Hone, which runs an online learning platform for executive training and is helmed by FanDuel co-founder Tom Griffiths, raised a $30M Series B led by 3L capital (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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In a first, Amazon plans to give $150M through 2023 to 10+ outside VC funds to invest in underrepresented startup founders at or before the seed stage  —  Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is investing in outside venture capital funds for the first time, saying on Wednesday it planned to hand $150 million …

Kate Clark / The Information:
Bessemer Venture Partners raised $4.6B for two new funds in August: $3.85B for young startups, the firm’s biggest fund to date, and $780M for PE buyouts  —  Venture capitalists aren’t striking many deals with tech founders these days.  Initial public offerings are nonexistent and public tech stocks …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Hebbia, a startup founded by Stanford AI researchers that’s developing AI-powered search tools, has raised a $30M Series A led by Index Ventures  —  Hebbia, a startup developing AI-infused search tools, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Index Ventures with participation from Radical Ventures.

Jack Daleo / FreightWaves:
Loop, which uses AI to digitize shipping invoices and other logistics documents, raised $30M across a seed and a Series A from Founder’s Fund, Flexport, others  —  Company handled $1B in payment volume in its 1st year … Here’s a wild stat: Between 20% and 30% of all invoices today contain some form of exception or error.

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Metalenz, which makes metasurface optics for 3D imaging and sensing, raised a $30M Series B led by Neotribe Ventures, and says it is shipping millions of orders  —  The cameras in our phones, laptops, and increasingly home robots and the like are about as small as they can get unless …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Mem, a work-focused app that uses AI to organize notes, raised $23.5M led by the OpenAI Startup Fund at a $110M valuation, bringing its total funding to $29M  —  Last year, OpenAI announced the OpenAI Startup Fund, a tranche through which it and its partners, including Microsoft …