TechNY Daily
September 27, 2021
Edition 621
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1. Brooklyn’s Opentrons, a lab automation startup, has raised $200 million in a Series C financing. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the round at a $1.8 billion valuation with participation by Khosla Ventures. The company’s robots and software automate entire lab workflows. The company is also planning to move from Dumbo to Long Island City’s Court Square. (www.opentrons.com) (Fierce Biotech) (Commercial Observer)
2. NYC’s Botify, an enterprise SEO platform, has raised $55 million in a Series C funding. InfraVia Growth led the round and was joined by Bpifrance, Eurazeo and Ventech. Among the customers for Botify’s organic search analytics platform are Expedia, The New York Times, Groupon, Marriott, Githib and Carvana. Botify is one of the many French startups in NYC. (www.botify.com) (TechCrunch)
3. NYC’s Code Climate, an automated code platform, has raised $50 million in a Series C funding. PSG led the round and was joined by NYC’s Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group, NYC’s Lerer Hippeau Ventures and NextView Ventures. The company’s “engineering intelligence platform” allows customers such as Pizza Hut and Instacart to ship code faster by plugging into DevOps and project management tools such as GitHub. (www.codeclimate.com) (VentureBeat)
4. NYC’s Bodhala, a legal spend analytics platform, has been acquired by Houston’s Onit, an enterprise legal management software provider. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Bodhala had previously raised a total of $19 million from investors including Princeton’s Edison Partners. (www.bodhala.com) (Reuters)
5. NYC’s Hum Capital, a platform that matches startups with potential investors, has raised $9 million in a Series A funding. Future Ventures led the round and was joined by Webb Investment Network, Wavemaker Partners and Partech. The company’s AI-based platform analyzes a startup’s fundamentals and then recommends potential funding options from the 250 institutional investors on its platform. (www.humcapital.com) (TechCrunch)
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6. NYC’s Ocrolus, a financial documents analysis platform, has raised $80 million in a Series C funding. Fin VC led the round at a valuation greater than $500 million, and was joined by Thomvest Ventures, Mubadala Ventures, Greenwich’s Oak HC/FT, FinTech Collective, QED Investors, Bullpen Capital, ValueStream Ventures, Laconia, RiverPark Ventures, Stage II Capital and NJ’s Cross River Bank. Ocrolus uses a combination of technologies, including OCR, machine learning/AI and big data, to analyze financial documents. Westchester Angels was an early investor in the company. (www.ocrolus.com) (TechCrunch)
7. NYC’s StrongDM, an infrastructure access platform, has raised $55 million in a Series B financing. The round was led by NYC’s Tiger Global with participation from GV (Google Ventures), Sequoia Capital, True Ventures, HearstLab, NYC’s Bloomberg Beta and Godfrey Sullivan. StrongDM’s customers include Peloton, SoFi, Chime, Yext and Squarespace. (www.strongdm.com) (VentureBeat)
8. NYC’s Grailed, a community-driven marketplace for men’s luxury streetwear, sneakers and vintage fashion, has raised $60 million in a Series B funding. The round was led by GOAT Group with participation from NYC’s Thrive Capital, Index Ventures, Groupe Artémis and Gucci CEO, Marco Bizzarri. Grailed’s platform focuses on affordable secondhand luxury pieces which are unique but not necessarily hype. (www.grailed.com) (Vogue Business)
9. NYC sleep tech company Helix Sleep is being acquired by private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Helix had previously raised a total of $8.1 million from investors including Simon Property Group, Great Oaks Venture Capital and Double J Capital. As part of the deal, Cerberus is also acquiring Phoenix’s Brooklyn Bedding. (www.helixsleep.com) (BusinessWire)
10. NYC’s Curina, a subscription-based fine art rental marketplace, has raised $900,000 in a seed funding round. Investor’s included Japanese and American angels. For $38 a month, Curina subscribers can rent from a collection of over 1,500 pieces of gallery-quality artwork by emerging artists. (www.curina.com) (PR Log)
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