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Team8 and Battery Ventures are excited to lead Koi's $38M A-Round, joining seed investors Picture Capital, NFX and Cerca Partners for a total of $48M in funding. Huge shoutout to founders Amit Assaraf 🎏, Itay Kruk 🎏 and Idan Dardikman 🎏 for pioneering the next wave of endpoint security, covering the blind spots that traditional EDRs and MDMs were never built to protect! [Coming full circle and partnering again with Itay and Idan from Sygnia, a Team8 portfolio company! Amit, you chose well!] From packages and containers to extensions, AI models, and MCPs, Koi delivers visibility, AI-driven risk analysis, and automated enforcement to secure the software perimeter of today’s enterprises. Already protecting over 500,000 endpoints worldwide, Koi’s platform is helping some of the world’s largest companies govern self-installed and unmanaged software. By giving security teams control without slowing innovation, Koi is defining a new category in cybersecurity. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ewtqE4Pk Ori Barzilay, Sarit Firon, Amir Zilberstein, Assaf Mischari, Ori Yankelev, Asaf Azulay, Eyal Eliakim, Uri Shamay, Rakesh K. Loonkar, Dan Amiga, Mickey Boodaei, Barak Schoster Goihman, Dharmesh Thakker, Gigi Levy-Weiss

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Sharing a few thoughts on why Thema invested as an LP in Upside VC Fund I, a new consumer fund with built-in distribution, led by Jamie Elliott and Sam Uwins and backed by high profile creator LPs including Sidemen Entertainment We backed the fund as we believe: 1) Scalable and cost-effective distribution within the consumer sector is essential. Upside’s model offers a differentiated route to reduce customer acquisition cost at scale, giving the fund a clear edge. 2) The fund has been built with deep alignment to ensure creator LPs are meaningfully incentivised to contribute to portfolio success. 3) The unique value-add proposition has already translated into several up-rounds, with a longer-term ambition by the team to build a next-generation consumer VC platform. You can read more here: https://lnkd.in/eH4YD8tG

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I’m thrilled to announce defy.vc’s investment in Birches Health as part of their $20M combined Seed and Series A funding round, alongside incredible partners like AlleyCorp, General Catalyst, Will Ventures, and others. As someone deeply passionate about backing companies that tackle important problems for our society, I couldn’t be more excited about what Birches is building—a national virtual clinic dedicated to treating gambling addiction and related behavioral disorders like gaming, sex, porn, and internet addictions. What excites me most is Birches’ innovative health assurance model: proactive, accessible, and affordable care that’s evidence-based and delivered right at home. With the explosion of legal sports betting—think nearly $1.5 billion wagered on this year’s Super Bowl alone—we’re staring down a looming public health emergency. Traditional options like hotlines or generic therapy fall short for this high-acuity issue, but Birches changes that by offering specialized therapy from trained clinicians, multimodal treatment, and peer support, all covered by major insurers like United Healthcare, Cigna, Aetna, and Blue Cross Blue Shield. It’s available in all 50 states, breaking down geographical and financial barriers that have left so many without help. The impact is already profound: 96% of patients report an improved quality of life, and 94% give Birches a 5/5 rating. By partnering with state governments, payors, and policymakers, Birches is pushing gambling addiction into the spotlight of behavioral health conversations, where it’s been neglected for too long—often leading to shame, worsened outcomes, and higher suicidality risks. This funding will supercharge their growth: expanding the provider network, boosting clinical excellence, scaling infrastructure, and deepening insurance and state partnerships to meet surging demand. Very excited to partner with Elliott Rapaport and the entire Birches team! See more about our POV in the blog post linked in the comments. #GamblingAddiction #BehavioralHealth #HealthTech #VentureCapital #Innovation

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Another Series A 🙂 This time $11M for YASO YASO, the technology platform for global brands to sell their products directly to the world's largest consumer market, China, has just announced its $11m Series A funding round. This follows other Avonmore Developments portfolio successes in 2025, including a $100M Series B for Shop Circle, $18.3M Series A for Epoch Biodesign, $1.4M Seed for Teal and $14M Series A for Xampla, as well as a successful exit from CareLineLive. YASO's round was led by Puma Growth Partners with follow on from Playfair and other existing investors and is a testament to the huge skills and ability of Jonny, Adam, James and the rest of the YASO team. The funds will be used to expand their team, invest in technology and enable more brands to scale up in China. Huge congratulations to them all! 🥳

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