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Retool has raised a $50M Series B, led by Sequoia. Other participants in the round include the founders of Github, Gusto, PagerDuty, Plaid, Segment, Stripe, and Y Combinator.

Twilio announced its biggest acquisition to date, with their $3.2 billion acquisition of technology startup and Burkland client Segment. 

David joined Burkland in 2019, serving clients in the SaaS, Fintech, AI, and IoT sectors. On average, David’s clients are more than doubling revenues every year.

For the modern chief financial officer, priorities are on the move. Burkland’s Steven Lord explains what CFOs actually are up to in order to help their organizations succeed amid volatile times.

PicnicHealth, the startup that’s looking to give patients a way to manage their care in one place and pharmaceutical companies access to patient records for real-world data, has just raised $25 million in financing to grow its business.

Ava Labs has raised $42 million during a 4.5 hour public sale of its Avalanche Token (AVAX), which secures the network through staking, platform fees and providing basic unit of accounts between a set of nodes.

GYANT, the care navigation company, today announced the close of a $13.6 million Series A financing round led by Wing Venture Capital. The investment will enable GYANT to scale up its product development to meet rapidly increasing market demand and support its exponential customer growth

The startup will use the funding to invest in its property search and management platform. HelloOffice is also looking to expand beyond Los Angeles and San Francisco.

MyndYou, a technology that measures changes in “cognitive complexity” of humans to detect hospitalization risk, raised its Series A round of financing led by AI Life Sciences, an affiliate of Access Industries.

Salesforce announced that it has acquired Vlocity for $1.33 billion in an all-cash deal.

Aumni, Inc., a SaaS company developing a robotic process automation and data analytics platform for private capital investors, announced a $10 million Series A funding round led by SVB Financial Group, the parent company of Silicon Valley Bank.

Marc has a 25-year track record of financial leadership, fundraising and accelerating growth for early-stage companies, turnarounds, and international organizations ready to scale.

Bigfinite, Inc. (Bigfinite), the leading manufacturing data analytics platform company for regulated industries, announced that it has closed $15 million in financing with Atlantic Bridge, Honeywell Ventures and Institut Català de Finances.

Steven Lord also leads Burkland’s FinTech practice and serves as Chief Learning Officer for Burkland.

Agtech company Cibus, which uses gene editing to make crops hardier, has raised $70 million in a Series C financing round led by Fidelity Management and Research Co., a division of the Boston-based financial services company Fidelity Investments Inc.

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