REAL TIME VC & PRIVATE EQUITY DEALS AND NEWS
Cidara Therapeutics, Inc., a San Diego, CA-based biopharmaceutical company, completed a $32m Series A financing. The round was led by 5AM Ventures, Aisling Capital, Frazier Healthcare and InterWest Partners and also included select institutional cross over investors. In connection with the financing, Steve Elms, Patrick Heron and former Trius board member Nina Kjellson have also joined […]
SoftTech VC announced the closing of an $85m venture capital fund. Backers included 20 institutional LPs and 40 individuals (43% Fund of Funds, 23% Family Offices, 15% Endowments & Pension Funds, 10% Foundations, 9% Individuals). SoftTech VC IV focuses on seed stage opportunities in B2B and B2C technology. In details, investment areas include Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) […]
CrowdTwist, a New York City-based provider of omnichannel loyalty and analytics solutions for the marketing industry, raised $9m in Series B funding. The round was led by NYC-based StarVest Partners, with participation from existing investors Fairhaven Capital and SoftBank Capital. The company, which has now raised $20m, intends to use the funds to scale and […]
Chloe + Isabel, a New York-based social retail jewelry company, closed a $15m Series C equity funding. The round was led by SoftBank Capital, with participation from existing investors General Catalyst Partners, First Round Capital, Forerunner Ventures, and Floodgate Fund. The company intends to use the fubds to grow and increase its community of micro-entrepreneurs […]
IgnitionOne, a NYC-based digital marketing tech company, closed $20m in Series B funding. The round was led by SoftBank Capital with participation from existing investors ABS Capital Partners and Brown Savano. The company intends to use the funds to make strategic acquisitions, accelerate innovation of its Digital Marketing Suite technology and expand sales and marketing […]
Proterra Inc., a Greenville, SC-based battery-electric bus manufacturer, raised more than $30m in additional funding. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and GM Ventures, with participation from existing investors Edison Energy and Constellation Technology Ventures, the venture capital arm of Exelon as well as Tao Invest, Vision Ridge Partners and Hennessey […]
HelloFresh, a Berlin, Germany and New York City-based recipe kit delivery service, raised $50m in Series D funding round. The round was led by New York-based Insight Venture Partners with participation from existing investor Phenomen VC. The company intends to use funds to continue to expand globally. Founded in November 2011 by Dominik Richter, CEO, […]
ieCrowd, a Riverside, CA-based discovery-to-market commercialization platform for innovations that solve global challenges, raised an additional $2.2m in funding. Investors include physicians, healthcare professionals, and other private funders from around the world. The company, which has now raised $7m, intends to use the funds to accelerate product development and go-to-market activities and to scale up operations. […]
Puppet Labs, a Portland, Oregon-based provider of IT automation software, raised $40m in funding. Backers included Cisco, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Triangle Venture Capital Group, True Ventures and VMware. The company, which has now raised $86m since June 2009, intends to use the funds to invest in people, technology advancements and global […]
Onapsis Inc., a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based provider of solutions to audit and mitigate cyber security threats targeting business-critical applications, raised $9.58m in funding. The round was led by .406 Ventures with participation from Endeavor Catalyst and existing investors. In conjunction with the funding, Maria Cirino, Partner at .406 Ventures, will be joining Onapsis’ Board. The company […]
Cloud Elements, a Denver, CO-based cloud API integration and aggregation service, raised $3.1m in Series A funding. The round was led by Grotech Ventures and Icon Venture Partners, with participation from Galvanize Ventures. The company intends to use the funds to expand the development of its catalog of SaaS API connectors and API management platform, […]
Orange Silicon Valley has released a new report called “Unicorns, Startups, and Giants: The New Billion Dollar Dynamics of the Digital Landscape“. The document shows that tech “Unicorns”, billion-dollar startups, “are the new engines of disruption reshaping the competitive landscape“. It charts over 60 Unicorn companies across seven dominant sectors of technology (big data, cloud, […]
According to a blog post, ScalingData, a developer of data center solutions, closed a $4.4m funding. The round was led by General Catalyst with participation from Google Ventures and Brian Stevens, CTO at Red Hat. In conjunction with the funding, Donald Fischer of General Catalyst, joined ScalingData’s board. The company is using the funds to […]
YouScience, a Nashville, Tenn.-based provider of an edtech platform to consumers and the professionals who serve them, received $8.5m in its seed round of funding. The company intends to use the fnds for the development of its initial consumer product, Latitude. Founded by Betsy Wills and Richard Patton, and led by CEO Philip Hardin, YouScience has created Latitude, an online […]
Krux, a San Francisco, CA-based global provider of a data management platform, raised $35 million in Series B funding. The round was led by SAP Ventures, with participation from new investors Time Warner Investments, Visionnaire Ventures and Temasek – and existing investors Accel Partners, IDG Ventures and The Entrepreneurs Fund. The company, which has now […]