REAL TIME VC & PRIVATE EQUITY DEALS AND NEWS
Easy Solutions, a Sunrise, FL-based provider of fraud protection solutions, closed an $11m Series B financing round from Medina Capital. The company intends to use the funds to expand sales and marketing in the U.S. and worldwide. Led by Ricardo Villadiego, Founder & CEO, Easy Solutions provides products that deliver cross-channel fraud protection (protecting against […]
Foodist, a Hamburg, Germany-based food delivery startup, raised €175k in equity crowdfunding. 568 backers invested in the company via companisto.de. The company is using the funds to grow its B2B business line and reach more than 1,000 active subscribers by the fall of 2013, expand abroad (Austria and Switzerland and other two European countries). Founded by […]
Quill (Formerly called iTrigga), a London, UK-based content creation platform, raised £1m (approximately US$1.5m in funding. Backers included Julie Meyer’s Ariadne Capital, Shakil Khan (Spotify, Summly, buy.at), Rupert Ashe (Graze, Videojug), Karen Hanton (toptable.com), Andrew Burge (King Content, iSUBSCRiBE), Nick Beare (BBC Worldwide, LGI), Peter Read (Techlightenment, Songkick) and Andrew Grahame (Mr & Mrs Smith). […]
ugichem GmbH, an Innsbruck, Austria-based developer of a novel antisense drug platform, raised €2.25m in funding. The Backers included Austria’s Research Promotion Agency FFG, which provided a grant of €850k and existing investors, which provided an equity financing of €1.4m. The company intends to use the funds to advance preclinical Ugimer drug development for immune-mediated […]
An investor group focused on Bitcoin has been launched. Led by a distributed team of veteran entrepreneurs and angels Bit Angels aims to find opportunities and invest in early seed stage bitcoin-related companies. The network, which currently counts more than 60 investors, is led by Executive Director David A. Johnston, Michael Terpin, Sam Onat Yilmaz, […]
Ticketea, a Madrid, Spain-based Do-It-Yourself ticketing platform, raised $4m in Series B funding. The round was led by Seaya Ventures. The company intends to use the funds to develop new products to consolidate its position in the Spanish market and expand internationally, mainly in Latin America. Led by CEO Javier Andrés Marin, Ticketea provides a […]
StickyADS.tv, a Paris, France-based video ad network and ad exchange, raised €3.1m (approximately $4.1m) in B funding. The round was led by Ventech, which joins ISAI. The company intends to use the funds to to accelerate our technology development and expand into European markets such as Germany. Led by Hervé Brunet, CEO & Co-founder, StickyADS.tv […]
According to TechCrunch (read here), Adly, a Beverly Hills, CA-based provider of a platform to amplify branded social content, recently raised $2m in funding. Backers include existing investor GRP Partners and new investor Siemer Ventures. Led by CEO Walter Delph, COO Ronette Kite, Head of Product Tal Pink and Head of Sales Johnny Shin, Adly […]
Akimbo Financial, Inc., a San Antonio, TX-based social banking startup that offers a digital wallet with a prepaid card to share money with friends and family, closed an $850k convertible bridge round. Backers included: – Graham Weston, co-founder and Chairman of Rackspace Hosting, Inc.; – Tom C. Frost, Jr., former CEO and Chairman Emeritus of […]
Vigour.io, an Amsterdam, Netherlands-based development platform to build connected applications, raised €500k in seed funding. Backers included hub:raum, the 8-week accelerator program of Deutsche Telekom that provides startups with funding, access to mentors, and co-working space, Linden Mobile Ventures, DG-i, and Hampus Jakobsson. Co-founded by Ramon Duivenvoorden, Jim de Beer, and Marcus Besjes, who were […]
According to the company’s blog (read here), Box acquired the technology of Folders, a mobile app that provides a file manager for the cloud. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. Developed in France by Martin Destagnol, Folders features a PDF viewer, a music player, a code viewer, tools to open Office documents, a […]
In a recent post on his popular blog (read here), Mark Suster underlined the importance of the work of associates in venture capital firms and recommended backed entrepreneurs to reconsider their relationships with VCs. With this in mind, I spoke with Tom Maxim, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at San Jose-based Fenox Venture Capital. Here is his take on the roles of […]
Tazaldoo UG, a Berlin, Germany based developer of software solutions that enable information professional to find and analyze relevant content and sources across social media, recently raised €250k in equity crowdfunding. 808 investors backed the company via companisto.de. Founded by in 2012 CEO Frederik Fischer, COO Torsten Müller and CTO Arno Dirlam, Tazaldoo has recently launched […]
Autodesk acquired the site and core technologies of Tinkercad, a browser-based 3D design tool that allows users to turn ideas into a CAD model for a 3D printer. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. Kai Backman, Founder & CEO, said that the company’s shutdown plan has been rolled back (read his announcement here) and that […]
According to TechCrunch (read here), Hampton Creek Foods, a San Francisco, CA-based food tech startup, raised $1m in funding. The backer was Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. The company had previously raised $2m from Khosla Ventures. Founded by CEO Josh Tetrick, Hampton Creek Foods specializes in the development of plant-based egg ingredients. Its product aims to enable […]