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In 2018, we served as counsel in more than 200 venture financings raising close to $4.5 billion, including some of the largest and most prominent deals of the year.

Palo Alto-based Ashwin Gokhale’s path to partnership is profiled in the Law.com series “How I Made Partner.”

Affirmed currently has more than 100 customers around the world, including many Tier 1 and Tier 2 mobile service providers.

The article provides a recap of the 2018 market for early-stage public biotech companies, a peek into 2019 conditions, and goes on to outline how early-stage public companies can position themselves to maximize and maintain investor engagement and to execute financings from a position of strength.

The practice group is said to demonstrate a deep understanding of the business and regulatory issues driving the industry, with specialty areas including intellectual property litigation, securities, licensing, corporate law and taxation providing the most benefit to clients.

On January 29, 2019, RigUp, the energy industry’s predominant marketplace for on-demand services and labor, announced that it raised $60 million in a Series C funding round led by Founders Fund.

Schrödinger, a privately held company revolutionizing drug discovery through advanced molecular simulations, announced on January 4, 2019 the closing of an $85 million financing to support continued growth and innovation of its computational platform and expansion of its drug discovery pipeline. 

On December 17, 2018, WilmerHale client RightHand Robotics, a leading provider of robotic e-commerce solutions, announced the closing of a $23 million funding round. 

A WilmerHale team led by Corporate Partner Stephanie Evans represented Kindur, a financial tech platform “helping baby boomers embrace modern retirement,” in its $9 million Series A funding round.

In an article published by VentureBeat, Partner Gary Schall lays out the critical post-financing actions that startups should take after closing their financing rounds.

On October 10, the US Department of the Treasury launched a significant pilot program to implement part of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act while final rules are being crafted.

On October 2, 2018, ExecOnline, a leader in delivering certificate-bearing leadership and development programs in partnership with elite business schools, announced it closed an $18 million Series C funding round led by ABS Capital Partners.

Capella Space, a startup planning a constellation of radar imaging satellites, has raised an additional $19 million in a Series B round led by Spark Capital and Data Collective, also known as DCVC.  

Mabl, an ML-driven quality assurance service that automates web app testing, announced on September 18, 2018, that it has secured $20 million in a Series B funding round led by GV (formerly Google Ventures). 

On September 6, 2018, Crux Informatics, a leading data engineering and information supply chain operator, announced it had entered into a strategic partnership with Two Sigma, one of the world's largest systematic investment management firms.