Oct 01

Startup Funding Trends – September 2021

Startup Funding September 2021

Intellizence publishes monthly trends about key Startup Funding, Venture Capital/Private Equity Investment Deals. The following is the analysis of the Intellizence Startup Funding, VC & PE Deals Dataset for September 2021. 

Key Takeaways

In September, we discovered 692 plus startups across industries that raised funding. 

  • Some of the distinctive industry segments that received investment were – animal-free milk protein and app-delivered healthy eating programs.
  • A total number of 48 startups achieved unicorn status in September 2021, with a cumulative valuation of around $76 billion.  

Global Large Deals

Here’s a look at the ten largest startup funding deals for September 2021.

Startup Funding September

Region-wise Interesting Deals 

We gathered some of the top region-wise fundings deals for September in a roundup below:

North America

  • Perfect Day, known as the creator of the world’s first animal-free milk protein, has raised a $350 million Series D funding round to focus on biological engineering, ingredient innovation, and consumer products.
  • Solugen has raised over $350 million in Series C funding led by Baillie Gifford & GIC to make carbon-negative chemicals.
  • Mobile game publisher Jam City has raised $350 million and bought Ludia for $165 million.
  • SpotOn has raised $300 million in Series E funding, at a $3.15 billion valuation.
  • HomeLight, which operates a real estate technology platform, has secured $100 million in a Series D round of funding and $263 million in debt financing. 

  Asia

  • Cars24 has raised $450 million in Series F funding round at a $1.84 billion valuation.
  • The biomaterials start-up Spiber has raised $311 million to advance its Brewed Protein platform for making biobased fibers for the apparel market. 
  • Chinese self-driving startup Momenta has got an investment of $300 million from GM.
  • China self-driving firm DeepRoute.ai raises $300 million in Series B funding from Alibaba and others.
  • SmartNews has raised $230 million in Series F funding at a $2 billion valuation.

 Europe & UK

  • Bitcoin miner Genesis Digital Assets has raised $431 million in fresh capital, led by Paradigm, one of the biggest cryptocurrency investment companies.
  • UK’s MarketFinance has secured $383 million to fuel its online loans platform for SMBs.
  • French online fashion platform Vestiaire Collective’s valuation hit $1.7 billion after a fundraising round that includes $209 million from SoftBank Group.
  • Sendcloud, the Netherlands-based e-commerce shipping platform, closed a $177 million Series C financing.
  • Olsam has raised $165 million to buy up and scale consumer and B2B Amazon Marketplace sellers.

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