Mark Medearis

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Experience

Openprise Secures $25 Million in Series B Funding

March 5, 2024

Cooley advised Openprise on its $25 million Series B financing led by investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital. Partner Mark Medearis led the Cooley team advising Openprise, a top revenue operations (RevOps) data automation company using artificial intelligence to help RevOps teams transform their data into action, achieve operational agility at scale and simplify technology to drive efficient growth.

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Mark Medearis
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Noel Ripberger-Scheick
Associate, Palo Alto
Christy Fairlie
Paralegal Specialist, Reston

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Celona Closes Oversubscribed $60 Million Series C Financing

April 11, 2022

Cooley advised Celona on its oversubscribed $60 million Series C funding round. The financing round was led by DigitalBridge Ventures, and included participation from all of Celona’s existing investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, NTTVC, Qualcomm Ventures and Cervin Ventures. Partner Mark Medearis led the Cooley team advising Celona, a developer of AI-powered business-critical solutions designed to meet the connectivity needs of AI and edge-compute powered apps in the enterprise.

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Mark Medearis
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Daniel Y. Lee
Associate, Palo Alto

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Sense Raises $50 Million Series D Round

December 7, 2021

Cooley advised Sense on its $50 million Series D funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Mark Medearis led the Cooley team advising Sense, a developer of an AI-powered talent engagement platform.

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Mark Medearis
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Allison Pang
Associate, Palo Alto

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BrightFarms Closes $100 Million Series E

November 12, 2020

Cooley advised BrightFarms on its $100 million Series E financing. Partner Mark Medearis led the Cooley team advising BrightFarms, which is a leading next-generation indoor farming company supplying U.S. grocery retailers with packaged salad greens.

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Mark Medearis
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Anita Vasudevan
Special Counsel, Palo Alto
Nikita Appaswami
Associate, Palo Alto
Kris Tamashiro
Paralegal Specialist, Palo Alto
Howard Morse
Partner, Washington, DC
Megan Browdie
Partner, Washington, DC
Julia R. Brinton
Associate, Washington, DC

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AssetMark $316 million IPO

July 18, 2019

Cooley advised underwriters on AssetMark’s $316.3 million initial public offering of 14,375,000 shares of common stock, including full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares. J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs acted as joint lead book-running managers for the offering. Credit Suisse and Huatai Securities also acted as joint book-running managers and BMO Capital Markets, Raymond James & Associates and William Blair & Company acted as co-managers. Assetmark’s securities now trade on the NYSE under the symbol “AMK.” Partners Eric Jensen, John McKenna, Mark Medearis and Josh Seidenfeld led the Cooley team.

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Eric Jensen
Vice Chair, Palo Alto
John McKenna
Partner, Palo Alto
Mark Medearis
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Josh Seidenfeld
Partner, Palo Alto
Milson Yu
Partner, Palo Alto
Natalie Karam
Partner, Palo Alto

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