💰The Funding Letter #746: September 23
Kavak, Mirakl, FLYR Labs, and more...
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🌎 Americas
Kavak is a car trading platform that uses real-time market data to give sellers a fair offer to sell their car in minutes without leaving home, as well as offers services like home delivery and pre-owned car financing, enabling customers to buy or sell cars without hassle. View on: LinkedIn.com | Sales Navigator.
New Funding Raised: $700M, Series E
Round Investors: General Catalyst (lead), Tiger Global Management, Spruce House, SoftBank
Press: TechCrunch, Bloomberg
HQ: Mexico City, Mexico
Industry: Automotive
Employee Count: 2195 (⚡98% increase in last 6 months)
FLYR Labs has developed a revenue operating system that uses deep learning to provide airlines with the insights and intelligence to forecast airline demand and better set airfare prices. View on: LinkedIn.com | Sales Navigator.
New Funding Raised: $150M, Series C
Round Investors: WestCap (lead), Silver Lake Waterman, WndrCo, Peter Thiel
Press: TechCrunch, PR Newswire
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Internet
Employee Count: 124 (⚡61% increase in last 6 months)
Omnidian's clean energy technology provides continuous monitoring and an end-to-end performance guarantee that enables home and business owners to have peace of mind and clients to have liberated capital and resources of large-scale distributed energy asset portfolios. View on: LinkedIn.com | Sales Navigator.
New Funding Raised: $33M, Series B
Round Investors: Activate Capital (lead), Liberty Mutual, Copec, City Light Capital
Press: Business Wire, GeekWire
HQ: Seattle, WA
Industry: Renewables & Environment
Employee Count: 93 (⚡24% increase in last 6 months)
Nex is a motion-based entertainment company revolutionizing digital games by emphasizing physical movement in their gameplay. View on: LinkedIn.com | Sales Navigator.
New Funding Raised: $ 25M, Series B
Round Investors: Blue Pool Capital (lead), Samsung Ventures (lead), SparkLabs, Susquehanna
Press: TechCrunch, Grit Daily
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Mobile Games
Employee Count: 35 (⚡13% increase in last 6 months)
Xealth is a digital health prescribing platform that helps physicians and care teams to easily order and monitor digital tools including patient education articles and videos, remote patient monitoring devices, shared decision-making tools, and questionnaires. View on: LinkedIn.com | Sales Navigator.
New Funding Raised: $24M, Series B
Round Investors: Advocate Aurora Enterprises (lead)
Press: GeekWire, Business Insider
HQ: Seattle, Washington
Industry: Hospital & Health Care
Employee Count: 62
Almanac is the developer of a collaborative documentation tool that enables clients to be more efficient in their projects and formats that make the information actionable and searchable. View on: LinkedIn.com | Sales Navigator.
New Funding Raised: $34M, Series A
Round Investors: Tiger Global Management (lead), Floodgate, General Catalyst
Press: TechCrunch, Business Wire
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Computer Software
Employee Count: 30 (⚡15% increase in last 6 months)
Stairwell’s cybersecurity software offers accessible and user-centric tools with deep and actionable visibility so one can detect and respond to attacker compromise faster, enabling security teams to understand the pivotal relationships between their external and internal data sources. View on: LinkedIn.com | Sales Navigator.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series A
Round Investors: Sequoia Capital (lead), Accel (lead)
Press: TechCrunch
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Industry: Computer & Network Security
Employee Count: 27
Chapter is a technology-driven Medicare advisor that supports retirees with tailored coupons and deals, tax advice, news, and technology tips, enabling elders to live with purpose and security as they age. View on: LinkedIn.com | Sales Navigator.
New Funding Raised: $17M, Series A
Round Investors: Narya Capital (lead), Susa Ventures, Maverick Ventures, XYZ Venture Capital
Press: Business Wire, FinSMEs
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Consumer Services
Employee Count: 35 (⚡52% increase in last 6 months)
Amberdata is the leading data infrastructure company for blockchain and digital asset data that brings users real-time and historical on-chain and crypto exchange records of trades, Intentions, and reference rates for Digital Assets in a unified API. View on: LinkedIn.com | Sales Navigator.
New Funding Raised: $15M, Series A
Round Investors: Citi (lead), Rovida Advisors, Franklin Templeton Investments, HWVP
Press: PR Newswire, Finextra
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Industry: Internet
Employee Count: 15
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Mirakl provides a wide range of e-commerce marketplace management solutions, allowing companies to easily add products and services by connecting third-party sellers and service providers. View on: LinkedIn.com | Sales Navigator.
New Funding Raised: $555M, Series E
Round Investors: Silver Lake (lead), 83North, Elaia Partners, Felix Capital
Press: TechCrunch, VentureBeat
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: Internet
Employee Count: 556 (⚡28% increase in last 6 months)
🔥Open Sales Gigs: Currently Hiring
Vestiaire Collective is a global apparel buying & selling platform where fashion lovers build their community to buy and sell unique pieces of clothes from each other's collections. View on: LinkedIn.com | Sales Navigator.
New Funding Raised: $209M, Series D
Round Investors: SoftBank (lead), Generation Investment Management, Conde Nast, Eurazeo
Press: PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: Apparel & Fashion
Employee Count: 591
Sunday designs and develops an innovative payment application that lets users pay their bills at restaurants faster than ever before by simply scanning a QR Code. View on: LinkedIn.com | Sales Navigator.
New Funding Raised: $100M, Series A
Round Investors: Coatue (lead), DST Global
Press: TechCrunch, GlobeNewswire
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 132
🔥Open Sales Gigs: Currently Hiring
Turtl operates a content automation platform designed to use personalized digital content to build deeper relationships at scale with its software that helps marketing teams to drive higher engagement and more leads through premium interactive content. View on: LinkedIn.com | Sales Navigator.
New Funding Raised: $17M, Series A
Round Investors: Octopus Ventures (lead)
Press: VentureBeat, Business Leader
HQ: London, England
Industry: Computer Software
Employee Count: 101 (⚡36% increase in last 6 months)
🔥Open Sales Gigs: Currently Hiring
Different is a technology-driven property management service allowing both owners and tenants to have 24/7 access to an online platform with relevant information. View on: LinkedIn.com | Sales Navigator.
New Funding Raised: $25M, Series B
Round Investors: x15ventures (lead), Antler (lead)
Press: Entrepreneur
HQ: Sydney, Australia
Industry: Real Estate
Employee Count: 145
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⭐️Melio is hiring Sales Managers for its NYC and Denver teams.
Stord is hiring a Director of Business Alliances for its remote (Atlanta HQ) team.
15Five is hiring SDRs for its rapidly scaling, remote-first USA team.
Flo is hiring AEs for its remote-based USA team.
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