VC firm La Famiglia has raised $263M to invest in early-stage B2B startups. Numerous family office investors tied with companies such as Valentino, Adidas, Swarovski, Hapag Lloyd, and Estée Lauder provided the funding. More: - The firm has invested in 70 Seed and Growth stage startups, including names such as:
- Stripe,
- Deel,
- Personio,
- Forto,
- Y42,
- Sweep,
- and Buynomics.
- Its average check size can go up to $5.2M per startup, depending on the deal.
- The German firm invests in sectors such as:
- AI,
- data analytics,
- logistics,
- fintech,
- insurance tech,
- and sustainability.
- La Famiglia is based in Berlin, Germany.
- Since its inception in 2016, the firm has had seven exits.
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New York-based Amelia has raised $175M to offer conversational AI features for enterprises. The platform currently has over 9 million users. More: - Amelia helps companies improve customer service by offering proprietary artificial intelligence software that enables enterprises to communicate with their clients.
- In addition to customer support, Amelia offers AI-powered onboarding solutions that help new hires adapt to their new workplace.
- Some of Amelia's clients are brands such as:
- Toyota,
- Asics,
- Fujitsu,
- Alcatel Lucent, etc.
- The company operates in verticals such as:
- Banking,
- Healthcare,
- Insurance,
- Telecommunications, etc.
- The platform is available in 108 languages.
- BuildGroup and Monroe Capital led the funding round.
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Boston-based Rapport Therapeutics has raised a $100M Series A to develop therapies for neurological disorders. Johnson & Johnson participated in the funding round. More: - In neurology, many currently available medicines work by blocking or boosting so-called receptor proteins. But these proteins often are found throughout the brain and central nervous system and even other parts of the body, which can limit a medicine’s effect or cause safety issues.
- Rapport Therapeutics offers a solution that helps identify precision-targeted small-molecule drugs that can potentially transform the treatment of neurological disorders.
- The Series A round was led by Third Rock Ventures, ARCH Venture Partners, and Johnson & Johnson Innovation.
- The company aims to use the funds to accelerate growth and expand to new markets.
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Coherent Logix has raised an $85M funding round to develop sustainable microprocessors for the defense, space, and telecommunications industries. The company claims to have created the first virtualized system-on-a-chip for the embedded systems market. More: - Coherent Logix specializes in low-power, high-performance, C-programmable processors for the embedded systems market.
- According to company officials, its patented microprocessor technology uses less energy and is more powerful than current solutions in the market.
- The company operates in sectors such as:
- consumer electronics,
- automotive,
- 5G telecommunications,
- video/broadcast,
- machine vision,
- and artificial intelligence.
- Atlas Credit Partners led the funding round.
- Coherent is based in Texas and has additional offices in Silicon Valley, Seattle, Portland, Atlanta, Taiwan, and Waterloo, Ontario.
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💵 Today's funding: SaaS - Overhaul (Texas), helps companies analyze supply-chain risk and comply with regulations: $73M Growth led by Edison Partners, Stifel Bank, eGateway Capital, StepStone Group, and TRM Ventures, with participation from Abbey International Finance, Avanta Ventures, and Macquarie Capital.
Biotech - Volastra Therapeutics (New York), a biotechnology company focused on creating a cure for cancer: $60M A led by Polaris Partners, ARCH Venture Partners, and Eli Lilly and Company with participation from Droia Ventures, Catalio Capital Management, Vida Ventures, Cornell University, and Meyers Ventures.
Gaming - The Believer Company (California), a game development company founded by industry veterans who created games such as League of Legends and Valorant: $55M A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Bitkraft Ventures, Riot Games, 1Up Ventures, Cleveland Avenue, and Tornante Company.
Manufacturing - Zeda (California), provides 3D manufacturing services for healthcare, defense, and space organizations: $52M B equity and debt led by Boutique Venture Partners, Berkeley Catalyst Fund, DOV Management, and Solvay Ventures, with participation from Michelin, Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation, and Fives Group.
Fintech - Fynn (New York), a fintech platform that provides loans for upskilling programs in the U.S.: $36M Seed debt and equity led by Y Combinator, Susa Ventures, Village Global, Tenacity Venture Capital, and Watchfire Ventures.
- Banyan Infrastructure (California), provides financing for project developers using its proprietary software platform: $25M B led by Energize Ventures, with participation from SE Ventures, Elemental Excelerator, VoLo Earth, and Ulu Ventures.
- Candidly (New York), helps students pay college debt and save for retirement: $20.5M B led by Altos Ventures, with participation from Cercano Management.
Health tech - Paragonix Technologies (Massachusetts), provides FDA-approved organ preservation technology: $24M B led by Signet Healthcare Partners.
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- California-based employee skill validation platform Glider AI raised $10M in a Series A funding round led by Primera Capital.
- Origin Ventures has led a $10M funding round for Tilt, a Colorado-based startup that helps companies improve how they manage the employee leave process. Firework Ventures also participated.
- UK-based Evove, a startup that aims to create solutions that help solve water shortage, has raised a $6.7M Growth round led by Ventures with participation from AM Ventures.
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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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