REAL TIME VC & PRIVATE EQUITY DEALS AND NEWS
Brandnew, a Berlin, Germany-based digital ad campaign company, raised $1.9m in funding. Backers included Berlin Ventures, PubliGroupe, and Lukas Kirche, which provided €800k in total. The City of Berlin provided a $1.1m grant. The company intends to use the funds for technology development, marketing and sales efforts. Founded in 2013 by Francis Trapp, CEO, and […]
Green & Grow Inc., an Austin, TX-based company developing and commercializing biologically derived agricultural products, raised an additional $6m in Series B funding. Otter Capital made the investment as a new partner. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate commercialization of its Agriplier™ technology. Led by Alan Sobba, President and CEO, Green & […]
PPLCONNECT, a Montreal, Canada-based integrated communications solution for the multi-device environment we live in today, closed a seed funding round. The amount of the funding was not disclosed. The round was led by Sherbrooke Street Capital Inc. Co-founded by Jenviev Azzolin, PPLCONNECT allows users to send and receive their SMS as well as free PPLCONNECT […]
Zuli, a San Francisco, CA-based smart home company, raised $1.65m in seed funding. Backers included Menlo Ventures, Winklevoss Capital, Logitech, DeNA, XG Ventures, Stephen Stokols and Hossein Eslambolchi. The company intends to use the funds to bring their first product, the Zuli Smartplug, to market. Led by Taylor Umphreys, CEO, Sid Bhargava, CTO, and Ben […]
InContext Solutions, a Chicago, IL-based 3D virtual simulation tech company, secured $12m in Series D funding. Backers included Beringea, Plymouth Venture Partners and Hyde Park Venture Partners. The company intends to use the funds to expand its virtual simulation and research presence worldwide. Founded in 2009 and led by CEO Mark Hardy, InContext Solutions provides […]
Traklight, a Phoenix, AZ-based provider of cloud software for identifying and protecting IP, raised $350k in angel funding. Backers included private investors, primarily based in New York’s Silicon Alley. The company intends to use the funds to scale sales and marketing efforts nationally. Led by Founder and CEO Mary Juetten, Traklight provides both entrepreneurs with […]
Nutanix, a San Jose, CA-based web-scale converged infrastructure company, closed a $140m Series E funding round. The round, which brought the total funding to $312m, valued the company at over $2 billion. It was led by two premier Boston-based public market investors with over $3 trillion in combined assets under management. The company intends to […]
Cloudfind, a Bath, UK-based enterprise information management startup, raised £600k in funding. Backers included Thorium Technology Investors. The company intends to use the funds for the acquisition of new customers in both the US and UK. Founded in 2011 by CEO Sebastian Toke-Nichols, Cloudfind allows businesses to find, share and organize information in the cloud, […]
Machine data analytics company Glassbeam has just raised $2m in funding (read here). Puneet Pandit, CEO of the Santa Clara, CA-based startup, answered our questions about the market, the product, its achievements to date, the funding round and future plans. FinSMEs: Hi Puneet. First, can you tell us a little bit more about you? What’s your […]
Glassbeam, Inc., a Santa Clara, CA-based machine data analytics company, raised $2m in additional funding. The round was led by VKRM Group. The company intends to use the funds to continue to refine its patentable Internet of Things (IoT) platform, which is called Glassbeam SCALAR. Led by Puneet Pandit, CEO and co-founder (read our interview with […]
Pluralsight, a Farmington, Utah-based provider of online training for technology professionals, closed a $135m Series B funding. The round was led by current investor Insight Venture Partners, as well as ICONIQ Capital and Sorenson Capital. The company, which has now raised nearly $165m in total, to accelerate its enterprise customer base, expand into new content […]
Surgical Frontiers, a Logan, UT-based company that funds, launches and operates startups to develop advanced surgical technologies that are ready for clinical use, closed on a $7m fund. The fund, managed by Surgical Frontiers Series I, LLC, invests in its business incubator for surgical technology startup companies focused primarily on musculoskeletal markets. Initial funding commitments […]
Chilango, a London, UK-based Mexican restaurant chain, raised £2.16m in a mini-bond* campaign on the Crowdcube crowdfunding platform. The funds will help open the next three restaurants. 749 people have invested that amount into the Burrito BondTM in return for 8% gross interest per annum during the four year term of the bond. The average […]
Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Houston, Texas-based biotechnology company focused on developing effective cellular immunotherapies, completed a $55M Series C financing. The round brought the total capital raised since inception to $107m. Backers included eleven new investors including funds managed by RA Capital Management, LLC, Perceptive Advisors, LLC, Jennison Associates LLC, Sabby Capital, Ridgeback Capital Management, venBio […]
GoEuro, a Berlin, Germany-based travel planning startup, raised $27m in Series A funding. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from existing backers Battery Ventures, Hasso Plattner Ventures and Lakestar. In conjunction with the funding, NEA General Partner Forest Baskett joined GoEuro’s board. The company intends to use the funds to expand […]