Funding roundup - week ending 8/23/13

Uber, Cloud Technology Partners, TrekkSoft, NakedWines.com, Maginatics, SmartRecruiters, Drivewyze

Seed Stage

Collegefeed, a personal career assistant that helps students and new grads land jobs, raised $1.8 million in seed funding in a round led by Accel Partners and which included investors like S-Cubed Capital, Prof. Narayandas and more.

Photo collage-making app PicCollage raised $2.3 million in seed funding from 500 Startups, Floodgate Fund, Freestyle Capital, Quest Venture Partners, Sand Hill Angels, XG Ventures, ngmoco founder Neil Young, and N3TWORK founder Bob Stevenson.

Unite US, which helps veterans connect with public and private agencies, raised $2 million in seed funding from a number of private investors.

Socialspiel, an Austrian social games startup, raised €200,000 from Clemens Beer and Mike Borras.

Wallmob, a Danish-based point of sale company, raised $1.2 million in funding from unnamed investors. 

TrekkSoft, which offers a B2B solution for the online booking process, raised a $800,000 seed round from Schwyzer Kantonalbank, and a group of private investors, including Armin Meier,, Walter Güntensperger and Adrian Locher.

Real estate technology company RealScout raised a $1.1 million seed round from DCM, Formation 8 and angel Ken DeLeon.

Cluster, a mobile photo-sharing app, raised $1.6 million in seed funding in a round led by Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures. Also participating were Freestyle Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures, and Sherpa Ventures.

Delivery app Boxed raised a seed round of $1.1 million from ENIAC Ventures, Social Starts, and Bessemer angel group 15 Angels.

Kamcord, which helps players record and share video game playing, raised $1 million in seed funding from Tencent and InnovationWorks, among others.

Nanotech Security, a developer of next-generation security and authentication features using patented nano-optics, raised $3.9 million from unknown investors. 

NoRedInk, a learning platform that helps students improve their grammar and writing skills, raised $2 million in funding. The investors included Google Ventures, The Social+Capital Partnership, Learn Capital and Charles River Ventures.

Predictive analytics platform SalesPredict raised $1 million in seed funding in a round led by Pitango Venture Capital with AfterDox and RSL Venture Partners participating along with angel 

Early Stage

Advocate marketing solution SocialChorus raised a Series A round of $2.5 million led by Kohlberg Ventures, along with Windforce Ventures.

Betterfly, which provides live online video lessons, raised $1 million led by Lightbank and existing investors.

Powa Technologies, an integrated mobile payments and e-commerce platform raised a Series A round of $76 million a single, unnamed investor. 

SaaS social media management platform Falcon Social raised €6 million ($8 million) in a round led by Target Partners, with participation from NorthCap Partners.

GiveGab, a social network for volunteers, closed a $1.6 million Series A funding, lead by led by Cayuga Venture Fund, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Rand Capital SBIC and Excell Partners.

Road safety technology company Intelligent Imaging Systems (IIS), and its sister company, Drivewyze, raised a $7.5 million round of funding led by Emergence Capital Partners and iNovia Capital.

Late Stage

Modernizing Medicine, an EMR platform that customizes itself to the individual user and automates notes and bills, and generates prescriptions, lab requests, and more, raised $14 million in funding from Summit Partners.

Cloud infrastructure solutions provider Morphlabs raised $10 million in a Series D round led by Tallwood Management and Entropy Research Lab, along with G2iG.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform SugarCRM received a $40 million equity investment from Goldman Sachs.

Cleversafe,a solution for limitless data storage, secured $55 million in an oversubscribed Series D funding round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation New World Ventures and all major existing investors.

Birst, an enterprise-caliber Business Intelligence platform, completed a $38 million investment led by Sequoia Capital. All existing investors, along with Northgate Capital, participated in the round.

Product delivery company Jama Software closed $13 million in Series B funding led by Trinity Ventures with participation from Madrona Venture Group.

Cloud Technology Partners, which designs and builds cloud applications and infrastructures, closed a $5 million Series B round led by Oak Investment Partners. The round included funding from a new strategic investor as well as State Street Bank and select angels.

Sharing network ShareThis raised an additional $7 million in Series C funding from Blue Chip Venture Company, Blair Garrou of the Mercury Fund, Heidi Roizen of Draper Fisher Jurveston, and T-Venture.

NakedWines.com, a customer-funded online wine retailer, raised $10 million from WIV Wein International AG.

Maginatics, provider of storage solutions for distributed enterprises, raised $17 million. The round was led by Intel Capital, with participation from Comcast Ventures, WestSummit Capital, Atlantic Bridge and VMware.

Hiring platform SmartRecruiters raised $10 million in Series B funding led by Rembrandt Venture Partners, along with The Mayfield Fund and existing investors.

E-hailing service Uber raised $361.2 million in funding from investors that included TPG and Benchmark.

Slice, which allows consumers to manage all their online purchases, closed $23 million in funding, led by Rakuten, along with Russia Partners and NPD Group.

Taulia, an SaaS platform for discounting, raised $18 million in Series C funding led by Klaus Hommels and joined by Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures, TELUS Ventures and DAG Ventures.