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Clover Health, an insurance startup that uses data science for preventative health care, has raised $130 million in new financing from GV and other investors, according to a Bloomberg report citing unnamed sources. The new round reportedly values the three-year-old company at $1.2 billion.

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Clover Health

$130M / Series D

Clover Health is an insurance company using data science for preventative health care. The San Francisco-based company is now valued at $1.2B.

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San Francisco · Health Care · Health Insurance · Hospital

Founders:

Kris Gale, Vivek Garipalli

Investors:

GV (Lead), Greenoaks Capital

Cockroach Labs

$27M / Series B

CockroachDB is an open-source database service. The New York City-based company has raised $53.5M in total funding to date.

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New York · Database · Enterprise Software · Open Source

Founders:

Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis, Ben Darnell

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Redpoint (Lead), GV, Index Ventures, + 2 more

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$11M / Series A

Mya Systems offers staffing and recruitment services. The San Francisco-based company will use the funding to further develop its recruiter chatbot, which is on track to interact with 2M candidates by end of the year.

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San Francisco · Artificial Intelligence · Enterprise Software · Human Resources · Machine Learning · Natural Language Processing · Recruiting

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Eyal Grayevsky, James Maddox

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Emergence Capital Partners (Lead)

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