Sera Systems, a Grapevine, Texas-based SaaS service for small-to-large-sized HVAC, plumbing, and other field service businesses, has closed an eight-figure Series B funding round. The Series B funding is comprised entirely of private equity from the field service industry it serves—owners of home service businesses. Billy Stevens, Sera CEO, and …

Waterplan, a San Francisco, CA-based climate platform that helps companies measure, respond, and report increasingly changing water risk, closed an oversubscribed $11 million Series A financing round. To date, the company has raised $18.5 million in total venture funding. The investment was led by Base10 Partners, with co-founder and managing …

Sekoia.io, a Paris, France-based cybertech company that develops the Sekoia.io XDR (eXtended Detection & Response) platform for real-time detection of cyberattacks, raised €35 million in Series A funding. The round was from Banque des Territoires, European investor Bright Pixel (former Sonae IM), and its historical investors Omnes Capital, Seventure, and …

Shopstory, an Austria-based SaaS startup that provides a platform for online shops that helps them automate processes and boost performance, secured a successful funding of €1 million. The funding round included investments from prestigious Austrian funds Hardlymountain Capital and Calm/Storm, as well as existing investors such as Hansi Hansmann, tecnet, …

Thena, a Palo Alto, California-based B2B SaaS startup that provides customer communications and intelligence platform, raised $5 million in seed funding, bringing its total funding to $7.2 million. The round was co-led by Lightspeed and First Round Capital, two prominent investment firms. The funds will be used to intensify efforts …

Hopr, a Columbia, Maryland-based automated moving target defense security solutions for cloud assets, secured $500,000 in funding from TEDCO (Maryland Technology Development Corporation). The company will use this investment to accelerate its product-led go-to-market strategy, which includes listing its Automated Moving Target Defense (AMTD) solutions in cloud software marketplaces, supporting …

Ledge, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based fully automated, no-code payments command center built to empower CFOs and their finance teams, raised $9 million in Seed funding. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from Vertex Ventures, FJ Labs, and Picus Capital. With this investment, Ledge will enhance …