– Gelato from Oslo, Norway provides a platform that enables ecommerce entrepreneurs to produce and ship creations on demand.
– The company raised $240m in funding.
– The round was led by Insight Partners, with participation form SoftBank Vision Fund 2, as well as funds managed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and existing investors Dawn Capital, John Hepburn, chairman of Gelato, SEB Pension Fund, and Tellef Thorleifsson (CEO of Norfund).
– The new investment will be used to accelerate the company’s market penetration and growth in the US and Asia, and its expansion of new local production hubs and products, including 3D printing.

– 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.

– 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.

– Quantexa, a London-based AI startup, raised $153m in Series D funding.
– The round was led by Warburg Pincus and joined by existing investors Dawn Capital, AlbionVC, Evolution Equity Partners (a specialist cybersecurity VC), HSBC, ABN AMRO Ventures and British Patient Capital.
– The company was valued between $800m and $900m.
– Quantexa got its start out of a gap in the market that Marria identified when he was working as a director at Ernst & Young tasked with helping its clients with money laundering and other fraudulent activity.
– It has now raised over $240m to date.

– Ably from London, UK provides a platform that powers synchronized digital experiences in realtime for distributed applications, devices, and hybrid cloud environments.
– The company closed a $70m Series B funding.
– The round was co-led by Insight Partners and Dawn Capital with participation from existing investors Triple Point, Digital Horizon, Forward Partners, and MMC.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate growth, adding a further 125 hires to strengthen its core UK team and growing its US presence over the next 15 months.

– Divido has raised a $30m Series B funding round to fuel international expansion, while continuing to build out its market-leading platform for lenders and merchants.
– The round was led by global banks HSBC and ING, with participation from Sony Innovation Fund by IGV*, SBI Investment, OCS, Global Brain and DG Daiwa Ventures along with existing investors DN Capital, Dawn Capital, IQ Capital and Amex Ventures.
– Divido’s whitelabel platform connects lenders, merchants and partners at the point of sale, transforming retail finance with proven technology and industry expertise to create a flexible way to control and configure payments.

– Vulcan Cyber, a startup developing tools to help enterprise customers detect and fix software vulnerabilities, today announced that it raised $21m in a series B round led by Dawn Capital.
– The funds will be used to support the rollout of new exploit remediation solutions for cloud and app security teams and to deliver Vulcan Free, a no-cost, risk-based vulnerability management platform for cyber risk prioritization.
– More than a third of web app vulnerabilities are considered high risk, according to a report from Edgescan, and organizations with 101 to 1,000 employees see the most high-risk and critical-risk vulnerabilities.
– These can be expensive if left unaddressed. In recent years, the average cost of a security breach has generally hovered between $3.5m and $4m.

– Granulate is a real-time computing workload optimization company.
– The company raised $30m in Series B funding.
– Red Dot Capital Partners led the round with the participation of existing investors Insight Partners, TLV Partners, and Hetz Ventures.
– Dawn Capital also joined the round as a new investor.