These are the 10 US Startups That Raised the Most Amount of Capital in August

Armed with some data from our friends at CrunchBase, I broke down the 10 largest rounds in the US during the month of August. Total capital raised in August by US startups approached $4.5B. I have included some additional information as well such as industry and investors in the round, to further the analysis.  For the purposes of this analysis only equity funding rounds were considered.

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10. Interactions Corporation   $56M  

Round: Venture
Industry:
National Language Processing, Enterprise
Investors in the Round:
Lead – Revolution, Lead – Comcast Ventures, Lead – NewSpring Capital, SoftBank Capital, Sigma Partners
Total Capital raised:
$118.45M 

9. Rubrik   $61M  

Round: Series C
Industry:
Database Security Software
Investors in the Round:
Lead – Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greylock Partners
Total Capital raised:
$112M 

8. Memebox   $65.95M  

Round: Series C
Industry:
Beauty, E-commerce
Investors in the Round:
Lead – Formation Group, Goodwater Capital, Pear
Total Capital raised:
$96.67M 

7. Accolade   $71M  

Round: Series E
Industry:
Healthcare
Investors in the Round:
Lead – Andreessen Horowitz, Madrona Venture Group
Total Capital raised:
$163.34M 

6. NextVR   $80M  

Round: Series B
Industry:
Virtual Reality
Investors in the Round:
Lead – CITIC Group Corporation, Peter Guber, Comcast Ventures, Time Warner Investments, The Madison Square Garden Company, Formation 8, Dick Clark Productions, RSE Ventures
Total Capital raised:
$115.5M 

5. Pindrop   $80.8M  

Round: Series C
Industry:
Audio
Investors in the Round:
Lead – Google Capital, GV, Citi Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, IVP (Institutional Venture Partners)
Total Capital raised:
$122.8M

4. Quanergy Systems   $90M  

Round: Series B
Industry:
3D Technology
Investors in the Round:
Samsung Ventures, Motus Ventures, Alrai Capital, GP Capital, Delphi Automotive PLC, Sensata Technologies
Total Capital raised:
$135.31M 

3. Velodyne LiDAR   $150M  

Round: Venture
Industry:
Manufacturing, Sensors
Investors in the Round:
Lead – Ford Motor Company, Lead – Baidu
Total Capital raised:
$150M 

2. Carvana   $160M  

Round: Series C
Industry:
Real Time, Publishing, Advertising, Analytics
Investors in the Round:
Undisclosed
Total Capital raised:
$300M 

1. Quantopian   $250M  

Round: Venture
Industry:
FinTech
Investors in the Round:
Lead – Point72 Ventures
Total Capital raised:
$273.8M