Advance Venture Partners has returned to led another round for children’s activity marketplace and education software tool publisher Sawyer, increasing its funding to almost $20m.
Month: May 2019
Wirepas connects to corporates in $16m round
Telecommunications firm KPN’s corporate venturing vehicle joined the state-owned Tesi for a $16.1m round that boosted the IoT technology developer’s total funding to nearly $25m.
Qoala climbs to seed funding
MassMutual Ventures SEA, MDI Ventures and Central Capital Ventura have participated in the insurtech provider’s seed round sized at more than $1.5m.
Locus focuses on $22m series B
The Recruit-backed supply chain management software provider will use the capital to further expand into the US and Southeast Asia.
CrowdStrike moves toward an initial public offering
Alphabet, Telstra and RackSpace are in line to exit the cybersecurity technology provider CrowdStrike, which has set a placeholder target of $100m for its IPO.
Grofers feeds on $200m
SoftBank Vision Fund has led a $200m funding round for Grofers that more than doubled the online grocer’s valuation to $1bn.
Kr Space makes room for $145m
36Kr’s co-working spinoff, Kr Space, has added $145m to its coffers, from investors including IDG Capital, Gopher Asset and Yixing Capital.
Gree Ventures greets $137m third fund
Gree’s corporate venture capital unit has reached the first close of its Strive III fund which is targeting a final close in excess of $130m by the end of this year.
SGX bonds with Trumid for $60m
Singapore Exchange took part in a Hillhouse Capital-led round that the electronic trading platform will use to expand its corporate bond business in the US.
Xometry zooms in on $50m
Dell Technologies Capital, BMW i Ventures and GE Ventures returned to back on-demand manufacturing platform Xometry, increasing its overall funding haul to $113m.
Cortexyme caps IPO at just over $86m
Cortexyme has added $11.3m to its initial public offering, after the Pfizer, Takeda and Alphabet-based Alzheimer’s therapy developer raised $75m last week.
Sonim summons public listing
Motorola and JVC Kenwood-backed rugged electronics producer has floated below its range in a $39.6m offering, having previously raised some $117m in financing.
WekaIO wraps up series C round
HPE, Mellanox, Nvidia, Seagate and Western Digital Capital contributed to a $31.7m round for the data storage management software developer, which has now raised almost $67m in total.
Healthineers prompts Siemens’ Pompl to new role
René Pompl, formerly principal at Siemens’ Next47, has joined the corporate’s medical-focused Healthineers division as manager of venture technology.