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The firm counts unicorns including Hinge Health, LaunchDarkly, ID.me and Benchling among its current holdings.

The Financial Times has released its fourth annual ranking of growth champions in Asia-Pacific. Out of this year’s top 500 high-growth companies in the region, 38 are fintech firms.

There has been a flurry of updates from private equity and venture capital firms and their LPs on fundraising milestones.

A lot of public market investors began elbowing their way into the world of venture-backed startups roughly a decade ago, and the ripple effects have been obvious. Think faster funding rounds across the board, higher valuations and venture firms that have raised increasingly bigger funds rather than cede territory to their newer rivals. Of course, […]

Everything you need to need to know about the largest NYC startup funding rounds of 2021; broken down by industry, stage, investors, and more…

Home / Top News / Grafana Labs Named A Cool Vendor in The 2021 Gartner ‘Cool Vendors in Monitoring, Observability and Cloud Operations’ Report Grafana Labs Named A Cool Vendor in The 2021 Gartner ‘Cool Vendors in Monitoring, Observability and Cloud Operations’ Report NEW YORK, May 11, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Grafana Labs, the company behind the open and composable observability platform, today announced that it has been named a Gartner Cool Vendor in the ‘Cool Vendors in Monitoring...

April 29, 2021 April 29, 2021 | Illumina joins the Gates Foundation in a global pathogen genomics initiative, new money for immune profiling, and Benchling nets $200M for their cloud platform.   $375M: Fund for Growth-Stage Medtech, Digital Health  Endeavour Vision has closed Endeavour Medtech Growth II (EMG II) LP at USD 375 million in capital commitments. The fund will pursue the same strategy as its predecessor: to support growth-stage medtech and digital health innovations th...

Benchling Raises $200M Series E To Accelerate Biotech R&D Led by Sequoia, new funding will fuel life sciences cloud leaders global growth and product expansion SAN FRANCISCO, April 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Benchling, the leading life sciences R&D cloud, has raised $200 million in Series E funding led by Sequoia Capital Global Equities and joined by Altimeter Capital, Byers Capital and Elad Gil. Existing investors participated, including Thrive Capital, Benchmark, Menlo Ventures, Alkeon Capital...

Copado Closes $96 Million in Series B Round to Enable Faster and Safer Digital Transformation of the Worlds Largest Enterprises in a Multi-Cloud World Share Article Investment led by Insight Partners and Salesforce Ventures will accelerate innovation and adoption of the leading DevOps platform Copado, the leading DevOps platform for Salesforce “The strong performance of Salesforce led to incredible growth for Copado in 2020, resulting in heavy investor interest and an oversubscribed round,”...

TransferWise and Visa Announce Global Partnership Following Successful Collaboration on Cloud Technology Wednesday, January 27, 2021 11:12AM IST (5:42AM GMT) TransferWise to expand debit card program accompanying its multi-currency account into dozens of new markets using new Visa Cloud Connect infrastructure   London, United Kingdom & San Francisco, United States:   Visa (NYSE: V) and TransferWise today announced a global partnershi...