– Reliable Robotics, a startup that is developing autonomous aircraft systems, raised $130m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Coatue Management and joined by Lightspeed Ventures, Eclipse Ventures, Teamworthy Ventures and Pathbreaker Ventures.
– The company plans to use the funds to scale the team and support its first aircraft certification program.

– Matillion, a startup that helps companies harness their data, raised $150m in funding.
– The round was led by General Atlantic and joined by Battery Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
– The company has hundreds of enterprise customers, including Western Union, FOX, Sony, Slack, National Grid, Peet’s Coffee and Cisco.
– The startup was founded in Manchester (it now also has a base in Denver), and this makes it one of a handful of tech startups out of the city — others we’ve recently covered include The Hut Group, Peak AI and Fractory — now hitting the big leagues and helping to put it on the innovation map as an urban center to watch.

– 1047 Games, a game developer, raised $100m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and joined by Insight Partners, Anthos Capital, and earlier seed round investors Galaxy Interactive, VGames, Human Capital, Lakestar, DraperDragon, and Draper University.
– It brings the company to a valuation of $1.2 billion.
– The company plans to use the funding to expand its team and continue to build out its game portfolio.

– HilleVax, Inc. (HilleVax), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel vaccine candidates, announced the close of a $135 million crossover financing led by Frazier Healthcare Partners and joined by RA Capital Management, Deerfield Management Company, Abingworth, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Perceptive Advisors, Catalys Pacific, Samsara BioCapital, BVF Partners, Qiming Venture Partners USA, Greenspring Associates, Richard King Mellon Foundation, and Sahsen Ventures.
– The proceeds of this financing support the further clinical development of HilleVax’s virus-like particle (VLP) based vaccine candidate, HIL-214, for the prevention of moderate-to-severe acute gastroenteritis caused by norovirus infection.

– Dukaan is a Bengaluru, India-based platform for merchants with zero programming skills to set up their e-commerce site.
– Company raised $11m in pre-Series A funding round.
– The round was led by 640 Oxford Ventures with participation from Snow Leopard Ventures, Lightspeed Partners, Matrix Partners India, Venture Catalyst, HOF Capital, Old Well Ventures, LetsVenture, 9Unicorns and angels Ritesh Agarwal, and Carl Pei.
– The new investment will be aimed at expanding the company’s business reach and technology efforts.

– Offchain Labs is a NYC-based provider of scaling solutions for Ethereum.
– The company raised $120m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Polychain Capital, Ribbit Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Pantera Capital, Alameda Research, Mark Cuban and others.
– The new funding will be used to scale the team, further develop the Arbitrum One ecosystem, build out new scaling solutions in its pipeline and invest in R&D.

– Holo is a Newark, CA-based metal additive manufacturing company.
– Company raised an undisclosed amount in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Lam Capital, Lam Research‘s venture group, and Atreides Management, with participation from Prelude Ventures, Tao Capital Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
– The new investment will be used to double the company’s team and add new materials.

– Flink, a Mexico City-based neobroker, raised $57m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and joined by Accel, ALLVP, Clocktower and new investor Mantis VC.
– The startup has raised nearly $70m since its inception in 2017.

– Soda Health from Bentonville is a healthcare technology company.
– The company raised $6m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Define Ventures with participation from Qiming Venture Partners USA.
– The new investment will be used to expand operations and business reach.

– Zetwerk, a B2B marketplace for manufacturing items, raised $150m in Series E funding.
– The round was led by D1 Capital Partners and joined by new investors Avenir and IIFL, and existing investors Greenoaks Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners.
– The company plans to deploy the fresh capital to broaden its technology stack and expand to more international markets.

– Split, the leading feature delivery and experimentation platform, announced $50m in Series D funding led by Owl Rock.
– The round was also joined by Northgate Capital and existing investors including Accel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Harmony Partners, Microsoft’s venture capital fund M12, Atlassian Ventures, and ServiceNow.
– This latest round of investment brings Split’s total funding to $110m of which $83m was raised within the past year.

– 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.

– Kalam Labs is a live game streaming platform at the intersection of K-12 learning and multiplayer gaming.
– The company raised a pre-seed funding round.
– Backers included Lightspeed and Y Combinator.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate the company’s product roadmap to build a “Metaverse for Science”.

– 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.

– Trust, a card and business community to help digital businesses navigate the ever-changing pricing models to market online, receive the same incentives larger advertisers get and make the best decision of where their marketing dollars will reach the furthest, raised $9m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Lerer Hippeau, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures and Upper90.
– The Los Angeles-based company was started in 2019 by a group of five Snap alums working in various roles within Snap’s revenue product strategy business.
– It aims to flip the script on that, the group created Trust, which is a card and business community to help digital businesses navigate the ever-changing pricing models to market online, receive the same incentives larger advertisers get and make the best decision of where their marketing dollars will reach the furthest.

– 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.

– Buildots has raised $30m in a series B round led by Lightspeed Ventures, bringing its total investment to $46m.
– The company will use the new funds to double the size of its global team, focusing on sales and R&D to expand its digital twins efforts, which use process mining techniques to improve outcomes as construction trades go digital.
– Buildots has early customers in 13 different countries, including Build Group in California and Washington state, MBN in Germany, Gammon in Hong Kong, and Wates in the U.K.
– While other companies focus on the design or presentation of 3D construction data, Buildots specializes in operationalizing it.
– Buildots has concentrated on the gap between existing tools for design, scheduling, document management, and process controls that provide visibility into what’s happening on construction sites.

– yellow.ai raised $78.15M in Series C funding led by WestBridge Capital along with Sapphire Ventures and Salesforce Ventures.
– Lightspeed Venture Partners also participated in this round, which brings total funding raised so far to $102.15M.
– yellow.ai enables enterprises to leverage its proprietary NLP engine and platform to build chatbots and voice bots, in 100+ languages, across 35+ channels that automate functions like Customer Support, Customer Engagement, Conversational Commerce, and Employee Experience.
– The platform comes pre-integrated with enterprise applications like Salesforce, Shopify, Cisco, Avaya, SharePoint, and 100 more.

– Blameless, a site reliability engineering platform, raised $30m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Third Point Ventures with participation from Accel, Decibel and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
– It brings total funding to over $50m.
– The company has interest from more mainstream companies in the areas of enterprise, logistics and healthcare.

– Eco, a San Francisco, CA-based smart money company, raised $60M in funding.
– The round was co-led by Activant Capital and L Catterton with participation from existing investors, including a16z Crypto, as well as new backers Lightspeed Venture Partners, LionTree Partners, Valor Equity Partners, and dozens of others.
– The company intends to use the funds to accelerate its product roadmap to consolidate all financial tools into a single wallet.

– At-Bay announced the closing of a $185m Series D financing round.
– The new funding was co-led by Icon Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors including Khosla Ventures, M12, Acrew Capital, Qumra Capital, Munich Re Ventures, entrepreneur Shlomo Kramer, and Glilot Capital.
– At-Bay’s post-money valuation now sits at $1.35b.
– Preeti Rathi, General Partner at Icon Ventures, has joined At-Bay’s Board of Directors in conjunction with the financing.
– At-Bay recently surpassed $160m in annual recurring revenue on 800% year-over-year premium growth.

– GlobalBees, a startup that acquires and partners with digitally native brands across categories such as beauty, personal care, home and kitchen, food and nutrition, and sports and lifestyle, raised $150m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by FirstCry and joined by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
– The company plans to use the funding to acquire and partner with more brands.

– CertiK announced a $37M Series B funding round co-led by Coatue Management and Shunwei Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures.
– This is the largest single round of fundraising in the blockchain security space, adding to CertiK’s list of notable backers, which include IDG Capital, Binance, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Yale University, and others.
– CertiK is a pioneer in blockchain security, utilizing best-in-class AI technology to audit and monitor blockchain protocols and smart contracts.
– Since Q1 2020, CertiK’s team size has more than doubled, and this rate of growth will continue in 2021, creating a highly effective, remote-friendly culture with talent located worldwide.

– Netskope from Santa Clara provides a cloud-native SASE platform of technologies that enable secure enterprise digital transformation and secure remote connectivity using integrated Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), and Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) capabilities.
– The company raised $300m in funding.
– The round was led by existing investor ICONIQ Growth with participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel, Sequoia Capital Global Equities, Base Partners, Sapphire Ventures, and Geodesic Capital.
– Following this round, Netskope has achieved a post-money valuation of $7.5b.

– Kikoff, a personal finance platform aimed at helping consumers build credit, announced that it has raised $30m in a Series B round.
– The capital is in addition to the $12.5m the startup raised across previously unannounced seed and Series A rounds, which were both led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
– Portage Ventures led Kikoff’s Series B, which included participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, GGV, Coatue and Core Innovation Capital. Previous backers of the company include NBA star Steph Curry, Wex CEO Melissa Smith and Teresa Ressel, former CFO of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

– Moveworks, a platform designed to automate support at work, announced that it closed a $200m series C funding round led by Tiger Global and Alkeon Capital, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Bain Capital, ICONIQ Growth, and Kleiner Perkins.
– The proceeds bring the company’s total raised to $315m and value the company at $2.1bn post-money, representing one of the largest investments in an AI platform for employee service to date.
– With conventional approaches, support teams take an average of three days to address issues including IT tickets, HR requests, and policy questions by hand, causing disruptions that can delay work.
– Nearly one-third of departments regularly affected by technical problems say that an hour of downtime costs them $1m or more.

– Noname Security, a cybersecurity platform that allows enterprises to manage APIs, closed a $60m series B funding round led by Insight Partners, with Next47, Forgepoint, TSG, Cyberstarts, and Lightspeed Venture Partners participating.
– It brings the company’s total raised to $85m and will be used to scale Noname’s go-to-market and customer success efforts as well as its product and R&D teams.
– APIs, the connectors that clouds and apps use to communicate with each other, will become the cyberattacker’s target of choice, according to Gartner. The analyst firm predicts that by 2022, API attacks will be the most frequent attack vector across the enterprise.
– API vulnerabilities can take many forms, from a developer’s forgotten side project to a software interface improperly configured.

– Seattle startup YourBase landed a $5m seed led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
– The 3-year-old company sells software that helps developers run tests on their codebase.
– Unusual Ventures and Fathom Capital joined Lightseed for the round.
– The startup uses its “Code Dependency Graph” that automates the test selection processes for large, complex databases.
– YourBase has more than a dozen customers in its private beta, including some public companies.

– Synctera, a San Francisco, CA-based solution for partnership banking at scale, raised $33M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Fin VC with participation from Mastercard and Gaingels, and follow-on investments from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Diagram Ventures, SciFi Ventures and Scribble Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand operations hiring for roles across engineering, product and sales, accelerate the development of its product roadmap, and prepare for a future international expansion.

– Exabeam, a security analytics and automation company, announced a $200m Series F growth round at a valuation of $2.4b.
– The round was led by the Owl Rock division of Blue Owl Capital and supported by existing investors Acrew Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Norwest Venture Partners.

– Spiff, a developer of sales commission software, announced $46m in Series B funding.
– Led by Lightspeed Ventures Partners, the new round includes investments from Salesforce Ventures and Stripes, along with existing partner Norwest Venture Partners and all of the original investors.
– In total, Spiff has raised $68m.

– Pioneering BizOps startup Salto announced that it has raised a $42m Series B led by Accel, with significant participation from existing investor Salesforce Ventures, and continued participation from Bessemer Venture Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
– That brings the total funding to $69m to date, following its Series A in October, and underscores the demand for a new way to improve the productivity of SaaS administrators.
– Early customers expressed their need for Salto to extend its software approach and methodology beyond its initially supported SaaS applications – Salesforce, NetSuite and HubSpot. Salto plans to expand its support to a total of 10 applications by the end of 2021.
– With a global view of all SaaS applications, it provides insight long thought impossible.

– Wheel, the health tech company making virtual care work for everyone, announced a $50m Series B investment led by Lightspeed Ventures with participation from existing investors CRV, Silverton Partners, Tusk Venture Partners, and J.P. Morgan.
– New investors including Tony Fadell’s Future Shape also participated in the round.
– Wheel has raised $66m in total and will use the funding to further invest in its technology and clinician networks, soon delivering care to millions of patients in seconds.

– Laiye Raises $50M in Series C+ Funding.
– The round was co-led by the Ping An Global Voyager Fund and Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Industry Equity Investment Fund with participation from Lightspeed China Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital China and Wu Capital.
– The company intends to expand globally and develop products, enhance its RPA offering with native AI capability, compatibility with more operating systems like Linux and Android, deploy on all major cloud platforms, and recruit top talent.

– Holler, a conversational media company, raised $36m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and joined by existing investors including Accel, First Round Capital, and General Catalyst.
– The company plans to use the funding to expand its team and continue to build out its technology platform.

– HealthPlix, a Bangalore-based startup, raised $13.5m in its ongoing Series B financing round.
– The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
– The startup has now raised about $23.5m to date.
– There are fewer than 300,000 doctors in India actively practicing medicine.
– They serve hundreds of millions of patients who suffer from chronic illness in the world’s second-most populous nation.
– A doctor only has a few minutes to spend on a patient, remember the past diagnosis by glancing at their record and formulate a plan of management.
– HealthPlix believes it can help doctors serve these patients more efficiently with the limited time they have.

– 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.

– Greenwood, a digital banking platform for Black and Latino individuals and business owners, raised $40m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Truist Ventures with participation from Bank of America, PNC, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Mastercard, and Visa, FIS, Popular, TTV Capital, SoftBank Group Corp’s SB Opportunity Fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners (Scout Fund), Quality Ventures, and Alvin Kamara.
– The new investment will be used to expand the company’s business reach and build a range of financial products and services for financial empowerment.

– Blockchain.com, a cryptocurrency company, raised $300m funding.
– The round was led by DST Global, Lightspeed Venture Partners and VY Capital.
– Existing investors also participated.
– Following today’s funding round, the company has reached a post-money valuation of $5.2 billion.

– Pixxel closed a $7.3M seed round with new capital from Omnivore VC, Techstars, and others, who are joining alongside Lightspeed Ventures, Blume, growX, Ryan Johnson, former President at Planet Labs, and additional industry leaders.
– The company’s first hyperspectral satellite will launch within the next few months.
– Compared to the common multispectral satellites prevalent today, Pixxel’s hyperspectral earth-imaging satellites are able to beam down 50x more information by capturing light reflected in far more detail and using narrower bands beyond just red, green and blue.
– This technology allows Pixxel to capture exact chemical signatures and offers more accurate solutions to previously unsolvable issues in industries such as agriculture, energy and environmental conservation.

– FalconX from San Francisco provides a platform facilitating trading, credit, and clearing for institutions.
– Company raised $50m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Tiger Global and B Capital Group joined by Coinbase Ventures, CMT Digital, Flybridge Capital Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Avon Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to scale its team and further expand its business lines to support new market growth.

– Yugabyte is a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based leader in open source distributed SQL databases.
– The company raised $48m in funding.
– The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with additional participation by Greenspring Associates, Dell Technologies Capital, Wipro Ventures and 8VC.
– The new investment will be used to expand R&D, sales and customer functions in the EMEA and APAC markets and further accelerate enterprise adoption of its commercial products.

– 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.

– Mexico City-based startup Stori raised $32.5m Series B funding.
– The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and joined by existing investors including Mastercard, Intel Capital, and others.
– The company plans to use the funding to expand its credit card product in Mexico.

– Hubilo, a platform that helps businesses of all sizes host virtual and hybrid events and gain access to real-time data and analytics, has raised $23.5 million in a series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
– The round saw participation from the U.K.’s Balderton Capital and Microsoft chair John W. Thompson, among other angel investors.
– The investment comes as people around the world prepare for a semblance of normality after a year of pandemic-induced social distancing.
– But while physical events will likely return in some form in the next year, online events are widely expected to stay — either exclusively or as part of a hybrid format.

– Matillion has raised $100m in a series C round of funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
– The company is racing to keep up with the demand for better cloud integration options.
– Matillion believes it has an advantage because its solution was built for the cloud-native era from the ground up.

– Personetics is a global provider of data-driven personalization and customer engagement solutions for banks and financial services providers.
– Warburg Pincus made the investment, joining Viola Ventures, Lightspeed Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Nyca Partners.
– The new investment will enable Personetics to further expand its global footprint and scale its business.