– GrowthSpace is a New York-based company focused on personalized talent development programs.
– The company raised $15m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by M12 and Vertex Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to grow the team globally and expand its technology, which connects employees to relevant experts at scale.

- PandaDoc, a cloud-based e-document platform, raised $100m in Series C funding. - The round was led by OMERS Growth Equity and G Squared, and joined by Altos Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, One Peak Partners and M12. - PandaDoc competes with the likes of DocuSign, Eversign, DocSend, GetAccept and others. - The company has 30,000 customers across many different verticals. - PandaDoc's users are also pretty varied, including construction, education, medical and professional services businesses. - The company plans to double down on growing more of that current business as well as bring more functionality and use cases into the fold.

– Truepic, a digital image verification software provider, has raised $26m in a Series B funding round.
– The round was led by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, and joined by Adobe, Sony Innovation Fund, Hearst Ventures and individuals from Stone Point Capital.
– The company has raised $36m since its 2015 inception.

– Hunters announced a $30m Series B round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors YL Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Microsoft’s Venture Fund M12 and U.S. Venture Partners.
– The new funding brings the total investment to $50.4m.
– Companies targeted by complex security threats select Hunters XDR for its proven ability to accelerate threat detection, investigation and incident response.
– Among them are recognized brands in the financial services, technology, retail, manufacturing and media industries.

– Webiny announced a $3.5 million seed round to continue developing both pieces.
– Webiny, an early-stage startup that launched in 2019 with an open-source, serverless CMS, had also developed a framework to help build the CMS, and found that customers were also interested in that to help build their own serverless apps.
– Microsoft’s venture fund M12 led the round, with participation from Samsung Next, Episode 1, Cota Capital and other unnamed investors.
– Webiny founder Sven Al Hamad says that when the company launched, he had an inkling that serverless would be the future and started by building an open-source serverless CMS, but then something interesting happened.

– 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.

– 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.

– PsiQuantum has raised $450m in Series D funding to build the world’s first commercially viable quantum computer.
– The funding round was led by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, along with participation from insiders including Baillie Gifford and M12 – Microsoft’s venture fund – and new investors including Blackbird Ventures and Temasek.
– PsiQuantum has now raised a total of $665m in funding to date.
– PsiQuantum was founded in 2016 by the world’s foremost quantum computing experts, who understood that a useful quantum computer required fault-tolerance and error correction, and therefore at least 1 million physical qubits.

– InVia Robotics, an industrial robotics company based in Los Angeles, California, announced it has raised $30 million in a series C round co-led by Microsoft’s M12 and Qualcomm, with participation from Hitachi.
– InVia says the new equity funding will be used to support its growth, specifically through adopting Qualcomm’s Robotics RB5 Platform and drawing on AI expertise from Hitachi and Microsoft.
– Companies are increasingly determined to improve warehouse automation in light of pandemic-related supply chain challenges. A recent Honeywell survey found that 14% of enterprises rank improving automation within their facilities as a top priority, while 37% rank it among their top three near-term goals. A separate report published in Forbes found that 96% of warehouse executives expect the warehouse automation value proposition to increase over the next three years.

– Go1, a learning and development platform for enterprises, raised $200m in Series D funding.
– The round was led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2, AirTree Ventures and Salesforce Ventures co-led this Series D, with Blue Cloud Ventures, Larsen Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, Microsoft’s M12, SEEK, TEN13 and Scott Shleifer and John Curtius from Tiger Global also participating.
– The company has raised $80m in total funding.
– The company has 3.5 million users and more than 1,600 enterprises globally as customers.

– Netradyne, a San Diego, CA-based artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing company focusing on driver and fleet safety, raised $150m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 with participation from existing investors Point72 Ventures and M12.
– The company intends to use the funds to advance its core technology, expand into new geographies and accelerate hiring across R&D, marketing, and customer support.

– env0, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based based provider of remote-run workflow management solutions for cloud deployments, raised $17M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by M12 – Microsoft’s Venture Fund, with participation from existing investors Boldstart Ventures, Grove Ventures, and Crescendo Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand its Infrastructure as Code (IaC) platform.

– 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.

– 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.

– Arkose Labs, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of online fraud and abuse prevention technology platform, raised $70m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 with participation from Wells Fargo Strategic Capital and previous investors M12 and PayPal Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds toward platform development, new hires and global expansion.

– Artificial, a software company providing a first-of-its-kind lab automation platform, announced the close of their $21.5M Series A investment round.
– The round was led by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, along with Playground Global and AME Cloud Ventures.
– Artificial will use the investment to accelerate product development, expand their world-class team, and further their life science partnerships so that scientific breakthroughs can happen faster and more efficiently.

– Databook, a leading platform in enterprise customer intelligence, announced a $16m Series A funding led by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and seed investors: Threshold Ventures, Haystack and Firebolt.
– The new capital follows a seed round raised in January 2018 and brings Databook’s total investment to date to $22m.
– Since its founding, Databook has experienced 300% year-over-year growth, reflecting the pace at which enterprise sales organizations have evolved.
– Databook helps enterprise salespeople be successful by automating and augmenting smart pitches with market insights that speak specifically to the target business’ bottom line.
– Databook is an AI-powered SaaS platform that builds customer intelligence on top of CRM.

– RapidAPI announced that it has raised $60m in its Series C funding round.
– The financing was led by Green Bay Ventures and includes new investor, Stripes. Existing investors include Andreessen Horowitz, DNS Capital, M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), Viola Growth, and Grove Ventures.
– The investment comes on the heels of a high-growth year for RapidAPI amidst a pandemic that drove a record number of developers and companies to the RapidAPI platform to advance their digital initiatives and accelerate the delivery of their software and services to the market.
– RapidAPI is a next-generation API platform that enables developers and enterprises to find, connect to, and manage thousands of APIs.

– Ecomedes is a San Francisco, CA-based developer of building product optimization in the cloud.
– The company completed a $3.25M seed financing round.
– The round was led by M12, with participation from NOVA by Saint-Gobain, PivotNorth, Mission Innovations Network, and AM Ventures.
– The funding will be used on collaboration tools.

– Xsight Labs announced the closing of its Series D funding.
– The round was led by Valor Equity Partners and Atreides Management and was joined by new investor Fidelity Management & Research Company.
– Existing investors Battery Ventures, Intel Capital, M12 Microsoft’s Venture Fund and Xilinx, increased their investments.
– Additionally, Accton Technology joined as a new strategic investor.
– Xsight Labs’ Series D was significantly oversubscribed and is the largest round ever raised by our group.
– Xsight Labs emerged from stealth in December 2020 and announced the sampling availability of X1, the industry’s first 25.6T data center switch with 100G PAM4 SerDes.

– Parabol is a Los Angeles, CA-based Agile meeting platform.
– Company secured an $8m Series A funding.
– The round was led by M12 with participation from CRV, Haystack, Techstars, and others.
– The new investment will be used to expand its business reach and add new enterprise features.

– HYAS closed a $16m round of funding led by S3 Ventures.
– The funds will be used to accelerate product development and global market expansion for the company’s cyber attack infrastructure identification and blocking technology.
– Charlie Plauche, Partner at S3 Ventures, will join the HYAS board of directors.
– The round was also supported by Uncorrelated Ventures, Tightline Holdings, Cyber Mentor Fund, Dcode Capital and the continued participation from previous investors M12, Startup Capital Ventures, and 205 Capital.
– HYAS focuses on the attacker infrastructure rather than the individual attack and includes a portfolio of innovative solutions that identify the infrastructure and communication flows used by cyber criminals and fraudsters.
– HYAS Protect combines infrastructure expertise and multi-variant communication pattern analysis to deliver a generational leap, delivering preemptive security against existing and emerging attacks.

– Innovaccer has raised $1.3bn in a Series D funding round led by Tiger Global Management and bringing the total capital raised to over $225m.
– The round was also participated by existing investors Steadview Capital, Dragoneer, B Capital Group, Mubadala Capital, and M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund) as well as new investor OMERS Growth Equity.
– Innovaccer is on a mission to help healthcare organizations care as one.
– With its Data Activation Platform, Innovaccer connects healthcare data across a myriad of systems and settings, delivering unified patient records and actionable insights that result in better patient outcomes and lower costs.
– The company’s platform improves efficiencies for providers, payers, and others across the care ecosystem and helps them deliver whole-person care.

– Evisort from Silicon Valley today announced $35M in Series B funding following a year of 4x revenue growth.
– Global growth equity investor General Atlantic led the round, with participation from existing investors Amity Ventures, Microsoft’s venture fund M12, and Vertex Ventures.
– General Atlantic‘s Operating Partner and former GE CIO Gary Reiner will join Evisort as a board member.
– The company will use the funds to grow its customer success team, expand its platform to include more workflow-specific offerings, and continue to push the boundaries of its pre-trained AI.

– Evinced is an accessibility software company.
– The company raised $17m in Series A funding.
– M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund), BGV, Capital One Ventures, and Engineering Capital participated in the round.