VENTURE DEALS
– Creditas, a Brazil-based lending platform, raised $231 million in funding at a $750 million valuation. SoftBank led the round, and was joined by investors including Vostok Emerging Finance, Santander InnoVentures and Amadeus Capital.
– Remitly, a Seattle-based online international money transfer service, raised $220 million in financing. Investors include Generation Investment Management, Owl Rock Capital, Princeville Global, Prudential Financial, Schroder & Co Bank AG and Top Tier Capital Partners.
– Sonder, a San Francisco-based hospitality company, raised $210 million in Series D funding at a valuation of more than $1 billion. Investors include Fidelity, Valor Equity Partners, Gavin Baker's Atreides Capital, ARod Corp, Tao Capital Partners, Spark Capital and Greenoaks Capital.
– OneTrust, an Atlanta-based company that develops tools to help companies navigate data protection and privacy policies, raised $200 million in Series A funding at a $1.3 billion valuation. Insight Partners led the round.
– Signavio, a Germany-based business process optimization company, raised $177 million in funding. Apax Digital led the round, and was joined by investors including DTCP.
– Byju's, an India-based online educational service provider, raised $150 million in funding. Qatar Investment Authority led the round, and was joined by investors including Owl Ventures. The deal reportedly values Byju's at $5.75 billion, according to TechCrunch. Read more.
– Luminar, a Portola Valley, Calif.-based maker of laser lidar sensors for self-driving vehicles, raised $100 million in funding. Investors include G2VP, Moore Strategic Ventures, LLC, Nick Woodman, The Westly Group, 1517 Fund / Peter Thiel, Canvas Ventures, Corning Inc, Cornes, Volvo Cars Tech Fund, Crescent Cove Advisors and Octave Ventures.
– Minerva Project, a San Francisco-based provider of educational offerings, raised $57 million in Series C funding. Bytedance led the round, and was joined by investors including TAL Education Group, Yongjin Group, Pinpoint Ventures, Kakao Ventures, and Tan Tan Ventures.
– Opay, a Nigeria-based mobile payments startup, raised $50 million in funding. Investors include Sequoia China, IDG Capital, and Source Code Capital.
– Pipefy, Brazil and San Francisco-based lean management platform that helps managers run efficient workflows, raised $45 million in Series B funding. Insight Partners led the round, and was joined by investors including Trinity Ventures and OpenView Venture Partners.
– Nurx, a San Francisco-based birth control delivery startup, raised approximately $42 million in funding. Investors include Kleiner Perkins, Union Square Ventures, and Lowercase Capital.
– Kyndi, a San Mateo, Calif.-based artificial intelligence company building the first explainable AI platform, raised $20 million in Series B funding. Intel Capital led the round, and was joined by investors including UL Ventures and PivotNorth Capital.
– PlanetiQ, a Bethesda, Md.-based weather forecasting and analytics company, raised $18.7 million in Series B funding. New Science Ventures and AV8 Ventures led the round.
– Akash Systems Inc, a San Francisco-based developer and supplier of small satellites, raised $14.5 million in Series A funding. Investors include Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, ACME Capital, Sriram Krishnan and Correlation Ventures.
– IQM, an Espoo, Finland-based makes hardware systems for quantum computers, raised $13 million in seed funding. Investors include Matadero QED, Maki.vc, MIG Fonds, OpenOcean, Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment) and Vito Ventures.
– Powerhive Inc, a Berkeley, Calif.-based energy solutions and technology provider for emerging markets, raised $9.3 million in Series B funding. Investors include Toyota Tsusho Corporation.
– Vyopta, an Austin, Texas-based developer of monitoring and analytics tools to optimize workplace collaboration, raised $7.5 million in Series B funding. The investor was Elsewhere Partners.
– Swit, a San Francisco-based workplace team collaboration app, raised $6 million in funding. Korea Investment Partners led the round, and was joined by investors including Hyundai Venture Investment Corporation, and Mirae Asset Venture Investment.
– Dataform, a London-based data pipeline management company, raised $2 million in funding. Investors include LocalGlobe.
HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES DEALS
– Demetrix Inc, a New York-based biotechnology company focused on the production of cannabinoids, raised $50 million in Series A funding. Tuatara Capital led the round, and was joined by investors including Horizons Ventures.
– vasopharm GmbH, a Germany-based biopharmaceutical company developing a treatment for traumatic brain injury, raised €9.5 million ($10.7 million) in funding. HeidelbergCapital Private Equity and EF Investments co-led the round, and were joined by investors including Bayern Kapital, Future Capital, Hanseatic Asset Management and Ringtons Holdings.
– One BioMed Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based medical diagnostics company, raised $5 million in Series A funding. Biopath Ventures and ARCH Venture Partners led the round, and were joined by investors including SEEDS Capital.
PRIVATE EQUITY DEALS
– Battery Ventures acquired 1WorldSync Holdings, a Ewing, N.J.-based provider of product content solutions. Financial terms weren't disclosed.
– Marlin Equity Partners acquired HotSchedules and Fourth, which provide workforce, inventory, and operations management solutions. Financial terms weren't announced.
– Prototek, a portfolio company of CORE Industrial Partners, acquired Cal-X, a Grafton, Wisc.-based provider of precision machining and sheet metal fabrication rapid prototyping services. Financial terms weren't announced.
OTHER DEALS
– Shell and Sumitomo Corporation made an investment in LO3 Energy, a New York-based provider of energy technology consulting services. Financial terms weren't disclosed.
– Collibra acquired SQLdep, a Prague-based SaaS provider of automated data lineage. Financial terms weren't disclosed.
EXITS
– Palo Alto Networks acquired Twistlock, a San Francisco-based container security company, for about $410 million in cash. Twistlock had previously raised more than $63 million in funding from investors including Iconiq Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, YL Ventures, TenEleven Ventures and Polaris Partners.
FIRMS + FUNDS
– The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) raised $2.2 billion for the Carlyle Global Infrastructure Opportunity Fund.
–Vista Equity Partners, an Austin, Texas-based private equity and venture capital firm, raised $850 million for a second, according to Reuters. Read more.
– YL Ventures, a Mill Valley, Calif.-based venture capital firm, raised $120 million for its fourth fund.
PEOPLE
– Andy Freire joined SoftBank's Latin America fund as a managing partner.
– YL Ventures promoted John Brennan to partner.
– Vertex Ventures US appointed Chase Roberts as a principal.
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