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Grow Therapy plants $15M into helping therapists start their own practices
Grow Therapy plants $15M into helping therapists start their own practices
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Grow Therapy plants $15M into helping therapists start their own practices

– Grow Therapy, a behavioral health startup, raised $15m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by SignalFire and joined by existing investors, including First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital, and others.
– The company plans to use the funding to expand its team and grow its network of therapists.

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Explosion snags $6M on $120M valuation to expand machine learning platform
Explosion snags $6M on $120M valuation to expand machine learning platform
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Explosion snags $6M on $120M valuation to expand machine learning platform

– Explosion, a company that has combined an open source machine learning library with a set of commercial developer tools, announced a $6m Series A.
– The round was led by SignalFire, and the company reported that today’s investment represents 5% of its value.
– Oana Olteanu from SignalFire will be joining the board under the terms of the deal, which includes warrants of $12m in additional investment at the same price.
– The company started in 2016 when Montani met her co-founder, Matthew Honnibal in Berlin where he was working on the spaCy open source machine learning library. Since then, that open source project has been downloaded over 40 million times.

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Bubble Raises $100M In Series A Funding
Bubble Raises $100M In Series A Funding
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Bubble Raises $100M In Series A Funding

– Bubble is an NYC-based open-ended visual programming platform that lets people build and launch web applications without code.
– Series A $100m round was led by Insight Partners with participation from existing investors SignalFire, Neo, BoxGroup, and Third Kind and notable angel investors including the founders of Datadog, Peloton, and Hootsuite.
– The new investment will be used to improve the platform’s scalability to support newly-formed and scaling startups from MVP to IPO and expand educational initiatives to empower customers to build web platforms affordably.

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Flymachine Raises $21M in Funding
Flymachine Raises $21M in Funding
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Flymachine Raises $21M in Funding

– Flymachine is a San Francisco, CA-based virtual venue for live entertainment which delivers an immersive social experience.
– The company closed $21m in funding.
Greycroft Partners and SignalFire led the round, with participation from Primary Venture Partners, Contour Venture Partners, Red Sea Ventures, and Silicon Valley Bank, as well as angels including music-industry luminaries Coran Capshaw, Bill Silva, Marty Diamond, and Larry Webman, Bay Area concert promoter Another Planet Entertainment, Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons, WIRED magazine co-founding editor John Battelle, and LionTree Partners.
– The company intends to use the funds to continue to grow its diverse team, expand its network of venue partners, and develop new features for its digital events platform.

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Osso VR Raises $27M Series B
Osso VR Raises $27M Series B
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Osso VR Raises $27M Series B

– Osso VR, a validated virtual reality (VR) surgical training and assessment platform, has secured $27M in Series B funding.
GSR Ventures led the funding round with participation from Signalfire, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, OCA Ventures, Scrum Ventures, Leslie Ventures and Anorak Ventures.
– Osso VR’s surgical training technology provides on-demand, educational experiences that are effective, repeatable and measurable to help surgeons reach proficiency with emerging surgical techniques and technologies.

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Tapcart Raises $50M in Series B Funding
Tapcart Raises $50M in Series B Funding
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Tapcart Raises $50M in Series B Funding

– Tapcart is a mobile commerce platform that enables Shopify-powered brands to launch mobile apps.
– The company raised $50m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Left Lane Capital with participation from Shopify, SignalFire, Greycroft, Act One Ventures and Amplify LA.
– The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand its go-to-market strategy, accelerate team growth, and launch innovative new products into the market.

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PlanetScale Announces $30M Series B Funding to Accelerate Adoption of Instantly Provisioned and Infinitely Scalable Database
PlanetScale Announces $30M Series B Funding to Accelerate Adoption of Instantly Provisioned and Infinitely Scalable Database
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PlanetScale Announces $30M Series B Funding to Accelerate Adoption of Instantly Provisioned and Infinitely Scalable Database

– PlanetScale, the creator of Vitess, announced that it has secured $30 million in Series B funding led by Insight Partners with participation from a16z and SignalFire.
– Nikhil Sachdev, Managing Director at Insight Partners, joins the PlanetScale board, with Praveen Akkiraju, also Managing Director, being named a board observer.
– The new funds will be used to scale the PlanetScale team globally and to accelerate exposure and adoption of the platform, which lets developers create a new database in seconds that will grow as they grow, for years, with no limitations on scalability.
– Currently in use by Figma and Community.com, PlanetScale had until recently provided a hosted version of Vitess, the peerlessly-powerful open source database that underlies YouTube, Slack, Square and Airbnb.

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Bicycle Health Raises $27M in Series A Funding
Bicycle Health Raises $27M in Series A Funding
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Bicycle Health Raises $27M in Series A Funding

– Bicycle Health, a Boston, MA-based virtual care provider of evidence based treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), raised $27M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Questa Capital with participation from City Light Capital, Emily Melton and previous investor SignalFire.
– The company will use the capital to expand its clinician network, partner with additional payers, invest in research and continue building local community partnerships to reach those without other treatment options.

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Form Health Raises $12M in Series A Funding
Form Health Raises $12M in Series A Funding
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Form Health Raises $12M in Series A Funding

– Form Health is a Boston, MA-based obesity telemedicine company.
– The company raised $12M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by M13 with participation from SignalFire and NextView Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to expand the company’s availability to 90% of the US population.

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TestBox launches with $2.7M seed to make it easier to test software before buying
TestBox launches with $2.7M seed to make it easier to test software before buying
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TestBox launches with $2.7M seed to make it easier to test software before buying

– TestBox, a new startup, wants to change that by providing a fully working package with pre-populated data to give the team a way to test and collaborate on the product before making a buying decision.
– The company announced it was making the product widely available; they also announced a $2.7m seed round from SignalFire and Firstminute Capital along with several other investors and industry angels.
– Company co-founder Sam Senior says he and his co-founder Peter Holland recognized that it was challenging for companies buying software to test it in a realistic way.
– TestBox comes pre-populated with data generated by GPT-3 OpenAI to test how the software behaves and lets participants grade different features on a simple star rating system and provide comments as needed.

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Branch Insurance Raises $50M in Series B Funding
Branch Insurance Raises $50M in Series B Funding
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Branch Insurance Raises $50M in Series B Funding

– Branch Insurance from Columbus, OH provides home and auto insurance services to its customers.
– The company raised $50m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Anthemis Group with participation from Acrew, Cherry Creek Holdings, and existing investors Greycroft, HSCM Bermuda, American Family Ventures, SignalFire, SCOR P&C Ventures, Foundation Capital, and Tower IV.
– The new investment will be aimed at accelerating the company’s rollout across the U.S. to enable more national embedded partnerships.

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Hawthorne Effect Raises $20M in Series A Funding
Hawthorne Effect Raises $20M in Series A Funding
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Hawthorne Effect Raises $20M in Series A Funding

– Hawthorne Effect, a San Francisco CA-based company which offers solutions for decentralizing clinical trials, raised $20M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Northpond Ventures, with participation from SignalFire and P5 Health Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth and help scale operations.

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Branch raises $50M to offer bundled auto & home insurance via an API
Branch raises $50M to offer bundled auto & home insurance via an API
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Branch raises $50M to offer bundled auto & home insurance via an API

– Branch Insurance, a startup offering bundled home and auto insurance, has raised $50m in a Series B funding round.
– The round was led by Anthemis Group and joined by Acrew, Cherry Creek Holdings and existing backers Greycroft, HSCM Bermuda, American Family Ventures, SignalFire, SCOR P&C Ventures, Foundation Capital and Tower IV.
– With this latest financing, Columbus, Ohio-based Branch has raised $82.5m in total funding since its 2017 inception.

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BluBracket Raises $12M in Series A Funding
BluBracket Raises $12M in Series A Funding
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BluBracket Raises $12M in Series A Funding

– BluBracket, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based code security company, raised $12m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Evolution Equity Partners with participation from existing investors Unusual Ventures, Point72 Ventures, SignalFire and Firebolt Ventures.
– In conjunction with the funding, Karthik Subramanian, partner at Evolution Equity Partners, will join John Vrionis of Unusual Ventures and Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation on the BluBracket board of directors.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand its go-to-market activities and to continue development of their Code Security products.

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Stampli Raises $50M in Series C Funding
Stampli Raises $50M in Series C Funding
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Stampli Raises $50M in Series C Funding

– Stampli, a Mountain View, Calif.-based AI-driven AP Automation company which enables CFOs and controllers to close the disconnect between accounts payables and the broader organization, raised $50m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Insight Partners with participation from SignalFire and Nextworld Capital, which joined UpWest, Hillsven, Bloomberg and Naver Corp.
– As part of this funding round, Praveen Akkiraju, Managing Director at Insight Partners, will join the Stampli Board of Directors.

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Analytics startup Unsupervised raises $35M to spot patterns in enterprise data
Analytics startup Unsupervised raises $35M to spot patterns in enterprise data
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Analytics startup Unsupervised raises $35M to spot patterns in enterprise data

– Boulder, Colorado-based Unsupervised, a big data analytics company leveraging AI to find patterns in business data, today announced that it raised $35 million in a series B round led by Cathay Innovation and Signalfire.
– Unsupervised says that it intends to use the funding to hire additional employees as it continues to develop its platform.
– Most enterprises have to wrangle countless data buckets, some of which inevitably become underused or forgotten.
– A Forrester survey found that between 60% and 73% of all data within corporations is never analyzed for insights or larger trends.
– The opportunity cost of this unused data is substantial, with a Veritas report pegging it at $3.3 trillion by 2020.

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Ro Raises $500 Million in Series D Funding to Expand its Vertically Integrated Primary Care Platform
Ro Raises $500 Million in Series D Funding to Expand its Vertically Integrated Primary Care Platform
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Ro Raises $500 Million in Series D Funding to Expand its Vertically Integrated Primary Care Platform

– Ro Raises $500 Million in Series D Funding to Expand its Vertically Integrated Primary Care Platform
– Ro is the healthcare technology company
– The company has completed a $500 million Series D fundraising round led by existing investors General Catalyst, FirstMark Capital and TQ Ventures, with significant participation from existing investors SignalFire, Torch Capital and BoxGroup as well as new investors Altimeter Capital, Baupost Group, Dragoneer Investment Group, ShawSpring Partners, Radcliff, and 776.
– The Series D brings Ro’s total fundraising since its founding in 2017 to $876 million.
– Ro will use the newly-raised capital to strengthen its vertically integrated primary care platform.

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After 200% ARR growth in 2020, CourseKey raises $9M to digitize trade schools
After 200% ARR growth in 2020, CourseKey raises $9M to digitize trade schools
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After 200% ARR growth in 2020, CourseKey raises $9M to digitize trade schools

– CourseKey, a trade school management SaaS startup, raised $9m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by SignalFire and joined by existing backer Builders VC.
– The company plans to use the funding to continue its momentum.

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January AI Raises $21 Million to Fuel Growth of Its Breakthrough Diabetes Management Technology
January AI Raises $21 Million to Fuel Growth of Its Breakthrough Diabetes Management Technology
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January AI Raises $21 Million to Fuel Growth of Its Breakthrough Diabetes Management Technology

– January AI has raised $8.8M in new funding from visionary institutional and individual investors, bringing its total capital raised to $21M.
Felicis Ventures, a venture fund with a history of investing in notable consumer health and wellness disruptors, including Fitbit and Modern Health, participated in the round along with HAND Capital and Marc Benioff.
– They join existing seed investors AME Cloud Ventures and SignalFire, along with YouTube Co-Founder Steve Chen, Sunshine Co-Founder Marissa Mayer, Grail Co-Founder and former Illumina CTO Mostafa Ronaghi, Home Care Assistance Chairman Lily Sarafan, and Oracle veteran Gary Kennedy.

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