– Matillion, a startup that helps companies harness their data, raised $150m in funding.
– The round was led by General Atlantic and joined by Battery Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
– The company has hundreds of enterprise customers, including Western Union, FOX, Sony, Slack, National Grid, Peet’s Coffee and Cisco.
– The startup was founded in Manchester (it now also has a base in Denver), and this makes it one of a handful of tech startups out of the city — others we’ve recently covered include The Hut Group, Peak AI and Fractory — now hitting the big leagues and helping to put it on the innovation map as an urban center to watch.

– Level AI, an early-stage startup from a former member of the Alexa product team, wants to help companies process customer service calls faster by understanding the interactions they’re having with customers in real time.
– The company launched publicly, while announcing a $13m Series A led by Battery Ventures, with help from seed investors Eniac and Village Global as well as some unnamed angels. Battery’s Neeraj Agrawal will be joining the startup’s board under the terms of the agreement. The company reports it has now raised $15m.

– Postman announced that it has secured $225m in a Series D round, placing its valuation at $5.6bn.
– The round was led by existing investor, New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners, and joined by new investors Coatue, Battery Ventures, and BOND, along with existing investors CRV and Nexus Venture Partners.
– In addition, DoorDash Product Leader Gokul Rajaram and Freshworks Founder Girish Mathrubootham have also joined as individual investors.
– The company has now raised more than $430m across four rounds.
– Postman will use the Series D capital to expand its teams in the areas of sales, marketing, product, and engineering.

– Reify Health announced a $220m Series C funding round led by Coatue Management, joined by ICONIQ Growth and Adams Street Partners, as well as existing investors Sierra Ventures and Battery Ventures.
– This latest funding, which brings the company’s valuation to $2.2bn, underscores Reify Health’s success in dramatically shortening clinical trial timelines.
– Reify Health has built a new foundation for how clinical trials are run through its business entities, StudyTeam and Care Access.
– StudyTeam delivers the best-in-class technology platform for optimizing patient recruitment and enrollment, and is used by top-20 global biopharma companies such as Amgen, AstraZeneca, and Eli Lilly and Company, and approximately 4,000 research sites across 65 countries.

– Neuron7.ai, a new cloud-software company focused on the new category of service intelligence, has emerged from stealth mode and announced a seed investment of $4.2m from Nexus Venture Partners and Battery Ventures.
– The company, led by repeat entrepreneurs Niken Patel and Vinay Saini, is helping drive the transformation of customer service into a cloud-based AI-powered workflow, particularly for companies managing complex products in technology, manufacturing, and healthcare, where service organizations are required to support hundreds of product models, versions, errors, and issues.
– When critical errors appear in essential devices and machines, customers want their service issue resolved immediately, preferably on the first call, by one service representative.
– Neuron7.ai solves this problem by leveraging the greatest sources of intelligence within an enterprise: its data and people.

– Dataiku announced $400m Series E investment led by Tiger Global, with participation from several existing investors, including ICONIQ Growth, CapitalG, FirstMark Capital, Battery Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, and Dawn Capital, as well as new investors including Insight Partners, Eurazeo, Lightrock, and Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel.
– This capital, which brings the company’s valuation to $4.6b, will power Dataiku’s mission to systemize the use of data for exceptional business results.
– Dataiku enables over 450 companies globally to leverage one end-to-end platform to design, deploy, and manage AI and analytics applications.

– Pendo from Raleigh, NC, provides a solution for companies to bridge the gap between how users expect software to work and their experience actually using it.
– Series F $150m round led by B Capital Group with participation from Silver Lake Waterman and existing investors Battery Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Sapphire Ventures, General Atlantic, Tiger Global Management, FirstMark Capital, Geodesic Capital, IDEA Fund Partners and Contour Venture Partners.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate global expansion, strategic acquisitions and continued innovation in the platform.

– Soldo from London is a pay and spend automation platform provider.
– The company closed a $180m Series C funding.
– The round was led by Temasek with participation from new investors Sunley House Capital, Advent International’s crossover fund, Citi Ventures and existing backers Accel, Battery Ventures, Dawn Capital, as well as Silicon Valley Bank for debt financing.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate the company’s international expansion and product development.

– Battery Ventures led a $6m Series A investment in Repeat, a headless ecommerce platform for consumer packaged goods brands.
– The round was joined by existing investors, including Harlem Capital and Mucker Capital.
– Repeat is helping brands to better serve their existing customers by making reordering everyday items easier.
– Repeat is used by brands like by Humankind, Jot, and Vegamour.
– Repeat’s headless technology allows brands to separate the front end of their ecommerce store (like their website design and presentation) from their back-end (like Shopify) to deliver faster, more flexible shopping experiences.
– Repeat’s email integration with Klaviyo, as well as automated SMS notifications and QR code support, allow brands to send returning customers to their Repeat carts instead of a brand’s category page or PDP.

– 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.

– Zenoti from Bellevue develops a software platform for salon and spa businesses.
– Series D funding round was led by TPG with participation of previous investors – Battery Ventures, First Round Capital, and Madrona Venture Group.
– The new investment increases company valuation to almost $1.5b.
– The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand its platform through forthcoming M&A, while providing some liquidity to its employees.

– Obie, an insurtech platform for landlords, raised $10.7m in a Series A funding round led by Battery Ventures.
– Thomvest Ventures, Funders Club, MetaProp and Second Century Ventures also participated in the financing.
– The company offers instant quotes (by instant, they mean in about three to five minutes).
– The company claims to save policyholders up to 25-30% compared to other insurance premiums.

– 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.

– Styra, Inc., the founder of Open Policy Agent (OPA) and leader in cloud-native authorization, has raised a $40m Series B funding round to continue driving the reinvention of policy and authorization for cloud-native applications.
– The round was led by Battery Ventures with participation from previous investors A. Capital, Unusual Ventures, and Accel, as well as new investors at Capital One Ventures and Citi Ventures.
– With this funding, Dharmesh Thakker, General Partner at Battery Ventures, will be joining the Styra board.
– The round further solidifies its market leadership and provides capital to accelerate its founders’ vision—to create the standard for authorization—which started with OPA.

– Code Ocean is a computational research environment for sharing scientific discoveries.
– The company raised a $15M Series A round.
– The round was led by Battery Ventures, with participation from Digitalis Ventures, EBSCO, Vaal Partners and other institutional and individual investors.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate the company’s development of its environment and hire for all positions in engineering, marketing and sales.

– Taster has raised a $37m Series B funding round.
– The round was led by Octopus Venture, Battery Ventures, Latitude (LocalGlobe), HeartCore, Rakuten, GFC and Founders Future.
– The company operates dozens of restaurants that only exist on food delivery platforms.
– You can’t book a table — there is no table.
– Taster has been focusing on five street food-inspired concepts so far — Bian Dang (Taiwanese food), A Burgers (plant-based burgers), Mission Saigon (Vietnamese food), Out Fry (Korean food) and Stacksando (Japanese street food).
– After that, Taster has opened dozens of kitchens across 40 different cities and listed its kitchens on food delivery platforms such as Deliveroo and Uber Eats.

– Next Insurance, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based digital insurtech company transforming small business insurance, raised $250m in funding.
– The round was led by FinTLV Ventures and Battery Ventures with participation from CapitalG, Group 11, Zeev Ventures, Founders Circle and G Squared.
– FinTLV Ventures founder and managing partner Gil Arazi and Battery Ventures general partner Michael Brown will join as board observers.
– The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach.

– ServiceTitan from Phoenix has raised a $500M Series F growth financing.
– The round was led by Tiger Global Management and Sequoia Capital Global Equities with significant participation from existing investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, ICONIQ Capital, Battery Ventures, Index Ventures, Durable Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, and funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates.
– ServiceTitan serves more than 7,500 contracting businesses that collectively employ more than 100,000 technicians and perform more than $20 billion worth of annual transactions across various home and commercial service verticals, including plumbing, air conditioning, electrical, and more.

– Teamflow, the virtual office leader, announced it has secured an $11m Series A investment round, led by Battery Ventures.
– The Series A comes just two months after the company announced its $3.9m seed round, led by Menlo Ventures, bringing total financing to $14.9m.
– Proceeds from the Series A round will be used to grow its engineering team and cement Teamflow’s early leadership in the nascent virtual office space.

– LinearB is a software delivery intelligence company based in Los Angeles and Tel Aviv.
– The company raised $16M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Battery Ventures with participation from TechAviv Founder Partners and seed investors.
– The new investment will be used to expand operations and business reach.

– Privacera is a Fremont, Calif.-based cloud data governance and security company.
– The company raised $50m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by new investor Insight Partners with participation from Sapphire Ventures, Battery Ventures, and existing investors Accel, Cervin, and Point 72.
– The company intends to use the funds to fast-track its go-to-market strategy and further extend its investment in its unified system for data governance and privacy across multiple cloud services such as Databricks and Snowflake.

– Xsight Labs announced the closing of its Series D funding.
– The round was led by Valor Equity Partners and Atreides Management and was joined by new investor Fidelity Management & Research Company.
– Existing investors Battery Ventures, Intel Capital, M12 Microsoft’s Venture Fund and Xilinx, increased their investments.
– Additionally, Accton Technology joined as a new strategic investor.
– Xsight Labs’ Series D was significantly oversubscribed and is the largest round ever raised by our group.
– Xsight Labs emerged from stealth in December 2020 and announced the sampling availability of X1, the industry’s first 25.6T data center switch with 100G PAM4 SerDes.

– EquityBee, a startup employees’ stock options funding solution, announces its Series A financing round, raising $20M to accelerate growth.
– The round is led by Group 11 with participation from Oren Zeev Ventures, Battery Ventures, and ICON Continuity Fund.
– The round brings EquityBee’s total funding to more than $28M.

– Redox, the company making healthcare data useful, today announced it has raised $45m in Series D funding.
– The round was led by global private equity firm Adams Street Partners, with participation from Avenir and existing investors Battery Ventures, .406 Ventures, and RRE Ventures.
– This funding was preceded by a consistent pattern of acceleration. With integrations booming by 300% and the company surpassing 1,000 live connections on the Redox network in October 2020, Redox continues on an exponential trajectory.

– Modern Health, a mental health platform, has raised $74m in a Series D funding round.
– The investment was led by Founders Fund.
– Its existing investors include Battery Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Felicis Ventures.
– The company, which says it has raised $172m to date, was valued at $750m after a financing round last year, according to PitchBook.

– Nobl9 is a Boston, MA-based software reliability platform company.
– The company secured $21m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Battery Ventures and CRV with participation from Bonfire Ventures and Resolute Ventures and new investors Harmony Partners and Sorenson Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to fund programs focused on customer deployment success, software engineering team expansion and marketing programs.