8VC has raised $880M, becoming the largest Texas-based VC fund. The firm is led by Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale. More: - The firm has made over 500 investments and has had over 31 exits.
- 8VC aims to deploy this fund to invest in startups across all stages.
- Some of its portfolio companies are:
- The Boring Company,
- Asana,
- Wish
- Blend,
- Flexport,
- Mammoth Biosciences,
- Qualia, etc
- The company has been based in Austin since 2020 after moving its headquarters from San Francisco.
- 8VC was founded in 2015.
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B Capital has launched a $500M fund to invest in healthcare and biotech startups. The firm has $6.3B in total assets under management More: - The fund will be officially named B Capital Healthcare Fund I.
- So far, the firm has invested in more than 20 healthcare and biotech startups in the U.S., Asia, and Europe.
- B Capital has invested in companies such as:
- Hotspot Therapeutics,
- Carlsmed,
- Triumvira, etc.
- Since its inception in 2015, the firm has made over 180 investments and has had seven exits.
- The VC firm is based in New York.
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Cargo Therapeutics has raised a $200M Series A funding round to develop therapies for patients with cancer. The company claims the round was oversubscribed. More: - Cargo therapeutics is a biotech company that develops CAR T-cell therapies for the treatment of both liquid and solid tumors.
- The company has several clinical trials that are in progress and aims to use this funding to boost the development and testing of its therapies.
- The round was co-led by Third Rock Ventures, RTW Investments, and Perceptive Xontogeny Venture Fund, with participation from Nextech, Janus Henderson Investors, Ally Bridge Group, Wellington Management, Samsara BioCapital, Red Tree Venture Capital, and Emerson Collective.
- The company is based in San Mateo, California.
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Homz has raised a $50M Pre-Seed funding round to build attainable housing communities within 30 minutes of high-growth metropolitan areas. The company is based in Dallas, Texas. More: - Homz communities are built over 120-150 acres. The company's communities are around seven minutes from parks, 20 minutes from day-to-day locations, and 30 minutes from universities, workspaces, hospitals, public transportation, etc.
- The company's mission is to bring housing options to residents at more attainable prices, helping preserve or increase socioeconomic diversity.
- Homz projects it will invest $140M- $170M in each community it operates in and will hold the investments for at least 25 years.
- Nanban Ventures led the funding round, with participation from family offices and angel investors.
- Homz aims to use the funding round to build around 50 communities across the Southeast of the U.S.
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💵 Today's funding: Biotech - TandemAI (China), a biotech company that uses AI to develop new therapies: $35M A led by Qiming Venture Partners with participation from OrbiMed, Eight Roads Ventures, and F Prime Capital.
SaaS - Attio (U.K.), a data-driven CRM software platform that offers unique features that revolve around collaboration: $23.5M A led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Balderton Capital and Point Nine.
- Hexa (Israel), a 3D asset visualization and management platform: $20.5M led by HTC, Point72 Ventures, Samurai Incubate, and Sarona Partners.
- Impossible Cloud (Germany), a cloud platform that offers decentralized and multi-service cloud solutions: $7.4M A led by HV Capital and 1kx, with participation from Protocol Labs, TS Ventures, and very early Ventures.
Edtech - Edurino (Germany), a personalized hybrid learning platform for kids aged 4-8: $11.2M A led by DN Capital with participation from Tengelmann Ventures, FJ Labs, btov Partners, Jens Begemann, and Emerge Education.
Health tech - doctorly (Germany), helps patients and doctors communicate easily: $10M A led by The Delta, Horizons Ventures, Speedinvest, Well Technologies, UNIQA Ventures, Calm/Storm, and Seedcamp.
Real estate tech - Desana (U.K.), a global hybrid workspace platform: $7.4M Growth co-led by PropTech1 Ventures and JLL Spark Global Ventures with participation from Techstart Ventures, BGF, and Groundbreak Ventures.
Transportation - Velotric (California), an e-bike manufacturing company that offers bikes for urban and nonurban areas: $7.4M A led by Redpoint China Ventures, Fosun RZ Capital, Uphonest Capital, and Lime Cofounders Brad Bao and Toby Sun.
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- Canada-based Helika, a Web3 product analytics company, has raised $4M. The Seed funding round was led by Diagram Ventures with participation from Fenbushi Capital, Sfermion, Big Brain Holdings, Builder Capital, and Sparkle Ventures.
- Secfix, a Germany-based security compliance and automation platform provider, has raised $3.8M in a Seed funding round led by Octopus Ventures with participation from Neosfer and angel investors.
- British biotech company Antiverse, a startup developing a computational antibody drug discovery platform, raised $3M from InnoSpark, AngelHub, Kadmos Capital, Tomorrow Scale, Tensor Ventures, Deep Science Ventures, Ed Parkinson, and the Development Bank of Wales.
- finance&invest.brussels and 4Ventures have led a $1.4M funding round for Jobgether, a Belgium-based platform for remote work.
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