Alector, a five-year-old, South San Francisco, Ca.-based biotech company hoping to fight Alzheimer’s disease with immunotherapy, has raised $133 million in Series E funding from Deerfield Management, AbbVie Ventures, Federated Kaufmann Fund, Section 32, GV and a dozen other investors. Forbes has more here.
Awfis Space Solutions, a three-year-old, Mumbai, India-based co-working space company, has raised $20 million in Series C funding from its earlier backers, including Sequoia Capital, The Three Sisters: Institutional Office and InnoVen Capital. The Economic Times has more here.
Ciitizen, a nine-month-old, Palo Alto, Ca.-based startup that’s focused on helping cancer patients access their data (and was founded by former Apple Health director Anil Sethi), has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz. CNBC has more here.
ClassPass, the six-year-old, New York-based, monthly gym membership company, has raised $85 million in Series D funding led by earlier backer Temasek, which also led the startup’s Series C round. L Catterton, the private equity firm, also joined the round. TechCrunch has more here.
ColdQuanta, an 11-year-old, Boulder, Co.-based company focused on the development, design, and manufacture of instruments and systems destined for quantum technologies, has raised $6.75 million in a round led by Maverick Ventures and including Global Frontier Investments. TechCrunch has more here.
FinAccel, a three-year-old, Singapore-based digital credit card startup, has raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Square Peg Capital, with participation fromMDI Ventures, Atami Capital and earlier backers Jungle Ventures, Openspace Ventures, GMO Venture Partners, Alpha JWC Ventures and 500 Startups. TechCrunch has more here.
GlobalWebIndex, a nine-year-old, London-based market research company focused on consumer insight data, has raised $40 million from New York growth fund Stripes Group in its first outside round of funding. City A.M. has more here.
Guild Education, a three-year-old, Denver, Co.-based education benefits platform, just raised $40 million in Series C funding led by Felicis Ventures. Other participants in the round include Salesforce Ventures, Workday Ventures,Rethink Impact & Education, SVB and earlier backers Bessemer Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Harrison Metal and Cowboy Ventures. TechCrunch has more here.
HealthCrowd, a seven-year-old, San Mateo, Ca.-based healthcare communications platform-as-a-service, has raised $7.2 million in funding led by TVC Capital, with participation from Startup Capital Ventures and Healthy Ventures. MobiHealthNews has more here.
Impraise, a four-year-old, New York-based maker of feedback and performance software, has raised $10.6 million in Series A funding led by Keen Venture Partners, with participation from other investors, including HenQ. More here.
Metromile, a seven-year-old, Tempe, Az.-based car insurance platform that allows drivers to pay based on their actual number of hours on the road, has raised $90 million in Series E funding co-led by insurance giants Tokio Marine Holdings and Intact Financial. Other participants in the round include NEA, Index Ventures, Future Fund, and Section 32. VentureBeat has more here.
Patientco, a 10-year-old, Atlanta, Ga.-based patient billing and payments tech company, just raised $28 million in Series B funding led by Accel-KKR, with participation from earlier backers BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners /Sandbox Advantage Fund. More here.
Prescient, an 11-year-old, Durham, N.C-based design and building platform that uses a patented light-gauge and cold-rolled steel structural system and framing technology, has raised $50 million in Series E funding led by Eldridge Industries. More here.
RFPIO, a three-year-old, Beaverton, Ore.-based startup that develops request-for-proposal response automation software, has raised $25 million from K1 Investment Management. GeekWire has more here. Siemplify, a three-year-old, New York-based maker of security operations and incident response software, has raised $14 million in Series B funding led by Jump Capital, with participation from G20 Ventures and 83North. Reuters has more here.
Tally, a three-year-old, San Francisco-based automated debt-managing app, has raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Earlier investors Shasta Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, and Sway Ventures, also participated. More here.
TradeGecko, a six-year-old, Singapore-based SaaS inventory and order management platform for small- and mid-size businesses, has raised $10 million in Series B funding led by Aura Group, with participation from Perle Ventures and 33 Capital. More here.
VSiN, a year-old, Las Vegas, Nv.-based provider of sports betting information content that was founded by CBS sportscaster Brent Musburger, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from SeventySix Capital. Technical.ly Philly has more here.
Zorroa, a four-year-old, Berkeley, Ca.-based visual search and analysis platform, has raised $7 million led by Gradient Ventures. More here. |