The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 8/10/2020 featuring funding details for Skillshare, Uniswap, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.
Skillshare — $66M – additional funding
Skillshare, the online learning platform, has raised $66M in additional funding funding from investors that include Union Square Ventures, Amasia, Burda Principal Investments, Spero Ventures, and OMERS Growth Equity. Founded by Malcolm Ong and Michael Karnjanaprakorn in 2010, Skillshare has now raised a total of $116.8M in reported equity funding.
Uniswap — $11M – Series A
In an update to what AlleyWatch exclusively first reported back in June, Uniswap has raised $11M in funding from investors that include SV, Paradigm, Version One, Variant, Parafi Capital, SV Angel, and A.Capital.
Interlace — $4.2M – funding according to a recent SEC filing
Interlace, the app founded by two HQ Trivia employees to serve as a destiation to meet people, has raised $4.2M in funding according to a recent SEC filing funding. The filing indicates that there were fourteen investors in the round and lists Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Venture Partners as a Director. Interlace was founded by Paari Kandappan and Lisa Luo in 2019.
