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Silicon Valley-based SiFive, a provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP, has named Sunil Shenoy as vice president of hardware engineering. Previously, Shenoy worked at Intel. SiFive is backed by Sutter Hill Ventures, Spark Capital and Osage University Partners.

Baltimore-based Protenus, a healthcare compliance analytics company, has raised $11 million in funding. F-Prime Capital Partners and Kaiser Permanente Ventures led the round with participation from Arthur Ventures, Lionbird Venture Capital and Cognosante Ventures.

Tel Aviv-based D-ID, a provider of artificial intelligence solutions that protects identities from facial recognition technologies, has secured $4 million in seed funding. Pitango Venture Capital led the round with participation from other investors that included Y Combinator, Foundation Capital, Fenox Venture Capital and Maverick Ventures.

Digital nutrition platform Zipongo has raised $35 million in Series B funding. The investors were Seventure Partners, Mayfield and Zaffre Investments, the investment fund of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.

San Diego-based Zebit Inc, a provider of ecommerce credit solutions, has named Steve Lapin as chief financial officer. Previously, he was head of capital markets at LendUp. Zebit's investors included Crosslink Capital, Wildcat Venture Partners, Leapfrog Ventures and Correlation Ventures.

China and Newton, Massachusetts-based Harbour BioMed, a developer of therapeutics for cancer, has closed an undisclosed amount of Series A+ financing. The investors were CDH Investments and Advantech Capital.

Silicon Valley-based Hippo, a smart home insurance provider, has raised $25 million in Series B funding. Comcast Ventures and Fifth Wall led the round.

Palo Alto, California-based Apprente, an emerging artificial intelligence tech company, has secured $4.75 million in seed funding. The investors included AME Cloud Ventures, Greylock Partners via Discovery Fund, Morado Ventures, Pathbreaker Ventures and StageOne Ventures.

Spider Capital Partners has set a $50 million target for a second fund, according to an SEC filing. The San Francisco-based venture firm invests in "enterprise cloud platforms which are transforming business productivity."

Align Ventures is seeking to raise $20 million for its debut fund, according to an SEC filing. The New York-based seed-stage venture firm invests in emerging brands and next-generation consumer/retail technologies.