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Citcon Closes $30M Series C Funding
- Citcon received $30m in Series C financing led by Norwest Venture Partners and Cota Capital. - The new funding will support the rapid addition of world-class staff and global expansion that builds on the company’s international presence on four continents. - The company’s annualized payment volume is more than $1 billion, representing 300%+ year-on-year growth. - Citcon’s global enterprise payments gateway allows merchants to participate in global commerce by enabling secure online or in-store transactions with more than 100 different payment methods, including mobile wallets, local payment schemes, and traditional credit cards -- all through one single integration and reconciliation platform.
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Known Medicine Raises $7.2M in Seed Funding
– Known Medicine is a Salt Lake City, Utah-based 3D cell culture data set company.
– The company raised $7.2M in seed funding.
– The round was led by Caffeinated Capital, with participation from Khosla Ventures, Cota Capital, Kickstart, Forward VC, OATV, Y Combinator, Chris Gibson and Nish Bhat.
– The new investment will be used to grow the company’s proprietary 3D cell culture data set for deployment in partnership with biopharmaceutical companies and in the clinical diagnostics space.
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Webiny nabs $3.5M seed to build serverless development framework on top of serverless CMS
– Webiny announced a $3.5 million seed round to continue developing both pieces.
– Webiny, an early-stage startup that launched in 2019 with an open-source, serverless CMS, had also developed a framework to help build the CMS, and found that customers were also interested in that to help build their own serverless apps.
– Microsoft’s venture fund M12 led the round, with participation from Samsung Next, Episode 1, Cota Capital and other unnamed investors.
– Webiny founder Sven Al Hamad says that when the company launched, he had an inkling that serverless would be the future and started by building an open-source serverless CMS, but then something interesting happened.
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Esper Raises $8M in Series A Funding
– Esper is a govtech startup from Austin, TX.
– Company raised $8M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Cota Capital with participation from 8VC, Gaingels, and Stand Together Ventures Lab.
– The investment will be aimed at expanding the company’s operations and business reach across the U.S. state and federal market.
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Personal Finance App Company Truebill Raises $45 Million
– Truebill is a personal finance app.
– The company raised $45m in Series D funding.
– Accel led the round and joined by Bessemer Venture Partners, Cota Capital, and Eldridge Industries.
– The company plans to expand its platform of financial management tools to give users more visibility and control of their money than before.
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Fortify Raises $20M in Series B Funding
– Fortify is a Boston, MA-based additive manufacturing startup.
– The company closed $20M equity funding round.
– The round was led by Cota Capital with participation from Accel Partners, Neotribe Ventures, and Prelude Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate team growth, expansion in application spaces, and transition to volume manufacturing of the Flux Series 3D printers.
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Miroculus Closes Extension to $45M Series B Financing
– Miroculus, Inc. announced the completion of a Series B extension, bringing the total capital raised in the series to $45M.
– The round included the addition of two venture capital firms, Cota Capital, who led the round, and Section 32.
– Miroculus is a developer of revolutionary tools for personal lab automation.
– The company’s first system, Miro Canvas, will be launched this fall.