– Hexagon Bio, a biopharmaceutical company pioneering the discovery of medicines encoded in the global metagenome, announced that it has raised $61 million to fuel the continued development of its platform to design and develop new therapeutics mined from microbial genomes.
– Nextech Invest led the financing, with participation from new investors SoftBank Vision Fund 2* and Casdin Capital, as well as existing investors The Column Group, 8VC, and Two Sigma Ventures.
– Hexagon’s interdisciplinary platform combines technological advances and proprietary insights across machine learning, genomics, synthetic biology and automation to systematically discover new chemical compounds linked to known protein targets.
– Hexagon has built a database of microbial genomes that is more than twice the size of all public databases and is adding thousands of additional genomes per month.

– Flywheel announces a $22m Series C funding round.
– The round was led by 8VC and includes iSelect, Argonautic Ventures, Beringea, Novartis, HPE Pathfinder, Spike Ventures, Key Investments, Seraph, Great North Labs and others.
– Flywheel’s cloud-based data management platform enables researchers to accelerate discovery through streamlined data curation and management, automated pipelines for machine learning and analysis, and tools to ensure secure collaboration.
– With Flywheel’s platform in place, researchers across academic, clinical and life sciences organizations can transform productivity and accelerate innovation in imaging research, multicenter studies, AI development and clinical trials.

– Icon, an Austin, Texas-based developer of advanced construction technologies including robotics, software and building materials, raised $207M in series B financing.
– The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from 8VC, BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, BOND, Citi, Crosstimbers, Ensemble, Fifth Wall, LENx, Moderne Ventures and Oakhouse Partners.
– Led by Jason Ballard, Co-founder and CEO, Icon develops advanced construction technologies using proprietary 3D printing robotics, software and advanced materials.

– Felux is a B2B marketplace and supply chain platform for the steel and industrial industry.
– Company raised $5.1m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Expa, with participation from 8VC and Lightbank.
– The new investment will be used to continue expanding operations and business reach.

– Jenfi, a Singapore-based startup, raised $6.3m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Monk’s Hill Ventures and joined by Korea Investment Partners, Golden Equator Capital, 8VC, ICU Ventures and Taurus Ventures.
– The company previously raised $25m in debt financing from San Francisco-based Arc Labs.
– Jenfi works primarily with “digital-native” companies, including SaaS providers and e-commerce sellers.
– It claims that the average Jenfi customer experienced compounded sales growth of about 26.5% over three months, 60% over six months and 156% over 12 months.

– Agora, a construction procurement platform, raised an additional $33m series B funding, bringing total investment to $44m.
– Investors include Tiger Global, 8VC, Tishman Speyer, Suffolk Construction, Jerry Yang, Michael Ovitz, LeFrak, and Kevin Hartz.
– The company helps contractors streamline the paperwork required for ordering and tracking construction materials, an area expected to see an uptick in the wake of the new infrastructure bill in the U.S.
– The company’s software complements other construction digital twins tech by improving the material management aspects to increase time on tools.
– The investment will help boost its staff and R&D efforts.

– Esper is a govtech startup from Austin, TX.
– Company raised $8M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Cota Capital with participation from 8VC, Gaingels, and Stand Together Ventures Lab.
– The investment will be aimed at expanding the company’s operations and business reach across the U.S. state and federal market.

– Vincent, an alternative asset aggregation hub, raised $6m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by LAUNCH with additional investment from 8VC and Digital Currency Group, among others.
– The platform has 75 partner platforms integrated with the site.

– Rootly, the new technical incident management platform and Slackbot, launched to address one of the biggest problems enterprises face: resolving incidents like critical outages quickly and painlessly.
– The company also announced that it closed $3.2m in seed funding from XYZ Venture Capital, 8VC and Y Combinator.
– Individual investors, including Bart Mediratta, former CTO of Dropbox; Jason Warner, CTO of GitHub; John Lilly, former partner at Greylock Partners; and Max Mullen, co-founder of Instacart, also participated.
– Funds will be used to expand the Rootly team and accelerate product development as the company continues to add innovative features and extend its product suite.

– Vercel, a platform to develop, preview and ship websites, from single static pages to apps with billions of dynamic pages, and creator of Next.js, the leading React and JavaScript framework for frontend web development, announced that it has secured $102M in Series C funding in a round led by Bedrock Capital with participation from existing investors Accel, CRV, Geodesic Capital, Greenoaks Capital and GV.
– New investors include 8VC, Flex Capital, GGV, Latacora, Salesforce Ventures and Tiger Global.
– The new funding, which brings the total raised to $163M, will be used to scale the Vercel team globally, accelerate research and development, drive platform innovation and accelerate adoption.

– Habi, the data-driven residential real estate platform, announced that it has raised $100m in equity in its Series B fundraising round – representing the largest Series B for a start-up headquartered in Colombia.
– Having established a strong foothold in Colombia, Habi will use the capital raised to continue its growth in Colombia and to expand its footprint into Mexico.
– Habi is transforming Latin America’s traditionally opaque and inefficient residential ecosystem by providing liquidity and information to a market that lacks pricing tools, or even a Multiple Listing Service (MLS).
– The round was led by the SoftBank Latin America Fund alongside previous investors Inspired Capital, Tiger Global, Homebrew, and 8VC.

– Anduril Industries, an Irvine, Calif.-based defense technology company, raised $450m in Series D funding and a post-money valuation of $4.6b.
– The round was led by Elad Gil with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, Valor Equity Partners, and D1 Capital Partners.
– The new investment will be used to develop advanced technologies (AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, optics and automation) to solve some of the most important & complex national security challenges.

– Airbyte, creators of the fastest-growing open source data integration platform, announced that it has raised more than $26 million in Series A funding led by Benchmark, with participation from additional investors including 8VC, Accel, SV Angel, and Y Combinator, as well as Shay Bannon, co-founder and CEO of Elastic, Auren Hoffman, co-founder of LiveRamp, and Dev Ittycheria, CEO of MongoDB.
– Benchmark General Partner Chetan Puttagunta will also be joining the board of directors.
– Airbyte is establishing the new standard of moving and consolidating data from different sources to data warehouses, data lakes, or databases in a process referred to as extract, load, and, when desired, transform (ELT).

– Appia Bio, Inc. is a Los Angeles, CA-based biotechnology company developing engineered allogeneic cell therapies from hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) for cancer patients.
– The company launched from stealth with $52m in Series A financing.
– The round was led by 8VC with participation from Two Sigma Ventures and seed investors Sherpa Healthcare Partners and Freeflow Ventures.
– Proceeds will be used to progress stem cell derived CAR-engineered invariant natural killer T cells (CAR-iNKT) to the clinic in hematological and solid tumor indications.

– Wage is a San Francisco, CA-based infrastructure software solution that lets people share their payroll data with third parties.
– The company raised $5M in funding.
– The round was led by Google’s AI-focused venture fund, Gradient Ventures, with follow-on investment from 8VC, Pear Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, CoFound Partners, and executives from SoFi, Public, Zillow, and Affirm.
– The new investment will be used to scale customer acquisition and support additional payroll data partnerships.

– Alloy Therapeutics announced a $75m Series C financing round.
– The round was led by 8VC, Presight Capital, and Peter Thiel with participation from new investors including Mubadala Capital, the asset management arm of Mubadala Investment Company.
– Proceeds will extend Alloy’s platforms and services into adjacent biologic modalities and further expand access to Alloy’s capabilities to more partners and geographies around the world.
– Fabian Hansen, founder and Managing Director of US venture capital fund Presight Capital, will join as a member of Alloy Therapeutics’ board of directors.
– Alaa Halawa, co-head of Mubadala Capital’s US Ventures business, will join as a board observer.

– Cityblock Health from Brooklyn, NY, is a healthcare provider for Medicaid and lower-income Medicare beneficiaries.
– The company completed a $192m Series C extension funding round.
– The round was led by new investor Tiger Global with participation from existing investors including Kinnevik AB, Maverick Ventures, General Catalyst, Wellington Management, Thrive Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Echo Health Ventures, 8VC, and AIMS Imprint of Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate deployment of its community and value-based care model nationwide.

– Better Health, a San Francisco, CA-based medical supplier offering an e-commerce experience and service to Americans with chronic conditions, raised $3.5m in seed funding.
– The round was led by 8VC with participation from Caffeinated Capital and Anorak Ventures, Robert Hurley and Scott Flanders of eHealth.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate growth and expand the company’s product offerings.

– Polly Raises $15 Million in Series A Funding
– Polly, a leading provider of innovative SaaS solutions for the mortgage industry, today announced that it has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by 8VC.
– 8VC Partner Alex Kolicich and Meritech Capital Partner Max Motschwiller will join Polly’s Board of Directors.
– This investment will help Polly to broaden and accelerate product development, recruit top engineering talent and aggressively expand its sales and marketing efforts.
– Polly’s state-of-the-art pricing engine and loan trading exchange enable mortgage lenders to dynamically price and sell loans in an automated and customizable workflow.
– These solutions take the manual process that has been unchanged in the mortgage industry for 30 years and make it quick, efficient and accurate through AI and smart algorithms.

– Baton, an autonomous trucking company, has closed a $10.5m Series A round of funding.
– The round was co-led by 8VC and Maersk Growth–the corporate venture arm of AP Moller-Maersk, the global leader in transportation and logistics.
– Baton both paves the way for the adoption of autonomous vehicles in trucking and solves the largest and most well-known problem in the industry: the over two billion hours lost annually due to dwell and detention.

– Tetrate announced today that it has raised $40m in a Series B funding round led by Sapphire Ventures.
– Other new investors, Scale Venture Partners and NTTVC, and existing investors, Dell Technologies Capital, Intel Capital, 8VC, and Samsung NEXT, participated in the round.
– The Series B funding will be used to develop advanced capabilities within Tetrate Service Bridge, the only cloud-agnostic, hybrid cloud applications networking platform.
– Funding also will support a new SaaS offering: an Istio-based platform that makes the application service mesh easier to consume.
– Additionally, Tetrate will expand go-to-market activities in the Americas and initiate go-to-market teams in Europe and Asia.

– Yugabyte is a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based leader in open source distributed SQL databases.
– The company raised $48m in funding.
– The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with additional participation by Greenspring Associates, Dell Technologies Capital, Wipro Ventures and 8VC.
– The new investment will be used to expand R&D, sales and customer functions in the EMEA and APAC markets and further accelerate enterprise adoption of its commercial products.

– Airbyte is a San Francisco, CA-based creator of an open-source data integration platform.
– The company raised $5.2m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Accel with participation from YCombinator, 8VC, Calvin French-Owen, co-founder of Segment, Charles Zedlewski, former general manager at Cloudera, Auren Hoffman, co-founder and CEO of LiveRamp and CEO Safegraph, Travis May, co-founder and CEO at Datavant, and Alain Rossmann, president at Machinify.
– The new investment will be used to expand operations and business reach.

– Deliverr, a startup that helps any online merchant ship goods to a consumer in one or two days, raised $170m funding.
– The round was led by Coatue and joined by Brookfield Technology Partners, and existing investors Activant Capital, 8VC and GLP.
– The company has raised $240m in total funding.
– The company is growing fast and it is capital-intensive.

– Raydiant is a digital signage company.
– The company raised $13m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by 8VC and Atomic, and joined by Delta Zulu, Gaingels, and BN Capital by Lerer Hippeau.
– The company will use the new capital to invest in product development and expand Raydiant’s go-to-market team.

– BigHat Biosciences has raised $19m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and included participation from prior investors 8VC, AME Cloud Ventures and Innovation Endeavors.
– BigHat Biosciences is a novel protein therapeutics company and developer of an AI-guided antibody design platform.
– BigHat has experienced rapid growth during its proof-of-concept stage, reaching significant corporate and scientific milestones in its first 15 months.
– BigHat’s wet lab is actively producing and characterizing antibodies at scale.
– BigHat’s cloud-based AI/ML platform improves designs each round by combining active learning with assay modeling of critical biophysical properties leading to the highest quality sequences.