– San Francisco startup Loyal raised $27m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Khosla Ventures and included First Round Capital, Box Group, Collaborative Fund, The Longevity Fund and Lachy Groom.
– The company is building an animal pharmaceutical company that is developing therapeutics aimed at extending both lifespan and healthspan for dogs.

– Rose Technology from NYC develops a platform for companies to collect, analyze, and generate revenue from data.
– Series A $5.5m round was led by Portage Ventures with participation from BoxGroup and Sound Ventures.
– The company will use the funds to expand operations and business reach.

– Ascend, a payments platform for insurance companies, raised $5.5m in seed funding.
– The round was led by First Round Capital and joined by Susa Ventures, FirstMark Capital, Box Group and a group of angel investors.
– The company is live in 20 states.
– It offers point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments.

– Arcadia, the climate-crisis-fighting technology company unlocking nationwide access to energy data and renewables, announced a $100m Series D funding round led by Tiger Global Management and the Drawdown Fund with participation from new investors Wellington Management, Reimagined Ventures (the family office of Alec Litowitz, founder of Magnetar Capital), Camber Creek, MCJ Collective, and existing investors Energy Impact Partners, G2 Venture Partners, Inclusive Capital, and BoxGroup.
– Combined with the Company’s previously undisclosed $21m Series C-1 in December 2020, Arcadia has now raised $180m in total funding.
– The new round of capital will be used to accelerate Arcadia’s technology roadmap, expanding product capabilities across new verticals including electric vehicles and distributed energy resources to catalyze innovation in the sector, making renewables accessible and affordable for all.

– Alma, a membership-based network for mental health care providers to build and scale their practices, has announced $50m in Series C funding.
– The round is led by global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners with participation from Optum Ventures, Tusk Venture Partners, Primary Venture Partners, Sound Ventures, BoxGroup and Rainfall Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to fuel Alma’s national expansion and support therapists across the country to offer affordable, in-network care.

– TrustLayer, a collaborative risk management platform, announced it has closed a Series A funding round of $15.1m.
– Craft Ventures led the round with participation from Abstract Ventures, Box Group, Propel Venture Partners, NFP Ventures, Sure Ventures, and PruVen Capital.
– TrustLayer is the preferred solution to replace the insurance industry’s antiquated, paper-based methods for verifying coverage, introducing significant risk to supplier-driven sectors such as construction, banking, property management, and sports entertainment.

– CommandBar, a software company, raised $4.8m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Thrive Capital and joined by Y Combinator, BoxGroup and a group of angel investors including, AngelList’s Naval Ravikant, Worklife Ventures’ Brianne Kimmel, StitchFix president Mike Smith and others.
– The company is building an embeddable search widget to make software easier to use.

– Bubble is an NYC-based open-ended visual programming platform that lets people build and launch web applications without code.
– Series A $100m round was led by Insight Partners with participation from existing investors SignalFire, Neo, BoxGroup, and Third Kind and notable angel investors including the founders of Datadog, Peloton, and Hootsuite.
– The new investment will be used to improve the platform’s scalability to support newly-formed and scaling startups from MVP to IPO and expand educational initiatives to empower customers to build web platforms affordably.

– 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.

– 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.

– Evvy is a New York, NY-based female-founded startup that aims to build a new understanding of the female body.
– The company launched with $5m in seed funding.
– Backers include General Catalyst, Box Group, Virtue, Human Ventures, G9 Ventures, BBG Ventures, and others.
– Evvy plans to use the funds to continue to expand operations, its development efforts and business reach.

– Coast, a company that is aiming to meet the needs of the vast and vital fleets segment, raised $6m in funding.
– The round was led by Better Tomorrow Ventures and joined by Avid Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, BoxGroup, Colle, Foundation Capital, Greycroft, Max Levchin’s SciFi VC, and more than a dozen angels including founders of Plaid, Flexport, Marqeta, Bread, Albert, Addi, Lithic, and other fintech and logistics startups.
– Coast’s goal is to use technology to provide fleet business owners and their employees payments products that are intuitive and easy to use.

– Orum, a company that aims to speed up the amount of time it takes to transfer money between banks, announced it has raised $56 million in a Series B round of funding.
– Accel and Canapi Ventures co-led the round, which also included participation from existing backers Bain Capital Ventures, Inspired Capital, Homebrew, Acrew, Primary, Clocktower and Box Group.
– The financing comes barely three months after Orum announced a $21 Series A, and brings its total raised to over $82 million.

– Novo announced that it has raised $40.7M in Series A funding.
– Valar Ventures led the round, with participation from Crosslink Capital, Rainfall Ventures, Red Sea Ventures, and BoxGroup.
– Since launching in 2018, more than 100,000 small businesses have opened a Novo account. In 2021, Novo surpassed $1 billion in lifetime transactions, announced a number of new features, opened a new office in Miami, and grew its leadership team. The company was also named both CNBC’s Best Business Checking Accounts of March 2021 and Money Magazine’s Best Business Checking Accounts of 2021.
– Novo will use its Series A funding to continue building out a best-in-class platform for small business banking, with a focus on helping business owners simplify their finances and optimize their cash flow.

– Medallion has raised a $20M Series A with Spark Capital and Optum Ventures.
– Other participating investors in the round include BoxGroup, Susa Ventures, Tom Lee, Joe Montana, Elad Gil, Zach Sims, Daniel Gross, Peter Reinhardt, Nat Friedman, Vivek Ramaswamy; and the founders of Ro, PillPack, Carbon Health, Nurx.

– Vancouver-based Dooly, a platform that helps salespeople manage data in their CRM, has raised $80m in Series B funding.
– Spark Capital led the round and was joined by Greenspring, Tiger Global, Lachy Groom, boldstart ventures, BoxGroup and Addition.
– The company has raised $20m in Series A and seed funding previously.
– Dooly automates the busywork that goes into updating data in sales software, specifically apps like Salesforce.

– Weav, a fintech startup, raised $4.3m in funding.
– The round was led by Foundation Capital and joined by Y Combinator, Abstract Ventures, Box Group, LocalGlobe, Operator Partners, Commerce Ventures and SV Angel.
– A slew of founders and executives also put money in the round, including Brex founders Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi; Ramp founder Karim Atiyeh; Digits founders Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang; Hatch founder Thomson Nguyen; GoCardless founder Matt Robinson and COO Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas; Vouch founder Sam Hodges; Plaid’s Charley Ma as well as executives from fintechs such as Square, Modern Treasury and Pagaya.
– Weav is building a universal API for commerce platforms.

– 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.

– MIT spinoff Pickle raised $5.57m in funding.
– The round was led by Hyperplane and featured Third Kind Venture Capital, Box Group and Version One Ventures, among others.
– The company’s making some pretty big claims around the efficacy of its first robot named, get this, “Dill”.

– Hex, a new startup, wants to change that by providing a way to dispense data across the company in a streamlined and elegant way.
– The company announced a $5.5m seed investment.
– The round was led by Amplify Partners with help from Box Group, XYZ, Data Community Fund, Operator Collective and a variety of individual investors.
– The company closed the round last July, but is announcing it for the first time today.

– Ro Raises $500 Million in Series D Funding to Expand its Vertically Integrated Primary Care Platform
– Ro is the healthcare technology company
– The company has completed a $500 million Series D fundraising round led by existing investors General Catalyst, FirstMark Capital and TQ Ventures, with significant participation from existing investors SignalFire, Torch Capital and BoxGroup as well as new investors Altimeter Capital, Baupost Group, Dragoneer Investment Group, ShawSpring Partners, Radcliff, and 776.
– The Series D brings Ro’s total fundraising since its founding in 2017 to $876 million.
– Ro will use the newly-raised capital to strengthen its vertically integrated primary care platform.

– ID.me, a leading digital identity network that allows consumers to prove who they are online while controlling how their information is shared with brands, has raised $100m in a Series C funding round led by Viking Global Investors.
– Counterpoint Global (Morgan Stanley), PSP Growth, Lead Edge Capital, CapitalG, WndrCo, Willoughby Capital, BoxGroup and Moonshots Capital joined the round.
– Prominent investors include Marcelo Claure, Alexa Von Tobel and Dan Rosensweig.

– Alt, a P2P marketplace for sports cards, raised $31m in a seed and a Series A funding round.
– The Series A round was led by Seven Seven Six, along with other investors including Kevin Durant’s Thirty Five Ventures, First Round Capital, SV Angel, Addition Ventures, Chapter One, BoxGroup, Nat Friedman, John Collison, Patrick Collison, Darren Rovell, Sue Wagner, JD Ross, Fred Ehrsam, Eric Wu, Larry Fitzgerald, Laura Behrens Wu, Tobias Harris and others.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and business reach.

– Los Angeles, CA-based Haystack launched with $8.2M in funding.
– The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach.
– Backers included Coatue Management, Greycroft, BoxGroup, and Day One Ventures.

– TrustLayer, a collaborative risk management platform, has completed a $6.6m seed round of financing.
– Abstract Ventures led the round with participation from Propel Venture Partners, NFP Ventures, BoxGroup, and Precursor Ventures.
– BrokerTech Ventures (BTV), a group made up of 13 of the most innovative insurance agencies in the U.S. and 11 top-tier insurance companies, is also participating in the seed round.

– Maple, a family tech platform, raised $3.5m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Inspired Capital and joined by Box Group, but also supported by Shopify President Harley Finkelstein and other angels.
– The platform is launching on iPhone and Android for all and onboarding new users from its waitlist over the next few weeks.
– Maple offers a social layer, a task-focused list of shared responsibilities, and a bourgeoning service marketplace that looks and feels a lot like the ecosystem Shopify has built for empowering e-commerce entrepreneurs.
– The platform will offer users the ability to tap others for help with tasks – these could be other family members added to the household, or the partners mentioned above (the plan is to bring on more, but to gate admittance initially while developing API endpoints that any company can potentially tap into).

– Titan, a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at millennials, has closed on $12.5 million in a Series A round led by VC heavyweight General Catalyst.
– A bevy of other investors put money in the round, including Sound Ventures (actor Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary’s VC firm), Scribble VC, BoxGroup, Y Combinator, South Park Commons, Instagram founder Mike Krieger, Lee Fixel and others.
– Titan is hoping to build on the momentum it saw in 2020, during which it grew revenue, customers and assets under management by 600%, “with effectively no marketing budget, according to co-founder Joe Percoco. The New York-based company says it’s approaching $500 million in assets under management and was cash flow positive last year.