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Alpaca raises $50M to rapidly scale its API-delivered equities trading business
– Alpaca, a fintech startup, raised $50m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Tribe Capital and joined by Spark Capital, Portage Ventures, Social Leverage, and Horizons Ventures.
– The company plans to secure 100 partners for its equities trading tech by the end of 2021.
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Tripp Raises $11M in Funding
– TRIPP is a digital psychedelic platform based in Los Angeles.
– The company raised $11m in funding round.
– The round was led by Vine Ventures and Mayfield with participation from Integrated, AlphaBridge Ventures, Beni VC, Berkeley Club, CJ Group, CTR Capital, Evolution, Robert Goldberg, Tony Greenberg, Grit VC, Incisive Ventures, Inflect Health, Iter Investments, Joanna Popper, Jim Dew, Joe Polish, JLS Fund, Lionheart Ventures, Matt Mullenweg, Mike DeLuise, Murtaza Hussain, NeoKuma, Presence Capital, PsyMed Ventures, Redbeard Ventures, Re.Mind Capital, Social Leverage, WhatIf Ventures and other individual investors.
– The company intends to use the funds to continue growing both its team and user base, further R&D, and expand its adaptive platform to support cross-platform distribution.
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Rally Raises $30M in Series B Funding
– Rally is a NYC-based platform that allows retail investors to invest in collectible assets.
– Company raised $30m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Accel, with participation from existing investors Upfront Ventures, Social Leverage and others.
– Additionally, Rally has secured a $50M debt facility from Upper90 Capital.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate expansion into new categories including cash-flow producing assets like intellectual property, royalties, real estate and more, user acquisition and hiring in areas such as technology, digital content creation and compliance.
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Announcing 1upHealth's $25 million Series B led by F-Prime
– 1upHealth has raised a $25m Series B led by F-Prime Capital.
– Existing investors, Jackson Square Ventures (which led our Series A), Eniac Ventures, and Social Leverage also participated.
– The infusion of capital will help us grow and evolve our FHIR connectivity & compute platform that’s already used by dozens of health plans, providers, app developers, and pharma companies.
– When we started selling for CMS compliance, we only had 15 team members. A year later, we are 70 strong, with dozens of health plans and states using our infrastructure and API platform.
– We’re now supporting 11 million of patients through dozens of health plan and provider customers.
– With this new round of capital, we’re positioned for rapid growth.
