Funding Roundup: $2,374,630,000 Invested in 21 Deals

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Subscribe | View in browser We want to offer our many thanks to Inside’s corporate supporters, and offer our readers the chance to join them! Click here for details on how to get in touch with Inside VC. -- The Inside Venture Capital Team --VC Reads-- -- Finding the Right Price for Early Customers: Ash Rust, Sterling Road’s managing partner, delves into one of the most difficult dilemmas for young startups. -- Not obvious. Never Easy. Does happen.: Rory Stirling, partner at BGF Ventures, gives the pitch decks from YouTube, LinkedIn, and AirBnB. -- “We have a common philosophy that it all starts with people” — Heather Hartnett on Human Ventures, NYC’s Startup Studio: Homebrew’s Hunter Walk interviews. -- A computer was asked to predict which start-ups would be successful. The results were astonishing -- Floyd Mayweather Just Joined the ICO ‘Coin’ Craze: Fortune reports.       --Consumer Internet-- -- Xiaomi (China), mobile phone manufacturer: $1B syndicated loan from 18 different banks. -- Traveloka (Jakarta, Indonesia), travel accommodation platform: $350M minority investment from Expedia. Brings total raised $500M over the last year. -- Alltricks (Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France), cycling/running e-commerce platform: $8.6M from Entrepreneur, 123 Investment, Partech, Sonorfi, Financière de la Gommerie, et al. -- Murphy Door (Ogden, UT), small bookcase door manufacturer: $1.25M from Decathlon Capital Partners. --Enterprise-- -- DotC (Shanghai, China), mobile app global development, operation and commercial monetization: $350M B led by Zeus Entertainment. -- Shopex (Shanghai, China), e-commerce software and enterprise services: $105M D led by Joy Capital, participation from K2VC, New Alliance Capital, Tianxing, et al. -- Perkbox (London, UK), employee engagement/retainment platform: $8.6M from Draper Esprit. -- Shelf (New York, NY), platform for teams to share content and resources: $2.2M Seed from SeedInvest, CT, Ratan Agarwal, et al. --Industry4.0-- -- SpaceX (Hawthorne, CA), space exploration: $350M H from undisclosed sources. Reportedly valued the company at $21.2B. --Biotech/Health-- -- Push Doctor (Manchester, UK), platform to find general practitioners: $26.1M B led by Accelerated Digital Ventures, Draper Esprit, participation from Oxford, Partech, Seventure. -- Sentient Science (Buffalo, NY), platform to predict and track deterioration of life sciences equipment: $22.5M C led by Georgian Partners. -- Cyrus Biotechnology (Seattle, WA), protein structure prediction, discovery, modeling, stabilization, engineering and design: $8M A led by Trinity Ventures, participation from OrbiMed, SpringRock, W Fund, et al. -- Sightbox (Portland, OR), eye exams/contact lenses subscription service: $2.4M from Rogue, Portland Seed, Jumpstart Foundry, Vista River, G, Irish Angels, et al. --AR/VR-- -- Within (Los Angeles, CA), online platform for VR film creation and distribution: $40M B led by Temasek, Emerson Collective, participation from WPP, Macro, Andreessen Horowitz, 21st Century Fox, Raine. --Cybersecurity-- -- PerimeterX (San Mateo, CA), web-based bot attack defense program: $23M B led by Canaan Partners, participation from Vertex, Data Collective. -- Votiro Cybersec (Tel Aviv, Israel), zero-day cyber threat protection: $9M from Redfield Asset, et al. --Fintech-- -- Marqeta (Oakland, CA), commercial API for payment solutions: $25M D led by Visa, participation from Commerce, 83 North, Granite, IA, CommerzVentures, CreditEase. -- Spera (Lehi, UT), business management/payment solutions for freelancers: $2M A from Medici Ventures. --Edtech-- -- ExecOnline (New York, NY), online leadership development programs for college students: $16M B led by NewSpring Growth Capital, participation from Osage, New Atlantic, Kaplan, Thomas Lehrman. -- Kuaile Zhihui (Beijing, China), AI-based education robots: $10M A led by Qiming Ventures, participation from GGV, China Elite. --Robotics-- -- 6 River Systems (Boston, MA), robots for warehouse productivity and employee training: $15M A from Norwest Venture Partners, Eclipse Ventures.       The number of funding rounds reached its peak in mid-2015, coinciding with the highest amount of funding over the last 3.5 years. Even ignoring the three peaks created by single series-unknown funding rounds, the average round has been steadily increasing. Angel/Seed rounds intuitively account for an unusually large amount of funding. Late-stage funding is largely absent, and we needed to There is an unusually high frequency of funding rounds of other types. Seed/Angel rounds naturally dominate the layout. Both late-stage and series A/B rounds saw significant increases beginning in late 2016. --Funding Breakdown-- --Consumer Internet-- 4 Deals: $1,359,830,000 --Enterprise-- 4 Deals: $465,800,000 --Industry4.0-- 1 Deal: $350,000,000 --Biotech/Health-- 4 Deals: $59,000,000 --AR/VR-- 1 Deal: $40,000,000 --Cybersecurity-- 2 Deals: $32,000,000 --Fintech-- 2 Deals: $27,000,000 --Edtech-- 2 Deals: $26,000,000 --Robotics-- 1 Deal: $15,000,000       This week's funding came very close to being exactly average for the year to date.       --New Funds-- -- Y Combinator launches new fund, technically Continuity Fund II: $1B. -- Canaan Partners closes Fund XI, early-stage fintech, marketplaces, enterprise/cloud, biotech: $800M. -- Fulcrum Equity Partners closes Fund III, healthcare, tech-enabled growth investments: $203M. -- Blue Lake Capital launches Fund II, $1M-$5M consumer internet, enterprise: $200M. -- Fulcrum Equity Partners closes Fund III, tech, biotech: $200M. -- Aquiline Capital closes maiden early/growth-stage fund, insurtech, fintech: $190M. -- BlackFin Capital holds first close of maiden fund, regtech, insurtech and fintech: $117M. -- LiveOak Ventures launches Fund II, $1M-$4M IT, tech-enabled: $110M. -- Maniv Mobility closes maiden fund, early-stage vehicle systems, enterprise, etc.: $40M. -- EIF and OXO launch maiden fund, startups in central and eastern Europe: $59M. -- TenOneTen Ventures launches Fund II: $50M. -- The Designer Fund launches Fund II, early-stage designer-oriented startups: $40M.       Did we get anything wrong or miss a story? 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