![]() RapidAPI, $150M, developer APIs: San Francisco-based RapidAPI closed a $150 million Series D led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a $1 billion valuation. Founded in 2009, the company has now raised more than $376 million, according to Crunchbase.ħ. Tarana Wireless, $170M, wireless: Milpitas, California-based fixed wireless access provider Tarana Wireless closed a $170 million round co-led by Axon Capital, Khosla Ventures and Prime Movers Lab that values the company at $1 billion. LifeMine plans to use the new proceeds to advance its genomic drug discovery platform, Avatar-Rx.Ħ. Founded in 2017, the company has raised nearly $300 million, according to Crunchbase. LifeMine Therapeutics, $175M, biotech: Cambridge, Massachusetts-based drug discovery company LifeMine Therapeutics closed a $175 million Series C led by new investor Fidelity Management and Research Co. In a year, the company has surpassed $1 billion in annualized gross transaction volume and works with more than 3,000 companies in 24 countries, it said in a blog post.ĥ. Just about six months later, it raised a $180 million Series C led by Tencent at a $2.1 billion valuation-a more than 4x increase in value. New York-based Jeeves raised a $57 million Series B last September at a $500 million valuation. Corporate card and expense reporting definitely has investors’ attention. Founded in 2019, the company has raised over $1 billion in financing.Ĥ. Ramp said it grew revenue nearly 10x in 2021, with more than $5 billion of annual payments volume from over 5,000 businesses on its platform. The new financing gives the company an $8.1 billion valuation. New York-based Ramp closed a $200 million equity round led by Founders Fund that also included $550 million in asset-backed debt. Ramp, $200M, fintech: Back when the pandemic started, some thought startups that offered corporate card and expense reporting were an endangered species due to travel restrictions. Founded in 2018, the company, which is remote-first with hubs in Cincinnati, New York, San Francisco and San Jose, has raised more than $280 million to date, according to Crunchbase data.ģ. Astronomer-the commercial developer of open-source platform Apache Airflow-showed how important by securing a $213 million Series C round led by Insight Partners. ![]() Astronomer, $213M, data analytics: Data is king and allowing data teams to build faster through better orchestration can be important to a business. With a $450 million “seed” round and some of its Bored Ape NFTs selling for as much as $2.9 million-according to DappRadar-it’s clear the world has gone bananas.Ģ. ![]() ![]() Just last week the company made two acquisitions in the blockchain and NFT spaces. Yuga Labs is best known for its Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection, and with the new funding announced its own metaverse project called Otherside. The funding round values the company at $4 billion. Miami-based Yuga Labs closed a $450 million “seed” round led by a16z crypto. Yuga Labs, $450M, blockchain: Seed rounds have come a long way-at least what people sometimes call seed rounds. However, fintech was the big winner again this week, as two companies raised $380 million combined.ġ. While only one round broke the quarter-billion-dollar barrier-a “seed” round to a company that makes ape NFTs-investors spread their money around to data analytic, biotech and cyber companies. This week was big for NFTs and corporate card and expense reporting platforms. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. ![]() This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 funding rounds in the U.S. ![]()
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