TechNY Daily
Keeping the NYC Tech Industry Informed
August 7, 2019
Edition 371
1. NYC’s Cockroach Labs, developer of an ultra-resilient open source database, has raised $55 million in a Series C financing. Investors included Altimeter Capital, Tiger Global, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Benchmark, Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, FirstMark Capital, and Work-Bench. The company’s CockroachDB product is a “geo-distributed” SQL database with horizontal scalability designed to ensure continuity in case of an outage. ( www.cockroachlabs.com) (VentureBeat)
2. NYC’s Catalyst, a customer management platform, has raised $15 million in a Series A financing. The round was led by Accel who was joined by Work-Bench and True Ventures. The company’s platform centralizes customer data from disparate sources such as Slack, Mixpanel and Zendesk. ( www.getcatalyst.io) (TechCrunch)
3. NYC’s first self driving vehicles have come to Brooklyn’s Navy Yard. Six driverless vans, provided by Boston’s Optimus Ride, will be confined to a mile-long loop around the 300-acre Navy Yard. Self driving vehicles are not yet legal on NYC public streets. (New York Post)
4. NYC-based venture capital firm Lux Capital has raised $500 million for its sixth flagship early-stage fund and another $550 million for an opportunity fund focused on growth-stage investments. The firm has backed entrepreneurs that are working on everything from neurostimulation (such as NYC’s CTRL-labs), to nuclear energy to synthetic biology. ( www.luxcapital.com) (Fortune)
5. NYC’s Lively, a digital first lingerie brand, has been acquired by Japan’s Wacoal. The purchase price was $85 million. Lively had raised $15 million from investors including GGV Capital. ( www.wearlively.com) (Business Insider)
6. NYC real estate tech company Compass has raised $370 million in a Series G funding at a $6.4 billion valuation. The investment was made by SoftBank Vision Fund, Glynn Capital Management, Dragoneer Investment Group and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The company has acquired 14 brokerages and about 4,200 agents since the beginning of 2018. ( www.compass.com) (Bloomberg)
7. NYC’s WeWork, prior to its IPO, is set to acquire SF’s SpaceIQ, a platform which helps companies efficiently use office space. The potential terms of the deal were not disclosed. SpaceIQ had raised $11.5 million in funding. WeWork is reportedly looking to position itself as more of a technology company prior to its upcoming IPO. ( www.we.co) ( www.spaceiq.com) (CNBC)
8. NYC’s Locast, a not-for-profit service offering free streaming of local broadcast television stations, is being sued by ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC. The company relies on a copyright law exemption for retransmission by a nonprofit. Locast asks subscribers for a monthly donation and AT&T has provided financial support as well. ( www.locast.org) (The Verge)
9. NYC’s Vymo, developer of a mobile-first personal sales assistant, has raised $18 million in a Series B financing. The round was led by Emergence Capital, with participation from existing investor Sequoia India. The company’s eponymous app helps salespeople automatically capture business calls, visits, messages, emails, calendar and engagement levels. ( www.getvymo.com) (TechCrunch
10. NYC’s Ethyca, a startup focused on managing user data in light of data privacy legislation has raised $4.2 million in a seed round funding. Found Collective and IA Ventures led the round, and were joined by Table Management, Sinai Ventures and angel investors. The company’s platform helps data driven businesses comply with the EU’s GDPR regulations. ( www.ethyca.com) (TechCrunch)
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