– 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.

– ClickHouse is a New York-based provider of an online analytical processing (OLAP) database management system.
– Company raised $50m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Index Ventures and Benchmark with participation from Yandex N.V.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate the company’s growth and expand operations.

– ClickHouse announced their decision to officially incorporate as a company: ClickHouse, Inc along with nearly $50M in Series A funding led by Index Ventures and Benchmark with participation by Yandex N.V. and others.
– The creator of ClickHouse, Alexey Milovidov (CTO), will be joined by co-founders and seasoned enterprise software executives, Yury Izrailevsky (President, Product and Technology) and Aaron Katz (CEO).
– ClickHouse technology was first developed over 10 years ago at Yandex, Europe’s leading internet service corporation.
– It was initially created to power Yandex.Metrica, the second-largest web analytics platform in the world.
– ClickHouse increased that speed to hundreds of millions of rows per second.

– CodeSignal is a San Francisco, CA-based technical assessment platform to make data-driven hiring decisions in tech recruiting.
– The company raised $50M in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Index Ventures with participation from Menlo Ventures, Headline, and A Capital.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate product and go-to-market functions and launch its new Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that enables relevant assessment experiences.

– Beauty Pie, a beauty startup, raised $100m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Index Ventures and Insight Partners, with previous backers Balderton Capital, General Catalyst and Latitude VC also participating.
– Beauty Pie, founded in 2016, has now raised $170m to date.

– Printify is a Riga, Latvia-based print on demand company.
– The company raised $45M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Index Ventures with participation from H&M Group, Virgin Group, Wise, Vinted, Squarespace, RedHat and Dreamers VC.
– The new investment will be used to further expand the company’s marketplace globally.

– Monad is a security data cloud company based in San Francisco.
– The company emerged from stealth with $17m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Index Ventures with participation from Sequoia Capital, Christian Almenar and Jacolon Walker.
– The new investment will be used to scale the company’s development efforts for its security data cloud platform.

– Lithic is a NYC-based card issuing platform for developers.
– The company raised $60m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Stripes, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Exor, Rainfall, Tusk Venture Partners, and Commerce Ventures.
– The investment will be used to continue to grow, help the team scale and expand the platform through strategic acquisitions to enhance the product and its core offerings.

– Covariant, a leading AI Robotics company, today announced it has raised $80m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by returning investor, Index Ventures, with additional participation of Amplify Partners and Radical Ventures.
– Covariant will use the funding to continue its investment in AI Robotics research and development (R&D), as well as growing its team globally, and accelerate bringing AI into the physical world.

– Okendo, a customer marketing SaaS platform for ecommerce brands, announced that it has raised $5.3m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Index Ventures with participation from a number of notable industry leaders.
– The funding follows 12 months of rapid growth, during which Okendo’s annual recurring revenue increased by more than 3x.
– The growth has been fuelled by the accelerated global adoption of ecommerce, increased merchant demand for customer-centric marketing solutions and Okendo’s continued business expansion in the United States.
– The company also announced plans to evolve its offering beyond its cornerstone customer reviews app and into a platform with a suite of integrated products for helping consumer brands better manage their owned customer relationships.

– Spendesk is a Paris, France-based spend management platform for finance teams.
– The company raised €100M in Series C funding.
– The round was led by General Atlantic with participation from previous investors Index Ventures and Eight Roads Ventures.
– The new funding will be used to hire talent, accelerate product innovation, and expand in Europe.

– Remote, a NYC-based HR tech platform and provider of global employer of record services and international contractor management, raised $150m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Accel with participation from existing investors including Sequoia, Index Ventures, Two Sigma, General Catalyst and Day One Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand their advisory services to include guidance on global benefits, equity incentive planning, visa and immigration support, employee relocation, and more.

– Glossier Inc. announced that it has raised $80m in Series E funding.
– Lone Pine Capital led the round, along with participation from existing investors Forerunner Ventures, Index Ventures, IVP, Sequoia Capital, and Thrive Capital.
– The fully direct to consumer business will continue to scale its online and offline channels globally as it builds the world’s #1 destination for beauty discovery.
– Glossier was founded in 2014 and is on a mission to inspire everyone to find joy and confidence in their personal beauty style.
– The company has more than 5m customers globally and has become a household name across generations, especially with Gen Z and Millennials; two out of every five women between the ages of 18 and 34 in the United States have heard of Glossier.

– Dream Games, a Turkey-based mobile games company, has closed a $155M Series B round co-led by Index Ventures and Makers Fund, with participation from Balderton Capital, IVP and Kora.
– The largest Series B financing in Turkey, with a valuation of $1B, comes on the heels of the massive success of Dream’s debut game Royal Match, reaching top-20 grossing games in the US, UK, and Germany in only three months.

– Beamery is a London, UK-based operating system for companies to attract, engage and retain top talent.
– The company raised $138m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, through its Teachers’ Innovation Platform (TIP), with participation from Accenture Ventures, EQT Ventures, Index Ventures, M12 and Workday Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate product development, accelerate commercial growth in existing and new geographies, double its employee base, and solidify its leadership position in the talent space.

– Transform provides a centralized metrics platform that enables metrics definitions in code, supports life-cycle management, and connects to any downstream tool where users consume metrics.
– The company raised $20m in Series A funding.
– The round was co-led by Index Ventures and Redpoint Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to expand operations and business reach.

– KeepTruckin has raised $190 million in new funding from G2 Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Greenoaks, IVP, Scale Venture Partners, funds managed by BlackRock, and several other leading investors.
– The round values KeepTruckin at over $2 billion.
– The new capital will support KeepTruckin’s strategic priorities by allowing it to continue building innovative AI-powered products, recruiting top-tier talent, and scaling rapidly to meet the needs of businesses that power the physical economy.
– KeepTruckin’s 400,000-strong network of connected vehicles is one of the largest in North America.

– ApplyBoard has raised C$375m in Series D funding at a post-money valuation of C$4bn.
– The round was led by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board.
– TIP focuses on late-stage venture and growth equity investments in companies developing innovative technologies.
– Existing investors Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC, BDC, Harmonic, Index Ventures, Garage Capital, and Blue Cloud Ventures also participated in the round.
– Since its founding, ApplyBoard has raised C$600m.
– ApplyBoard is on a mission to educate the world by democratizing access to international educational opportunities.

– Anrok, the sales tax solution built specifically for software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses, announced the launch of its new platform, along with $4.3M in seed funding co-led by Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital.
– The platform, which allows internet businesses to determine, calculate, and manage ever-shifting sales tax obligations, arrives at a time when internet SaaS businesses are facing a major shift in the taxability of software.
– In 2018, a Supreme Court decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair paved the way for states to collect billions of dollars in tax revenue from purchases made online.
– Of the 45 states that levy sales tax, all have since introduced revenue or transaction thresholds that, once crossed, mandate companies to collect and remit sales tax.

– Motorway, a U.K. startup that allows professional car dealers to bid in an auction for privately owned cars for sale, has raised £48m in Series B funding.
– The funding was led by Index Ventures and joined by BMW i Ventures and Unbound, and existing investors Latitude and Marchmont Ventures also participated.
– The funding will be used to extend its platform and grow the current 160-strong team.

– Gregarious from NYC is a creator of Greg, a plant care app powered by machine learning.
– The company raised $5.4m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Index Ventures with participation from First Round Capital and angel investors and advisors including Elie Seidman, CEO of Tinder; Eliza Blank, founder of online plant retailer The Sill; and Darryl Cheng, author of the best-selling book The New Plant Parent and the blog House Plant Journal.
– The new investment will be used to expand operations and business reach.

– Gregarious, Inc. (Greg), a plant care startup, raised $5.4m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Index Ventures and joined by First Round Capital.
– The company is backed by a team of expert angels and advisors, including Elie Seidman (previous CEO of Tinder), Eliza Blank (founder of The Sill, a plant delivery service) and Darryl Cheng (a “plant-stagrammer” with 600K followers).
– Currently, Greg’s remote team has 11 members and plans to hire a head of Brand and at least five more engineers, including a senior Android engineer (so far, the app is only available on iOS).
– Gregarious, Inc. (Greg) is a plant care startup that uses machine learning to help people care for their plants.

– RevenueCat, a startup offering a series of tools for developers of subscription-based apps, has raised $40m in Series B funding.
– The funding round was led by Y Combinator Continuity Fund and included participation from Index Ventures, SaaStr, Oakhouse, Adjacent and FundersClub, as well as Blinklist CTO Tobias Balling and Algolia CEO Nicolas Dessaigne.
– With the round, YC Continuity Partner Anu Hariharan is joining RevenueCat’s board, which today includes Index’s Mark Fiorentino in addition to the founders.
– The company offers a real-time dashboard that display key metrics, like subscription revenue, churn, LTV (lifetime value), subscriber numbers, conversions and more.

– French startup Matera has announced that it has raised a new $43m funding round.
– The round was led by Mubadala Capital and joined by Bpifrance, Burda Principal Investments as well as existing investors Index Ventures and Samaipata.
– The company is building a vertical SaaS for residential property management.
– In France, co-owners of the common space of a building can decide to ditch the company that handles residential building management for them and do it themselves.
– It could work particularly well for small buildings with 10 or 15 apartments.
– When co-owners vote to switch to Matera, they get a web-based platform and a mobile app to view information and see all the contracts with various partners — think about elevator maintenance, heating maintenance, water, electricity, etc.

– Reclaim.ai, an intelligent calendar assistant and time management platform, announced that they have raised $4.8M in seed funding, bringing their overall funding to $6.3M.
– The round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from Gradient Ventures, Flying Fish, Operator Partners, and Calendly.
– Other strategic investors include Jason Warner, CTO at Github; Sue Khim, CEO at Brilliant.org; Alex Solomon, Co-Founder & CTO at PagerDuty; Kenny Van Zant, former Head of Business at Asana; and Yvonne Wassenaar, CEO at Puppet.

– Lithic, the card issuing platform, announced that it has raised $43m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Index Ventures, Tusk Venture Partners, Rainfall Ventures, Teamworthy Ventures and Walkabout Ventures.
– Lithic card issuing platform was released nine months ago under the Privacy.com brand, with the mission to make it simple for developers to programmatically create virtual and physical payment cards.
– Lithic is rebranding to Lithic and using the new capital to double down on development of the card issuing platform. Privacy.com, the consumer product, continues to be a leading virtual card service dedicated to making payments safer and easier online, and is now officially powered by the Lithic card issuing platform.

– Pitch, the collaborative presentation platform for modern teams, announced that it has raised an $85 million Series B funding round led by Lakestar and Tiger Global, and joined by existing Pitch investors Index Ventures and Thrive Capital.
– Six months after launching to the public, the Series B investment comes at a time of significant growth and momentum for Pitch. To date, tens of thousands of teams have opened 125,000 workspaces on Pitch, including top companies like Intercom, Superhuman and Notion.
– Pitch is a collaborative presentation platform that enables teams to create, edit, review and share presentations in real-time.
– Pitch is used by companies like Intercom, Superhuman and Notion.
– The company will use the new funding to continue to build out its team and product.

– French startup Ankorstore has raised $102m funding.
– Tiger Global and Bain Capital Ventures are leading the funding round with existing investors Index Ventures, GFC, Alven and Aglaé also participating.
– The company is building a wholesale marketplace for independent shop owners.

– Sylvera, a U.K.-based startup, raised $5.8m in seed funding.
– The round was led by VC firm Index Ventures and joined by all its existing institutional investors.
– It also has backing from leading angels, including the existing and former CEOs of NYSE, Thomson Reuters, Citibank and IHS Markit.
– The company plans to use the funding to expand its team and develop its technology platform.

– Sanlo, a San Francisco, CA-based company that empowers gaming and app companies with financial products to run their businesses, raised $3.5m in funding.
– The round was co-led by Index Ventures and Initial Capital, with participation from LVP, Portag3 Ventures and XYZ Venture Capital, and angel investors such as Kristian Segestrale, as well as fintech, such as Gokul Rajaram and Charley Ma.
– As part of the round, Initial Capital Co-founder and Partner Ken Lamb became a board director while Index Partner Mark Goldberg and XYZ Managing Partner Ross Fubini joined as board observers.

– Digital healthcare company Kry announced a funding round of over US$300m (€262m) to fuel its European expansion plans.
– The Series D funding round was led by CPP Investments (CPPIB) and Fidelity Management & Research LLC with participation from existing investors, including the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Ontario Teachers’), Index Ventures, Accel, Creandum and Project A.
Kry will use the investment to scale its platform, building on both its operations as a healthcare provider and its innovative software offerings as well as further geographic expansion. This will bring the benefits of its technology to millions more patients across Europe.

– Scale AI from San Francisco, CA, provides a data platform for AI.
– Company raised $325m in Series E funding.
– The round was co-led by Dragoneer, Greenoaks Capital, and Tiger Global with participation from new investors Wellington Management and Durable Capital followed and existing investors Coatue, Index, Founders Fund, and YC.
– The new investment will be used to expand the team and products.

– French startup Alan has raised a $220m funding round at a $1.67bn valuation.
– Coatue is leading the round with Dragoneer, Exor, and existing investors Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital and Temasek also participating.
– Alan has been building health insurance products from scratch.
– The company now covers 160,000 people.
– Overall, Alan generates over €100m in annualized revenue.
– The company has some capital requirements to comply with health insurance regulation.
– Alan managed to meet its goals and international expansion finally started to take off.

– Otrium, a fashion e-commerce startup, raised $120m funding.
– The round was led by BOND and Index Ventures and joined by Eight Roads Ventures.
– Otrium is currently available in Europe.
– The company plans to use the funding to expand its business in Europe.

– Capitolis from New York, London and Tel Aviv provides a SaaS platform that drives financial resource optimization for capital markets.
– Total funding to date reached $170m.
– The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from existing investors Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, S Capital, Spark Capital, SVB Capital, Citi, J.P. Morgan and State Street.
– The new investment will be used to drive further innovation in its technology and product development, bolster customer support and sales and grow its team from 90 employees to over 150 by year’s end.

– 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.

– Pilot, the largest provider of back office services for startups and small businesses in the U.S., announced today that it has closed on additional funding led by Bezos Expeditions (the personal investment company of Jeff Bezos) and Whale Rock Capital, with participation from Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures, that increases the Series C to $100 million and doubles the company’s valuation to $1.2Bn.
– The additional funding enables Pilot to further expand its breadth of back office services that offload day-to-day distractions and allow small business owners and founders to focus on growth.

– Linktree raised $45M in Series B funding co-led by Index Ventures, an investor in Patreon and Discord, and Coatue, an investor in TikTok, with participation from returning investors AirTree Ventures and Insight Partners.
– The funding follows a $10.7M Series A round announced in October 2018.
– Linktree is the rapidly growing social identity layer with more than 12 million users globally, 4 million of whom signed up in the last three months.
– The platform enables brands, artists, publishers, agencies, creators and small businesses to curate an online ecosystem, instantly guiding their audience to the destinations that they care about, without using a search engine or websites as a starting point.

– Chord Raises $18M In Series A Funding
– The round was led by Eclipse Ventures, which joined a roster of existing institutional investors including Foundation Capital, WhiteStar Capital, Forerunner Ventures, Index Ventures, and Thrive Capital, as well as angel investors from the commerce world, most notably Will Gaybrick of Stripe, and the founders of D2C brands such as Allbirds, Harry’s, and Warby Parker.
– The company intends to use the funds to develop more technology and data products, as well as to continue to grow.
– Bryan Mahoney is CEO and Henry Davis is Chairman & COO.
– Leslie Lorenz is joining the company as Vice President of Data.

– Wiz from Palo Alto and Tel Aviv develops a platform for companies to secure their cloud infrastructure at scale.
– Series B $130m round brings company valuation to more than $1.7b.
– The round was led by Advent Venture Partners with participation from existing investors Cyberstarts, Index Ventures, Insight Partners and Sequoia Capital.
– The new investment will be aimed at expanding operations and business reach since its emergence from stealth three months ago.

– Coalition is a provider of cyber insurance and security.
– The company raised $175m in funding.
– The round was led by Index Ventures with participation from General Atlantic and existing investors.
– The new funding will be used to accelerate the company’s global expansion and development of new products.

– Gather is a virtual gathering space platform.
– The startup raised $26m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Index Ventures, YC Continuity, Jeff Weiner, Dylan Field and Kevin Hartz.
– The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach.

– Cutover announced a $35m Series B financing round led by Eldridge.
– The round was led by Eldridge alongside existing investors Index Ventures, Sussex Place Ventures and Contour Ventures.
– Cutover has doubled its revenues as organizations responded to a rising need to ensure smooth collaboration and orchestration of distributed working practices across the full spectrum of applications and infrastructure.
– The Company’s clients have relied on Cutover to automate and orchestrate critical, timebound work across the enterprise, delivering complex releases, operational resilience and attaining constant availability of applications.
– As businesses adapt to a new, faster way of working, the investment will allow Cutover to build on the momentum and scale of its platform.

– Rohlik Group, a Prague, Czech Republic-based online grocery business, raised €190m in funding.
– The round was led by Partech, joined by Index Ventures, with participation from EBRD, J&T Banka, Quadrille Capital, R2G and existing investor Enern.
– The company intends to use the funds to accelerate its expansion in its existing markets and launch in Germany and other international markets and continue to invest in technology and operating capabilities.

– Codat announced strategic investments from PayPal Ventures and American Express Ventures.
– Amex Ventures and PayPal join previous investor in Codat’s Series A Index Ventures.
– Along with the announcement of these new investments, Codat also formally launched its U.S. operations.
– Codat is the fintech startup powering the small and medium business data ecosystem.
– Codat’s API connects the tools and services that small businesses need for their operations and handles the heavy lifting of integrations—ultimately leaving providers free to focus on improving their offerings for small businesses.
– Codat was founded in London in 2017 to support small- and medium-sized businesses by providing a critical data exchange between SMBs and the financial institutions and fintechs that serve them.

– Sentry has raised $60m in a series D round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from existing investors Benchmark, Index Ventures, and Union Square Ventures.
– The company is now valued at $1bn.
– Application performance monitoring startup Sentry today announced it has secured $60 million in series D financing for a post-money valuation of $1 billion.
– Sentry says the funds will fuel product development and go-to-market functions, as well as hiring across the company’s San Francisco, Toronto, and Vienna offices.

– Fast is a company that offers a one-click purchasing process.
– The company raised $102m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Addition and Stripe with participation from existing investors Index Ventures, Susa Ventures, Sugar Capital, and Jaren Glover.
– The company plans to double-down on its product expansion, reaching even more sellers through new use cases such as subscriptions and one-click online media purchases.
– Fast is going to also move into more markets outside of the US.
– Plus the funding will power continued hiring of top talent.

– Pilot is a back office services company.
– The company raised $60m in Series C funding.
– Sequoia Capital led the round and joined by Index Ventures and Stripe.

– Nexthink reached $1.1bn valuation with $180m in Series D financing round.
– The round was led by Permira, through its Growth Opportunities Fund, and includes participation from existing investors including Highland Europe and Index Ventures.
– Permira funds’ investment was made through the Growth Opportunities Fund, which focuses on minority investments in growth-focused businesses.
– The Permira funds have a strong track record of investing in technology, including investments in: TeamViewer, a leading global provider of secure remote connectivity solutions; Mirakl, a marketplace SaaS platform that empowers B2B and B2C organisations to launch and grow an enterprise marketplace at scale; Zwift, the global online fitness platform for cyclists and runners; and, Klarna, the leading innovative payments company.

– Kong Inc. announced it has closed $100m Series D funding.
– The round was led by Tiger Global Management with participation from existing investors Index Ventures, CRV, GGV Capital and Andreessen Horowitz as well as new investor Goldman Sachs.
– This latest round brings Kong’s total funding to $171m, tripling its valuation to $1.4bn since the Series C round.
– The company will use the capital to scale its go-to-market operations, grow world-class Engineering and Customer Experience teams, and accelerate cloud connectivity with its new SaaS-based Kong Konnect service connectivity platform.
– Kong Konnect is a full-stack service connectivity platform designed for cloud native applications and delivered as a service.

– 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.