Surfboard, a London, UK-based provider of a collaborative planning tool for support teams, raised $5 million in seed funding. The round was led by Speedinvest, with participation from existing investors Fly Ventures and Seedcamp. The funds will be used to accelerate product development, grow its team, deepen integrations, and build …

WekaIO (WEKA), Campbell, CA-based data platform provider for next-generation workloads, announced that it raised $135 million in an oversubscribed Series D funding round led by Generation Investment Management. Several notable new and existing investors also contributed, including 10D, Atreides Management, Celesta Capital, Gemini Israel Ventures, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hitachi Ventures, …

Flabba, a Leeds, England-based tech company whose advanced remote working software is used by the Home Office and the NHS, raised £400,000 in funding The investment was from NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia and is part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF)—and angel investors. …

Optiwise.ai, ("Optiwise"), a Newark, CA-based marketplace optimization company, raised $1.3 million in a funding round led by StartupXseed Ventures. With the new funds, Optiwise.ai will continue to invest in the product, build a world-class team, and expand its current customer base beyond North America to other emerging eCommerce regions globally. …

Turbine, a London, UK-based company developing a cell behavior simulation platform, announced that it closed a €20 million Series A funding round. The round was co-led by Mercia and the MSD Global Health Innovation (GHI) Fund, joined by Day One Capital and existing investors Accel, Delin Ventures, and XTX Ventures. …

Freshpaint, a San Francisco-CA-based Y Combinator-backed company that enables businesses to capture and activate customer data across hundreds of integrations like Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Iterable, Braze, Snowflake, and more without relying heavily on engineering, announced that it raised $14.5 million in financing. The funding is made up of $9.5 million …

Taktile, a Berlin and New York-based SaaS startup, announced that it closed $20 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Index Ventures and Tiger Global. This funding will help the company further develop its unique product capabilities and accelerate its ongoing expansion in the United States. “Today, too …