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Checkr hits $4.6B valuation after $250M Series E

San Francisco-based raised a $250 million Series A led by , valuing the HR tech company at $4.6 billion. Others participating in the round included new investors and , along with current investors including , , , , , and .

In all, Checkr has raised $550 million since being founded in 2014. The company’s platform helps employers screen job seekers through initiating background checks. Checkr has achieved and maintained profitability and realizes several hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue per year, according to the company’s release.

— Chris Metinko

VanMoof lands $128M for e-bikes

Dutch electric-bike maker raised $128 million in a Series C funding round led by private equity firm .

The company plans to use the funds to expand product as well as invest in R&D. VanMoof says it is seeing a surge in demand, with the U.S. as its fastest-growth market. The company also says it sees further growth ahead, citing projections for the global e-bike market to reach around $48 billion by 2028, double the value it was predicted to reach before COVID-19.

Funding rounds

CoachHub raises $80M: Berlin-based , a digital coaching platform that uses AI to match people to business coaches, has raised $80 million in Series B2 funding, bringing total Series B capital to $110 million.

, , , , and were backers in financing, which brings total capital raised by the 3-year-old company to around $130 million.

Vic.ai picks up $50M: New York-based , a provider of AI-enabled accounting software, raised $50 million in a Series B round led by . The financing brings total capital raised by the 4-year-old company to $63 million.

— Joanna Glasner

Drift receives strategic investment: Boston-based conversational commerce platform secured a strategic investment from . Details of the investment were not released, but the company said the investment was done at a valuation of more than $1 billion. Drift integrates chat, email, video and artificial intelligence into a single platform that helps further conversations between buyers and sellers.

Founded in 2014, the company had raised more than $100 million before the Vista investment, according to ¸½½üÉÏÃÅ.

—Chris Metinko

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