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San Diego-based NanoCellect Biomedical Inc, a developer of microfluidic cell sorting technologies for cell-based assays, has closed $10 million in Series B financing. The backers included Illumina Ventures, Anzu Partners, Vertical Venture Partners, 5 Prime Ventures, FusionX Ventures and Agilent Technologies.
ReversingLabs, a provider of real-time file analysis and classification, has raised $25 million in Series A funding. Trident Capital Cybersecurity and JPMorgan Chase led the round. In conjunction with the funding, Sean Cunningham of Trident Capital Cybersecurity will join the ReversingLabs' board of directors.
Farmers Business Network, a farmer-to-farmer network, has secured $110 million in Series D funding. T. Rowe Price Associates Inc and Temasek led the round with participation from return backers Acre Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, GV and DBL Partners.
BlazingDB, a data warehouse, has raised $2.9 million in seed funding. The investors were NVIDIA GPU Ventures and Samsung NEXT.
Innovid has agreed to acquire New York City and Israel-based Taykey, a real-time data intelligence company. No financial terms were disclosed. Taykey's backers included Innovation Endeavors, MSR Capital, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital, Marker LLC and Tenaya Capital.
Akouos, a new biotechnology company focused on restoring and preserving hearing, has raised $7.5 million in seed funding. The lead investors were 5AM Ventures and New Enterprise Associates. Partners Innovation Fund also participated in the round. In conjunction with the funding, Kush Parmar, a managing partner at 5AM Ventures and Ed Mathers, a partner at New Enterprise Associates, have joined the Akouos board of directors.
Mojio, a connected car cloud platform company, has secured C$30 million in Series B funding. Kensington Capital led the round with participation from other investors that included Trend Forward Capital, innogy Ventures, the Amazon Alexa Fund, BDC IT Venture Fund, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners and Relay Ventures. Mojio has offices in Vancouver, Silicon Valley and Bulgaria.
San Francisco-based Replika, a personal chatbox, has raised $6.5 million in funding. The investors included Khosla Ventures and Sherpa Capital.
Halifax, Nova Scotia-based Affinio Inc, an interest analytics platform that uses machine learning, has raised $9 million in Series B funding. The investors were Round13 Capital, Whitecap Venture Partners and Build Ventures.
Lexington, Massachusetts-based Fractyl Laboratories Inc, a medical tech company, has raised $44 million in Series D financing. The investors included GV, True Ventures, the IDO Fund, General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, Domain Associates, Mithril Capital Management, Emergent Medical Partners, L.P. and Deerfield Management Company L.P.
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