Concrete Ventures

– Aera technology announced an $80m Series C financing round bringing total investment in the company to $170m.
– Participants in this capital raise included further investments from current investors, including Concrete Ventures, as well as new investors, including Globalive Capital.
– Aera is the cognitive technology that enables the Self-Driving Enterprise™. Using data crawling, industry models, and AI, Aera automates and augments how decisions are made and executed.
– New round will accelerate Aera’s investment in its Cognitive Operating System™, Self-Driving Skills™, and global expansion to enable companies around the world to run like digital natives.

– Talkatoo, creators of the easy-to-use, efficient, and platform-agnostic dictation software for animal health professionals, announced it has closed a new, oversubscribed round of funding, led by Klick Ventures.
– Klick is joined in the investment by Blu Ventures, Concrete Ventures, Manifold Group, Globalive Capital, as well as notable angel investor Dr. Ivan Zak, CEO at Galaxy Vets.
– The capital from the U.S. and Canadian investors will be used to further accelerate Talkatoo’s explosive double-digit growth and leadership in the animal health sector.
– One of only 12 companies selected to the exclusive Google for Startups Accelerator program’s Voice AI cohort, Talkatoo was originally paired up with Klick for mentorship.