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Wilson Sonsini Advises Ginger in $50 Million Series D, Expanding On-Demand Mental Healthcare
On August 6, 2020, Ginger, the leader in on-demand mental healthcare, announced a $50 million Series D funding round led by Advance Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. Additional participants include Cigna Ventures and existing investors such as Jeff Weiner, executive chairman of LinkedIn, and Kaiser Permanente Ventures. This latest round of investment brings the company’s total funding to over $120 million. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati represented Ginger in the transaction.
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Wilson Sonsini Represents ThayerMahan in Acquisition of Ocean Acoustical Services and Instrumentation Systems
On August 3, 2020, ThayerMahan announced its acquisition of Ocean Acoustical Services and Instrumentation Systems (OASIS). Founded in 2016, ThayerMahan has rapidly grown into an industry leader in autonomous marine sensor/system solutions and has developed patented technology solutions in acoustics, electronic sensing, autonomy, communications and data management while providing unique MDA (Maritime Domain Awareness) solutions to a diverse body of clients in government, industry, and academia. ThayerMahan has worked closely with OASIS in the development of cutting-edge acoustic sensor and processing technologies. Since 1990, OASIS has provided expert consulting services in all areas of underwater and airborne acoustics, noise control technologies, structural acoustics, and instrumentation and data acquisition systems.
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Wilson Sonsini Represents PandaDoc in Series B-2 Extension Funding
On July 30, 2020, document automation platform PandaDoc announced that it has raised $13.75 million in Series B-2 extension funding in preparation for taking on the $25 billion e-signature industry pioneered by DocuSign and Adobe Sign. Wilson Sonsini represented PandaDoc in the transaction.
San Francisco-based PandaDoc enables users to create, deliver, and manage their teams’ quotes, proposals, contracts, and other sales collateral. The total Series B raise since 2017, including rounds B-1 and B-2, is approximately $31.7 million. In total, the company has raised $40 million since its inception in 2011.
San Francisco-based PandaDoc enables users to create, deliver, and manage their teams’ quotes, proposals, contracts, and other sales collateral. The total Series B raise since 2017, including rounds B-1 and B-2, is approximately $31.7 million. In total, the company has raised $40 million since its inception in 2011.
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Wilson Sonsini Represents Serialized Fiction Start-Up Radish in $63.2 Million Fundraise
On August 4, 2020, digital fiction start-up Radish announced that it has raised $63.2 million in new funding. Wilson Sonsini represented Radish in the transaction.
With the funding round led by Kakao Page and SoftBank Ventures Asia, Radish aims to take advantage of their expertise in the Asian market to grow Radish’s U.S. audience. That will mean accelerating content production in the hopes of creating more hit titles, as well as spending more on performance marketing.
With the funding round led by Kakao Page and SoftBank Ventures Asia, Radish aims to take advantage of their expertise in the Asian market to grow Radish’s U.S. audience. That will mean accelerating content production in the hopes of creating more hit titles, as well as spending more on performance marketing.
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Wilson Sonsini Advises Epic CleanTec in $2.6 Million Seed Funding
On July 30, 2020, Epic CleanTec (Epic), a San Francisco-based sustainability company that has developed a novel approach to onsite wastewater treatment and reuse, announced that it successfully secured $2.6 million in seed funding. Epic is decentralizing wastewater treatment and reuse into individual buildings or groups of buildings, by converting building wastewater into natural, carbon-rich soil amendments and water that can be purified and reused onsite for non-potable applications. The Epic system can help a building reduce its water demand by up to 90 percent, which saves building owners hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on their water and sewer bills. This round of funding will help Epic increase its customer acquisition efforts, expand its team, and strengthen its position as a market leader in onsite water reuse.
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Wilson Sonsini Advises WuXi AppTec in HK$7.37 Billion Placing
On July 29, 2020, WuXi AppTec Co., Ltd. (WuXi AppTec) completed its placing of an aggregate of 68,205,400 placing shares (through Morgan Stanley, Huatai, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan as the placing agents) to not less than six placees at the placing price of HK$108.0 per share. The aggregate gross proceeds from the placing is approximately HK$7.37 billion.
The Entrepreneurs Report - 1H 2020
This edition of The Entrepreneurs Report offers an analysis of venture financing transactions and bridge loans in which the firm was involved during Q2 2020. This issue also includes an interview that Stacy Kim recently conducted with Benedict Evans, a London-based independent analyst and venture partner at both Mosaic Ventures and Entrepreneur First.meframe.
