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Lyre's Picks Up $11.5M For Non Alcoholic Drinks

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in a seed funding round. The funding came from VRD Investment, Doehler Ventures, DLF Venture, Maropost Ventures, and HNWI, along with a number of family offices. Lyre's said the funding comes as it prepares to launch a "ready-to-drink" range of products. Lyre's said it originally launched in July of 2019 in Australia.

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Reflections On 2019: Peter Cowen, Sutton Capital Partners

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Are there any technology innovations, gadgets/devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2019? Valuations have continued to soar from early stage through later stage at an unsustainable rate, driven by large amounts of available capital, notably the increased presence of seed funds and PE firms in software.

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Drata Takes $25M For Security, Compliance Software

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The company said it previously raised a seed funding round six months ago. The company said its founders previously started a company called Portfolium, which was acquired by Instructure in 2019. Drata said its current customers include Clearco, SmartRecruiters, The Good Face Project, 360 Insights, and Trust & Will.

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Pipe Picks Up $60M For SaaS Financing

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Los Angeles-based Pipe Technologies , which is developing a subscription financing platform to help software companies finance their businesses without debt or dilution, has raised $60M in a funding round, the company said on Wednesday. The company said the new funding will go towards growth and expansion of its operations into new markets.

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Aglet Picks Up $4.5M For Pokemon Go For Sneakers

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in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Sapphire Sports, and also included Lakestar Ventures, Forecast Ventures, as well as angels att Miesnieks (6D.ai, Niantic Labs), Nate Mitchell (co-founder Oculus, Mountaintop Studios) and Greg Castle (Anorak Ventures).

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Trust & Will Hits 100K Members

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The company was founded in 2017, but only raised its Series A in December of 2019, when it raised $6M in funding. Trust & Will is backed by Link Ventures, Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Western Technology Investment, Techstars Ventures, Luma Launch and Halogen Ventures.

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Trust & Will Adds $6M

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San Diego-based Trust & Will , a startup which offers up online services to help people create trusts, wills, and guardianships, has raised $6M in a new funding round, the company said on Tuesday. The startup had announced $2M in an earlier funding in January of 2019.