– Sendoso, a gifting platform, raised $100m funding.
– The round was led by SoftBank via its Vision Fund 2.
– Previous investors Oak HC/FT, Struck Capital, Stage 2 Capital, Craft Ventures, Signia Venture Partners and Felicis Ventures also participated.
– The company has more than 20,000 businesses signed up and using its services.

– Canva – a global visual communications platform based in Sidney, Australia – raised USD $200m in a funding round which valued the company at USD $40b.
– The round was led by T. Rowe Price with participation from new and existing strategic investors Franklin Templeton, Sequoia Capital Global Equities, Bessemer Venture Partners, Greenoaks Capital, Dragoneer Investments, Blackbird, Felicis, and AirTree Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth, including expanding its team of more than 2,000 employees, which it is expected to double in the year ahead.

– Origin, the comprehensive employee financial wellness platform, announced it has raised $56m in Series B funding led by Dick Costolo and Adam Bain’s 01A, General Catalyst and Lachy Groom, with participation from existing investors Founders Fund, Felicis Ventures and Abstract Ventures, bringing its valuation to $400m.
– This funding round will fuel Origin’s customer expansion and new product innovation, following a massive uptick in demand for financial planning benefits as the pandemic increased financial stress for employees.
– Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, 63% of employees reported their financial stress has increased, and more than 80% want advice or validation for their financial decisions.
– To build a happy, healthy, productive and loyal workforce, employers need to provide benefits that truly alleviate the biggest burden on their mental health — finances.

– Dovetail, a software company that enables teams to make better decisions through deep customer understanding, announced that it has raised $5m AUD to further scale the reach of its customer research platform.
– The round was led by Felicis Ventures, with participation from Blackbird Ventures, Grok Ventures and Didier Elzinga, CEO of Culture Amp.
– The company has created a collaborative, easily searchable repository for all of an organization’s customer research to fully inform and expedite product decisions; users can share data-backed insights across the broader business in real time.

– SentiLink announced a $70m Series B funding round led by David Sacks of Craft Ventures with participation from Felicis Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and NYCA.
– This brings SentiLink’s total funding raised to $85m.
– David Sacks and Victoria Treyger from Felicis will be joining SentiLink’s board as observers.
– SentiLink works with over 100 financial institutions, and has verified several hundred million applications to date.
– SentiLink takes a different approach than other companies in the space. Instead of spewing buzzwords like “Artificial Intelligence,” SentiLink focuses on deeply understanding fraud and identity, and then using technology to productionalize these insights.

– DoNotPay, a legal services app, received $10 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Lux Capital, Tribe Capital, Day One Ventures and Felicis Ventures.
– Other investors included billionaire FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, former Coinbase Chief Technology Officer Balaji Srinivasan and UiPath CEO Daniel Dines.
– Yuri Milner‘s investment firm, DST Global, participated as well.

– Xilis, Inc. announced the close of a $70m Series A financing.
– The round was led by Mubadala Capital and joined by new investors including GV, LSP, Catalio Capital Management, and Duke Angel Network.
– Current investors Felicis Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, Pear VC, KdT Ventures, and Alix Ventures also participated.
– Xilis is based on decades of biomedical, oncology, and stem cell research by its three co-founders.
– Dr. Clevers, a Breakthrough Prize winner, is the inventor and pioneer of the organoid technology.
– Dr. Shen and Dr. Hsu are accomplished engineering and medical professors at Duke University and experts in precision medicine.

– r2c, a startup building a SaaS service around the Semgrep open-source project, announced that it has closed a $27 million Series B.
– Felicis led the round, which the company said was a pre-emptive deal.
– Prior investors firms Redpoint and Sequoia also participated in the fundraising event; r2c last raised a $13 million Series A in October of 2020.
– The startup fits into several trends that TechCrunch has explored in recent quarters, including what appears to be a growing number of open-source (OSS) grounded startups raising capital, more rounds coming to exist thanks to investors looking to get the jump on inside rounds before they can form.

– Guideline, a leading provider of easy, affordable retirement plan solutions for small-and-medium-sized businesses (SMBs), announced it has raised $200M in new funding led by General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm.
– Existing investors Generation Investment Management, Greyhound Capital, Felicis Ventures, Propel Ventures and others also participated.
– Guideline plans to use the funds to further scale its offering of full-service 401(k) plans, as well as introduce new retirement plan solution products.
– Founded in 2015 by CEO, Kevin Busque, CPO, Jeremy Caballero, and CTO, Mike Nelson, Guideline’s mission is to help everyone arrive at a safe, secure retirement, whether they are a small business owner, an employee or are self-employed.

– Popmenu announced a $65m Series C funding round.
– The round was led by Tiger Global Management and includes participation from new investor Salesforce Ventures and existing investors Bedrock Capital, Base10, and Felicis Ventures.
– Popmenu plans to use the funding to accelerate development of its all-in-one solution, Popmenu Max, that builds on patented menu technology and includes A.I.-powered features to help restaurants around the world attract, engage, transact with, and re-market to guests more efficiently than ever before.

– Overture Life from Madrid develops automated IVF process to lower costs and increase throughput for IVF practitioners.
– Series B $15m round brings total funding to $37m.
– The round was led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from GV, as well as existing investors Khosla Ventures, Felicis Ventures, and Marc Benioff.
– The new investment will be used to increase operations in Europe and the US and begin commercialization of its first products.

– Octave, a San Francisco CA-based company which specializes in behavioral health, raised $20M in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Health Velocity Capital and joined by Cigna Ventures as well as existing investors Greycroft, Obvious Ventures, Company Ventures and Felicis Ventures.
– The company plans to use the funding for technology and clinical innovation and expansion of business operations.

– Opsera has raised $15m in a series A round led by Felicis Ventures.
– The company is building a self-service, no-code orchestration platform that lets engineers provision or integrate their CI/CD tools from a common framework.
– Opsera competes directly or indirectly with companies including Harness, a continuous integration and delivery platform for engineering and DevOps teams, and Tasktop, which recently nabbed $100m.
– Opsera claims to have a growing client roster that includes “several” Fortune 500 customers.

– n8n is a Berlin, Germany-based provider of a next-gen workflow automation tool.
– The company raised $12m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Felicis Ventures with participation from Sequoia Capital, firstminute Capital, and Harpoon Ventures and angels Kevin Hartz, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, Ilkka Paananen, Supercell CEO and Founder and early employees of Google and Zendesk among others.
– The new investment will be used to invest in its product, to build its team, hire across functions including engineering, developer relations, sales and marketing.

– Kandji, a startup that helps IT do just that, announced a hefty $60m Series B investment.
– Felicis Ventures led the round, with participation from SVB Capital, Greycroft, Okta Ventures and The Spruce House Partnership.
– Today’s round comes just seven months after a $21m Series A, bringing the total raised across three rounds to $88.5m.

– Cleo, the leading family benefits platform supporting working families in the planning stage through the teenage years, today announced a $40m Series C investment led by Transformation Capital, with participation from Glynn Capital, PruVen Capital and Gaingels and existing investors Greylock, NEA and Felicis.
– In conjunction with this round, Transformation Capital Managing Partner, Mike Dixon will join Cleo’s Board. This round brings Cleo’s total funding to $83m.
– Since its founding in 2016, Cleo has become the industry’s most complete and high-impact family benefits platform. Its products and services help a diverse set of more than 100 leading employers attract, retain, and drive better health outcomes for working parents in over 55 countries.

– DataGrail is a San Francisco, Calif.-based modern privacy platform designed to help brands to build customer trust and transparency.
– The company raised $30m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Felicis Ventures with participation from Next47, Basis Set Ventures, Operator Collective, and previous investors.
– DataGrail intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach.

– Stream, the creator of enterprise-grade activity feed and chat APIs, today announces the close of its $38m Series B funding round, led by Felicis Ventures’ Aydin Senkut with participation from Series A lead investor GGV Capital and 01 Advisors.
– The Series B follows just six months after the company’s $15m Series A round in August 2018, bringing total financing to $53m.
– The accelerated financing rounds signal market uptake of Stream’s innovative technology as chat becomes the dominant medium for day-to-day communications.
– Stream provides APIs which enable product teams to build chat and activity feeds for their applications at scale in a fraction of the time and cost of developing in-house.

– January AI has raised $8.8M in new funding from visionary institutional and individual investors, bringing its total capital raised to $21M.
– Felicis Ventures, a venture fund with a history of investing in notable consumer health and wellness disruptors, including Fitbit and Modern Health, participated in the round along with HAND Capital and Marc Benioff.
– They join existing seed investors AME Cloud Ventures and SignalFire, along with YouTube Co-Founder Steve Chen, Sunshine Co-Founder Marissa Mayer, Grail Co-Founder and former Illumina CTO Mostafa Ronaghi, Home Care Assistance Chairman Lily Sarafan, and Oracle veteran Gary Kennedy.

– 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.

– Literati is a subscription book club company.
– The company raised $40m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Aydin Senkut of Felicis with additional funding from Dick Costolo and Adam Bain of 01 Advisors, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Shasta Ventures, Silverton Partners, and Springdale Ventures.
– Stephen Curry also joined in the round.