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Mojo Vision Closes Successful New Series A Funding Round with $43.5M to Drive Micro-LED Development and Commercialization

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🔖 Topics: Funding Event

🏢 Organizations: Mojo Vision, New Enterprise Associates, Khosla Ventures


Mojo Vision, the high-performance micro-LED company, today announced a final close of its $43.5 million new Series A investment round to advance its micro-LED display technology across applications and bring it to commercialization. The funding round is led by long-time investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Khosla Ventures, and new investor Vanedge Capital, with participation from Shanda Grab Ventures, Dolby Family Ventures, Advantech Capital, Liberty Global Ventures, Drew Perkins, Fusion Fund, Open Field Capital and Knollwood Investment Fund. The final close comes six months after the company announced an initial Series A close of $22.4 million.

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Vayu Robotics Emerges from Stealth with $12.7 Million in Seed Funding

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🔖 Topics: Funding Event

🏢 Organizations: Vayu Robotics, Khosla Ventures, Lockheed Martin


Vayu Robotics, an AI company providing high-quality, low-cost robotics solutions, today announced closure of its seed financing round of $12.7 Million led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Lockheed Martin Ventures, ReMY Investors and others. Vayu is a non-traditional robotics company taking a principles-first approach to solve for cost and ease of deployment through two key technologies: a foundation model for mobility and a disruptive low-cost sensing technology that could replace lidar in many mid-range applications. This round of funding will enable Vayu to scale product development for AI robotics across markets, including last-mile delivery, factory automation and automotive.

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Micro-fulfillment center automation startup Fulfil Solutions gains $60 million in funding

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🔖 Topics: Funding Event

🏢 Organizations: Fulfil Solutions, Eclipse Ventures, Khosla Ventures, DCVC


Fulfil Solutions announced today that it has emerged from stealth, with a B funding round of $60 million, and touting its robotic solution for grocery micro-fulfillment centers (MFCs), which it adds can be implemented in way that makes MFCs profitable. The $60 million Series B round of funding led by Eclipse with participation from Khosla Ventures and DCVC.

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LuxWall Raises $33 Million Funding To Scale Production Of Their 'Net Zero Glass'

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🔖 Topics: Funding Event

🏢 Organizations: LuxWall, Khosla Ventures


Acting as a thermos bottle for buildings, LuxWall’s transparent insulation Net Zero Glass can cut energy consumption and carbon emissions by up to 45% and significantly reduce owner payback through energy cost savings.

LuxWall, a startup producing Net Zero Glass technology, is announcing its $33 million Series A funding round. The round is led by 2150, with participation from Khosla Ventures and current investors Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) and Prelude Ventures. Following LuxWall’s $6 million seed round in 2021, this brings the total funding raised to $39 million.

The latest funding will go toward scaling the production of their Net Zero Glass technology at ‘LuxWall Factory 1’, the company’s first purpose-built commercial factory, which is a scaling extension of LuxWall’s pilot production line commissioned in 2022.

Read more at LuxWall Press

Varda Raises $42MM Series A, to build humanity’s first Space Factories

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🏢 Organizations: Varda Space, Khosla Ventures


Varda Space Industries, a company building space factories, announced a $42mm Series A. The company — founded just 8 months ago — has raised over $53mm to date, showing the appetite for Varda’s near-term, pragmatic, and commercially viable approach to space manufacturing. The company produces an assortment of materials that are only possible to make in the zero-gravity environment of space and brings them back to customers on Earth. The company will launch its first space factory in Q1 2023 and return a first batch to Earth a month later.

Read more at Varda Blog

Velo3D Raises $28 Million in Series D Funding Round, Paving the Way for Product Expansion

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🔖 Topics: funding event

🏢 Organizations: Velo3D, Bessemer Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures


Digital manufacturing innovator Velo3D announced today that it has raised $28 million in a Series D funding round. New investors Piva and TNSC joined the round, along with existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Playground, and Khosla Ventures. This brings Velo3D’s total funding to $138 million. Velo3D plans to use the new capital to expand its product portfolio to include more machine options, compatible alloys, and enhanced software and hardware capabilities. The company anticipates that the injection of fresh capital will help them reach sustainable profitability by mid-2022.

Read more at Velo3D Press Releases