– Deel announced $425m Series D funding round taking total amount raised by the company to over $630m.
– The latest funding round values the company at $5.5bn.
– Deel has become the highest valued company in the global hiring, payments, and compliance space with this investment.
– The funding was led by US-based Coatue, with partners Rahul Kishore and Lucas Swisher leading the deal.
– Several new and existing investors also participated in this round, including Altimeter Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, the YC Continuity Fund, Spark Capital, Greenbay Ventures, Neo, and over 40 of the world’s leading operators.
– Deel serves more than 4,500 customers worldwide from names like Coinbase, Intercom and Shopify in over 150 countries.

– Dapper Labs, Inc. is a Vancouver, BC-based company behind NBA Top Shot and the Flow blockchain.
– The company raised $250M in funding.
– The round was led by Coatue, with participation from existing investors a16z, GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Version One Ventures and new investors including BOND and GIC.
– The new investment will be used to scale and support major additional brand-driven sports, entertainment and music based products coming online and being developed on the Flow blockchain.

– Fivetran, the leading provider of automated data integration, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire HVR, a leading provider of enterprise data replication technology.
– The acquisition will allow Fivetran to provide breakthrough database replication performance along with enterprise-grade security to address the massive market for modernizing analytics for operational data associated with ERP systems, Oracle databases, and more.
– Fivetran also announced it has raised a $565 million Series D round, consisting of new and existing investors. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led the round with participation from existing investors General Catalyst, CEAS Investments, Matrix Partners, and others, along with new investors ICONIQ Capital, D1 Capital Partners and YC Continuity. Fivetran has raised $730 million to date. The company is now valued at $5.6 billion.

– Sleeper is a San Francisco, CA-based fantasy sports company.
– Company raised $40m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from angel investors including Klay Thompson (Thompson Family Foundation); Shane Battier; and Baron Davis, Byron Jones, Ros Gold-Onwude, Kevin Lin, Tim Chen, and Rich Kleiman and Kevin Durant.
– The new investment will be used to expand the game offerings on its platform and build a new feature called Wallet that will enable users to sync their preferred payment methods to the platform.

– ROME Therapeutics announced the completion of a $77m Series B financing round.
– The round was led by new investor Section 32 and included participation from Sanofi Ventures, Casdin Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Alexandria Venture Investments.
– ROME’s mission is to harness the power of the repeatome – the roughly 60% of the human genome consisting of repetitive sequences of nucleic acids, known as repeats – to discover powerful new classes of medicines for cancer and autoimmune diseases.
– ROME has identified multiple repeatome-derived targets and created an internal data science platform, called repeatomics, to analyze vast quantities of data available through the repeatome.

– Addi is a fintech and digital commerce startup based in Bogota, Colombia, and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
– Company raised $75m in extension Series B funding.
– The round was led by Greycroft with participation from new investors GGV Capital, Citius Capital, and Intersection Growth Partners, as well as existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Citius VC, Endeavor Catalyst, Foundation Capital, Monashees, and Quona Capital. Union Square’s Opportunity Fund also participated in the round.
– The company will use the funds to continue to scale its current operations in Brazil and Colombia, expand into Mexico in early 2022, enhance its BNPL offering while allowing customers and merchants to pay in new ways through its platform and its app, which launches later this month.

– Databricks, a big data analytics software provider, announced that it raised $1.6 billion in a series H financing round led by Counterpoint Global, with participation from BNY Mellon and ClearBridge.
– Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity Management & Research, and Franklin Templeton also contributed, bringing the company’s total raised to $3.5 billion at a $38 billion post-money valuation.
– Cofounder and CEO Ali Ghodsi says that the capital will be used to support Databricks’ product development, customer adoption, and the evangelization of “data lakehouse.”
– Data lakehouses — a term that came into vogue in 2020 — are data management architectures that combine data lakes, which store structured and unstructured data, with data warehouses, which perform queries and analysis.

– Firemaps, a startup that makes it easier to harden homes against wildfires, raised $5.5m in funding.
– The round was led by a16z and joined by Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and Addition’s Lee Fixel.
– The company is led by Jahan Khanna, who co-founded it along with his brother, who has a long-time background in civil engineering, and Rob Moran.
– The trio spent cycles exploring how to work on climate problems, while staying focused on helping people in the here and now.

– Stacker, a London-based no-code platform, raised $20m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and joined by existing investors Initialized Capital, Y Combinator and Pentech.
– The company plans to put the new capital to work to reach 30-40 employees by the end of the year.

– San Mateo, California-based analytics data platform Preset announced that it raised $35.9 million in series B funding led by Redpoint Ventures, which had participation from Andreessen Horowitz.
– The closure of the round coincides with the launch of the company’s fully managed cloud service from beta, and it brings Preset’s total raised to $48.4 million.
– Most enterprises have to wrangle countless data buckets, some of which inevitably become underused or forgotten. A Forrester survey found that between 60% and 73% of all data within corporations is never analyzed for insights or larger trends.

– Apollo GraphQL is a San Francisco, CA-based developer of open source and commercial GraphQL API technologies.
– Series D funding was led by Insight Partners with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures, Next47 and Hatim Shafique, Chief Customer Officer at DataBricks.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate the company’s product development efforts.

– Doxel, which has developed software that uses computer vision to help track and monitor progress on construction job sites, announced that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding.
– Insight Partners led the round, which included participation from existing backers Andreessen Horowitz and Amplo and brings the startup’s total raised to $56.5 million since its December 2015 inception.

– Pave announced $46m Series B funding led by the YC Continuity Fund and welcomed Ali Rowghani to its board.
– The round also includes participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners and others.
– Pave integrates directly with customers’ HR and equity systems so that customers have access to real-time compensation data and never have to use spreadsheets for compensation surveys, merit cycles, or total rewards statements again.

– SentiLink announced a $70m Series B funding round led by David Sacks of Craft Ventures with participation from Felicis Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and NYCA.
– This brings SentiLink’s total funding raised to $85m.
– David Sacks and Victoria Treyger from Felicis will be joining SentiLink’s board as observers.
– SentiLink works with over 100 financial institutions, and has verified several hundred million applications to date.
– SentiLink takes a different approach than other companies in the space. Instead of spewing buzzwords like “Artificial Intelligence,” SentiLink focuses on deeply understanding fraud and identity, and then using technology to productionalize these insights.

– Hopin, the leading shared experiences platform that enables immersive and interactive connection from anywhere, announced it has raised $450m in Series D funding co-led by new investors Arena Holdings and Altimeter Capital with participation from new investors Adams Street Partners, Untitled Investments and XN in addition to existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, DFJ Growth, General Catalyst, GIC, IVP, Northzone, Salesforce Ventures, Slack Fund, Temasek and Tiger Global.
– Since February of 2020, Hopin has raised more than $1b.
– Hopin will use this capital to accelerate growth to further scale the platform and invest in the development of its multi-product platform technologies, including building new product suites.

– DoNotPay, a legal services app, received $10 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Lux Capital, Tribe Capital, Day One Ventures and Felicis Ventures.
– Other investors included billionaire FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, former Coinbase Chief Technology Officer Balaji Srinivasan and UiPath CEO Daniel Dines.
– Yuri Milner‘s investment firm, DST Global, participated as well.

– Mercury, a digital banking outfit targeting startups, has raised $120m at a $1.62bn valuation in a Series B funding round.
– Coatue led the round, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, CRV, Sapphire Venture and a host of angels.
– Mercury is building banking for startups. The company wants to power the next generation that will shape American industry.

– Nobell Foods has secured a $75m Series B financing round.
– The round was backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
– Others joining this round include: Unovis, Germin8 Ventures, Fifty Years, AgFunder, Pear VC, GL Ventures, the venture capital arm of Hillhouse Group, and Mission Bay Capital.
– The company plans to launch its cheeses to the public by the end of next year.

– Queenly, a marketplace and search engine for the formalwear industry, has raised $6.3m in funding.
– The investment was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Y Combinator, The House Fund, Interlace Ventures, Dragon Capital, NextView Ventures, MyAsiaVC and Shakti Venture Capital.
– To date, Queenly has raised $7.1 million.

– Turquoise Health from San Diego is a healthcare price transparency and provider-payer contract negotiation platform that generates cost certainty for patients.
– The company raised $5m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Box Group, individual investors Henry Ward, Megan Callahan, Jonathan Bush, and NBA Champion Klay Thompson.
– The investment will be used to expand operations and product development efforts.

– Vitally from Brooklyn, NY provides a Customer Success platform to B2B SaaS companies.
– Company raised $9M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and David Ulevitch will be joining the Vitally board.
– The new investment will be used to expand operations and its marketing and product development efforts.

– Titan, a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at the new generation of “everyday investors,” has closed on $58m in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
– The financing comes just over five months after Titan raised $12.5m in a Series A round led by General Catalyst, and brings the startup’s total raised since its 2017 inception to $75m. It values the company at $450m.
– General Catalyst also put money in the Series B round, along with BoxGroup, Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures and a group of professional athletes and celebrities including Odell Beckham Jr., Kevin Durant, Jared Leto and Will Smith.

– CityRow, a home fitness company, raised $12m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by JW Asset Management, with help from Sol Global and K2.
– The company plans to use the funding to add livestreaming classes to its current on-demand content selection.
– It also plans to double its headcount in the next year.

– HealthifyMe, a fitness app, raised $75m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by LeapFrog and Khosla Ventures, and joined by Unilever Ventures, Elm and Healthquad.
– The company plans to grow its user base in India, Southeast Asia and North America.

– OpenSea, a NFT auction marketplace, raised $100m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and joined by Coatue, CAA, Michael Ovitz, Kevin Hartz, Kevin Durant and Ashton Kutcher.
– The company plans to bring support for several more blockchains to its platform.

– Flock Safety from Atlanta develops a public safety operating system for cities to work with private communities and law enforcement to eliminate crime, protect privacy, and mitigate bias.
– Series D $150m round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from and Initialized, Meritech, Bedrock, and Matrix Partners.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate product development and expand the team to support every city across the country.

– Sourcegraph, a late-stage startup that wants to bring the power of search to code, announced a $125m Series D funding.
– The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Insight Partners, Geodesic Capital and other existing investors.
– Company CEO and co-founder Quinn Slack says that we know by now that every company is building software, and as they do, they are generating tons of code.
– “They’re all drowning in code, and we help solve that. Our product is universal code search, which helps developers search, understand and automate code,” Slack explained.

– LA-based game studio Singularity 6 has banked more funding as it scales itself up and readies for the launch of its debut title.
– The startup raised $30 million in a Series B bout of funding led by FunPlus Ventures with additional participation from Andreessen Horowitz, LVP, Transcend, Anthos Capital and Mitch Lasky.
– The studio has now disclosed some $49 million in funding, a sizable sum, but one that showcases how much investors are looking to rally around gaming platform plays in the wake of Roblox’s monster IPO.

– Pietra, a startup that helps creators launch and scale product lines, raised $15m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Founders Fund and joined by Andreessen Horowitz, TQ Ventures and Abstract Ventures.
– Pietra allows customers to shop around with a network of suppliers, find which one is best for them and move through the process from crafting samples through order fulfillment with a tech platform to guide them through the process.
– Pietra is trying to help small creators scale their product distribution, but also handle all of the bits that can determine success when it comes to launching a brand in the first place, including building a pre-sale website and building up some attractive marketing images of products.

– PlanetScale, the creator of Vitess, announced that it has secured $30 million in Series B funding led by Insight Partners with participation from a16z and SignalFire.
– Nikhil Sachdev, Managing Director at Insight Partners, joins the PlanetScale board, with Praveen Akkiraju, also Managing Director, being named a board observer.
– The new funds will be used to scale the PlanetScale team globally and to accelerate exposure and adoption of the platform, which lets developers create a new database in seconds that will grow as they grow, for years, with no limitations on scalability.
– Currently in use by Figma and Community.com, PlanetScale had until recently provided a hosted version of Vitess, the peerlessly-powerful open source database that underlies YouTube, Slack, Square and Airbnb.

– Vantage, a service that helps businesses analyze and reduce their AWS costs, announced that it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
– A number of angel investors, including Brianne Kimmel, Julia Lipton, Stephanie Friedman, Calvin French Owen, Ben and Moisey Uretsky, Mitch Wainer and Justin Gage, also participated in this round.
– Vantage started out with a focus on making the AWS console a bit easier to use — and help businesses figure out what they are spending their cloud infrastructure budgets on in the process.

– 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.

– Zus Health, a Jonathan Bush-founded company focused on creating the industry’s first shared development platform backed by a shared data record, announced its launch and the close of a $34M Series A financing led by Andreessen Horowitz. F-Prime Capital, Maverick Ventures, Rock Health, Martin Ventures and Oxeon Investments also participated in the round.
– The funding comes at a time when the forces that have long held healthcare innovation back are teetering. The intersection of information sharing friendly policy in the 21st Century Cures Act; never before seen levels of investment from private equity and venture capital into digital-first healthcare companies; and the catalyst of the pandemic; have, in sum, created a thriving young healthcare movement.

– UserLeap, a platform for AI-powered, continuous research for product teams, announced that it raised $38 million in a series B round contributed by a16z.
– The company says it’ll put the funding toward product R&D and customer acquisition, as well as global expansion efforts.
– The user experience monitoring market is large and growing, and its value is expected to climb from $1.5 billion in 2019 to $3.7 billion by 2023, according to Markets and Markets.
– That may be because every dollar invested in user experience is estimated to net a $100 return, a 9,900% return on investment.
– Forrester Research reports that frictionless user experience design can raise customer conversion rates by up to 400%.

– Imply, the pioneer of Analytics-in-Motion, and founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, announced the closing of a $70m Series C led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Tiger Global Management, bringing total funding to over $116m.
– Existing investors A16Z, Khosla Ventures and Geodesic Capital also participated in this round.
– This additional funding follows a banner year for Imply, growing market adoption of both Imply and open source Apache Druid.
– Imply has now surpassed 100 enterprise and digital-native customers, using Imply as the engine for analytics-powered applications that they build, and/or as a complete solution to directly solve internal BI and operational analytics use cases.

– CAMP4 Therapeutics announced that it has raised $45m to propel the next phase of its scientific strategy, significantly expand its platform and advance multiple preclinical RNA therapies into human testing.
– CAMP4 is combining its proprietary RNA Actuating Platform (RAP) with state-of-the-art oligonucleotide technology to develop precise and programmable therapeutics that enable tunable upregulation of gene expression to treat disease.
– CAMP4’s approach uniquely targets a new class of RNA known as regulatory RNAs (“regRNAs”) that control the expression of proteins, making this approach applicable to any genetic disease whereby a small increase in gene output can lead to meaningful therapeutic outcomes.
– 5AM Ventures and Northpond Ventures led the financing alongside existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Polaris Partners and The Kraft Group.

– Flyhomes announced a $150m Series C financing to fuel its growth and build upon its record-setting quarters.
– The round was co-led by venture capital firms Norwest Venture Partners and Battery Ventures, with additional participation from Balyasny Asset Management, Fifth Wall, Trustbridge Partners, Camber Creek, Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff, and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Canvas Ventures.
– As part of the transaction, Lisa Wu of Norwest Venture Partners and Roger Lee of Battery Ventures will join the Flyhomes Board of Directors.
– Flyhomes is a pioneer and market leader of the end-to-end homebuying model.

– ChartHop, a self-styled people analytics startup, announced that it raised $35 million in a series B funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
– The capital brings the company’s total raised to over $54 million to date, and CEO Ian White says that it’ll be used to fund expansion through product enhancements, investments in service and support, and go-to-market efforts.
– People analytics (also known as talent analytics or HR analytics) refers to the method of analytics that can help managers and executives make decisions about their employees or workforce.
– New York-based ChartHop, which White founded in 2018, brings together people datasets including payroll, demographic, performance, and engagement.

– BeReal is a Paris, France- and Andorra-based social media company.
– Company raised $30M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, and DST.
– The new investment will be used to expand operations, development efforts and business reach.

– Jeeves, a startup that is building an “all-in-one expense management platform” for global startups, is emerging from stealth with $131 million in total funding, including $31 million in equity and $100 million in debt financing.
– The equity consists of a new $26 million Series A and a previously unannounced $5 million seed round.
– Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A funding, which also included participation from YC Continuity Fund, Jaguar Ventures, Urban Innovation Fund, Uncorrelated Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, Stanford University, 9 Yards Capital and BlockFi Ventures.

– Shef, a marketplace meant to help home chefs connect with customers, handle orders and get the food delivered, raised $20m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and backed by Y Combinator, Craft Ventures, M13 and a bevy of celebrities including Padma Lakshmi, Chef Aarón Sánchez, Katy Perry, Tiffany Haddish, Orlando Bloom and NBA All-Star Andre Iguodala.
– The company plans to use the funds to figure out how to get services like theirs legalized in more markets (they’ve hired Danielle Merida, former general counsel for TaskRabbit, to help there), and to onboard chefs as those new markets come online.
– Shef currently has more than 12,000 home chefs on their wait list.

– Orbit gives companies a collective view of their community, including insights into what platforms and individual members are displaying the most engagement, in terms of recency, frequency, and impact.
– The platform officially launches with $15 million in funding from Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz, Heavybit, and Harrison Metal.
– Orbit is aimed at anyone whose job it is to manage and maintain a community — this could be developer relations, such as an open source project maintainer tasked with attracting more contributors, or a general community manager.

– Material Security, a company that protects email accounts even after they have been compromised, has secured $40M in Series B funding led by Silicon Valley solo capitalist Elad Gil.
– The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, as well as several individual tech industry leaders and investors.
– The new funding will allow Material Security to expand business operations to additional geographies, as well as aggressively expand R&D.

– Pyn, an early-stage startup based in Australia, raised $8m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with help from Accel and Ryan Sanders (the co-founder of BambooHR) and Scott Farquhar (co-founder and co-CEO at Atlassian).
– The startup provides a library of customizable communications materials to help build culture and set policy across an organization.

– Rewatch, a video archiving startup, raised $20m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and joined by Haystack and Upside Partners, as well as a number of individuals.
– It comes on the heels of Rewatch announcing a $2m seed round only in January of this year.

– Chia Network Inc., a company built around a new energy efficient decentralized blockchain and smart transaction platform founded by Bram Cohen, has secured a $61m Series D Preferred equity investment led by Richmond Global Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from True Ventures, Slow Ventures, Cygni Capital, Breyer Capital, Naval Ravikant, Collab+Currency and DHVC.
– David Frazee from Richmond Global Ventures will join Chia’s board.
– The proceeds from the financing will accelerate Chia Network’s mission to operate a more energy-efficient, secure and user-friendly payment system for governments, financial institutions, corporations and consumers worldwide.

– Whatnot is a collectibles marketplace.
– The company raised $50m.
– The Series B round was led by Anu Hariharan of Y Combinator Continuity fund, and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Animal Capital and a number of angels.
– The company plans to use the funding to expand its team and continue to build out its livestreaming platform.

– Turntable.fm, a social music service, raised $7.5m funding.
– The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and joined by other investors.
– The company plans to use the funding to continue to innovate and explore the cross section of social + music.
– The company is hiring engineers and designers.

– Beacons, a business platform for social media creators, announced a $6m seed funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Li Jin’s Atelier Ventures, The Chainsmokers’ Mantis Fund, Night Ventures, Brazilian esports organization LOUD and Crush Music.
– The new capital will fuel the company’s rapid growth by accelerating product development and hiring. Beacons already supports more than a quarter of a million creative brands, with over 3,000 new accounts established daily.
– Creators and organizations using Beacons for link-in-bio include: Sia, Russell Brand, Green Day, Katie Thurston (the next Bachelorette), and Barstool Sports.

– Forte, an organization building a blockchain-based economic platform for video games, announced it has raised $185M in Series A funding led by Griffin Gaming Partners.
– New and existing investors including Union Grove Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, and Canaan also participated in the round.
– The Series A funding values the organization at $1B.
– Funds will be used to accelerate the development of its end-to-end blockchain platform, which lets developers create fungible and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and build scalable token-based game economies.
– Forte’s economic technology aims to address the growing misalignment between game developers, players, and fans.

– Loom is a video messaging platform for work.
– The company raised $130m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Iconiq Growth, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management, and General Catalyst.
– The new funding will be used to drive product innovation and scale operations globally.

– Firstbase, a provider of remote infrastructure for global teams, announced $13m in funding, with a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from B Capital Group, and Alpaca VC.
– This follows a $2m seed investment led by Alpaca in August 2018 with participation from Acceleprise, Remote First Capital and Backend Capital.
– The new capital will fuel the company’s rapid growth plans through hiring, product development and increased customer deployment.
– Firstbase also announced it has added Andreessen Horowitz’s David Ulevitch to its Board of Directors.
– Firstbase’s mission is to improve individuals’ quality of life by enabling remote work. Its software platform helps companies set up, manage, maintain and retrieve all physical equipment remote workers need to work from home comfortably and effectively.

– Greenlight Financial Technology, Inc. from Atlanta develops an all-in-one money management platform purpose-built for families that offers a suite of financial services across earning, saving, spending, giving and investing.
– The company closed a $260m Series D funding.
– The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from return investors TTV Capital, Canapi Ventures, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, BOND, Fin VC, Goodwater Capital, as well as new investors Wellington Management, Owl Ventures and LionTree Partners.

– Greenlight, a fintech company that pitches parents on kid-friendly bank accounts, has raised $260m in a Series D funding round.
– The funding comes just months after the Atlanta-based startup landed $215m in funding at a $1.2bn valuation.
– With the latest round, Greenlight has now raised more than $550m since its 2014 inception.
– Andreessen Horowitz led the Series D, which also included participation from returning backers TTV Capital, Canapi Ventures, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, BOND, Fin VC and Goodwater Capital, as well as new investors Wellington Management, Owl Ventures and LionTree Partners.
– Since it launched its debit cards for kids in 2017, the company has managed to set up accounts for more than 3 million parents and children, who have saved more than $120m through the app.

– Current, a NYC-based U.S. mobile banking company, raised $220m in Series D funding in a round valuing it to $2.2b.
– New investor Andreessen Horowitz led the round bringing total funding raised to date to over $400m, with participation from returning investors Tiger Global Management, TQ Ventures, Avenir, Sapphire Ventures, Foundation Capital, Wellington Management and EXPA.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand its business reach and development efforts.

– Deel announced that it has raised $156m in Series C funding led by the YC Continuity Fund and has welcomed Ali Rowghani to its board.
– The round was co-led by existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Spark Capital.
– Dara Khosrowshahi, Lachy Groom, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jeff Wilke, and Anthony Schiller also participated in the round, among others.
– With a valuation of $1.25b, Deel has emerged as a market leader in the global payroll and compliance space.
– Deel allows businesses to hire anyone, anywhere, in a compliant manner. Hiring and onboarding international employees or contractors takes under 5 minutes, with no local entity required. Paying them in 120+ currencies takes just a click.

– Tomorrow Health, the leading patient-first platform for home healthcare, today announced it has closed a $25 million Series A round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Obvious Ventures and BoxGroup.
– The company will utilize the new capital to hire additional talent and expand its infrastructure technology to seamlessly connect every patient with home-based care.
– In addition, the company announced Paul Mango, former Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy at HHS and Roy Beveridge, former Chief Medical Officer at Humana, have joined its Advisory Board.

– RapidAPI announced that it has raised $60m in its Series C funding round.
– The financing was led by Green Bay Ventures and includes new investor, Stripes. Existing investors include Andreessen Horowitz, DNS Capital, M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), Viola Growth, and Grove Ventures.
– The investment comes on the heels of a high-growth year for RapidAPI amidst a pandemic that drove a record number of developers and companies to the RapidAPI platform to advance their digital initiatives and accelerate the delivery of their software and services to the market.
– RapidAPI is a next-generation API platform that enables developers and enterprises to find, connect to, and manage thousands of APIs.

– Mem, a free app, is an early access platform dedicated to pushing users to quickly jot down their thoughts without focusing too heavily on the underlying organization of them.
– The startup’s founders have vast ambitions for what their platform could become down the road, tapping into further advances in machine learning and even AR.
– The company raised $5.6m in a seed round led by a16z with additional participation from their Cultural Leadership Fund, Will Smith’s dreamers.vc, Floodgate, Unusual Ventures and Shrug Capital.
– The round also was host to a handful of angel investors including Harry Stebbings, Julia Lipton, Tony Liu, Rahul Vohra and Todd Goldberg, among others.

– StarStock from NYC is an online marketplace for sports fans and card hobbyists to buy, sell, and invest in their favorite athletes.
– The company raised $8m in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from several angel investors including NBA all-star Trae Young, Twitch Co-founder Justin Kan, Chief Operating Officer of BetMGM, Ryan Spoon, and Ilkka Paananen, Co-founder of Supercell.
– StarStock intends to use the new funding to continue to expand operations and its business reach.