– Sorare is a Paris, France, NFT-based fantasy football platform.
– The company raised $680m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Softbank with participation from Atomico, Bessemer Ventures, D1 Capital, Eurazeo, IVP, Liontree and existing investors Benchmark, Accel and Headline, as well as football players Gerard Piqué, Antoine Griezmann, Rio Ferdinand and César Azpilicueta.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate growth within football while also replicating its model in other sports, expand its team by hiring across key roles, and launch marketing campaigns with partners, athletes, and media companies.

– Quit Genius, a NYC-based digital clinic for treating multiple addictions, raised $64M in Series B funding round.
– The round was co-led by Kinnevik and Atomico, with participation from Series A investors Octopus Ventures, Triple Point Ventures and Startup Health.
– The company will use the funds to fuel expansion of its platform in the U.S..

– MasterClass, a San Francisco, CA-based streaming platform for anyone to learn from the best professionals in their specific field, raised $225m in Series F funding.
– The round was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from new investors Baillie Gifford, Balyasny Asset Management and Eldridge together with existing investors IVP, Javelin, NEA and Owl Ventures, and 01 Advisors, Atomico, Bonnier, Cleo Capital, Dan Capital, NewView Capital, NextEquity Partners, Outlier Ventures, Powerhouse Capital, RPS Ventures, Family Office of Ronald Lauder and UTA.

– Yousician, a music education company, raised $28m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Atomico and joined by existing investors Lifeline Ventures, Draper Esprit, and Inventure.
– It brings Yousician to a valuation of $100m.

– Pactum, a platform that leverages AI to automatically negotiate supplier contracts for enterprises, announced it has raised $11 million in a series A round of funding led by Atomico.
– The company’s “negotiation-as-a-service” platform hits general availability from today and has already been used by several major enterprises.
– Clients include Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, which first signed up for a pilot program last year to automate negotiations with its supplier network.
– Pactum’s software essentially scans a contract, extracts what it believes to be the key priorities, and then sets about negotiating terms with the supplier through a chatbot.
– At its core, Pactum is all about making contract negotiations less laborious and enabling businesses to go beyond the few key terms that normally revolve around price and payments.

– Zapp, a vertical or “dark store” startup, raised a new round of funding.
– The round was led by Lightspeed and Atomico, and joined by 468 Capital, Burda, and notable angels.
– Zapp operates a vertical or “dark store” model, seeing it set up its own micro fulfillment centers.
– It has locations in London already: Kensington, Chelsea, Fulham, Notting Hill, Hammersmith, Shepherd’s Bush, Shoreditch, Islington and Angel.
– Zapp also emphasises sustainability and utilises an all-electric fleet.

– Aiven from Helsinki develops open source technologies with cloud infrastructure.
– Company raised $100m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Atomico and attracted new investors Salesforce Ventures and World Innovation Lab as well as existing investors Earlybird Venture Capital and IVP.
– The new investment will be aimed at doubling the company’s headcount over the next year, bringing new products to market, developing open source technologies and continuing to expand internationally.

– Katana, an Estonian startup that has built manufacturing-specific enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for SMBs, has raised $11m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by European venture capital firm Atomico, with participation from angel investors Ott Kaukver (Checkout.com CTO), Sten Tamkivi (CPO Topia, formerly Skype), Sergei Anikin (CTO, Pipedrive) and Kairi Pauskar (former TransferWise HR Architect). Previous backer 42Cap also followed on, bringing the total investment raised by the company to date to $16m.
– The company positions itself as the “entrepreneur manufacturer’s secret weapon” with a plug-and-play ERP for small to medium-sized manufacturers.