– 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.

– Kolide is a Boston, MA-based user-focused endpoint security platform for teams.
– The company raised $17m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by OpenView Partners, with participation from Matrix Partners, who previously led the Series A.
– The new investment will be used to expand the product’s capabilities and hire additional engineers and product staff.

– Centaur Labs, a medical data labeling company, announced $15 million in funding to advance their mission to label the world’s medical data.
– The Series A round was led by Matrix Partners with participation from other funds including Accel, Global Founders Capital, Susa Ventures, Y Combinator, and individual investors including John Capodilupo (founder and CTO of WHOOP), Tom Lee (founder of One Medical), and Elliot Cohen (founder and CPO of PillPack).
– The new capital will fund the expansion of the company’s global network of labelers and accelerate product development and hiring.
– Artificial intelligence is enabling extraordinary advances in healthcare, with the potential to reduce costs and drastically improve healthcare outcomes. However, AI is only as accurate as the data it is trained on.

– Apollo GraphQL is a San Francisco, CA-based developer of open source and commercial GraphQL API technologies.
– Series D funding was led by Insight Partners with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures, Next47 and Hatim Shafique, Chief Customer Officer at DataBricks.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate the company’s product development efforts.

– MoEngage, an AI customer engagement platform, announced it has raised $32.5 million in a round led by Multiples Alternate Asset Management, with participation from Eight Roads Ventures, F-Prime Capital, and Matrix Partners.
– The San Francisco-based company says the new capital, which brings its total raised to over $72 million, will be used to support its global growth strategy and strengthen its AI and predictive capabilities.

– Flock Safety from Atlanta develops a public safety operating system for cities to work with private communities and law enforcement to eliminate crime, protect privacy, and mitigate bias.
– Series D $150m round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from and Initialized, Meritech, Bedrock, and Matrix Partners.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate product development and expand the team to support every city across the country.

– Rocketlane is a San Jose, Calif.-based provider of a customer onboarding software platform.
– Company raised $3m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Nexus Venture Partners and Matrix Partners.
– The new investment will be used to expand operations and business reach.

– Lightmatter is a leader in photonic computing.
– The company raised $80m in Series B funding.
– Viking Global Investors led the round with participation from GV (formerly Google Ventures), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Lockheed Martin, Matrix Partners, SIP Global Partners, Spark Capital, and several others.

– Keeper Tax is a San Francisco, CA-based tax filing software for gig workers, creators and freelancers.
– The company raised $13m in Series A funding.
– Backers included e.ventures, Matrix Partners, Foundation Capital, Lattice CEO and co-founder Jack Altman, Digits CEO and Crashlytics co-founder Jeff Seibert, and Segment president and co-founder Ilya Volodarsky.
– The company intends to use the funds to grow its team, including hiring people to support customers, build out its artificial intelligence capabilities to support more types of 1099 job roles, and expand its user base in the US and abroad.

– Side, a real estate technology company, raised $150m in Series D funding.
– The round was led by Coatue Management and joined by existing investors Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures and Sapphire Ventures.
– The company’s valuation increased nearly 7x compared to the $150m valuation at the time of its Series C.
– Side pulled in between $30m and $50m in revenue in 2020, and expects to double revenue this year.
– In 2019, Side represented over $5b in annual home sales across all of its partners.