Battery Ventures led the financing round, which will support product enhancement and team growth across engineering and client success.
"The headwinds and opportunities facing restaurants today are enormous. Operators are adapting to changing customer preferences around dining and ordering as well as monumental market disruptions – first the pandemic, then supply-chain disruptions and a labour shortage. This has dramatically changed how restaurants operate and shrunk profit margins for those not able to adapt,"
Sofina led the round with participation from OMERS Ventures and Index Ventures to accelerate growth in the UK and Europe.
"With millions of clinical data points collected each month, we plan on deriving personalised and predictive insights to enable a value-based healthcare delivery model. This latest investment, just over one year from the last round, is not only a validation of Birdie’s growth trajectory, but also an endorsement for the potential of our social impact."
The Westly Group led the Series B round, which will fund international expansion, particularly in North America.
"In times of growing supply chain uncertainty, Circulor’s technology helps provide visibility and ESG analytics into complex supply chains to help companies make better business decisions,"
Susquehanna Growth Equity led the Series B round, which will fund international expansion and infrastructure upgrades.
"Our progress in the last few years left us inundated with interest from investors for our Series B fundraise. We chose to work with Susquehanna Growth Equity because they have a fantastic global footprint and a history of supporting significant growth in software businesses. The team is smart and ambitious but also pragmatic which is critical in this environment. The patient capital will enable us to double down on our vision to close the gap between humanity and machines, which is incredibly exciting. The Speechmatics team is hugely ambitious. We have a real heritage in speech technology combined with some of the world’s most talented speech and machine learning experts. We cannot wait to accelerate our growth and unlock the understanding of more and more voices."