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Global Venture Capital Funded Startups December 2017 BUSINESS RESEARCH & CORPORATE INFORMATION SERVICES Global Venture Capital Funded Startups December 2017 **The information in this report is aggregated by the team at AM Research from various sources across the web. **The team at AMR tracks the global startup funding ecosystem closely and profiles thousands of VC firms and their portfolio startups. AM Research Services is a provider of desk research services to high growth startups and large global corporations. Kindly visit our website www.amresearch.in and contact us at [email protected] for any desk research requests, samples and quote. BUSINESS RESEARCH & CORPORATE INFORMATION SERVICES 10 Most Active Venture Capital Firms in December’ 2017 AM Research Services is a provider of desk research services to high growth startups and large global corporations. Kindly visit our website www.amresearch.in and contact us at [email protected] for any desk research requests, samples and quote. BUSINESS RESEARCH & CORPORATE INFORMATION SERVICES Breakout By Funding Rounds AM Research Services is a provider of desk research services to high growth startups and large global corporations. Kindly visit our website www.amresearch.in and contact us at [email protected] for any desk research requests, samples and quote. BUSINESS RESEARCH & CORPORATE INFORMATION SERVICES Series - A Funded Companies Amount Company Country Description Investors Raised Guardian Guardian optical Technologies is an Maniv Mobility Optical innovative israeli startup developing an $5.1 million Israel Mirai Creation Fund Technologies advanced 3D sensor. Noodle Noodle Partners helps colleges and United Owl Ventures $14 million Partners Inc universities create and manage first-rate States online and hybrid programs. Mayfield Earny United Earny, santa Monica, California-based a Comcast Ventures $9 million States personal finance service company. Science Inc K1 Investment Tel Aviv-based Ironscales, an automated Ironscales Management LLC $6.5 million Israel phishing prevention, detection and RDC response provider. Pilotworks Pilotworks (formerly Foodworks), a Techstars Ventures (formerly United $13 million community of food incubators, mentors, Acre Venture Partners Foodworks) States and entrepreneurs. FCA Venture Partners HealthiPASS is a digital check-in and OCA Ventures HealthiPass United patient payments platform that brings $7.2 million Healthy Ventures States transparency and clarity to the patient HealthX Ventures payment experience. Waterline Ventures GV Atlas Venture Takeda Ventures Inc Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Obsidian Obsidian Vertex Ventures HC Therapeutics Inc, a biotechnology $49.5 Therapeutics United Amgen Ventures company.developing next-generation cell million Inc States Alexandria Venture and gene therapies with pharmacologic Investments operating systems ShangPharma Investment Group Palo Alto, California-based Neumentum, is developing and plans to commercialize Neumentum United Brookline Capital Markets $6 million products that effectively treat pain, States without the risks of abuse, misuse and diversion seen with opioid analgesics. AM Research Services is a provider of desk research services to high growth startups and large global corporations. Kindly visit our website www.amresearch.in and contact us at [email protected] for any desk research requests, samples and quote. BUSINESS RESEARCH & CORPORATE INFORMATION SERVICES PerceptIn (www.perceptin.io), a full-stack Samsung Ventures visual intelligence company, is leading the PerceptIn United Matrix Partners $11 million way to a new reality where everyday States Walden International machines see, interpret, learn and take action. Prose offers fresh and custom-made hair care, combining expertise from a Forerunner Ventures Prose United professional stylist (online or in-salon), $5.2 million Correlation Ventures States clients unique needs and the highest- quality ingredients to help clients achieve great hair. New York City-based Cedar, a provider of Founders Fund patient payment solutions. Cedar provides Thrive Capital Cedar United $13 million a smarter way for hospitals, health systems Martin Ventures States and medical groups to manage the patient SV Angel payment ecosystem LUX Fund Technology and Solutions (LUX Credit Suisse Asset LUX Fund United FTS) deploys disruptive business Management s $6 million Technology & States technology systems for the alternative NEXT Investors Solutions asset management industry. MMC Ventures Senseye is an intelligent and easy-to-use Breed Reply Senseye United 3.5 million automatic condition monitoring and asset IQ Capital Limited Kingdom Pounds health product. Momenta Partners Discngine is a Paris-based software Extens Développement e- Discngine company specializing in applications for $1.3 million France Santé the research departments of life sciences companies. Cox Enterprises Fontinalis Partners San Francisco-based Ouster is a leading Amity Ventures Ouster United developer of LIDAR and perception Constellation Technology $27 million States technology for the autonomous vehicle Ventures and robotics sectors. Tao Capital Partners Carthona Capital Linear Health Sciences is the developer of Linear Health $1.538 United the Orchid Safety Release Valve and other i2E Inc Sciences million States safety technology solutions for medical tubing. SevenRooms United SevenRooms is a platform for hospitality Comcast Ventures $8 million States operators to acquire, engage and understand their guests. Aquiline Technology FRISS is a European provider of analytics FRISS The Growth 15 million software for fraud, risk and compliance to Netherlands Blackfin Capital Partners Euros P&C insurers. AM Research Services is a provider of desk research services to high growth startups and large global corporations. Kindly visit our website www.amresearch.in and contact us at [email protected] for any desk research requests, samples and quote. BUSINESS RESEARCH & CORPORATE INFORMATION SERVICES Intel Capital Azure Capital Partners Bandgap Ventures GenXComm Inc. is commercializing the Capital Factory GenXComm United world s first true full-duplex radio that $7 million FAM Capital Partners States operates reliably even under the toughest Lip-Bu Tan real-world conditions. UT Horizon Fund WS Investment Co Battery Ventures Resolute Ventures Clubhouse Clubhouse builds product management Lerer Hippeau Ventures United $10 million Software tools to improve the way that software Neu Venture Capital States engineering teams work together. RRE Ventures Zeitgeist Partners CrossBorder Solutions employs technology CrossBorder United to help multinational corporations comply Kennet Partners $6 million Solutions States with worldwide transfer pricing regulations. Upstream Security is the first cloud-based Charles River Ventures Upstream cybersecurity solution that protects the Glilot Capital Partners $9 million Security Israel technologies and applications of connected Maniv Mobility and autonomous vehicles. Workboard, Inc. is a fast-growing provider of Active Strategy Management solutions Floodgate Workboard United $9.3 million that enable leaders and teams to iterate, Microsoft Ventures States measure and achieve their strategic priorities faster. SBDA Group Ltd. is an AI company that SBDA Group FinSight Ventures provides retail banks with solutions for Undisclosed Ltd Ireland Digital Space Ventures boosting customer engagement and cross- selling in digital channels. Karma Ventures 3D model marketplace for VR / AR and CG CGTrader Intel Capital $2.3 million Lithuania projects, and professional 3D designer Practica Capital community. DN Capital Joblift is a job-search platform providing Picus Capital Joblift job seekers with the most intuitive and Cherry Ventures 10 million Germany frictionless experience during the Btov Euros recruiting process. TruVenturo Gremlin builds resilient systems through chaos engineering - a new engineering Index Ventures Gremlin United $7.5 million philosophy that safely injects failure into Amplify Partners States systems to proactively identify and fix unknown faults. AM Research Services is a provider of desk research services to high growth startups and large global corporations. Kindly visit our website www.amresearch.in and contact us at [email protected] for any desk research requests, samples and quote. BUSINESS RESEARCH & CORPORATE INFORMATION SERVICES Benchmark BITKRAFT Esports Manticore Games is an independent Ventures Manticore United developer of high quality hardcore Correlation Ventures $15 million Games States multiplayer PC and console games and CrunchFund services. Macro Ventures SV Angel NorthSea Therapeutics B.V. (NST) is a NorthSea Forbion and BGV biotech company focused on developing Therapeutics The Novo Seeds 25 million structurally engineered fatty acids ( SEFAs ) BV Netherlands New Science Ventures Euros for the treatment of inflammatory and liver diseases. Northzone Global Founders Capital FreightHub FreightHub is a digital asset-free freight Cherry Ventures $20 million Germany forwarding company located in Berlin. Cavalry Ventures La Famiglia Khosla Ventures Data Collective Bay Labs is a San Francisco-based privately Greenbox Venture held company focused on increasing Bay Labs, Inc United Partners $5.5 million quality, value and access to medical States Minneapolis Heart imaging by combining deep learning and Institute Ventures ultrasound. Georges Harik Kyn Kyn Therapeutics is a biotechnology Atlas Venture United $49 million Therapeutics company advancing new OrbiMed
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