REAL TIME VC & PRIVATE EQUITY DEALS AND NEWS
Recommerce Solutions, a French provider of technology and sustainable services, raised €7.1m in funding. Backers included Seventure Partners, CDC Entreprises (FSN PME), and 3T Capital. The company intends to use the capital for international expansion and technology development. Co-founded in 2009 by Pierre-Etienne Roinat, Chairman, and other three entrepreneurs, Benoît Varin, Cédric Maucourt and Antoine […]
PeopLease Corporation, a Charleston, South Carolina-based PEO (Professional Employer Organization) that focuses on meeting the needs of business owners in the trucking and transportation industry, raised new equity funding. Backers included industry veterans Chris Munro, Marc Kramer and Mitch Poole, who joined the new leadership team. Following the investment, whose amount remained undisclosed, Mitch Poole […]
Bombfell, a NYC-based monthly subscription service for men’s clothing, closed a $730k in seed funding. Backers included: – Great Oaks VC – Jeff Fluhr – 500 Startups (where it was accelerated in 2012) – SOS Ventures – Romulus Capital – David Shen Ventures – Andrew Reis – Daniel Wallace – Diane Loviglio – Galen Ward […]
EatStreet, a Madison, Wisconsin-based online ordering site, raised $2m in funding. The round was led by Cornerstone Opportunity Partners with participation from Great Oaks VC, Independence Equity, and gener8tor. The company intends to use the capital to expand into new markets. Founded in 2009 by by Matt Howard, CEO, EatStreet is an online ordering service that […]
Splitsecnd, a Nashville, TN-based provider of a crash detection and emergency response system, raised $2.1m in funding. Backers included Tennessee Community Ventures, the INCITE co-investment fund, the Jumpstart Foundry, and an unnamed private investor. Co-founded in 2010 by CEO Chris Thompson and CMO William Green, splitsecnd is a plug-in crash detection device that calls for […]
VariBlend Dual Dispensing Systems, a Montvale, NJ-based manufacturer of dual dispensing pumps with custom-blending technology, received an equity financing of undisclosed amount. Backers included J. Burke Capital Partners and Emil Capital Partners. Led by John Hewson, CEO and president, VariBlend manufactures containers with a patented dispensing pump system, which are used for a wide range […]
Tcho, a San Francisco, CA-based premium chocolate maker, raised a Series B round of financing. The amount was not disclosed. Backers included Emil Capital Partners. The company intends to use the capital to expand sales and marketing efforts, increase plant capacities and introduce new products. Based on the pure flavors of cacao, Tcho focusing on […]
weMultiply, a New York-based angel investor and business acceleration group, launched a call for health and wellness ventures to join its seed program. Launched as part of the 9.8 Group of Companies, the S.A.L.E. acceleration program provides early stage and startup companies in the health & wellness sector with direct investment, access to capital through […]
Material Wrld, Inc., a New York-based marketplace that allows fashion lovers across the world to directly trade the fashion items of their closets, closed a funding with the Tokyo, Japan-based global seed accelerator SunBridge Global Ventures Inc. The amount of the investment, which was made through SunBridge Startups LLP, was not disclosed. Co-founded by Japanese […]
vidIQ, a San Francisco, Calif.-based startup that has just launched a suite of enterprise tools to grow a YouTube audience, raised over $800k in seed funding. Backers included Mark Cuban, David Cohen, Scott Banister, Peter Weck, Tod Sacerdoti, Don Hutchison, Jared Kopf, Jason Seats, William Lohse, Savan Devani, Shriraj Gaglani, and I/O Ventures. Led by […]
Synapsify, a Bethesda, Maryland-based content discovery and text analytics company, raised $600k in seed funding. Backers included ICG Ventures, the investment subsidiary of Ingram Content Group, Fortify.vc, Middeland Capital, and other angel investors. Co-founded by CEO Stephen and CTO Candelmo Lawrence Au, Synapsify leverages innovative language technology to provide intelligent search and insight that adapts […]
Quotient Biodiagnostics, a global transfusion diagnostics group, Raised an additional $5.0m in equity funding. Backers included Galen Partners and Paul Cowan, CEO and founding shareholder in Quotient. The company intends to use the funding to continue development of its automation platform for transfusion diagnostics pursue its plans to build a new facility to facilitate the […]
Brickell Biotech Inc., a Miami, FL-based development-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the development of innovative drug therapies for the treatment of skin diseases, raised $7m in Series B financing. The round was led by AMOREPACIFIC Ventures, with participation from Palisade Concentrated Equity Partnership II, L.P., a PE fund managed by Palisade Capital Management, and others. […]
Codenvy (formerly known as Exo IDE), a San Francisco, CA-based cloud platform for coding, building, and testing apps, closed a $9m first venture capital financing.
Bolt, a Boston-based hardware incubator focused on supporting hardware startups, launched with support from from three strategic partners. Backers include Grishin Robotics, a venture capital firm focused on consumer robotics, Logitech and Autodesk. Founded by Axel Bichara, Ben Einstein, and Scott Miller, Bolt intends to provide robotics and connected devices startups with seed capital, office space, […]