The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of the notable funding activity in the various markets that we track. The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 4/9/22 featuring funding details for Lilt, Remote, Cottage,, and twenty-five other rounds representing $1.99B in new funding that you need to know about.
8base — $10.6M – Series A
Miami-based 8base is a low-code development platform for building and running enterprise-grade digital applications. Founded by Albert Santalo in 2017, 8base has now raised a total of $15.3M in total equity funding and is backed by 11 Tribes Ventures, Argonautic Ventures, Firebrand Management, Foundry Group, LAGO Innovation Fund, MongoDB Ventures, Strawberry Creek Ventures, and Techstars.
Binance.US — $200.0M – Seed
San Francisco-based Binance is a cryptocurrency exchange that provides a platform for trading various cryptocurrencies. Founded by Changpeng Zhao in 2019, Binance.US has now raised a total of $200.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Circle Ventures, Flucas Ventures, Foundation Capital, Gaingels, Gold House Ventures, Original Capital, RRE Ventures, and VanEck.
Boba Network — $45.0M – Series A
Palo Alto-based Boba Network is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) and next-generation Ethereum Layer-2 Optimistic Rollup scaling solution. Founded by Alan Chiu in 2018, Boba Network has now raised a total of $45.0M in total equity funding and is backed by 10X Capital, Alphanonce, BitMart, Crypto.com, DeFi Technologies, Dreamers VC, Genesis Block Ventures (GBV), Ghaf Capital Partners, Hack VC, Huobi, Hypersphere Ventures, Infinite Capital, IOST Foundation, Joe Montana, Josh Fraser, Kinetic Capital, LD Capital, M13, Niles Hollowell-Dhar, Old Fashion Research, Paris Hilton, ROK Capital, Sanctor Capital, Shima Capital, and Tony Robbins.
BostonGene — $150.0M – Series B
Waltham-based BostonGene is a biomedical software company for advanced patient analysis and personalized therapy in the fight against cancer. Founded by Andrew Feinberg in 2015, BostonGene has now raised a total of $200.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Impact Investment Capital, Japan Industrial Partners, and NEC Corporation.
Built Robotics — $64.0M – Series C
San Francisco-based Built Robotics develops AI guidance systems to transform heavy equipment into autonomous robots. Founded by Andrew Liang and Noah Ready-Campbell in 2016, Built Robotics has now raised a total of $112.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Building Ventures, Fifth Wall, Founders Fund, New Enterprise Associates, and Tiger Global Management.
Clarify Health Solutions — $150.0M – Series D
San Francisco-based Clarify Health Solutions develops an intelligence platform that delivers insights across healthcare. Founded by Jean Drouin and Todd Gottula in 2015, Clarify Health Solutions has now raised a total of $328.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Aspenwood Ventures, BlackRock, Insight Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Memorial Hermann Hospital, Rivas Capital, Sigmas Group, SoftBank Vision Fund, and Spark Capital.
Community Gaming — $16.0M – Series A
New York-based CommunityGaming.io combines social gaming, match automation, and blockchain payment technology to make it easy to organize tournaments. Founded by Chris Gonsalves, Chris Kovalik, Evany Chang, and Hayder Sharhan in 2017, Community Gaming has now raised a total of $18.5M in total equity funding and is backed by Animoca Brands, Binance Labs, BITKRAFT Ventures, CoinFund, ConsenSys Mesh, Gabby Dizon, Griffin Gaming Partners, Hashed, Jeff Zirlin, Multicoin Capital, Polygon Studios, SB Opportunity Fund, and Shima Capital.
Conversica — $25.0M – Series E
Foster City-based Conversica creates intelligent virtual assistants to serve as virtual team members. Founded by Ben Brigham in 2007, Conversica has now raised a total of $132.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital.
Cottage — $15.0M – Series A
San Francisco-based Cottage is solving housing affordability by making it easy to build an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) Founded by Alex Czarnecki in 2019, Cottage has now raised a total of $18.5M in total equity funding and is backed by 1Sharpe Ventures, Base10 Partners, DivcoWest, Fifth Wall, Fred Tuomi, Jerry Coleman, Jon Dishotsky, Jonathan Scherr, Nichole Wischoff, Sean Breuner, and Susa Ventures.
DigiLens — $50.0M – Series D
Sunnyvale-based DigiLens is an innovator in holographic waveguide display technology for extended reality (XR). Founded by Jonathan Waldern in 2003, DigiLens has now raised a total of $160.0M in total equity funding and is backed by 37 Interactive Entertainment, Alsop Louie Partners, Corning, Diamond Edge Ventures, Dolby Family Ventures, Samsung Electronics, Teak Capital, and UDC Ventures.
Eleanor Health — $50.0M – Series C
Waltham-based Eleanor Health provides comprehensive mental health and substance use disorder care in clinics, virtually, and in patient’s homes. Founded by Corbin Petro, David Whelan, Nzinga Harrison, Srishti Mirchandani, and Trevor Price in 2019, Eleanor Health has now raised a total of $82.0M in total equity funding and is backed by General Catalyst, Northpond Ventures, Rethink Impact, Town Hall Ventures, and Warburg Pincus.
Future Family — $25.0M – Series B
San Francisco-based Future Family provides women and couples with personal and affordable fertility care. Founded by Claire Tomkins and Eve Blossom in 2016, Future Family has now raised a total of $48.2M in total equity funding and is backed by Aspect Ventures, at.inc/, Mindset Ventures, MS&AD Ventures, Munich Re Ventures, ORIX Group, OurCrowd, Sand Hill Angels, and Triventures.
Groups360 — $35.0M – Venture
Brentwood-based Groups360 provides a meeting and event platform that brings transparency and simplicity to the meetings market. Founded by David Kloeppel and Kemp Gallineau in 2014, Groups360 has now raised a total of $90.5M in total equity funding and is backed by Blackstone Group, Fir Tree Partners, and Zigg Capital.
Hivemapper — $18.0M – Series A
San Francisco-based Hivemapper is a community-owned mapping network that creates unprecedented coverage, freshness, and quality. Founded by Ariel Seidman and Evan Moss in 2015, Hivemapper has now raised a total of $21.0M in total equity funding and is backed by 75 & Sunny, Amir Haleem, Anatoly Yakovenko, Craft Ventures, David Rogier, Elie Seidman, Jason Waldron, Luc Levesque, Mark Williamson, Matt Rutler, Matthew Rutler, Multicoin Capital, Nick Hammerschlag, Raj Gokal, Shine Capital, and Solana capital.
IntelyCare — $115.0M – Series C
Quincy-based IntelyCare is revolutionizing healthcare staffing, scheduling, and training by offering an enterprise workforce management platform. Founded by Chris Caulfield, David Coppins, Ike Nnah, and Prince Nnah in 2014, IntelyCare has now raised a total of $170.8M in total equity funding and is backed by Endeavour Vision, Janus Henderson Investors, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Leeds Illuminate, Longitude Capital, and Revelation Partners.
Lilt — $55.0M – Series C
San Francisco-based Lilt is a technology company that develops an artificial intelligence-powered enterprise language software. Founded by John DeNero and Spence Green in 2015, Lilt has now raised a total of $91.9M in total equity funding and is backed by Clear Ventures, Four Rivers Group, Intel Capital, Redpoint, Sequoia Capital, Sorenson Capital, Wipro Ventures, and XSeed Capital.
LinkSquares — $100.0M – Series C
Boston-based LinkSquares is a provider of AI-powered contract management tools for in-house legal teams. Founded by Chris Combs and Vishal Sunak in 2015, LinkSquares has now raised a total of $161.5M in total equity funding and is backed by Catalyst Investors, First Ascent Ventures, G Squared, G2VP, Hyperplane Venture Capital, MassMutual Ventures, Sorenson Capital, and Xerox Venture Capital.
OpenPhone — $40.0M – Series B
San Francisco-based OpenPhone offers a phone app that lets users get a business phone number without a second phone or a second SIM card. Founded by Daryna Kulya and Mahyar Raissi in 2018, OpenPhone has now raised a total of $56.1M in total equity funding and is backed by Craft Ventures, Garage Capital, Slow Ventures, Tiger Global Management, and Work Life Ventures.
Rattle — $26.0M – Series A
San Francisco-based Rattle develops Salesforce integration technology allowing systems and people to interact with each other natively. Founded by Apoorva Verma, Milan Singh, and Sahil Aggarwal in 2020, Rattle has now raised a total of $28.8M in total equity funding and is backed by GV, Insight Partners, Lightspeed India Partners, and Sequoia Capital India.
Remote — $300.0M – Series C
San Francisco-based Remote offers international payroll, benefits, and compliance services for employees and contractors. Founded by Job van der Voort and Marcelo Lebre in 2019, Remote has now raised a total of $496.0M in total equity funding and is backed by 9Yards Capital, Accel, Adams Street Partners, Base Partners, Flucas Ventures, Gaingels, General Catalyst, Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund, and Two Sigma Ventures.
RenoFi — $14.0M – Series A
Philadelphia-based RenoFi helps homeowners discover a smart way to finance their renovation and tackle everything on their wishlist. Founded by Justin Goldman, Lee Miller, and Robert Shedd in 2018, RenoFi has now raised a total of $21.2M in total equity funding and is backed by Canaan Partners, CMFG Ventures, and Nyca Partners.
SamCart — $82.0M – Series B
Austin-based SamCart is an eCommerce platform for content creators to enable direct-to-consumer brands’ growth. Founded by Brian Moran and Scott Moran in 2014, SamCart has now raised a total of $95.0M in total equity funding and is backed by eGateway Capital, Eldridge, Fin Venture Capital, George Kaiser Family Foundation, and TTV Capital.
Season Health — $34.0M – Series A
Austin-based Season is a food recommendation platform that offers personalized nutrition planning for consumers. Founded by Josh Hix, Joshua Wolff, and Mustafa Shabib in 2019, Season Health has now raised a total of $34.0M in total equity funding and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Company Ventures, LRVHealth, and Toyin Ajayi.
Sydecar — $8.3M – Seed
Walnut-based Sydecar builds tools that remove the headache of organizing private investments so you can focus on making deals, not spreadsheets. Founded by David Meister and Nikhil Talreja JD in 2021, Sydecar has now raised a total of $8.3M in total equity funding and is backed by Aaron Frank, Anil D. Aggarwal, Anthemis Group, Deciens Capital, Hayden Simmons, Hustle Fund, Jonathan Weiner, Karim Bhalwani, Maia Bittner, Mike Vaughan, Nik MilanoviÄ, Pipeline Capital, Rohini Pandhi, Samir Kaji, Shai Goldman, and Winter Mead.
Vested Finance — $12.0M – Series A
Berkeley-based Vested Finance is an online investment platform that develops an avenue for Indian investors to invest in the U.S. stock market. Founded by Darwin Arifin, Eric Huynh, Viram Shah, and Yinghan Lin in 2018, Vested Finance has now raised a total of $16.4M in total equity funding and is backed by 9Unicorns Accelerator Fund, Akshat Shrivastava, Ankur Warikoo, Ayon Capital, Dhruv Rathee, Dhruvil Sanghvi, Inflection Point Ventures, Mukul Malik, OVO Fund, Saumil Parekh, Sharan Hegde, Shashank Udupu, TenOneTen Ventures, Upscale, and Wedbush Ventures.
Viz — $100.0M – Series D
San Francisco-based Viz is a medical imaging company that helps optimize emergency treatment using deep learning technology. Founded by Chris Mansi, David Golan, and Manoj Ramachandran in 2016, Viz has now raised a total of $251.5M in total equity funding and is backed by CRV, GV, Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Scale Venture Partners, Sozo Ventures, Susa Ventures, Threshold, and Tiger Global Management.
