Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of August 2, 2021. PsiQuantum Raised $450M Series D led by BlackRock

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I can't believe it is August 2021 already!

A few weeks ago, I conducted a really fun workshop on the topic of Startup Investing 101 for angel investors. In this talk, I covered:

Why startup investing is not just about the money
Why should you invest in startup
How to position and brand yourself as an angel investor
How to build up your deal flow
How to evaluate a startup
What is a SAFE and how to invest
What to do or NOT to do after an investment

Check out this talk and I am hosting another talk on Techcrunch's Extra Crunch this Wed. Join us.

This week a total of 25 startups raised $1.9551B in funding, 4 exits:

$384.6M goes to 10 Enterprise startups
$200M goes to 3 FinTech startups
$201M goes to 3 InsurTech startups
$15M goes to 1 HR startup
$2M goes to 1 Legal startup
$80M goes to 1 Robotics startup
$450M goes to 1 Hardware startup
$226.5M goes to 2 Healthcare startups
$396M goes to 3 BioTech startup

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Funding (300 miles radius from Silicon Valley)

Enterprise

Algolia (search API) raised $150M Series D led by Lone Pine Capital
Homebase (team management platform for SMB) raised $71M Series C led by GGV Capital
Teamflow (virtual office meetings for remote and onsite teams) raised $35M Series B led by Coatue
Blameless (site reliability engineering solutions) raised $30M Series B led by Third Point Ventures
Orum (outbound sales workflows automation) raised $25M Series A led by Craft Ventures
Spectro Cloud (Kubernetes enterprise management platform) raised $20M Series A led by Stripes
Voiceflow (conversation design tooling) raised $20M Series A led by Felicis Ventures
Hightouch (Reverse ETL) raised $12.1M Series A led by Amplify Partners
Lumanu (collaboration tools for creative entrepreneurship) raised $12M Series A led by Origin Ventures
Launchable (software test intelligence platform) raised $9.5M Series A led by645 Ventures

FinTech

Mercury (banking services for startups) raised $120M Series B led by Coatue
Eco (digital wallet) raised $60M Series B led by Activant Capital, L Catterton
Valora (mobile-first digital wallet) raised $20M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz

InsurTech

At-Bay (cyber insurance) raised $185M Series D led by Icon Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Agentero (digital insurance network) raised $13.5M Series A led by Alma Mundi Ventures
Amplify Life Insurance (digital permanent life insurance platform) raised $2.5M Seed led by Anthemis Group

HR

Talview (hiring and proctoring solution) raised $15M Series B led by Eileses Capital

Legal

Hello Divorce (online divorce platform) raised $2M Seed led by CEAS

Robotics

Covariant (universal AI for robots) raised $80M Series C led by Index Ventures

Hardware

PsiQuantum (world’s first commercial quantum computer) raised $450M Series D led by BlackRock

Healthcare

Exo (ultrasound device maker) raised $220M Series C led by RA Capital Management
Neuro42 (portable MRI, robotic and AI platform) raised $6.5M Series A led by Zepp

BioTech

Neuralink (brain computer interface) raised $205M Series C led by Vy Capital
Rakuten Medical (cell-targeting investigational therapies) raised $166M Series D led by General Catalyst
IgGenix (food and allergy disease treatment) raised $25M Series A led by Khosla Ventures, Mattias Westman

IPO & M&A (300 miles radius from Silicon Valley)

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