- Gamma is a productivity suite building a replacement for slide decks. - The company launched with $7M in Seed funding. - The round was led by Accel, with participation from Eric Yuan, Jeff Weiner, Script Capital, South Park Commons, LocalGlobe, Afore and Hustle Fund, as well as founders at Airtable, Patreon, Segment, Honey and Optimizely. - The company intends to use the funds to continue to build out the team and the product.

– HoneyBee, a startup that aims to help companies provide access to financial support to their employees, announced it has raised $5.7 million in equity in a round led by FFVC.
– Resolute Ventures, Afore Capital, Rebalance Capital, K50 and Financial Venture Studio also participated in the financing, along with two-time NBA all-star Baron Davis.

– Sinai Technologies from San Francisco, CA develops a decarbonization platform to reduce carbon emissions.
– The company raised $10M in series A funding.
– The round was led by Obvious Ventures with participation from Ajax Strategies, Valo Ventures, High Alpha, Climactic, along with other angels and existing investors including Afore Capital, MCJ Collective and Climate Capital.
– The new investment will be used to scale the company’s decarbonization platform as well as launch new modules and tools for companies to achieve net-zero targets.

– Retain.ai, a platform that gives enterprises a view of customer engagement across teams, processes, and apps, has raised $23m in a funding round led by Emergence Capital, with participation from Baseline Ventures, Upside Partnership, and Afore Capital.
– The new funding will be used to support growth and more than double Retain.ai’s workforce by the end of 2021, cofounder and CEO Eric Chernoff said.
– This round brings the company’s total raised to more than $27m to date.

– Hightouch from San Francisco is a Reverse ETL software company.
– The company raised $12.1m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Amplify Partners, with participation from new investor Bain Capital Ventures and returning investors Y Combinator and Afore Capital, as well as angel investors such as the founders and CEOs of companies like Datadog, Clearbit, Okta, Segment, Materialize, Pendo, and mParticle.
– The new investment will be used for product development and innovations that will empower less technical business teams to leverage data in the tools they use every day.

– Iterative is a San Francisco, CA-based MLOps company dedicated to streamlining the workflow of data scientists and Machine Learning (ML) engineers.
– The company raised $20m in Series A funding round.
– The round was led by 468 Capital and Florian Leibert, ex-founder of Mesosphere, an infrastructure start-up based on the open-source software Apache Mesos, with participation from prior investors True Ventures and Afore Capital.
– The new investment will be used for development and growth.

– Flatfile is a data onboarding software company based in Denver.
– The company raised $35m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Workday Ventures and previous investors including Afore Capital, Google’s AI-focused venture fund, Gradient Ventures, and Two Sigma Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate the company’s all-remote workforce and product development.