US-based Startup Bolt Raises Funds to Advance One-Click Buying
San Francisco, US-based Bolt, a checkout experience platform that helps retailers convert, retain, and delight more of their shoppers, raised US$ 75M in its Series C funding round on 21 December 2020. Bolt is developing a one-click checkout experience platform. The funding round was co-led by Westcap and General Atlantic. Other participants include existing investors Activant Capital and Tribe Capital,...
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Skuad bags US$ 4M in seed funding
Employment platform Skuad has bagged US$ 4M in a seed funding round held in December 2020, led by Singapore-based VC firm BEENEXT and venture investment platform Anthemis Group. Other participants in the funding round include Alto Partners Multi-Family Office and Rohan Monga, CEO of Zenius Education. Proceeds from the funding round will be used by the startup to enhance its...
Group14 Technologies driving Next-Gen Batteries raises US$ 17M Series B funding
Group14 Technologies, a Washington based startup raises US$ 17 million series B funding held in December 2020. It is working on the Next-Gen of energy storage. The company is headquartered in Woodinville, Washington. It provides silicon-carbon composite materials for lithium-ion markets which is a fancy way of saying advanced battery materials. SK Materials led the funding with participation from...
Neo Financial secures CAD$ 50M in Series A funding round
Neo Financial, a Canada based technology company announced it has completed a $25 million Series A fundraising round along with $25 million in debt facility financing, bringing this funding round total to $50 million CAD held in December 2020. This raise marks one of the biggest Series A funding rounds in Western Canada. Neo offers Neo Savings, a high-interest...
Atlanta unicorn OneTrust secures US$ 300 million investment from TCV
OneTrust, the marketing compliance and privacy management technology unicorn based in Atlanta, announced securing US$ 300 million funding at a US$5.1 billion valuation on 21th December 2020. This recent Series C funding round that brings the total investment of the company to US$ 710 million was led by one of the largest private equity enterprises TCV. The company is planning...
Bodle Technologies secures Series A funding extension
Bodle Technologies, a Yarnton, Oxfordshire based organization secured Series A funding extension led by a leading science and technology enterprise, Oxford Sciences Innovation on 21st December 2020. The extension funding amount is not disclosed by the company. The original Series A funding round was announced in 2018, and helped Bodle Technologies to gain £6 million from investors like Woodford Patient Capital...
Lydia bags €70 million in an extended Series B round
Paris-based fintech startup Lydia has bagged approximately €70 million in an extension of its Series B round in December 2020. The funding round was led by Accel and all the major existing shareholders of Lydia also actively participated in it. The total amount raised in its Series B funding round now equals around €107 million, rendering it as one...
Live-Stream Shopping Platform and Marketplace Whatnot Raises Seed Funding
US-based startup Whatnot, a live-stream shopping platform and marketplace to buy and sell authentic collectible items, raised US$ 4M in seed funding on 19 December 2020. The investors in the seed round included Scribble Ventures, Wonder Ventures, Operator Partners, Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, Twenty Two Ventures and others. The total funding raised by the startup stands at US$ 5.1M....
Social Gaming Platform Rec Room Raises Series C Funding
Seattle-based Rec Room, an online universe where you can play and create games with friends, raised US$ 20 million on 19 December 2020. The Series C funding round was led by Madrona Venture Group. Other participants included DAG, First Round, Index and Sequoia. The total funding raised by the startup till today stands at nearly US$ 50 million. The funds raised...
