Capital Gains: Soylent Gets Greener, Instacart Confirms $220 Million Round and More

A bunch of money changed hands in Silicon Valley this week. Here’s what happened:

• Instacart, the delivery grocery startup, confirmed its $220 funding round and $2 billion valuation this week, which was previously reported by Re/code.
• India’s restaurant search service Zomato bought its American rival Urbanspoon for $50 million, and said it is in talks to raise another $100 million in new funding.
• Classpass, a company gets customers unlimited fitness classes in studios across the country, raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by General Catalyst and Thrive Capital. The company raised $12 million in a Series A three months ago. (TechCrunch)
• Whistle Sports, a web video network that focuses on non-mainstream sports content, raised $28 million in a new funding round. The company previously raised $8 million from a group of investors including former Yankee legend Derek Jeter and iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman.
• Boxed, a bulk shopping app that aims to bring the experience of stores like Costco to mobile devices, raised $25 million in a Series B funding round led by GGV Capital and Digital Sky Technologies. The New York-based startup has now raised $33 million in total to date. (Fortune)
• The makers of magical nutrient sludge Soylent raised $20 million in Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz and other investors.
• Rounds, a Tel Aviv-based video chat startup, raised $12 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Samsung Ventures and existing backers Verizon Ventures and Rhodium. Rounds has raised more than $22 million since its launch in 2009.
• Digg founder and Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose is stepping back from investing, as he has raised $5 million to launch his new app incubator — North Technologies.
• The web TV startup NimbleTV was acquired by the Buffalo-based Synacor as part of an “acqui-hire” deal to bring on NimbleTV’s 13 employees. NimbleTV had previously raised at least $6 million from investors.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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