Daily funding roundup - August 9th, 2021

Kristin Karaoglu · August 9, 2021 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/52d9

Snorkel AI raised $85M; Cadence landed $41M; Canopy Servicing secured $15M Eyevensys picks up $12M

Trendyol: Trendyol is a Turkey-based e-commerce platform that ranks as the largest of its kind in the country. Trendyol has raised $1.5 billion in a massive funding round that values the company at $16.5 billion. General Atlantic, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Princeville Capital and sovereign wealth funds ADQ (UAE) and Qatar Investment Authority co-led the round. Read more

Snorkel AI: Snorkel AI is a Palo Alto, Ca.-based startup specializing in training machine learning systems. Snorkel AI has raised $85 million in funding co-led by Addition and BlackRock, with participation from Greylock, GV, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nepenthe Capital and Walden. Read more

Cricket Health: Cricket Health is a San Francisco-based kidney care company that provides integrated nephrology and dialysis care for people with chronic kidney disease and end stage renal disease. Cricket Health has raised $83.5 million in Series B funding. Valtruis led the round, joined by Oak HC/FT, Cigna Ventures, K2 HealthVentures, and Blue Shield of California. Read more

FreshBooks: FreshBooks is a Toronto-based cloud accounting software company focused on small and mid-size businesses. FreshBooks has raised $80.75 million in Series E funding, as well as $50 million in debt financing. Earlier backer Accomplice led the equity financing at a post-money valuation of more than $1 billion. JPMorgan, Gaingels, BMO Technology & Innovation Banking Group and Manulife also participated in the equity piece, along with new backer Barclays. Read more

Cadence: Cadence is a L.A.-based remote patient monitoring startup that enables clinicians to provide personalized feedback via texts and video visits. Cadence has raised $41 million in funding from General Catalyst and Thrive Capital, with participation from Martin Ventures and Chelsea Clinton, among others. Read more  

Canopy Servicing: Canopy Servicing is a Keaʻau, Hawaii-based maker of servicing infrastructure software that allows its fintech customers and others to develop loan programs for their own customers. Canopy Servicing has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Canaan, with participation from Homebrew, Foundation Capital and BoxGroup, among others. Read more 

Nabr: Nabr is a pre-launch real estate startup. Nabr has raised $14M in a seed funding round led by Zigg Capital, with participation from Robert Wennett and DivcoWest. 

Eyevensys: Eyevensys is a non-viral gene therapy platform that offers revolutionary treatments for eye diseases. Eyevensy has just closed a Series B Plus funding round for $12 million. Korea Investment Partners was the lead investor in this round, and the firm was joined by existing investors in the company. Read more 

CommandBar: CommandBar is a San Francisco-based startup whose search interface sits atop web-based apps so that users can access functionalities by searching simple keywords. CommandBar has raised $4.8 million in seed funding. Thrive Capital led the round, joined by Y Combinator, BoxGroup and a group of angel investors, including Naval Ravikant, investor Brianne Kimmel, and StitchFix president Mike Smith. Read more  

Upscribe: Upscribe is a subscription software for D2C ecommerce merchants. Upscribe announced a $4 million seed financing round, led by Uncork Capital. Leaders Fund and House Fund also participated, among others. Read more 

Cent: Cent is a San Francisco-based startup that mints non-fungible tokens from tweets. Cent has raised $3 million in funding. Investors include Galaxy Interactive, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Mark Pincus, Reid Hoffman, will.i.am, and In/Visible Ventures. Read more 

RentCheck: RentCheck is a New Orleans, La.-based startup whose tech helps property managers save time on inspections with self-guided inspections that it says anyone can complete from their smartphone. RentCheck has raised $2.6 million in seed funding from Cox Enterprises and a long list of notable individuals investors. Read more

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Kristin Karaoglu

Woman of many skills: Database System Engineer; SplashX event producer; Author of Startup Teams

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