Here is this week’s Deal Report for private equity and venture capital activity for US-based PE and VC firms and portfolio companies, brought to you by Scherzer International.


The Scherzer Deal Report is released on Tuesdays.



PE and VC Firms Fundraising Location Amount Description
Ares Management Los Angeles, CA $3.5B Special opportunities fund
Corten Capital London, UK €392M Debut fund by Warburg Pincus vets Simon Begg and Joseph Schull
FirstMark Capital New York, NY $380M Fifth early stage fund 
FirstMark Capital New York, NY $270M Third opportunities fund
FTV Capital San Francisco, CA $1.2B Sixth growth equity fund
Grishin Robotics Menlo Park, CA $100M New fund
Osceola Capital Tampa, FL $125M Debut fund
The Sterling Group Houston, TX $2B Fifth fund


Private Equity Investors Company  Amount Description
Paine Schwartz Partners AgroFresh Solutions Undisclosed Philadelphia, PA-based company focused on extending the shelf-life of produce and flowers
Durable Capital Partners, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price DoorDash $400M  
AE Industrial Partners  NuWave Undisclosed McLean, VA-based provider of data management and other tech solutions to the federal government
Accel-KKR PINC Undisclosed Union City, CA-based provider of supply chain management software for yard operations


Venture Capital Investors Company  Amount Description
Blue Venture Fund, CRV, .406 Ventures, Horizon Healthcare Services, Echo Health Ventures Abacus Insights $35M Boston, MA-based data integration and interoperability platform for health plans and providers
 Point72 Ventures, High Alpha Capital, Republic Labs, Oakridge, Peak State Botkeeper $25M Boston, MA-based bookkeeping company
Andreessen Horowitz, Comcast Ventures, Trinity Ventures Brightside $35M financial care platform for employers
Coatue, Insight Partners, DST Global, Blossom Capital, GIC Checkout.com $150M London-based payments platform
Bain Capital Ventures, Accel, Greylock Clockwise $18M San Francisco, CA-based smart calendar startup
Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Lead Edge Capital, ISAI Cap Venture, Perpetual Investors Copado $26M Chicago, IL-based DevOps platform for Salesforce
BlackRock Credo $100M San Jose, CA-based chipmaker
Owl Ventures Degreed $32M San Francisco, CA-based upskilling platform
Sozo Ventures, Alpha Intelligence Capital, Toyota AI Ventures, Micron Ventures, Presidio Ventures, Hella Ventures, Emergence Capital, Benhamou Global Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz Drishti Technologies $25M Mountain View, CA-based provider of video analytics for the factory floor
Blumberg Capital, QED Investors, FJ Labs, Correlation, Moderne, 7BC, Interplay EasyKnock $20M New York-based residential sale and lease-back platform
L Catterton Hydrow $25M Cambridge, MA-based maker of connected rowing machines
Optum Ventures, Idinvest, capital300, Balderton Capital, Heartcore Capital, Symphony Ventures Kaia Health $26M New York-based digital therapeutics startup
Credit Suisse Asset Management’s NEXT Investors MayStreet $21M New York-based market data infrastructure platform
Atomico, Glynn Capital, Dawn Capital, Nauta Capital, Slack Fund Onna $27M Barcelona and New York-based knowledge integration platform
Kleiner Perkins, Upfront Ventures Open Raven $15M Los Angeles, CA-based data security platform
Lightspeed Venture Partners, 8VC, DCVC Bio, ND Capital, Mubadala, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Kaiser Permanente, IMRF Orca Bio $192M Menlo Park, CA-based developer of allogeneic cell therapies
Sands Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Operator Collective, Lone Pine Capital, Spark Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, Trinity Ventures, Mayfield, Sapphire Ventures Outreach $50M Seattle, WA-based provider of sales tools
Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Palantir $500M Palo Alto, CA-based big data analytics company
Apax Digital Payfone $100M New York-based mobile ID company
DCVC, Bold Capital Partners, Alan Frazier Proprio $23M Seattle, WA-based surgical navigation startup
Volkswagen QuantumScape $200M San Jose, CA-based developer of solid-state batteries
Tenaya Capital Salt Security $20M Palo Alto, CA-based API security startup
Redmile Group, Janus Henderson Investors, Fidelity, EcoR1 Capital, Hatteras Venture Partners, Avidity Partners, Partner Fund Management, Emerson Collective, Piper Sandler & Co. Shattuck Labs $118M Austin, TX and Durham, CA-based cancer and inflammatory disease biotech
Coatue Ventures, Index Ventures Starburst $42M Boston, MA-based SQL query engine
Gradient Ventures and GGV Capital Streamlit $21M San Francisco, CA-based model comparison tool for machine learning development
Sapphire Ventures, Comcast Ventures, ForgePoint Capital Uptycs $30M Waltham, MA-based provider of SQL-powered security analytics
Energy Impact Partners, Piva, Salesforce Ventures, National Grid Partners Urbint $20M New York-based provider of field safety information for utilities
BlackRock, Duke Energy, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Material Impact Fund Zero Mass Water $50M Scottsdale, AZ-based developer of hydropanels for drinking water
Access Industries, 83North, Battery Ventures, Harmony Partners, IVP, RTP Ventures, USVP Zerto $33M Boston, MA-based IT resilience startup
Khosla Ventures, Cervin Ventures Zycada $19M Campbell, CA-based developer of a bot to speed up e-commerce experiences