– SoundCommerce, a platform that unifies retailers’ data from across multiple systems, has raised $15m in a series A round of funding led by Emergence Capital.
– SoundCommerce is pitched as an end-to-end data platform that helps retailers improve their marketing and operations by harnessing all their data from customers, sales and purchase orders, shipments, and inventory.
– It does this by plugging into third-party platforms, including Google Cloud, Snowflake, AWS, Azure, Tableau, Looker, Microsoft Power BI, and more through prebuilt integrations.
– Ultimately, SoundCommerce wants to give retailers of all sizes the kind of data intelligence available to the major ecommerce players — such as Amazon.
– SoundCommerce had previously raised around $6.5m.

– Creatio, a low-code process automation and customer relationship management (CRM) platform, has raised $68 million in a round of funding led by growth equity firm Volition Capital.
– The raise, which is the first external investment in Creatio’s eight-year history, comes during a boom period for low-code and no-code platforms, spanning everything from enterprise app building and marketing analytics to web development, game production, and process automation.
– The global low-code development market is pegged at roughly $10 billion today, a figure that’s projected to rise to $187 billion within a decade as businesses battle to hire and retain top technical talent.
– Low-code platforms promise to help businesses improve many of their internal development and operational processes by enabling less technically-able workers to lean on automated tools such as Creatio.

– CloudTalk, a Bratislava, Slovakia-based startup that offers cloud call center software-as-a-service, raised €6m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by henQ and joined by Point Nine Capital.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand its marketing, sales and product development efforts to new regions.
– CloudTalk provides a SaaS based call center software platform to customers from over 80 countries.
– The company has a team of 57 people.

– Knock, a software company for apartment property managers, raised $20m funding.
– The round was led by Fifth Wall and joined by Madrona Venture Group, Lead Edge Capital, Second Avenue Partners and Seven Peaks Ventures.
– Vik Chawla, partner at Fifth Wall, will join Knock’s board.

– Vivun is a company that helps empower presales.
– The company raised $35m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Menlo Ventures with new investors Salesforce Ventures and Atlassian Ventures along with existing backers Accel and Unusual Ventures.

– Scratchpad is a workspace for revenue teams.
– The company raised $13m in Series A funding.
– Craft Ventures led the round and Accel participated.
– David Sacks, founding COO of PayPal, founder/CEO of Yammer and founder/general partner at Craft Ventures, joined the board.

– Alleva is a provider of software to the behavioral health industry.
– The company raised a seed round of funding.
– The round was led by Jonathan Ord.
– The new investment will be used to expand the company’s business reach and develop new functionality.

– CIBC Innovation Banking is pleased to announce a growth capital facility for Indianapolis-based Bloomerang, Inc. (“Bloomerang”). Bloomerang plans to use the capital for its recent acquisition of Nashville, TN-based Kindful, Inc. (“Kindful”), and to continue its growth momentum.
– Bloomerang, a leading provider of cloud-based donor management and fundraising software for small and mid-size nonprofits, delivers easy-to-use tools that help clients improve donor retention and increase donor engagement. Its recent acquisition of Kindful, a nonprofit software platform known for its third party application integrations and online fundraising tools, enables Bloomerang to deliver and scale a dynamic donor management and fundraising platform that will help nonprofits acquire new donors, increase donor loyalty, improve donor communication and provide comprehensive reporting.

– MedLumics, a privately held medical device company developing AblaView®, the first optically-guided real-time ablation catheter system for the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (AF), announced today that it has closed an upsized EUR 18 million (USD 21.7 million) financing round.
– MedLumics’ optical catheter displays lesion creation in real-time providing the physician with direct visual confirmation of conduction tissue denaturation.
– This round was led by Asabys Partners, along with new investors, VI Partners Swiss Innovation and CDTI Innvierte Economía, and existing investors Andera Partners, Caixa Capital Risc and Innogest Capital II.
– MedLumics is now ready to initiate first in-human regulatory clinical studies and automate scalable product manufacturing.