When you step into the doors of Capital Factory, the energy is just what you’d expect from a place that calls itself the Center of Gravity for entrepreneurs in Texas.

Crunchbase News recently took a deep dive into the U.S. FinTech industry’s Q1 2018 venture activity. We found that deal volume in 2017 amounted to more than $7 billion in venture funding for seed, early, and late-stage startups.

A company that helps businesses find office space raises new cash from VCs.

On-demand temporary employment platform Wonolo raised a $13 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital, announced today.

Contract review automation platform LawGeex has raised $12 million in a Series B round led by Tel Aviv-based Aleph, announced today.

Applitools raised fresh capital to scale up its visual testing platform’s business.

Redaptive Inc. has closed on a $20 million funding round led by commercial real estate services and investment firm CBRE.

While Texas may not be the first state that pops to mind when you think of startups, its capital city of Austin actually ranked No. 2 in The Kauffman Foundation’s 2017 startup activity index. And that startup activity is reflected in the growing number of accelerators in the city and state as a whole.

We haven’t talked about SoftBank’s investment cadence much. Let’s rectify that.