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WestCap and Peter Thiel-backed FLYR Labs closes $150M Series C
WestCap and Peter Thiel-backed FLYR Labs closes $150M Series C
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WestCap and Peter Thiel-backed FLYR Labs closes $150M Series C

– FLYR Labs, a deep learning platform for airlines, raised $150m in Series C funding.
– The funding round was led by WestCap, with participation from Silver Lake Waterman, WndrCo, as well as Peter Thiel, Streamlined Ventures, JetBlue Technology Ventures and Gopher Asset Management.
– The company plans to use the funding to grow its core business and expand into other verticals.

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

– Aumni is a Salt Lake City UT-based investment analytics platform.
– Company raised $50m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by J.P. Morgan with participation from Pelion Venture Partners, WndrCo, Citadel Securities, Invesco Private Capital, Vanderbilt University and Kera Capital.
– The new investment will be used to expand the company’s offering to limited partners, law firms and company founders.

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Saturn Raises $44M in Funding
Saturn Raises $44M in Funding
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Saturn Raises $44M in Funding

– Saturn, a NYC-based community-centric social platform built around the calendar, raised more than $44m in funding.
– Backers included General Catalyst, Insight Partners, and Coatue, as well as Bezos Expeditions (the personal investment company of Jeff Bezos), Marc Benioff (CEO and founder of Salesforce), Dara Khosrowshahi (CEO of Uber), Dick Costolo and Adam Bain’s 01 Advisors (former CEO and COO of Twitter), Mike Vernal (Partner at Sequoia Capital), Robert Downey Jr., Inspired Capital, WndrCo, Elad Gil, Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures, SV Angel, Jerry Murdock (co-founder of Insight Partners), Hadi Partovi, Neo (Ali Partovi’s Venture Fund), Dylan Field (CEO and co-founder of Figma), and TQ Ventures.
– The company will use the funding to grow its engineering and product teams, and to accelerate expansion.

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Instawork Raises $60M in Series C Funding
Instawork Raises $60M in Series C Funding
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Instawork Raises $60M in Series C Funding

– Instawork is a digital marketplace connecting local businesses with qualified professionals across the U.S.
– The company raised $60m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Craft Ventures with participation from Greylock, Corner Ventures, Four River Group, WndrCo, and Tilman Fertitta, owner of Landry’s and the Houston Rockets, alongside existing investors Benchmark, Spark Capital, GV, Burst Capital, and SV Angel.
– The new investment will be used to continue expanding into new markets, job categories, and industries.

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Aura Raises $150M in Series E Funding
Aura Raises $150M in Series E Funding
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Aura Raises $150M in Series E Funding

– Aura is a digital security technology company dedicated to creating a safer internet for everyone.
– The company has raised $450m to date from investors including Accel, General Catalyst and WndrCo, in addition to Warburg Pincus.
– The new funding will be used to enhance the customer experience, grow the user base of the new Aura product, accelerate development of new features and implement programs to increase consumer awareness through a national advertising campaign.

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Gwyneth Paltrow invests in The Expert, a video marketplace for high-end interior designers
Gwyneth Paltrow invests in The Expert, a video marketplace for high-end interior designers
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Gwyneth Paltrow invests in The Expert, a video marketplace for high-end interior designers

– The Expert, a platform for video consultations with interior designers, has raised $3m seed funding.
– The round was led by Forerunner Ventures and joined by Sweet Capital, Promus Ventures, Golden Ventures, Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo, AD 100 designer Brigette Romanek and CEO/founder of goop, Gwyneth Paltrow.
– The Expert offers 1:1 video consultations with leading interior designers.
– The founders consist of Jake Arnold, a celebrity interior designer (who has worked with John Legend, Rashida Jones and Cameron Diaz among, others) and YC-alumni, Leo Seigal, who previously founded and sold Represent.com to CustomInk for $100 million in 2015.

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ID.me Inks Mega $100M Series C Round
ID.me Inks Mega $100M Series C Round
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ID.me Inks Mega $100M Series C Round

– ID.me, a leading digital identity network that allows consumers to prove who they are online while controlling how their information is shared with brands, has raised $100m in a Series C funding round led by Viking Global Investors.
Counterpoint Global (Morgan Stanley), PSP Growth, Lead Edge Capital, CapitalG, WndrCo, Willoughby Capital, BoxGroup and Moonshots Capital joined the round.
– Prominent investors include Marcelo Claure, Alexa Von Tobel and Dan Rosensweig.

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Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270 million in Series E funding
Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270 million in Series E funding
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Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270 million in Series E funding

– Airtable, a no-code relational database, raised $270m funding.
– The round was led by Greenoaks Capital and joined by WndrCo, as well as existing investors Caffeinated Capital, CRV and Thrive.
– The company plans to use the funding to accelerate the development of its enterprise product and growing the team.
– The company was approached by Greenoaks, rather than actively seeking funding.

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Technology and Entertainment Visionaries Lead Wrapbook’s Multimillion Dollar Series A Round
Technology and Entertainment Visionaries Lead Wrapbook’s Multimillion Dollar Series A Round
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Technology and Entertainment Visionaries Lead Wrapbook’s Multimillion Dollar Series A Round

– Wrapbook, a breakthrough digital financial services solution for the project economy, initially focused on the entertainment industry, today announced a $27m Series A Round led by technology and entertainment industry investors Andreessen Horowitz, Equal Ventures, Uncork Capital, Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo and Michael Ovitz.
– The company’s innovative technology platform offers production companies of every size easy-to-use employer software and workers a portable profile to make it easier to on-board, pay and insure cast and crew as well as for employees to track their payments.
– Ali Javid, cofounder, CEO Wrapbook, “With this great group of tech and entertainment leaders, we will transform the industry with easy-to-use software built for production.”

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