Inspectiv, a Los Angeles, CA-based cybersecurity company, closed an $8.6 million Series A funding round. The round, which brings total funding to more than $16 million, was led by StepStone Group with participation from Fika Ventures, Freestyle, and Mucker Capital. The company intends to use the funds to scale its …

Veremark a London-based background screening and reference checking platform has announced that it has raised $8.5 million (approximately €8.3M) in a fresh round of funding. The round was led by US-based VC firm Stage 2 Capital, a new investor. Another new investor, pan-European venture capital firm Samaipata, also joined the …

Dgraph, San Francisco- based the company behind the most popular open-source Graph database, announced a $6 million seed re-financing. The round was led by Venrock and Uncorrelated Ventures, with participation from Abstract Ventures, HackVC, SaxeCap, and Liquid2 Ventures. World-class executives also joined the round, including DJ Patil, former US Chief …

valid8Me a Cork, Ireland-based digital identity and customer onboarding SaaS platform, announced that it has raised €12.5 million in a fresh round of funding from new investor Grant Thornton Ireland. Digital identity firm valid8Me to use the investment to increase headcount and accelerate growth in Ireland and abroad, doubling headcount …

Charles, a Berlin, Germany-based conversational commerce platform for brands and enterprises across Europe, raised $20 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Salesforce Ventures with participation from Accel and HV Capital. The company intends to use the funds to further expand its operations from Germany into key …

HiddenLayer, an Austin, TX-based developer of a security platform that safeguards the machine learning models enterprise organizations use behind their most important products, raised $6 million in Seed funding. Ten Eleven Ventures led the seed round with a $4.75 million investment. Secure Octane also participated. The company intends to use …

Yera, a Tallinn, Estonian-based startup that offers an employee engagement tool that leverages gaming elements to increase the performance of teams in the workplace, announced that it raised €535,000 in seed investment. The round was led by Specialist VC, with participation from world-class industry experts and renowned angel investors, such …