– DeepHow, the AI company that turns technical know-how into smart, how-to training videos, has closed $9M in pre-Series A funding.
– Sierra Ventures, a specialist in early-stage VC funding, led the round with participation by Osage Venture Partners, Qualcomm Ventures LLC, and pre-seed investor Foothill Ventures.
– The company will use this additional funding to solidify its technical lead, accelerate its market expansion in Asia, and fuel its enterprise sales and marketing initiatives.

– Enable, a San Francisco, CA-based cloud-based software solution for B2B rebate management, raised $45m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from previous investors Menlo Ventures and Sierra Ventures, along with several angel investors.
– The new investment will be used to continue to expand operations and its business reach.

– Balto announced the completion of a $37.5m Series B funding round.
– The funding was led by Stripes and joined by RingCentral Ventures.
– Existing investors that participated include Sierra Ventures, TIA Ventures, OCA Ventures, Stage Venture Partners, SaaS Venture Capital, Sandalphon Capital, Cultivation Capital, and Atreides Management.
– The funding comes on the heels of Balto’s two latest product releases and as Balto’s Real-Time Platform surpasses 75 million guided calls and 160 million Real-Time Recommendations.

– Hashnode is a blogging platform built for and dedicated to the global software development community.
– The company raised $6.7m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Salesforce Ventures with participation from Sierra Ventures, Sequoia Capital India’s Surge and Accel Partners, as well as angel investors such as Naval Ravikant (co-founder, Angellist), Des Traynor (co-founder, Intercom), Guillermo Rauch (co-founder, Vercel), Salil Deshpande (general partner, Uncorrelated) and Ed Roman (managing director, HackVC).
– The new investment will be used to continue growing the platform’s user base.

– Reify Health announced a $220m Series C funding round led by Coatue Management, joined by ICONIQ Growth and Adams Street Partners, as well as existing investors Sierra Ventures and Battery Ventures.
– This latest funding, which brings the company’s valuation to $2.2bn, underscores Reify Health’s success in dramatically shortening clinical trial timelines.
– Reify Health has built a new foundation for how clinical trials are run through its business entities, StudyTeam and Care Access.
– StudyTeam delivers the best-in-class technology platform for optimizing patient recruitment and enrollment, and is used by top-20 global biopharma companies such as Amgen, AstraZeneca, and Eli Lilly and Company, and approximately 4,000 research sites across 65 countries.

– Zeni is a Palo Alto, CA-based AI-powered finance concierge startup.
– The company raised $34m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Elevation Capital with participation from new investors Think Investments and Neeraj Arora and existing investors Saama Capital, Amit Singhal, Sierra Ventures, Twin Ventures, Dragon Capital and Liquid 2 Ventures.
– The company will use the funds to bring its intelligent bookkeeping and accounting platform and services to more customers by investing in its team in the U.S. and India across product, technology, marketing, sales, and finance operations.

– Spectro Cloud, a next-gen Kubernetes enterprise management platform, announced the completion of its Series A funding round, amounting to $20M.
– The round was led by Stripes, a leading investor in software and consumer products.
– Prior to this current investment round, Spectro Cloud had previously raised $7.5M in seed funding from Sierra Ventures, boldstart ventures, WestWave Capital and Firebolt Ventures, all of which also participated in the current Series A funding round.
– Additional Series A investors include T-Mobile Ventures and Alter Venture Partners.

– Paro is a Chicago, IL-based startup on-demand financial expertise company.
– The company raised $25m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Madrona Venture Group, with participation from existing investors Revolution Ventures, Sierra Ventures and KGC Capital.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate the company’s growth domestically and internationally as well as invest in its AI–powered professional services marketplace.

– Hammoq, a Phoenix AZ-based eCommerce platform, raised $3M in seed funding.
– The round was led by Origin Ventures with participants from Sierra Ventures, SaaS Ventures, and Silicon Road Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand its team and continue iterating on its product offerings.

– 10Web from New York develops a WordPress website builder that uses AI algorithms to build websites and optimize them for search engines.
– The company raised $2m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Sierra Ventures and AI Fund.
– The new investment will be used to expand operations, accelerate growth and business reach.

– ArmorCode is a Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup delivering application security at the speed of DevOps.
– The company raised $3m in seed financing.
– The round was led by Sierra Ventures with participation from Tau Ventures and Z5 Capital and individual investors Andreas Kuehlmann (CEO, Tortuga Logic; former security executive at Synopsys) and Prithvi Rai (former Sr. Director of Security at Uber, Facebook, and Yahoo!).
– The new investment will be used to expand the company’s operations and business reach.

– Zeni is a modern bookkeeping fintech company based in Palo Alto, Calif.
– Company raised $13.5m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Saama Capital with participation from Amit Singhal, Sierra Ventures, SVB Financial Group, Liquid 2 Ventures, Firebolt Ventures, Dragon Capital, and Twin Ventures, with additional prominent angel investors.
– The new investment will be used to expand operations and business reach.