FJ Labs, an early investor in Alibaba, has raised $260M in funding to invest in startups across all stages. The firm has invested in over 30 unicorns. More: - FJ Labs has invested in 900 companies, some of which are:
- Alibaba,
- Flexport,
- Coupang,
- Delivery Hero,
- Gravitics, etc.
- The money will be deployed across two different funds, one of which will be dedicated to early-stage investments, while the other will be deployed for later-stage startups.
- FJ Labs claims to have the world's largest marketplace portfolio and says it makes investment decisions within a week.
- The company receives over 200 pitches per week, investing in 2%-3% of them.
- Its focus is on U.S.-based startups with a global approach, while it is sector-agnostic.
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Injective has raised a $150M funding round to enable startups to develop financial apps on its blockchain. Kraken Ventures participated in the funding. More: - Injective is a layer 1 blockchain solution that aims to make the development of financial dApps easier.
- Injective's fund will support early-stage startups, while it aims to invest in Series A and Series B startups as the De-Fi ecosystem evolves.
- The company was incubated in Binance Labs.
- In addition to Kraken Ventures, Kucoin Ventures, Delphi Labs, Flow Traders, Gate Labs, Pantera, Jump, and IDG Capital also participated in this funding.
- Since its inception in 2018, the company has raised over $200M.
- Injective is based in New York.
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Dell has acquired Israel-based digital infrastructure automation startup Cloudify for up to $100M. Cloudify's platform has been used by AT&T, Morgan Stanley, DHL, Accenture, etc. More: - Cloudify offers an Environment-as-a-Service platform, which enables developers to integrate tools such as:
- Ansible,
- Terraform,
- Kubernetes,
- ServiceNow,
- Jenkins,
- Azure,
- ARM,
- and TOSCA.
- The company was backed by companies such as Intel, VMware, and KPN.
- Cloudify was founded in 2017 and has raised $7M since its inception.
- The company is based in Tel Aviv.
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Cygnvs has raised a $55M funding round from Andreessen Horowitz to enable companies to create and implement cybersecurity strategies within minutes. The company is based in Los Angeles. More: - Cygnvs claims that while most companies have a cybersecurity strategy set in place, once they are breached, that plan goes down along with the rest of the company's digital infrastructure.
- To solve this problem, the company offers the Crisis Operating System platform. This software solution holds all the essential information in a separate environment from the servers where the day-to-day data is stored.
- If a company is breached, it can easily access the information it needs to proceed.
- Cygnvs claims to work with several cyber insurance companies to offer the product as a no-cost benefit.
- The platform is available in English, French, Spanish, German, and Japanese.
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💵 Today's funding: HR - Welcome to the Jungle (France), helps companies access better data when recruiting employees: $54M C by Revaia, XAnge, Digital Ventures, blisce, Cipio Partners, Groupe ADP, Kostogri, RAISE Sherpas.
Energy - Tado (Germany), develops smart thermostats and other smart devices used for energy management: $46.9M Growth led by Trill Impact Ventures.
Health tech - Miach Orthopeadics (Massachusetts), helps restore connective tissue using bio-engineered surgical implants: $40M Growth led by Sectoral Asset Management, Endeavour Vision, and Silicon Valley Bank.
- Health Payment Systems (Wisconsin), provides financial backing for patients with healthcare costs: $25M debt and equity led by SVB Capital, with participation from SV Health Investors, Hexagon, and Caltius Equity.
Biotech - Atomic AI (California), aims to develop new RNA-based therapies using its proprietary Artificial Intelligence technology: $35M A funding led by Playground Global, with participation from 8VC, Factory HQ, Greylock, NotBoring, AME Cloud Ventures, Nat Friedman, Doug Mohr, Neal Khosla, and Patrick Hsu.
Cybersecurity - Hawk AI (Germany), develops money laundering detection and fraud prevention software: $17M B led by Sands Capital, with participation from Picus Capital, DN Capital, Coalition, and BlackFin Capital Partners.
SaaS - Kittl (Germany), a design platform that aims to compete with Canva: $11.6M A led by Left Lane Capital with participation from Speedinvest.
- Supernormal (Sweden), helps transcribe virtual meetings using Artificial Intelligence: $10M Seed led by Balderton with participation from Acequia Capital and byFounders VC.
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 |  | Arbër is an Inside writer who also has experience in entrepreneurship. He has experience covering Consumer Tech, Venture Capital, NFTs, Crypto, etc. Arbër holds a Bachelor's degree in Business from XAMK University in Finland. When he is not reading(and writing) business news, he chooses to watch sports or anime...and then read news about sports or anime. |   | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 and 1972 Fords. | |
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