Fisker mounts a comeback with $130k Revero

Three years after a bankruptcy filing, luxury electric carmaker Fisker Automotive (now Karma Automotive) is back with a new model, the Karma Revero. The sleek sedan has a 50 mile pure-electric driving range before the internal combustion engine engages. Initial price for the car, which does not yet have a ship date, is around $130,000.

Coupa Software files for IPO in latest unicorn offering

Coupa Software, which provides tools for enterprises to manage how employees spend money, filed to raise up to $75 million in an initial public offering. The Silicon Valley-based unicorn has previously raised about $170 million in venture funding.

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The average size of a U.S. seed round rose in the first half of the year, as startups and their backers looked to shore up a longer runway before seeking Series A funding, according to a CrunchBase analysis. Overall, the average seed round size in the first half of this year was $1.14 million, up from $947,000 in the same period last year.

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Recent Investments

SessionM

$35M / Series D

SessionM is a consumer loyalty and engagement platform. The Boston-based company has processed 1.5B consumer behaviors each month in 2016 through its engine, and customers include AT&T, Kimberly-Clark, and Samsung Electronics. SessionM has raised over $73M in total funding to date.

Categories:

Boston · Loyalty Programs · Personalization · Mobile · Marketing Automation

Founders:

Mark Herrmann, Lars Albright, Scott Weller

Investors:

General Atlantic (Lead), Highland Capital Partners, CRV, + 3 more

Signifyd

$19M / Venture

Signifyd provides e-commerce businesses with fraud protection services. The San Jose-based company serves over 5K companies including Jet.com, Lacoste, and Peet’s Coffee & Tea.

Categories:

San Jose · Enterprise Software · Big Data · E-Commerce · Payments · Software

Founders:

Rajesh Ramanand, Michael Liberty

Investors:

TriplePoint Capital, American Express Ventures, Menlo Ventures

ZENEDGE

$6.2M / Series C

Zenedge provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service to secure web applications and networks against cybersecurity vulnerabilities and DDoS attacks. The Aventura, FL-based company has raised $13.7M in total funding to date.

Categories:

Los Angeles · Network Security · Enterprise Software · Cyber Security · Cloud Computing

Founders:

Leon Kuperman, Yuri Frayman, Alp Hug, Laurent Gil

Investors:

Pilot Growth Equity (Lead), Yehuda Neuberger, Zoho, + 1 more

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Didi Chuxing $120M / Private Equity Foxconn Technology Group
BYJU'S $50M / Series D Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Sequoia Capital
Chrono Therapeutics $48M / Series B Kaiser Permanente Ventures
Blackstorm Labs $34M / Venture
Fountown 200M CNY / Series A CDH Investments
Agrivida $20M / Series E University of Texas Investment Management
HaloDoc $13M / Series A Clermont Group
WSC Sports Technologies $12M / Series B Intel Capital
SmartAsset $12M / Series B IA Capital Group
Canva $10M / Venture
Sparus Holdings $7.5M / Venture NewSpring Capital
prooV $7.0M / Series A Mangrove Capital Partners
Octiv $4.8M / Venture
AnTolRx $4.0M / Series A Pfizer Venture Investments
LiveStories $3.0M / Seed True Ventures
Simplilearn $3.0M / Debt Financing InnoVen Capital
SALIDO $2.0M / Seed Phil Suarez, Jean-Georges Vongerichten
Cermati $1.9M / Series A East Ventures
Tviso 1.5M EUR / Venture Inveready Technology Investment Group
Zerocopter 1.3M EUR / Seed
Connected2Fiber $1.1M / Seed Nauta Capital
Smarter Alloys $1.1M / Grant
Manet 350K EUR / Seed
Mentorloop $300K / Seed
EVAmore unknown / Series A
Freshboxx unknown / Seed
Affinitiv unknown / CIP Capital
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Apigee

Acquired by Google for $625M

Love Mondays

Acquired by Glassdoor

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