– Speakeasy Co. from San Diego CA is an e-commerce platform for the beverage alcohol industry.
– The company raised $2M in seed funding.
– The round was led by Trog Hawley Capital LLC with participation from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund.
– The new investment will be used to further accelerate growth and bolster services for brand partners and invest in people, technology, offerings, and logistics.

– Rattle is building a real-time and collaborative “connectivity tissue” to address the siloed nature of modern record-keeping and intelligence platforms.
– The startup announced that it has raised a seed round of $2.8 million from Lightspeed and Sequoia Capital India.
– Amy Chang (EVP at Cisco & Disney board member), Ellen Levy (early investor in Outreach), Jake Seid (early investor in Brex & Carta), and Krish & Raman (the founders of unicorn SaaS firm Chargebee) also participated in the round.
– The startup, which launched its offering in March, is already seeing over 70% conversion rate among enterprises that have given it a try.
– Rattle has amassed over 50 customers, including Terminus, Olive, Litmus, Imply and Parse.ly.

– Accord, a business-to-business sales platform, raised $6m in seed funding.
– The round was led by non-institutional investors and included a group of CEOs and sales leads from companies it works with.
– The company plans to use the funding to double its team and continue to grow its product.

– People.ai, a revenue operations and intelligence platform, announced $100m in Series D funding at a $1.1b post-money valuation.
– The round was co-led by Mike Dinsdale of Akkadian Ventures and Abdulla AlBanna of Mubadala Capital, with participation from existing investors including ICONIQ Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
– People.ai’s patented AI technology, transforms business activity such as email, meetings, and contacts, into account and opportunity management solutions that increase sales rep productivity, accelerates revenue growth, and maximizes marketing ROI.

– Nektar.ai from Bengaluru, India and Singapore raised US$8.1M in seed funding.
– The round was led by B Capital Group, 3One4 Capital, and Nexus Venture Partners with participation from Amit Midha, Ritesh Agarwal, Kevin Merritt, Evan Davidson, Deep Nishar, and Tom Donlea.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate product development and hire talent for its core team across product, engineering, and GTM functions.

– Orum is a San Francisco CA-based provider of a sales acceleration platform.
– The company raised $25m in funding.
– The round was led by Craft Ventures with participation from Unusual Ventures and Neo.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate growth, expand operations and business reach.

– Side is a San Francisco, CA-based real estate technology company that partners agents, teams, and independent brokerages to transform them into boutique brands and businesses.
– The company raised $50m in additional funding.
– The round was led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from Iconiq Capital and D1 Capital Partners.
– The new funding will be used to accelerate Side’s growth for its technology brokerage platform, while setting the stage for a future IPO.

– CommerceIQ announced the closing of a $60M Series C funding round.
– The round will fund international expansion and product research and development focused on further maximizing brand revenue and profitability on Amazon, Walmart, Instacart, Target and other online marketplaces.
– The company also intends to significantly scale its India operations, with additional key hires in Software and Product Development, Data Science & Analytics, Product Operations and Support.
– With a 40% growth in e-commerce this year alone, it is imperative that brands apply automation and machine learning to manage their business online.
– The platform ties together multiple functions – sales, advertising, supply chain operations – and drives large scale automations across the e-commerce operation.

– MedScout from Austin TX is a revenue intelligence platform focused on enabling the sales teams at medical device, pharmaceutical, and home health companies to find prospects, organize pipeline activities, and then track and measure execution across reps and teams.
– The company raised $800k in Pre-Seed funding.
– The round was led by LiveOak Venture Partners, with participation from Chuck Gordon and Mario Feghal and Luke Fernandez.
– The new investment will be used to expand product development rolling out new features and conduct go-to-market initiatives.

– Outreach is a sales engagement platform provider based in Seattle.
– Company closed $200m funding round from Premji Invest, Steadfast Capital Ventures, Tiger Global Management, Sequoia Capital Global Equities, Vista Public Strategies and one of the largest U.S. asset managers based on the West Coast.
– The new investment will be used to further strengthen its position as a sales technology platform while accelerating market expansion and growth.

– Qualified is a conversational sales and marketing platform purpose-built for Salesforce Sales Cloud.
– The company raised $51m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Salesforce Ventures, with participation from existing investors Norwest Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures.
– The new investment will be aimed at accelerating product innovation and expanding the team in all key functions including engineering, sales, marketing and customer success.

– Qualified, a startup that builds better interactions for B2B sales and marketing teams that already use Salesforce by tapping into extra data sources to develop a better profile of those visiting your website, in aid of improving and personalizing the outreach has picked up $51m in funding.
– The funding round was led by Salesforce Ventures and joined by Norwest Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures, both previous backers, among others.
– The startup will be using the Series B to continue building out its business with more functionality in the platform, and hiring across the board to expand business development and more.

– Homzmart, a furniture marketplace, raised $15m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by MSA Capital and joined by Nuwa Capital, and other investors.
– It brings the total amount raised to $17.2m.

– Breadcrumbs is a San Francisco-based provider of a revenue acceleration platform.
– Company raised $5.4m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Blue Canyon, with participation from Stormbreaker, Active Capital, Primo Ventures, Hustle Fund and several angel investors.
– The new investment will be used to build out integration on large sales and marketing platforms and to expand the company’s business reach.

– Databook, a leading platform in enterprise customer intelligence, announced a $16m Series A funding led by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and seed investors: Threshold Ventures, Haystack and Firebolt.
– The new capital follows a seed round raised in January 2018 and brings Databook’s total investment to date to $22m.
– Since its founding, Databook has experienced 300% year-over-year growth, reflecting the pace at which enterprise sales organizations have evolved.
– Databook helps enterprise salespeople be successful by automating and augmenting smart pitches with market insights that speak specifically to the target business’ bottom line.
– Databook is an AI-powered SaaS platform that builds customer intelligence on top of CRM.

– Demoflow from Denver provides a platform for sales team collaboration to boost productivity, increase revenue, and decrease sales cycles.
– The company raised $2.4m in the second seed funding round.
– RTP Seed led the round with participation from Slack Fund, First Mile Ventures, Next Frontier Capital, and Heroic Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand its platform’s functionality.

– Hub, a productivity platform for technical pre-sales, has formally launched with $1m in seed funding.
– The company was founded by CEO Freddy Mangum and CTO Karl Gainey.
– Hub is designed to help individual contributors manage the sales process.
– The company was founded in 2020.

– Pacaso raised $75m in Series B funding and $1bn in debt financing.
– The company’s platform aims to make it easier for more people to own a vacation home by splitting ownership into several different pieces as part of an LLC.
– Buyers pay for their share and Pacaso pays for the rest, eventually selling the other “shares” to additional owners.
– It then serves as the owner representative on behalf of the group, handling various logistics such as maintenance, financing, legal, and more.
– Its platform also lets owners with scheduling and booking.
– The business model is common in commercial real estate, but not as much in the vacation home industry.
– It’s different than the traditional resort timeshare structure, which are typically at hotels or resorts versus actual owned homes.