeware designs, stickers, Christmas gifts, and other products. Infinite Objects, Inc is headquartered in the United States.

Infinite Objects, Inc

Lambda School raised $4000000 on 2018-02-03 in Seed Round

Lambda Inc., doing business as Lambda School, provides online coding and computer science education training services in the United States. It provides training in computer science, software engineering, neural networks, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. The company also offers courses in JavaScript and website development. It provides online and live training sessions with instruction, hands-on projects, pair programming, and code reviews from instructors. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Lambda School

Life House raised $30000000 on 2020-01-24 in Series B

Life House is creating a network of lifestyle hotels that are more experiential and more affordable through a powerful software-enabled brand & management platform. Our proprietary software materially reduces the costs of operating a hotel and increases revenues, delivering superior returns to our hotel owners (we do not own or invest in real estate).

Life House

Truepill raised $25000000 on 2020-07-08 in Series B

Truepill is a B2B pharmacy fulfillment service. They provide a pharmacy API and fulfillment of medications to 50 states from their own facilities. They work directly with D2C consumer brands (e.g. Hims, Nurx), digital health companies, and other healthcare organizations. They are a team of 150 employees and have raised funding from Initialized Capital, Y Combinator, Slow Ventures, Sound Ventures, Tuesday Capital, Foundation Capital, Index Ventures, Social Capital, Box Group, Joe Montana, and others.

Founded in 2016 by Umar Afridi and Sid Viswanathan, Truepill is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Truepill

Class Technologies raised $105000000 on 2021-07-28 in Series B

Class provides Class for Zoom, which integrates the Class software on the Zoom Meetings platform to help teachers take attendance, hand out assignments, give a quiz or test, grade work, proctor exams, or talk one-on-one with a student.

Class.com

Medinas Health raised $5000000 on 2019-10-21 in Seed Round

Acorns raised $35000000 on 2017-07-20 in Series D

Acorns is a finance company that allows individuals to round up purchases and automatically invest the change. It allows customers to automatically invest in a low-cost, diversified portfolio of exchange-traded funds offered by some asset managers including Vanguard and BlackRock.

Acorns was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Acorns Grow, Inc.

SuperRare raised $9000000 on 2021-03-30 in Series A

SuperRare is one of the marketplaces for non-fungible tokens.

SuperRare

Big Time Studios raised $10300000 on 2021-05-12 in Series A

Big Time Studios

Vendr raised $150000000 on 2022-06-16 in Series B

XMTP raised $20000000 on 2021-08-31 in Series A

XMTP is an open, crypto-native communication protocol that connects communities, applications, and users.

It was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas.

XMTP

Payitoff raised $8500000 on 2021-11-10 in Seed Round

Payitoff develops API tools that provides money-saving guidance and automatic action. Its tool offers debt assessment, automatic enrollment, and customer empowerment. The company is based in New York, New York.

Payitoff

MoonPay raised $87000000 on 2022-04-13 in Series A

MoonPay is a financial technology company that builds payments infrastructure for crypto. Our on-and-off-ramp suite of products provides a seamless experience for converting between fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies using all major payment methods including debit and credit card, local bank transfers, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay. MoonPay is active in more than 160 countries and is trusted by 250+ leading wallets, websites, and applications to accept payments and defeat fraud.

MoonPay

LearnLux raised an undisclosed amount on 2018-03-10 in Seed Round

LearnLux Inc. develops digital independent financial and benefits education platform for millenials. The company's platform guides users through personal financial decisions and enables them to learn about their financial needs and options, while also earning credit towards new accounts. The platform also connects users with financial institutions. LearnLux Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

LearnLux

Class Technologies raised $12250000 on 2021-04-20 in Series A

POAP raised $10000000 on 2022-01-18 in Seed Round

POAP

wefox raised $650000000 on 2021-06-01 in Series C

wefox Group is an insurtech company in Europe. It operates two businesses: wefox and ONE. wefox is the first service platform for all your insurance needs, which enables you to easily access all your insurance contracts at any time from anywhere and request and enter into new contracts or quit the old ones with just one click. All services are available online and you can choose your personal assistant by yourself, who supports you if wanted or needed – vendor-neutral. they offer that all-around service web-based or as an app – for free! ONE is the first digital insurance carrier in Europe fully integrated into the wefox wallet.

wefox

PubNub raised $25000000 on 2015-09-21 in Series C

PubNub

Elysium raised $20000000 on 2016-12-06 in Series B

Elysium Health offers health products built with science such as dietary supplements and anti-aging drugs. It seeks to solve challenges in health with science, to help people live healthier and longer lives. It works directly with the scientists, clinicians, and health professionals around the world to identify and develop the natural compounds. Its product is a proprietary formulation of two ingredients designed to support long-term well-being at the cellular level.

Elysium Health, Inc.

GrubMarket raised $20000000 on 2016-08-04 in Series B

GrubMarket develops a website where sellers can offer foods and other items at wholesale prices to customers. It offers products such as organic foods, vegetables, gluten-free foods, snacks, drinks, pantries, home goods, health and beauty products, baby and kids' products, pets, non-GMO foods, paleo foods, cholesterol-free, and no trans-fat foods.

GrubMarket also offers foods from local farms, fisheries, commercial kitchens, certified home kitchens, and restaurants. Mike Xu founded GrubMarket in 2014, with its headquarters in Newark in California with an additional office in San Francisco in California.

GrubMarket, Inc.

Pipe raised $250000000 on 2021-03-31 in Venture Round

Pipe Technologies Inc develops financing platform for SaaS companies. Its suite of products allows companies with recurring revenues to unlock their deferred cash flows and invest in growth without taking any dilution. The company offers non-dilutive financing through an instant cash advance against the full annual value of software subscriptions. It turns MRR (monthly recurring revenue) into ARR (annual recurring revenue). The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Walnut, California.

Pipe

Coro raised $20000000 on 2018-11-08 in Series B

Coronet SecureCloud is the only platform that secures the entire SaaS chain. From the user, through the device used, through the network, all the way to the SaaS/Cloud services themselves. 
- SecureCloud is an end to end platform, there is no need to buy, integrate and manage multiple platforms, dramatically reducing TCO.
- It is the only fully autonomous cloud security platform, detecting and mitigating threats without IT-Sec involvement, dramatically reducing staffing needs.
- SecureCloud is cloud Based: No hardware, nothing to install on premises, up and running in minutes 
- SecureCloud is the only platform that provides autonomous cross dimension response: Detect a risk in one area (e.g. Malicious network) and mitigate in another (e.g. block access to Office365)

Coronet

OnChain Studios raised $23000000 on 2022-06-23 in Series A

Mnemonic, Inc raised $4000000 on 2021-12-09 in Seed Round

Mnemonic, Inc

Imbellus raised $4000000 on 2016-09-21 in Seed Round

Imbellus builds simulation-based cognitive assessments that measure how people think, not just what they know. In the age of automation, it is imperative that schools prepare students to do what computers cannot, so our assessments evaluate the deep thinking skills that modern work and modern life require. Eventually, we'll replace standardized tests like the SAT, ACT, and state summative exams. We also work with corporate and government partners to support their hiring, upskilling, and retention practices.

Imbellus is an interdisciplinary team of learning scientists, game developers, artists, data scientists, and AI engineers with $23M in venture backing. For more on Imbellus, check out our website or some of the materials linked below. We’re also hiring!

Imbellus

NFTfi raised $5000000 on 2021-11-16 in Seed Round

NFTfi

Collective raised $20000000 on 2021-05-12 in Series A

Collective operates as an online back-office platform designed for self-employed people. Its technology and a team of trusted advisors give its members the freedom to focus on what matters by taking care of everything from business incorporation to accounting, bookkeeping, tax services, and access to a thriving community- all in one platform.

The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Collective

Multis raised $7000000 on 2022-02-17 in Venture Round

Multis, Inc. offers crypto bank services to companies and entrepreneurs. It’s wallet provides an interface to store crypto, pay suppliers, run payroll, and earn interest. Its services include monitoring, that check company's balance in real-time, and track all transactions from a single dashboard; multi-access to assets, recurring payments, send and receive funds, trading, and convert crypto to cash. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Multis

Humming Homes raised $5600000 on 2021-10-11 in Seed Round

Humming Homes

SentinelOne raised $70000000 on 2017-01-25 in Series C

SentinelOne is shaping the future of endpoint security with a uniquely integrated platform that combines behavioral-based detection, advanced mitigation, and forensics to stop threats in real-time.  Specializing in attacks that utilize sophisticated evasion techniques, SentinelOne is the only vendor who offers complete protection against malware, exploit and insider-based attacks. This led Gartner to recognize SentinelOne as a Visionary in their recent Endpoint Protection Magic Quadrant.

SentinelOne is also the only next-generation endpoint protection company to be independently certified as a true antivirus replacement for Windows, OS X, and Linux, including certification for both HIPAA and PCI.  SentinelOne was formed by an elite team of cybersecurity and defense experts from IBM, Intel, Check Point Software Technologies, Cylance, McAfee, and Palo Alto Networks.

SentinelOne

Sprout Therapy raised $94000000 on 2021-03-12 in Series A

Sprout Therapy is a health and wellness company that specializes in the fields of information technology, medical, and treatments. Sprout is a tech-enabled platform for autism care that matches children with therapists who create customized treatment plans that can be administered both in-home and online.

It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Sprout Therapy

Angel.ai raised $8000000 on 2015-07-30 in Series A

Founded in February 2015, GoButler is a messaging-based, on-demand service that operates as a digital personal assistant, using Human Assisted Artificial Intelligence (HAAI) to fulfill requests 24/7, 365 days a year. GoButler takes the time and inconvenience out of everyday tasks, fulfilling on-demand requests, from food delivery and travel bookings to restaurant reservations and more. GoButler searches the web, compares prices, reads reviews and orders, using the best services at the most reasonable costs. The service saves users valuable time, getting them the things they need, when they want them, all conveniently via text message.

In September 2016, there were rumors that Angel.ai had been acquired by Amazon. An Amazon spokesperson however stated on 21 September 2016: “Amazon did not acquire Angel.ai. We made an individual hire of [former Angel.ai CEO] Navid Hadzaad. His title is Product Lead, New Initiatives.”

GoButler / Angel.ai

ConsenSys raised $450000000 on 2022-02-14 in Series D

ConsenSys is a blockchain venture production studio. Our global team is building an ecosystem of consumer-centric products and enterprise solutions using blockchain technologies, primarily Ethereum.

ConsenSys is a “hub” organization that identifies opportunities for software component development, cross-venture sharing of components, and promoting cross-fertilization of ideas.

ConsenSys Ventures

wefox raised $110000000 on 2019-12-11 in Series B

Nava raised $40000000 on 2022-06-08 in Series B

Nava is a new kind of benefits brokerage on a mission to bring high-quality, affordable healthcare to employers and their employees. It offers healthcare tools, year-round employee advocacy, and ongoing measurement to monitor and recommend healthcare plans, thus enabling clients to provide the required benefits to their employees while lowering overall plan cost.

Nava

Forethought raised $65000000 on 2021-12-15 in Series C

Forethought Technologies, Inc. develops AI models for question-answering and information retrieval, and embed them in employee's daily workflows. The company develops AI model under the brand name Agatha Answers, which is a smart agent that lives on the helpdesk an charges customer support team. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Forethought Technologies, Inc.

Ink raised $1500000 on 2022-04-20 in Pre Seed Round

NanoNets raised $1380000 on 2017-04-01 in Seed Round

NanoNets is machine learning API for developers which requires 1/10th of data and no machine learning expertise to train a model. Upload the data, wait for a few minutes and get a model you can query over their easy to use cloud API. Often companies do not have enough data to train a machine learning model on their own using state of the art algorithms as well as don't have enough data scientists to work on those problems. NanoNets solves both these problems for companies.

NanoNets

Chums raised $3500000 on 2021-03-01 in Seed Round

Chums Referral, Inc., doing business as Chums, operates an online website for finding and recommending products and services. It operates an online portal, which allows the users to find and share referral codes. It also develops a mobile application for referring products and services. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Beverly Hills, California.

Chums Referral, Inc.

The.com raised an undisclosed amount on 2021-02-02 in Seed Round

The website ecosystem is broken.  So we built a framework that could fix it using cells.  There are a lot of moving pieces in the website ecosystem (SSL, Hosting, Site platforms, Digital asset management, Plugins, Security, etc) and they all have their own problems because none of them work well with each other.  We integrated the ecosystem through our patented framework and paired it with our revolutionary low code editor.  This means better builds, faster load times, higher conversions and better rankings on search.  It also means we can cut out all the bloated tools that leach off the ecosystems inefficiencies.  The.com is the best way to build the best websites.

The Dotcom

Horizen Labs raised $7000000 on 2021-08-10 in Seed Round

Horizen Labs is a blockchain technology company that enables businesses to build distributed ledger solutions that are fast, secure, private and scalable. Horizen Labs leverages Horizen’s privacy-focused public infrastructure and Horizen Labs’ proprietary sidechain deployment tool.

Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies enable a shift from centralized to decentralized architectures which help to bridge a divide in global trust.

Horizen Labs, Inc.

Rose Technology raised $5500000 on 2021-09-21 in Seed Round

Rose is a next-generation data management platform that allows users to quickly find relevant data and interact with it in a way that allows them to make data driven decisions. 

Dealing with large amounts of data is a painful experience.  The world is fifty odd years into the information revolution, and yet even the most sophisticated of institutions are still working on data using the same hodgepodge of opaque databases and error-prone spreadsheets developed decades ago.  Finding what you want is difficult, cleaning data is a constant pain, and integrating information across sources and tools requires investing huge amounts of time and human capital.  Rose addresses these issues by providing you with a hub for finding, cleaning, and interacting with your data. Rose's data marketplace gives users exposure to a wide array of robust data sets from a myriad of reputable providers. Users can view how a dataset is constructed and can pull the underlying data into an Excel spreadsheet or Jupyter Notebook. Rose allows users to see their data, make changes to it, and push those changes to the cloud in a way that everyone can see the cleaning process. Rose also comes prepackaged with a large function library that allows users to transform their data and interpret it in a format that makes sense. Information is the most valuable commodity in the marketplace today. Rose gives your organization a common set of tools for manipulating, sharing, and profiting off the backbreaking work of turning raw information into insights that drive decisions.

Rose Technology

nft42 raised $3500000 on 2021-10-28 in Seed Round

nft42

Life House raised $60000000 on 2021-12-02 in Series C

Noom raised $58000000 on 2019-05-06 in Series E

Noom, Inc. designs and develops a mobile health coaching software solution. It offers a platform that provides evidence-based curricula, trained cognitive behavior coaches, mobile tracking and protocol delivery, and scalable coaching tools, which allow users to manage and prevent weight increase, hypertension, diabetes. It also serves business enterprises. Noom, Inc. was formerly known as WorkSmart Labs, Inc. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, New York with additional offices in Seoul, South Korea; and Tokyo, Japan.

Noom, Inc.

you.com raised $20000000 on 2021-12-27 in Seed Round

you.com

CryptoSlam raised $9000000 on 2022-01-05 in Seed Round

CryptoSlam is an aggregator of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) collectibles data from Ethereum, WAX, and FLOW blockchains.

CryptoSlam

Joy raised $20000000 on 2021-09-01 in Series A

Joy Life, Inc. develops a wedding planning portal and application tools. Its portal and applications enable users to add photos, choose wedding colors and fonts, invite guests, send and store RSVP information, send messages, control social network sharing, import spreadsheets, register gifts, send digital RSVPs, and send custom notifications and messages. The company’s portal also allows guests to take and upload photos to private moments timeline, comment, and show love for photos. Joy Life, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

The Fabricant raised $14000000 on 2022-04-07 in Series A

The Fabricant

0x raised $70000000 on 2022-04-26 in Series B

0x Protocol provides 0x, an open protocol that enables the peer-to-peer exchange of assets on the Ethereum block chain. The company offers 0x Instant for crypto purchasing in applications and websites; 0x Launch Kit to launch a relayer; and ZEIP-23 to trade bundles of assets. It also enables developers to build a relayer, develop on Ethereum, make and take orders, use networked liquidity, market making, and earn free credits. The company serves markets ranging from gaming items to financial instruments. 0x Protocol was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Alma Health raised $8000000 on 2019-06-21 in Series A

Alma is a membership-based network for mental health care professionals that simplifies access to higher quality, more affordable mental healthcare.

Alma Health

Mintable raised an undisclosed amount on 2021-03-05 in Seed Round

Mintable is an NFT marketplace where users can create, buy, and sell digital items for the easiest way to earn and get started with crypto and NFTs.

Mintable

Syndicate raised $20000000 on 2021-08-31 in Series A

Syndicate

XMTP raised $5000000 on 2021-05-05 in Seed Round

Saturn Technologies raised $44000000 on 2021-08-10 in Venture Round

Saturn Technologies

Nameless raised $15000000 on 2021-10-28 in Seed Round

Nameless is a non-fungible token (NFT) platform as a service software company that empowers businesses, individuals, and digital creators to create, mint, and capitalize on their own custom NFT projects through easy-to-use scalable API solutions.

Nameless

Papaya raised $50000000 on 2021-12-15 in Series B

Papaya is a developer of an online mobile bill payment application designed to simplify the financial transactions. The company's bill payment application offers multiple payment methods including debit and credit cards or directly from bank accounts, where personal information and payment data are encrypted and processed via HIPAA and PCI compliant methods, enabling users to pay bills faster and in a secure hassle-free method.

Papaya

Alma raised $50000000 on 2021-08-31 in Series C

Vouch Insurance raised $60000000 on 2021-09-10 in Series C

Vouch, Inc. provides insurance products and services for startups in the United States. It offers insurance products and services in the areas of general liability, business property, directors and officers, errors and omissions, cyber coverage, crime coverage, employment practices liability, hired and non-owned auto, and fiduciary liability. The company also provides develops an online platform that provides digital and customized coverage solutions. Vouch, Inc. was formerly known as SV Instech, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. Vouch, Inc operates as a subsidiary of SVB Financial Group.

Vouch Insurance

Scratchpad raised $3600000 on 2020-10-06 in Seed Round

Scratchpad, Inc. develops an application for account executives. It offers Scratchpad, an application that allows to take notes in a separate application and painstakingly maintain a to-do list, spreadsheet, or calendar event to stay organized. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Sacramento, California.

Scratchpad

Tomorrow Health raised $60000000 on 2022-06-29 in Series B

Tomorrow Health owns and operates an online marketplace for medical supplies and equipment. It offers wheelchairs, walkers, ventilators, durable medical, prosthetics, orthotics, wound care, mobility, incontinence, respiratory, catheters and urology, nutrition, and ostomy products. The company is based in New York, New York.

Tomorrow Health

Nearby raised $21000000 on 2021-05-05 in Series A

Nearby is a computer software company that helps businesses and companies to connect with nearby customers. The company helps businesses put their inventory online, and adds their store to the marketplace for their town.

Nearby

Jadu raised $7000000 on 2021-12-15 in Seed Round

JADU AR Inc., doing business as 1RIC, develops a mobile application that enables users to perform with holograms of their favorite musicians, performers, and creators. The company’s application is available on App Store. JADU AR Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

JADU AR Inc.

SproutFi raised $5511565 on 2021-09-30 in Seed Round

SproutFi is an application that allows investing in the US stock market and works as a social network.

SproutFi

TrialSpark raised $156000000 on 2021-09-30 in Series C

TRIALSPARK, INC. develops health tech platform. Its platform provides clinical trial sites with monetary compensation, medication, study visits, and study-related tests and procedures. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

TrialSpark

Backbone raised $40000000 on 2022-02-23 in Series A