June brought the heat on the funding scene in the Boston startup ecosystem with five startups raising over $231 million. Last month’s blockbuster deal was led by ezCater which raised $100 million — ezCater is a marketplace for corporate catering.
Other large rounds included TraceLink, the life science supply chain company, which raised $60 million, security software maker BitSight’s $60 million, Emulate, the animal-testing alternative maker’s $36 million and data operation company Devo’s $25 million.
VC firms were on a fundraising spree too — early-stage fund Romulus Capital raised $83M for its third funding round. Matrix Partners raised $450 million for its 11th U.S. venture capital fund. Matrix has offices in Cambridge, Mass., the San Francisco Bay Area, India and China.
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Below are the 22 startups that raised capital in June.
• 10% Happier, an app offering a series of meditation courses, raised $3.7 million in new funding.
• Lendbuzz, which provides car loans to expats with no credit scores, raised $4.2 million in an equity offering, according to a new Form D.
• Newton-based healthcare startup ConnectRN that operates an online platform for hospitals and healthcare institutions to communicate with nurses has raised $11.5 million in funding from undisclosed investors.
• Mayflower Venues, billed as “Airbnb for wedding venues”, an MIT startup, closed an angel round worth $450K. The round was led by Tamarisc, an early stage VC firm.
• Devo, a data operations company formerly known as Logtrust, announced a $25 million Series C funding round led by Insight Venture Partners with participation from Kibo Ventures.
• North Reading, Mass.-based TraceLink raised $60 million in an equity round, according to a new Form D. The company is developing a network that connects the life sciences supply chain.
• Cambridge, Mass.-based Concentric, Inc. raised $436K, according to a Form D notification. Concentric makes software that helps companies craft their go-to-market strategy with features like industry forecasts, etc.
• Data science startup Elucidata Corporation, which develops software for drug discovery, raised $1.7 million in seed funding.
• ezCater, the marketplace for corporate catering raised $100 million in Series D funding round was led by Wellington Management Company LLP.
• Mightier, a startup that develops games to improve kids’ behavioral health, raised $2.4 million in a seed funding round led by Slow Ventures.
• CallMiner, which has its executive offices in Waltham, Mass., raised $3 million in an equity round, according to a Form D notification.
• Uptycs, a two-year-old cybersecurity startup based in Waltham, Mass., raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by ForgePoint Capital and Comcast Ventures
• Lumint Corp, a currency management startup, raised $4 million.
• Emulate, a startup that provides alternatives to animal-testing, raised $36 million in VC funding led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund.
• CyPhy Works raised over $4.5 million in a debt offering, according to the Form D filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
• Home renovation startup Renoviso raised an additional $7 million in funding led by Corigin Ventures.
• Openbay, a Cambridge-based online marketplace for automotive repair and services, announced today it closed an $8 million Series A round of financing.
• CyberSaint raised $3 million in a growth round of financing co-led by Audeo Capital and founding investor BlueIO.
• Silverfort, an agentless multi-factor authentication provider, announced a $11.5 million Series A round.
• StripSupply, a Boston-based reseller of diabetic test strips, closed an undisclosed seed round. The funding was led by LaunchByte Ventures.
• Security software maker BitSight raised $60 million in a Series D round led by Warburg Pincus.
• Veridium, a startup that wants to replace passwords with biometrics, announced on Friday that it has closed a Series B funding round worth $16.5 million.
