Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly

Issue #109: For the week ended July 20, 2021

Join us tomorrow, July 21st, for our upcoming Angular Insights event, an interactive webinar on building developer-first and open source businesses, led by Lenny Pruss, General Partner at Amplify Partners.

Lenny is an accomplished VC and has led the investments of HashiCorp, dbt Labs, Datadog, Prisma, among others. During his fireside chat, Lenny will focus on topics including why developer-driven and open sources businesses are different from typical SaaS, how to go about winning developers’ hearts and minds, and more. He’s well-placed to have a great perspective on this — and, as always, he’ll be answering your questions live. Click here to register.

Gil has finally made it back to Tel Aviv and would love to meet with founders while he’s in town this summer. If you’re building an enterprise or deep tech startup and you’re based in Israel, please let him know… Now let’s get to the news.

-Anne

EVENTS

July 21 / Building Developer-First and Open Source Businesses
Lenny Pruss, General Partner, Amplify Partners

July 27 / How to Define Competitive Advantage in the AI-First Century
Ash Fontana, Managing Director, Zetta Venture Partners

September 29 / Fireside Chat with Ben Braverman, Chief Customer Officer at Flexport
Ben Braverman, Chief Customer Officer, Flexport

October 13 / Fireside Chat with Leigh Moore, VP of Marketing at Snyk
Leigh Moore, VP of Marketing, Snyk

FROM THE BLOG

The Great Acceleration of Seed Investing:
Can seed funds and accelerators work together?

Angular’s Brand Strategy:
Revisiting our brand as we launch our new website

Why we Invested in Levity.ai:
A no-code ML-powered workflow on every desktop

Why we Invested in Firebolt:
Next-gen cloud-native data warehouses (& Eldad Farkash)

EUROPE & ISRAEL FUNDING NEWS

Estonia/FX Exchange. Largest-ever tech listing in UK history as Wise goes public on London Stock Exchange at £8B.
UK/Virtual Events. Hopin acquires Attendify, gears up for Zoom battle.
Israel/Digital Ads. Israel’s Taboola goes public via SPAC at $2.6B valuation.
UK/Travel. The TravelPerk shopping spree continues, snaps up UK’s Click Travel.
Israel/Cloud. HPE buys Israeli cloud data co Zerto for $374M.
Israel/Product Security. JFrog acquires Vdoo for $300M.
Israel/Facial Recognition. AnyVision raised $235M for its facial recognition technology.
Portugal/Remote Global HR. Remote raised $150M to helps firms employ people in different countries.
Denmark/Corporate Expenses. Pleo raised $150M for its corporate expense management software and linked “smart” payment cards.
Israel/Security. Orca Security raised $150M for its cloud security platform.
Israel/New Meat. Aleph Farms raised $105M for technology that grows steaks directly from non-genetically modified animal cells.
Iceland/Payments. Local payments network Rapyd to acquire Icelandic payments solutions provider Valitor for $100M.
UK/Data Integration. Ably raised $70M for its platform that powers synchronized digital experiences in real-time.
UK/Gamified Life Insurance. Yulife raised $70M for its employee insurance offerings.
Israel/Security. Noname Security raised $60M to provide enterprises with API security.
France/Digital Identity. German identity verifier IDnow acquires France’s ARIADNEXT for $59M.
UK/SME Finance. Codat raised $40M for its API that allows small businesses to share business and financial data.
Israel/Community Social. Zencity raised $30M for its community insights and analytics provider for state and local governments.
Sweden/Ecommerce Banking. Juni raised $21.5M for its neobank that is built specifically for companies selling online.
Israel/Employee Training. Juno Journey raised $19M for its career training courses.
UK/Insurance Modelling. hyperexponential raised $18M for its mathematical modelling software for the commercial insurance sector.
UK/Communication Networks. floLIVE raised $15.5M to help it build out private 5G networks.
UK/New Plastic. FabricNano raised $12.5M for its cell-free biomanufacturing which is aiming to revolutionize plastic.
Switzerland/Payments Integrator. Imburse raised $12M for its cloud-based payments integration platform for enterprises.
Germany/Global Hiring. Localyze raised $12M for its cross-border hiring and relocation SaaS platform.
UK/Infrastructure Software. Nodes & Links raised $11M for its scheduling platform for large-scale infrastructure projects.
Germany/DevOps. Checkly raised $17M for its monitoring platform for developers.
Netherlands/Hiring Help. TestGorilla raised $10M for its short, skills-based tests to help hire people, saving time and eliminating biases.
France/Lab-Grown Foie Gras. Gourmey raised $10M for its meat grown in laboratories from animal cells.
Germany/Autonomous Logistics. Fernride raised $8.5M for its “Transportation-as-a-Service solutions for driverless logistics”.

PORTFOLIO NEWS

Firebolt is now supported by Looker as an official database dialect.

Crux OCM’s CEO, Vicki Knott, discusses making robotic operating rooms the standard in Oilwoman Magazine.

Datos Health launches a blog and, in their first post, their CEO covers how robotic process automation can benefit remote patient monitoring.

Chorus.ai was acquired by ZoomInfo for $575M.

JFrog completes acquisition of Vdoo.

JFrog’s Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist, Fred Simon, believes many of today’s space challenges can be solved with software.

Sisense was named one of the 2021 Best Workplaces in New York by Fortune and Great Place to Work.

Front celebrates their new domain, Front.com.