Weekly Funding Insights
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Here are the alternative data highlights on companies that raised funding last week.
Over $4.3B were invested in 203 companies worldwide.
# of funding rounds across categories
Funding round that caught our eye
2015 | United Kingdom | $229M
Raised $56M from Summit Partners
LearnUpon offers a cloud-based Learning Management System that helps businesses train their employees, partners, and customers.
LearnUpon reported its annual recurring revenues grown by more than 50% year-on-year for each of the last 12 quarters. It expects to add more than 100 engineers over the next 18 months to support continued product growth.
LearnUpon’s Competitive Landscape
Noticeable companies that raised funding
2012 | United States | $348M
Raised $200M in Series E led by Viking Global Investors
Arctic Wolf offers a security operations center as a concierge service that helps companies end cyber risk.
2016 | United States | $185M
Raised $150M in Series C led by Advent International
Tekion is a cloud-built platform with advanced machine learning and AI capabilities for a personalized and seamless consumer experience.
2017 | United States | $177M
Raised $125M in Series C led by Lux Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst
Applied Intuition provides software infrastructure to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale.
2019 | United States | $134M
Raised $124M led by Spark Capital
Perch is a technology-driven company that acquires direct-to-consumer businesses that are selling on Amazon and growing their operations.
2013 | United States | $150M
Raised $100M in led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Tritium Partners
RVshare is an online marketplace that provides peer-to-peer recreational vehicle rental services.
2013 | United States | $154M
Raised $80M in Series D led by GGV Capital
Handshake is a college career network that helps students and recent graduates find their next opportunity.
2012 | United States | $162M
Raised $80M in Series D led by TDM Growth Partners
Rokt is building an e-commerce marketing technology that gives customers a more personalized and relevant experience while buying online.
2017 | United States | $75M
Raised $50M in Series B led by Sequoia Capital
Retool is a fast way of building internal applications.
2015 | Denmark | $122M
Raised $47M in Series C from Chr. Augustinus Fabrikker
Lunar is a digital challenger bank that offers a mobile-based banking app that helps consumers control their personal finances.
2019 | United States | $61M
Raised $40M in Series B led by New Enterprise Associates
Anyscale provides an application development platform for developers to build distributed applications.
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