Namecoach, a platform designed to help people learn the correct pronunciation of names, has raised fresh venture capital.
Today we’re excited to share that Primer has raised $12M in Series A funding led by Craft Ventures with support from Slack Fund and Salesforce Ventures. We’re also welcoming angel investors from Dropbox, Figma, Hubspot, Notion, and Masterclass — marketing operators who understand the urgent need for our product having experienced the pains themselves.
Announcing Gitpod's $25m Series A led by Tom Preston-Werner (Founder of GitHub) with existing investors increasing ownership and pebblebed, MongoDB Ventures, GTMfund, Tobi Lutke, Kent Beck, and Oliver Pomel joining the round.
Israeli startup Ask-AI, which has developed an NLP-powered direct answer and insight surfacing platform, has completed a $9 million Seed round led by Vertex Ventures and State of Mind Ventures. The round also included additional participation from a series of private investors and VCs, including, Web Summit, Simon Chan's of Firsthand Fund, GTMFund, Interplay Ventures, Geffen Capital, AGP, Guidestar, Ran Sarig and Efi Cohen (Founders of Datorama), Barak Goldstein and Yakir Daniel, and others.
Susa Ventures is excited to announce our investment in Journey, a remote-first startup building a digital storytelling product for salespeople and founders. We led their pre-seed round with participation from Y Combinator, Sahil Lavingia, Adam D’Angelo, the founders of AdRoll (Adam Berke & Aaron Bell) and Udemy (Eren Bali & Oktay Caglar), CapitalX, GTMFund, and others.
Iconic Air, a SaaS platform that helps energy-intensive industries automate, benchmark, and manage the cost of carbon and their carbon footprint, today announced the launch of its Emissions Intelligence™ platform. The platform offers a suite of tools for managing carbon, similar to financial performance, saving organizations significant time and money. The launch comes as Iconic Air secured $5 million in seed funding. The round was led by XYZ Venture Capital, with participation from Garuda Ventures, the GTM fund, and investors from Country Roads Angel Network. Funds will be used for hiring top software engineering and carbon talent as well as growing its sales team as Iconic Air continues building out platform capabilities.
Equi is thrilled to announce our $15M Series A, led by Smash Capital with participation from Company Capital and Montage Ventures. Equi is committed to putting this capital to work on our long-term mission of making elite investments accessible.
SecurityPal is proud to announce our exit from stealth alongside news of our Series A funding of $21M led by Craft Ventures with participation from Martin Casado at Andreessen Horowitz and dozens of elite angel investors including Frederic Kerrest, Executive Vice Chairman, Co-Founder, and COO at Okta (NASDAQ: OKTA), and Anne Raimondi, COO at Asana (NYSE: ASAN), Iman Abuzeid, CEO of Incredible Health, and Dev Nag, Founder/CTO of Wavefront acquired by VMware Inc (NYSE: VMW), to carve the fastest path to closed-won.
Hone, which is developing a learning platform for corporate clients, has raised $30 million in new VC funding.
To see through the next phase of our vision, we’re thrilled to announce a new $4.2m round of funding led by our existing investor Javelin Venture Partners, with super pro rata participation from other existing investors Founders Fund (who led our first round), Zoom, and Merus Capital.