SoftBank-backed barbershop booking service Squire raised $60m at a $750m valuation while card issuing platform developer Lithic was valued at $800m in a round featuring Exor.
Month: July 2021
Reduce, reuse and recycle
Reduce, reuse and recycle was a helpful way to think about limiting personal impact on the planet (along with the handy advice to take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints).
Krafton prices $3.75bn IPO
The Tencent-backed game publisher priced its shares at the top of their range in an offering set to take place on August 10 that will value it at $21.2bn.
Robinhood plunders $2.09bn in IPO
Alphabet and Roc Nation-backed share and crypto trading platform developer RobinHood floated at the bottom of its range but still raised almost $2.1bn.
Vacasa undertakes $4.5bn reverse takeover
Holiday rental property marketplace Vacasa will get a Nasdaq listing from the deal, which follows $527m in funding from investors including Assurant.
Rakuten Medical racks up $166m
Rakuten and SBI have returned to chip into the precision immunotherapy developer’s series D round, which was led by General Catalyst.
Figure fits $200m into series D round
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-backed lending marketplace operator Figure has collected $200m in series D financing from investors including Blockchain.com.
Deep Genomics taps SoftBank in $180m round
SoftBank and Alexandria Real Estate Equities helped the Bloomberg-backed genetic medicine developer raise series C funding to further expand its pipeline of RNA therapies.
Contentful concludes $175m series F round
The content management platform developer more than trebled its valuation to over $3bn in a round featuring Tidemark.
Microport CRM plugs into $150m
MicroPort’s implantable implantable defibrillator and pacemaker spinoff has secured funding in a series C round co-led by its parent company.
Volvo Cars attaches itself to Niron Magnetics
Niron has collected $21.3m in funding from investors including Volvo Cars Tech Fund to build a pilot production facility for its rare earth-free magnets.
Genomatica to grow with $118m series C
Novo led the sustainable materials producer’s series C round, three years after a round backed by investors including Ginkgo Bioworks.
Class clasps $105m in series B round
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 has led a round that took the Salesforce Ventures-backed online classroom tool provider’s overall funding to more than $160m.
Daily Deal Round Up: July 29, 2021
Carbon-neutral blockchain technology developer Core Scientific raised $54m from Celsius while autoimmune disease therapy developer Topas Therapeutics took a BIVF-backed round past $47m.