Aera Secures $80M in Series C Financing
Summary
The round, which brings total funding raised to date to $170m, was led by DFJ Growth, with participation from the company’s executive leadership, NewView Capital and Georgian Partners. In conjunction with the funding, John Fisher, co-founder and partner, DFJ Growth, is joining Aera’s Board of Directors. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate investment in its Cognitive Operating System™, Self-Driving Skills™, and global expansion. Using proprietary data crawling, industry models, machine learning and artificial intelligence, the company’s solution automates and augments how decisions are made and executed. The company services some of the world’s largest enterprises from its global offices located in San Francisco, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Paris, Munich, London, Pune, and Sydney.