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Venture Capital
• Canary Technologies, a provider of hotel guest management software, raised $80m in Series D funding at around a $600m valuation. Brighton Park Capital led, joined by insiders Insight Partners, F-Prime Capital, Thayer Ventures, YC, and Commerce Ventures. canarytechnologies.com
• Nominal, an Austin, Texas-based industrial software startup, raised $75m in Series B funding. Sequoia Capital led, joined by Lightspeed, Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and Founders Fund. Go deeper
• Look Up Space, a French space traffic safety platform, raised €50m. ETF Partners led, joined by Leadwind, KFund, EIC Fund, MIG Capital, Karista, and Expansion. Go deeper
🚑 Ellipsis Health, an SF-based provider of patient engagement tools for health systems, raised $45m in Series A funding. Salesforce, Khosla Ventures, and CVS Health Ventures led, joined by Mitsui Global Investment, Collier, E12, and AME Cloud Venture. Go deeper
• Muon Space, a Mountain View, Calif.-based satellite maker, raised $44.5m in Series B extension funding. Congruent Ventures led, joined by Activate Capital, Acme Capital, Costanoa Ventures, and Radical Ventures. Go deeper
🚑 Commons Clinic, an LA-based specialty care provider, raised $26m in Series B financing led by RA Capital with participation from Floating Point, SteelSky Ventures, Time BioVentures, Courtside Ventures, and Commons Clinic physicians. Go deeper
• Shinkei Systems, a seafood robotics company, raised $22 million in Series A funding. Founders Fund and Interlagos co-led, joined by Yamato Holdings, Shrug, CIV, Jaws and Mantis. Go deeper
💊 Parallel Bio, a Boston organoid startup, raised $21m in a Series A led by AIX Ventures. Go deeper
• Antimetal, a New York-based cloud infrastructure management startup, raised $20m in Series A funding led by Sound Ventures. Go deeper
• Conveyor, a customer trust automation startup, raised $20m in Series A funding. SignalFire led, joined by Oregon Venture Fund and Cervin Ventures. Go deeper
• Warp, an L.A.-based middle-mile logistics startup, raised $10m in Series A funding co-led by UpPartners and Blue Bear Capital. wearewarp.com
Private Equity
• Datavant, a portfolio company of New Mountain Capital and Ardan Equity, acquired Ontellus, a Houston-based provider of health records retrieval and claims intelligence, from Aquiline and Capstreet. datavant.com
• Gemspring Capital Management invested in Residence, a creative services provider. residence.co
• Soluna, an Albany, New York-based green data center company, secured $20m from Spring Lane Capital. Go deeper
Liquidity
• Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com and Tumblr, acquired relationship management app Clay, which had raised $9m from General Catalyst and Forerunner Ventures. Go deeper
• Capital Rx, a pharmacy benefit manager valued by VCs at $1.5b, acquired SF-based care navigation company Amino Health, backed by Transformation Capital, Stone Point Capital, First Round Capital, and Acrew Capital. Go deeper
M&A
• Woody Johnson, owner of the NFL's New York Jets, is in talks to invest £200m into Premier League club Crystal Palace, per ESPN. Go deeper
Public markets
⚡Oklo, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based nuclear startup, is seeking to raise up to $400m in a secondary share offering. Go deeper
Debt
⚡Scale Microgrids, a Ridgewood, New Jersey-based microgrid developer, raised $275m in project financing led by KeyBanc Capital Markets, Cadence Bank, and New York Green Bank. Go deeper
⚡Earthrise Energy, an Arlington, Va.-based independent power producer, has raised $630m in tax equity and debt for a solar project in Illinois from BBVA, Intesa Sanpaolo, and Nord/LB. Go deeper
Odds & ends
• Galvanize Climate Solutions, an SF-based asset manager, acquired a five-property industrial portfolio in Maryland. Go deeper
- Ryan Barwick, Colin Campbell, Katherine Davis, Katie Fehrenbacher, Ryan Lawler, Alan Neuhauser, and Dan Primack contributed to this report.
