– Superplastic, a company from the creator of Ello and Kidrobot, raised $20m funding.
– The round was led by Google Ventures, Index Ventures, Founders Fund, Craft Ventures, Day One Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Kakao, LINE Friends and individual investors like Cyan Banister, Jared Leto, Justin Timberlake and Scooter Braun.
– The company owns an animated collab house of “synthetic superstars” — characters who live on social media and pop up everywhere else through partnerships with celebrities, iconic fashion brands and gaming platforms.

– Resistant AI, which uses artificial intelligence to help financial services companies combat fraud and financial crime, has raised $16.6m in Series A funding.
– GV led the round, with participation from existing investors Index Ventures, Credo Ventures and Seedcamp, plus several unnamed angel investors specializing in financial technology and security.
– The funding will be used to meet rising demand from global financial institutions, including by building out its product, engineering and sales operations teams beyond its existing footprint — which also includes offices in London and New York.
– The startup says it has 30 customers signed up at this stage to use its dedicated anti-fraud security products — which include machine learning detection of fraudulent documents and AI for spotting problematic patterns of transactions.

– Agtonomy is a San Francisco, CA-based hybrid autonomy and tele-assist service platform.
– The company received $4m in seed funding from Grit Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and Village Global.
– The investment will be used to expand operations and business reach.

– Dapper Labs, Inc. is a Vancouver, BC-based company behind NBA Top Shot and the Flow blockchain.
– The company raised $250M in funding.
– The round was led by Coatue, with participation from existing investors a16z, GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Version One Ventures and new investors including BOND and GIC.
– The new investment will be used to scale and support major additional brand-driven sports, entertainment and music based products coming online and being developed on the Flow blockchain.

– Altana AI is helping enterprises, governments, and logistics providers navigate these changes by connecting them to a shared source of truth on the global supply chain.
– Altana AI has secured $15m in Series A funding, led by GV (formerly Google Ventures).
– Floating Point, Ridgeline Partners, and existing investors Amadeus Capital Partners and Schematic Ventures joined the round.

– StrongDM has raised $54m in a series B round led by Tiger Global, with participation from GV, Sequoia Capital, True Ventures, HearstLab, Bloomberg Beta, and Godfrey Sullivan.
– The proceeds will be put toward supporting “all parts” of StrongDM’s go-to-market strategy over the coming months.
– StrongDM’s solution is a tool that manages and audits access to servers, databases, datacenters, and more.
– The Burlingame, California-based company combines authentication, authorization, networking, and observability into one service, delivering infrastructure access controls across legacy and multicloud environments.
– StrongDM was founded by Zalman, Schuyler Brown, and Justin McCarthy in 2015.

– SingleStore, the single database for all data-intensive applications, announced that it has raised $80m in its Series F round.
– The round was led by Insight Partners with participation from new investor Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
– Existing investors Khosla Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, Rev IV, Glynn Capital, and Google Ventures also participated.
– SingleStore indicated that the 300%+ increase in new customer acquisition for its cloud service and 150%+ year-over-year growth in cloud revenue led to raising a new round to continue to power innovation and growth.
– The Series F round brings SingleStore’s total funding to $264m.

– Ultromics, an Oxford, UK-based company focused on advancing AI enabled cardiovascular imaging solutions, raised $33M in series B funding.
– The round was led by Blue Venture Fund with participation from Optum Ventures, GV and Oxford Sciences Innovation.
– The new investment will be aimed at accelerating the use of AI-enabled echocardiograms to improve patient care, and bring improved diagnostic quality and resource savings to hospitals.

– Data labeling platform Snorkel AI announced it has raised $85 million in a series C round co-led by Addition and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, with participation from Greylock, GV, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nepenthe Capital, and Walden.
– The round, which brings Snorkel’s total raised to $135 million and its valuation to $1 billion, will be used to continue scaling its engineering team, according to CEO Alex Ratner.

– Ahana, a San Mateo, California-based provider of cloud data lake services, announced that it raised $20 million in a series A round led by Third Point Ventures, with participation from GV, Leslie Ventures, and Lux Capital.
– Cofounder and CEO Steven Mih says that the capital will be used to scale Ahana’s products and grow its go-to-market teams to drive customer adoption in the expanding cloud analytics market.
– In 2020, startups developing traditional databases took in $2.3 billion in funding across 54 deals, up from $849 million in 2019, according to CB Insights.

– FullStory has raised $103m in a series D round of funding led by Permira, Kleiner Perkins, GV, Salesforce Ventures, and others.
– The startup says the the new capital, which brings its valuation to $1.8 billion and total funding to $170 million, will be used to expand FullStory’s business internationally and enhance its digital experience observability platform.
– Dead links, unsubmittable forms, failed scheduling tools, rejected vouchers and other flaws, bugs, and glitches can litter companies’ websites.
– FullStory looks to help companies build better experiences across web and mobile channels by providing analytics and insights to product, customer success, engineering, and marketing teams.

– Nym Health, the leading provider of explainable AI tech that automates medical coding, today announced $25m in new funding.
– The funding was led by Addition and brings the company’s total funding to $47.5m.
– Addition joins existing investors GV, Dynamic Loop Capital, Tiger Global, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Lightspeed, as well as angel investors Zach Weinberg and Nat Turner.

– TMRW Life Sciences, Inc., a NYC-based life sciences technology company providing an automated platform for tracking, monitoring, and storage of frozen eggs and embryos used in in vitro fertilization (IVF), completed a $105m Series C equity and debt financing.
– The equity round was led by Transformation Capital with participation from GV (formerly Google Ventures), Casdin Capital, Peter Thiel, Anne and Susan Wojcicki, and existing investors 5AM Ventures and Life Sciences Innovation Fund, among others.
– The company intends to use the funds to accelerate global expansion, advance product innovation, develop consumer awareness of the platform, and support future business development opportunities.

– Ribon Therapeutics announced the closing of a $65m financing.
– The financing was led by Deerfield Management and U.S. Venture Partners, with support from new investors Avego BioScience Capital, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Monashee Investment Management and Peregrine Ventures, along with existing investors AbbVie Ventures, Bristol Myers Squibb, Euclidean Capital, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Novartis Venture Fund, Osage University Partners, Takeda Ventures and The Column Group.
– Ribon will use the proceeds to support the clinical development of its novel precision medicine candidates.

– Prime Medicine is a Cambridge MA-based biotechnology company developing gene editing technology.
– The company raised $115M in Series A funding and $200M in Series B funding.
– The Series A round was led by ARCH Venture Partners with participation from F-Prime Capital, GV, and Newpath Partners.
– The Series B included all Series A investors, plus Casdin Capital with participation from Cormorant Asset Management, Moore Strategic Ventures, Public Sector Pension Investment Board, Redmile Group and Samsara BioCapital.

– 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.

– 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.

– Physna is a Columbus, OH-based geometric search company.
– Company raised $56m in Series D funding.
– The round was led by Tiger Global with participation from GV and Sequoia Capital.
– The new investment will be used to scale and develop its geometric deep-learning platform, as well as its free public geometric search engine, Thangs.

– Vercel, a platform to develop, preview and ship websites, from single static pages to apps with billions of dynamic pages, and creator of Next.js, the leading React and JavaScript framework for frontend web development, announced that it has secured $102M in Series C funding in a round led by Bedrock Capital with participation from existing investors Accel, CRV, Geodesic Capital, Greenoaks Capital and GV.
– New investors include 8VC, Flex Capital, GGV, Latacora, Salesforce Ventures and Tiger Global.
– The new funding, which brings the total raised to $163M, will be used to scale the Vercel team globally, accelerate research and development, drive platform innovation and accelerate adoption.

– Incorta announced $120m in Series D funding led by Prysm Capital, with participation from existing investors GV, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Sorenson Capital, Telstra Ventures and Ron Wohl, as well as a credit facility from Silicon Valley Bank.
– The latest round of funding will be used to expand go-to-market operations and meet global demand for Incorta’s unified data analytics platform.
– After hitting a major inflection point in 2020, Incorta is now scaling fast to meet global demand for modern data analytics in the cloud.
– This funding enables us to scale up while staying true to Incorta’s DNA and maintaining our best-in-class innovation, quality and customer obsession.

– Graph platform Neo4j announced that it raised $325m at an over $2bn valuation in a series F round led by Eurazeo, with additional investment from GV.
– The capital, which brings the company’s total raised to date to over $500m, will be put toward expanding Neo4j’s platform, workforce, and customer base, the company says.
– Markets and Markets anticipates the graph database market will reach $2.4bn by 2023 from $821.8m in 2018. And analysts at Gartner expect that enterprise graph processing and graph databases will grow 100% annually through 2022, facilitating decision-making in 30% of organizations by 2023.
– Graph databases and graph-oriented databases leverage graph structures for semantic queries, with nodes, edges, and properties that store and represent data.

– Sense, the market leader in AI-driven talent engagement and communication platform solutions for recruiting, announced $16m in Series C funding.
– Key investors in this round include Avataar Venture Partners with additional participation from previous investors including Accel and GV.
– The round will accelerate innovation and development of the company’s AI-powered talent communication and engagement suite.
– Sense offers a singular engagement platform powered by AI and machine learning. It enables personalized communication across the entire talent lifecycle at scale, and also automates manual tasks for recruiters.
– Through this personalized approach, Sense customers experience on average; a 263% increase in candidates screened compared to a manual approach, reduced time to fill by 30-81% and up to 800 hours of recruiter time saved.

– The Pill Club, a birth control prescription and delivery service, raised $41.9m in Series B extension funding.
– The round was led by Base 10 and joined by existing investors, including ACME, GV, Shasta Ventures and VMG, as well as new investors, including Uber’s Dara Khosrowshahi and Honey’s George Ruan and iGlobe.
– The extension round comes over two years after the company announced its initial Series B investment, a $51m financing.
– The company declined to provide its latest valuation, other than saying that the extension was an up-round.

– PostHog announced $15m in fresh funding and major new free features for users of data warehouses.
– The company’s Series B was led by existing investors Y Combinator’s Continuity Fund, with participation from GV (formerly Google Ventures), and takes PostHog’s total funding to over $27M.
– Ali Rowghani, Managing Partner at YC Continuity, and former COO at Twitter and CFO at Pixar, will join the PostHog board.
– PostHog’s mission is to increase the number of successful products in the world. Their open-source platform lets developers track product usage, understand the impact of new features on user behavior, and integrate product and user data with data warehouses – all without sending any data to a 3rd party.

– Merlin Labs is a Boston, MA-based developer of autonomous flight technology for fixed-wing aircraft.
– The company raised $25m in funding.
– Backers included GV (formerly Google Ventures) and First Round Capital.

– 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.

– Lightmatter is a leader in photonic computing.
– The company raised $80m in Series B funding.
– Viking Global Investors led the round with participation from GV (formerly Google Ventures), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Lockheed Martin, Matrix Partners, SIP Global Partners, Spark Capital, and several others.

– Bowery Farming, the largest vertical farming company in the United States, has secured $300m in additional funding.
РThe round was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC, with significant follow-on investment from existing investors GV (formerly Google Ventures), General Catalyst, GGV Capital, Temasek, Groupe Art̩mis (Pinault-owned), as well as new participation from Amplo and Gaingels, a fund representing the LGBTQ community and allies.

– Vertical farming startup Bowery Farming raised $300m funding.
– The round was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and joined by GV (formerly Google Ventures), General Catalyst, GGV Capital, Temasek and Groupe Artémis.
– Amplo and Gaingels participated, as well, along with some celebrity individual investors, including Lewis Hamilton, Chris Paul, Natalie Portman, José Andrés and Justin Timberlake.
– The funding comes as Bowery has experienced some impressive real-world growth, touting a 750% increase in availability since January of last year.

– oneNav announced that it has closed a $21m Series B funding round, led by GV, with participation from Norwest Venture Partners and GSR Ventures.
– The company also unveiled the world’s first pure L5 mobile GNSS receiver, which provides the highest location accuracy with half the footprint of existing solutions.
– Further validating the company’s unique mobile offering, oneNav has signed a strategic partnership agreement with In-Q-Tel Inc., providing U.S. intelligence and defense agencies with a first-of-a-kind GNSS technology solution.

– Adagio Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company developing best-in-class antibodies to broadly neutralize coronaviruses, today announced the completion of a $336m Series C financing led by RA Capital Management, with participation from new investors, including Redmile Group, Federated Hermes, Foresite Capital, ArrowMark Partners, PremjiInvest, and another leading healthcare investor.
– Existing investors Fidelity Management & Research Company, LLC, OrbiMed, Polaris Partners, Mithril, GV, Population Health Partners, Adimab and Omega Funds also participated in the financing.

– SambaNova Systems from Palo Alto develops a software, hardware and services to run AI applications.
– The company raised $676m in Series D funding.
– The round was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 with participation from new investors Temasek and GIC, plus existing backers including funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Intel Capital, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Walden International and WRVI.
– The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand its business reach and development efforts.

– Cameo has raised $100m in a Series C financing that values the company at over $1b.
– The financing was led by e.ventures, with participation from Origin Ventures, Softbank, Google Ventures, UTA Ventures, Amazon’s Alexa Fund, other institutional investors, and several celebrities, athletes, and entertainers including legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk.
– Previous investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Spark Capital, and The Chernin Group also participated.

– Leyden Labs B.V. from Amsterdam develops a platform that targets commonalities of viral families to protect humanity from known and future viruses.
– Series A €40M round was led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), with participation from F-Prime Capital, Casdin Capital, LLC and Brook Byers.
– The company intends to use the funds to further develop the platform and portfolio of product candidates and to build out the team.

– Insitro, a machine learning-driven drug discovery and development company, has raised $400m in a Series C financing.
– The financing was led by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), with significant participation from current investors Andreessen Horowitz, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Casdin Capital, and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock as well as ARCH Venture Partners, Foresite Capital, GV, Third Rock Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, HOF Capital and Alexandria Venture Investments.

– Genesis, a low-code and no-code tools provider, raised $45m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Accel and joined by new investors GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Salesforce Ventures, in addition to existing investors Citi, Illuminate Financial and Tribeca Venture Partners.
– The company plans to use the funding to bring the tools it has already built to a wider set of verticals that have some of the same needs to manage risk, compliance and other factors as finance — healthcare and manufacturing are two examples — as well as to continue building more into the stack.
– Genesis is not disclosing its valuation with this round.

– Snyk from Boston is a cloud native application security company.
– The company closed a Series E financing, totaling $300m.
– The round was led by Accel and Tiger Global, with participation from existing investors Addition, Boldstart Ventures, Canaan Partners, Coatue, GV (formally Google Ventures), Salesforce Ventures, Stripes and funds managed by BlackRock; new investors include Alkeon, Atlassian Ventures, Franklin Templeton, Geodesic Capital, Sands Capital Ventures and Temasek.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand its business reach.

– Doppler has raised $6.5m in a round of funding led by Alphabet’s venture capital arm GV.
– Alongside the funding, Doppler introduced a tool called Doppler Share, which is designed to enable teams to share one-off secrets such as lockbox codes or Wi-Fi passcodes through an expiring link.
– Doppler also debuted a handful of enterprise features as it prepares to target bigger businesses.
– Founded out of San Francisco in 2018, Doppler had previously raised $2.3m via a seed round of funding from notable investors, including Sequoia Capital, which also participated in this latest round, and Peter Thiel.

– FogPharma announced the completion of a $107m Series C financing round.
– The round was led by venBio Partners with participation from new investors Cormorant Asset Management, Farallon Capital Management, Invus, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.; HBM Healthcare Investments, Casdin Capital, and PagsGroup.
– Existing investors, including GV, 6 Dimensions Capital, Deerfield Management and Blue Pool Capital also participated in the oversubscribed round.
– FogPharma’s proprietary hyperstabilized α-helical peptides (Helicon™ peptides) are a new class of therapeutics that combine the targeting strength and specificity of antibodies with the broad tissue distribution, intracellular target engagement and oral dosing optionality of small molecules.

– Nanit has raised $25m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by GV, with participation from existing investors Jerusalem Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures, RRE Ventures and Rho Capital Partners.
– Nanit is the technology company behind the most advanced smart monitoring system that connects parents to their baby’s health and well-being.
– Nanit’s market success is driven by its ability to provide parents with immediate information and personalized data on their baby and toddler’s health and well-being right to their phone.
– The solution starts with Nanit’s AI-powered overhead nursery camera which uses advanced computer vision technology to see and hear everything happening in and around the crib combined with machine learning and data-backed sleep science to provide actionable insights that help parents learn about their child’s development.

– Evox Therapeutics from Oxford closed $95.4m Series C funding.
– The round was led by Redmile Group with participation from new investors OrbiMed and Invus and existing investors Oxford Sciences Innovation (OSI), GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Cowen Healthcare Investments.
– The company intends to use the funds to advance its exosome-based therapeutics pipeline, including progression of several rare disease assets into the clinic, and continued development of its DeliverEXTM exosome drug platform.