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SAN FRANCISCO, May 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ ViaBot, a robotics startup bringing maintenance and management automation to large properties, today announced its public launch with $6.1 million in funding. As part of the launch, it also disclosed a key strategic partnership with Cushman & Wakefield which has deployed ViaBot s RUNO robots to properties in the Bay Area for sweeping and security services. ViaBot is backed by Baseline Ventures, Morado Ventures, and Grit Ventures and partnered with SOSV. We re excited to announce our public launch to scale our Robots-as-a-Service for property management, said Gregg Ratanaphanyarat, CEO and Co-founder of ViaBot. We founded ViaBot with a mission to address the dirty, dull and dangerous jobs of outdoor work, and we re thrilled that our multifunctional robots are offering better solutions to the challenges facing property managers today.
Robots as a service: pay per harvested kilo
When will you be ready to buy a robot to replace your workers? Not there yet? Well, you re not alone. In order to help build the trust growers have in harvest robots, the company Tortuga looks to offer their harvest robot on a robots-as-a-service basis: you pay for what the robots harvest. With this vision and their earlier released strawberry robot, they just completed a $20 million Series A round led by Lewis & Clark AgriFood.
After four years of research and development, Tortuga launched a harvest robot fleet last year. The platform is now equipped for strawberry harvest, has already picked outdoor table grapes, and will be adjusted to work on blueberries, cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers as well. And there s more to come, says Eric Adamson.
Docyt raises $1.5M for its ML-based accounting automation platform
Accounting isn’t a topic that most people can get excited about probably not even most accountants. But if you’re running any kind of business, there’s just no way around it. Santa Clara-based Docyt wants to make the life of small and medium business owners (and their accounting firms) a bit easier by using machine learning to handle a lot of the routine tasks around collecting financial data, digitizing receipts, categorization and maybe most importantly reconciliation.
The company today announced that it has raised a $1.5 million seed-extension round led by First Rays Venture Partners with participation from Morado Ventures and a group of angel investors. Docyt (pronounced “docket”) had previously raised a $2.2 million seed round from Morado Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Westwave Capital, Xplorer Capital, Tuesday and angel investors. The company plans to use the new investment to accelerate its cus
Tiger Global leads $105m funding in US startup TigerGraph
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February 18, 2021
TigerGraph, a California, US-based startup that provides a graph analytics platform, has raised $105 million in a Series C round of financing that has brought its total funding amount to over $170 million.
The new financing round was led by Tiger Global. The company claimed this to be the biggest investment in the graph database and analytics market to date in its statement on Thursday.
“TigerGraph is leading the paradigm shift in connecting and analyzing data via scalable and native graph technology with pre-connected entities versus the traditional way of joining large tables with rows and columns,” said TigerGraph founder and CEO Yu Xu.
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