Technology moves fast, and so are the startups we’re backing. What’s been happening?
Bubble announced today that Ryan Hinkle of Insight Partners has led a $100 million Series A round into the company. Hinkle, a longtime managing director at the firm, specializes in growth buyout deals as well as growth SaaS companies.
Antheia, a Menlo Parck CA-based synthetic biology company, raised $73M in Series B funding.
Educative, a Seattle WA-based provider of an interactive hands-on skill development platform for software developers and the companies that employ them, raised $12M in Series A funding.
After acquiring a Salesforce application, ClosePlan a few months ago, our portfolio startup, People.ai has acquired Hero Research, another Salesforce application to improve users’ productivity.
On Tuesday, the nine-year-old company plans to announce that it has raised $71 million at a private valuation of $15 billion, news Perkins previewed with Fortune. The company finalized the deal in November, mere months after it raised $60 million at a $6 billion valuation in 2020. The company has raised a total of nearly $390 million to date.
User Interviews, the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator-backed company that has built a CRM for product research teams to get user feedback, has closed on a $10 million Series A round. The financing was led by Teamworthy Ventures, with participation from Las Olas, Accomplice, FJ Labs, ERA, Trestle Partners and ValueStream.
