Five startups, $63 million in funding: Who raised this week?

It might have felt like a quieter week for startups within the funding house with much less corporations asserting raises, however of the handful that did, there was massive cash being splashed round — a whopping $63 million actually.

5 main raises befell within the final seven days or so, starting from well being tech to Web3, all the way in which to non-alcoholic drinks.

Listed here are the businesses raking of their share of the money.

HealthMatch

Aussie startup HealthMatch closed its Sequence C spherical with $10 million in funding, led by the corporate’s authentic investor, Folklore Ventures.

HealthMatch is a digital platform that goals to enhance entry to scientific trials for sufferers and, alongside the Sequence C elevate, introduced it had surpassed 1 million customers globally.

That person base is up 10 occasions from December last year when the startup closed its $18 million Series B round, which adopted a $6 million Sequence A in November of 2019.

Sq. Peg, which led the Sequence B spherical final 12 months, had been additionally among the many buyers for the Sequence C spherical.

Monday Distillery

Non-alcoholic drinks firm Monday Distillery closed its fairness crowdfunding enterprise earlier this week, reaching greater than $1 million in funding.

The fairness crowdfunding marketing campaign has seen 497 new shareholders coming onboard, with the enterprise securing 115 of these investments within the closing 24-hour interval.

The brand new funds will enable Monday Distillery to develop and produce new drink varieties; develop on-line channels and distribution capabilities; and pursue worldwide alternatives.

It was the primary crowdfunding marketing campaign Monday Distillery has launched, with founder Samantha Manning saying she “couldn’t be happier” with the end result.

“Seeing the general public put their hard-earned into our enterprise is a surreal expertise,” she mentioned.

Sonder

On Thursday, Sonder — a wellbeing and security firm — closed its Sequence B funding spherical with a well-oversubscribed $35 million.

Blackbird Ventures led the spherical, with participation from new buyers together with SEEK Investments and SecondQuarter Ventures.

The corporate will use the contemporary funding to take a position into product enhancements, proceed rising its consumer base, and pursue additional development alternatives inside worldwide markets.

Sonder co-founder and chief Craig Cowdrey mentioned in a press release that the funding will help the supply of Sonder’s platform to extra folks in want.

Lleaf

Sydney agtech startup Lleaf has raised $3.5 million in a bridging spherical, with funding led by Danish funding corporations ALFA Ventures and a couple of Levels.

Lleaf — an acronym of Luminescent Gentle Emitting Agricultural Agency — developed a sequence of patented gentle which may take in and emit plastics from vegetation, serving to to enhance the standard of each daylight and synthetic gentle for vegetation.

Its first product was shipped in February this 12 months and was offered out by June, after industrial chemists and Lleaf co-founders Dr Alexander Soeriyadi and Dr Alexander Falber spent 5 years creating the patented gentle.

The College of New South Wales and deep tech hub Cicada Improvements additionally contributed to the spherical, and Lleaf is now planning a Sequence A in October, in response to Startup Daily.

Spice AI

Spice AI, a Seattle-based firm, was co-founded by Australian Luke Kim alongside Phillip LeBlanc with an goal to create know-how that can assist builders construct data-driven functions for Web3.

It’s now a Blackbird portfolio firm, with Blackbird taking part in Spice AI’s $13.5 million seed spherical.

Alongside the Aussie funding, Spice AI additionally acquired participation from Madrona, Primary Set Ventures, Alumni Ventures Blockchain Fund, Protocol Labs, IEX fund and different angel buyers.

Kim and LeBlanc are Microsoft and GitHub alumni, with GitHub chief govt Thomas Dohmke being a kind of angel buyers and likewise becoming a member of the Spice AI board.