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Sales enablement platform Seismic acquires Lessonly, nabs $170M
– Seismic, a sales enablement and marketing orchestration platform based in San Diego, California, announced that it closed a $170 million series G round led by Permira, JMI Equity, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Jackson Square Ventures, Ameriprise, and funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price.
– The latest funding, which brings Seismic’s valuation to $3 billion and total raised to $440 million, comes as the company acquires Lessonly, an Indianapolis, Indiana-based developer of sales training, coaching, and enablement solutions.
– The sales enablement platform market, which is expected to be worth $2.6 billion by 2024, continued to grow throughout the pandemic — largely driven by the shift to remote work.
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Zenput raises $27M Series C to keep multiunit operations flowing no matter the location
– Zenput, an operations execution company, raised $27m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Golub Capital and joined by Jackson Square Ventures, MHS Capital and Goldcrest Capital.
– The company plans to use the funding to continue developing its application to automate operation procedures like tracking food safety, public health protocols and changing market conditions.
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Harness Wealth raises $15 million to democratize the power of family offices
– Harness closed on $15 million in Series A funding led by Jackson Square Ventures, a round that brings the company’s total funding to $19 million.
– Harness Wealth, a three-year-old, New York-based outfit that was founded by David Snider and Katie Prentke English to cater to individuals with increasingly complex financial pictures, including following liquidity events.
– The two understand as well as anyone how one’s vested interests can abruptly change — and how hard these can be to manage when working full-time.
– Startup currently employs 22 people and is not-yet profitable
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Announcing 1upHealth's $25 million Series B led by F-Prime
– 1upHealth has raised a $25m Series B led by F-Prime Capital.
– Existing investors, Jackson Square Ventures (which led our Series A), Eniac Ventures, and Social Leverage also participated.
– The infusion of capital will help us grow and evolve our FHIR connectivity & compute platform that’s already used by dozens of health plans, providers, app developers, and pharma companies.
– When we started selling for CMS compliance, we only had 15 team members. A year later, we are 70 strong, with dozens of health plans and states using our infrastructure and API platform.
– We’re now supporting 11 million of patients through dozens of health plan and provider customers.
– With this new round of capital, we’re positioned for rapid growth.