Virtual Peaker, a Louisville, KY-based cloud-based SaaS company that empowers modern utilities with the friendliest distributed energy platform on the planet, announced a $16.6 million in Series A to expand beyond its industry-leading distributed energy resource management systems (DERMS) platform. The round was led by Louis Bacon’s Moore Strategic Ventures …

Check, a New York-based leading payroll infrastructure company that lets platforms embed payroll into their products, announced that it raised a $75 million Series C. The round was led by Stripe, with participation from existing investors Bedrock, Thrive and Index. The company will use the funding to continue to make …

RELEX Solutions, a Helsinki, Finland-based provider of unified retail planning solutions, announced the successful closure of €500 million in a funding round led by funds managed by Blackstone Growth (BXG), Blackstone’s growth equity investing business. Following the funding round, RELEX Solutions will hire hundreds of developers and experts to grow …

OxDX, an Oxford, UK-based University of Oxford spin-out building instant pathogen tests using super-resolution microscopy and machine learning, raised £2.6 million in pre-seed funding for its AI-powered diagnostic technology that can recognize and identify specific strains of viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens within a sample in seconds. The initial funding …

Nanonets, a San Francisco, California-based AI-based document workflow automation platform, announced a successful raise of $10 million in a Series A investment round, led by Elevation Capital. The Series A round saw participation from angel investors including Amar Goel (Founder & Chairman, PubMatic), Gautam Kumar and Kushal Nahata (Co-founders, FarEye), …

Architect.io, a Boston, MA-based next-generation dependency-aware continuous delivery platform, announced $5 million in seed round funding. This round of investment brings Architect.io's total funding to $6.5M. The round was led by Next Coast Ventures and included Abstraction Capital, Spike Ventures, angel investors Jean Sini, JJ Fliegelman, Chris Nguyen, and Marc …

Zavvy, a Munich, Germany-based employee enablement platform provider, raised $4 million in Seed funding. The round was led by La Famiglia VC, with participation from Emerge Education, Picus Capital, and several angel investors, including Renaud Visage (co-founder of Eventbrite and Venture Partner at Point Nine), Hanno Renner (co-founder and CEO …