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Venture Capital Deals: August 29, 2022
Written by Ken Gaebler
Published: 8/29/2022
Start your week with a review of recently funded VC transactions, curated from our venture capital deals database.
Today, we are featuring thirty-one new VC deals from our venture capital database.
We've got nine seed rounds in the mix today. It's great to see so many new tech startups launching!
28 by Evie
28 by Evie, a women's fitness technology company, received $3.2 million in seed funding, led by Thiel Capital. Learn Capital and Steel Perlot also invested. The company is based in Miami, Florida.
57hours
1-1 participated in a $2.3 million seed capital raise for 57hours. The company is headquartered in New York City and provides a platform for booking outdoor adventures guided by experts.
9count
Los Angeles-based mobile technology company 9count raised $27.5 million in Series A funding from CrossCut Ventures, GGV Capital, Greycroft Partners, Grishin Robotics, I2BF Venture Capital, Progression Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Signia and Waverley Capital. The company develops mobile apps like Wink, Popstream and Summer and is led by the former President of musical.ly (now known as TikTok).
ArabyAds
ArabyAds, an adtech company focused on e-commerce marketing, closed a $30 million Series B funding round. The funding was provided by AfricInvest. The company is based in Dubai.
AtomVie Global Radiopharma
Avego Management backed a Series A capital raise for AtomVie Global Radiopharma. The investment amount was not disclosed. The company is based in Hamilton in Ontario Canada. The company is focused on next-generation radiotherapeutics and supporting its pharmaceutical and biotech partners from early clinical development to commercial manufacturing.
Blockify
Blockchain technology venture Blockify secured $2.2 million in funding. The company announced the deal but opted not to disclose who the investors were. Based in the Bahamas, Blockify provides a single point of entry for managing and interacting with digital Web3 assets.
Carbon Direct
New York-based carbon management firm Carbon Direct announced a $60 million round. Decarbonization Partners led the round, with support from BlackRock, Quantum Energy Partners and Temasek Holdings.
Comm Technologies
Comm Technologies, a developer of a crypto-native chat platform for social clubs, received $5 million in seed investment from CoinFund. The company is based in New York City.
Deposits
Dallas-based Deposits raised $5 million in seed funding from lead investors ATX Venture Partners, with additional investment from Cabal Fund and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company offers a cloud-based fintech platform that lets banks, brands, and communities embrace engagement, modernization and financial services such as payments, mobile apps and lending.
Fair Square Medicare
San Francisco-based Fair Square Medicare announced a $15 million Series A round. Define Ventures led the round, with support from Slow Ventures and Y Combinator. The company is a technology-driven, senior care-navigation company that initially launched as a brokerage firm for Medicare .
FOMO Pay
Fintech startup FOMO Pay closed a $13 million Series A investment round. Jump Crypto took the lead on making the investment. Other investors included AB Initio Capital Management, Antalpha Ventures, HashKey Capital and Republic Capital. Based in Singapore, the company provides one-stop digital payment and banking solutions to merchants, retailers, corporates, and financial institutions.
Handshakes
Corporate intelligence venture Handshakes, which provides data analytics and risk monitoring solutions to enterprise customers, raised a strategic funding round from Nikkei and S&P Global. The investment amount was not provided. Founded in 2011, the company is based in Singapore with offices in many other cities.
Hera Biotech
Medtech company Hera Biotech, operating out of San Antonio, Texas, secured $1.9 million in seed funding from Coyote Ventures. The company is working on non-surgical tests for endometriosis.
Landing Platforms
Real estate venture Landing Platforms closed a $125 million Series C venture capital round. Delta-V Capital took the lead on making the investment. Additional backers included Foundry Group and Greycroft Partners. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, the company offers a membership-based network of furnished, flexible-lease apartments.
Levee Medical
Medical devices company Levee Medical landed a $6.6 million Series A financing round. Investors were not disclosed. Based in Durham, the company is designing solutions to improve surgical outcomes related to prostate cancer.
Lumachain
Lumachain, a food-centric supply chain platform, raised $19.5 million in Series A funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Main Sequence Ventures also invested in the round. The company is based in Sydney, Australia.
Matrixian Group
Amsterdam-based Matrixian Group, a data technology company focused on location intelligence, raised $2 million in investment from Pride Capital Partners.
Mural.xyz
Blockchain startup Mural.xyz announced $5.6 million in seed funding from 186 Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Firstminute Capital and Galaxy Ventures Based in New York City, Mural makes it easy for brands to store, manage, and deploy DAO treasury funds.
NFT Genius
Blockchain venture NFT Genius raised $10.5 million in Series A funding from Dapper Labs, Fundamental Labs and OneFootball. The Los Angeles-based company is working on marketplace technology for the NFT market.
Petfolk
Veterinary care startup Petfolk raised $40 million in Series A funding from White Star Capital and Michael Wystrach, the founder of Freshly, with support from TriplePoint Capital and a long list of individual investors. The company is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Privado
Privado, a code scanning platform, announced a $14 million Series A equity round. Insight Venture Partners and Sequoia India led the investment, with participation from Emergent Ventures and Together Fund. The company is headquartered in Dover, Delaware.
SaNOtize
Pharmaceutical company SaNOtize announced a $24 million round. Horizons Ventures and OurCrowd led the round. Other investors included the Agricultural Bank of China. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada.
Scalenut
Scalenut closed a $3.1 million seed financing round. Saama Capital and Amit Singhal, formerly a senior vice president at Google and head of Google Search, invested. Based in Altadena, California, the company offers an AI-powered content intelligence SaaS platform that discovers and creates relevant customer content.
Servify
Mumbai-based Servify raised $65 million in Series D funding from lead investors Singularity Growth Opportunity Fund, with support from AmTrust, BEENEXT, Blume Ventures, DMI Sparkle Fund, Iron Pillar and Pidilite Industries Limited. The company offers a device management platform that manages the lifecycle of several popular smartphone vendors, including Apple and Samsung, across many markets.
SmartMoving
Dallas-based SmartMoving secured a $41.5 million investment round. Backers included Mainsail Partners. The company provides management and CRM software to moving companies.
Spectral Finance
Blockchain and fintech startup Spectral Finance, a developer of a liquidity aggregation platform designed to decentralize the world of finance, announced a $23 million equity round. General Catalyst Partners and Social Capital led the investment, with support from Circle Ventures, Franklin Templeton, Gradient Ventures, Jump Capital, Samsung Ventures and Section 32. The company is based in New Rochelle, New York.
SubsBase
Cloud-based subscription and billing platform SubsBase closed a $2.4 million seed funding round. Global Ventures took the lead on making the investment. Other investors included Arzan Venture Capital, Camel Venture, Ingressive Capital, P1 Ventures and Plug and Play Tech Center. The fintech startup is based in Cairo, Egypt.
Tradeblock by Astrolabs
Concrete Rose Capital, Courtside Ventures and Trinity Ventures participated in a $8.9 million funding round for Astrolabs dba Tradeblock. Based in Houston, Texas, the company provides a barter-centric trading platform for sneaker collectors.
Upkid
Upkid closed a $1.7 million seed funding round. Backers included Beehive Venture Partners, Corazon Capital and Newfund. The company provides an app that connects daycare programs and preschools with early childhood professionals who flexibility in their work schedules. They are based in Eagle Mountain, Utah.
Ventrk
HBSI Capital invested in a $1 million funding round for Ventrk, a health and wellness software developer. The company is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.
Zilliz
San Francisco-based Zilliz, a leading provider of vector database and AI technologies, announced a $60 million round. Prosperity7 Ventures led the funding round, with participation from 5Y Capital, Hillhouse Capital Group, Pavilion Capital and Yunqi Partners.
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