ILiAD Biotechnologies Closes $42.8M Series D Financing
ILiAD Biotechnologies, a Weston, FL-based clinical stage biotechnologies company, raised $42.8M in Series D funding. The round was led by Knott Partners. The company intends to use the funds to conduct a Phase 2b Human Challenge study to determine if vaccination with BPZE1 prevents colonization from wild-type Bordetella pertussis infection. In addition to funding continued operations, R&D […]
Heavybit Raises $80M Fund
Heavybit, a San Francisco, CA-based investor in developer-first startups, closed Heavybit Holdings IV, L.P., at $80m. Over 40 founders and early executives central to the DevOps, CI/CD, Jamstack, and serverless software movements personally invested in the fund, a move that speaks to the firm’s success with technical teams. Among others, they include Guy Podjarny, serial […]
Gravity Co Raises £5M in Funding
Gravity Co, a London, UK-baserd co-living operator, raised more than £5M in funding. The backers were not announced. The company intends to use the funds to expand globally. Co-founded in 2017 by Capital Riccardo Tessaro and Susanna Rock, Gravity Co provides a community-focused, international living experience via four properties currently located in London and one in Reading. The […]
Apricity Raises €17M in Series B Funding
Apricity, a London, UK-based virtual fertility clinic, raised €17m in Series B funding. The round was led by MTIP, with participation from Iris Ventures. Marc Dietrich joined the board of directors on behalf of MTIP. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth in the UK, expand geographically (to Spain before the end of […]
Neukio Biotherapeutics Closes $50M Series A-1 Financing
Neukio Biotherapeutics, a Chinese company committed to developing cell therapy products, raised $50M in Series A-1 funding. The round was led by CD Capital, with participation from Alwin Capital, Surplus Capital, Lilly Asia Ventures, Sherpa Healthcare Partners and IDG Capital. The company, founded at the Simbay Park in Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone (China) in June […]
Singapore’s Silence Laboratories raises $1.7M seed funding led by Pi Ventures
Silence Laboratories, a web3 focused cybersecurity startup headquartered in Singapore, said Thursday it has closed a $1.7 million round in a seed funding led by Pi Ventures. The round also included participation from web3 centric funds such as imToken ventures and prominent angels like Daniel Ari Friedman, Mahin Gupta, CK Vishwakarma, Priyeshu Garg, Ashish Tiwari, […]
Declout Ventures leads $4.5M investment in Charged Indonesia
Singapore-headquartered DeClout Ventures Pte. Ltd. has led a $4.5 million investment in Indonesia-focused e-mobility scale up Charged Indonesia, as part of their inaugural funding round. “Carbon emissions from traditional combustion motorcycles are one of the main sources of air pollution in Indonesia, and Charged Indonesia aims to improve this by leading the transition of combustion motorcycle […]
Grab rival Be Group gets $60M loan for Vietnam expansion – report
Vietnam-based ride-hailing start-up Be Group JSC said it had received a loan facility of at least $60 million, as it seeks to further challenge Grab Holdings Ltd in the country, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The loan from Deutsche Bank AG includes a provision that would allow financing to increase to as much as $100 million, Be Group chief executive […]
Singapore B2B commerce enabler Eezee raises $7.5m to expand across SE Asia
Eezee, a Singapore-based B2B procurement startup, revealed that it has raised $7.5 million in its Series A funding round that will fuel its further expansion in Southeast Asia. The funding round was led by Ayala Corporate Technology Innovation Venture Fund (ACTIVE Fund), one of Southeast Asia’s top corporate venture capital firms backed by Ayala Corporation and […]
Docquity, SE Asia’s social network for doctors, banks $44m in Series C financing
Docquity, Southeast Asia’s largest community of healthcare professionals, announced that it has raised $44 million in total in its Series C financing round, anchored by Japan’s Itochu Corporation. Itochu, which put in $32 million in the funding round, was joined by other investors, including iGlobe Partners, Alkemi, Global Brain, KDV, and Infocom. The Series C round brings […]