Workplace monitoring platform Aware takes in $60M

Learn more about what comes next. Aware, a platform that analyzes employee behavior across messaging platforms like Slack, today announced that it raised $60 million in a series C round led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, with participation from Spring Mountain Capital, Blue Heron Capital, Allos Ventures, Ohio Innovation Fund, JobsOhio, and Rev1 Ventures. The company says that the capital, which brings its total raised to over $86.9 million, will be put toward product development, sales efforts, and hiring. "This specific investment will allow us to make significant progress towards helping organizations see the human difference across all functions of the business. We expect to rapidly expand our current integrations into new platforms, as well as to ingest and analyze digital signals from all areas of the organization," cofounder and CEO Jeff Schumann told VentureBeat via email.