– Spotnana Technology emerged from stealth mode and announced $41 million in funding. The funding includes a $34 million Series A led by ICONIQ and Madrona Venture Group.
– Spotnana is the first technology company to build an open global innovation platform for travel.
– The company’s TMC service is now live with more than 50 early corporate travel customers, providing seamless global service for business travelers and empowering administrators to manage travel across dozens of global offices from one single online dashboard.
– The funding will be used to expand the services available on the Spotnana platform and to build sales, marketing, partner, customer success organizations.

– Fivetran, the leading provider of automated data integration, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire HVR, a leading provider of enterprise data replication technology.
– The acquisition will allow Fivetran to provide breakthrough database replication performance along with enterprise-grade security to address the massive market for modernizing analytics for operational data associated with ERP systems, Oracle databases, and more.
– Fivetran also announced it has raised a $565 million Series D round, consisting of new and existing investors. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led the round with participation from existing investors General Catalyst, CEAS Investments, Matrix Partners, and others, along with new investors ICONIQ Capital, D1 Capital Partners and YC Continuity. Fivetran has raised $730 million to date. The company is now valued at $5.6 billion.

– Ramp announced that it closed a $300m series C funding tranche led by Founders Fund, with participation from Redpoint Ventures, Thrive Capital, D1 Capital Partners, Spark Capital, Coatue Management, Iconiq, Altimeter, Stripe, Lux Capital, A* Partners, and Definition Capital.
– Ramp provides virtual and physical cards that offer 1.5% cashback on purchases. Its management tools allows companies to control spend with multi-level rules, vendor spending limits, merchant blacklists, and approvals, as well as spending insights that combine expense reporting, accounting, and more.

– People.ai, a revenue operations and intelligence platform, announced $100m in Series D funding at a $1.1b post-money valuation.
– The round was co-led by Mike Dinsdale of Akkadian Ventures and Abdulla AlBanna of Mubadala Capital, with participation from existing investors including ICONIQ Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
– People.ai’s patented AI technology, transforms business activity such as email, meetings, and contacts, into account and opportunity management solutions that increase sales rep productivity, accelerates revenue growth, and maximizes marketing ROI.

– Squire Technologies is a NYC-based barbershop management and POS system provider.
– Company raised $60m in Series D funding.
– The round was led by Tiger Global with participation from ICONIQ Capital, Charles River Ventures and Trinity Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to further scale the company’s sales and engineering teams.

– Unit21, a startup that helps businesses monitor fraudulent activities with its no-code software, announced it has raised $34 million in a Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global Management.
– The round values San Francisco-based Unit21 at $300 million and comes nine months after the startup raised a $13 million Series A that included investments from the founders of Plaid, Chime and Shape Security as well as former Venmo COO Michael Vaughan.
– ICONIQ Capital and existing backers Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI venture fund), A.Capital and South Park Commons participated in the latest funding event.

– Side is a San Francisco, CA-based real estate technology company that partners agents, teams, and independent brokerages to transform them into boutique brands and businesses.
– The company raised $50m in additional funding.
– The round was led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from Iconiq Capital and D1 Capital Partners.
– The new funding will be used to accelerate Side’s growth for its technology brokerage platform, while setting the stage for a future IPO.

– Guild Education, a lifelong learning platform, raised $150m in Series E funding.
– The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Cowboy Ventures, D1, Emerson Collective, General Catalyst, GSV, Harrison Metal, ICONIQ, Redpoint and Salesforce Ventures.
– The company plans to grow its coaching team, expand its learning marketplaces with more short-term certificate opportunities and double down on its outreach with historically Black colleges and universities.

– Aurora Solar, a solar power company, raised $250m funding.
– The round was led by Coatue and with participation from previous investors ICONIQ, Energize Ventures and Fifth Wall, allows the company to go both broad and deep with their product.
– The company plans to use the funding to expand its software platform.

– Bad Robot Games, the Bad Robot’s video game division, completed a $40m Series B funding.
– The round was led by Galaxy Interactive, with participation from existing investors Horizons Ventures, Iconiq Capital and Tencent.
– The financing follows the formation of its internal development team, Bad Robot Games Studio, and the hiring of CEO Anna Sweet in early 2020.
– Bad Robot Games will use the new capital to build out its internal Games Studio and continue to ramp up the team with additional hiring.

– Benchling has raised $200m in Series E funding led by Sequoia Capital Global Equities and joined by Altimeter Capital, Byers Capital and Elad Gil.
– Existing investors participated, including Thrive Capital, Benchmark, Menlo Ventures, Alkeon Capital, ICONIQ, Lux Capital, Spark Capital and Lead Edge Capital.
– The company will use the funding to aggressively invest in product development and global expansion to support enterprise customers.
– Since launching in 2012, more than 300,000 scientists and 1,000 R&D organizations around the globe have adopted Benchling’s cloud platform to manage massively complex experimental datasets and optimize R&D processes.

– Fetch Rewards is a Madison, Wis.-based consumer-loyalty and retail-rewards app.
– The company raised $210m in Series D funding.
– The round was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 with participation from existing shareholders ICONIQ, DST, Greycroft and e.ventures.
– The new funding will be used to expand the company’s business reach.

– HighRadius has raised $300m in a Series C round at a valuation of $3.1B.
– The investment was led by D1 Capital and Tiger Global with participation from existing investors ICONIQ Growth and Susquehanna Growth Equity.
– The round also included investments from tech industry leaders, Frank Slootman, Chairman and CEO of Snowflake; Michael Scarpelli, CFO of Snowflake; Tooey Courtemanche, CEO of Procore Technologies; and Howie Liu, Co-founder and CEO of Airtable.

– ServiceTitan from Phoenix has raised a $500M Series F growth financing.
– The round was led by Tiger Global Management and Sequoia Capital Global Equities with significant participation from existing investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, ICONIQ Capital, Battery Ventures, Index Ventures, Durable Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, and funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates.
– ServiceTitan serves more than 7,500 contracting businesses that collectively employ more than 100,000 technicians and perform more than $20 billion worth of annual transactions across various home and commercial service verticals, including plumbing, air conditioning, electrical, and more.

– Unite Us Raises $150M in Series C Funding.
– The round was led by Iconiq Growth with participation Emerson Collective, Optum Ventures and Transformation Capital, as well as existing investors Define Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Town Hall Ventures, and several healthcare partners.
– The company intends to use the funds to invest in Unite Us Payments, and further fund its interoperability framework.

– BetterUp announced a $125m Series D fundraise, bringing the company’s valuation to $1.73b.
– The global leader in mobile-based coaching, counseling, and mentorship, BetterUp is an all-in-one platform that combines behavioral science, AI technology, and human interaction to optimize personal growth and professional development in support of a person’s whole health, at work and in life.
– This latest financing was led by ICONIQ Growth with participation by existing investors, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Threshold Ventures, and Plus Capital, and by new investors, Salesforce Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, and Mubadala Capital.

– Robinhood is a Menlo Park, California-based provider of an online trading app.
– The company raised $3.4bn in funding.
– The round was led by Ribbit Capital with participation from existing investors including ICONIQ Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Index Ventures, and NEA.
– The new investment will be used to continue to invest in customer growth and build and enhance products that give more people access to the financial system.