Atrium gets US $13.5M for sales software
San Francisco-based Atrium, a provider of data-driven sales management software, closed on $13.5 million in seed funding from backers including Bonfire Ventures, CRV, and Bullpen Capital. The five-year-old, San Francisco-based startup plans to use the funding to grow its team.
Owlet, the babytech startup best known for its “smart sock” wearable, is about to show how much public investors will value a hot company in the space. As the Utah company moves closer to its planned public debut in a SPAC deal valued at over $1 billion, we talk to co-founder and CEO Kurt Workman about where he thinks the babytech sector is going.
Southeast Asia’s ride-hailing and food delivery giant Grab has agreed to a merger with a SPAC, Altimeter Growth Corp., in a deal valuing the company at around $40 billion. In other news, Epic Games, the maker of popular games like Fortnite, raised $1 billion in new funding including $200 million from Sony, bringing its valuation to $28.7 billion.
Last year proved not even a pandemic could slow investors’ appetite for cybersecurity. This year, investors are being bold about doubling down. The first quarter of 2021 saw more than $3.7 billion invested globally into cybersecurity, a Crunchbase report finds, putting the industry on track to shatter 2020’s record-setting funding levels.
Source : Crunchbase