Apica, a load testing and performance-monitoring provider for cloud and mobile applications, closed a $2 million Series B round of financing. Industrifonden led the investment. KTH Chalmers Capital also participated by reinvesting in the company, and ALMI Invest joined as a new investor.
Crittercism raised funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield& Byers, Google Ventures, Opus Capital, Shasta Ventures, and AOL Ventures.
Domo, a new SaaS company launched by Omniture co-founder and decade-long CEO Josh James, secured $33 million from Benchmark Capital in a Series A round.
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Y Combinator-backed DrChrono, provider of a mobile health records platform, closed a $675K seed round from investors like General Catalyst, Charles River Ventures, 500 Startups, Gmail creator Paul Buchheit and more.
Evernote, the mobile and desktop app for organizing everything in your life, completed a $50 million round of financing led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Morgenthaler Ventures.
Localmind, a Q&A site for the location around you, raised $600,000 in angel funding led by Granite Ventures with Real Ventures, iNovia Capital, Ian Sobieski, Peter Bordes, Ty Danco, Zach Aarons, and Ash Jhaveri participating.
MotherKnows, provider of online medical records for parents, raised $1.7 million in seed funding from First Round Capital, Giza Ventures and others.
In response to Netflix’s plans to hike up its monthly rates by 60%, customers are all sorts of pissed off—as, of course, they have every right to be, considering this is Netflix’s second rate hike in less than a year.
Nimble Storage, developer of the first converged storage and backup solution, raised $25 million in a Series D round of funding led by Artis Capital Management.
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Online payments site PayPal demoed a new NFC-enabled Android widget that makes paying somebody as easy as tapping your phones together.
Spotify finally launched stateside today, but you’ll still need to wait for an invite to start using it.
WordWatch, provider of automated pay-per-click keyword bidding solutions for small businesses, raised $1.4 million in Series A financing in a round led by Prague‐based Credo Ventures.
