Winston Gu

Cooley advised Sentera, a leading provider of remote imagery solutions for agriculture, on its acquisition by John Deere. Sentera’s industry-leading cameras are compatible with most major drone platforms, enabling farmers and crop scouts to quickly and efficiently capture high-resolution data at scale. The cameras’ capabilities and Sentera’s FieldAgent software tools help farmers and agronomists assess plant-level health, identify stressors and take action.

This acquisition will advance the capabilities of John Deere’s existing tech offerings, providing farmers and ag service providers with a more comprehensive set of tools to generate and use data to make decisions that improve farm profitability, efficiency and sustainability.

Cooley advised Modo.us, a social gaming platform developed by ARB Interactive, on its social casino partnership agreement with the BWT Alpine Formula One Team.

Cooley advised Bluestein Ventures, a venture capital fund that invests in the future of food, on the close of its $45 million in capital commitments for its third foodtech fund.

Cooley advised COUR Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of first-in-class disease-modifying therapies designed to induce antigen-specific tolerance for immune-mediated diseases, on the close of its $105 million Series A financing.

Cooley advised Reserv, a leader in artificial intelligence-driven insurance claims processing, on a $20 million Series round of financing to expand its generative AI claims data analysis tools. Partner Winston Gu led the Cooley team advising Reserv.

This funding round was co-led by Altai Ventures and Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from 8VC, Outpost Ventures, Convex Group, AXIS Capital, Anthemis Group and Arch Capital Group.

Reserv’s customers have seen a sustained reduction in cycle times for property and auto claims, and this funding will enable the company to extend those results to additional customers. While making critical claim information available in real time through multiple large language model generative AI tools feeding automated workflows, Reserv has grown its revenue more than 50x in the past year.

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