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MakerSights raises $25m in Series B funding round
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The new round follows the company’s GBP8.5 million Series A led by Forerunner Ventures in 2019 and GBP3.1 million in seed funding led by Baseline Ventures in 2017, bringing the company’s funding to a total of GBP37 million over the past five years.
Why We Invested in MakerSights
Traditional retail is an environmental disaster. 21 billion pounds of unwanted retail products end up in landfill every year.
G2 Venture Partners promotes Zach Barasz, Monica Varman, and Valerie Shen to Partner
Zach Barasz joined G2 in 2019 and has led the firm’s investments in portfolio companies KeepTruckin and Sheertex. Zach first worked with the G2 team in 2013 as an intern at Kleiner Perkins’ Green Growth Fund. He joined full-time after completing his MBA at Stanford, working with the team for three years as a Senior Associate, focused on transportation companies including Turo, Chargepoint, Proterra, and Telogis. In 2016, Zach became a partner at BMW i Ventures, where he led deals including Xometry, Blackmore Sensors & Analytics, Proterra, and CelLink.
Pivot Bio Nears $2 Billion Valuation As It Raises Whopping $430 Million To Replace Synthetic Fertilizers On Corn And Wheat
Karsten Temme was a grad student in bio-engineering at the University of California, San Francisco, when he started researching how plants might self fertilize with nitrogen, getting rid of the need for synthetic fertilizers. It was a big idea—synthetic fertilizers are notoriously bad for the environment, but farmers rely on them to keep their crops growing reliably and their yields up—and one that had eluded scientists for decades.