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Yugabyte, a specialist in open source distributed SQL databases, has closed USD188 million in an oversubscribed Series C funding round.
The round, led by Sapphire Ventures, includes participation from Alkeon Capital, Meritech Capital, and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, as well as existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, 8VC, Dell Technologies Capital, Wipro Ventures, and others. Sapphire President Jai Das also joins the Yugabyte Board of Directors. The round, which comes seven months after its previous round, brings the company’s total funding to over USD290 million and values Yugabyte at more than USD1.3 billion.
YugabyteDB is the database of choice for cloud-native
TIFIN, a fintech platform using AI for wealth and asset management, has held the successful closing of a USD47 million Series C funding round.
TIFIN uses data and investment driven intelligence to drive personalisation for wealth management, and digital distribution for investment managers. The firm closes its Series C round at a valuation that is nearly five times higher than its Series A which was completed towards the end of 2020. TIFIN’s mission is to make investing a more meaningful driver of financial well-being, by shaping the future of the investor experience. Through its focused divisions, Magnifi, a search-powered marketplace
BlueVoyant, the makers of an end-to-end internal and external cyber defence platform, has acquired 202 Group, a provider of data-driven supply chain risk management solutions to the US federal government.
This acquisition will combine the capabilities of BlueVoyant’s powerful cloud-native, third-party cyber risk management solution with 202 Group’s supply chain risk management solution to create a new offering, BlueVoyant Supply Chain Command™.
BlueVoyant Supply Chain Command is the most comprehensive supply chain risk management solution in the market with capabilities designed to manage strategic, cyber, operational, tactical, financial, and compliance risks.
“Simply put, there is nothing like this on the
BrainBox AI, a leader in autonomous building technology, today announced a USD24 million raise to further deploy its AI technology in the built environment and develop its next phase of innovation. The first close of its Series A round includes new lead investor, ABB, and investments by Esplanade Ventures and Desjardins Capital.
BrainBox AI offers predictive and self-adaptive artificial intelligence to optimise buildings’ energy usage, carbon footprint, and operational efficiency. To date, BrainBox AI has transformed over 100 million sq ft of building space across five continents by providing real estate asset owners with a scalable and impactful tool to
Blockchain development platform Moralis has raised USD13.4 million in a seed funding round, led by EQT Ventures.
The funding will be used for hiring and continued product development, enabling developers to build enterprise-scale blockchain applications rapidly, cutting cost and complexity. By providing a complete, end-to-end blockchain application development platform, Moralis uniquely allows developers and companies to focus on the front-end while handling the entire back-end. This saves time and money for projects that don’t have the resources or teams to build, manage, and maintain complex blockchain infrastructure.
dApps exist and run on a blockchain, or peer-to-peer (P2P) network, of
3i Group (3i) has agreed the sale of its investment in Magnitude Software, a provider of data management software solutions, with offices in the US, the Netherlands, UK, Canada and India, to insightsoftware, Inc.
Proceeds to 3i are estimated to be cGBP344 million/USD477 million, which represents a c100 per cent uplift on its 30 June 2021 valuation. This sale represents a 2.6x multiple of invested capital and an IRR of 47 per cent. 3i will make a co-investment of cUSD50 million into insightsoftware.
Magnitude helps companies turn their core business data into continuous intelligence, providing actionable insights to shorten
Round2 Capital has added another Nordic scale-up to its portfolio with its latest investment in EvoluteIQ.
EvoluteIQ is a technology company that accelerates enterprise transformation by leveraging its proprietary low code, no code hyperautomation enablement platform – e.IQ. The platform makes it possible to bring together fragmented technology landscapes and ongoing automation initiatives to achieve digital transformation at scale. The exhaustive feature set of e.IQ allows enterprises to break away from silos and seamlessly adopt new technologies for future-proofing their business and significantly reduce the total cost of ownership.
Round2 Capital joins Nordea Growth Fund and Confidus Venture Capital
The Assessio Group (Assessio), a Swedish human resource (HR) and technology company backed by software investor Main Capital Partners (Main), has acquired Eelloo, a technology company specialising in platform solutions for recruitment and employee development.
In an increasingly mobile and hybrid labour market, where the Covid-19 pandemic has also caused unemployment rates to rise, it is critically important that employers utilise the correct tools and procedures to find, recruit and develop their talent pools. Assessio, the Nordic region’s leading e- assessment company specialises in open-minded recruitment, enabling companies to work in a more inclusive and non-discriminatory manner with the help
Consulting company Silicom and e-learning SaaS platform Seela have announced their merger to create Pr0ph3cy Group (Pr0ph3cy), a provider of IT and cybersecurity services in France.
Pr0ph3cy will serve large private groups and government agencies to provide solutions for their critical security needs and will offer an e-learning platform aimed at upskilling or reskilling IT, network and cyber professionals.
By anchoring the Start-up mindset with a well-established SME in the French ecosystem, Silicom and Seela will demonstrate with this new group their ambition to actively participate in the emergence of European industrial sovereignty.
The Group has signed an
Filipino social entertainment platform Kumu has raised a Series C led by General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm with more than 40 years of experience scaling disruptive businesses internationally. Existing investors Openspace and SIG also participated.
This transaction marks the largest equity financing to date for a Filipino startup not founded as a subsidiary or spinoff of an established conglomerate. It also marks General Atlantic’s first investment in the Philippines.
“Kumu is rapidly emerging as a leading digital content community and social platform in the Philippines, as well as for the global Filipino diaspora,” says Sandeep Naik, Managing Director
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