– ClickHouse is a New York-based provider of an online analytical processing (OLAP) database management system.
– Company raised $50m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Index Ventures and Benchmark with participation from Yandex N.V.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate the company’s growth and expand operations.

– 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.

– ClickHouse announced their decision to officially incorporate as a company: ClickHouse, Inc along with nearly $50M in Series A funding led by Index Ventures and Benchmark with participation by Yandex N.V. and others.
– The creator of ClickHouse, Alexey Milovidov (CTO), will be joined by co-founders and seasoned enterprise software executives, Yury Izrailevsky (President, Product and Technology) and Aaron Katz (CEO).
– ClickHouse technology was first developed over 10 years ago at Yandex, Europe’s leading internet service corporation.
– It was initially created to power Yandex.Metrica, the second-largest web analytics platform in the world.
– ClickHouse increased that speed to hundreds of millions of rows per second.

– Solv is a San Francisco CA-based network of same-day and next-day healthcare providers.
– The company raised $45M in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Acrew Capital and Corner Ventures with participation from Greylock Partners and Benchmark Capital.
– The new funding will be used to expand the company’s national network of healthcare providers, consumer driven healthcare offerings like same-day in person appointments and virtual care, and increased cost transparency for patients.

– Instawork is a digital marketplace connecting local businesses with qualified professionals across the U.S.
– The company raised $60m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Craft Ventures with participation from Greylock, Corner Ventures, Four River Group, WndrCo, and Tilman Fertitta, owner of Landry’s and the Houston Rockets, alongside existing investors Benchmark, Spark Capital, GV, Burst Capital, and SV Angel.
– The new investment will be used to continue expanding into new markets, job categories, and industries.

– Popshop Live announced it raised a Series A funding led by Benchmark and valued at $100m.
– The company also announced the appointment of two tech industry veterans.
– The funding, along with Kaba and Droeges’ expertise, will accelerate Popshop Live’s product and regional expansion efforts as the company continues to grow its livestreaming shopping experience, bringing authentic connection and community back to e-commerce.
– Benchmark’s Matt Cohler will also join the board.
– The platform is growing exponentially and has increased sellers by more than 500% over the last three months as it expands to new verticals including vintage fashion, furniture, collectibles and food products from sellers including 3D Retro, JapanLA, Earthing.VIP, Kettle & Fire and Mall of America.

– Chainalysis from NYC provides a blockchain data platform that helps government agencies, financial institutions, and exchanges to detect fraud and prevent money laundering.
– The company raised $100m in Series E funding.
– The round was led by Coatue with participation from Benchmark, Accel, Addition, Dragoneer, Durable Capital Partners, 9Yards Capital, Altimeter, Blackstone, GIC, Pictet, Sequoia Heritage and SVB Capital.
– The new investment will be used to hire for hundreds of new positions across all functions to continue its global expansion, as well as develop collaboration tools in its suite of software solutions so that public and private sector teams can work together from the same data set.

– Robocorp, the open-source process automation platform, has closed a $21m Series A investment round led by Canvas Ventures with participation from Benchmark, Uncorrelated Ventures, Slow Ventures, Firstminute Capital, Harpoon Ventures, Artisanal Ventures, Haystack Ventures and a host of angels in the intelligent automation and open source space.
– Additionally, Robocorp is releasing Robocorp Control Room, a self-managed automation orchestration platform for solutions integrators, robots-as-service providers, and enterprises that want to power automations at scale with governance and control.
– Businesses are looking to automate manual tasks and tedious processes for business functions that include HR, IT, finance, data management, customer communications, and IT operations. In fact, 50% of CIOs will be accelerating robotization and automation by 2024 according to IDC.

– Commerce Layer, which provides a set of APIs for businesses to build e-commerce apps with their own, customized front ends, has raised $16m.
– The funding was led by Coatue Management and joined by Benchmark and Mango Capital.
– The company plans to bring in a lot of new features.

– 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).

– AcuityMD, a platform for commercializing and improving medical devices with data, announced the close of a $7m financing round led by Benchmark with participation from Ajax Health.
– The company will use the funding to accelerate hiring with a goal to double the team by the end of the year, and continue to invest in product development.

– Benchling has raised $200m in Series E funding led by Sequoia Capital Global Equities and joined by Altimeter Capital, Byers Capital and Elad Gil.
– Existing investors participated, including Thrive Capital, Benchmark, Menlo Ventures, Alkeon Capital, ICONIQ, Lux Capital, Spark Capital and Lead Edge Capital.
– The company will use the funding to aggressively invest in product development and global expansion to support enterprise customers.
– Since launching in 2012, more than 300,000 scientists and 1,000 R&D organizations around the globe have adopted Benchling’s cloud platform to manage massively complex experimental datasets and optimize R&D processes.

– Manticore Games™, the developer and operator behind Core™, an endless arcade of high-quality, user-built games, announced it has raised $100 million in Series C financing.
– The funding was led by XN, with participation from other leading strategic and institutional investors such as SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and LVP, as well as returning investors Benchmark, Bitkraft’s new Opportunity Fund, Correlation Ventures and Epic Games.
– The company will use the investment to accelerate Core’s growth by bolstering its industry-leading Creator programs, and further developing the most advanced game creation and publishing tools of any major user-generated content (UGC) platform.

– Manticore Games, the San Mateo, Calif.-based developer and operator behind Core™, an endless arcade of high-quality, user-built games, raised $100m in Series C financing.
– The round was led by XN, with participation from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and LVP, as well as returning investors Benchmark, Bitkraft’s new Opportunity Fund, Correlation Ventures and Epic Games.
– The company will use the funds to accelerate growth by bolstering its Creator programs, and further developing game creation and publishing tools of any major user-generated content (UGC) platform.

– Docker, a cloud native container company, raised $23m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Tribe Capital with participation from existing investors Benchmark and Insight Partners.
– The company has now raised a total of $58m including the $35m investment it landed the same day it announced the deal with Mirantis.
– The company’s goal is to popularize the community project and turn a small percentage of those users into paying customers.

– Sorare is a blockchain collectible and fantasy football platform.
– The company raised €40m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Benchmark with participation from Accel and angels Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, Vaynermedia CEO Gary Vaynerchuk, football players Antoine Griezmann and Rio Ferdinand.
– The new investment will be used to Accelerate the growth of the community, Accelerate hiring and launch a mobile application.

– Sentry has raised $60m in a series D round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from existing investors Benchmark, Index Ventures, and Union Square Ventures.
– The company is now valued at $1bn.
– Application performance monitoring startup Sentry today announced it has secured $60 million in series D financing for a post-money valuation of $1 billion.
– Sentry says the funds will fuel product development and go-to-market functions, as well as hiring across the company’s San Francisco, Toronto, and Vienna offices.