Vantage | April 2022

Vertex Portfolio News

Here are the latest updates on the portfolio companies across our Vertex network. Stay connected by signing up for our monthly newsletter here.

• Axonius (IL) raised a USD 200M with a USD 2.6B valuation
• Cymbio (IL) closed a new round by Paypal Ventures
• Datarails (IL) raised a USD 50M Series B
• DeepVision (CN) closed an over USD 16M Series A (Article in CN)
• Licious (SEAI & Growth) closed a USD 150M Series F2
• Nucleai (IL) raised a USD 33M Series B round
• RecBio (CN) raised a USD 98M in an IPO in Hong Kong (Article in CN)
• Sokowatch (US) raised a USD 125M Series B
• UWinTech (CN) closed a USD 28M Series C (Article in CN)
• Verbit (IL & Growth) acquired Take Note, a UK-based transcription, captioning, and note-taking services company

• Ambi Robotics (US) signed a USD 23M deployment expansion with Pitney Bowes to help optimize last-mile sorting across US hubs
• Vintra (US) partnered with Genetec Security Center to deliver an advanced forensic and real-time analytics solution
• NIUM (SEAI & Growth) teamed up with Ecompay to offer payouts to merchants in various regions across the globe
• Regor Therapeutics (CN) collaborated with NVIDIA to accelerate the discovery and development of innovative drugs

• Desktop Metal (US) unveiled X-Series line of additive manufacturing systems for metal and ceramics into growing portfolio.
• Geek+ (CN & Growth) launched ground-breaking four-way warehouse storage and picking solution
• NIUM (SEAI & Growth) introduced new global brokerage payments solution to provide faster and lower cost alternative to SWIFT Settlement
• Palleon Pharmaceuticals (HC) announced first patient dosed in Phase 1/2 Study of Lead Glyco-Immunology Drug Candidate for Oncology
• Pace (SEAI) acquired competitor Rely for an undisclosed sum

• Validus (SEAI & Growth) acquired Citi Singapore’s small banking business unit, CitiBusiness, for an undisclosed amount

  
  

• Aruna (SEAI) featured as one of Indonesia’s tech-enabled start-ups transforming the country’s fishing industry and on Warta Ekocomi for empowering women
• Boundless Bio (HC) announced upcoming presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2022
• Evisort (US) named winner in 2022 artificial intelligence awards
• Ivantis (HC) was mentioned on a Micro Invasive Glaucoma Surgery (MIGS) Devices Market 2022 study
• Karkhana.io (SEAI) featured  as one of India’s notable B2B start ups
• Kapiva (SEAI) mentioned by PM Modi at the 87th Mann Ki Baat
• Semidrive (CN) CEO featured as a woman leader in China’s semiconductor industry on the International Women’s Day
• Valtix (US) CTO noted that more efficient prioritization of the actual high threat alerts is not necessarily the solution to “alert fatigue”

Vertex in the News

Here’s a recap of the notable media mentions and thought leadership articles from the Partners across our Vertex network.

Read the full articles below:

• Aviad Ariel on raising funds in an uncertain market
• Chua Joo Hock on investing in Pace and unconscious gender bias
• Gary Kheong on unconscious gender bias
• Liu Genping on Metaverse and unconscious gender bias
• Liu Tian Ran on HPC Vaccine in China (Article in CN)
• Piyush Kharbanda on Building a Generational Fintech and the KukuFM Story
• Tami Bronner was selected as one of the 50 most influential women in Israel (Article in IL)
• Xia Zhijin on investing in DeepVision (Article in CN)

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