Mesh Raises $5M in Seed Funding
– Mesh is a San Jose, CA-based provider of a people management platform.
– The company raised $5m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Sequoia Surge, RTP Global, Emles Venture Partners, and YCombinator Continuity with participation from angel investors Neeraj Arora (ex Whatsapp CBO), Prasanna Sankar (Co-founder Rippling), Munish Varma, Sumer Juneja and Vikas Agnihotri (Softbank Partners).
– The company intends to use the funds to grow its engineering and sales teams ahead of US expansion.
Seattle startup Esper raises $30M to grow DevOps platform for IoT device fleets
– Seattle startup Esper landed a $30m investment to fuel its fast-growing technology that helps companies manage their cloud-based IoT devices.
– Scale Venture Partners led the Series B round, with participation from Madrona Venture Group, Root Ventures, Ubiquity Ventures, and Haystack.
– Total funding to date is $40.6 million.
Productiv Raises $45M in Series C Funding
– Productiv, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of a SaaS management platform, closed a $45M Series C funding.
– The round was led by IVP with participation from existing investors Accel, Norwest Venture Partners, Okta Ventures, and new strategic investor Atlassian Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to continue to expand operations and its business reach.
Tetrate, Started by Istio Founders, Raises $40 Million to Help Enterprises With Cloud-Native Application Networking Platform
– Tetrate announced today that it has raised $40m in a Series B funding round led by Sapphire Ventures.
– Other new investors, Scale Venture Partners and NTTVC, and existing investors, Dell Technologies Capital, Intel Capital, 8VC, and Samsung NEXT, participated in the round.
– The Series B funding will be used to develop advanced capabilities within Tetrate Service Bridge, the only cloud-agnostic, hybrid cloud applications networking platform.
– Funding also will support a new SaaS offering: an Istio-based platform that makes the application service mesh easier to consume.
– Additionally, Tetrate will expand go-to-market activities in the Americas and initiate go-to-market teams in Europe and Asia.
Sentry Grabs $60M Series D Financing
– Sentry, the leader in application monitoring, has raised $60m in Series D funding.
– The round was led by its first capital investor, Accel, with participation from existing investor New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and new investor, BOND.
– Accel was the first investor in Sentry, leading its seed round in 2015 and it has increased its stake in every subsequent round.
Playvox: $25 Million Funding And Agyle Time Acquisition
– Playvox is a leading CRM-connected omnichannel contact center provider of agent optimization solutions.
– The company raised $25m in funding.
– Five Elms Capital led the round.
– The company also acquired Agyle Time, a provider of cloud-native digital-first workforce management (WFM) software for contact centers.
