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Spectrum Labs in San Francisco raises $10m in a Series A round to help provide contextual AI, automation, and services for consumer brands.

Longitude Capital raises $585m for its fourth and largest fund to invest in biotech, med-tech and health solutions. 

Greenlight Financial Technology in Atlanta raises $215m at a valuation above $1.2b. Canapi Ventures and TTV Capital co-led.

Spiceology in Spokane, Washington raises $4.7m in Series A financing, led by retail and grocery executive Ty Bennett.

Houston-based blockchain company Data Gumbo raises $4m in a first close of its Series B.

Growth equity investor Centana Growth Partners promotes Tom Davis to Partner.

MineralTree in Cambridge, Massachusetts raises $50m from Great Hill Partners, .406 Ventures and Eight Roads Ventures.

Sandeep Bhadra of Vertex Ventures US discusses how the firm has used White Claw drinks and cookies to maintain communications. He also says initial Zoom meetings will remain in a post-pandemic world.

The entrepreneur and operator-turned-investor, who previously worked at Stripe, LinkedIn and Skype, has joined Defy in Woodside, California as an investment partner.