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Hello and welcome back to Last Week In Venture, Crunchbase News鈥檚 weekly rundown of venture deals that may have flown under your radar.

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It鈥檚 been quite the week over here. We looked at investment in Latin America (more on that later) and where women-led ventures landed big rounds (hint: it鈥檚 mostly outside the U.S., unfortunately). We examined the telehealth space, chronicled concentration in venture fund-raising (see also: the $3.6 billion fund NEA aims to raise), checked in on some unicorns, and covered supergiant VC rounds (of $100M or more) announced by Luminary, Chime, and Grab.

There are plenty of companies outside of the unicorn spotlight that are building interesting businesses and solving difficult problems. Their stories are worth sharing, too.

So, without further ado, let鈥檚 dig into some of the deals from the week that was in venture-land.

Jupiter Intelligence

Climate change is real, and the threat it poses is potentially dire. Us humans, or at least those of us fortunate enough to control our indoor climates with heat and A/C, can weather most of what a harsher outdoor climate will dish out. People without reliable access to water, food, or climate-controlled shelter today will be in an even more precarious state in the future. The natural systems we depend on may not fare so well, which means that even the most fortunate among us (and, let’s face it, if you’re reading about startups and venture capital on a Friday afternoon, that probably means you, too) are at risk. No amount of air conditioning is going to save you if all the bees die or an acidifying ocean rises to swallow up your seafront city.

Cheery stuff, right? Where there’s risk, especially one as existentially important as climate change and its consequences, there’s a market for quantifying it. , based in San Mateo, California, is in the business of modeling catastrophic risk outcomes and helping its customers anticipate the financial impact of different climate-change scenarios. According to the , its models “predict asset-level impact from flood, fire, heat, drought, cold, wind, and hail events at less-than-one-meter resolution.” The company says that its “[p]redictions are available from 1 hour to over 50 years in the future.” Jupiter is targeting its services at enterprises, governments, and the financial sector. Its impact models have already been used to assess the risk intense heat waves pose to power grids and helped inform public-sector infrastructure investment in coastal areas based on expected changes to tide levels and more intense storm surges, among for the tech.

Jupiter Intelligence raised round led by Energize Ventures, a Chicago-based venture firm investing in the energy sector. Prior investors鈥撯�� (DCVC), which and Series A lead –participated in the Series B deal alongside new investors , , , and . “The proceeds will be used to accelerate Jupiter鈥檚 aggressive expansion into new perils, geographies and resiliency services,” according to .

The Not Co.

The CEO of Amazon mayo may not be the biggest fan of regular ol鈥� mayonnaise, but Mr. Bezos ventured all the way to Chile (the ) to invest in a company making a plant-based substitute for the real deal.

Based in Santiago, makes plant-based mayonnaise, among other products which plant-based ice creams and milks. According to in Fast Company, The Not Company expanded into Brazil 鈥渢his month,鈥� and expects 鈥渢o have operations in the United States by the first quarter of 2020,鈥� said co-founder and CEO .

Jeff Bezos鈥檚 family office participated in The Not Company鈥檚 , which was led by London-based firm . Prior investors and joined in the round as well. (To read more about investments in Latin America, check out our very own Mary Ann Azevedo鈥檚 coverage of the new SoftBank fund earmarked for the region, and the follow-up piece she wrote about overall VC investment in LatAm startups.)

Other Interesting Rounds

• Did you ever want to know what something smells like just by looking at it? Hailing from Japan, has developed a sensor and software that can 鈥渃onvert virtually any odor鈥� into patterns which can be visualized on screen or in product labeling. Think of its sensor as a sniffer-on-a-chip, which is able to detect the presence and intensity of multiple odiferous molecules at once, mimicking the human olfactory system. Aroma Bit launched a service called 鈥�,鈥� which takes measurements from the Aroma Bit sensor to produce QR code-like images the company鈥檚 mobile app can scan to surface information about the product and recommend other products with similar smell profiles. When the company launched the aroma code and app back in 2017, that, for retailers, 鈥渁roma code provides a new tool for communication and promotion that conveys the aroma of products, which embodies their uniqueness or characteristics, to consumers digitally, visually and intuitively.鈥� , the VC arm of the Japanese electronics giant, led round; unspecified prior investors participated in the round.
• It must be nice to have so much saved for retirement that you can afford to bet some of that capital on a high-risk high-return alternative assets. For some folks, diversifying their IRA portfolio makes sense, and for them there’s , a Nashville, TN-based upstart seeking to streamline the process of investing part of your IRA in alternative assets “like startups, private companies, real estate, loans, and digital currencies, either directly or through one of Alto鈥檚 investment platform partners, like AngelList.” Earlier this week, Alto announced it had raised to finance customer acquisition and investment platform integration efforts. Investors in the round include co-founder , , , , , and fund.

And with that, we鈥檙e done for the week! According to Google Trends, 鈥溾�� across much of America, except for the Midwest and Mountain states, which are still cold as all heck. Whether you鈥檙e breaking out the shorts and sundresses or resent needing to don a parka and dig out of yet more snow, here鈥檚 to hoping you have a great weekend!

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