Seed Stage
Glassbeam, a machine data analytics company, secured $3 million in angel funding from VKRM Group.
Plaid, which provides an API for banking data, raised $2.8 million led by Spark Capital, with participation from Google Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Felicis Ventures, and Homebrew Capital.
Cinegif, a startup that allows companies to create GIFs for use in marketing campaigns, raised $500,000 in funding from angel investors including the Baylor Angel Network, the Houston Angel Network and the Texas Halo Fund.
Buttercoin, a white-label bitcoin exchange, raised $250,000 from Swiss company builder Centralway.
Pipedrive, maker of cloud based sales software, closed $3.4 million in seed funding. The lead investors were Rembrandt Venture Partners and Storm Ventures. TMT Investments, Taavet Hinrikus, Ott Kaukver , Rain Rannu and Tytus Michalski also participated.
Distill, provider of a video interviewing and scheduling service for recruiters, raised $1.3 million from Felicis Ventures, China’s Innovation Works and DN Capital.
Premium food delivery service Goldbely raised a $3 million seed funding round led by Intel Capital with the participation of Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Dave McClure, Tim Draper, ACE & Company, and FundersClub.
Cinemacraft, an interactive media monetization platform, raised a $1.5 million strategic funding round from NTT DoCoMo, Turner Broadcasting’s Media Camp and 500 Startups.
Sproutling, creator of a wearable baby monitor, raised $2.6 million in funding from First Round Capital, Forerunner Ventures, FirstMark Capital, Accelerator Ventures, Lemnos Labs, BoxGroup and Shawn Fanning.
PushPage,a personal interview platform, raised $1.7 million in seed funding from investors led by Rose Park Advisors, Scott Sperling, Bob Pittman, Irving Azoff, Ido Leffler, Lance Kalish, and John Kim.
Withlocals, a peer-to-peer marketplace for locals to offer travellers various advice to tourists, raised $500,000 in funding from Greenhouse Group.
Zipments, a same-day delivery marketplace, closed a $2.25 million seed round led by FirstMark Capital and Huron River Ventures, along with The Windquest Group, New York City Economic Development Corporation, Chicago Ventures, and Robert Safrata.
Bugsnag, a mobile error monitoring platform, raised $1.4 million in seed funding. The round was led by Matrix Partners and included participation from Jason Seats and Andy McLoughlin.
Lift Labs, creators of an electronic device that improves the quality of life for those with Parkinson’s and Essential Tremor, raised $1 million in seed funding from Silicon Valley angel investors.
Early Stage
Viral video site Upworthy raised $8 million from Spark Capital, Catamount Ventures, Uprising, and the Knight Foundation.
Cloud-based, real-time inventory and business management solution Stitch Labs raised $3.5 million in a round led by Greg Sands from Costanoa Ventures, with participation from True Ventures and Greg Waldorf.
Collaboration platform provider Convo raised a $5 million Series A investment from Morgenthaler Ventures.
Same day delivery service Deliv raised a $6.85 million Series A funding round from Upfront Ventures, RPM Ventures and others.
Apttus, a provider of cloud solutions for quote-to-cash automations, raised a $37 million funding round from K1 Capital, ICONIQ Capital and Salesforce.
Lively, the creator of devices that help monitor the elderly, raised a $4.8 milion series A led by Cambia Health Solutions and Maveron.
CyanogenMod, an Android firmware distribution, raised a $7 million Series A led by Benchmark.
StrongLoop, the company behind Node.js, a platform for developing mobile apps in the cloud or in the data center, closed a $8 million Series A round led by Shasta Ventures and Ignition Partners.
News curation platform Paper.li closed $$2 million in new funding from Debioinvestment, Polytech Ventures, Kima Ventures, and various European angels, as well as co-founder Edouard Lambelet.
HazelCast, an open source in-memory data grid for Java, raised $2.5 million fron Bain Capital Ventures and existing angel investors, including Ali Kutay.
Late Stage
Blue Jeans, an interoperable cloud-based video conferencing service, raised $50 million in a round led by Battery Ventures. Accel Partners, NEA, and Norwest Venture Partners also participated.
Gigya, provider of the Connected Consumer Management Suite, closed a $25 million funding round led by Greenspring Associates with additional support from Benchmark Capital, Mayfield Fund, DAG Ventures and Advance Publications.
NewVoiceMedia, a provider of cloud contact center services, secured $35 million in a Series C round of funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners and joined by Highland Capital Partners Europe, Eden Ventures and Notion Capital.
Snapguide, which allows for the sharing of step-by-step how to guides, raised $3 million from Atlas Venture, Index Ventures, SV Angel, CrunchFund and Slow Ventures.
Mobile app analytics company App Annie closed a $15 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital’s US fund, with participation from IDG Capital Partners, Greycroft Partners, e.ventures and Infinity Venture Partners.
Job recruiting start up Bright raised $14 million in Series B funding from Toba Capital and Passport Capital.
Stackdriver, the provider of intelligent management for cloud-powered applications, closed a $10 million round of Series B financing, led by Flybridge Capital Partners, with Bain Capital Ventures also participating.
Restalo, an online restaurant reservation service based in Spain, raised a $10 million Series B round from Seaya Ventures and Active Venture Partners.
PubNub, provider of cloud-based infrastructure for real-time applications, closed an $11 million Series B round of funding from Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Relay Ventures and TiE Angels.
FuzeBox, a cloud-based provider of real-time communication and collaboration solutions, raised $26 million in Series B financing led by Hermes Growth Partners, along with Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Insight Venture Partners.
Dafiti, a Brazilian fashion e-commerce service, raised $70 million from the Toronto-based Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.
Social media benchmarking company Unmetric raised $5.5 million in Series B financing led by JAFCO Asia. Nexus Venture Partners also participated.
Branding Brand, a mobile commerce platform for major retailers, secured $9.5 million in Series B funding led by Insight Venture Partners. The round also included CrunchFund, Lead Edge Capital, and eBay Enterprise.
Indentity management service Okta closed a $27 million Series D funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners and Khosla Ventures all participated.
Illumio, a stealth security startup, closed a $34 million Series B round of venture capital funding led by General Catalyst Partners, along with Andreessen Horowitz and Formation 8.
Simpliearn, which provides online education and training for professional certification courses, raised $10 million in Series B funding from Khetal & Agrawal Advisors and Helion Venture Partners.
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Videogram is a HTML5 Social Video Platform.
Videogram automatically analyzes any video file and generates a visually engaging summary with different-sized keyframes arranged in a grid reminiscent of a comic book.
Videogram allows consumers to get a quick overview of an entire video's contents without watching the entire video from beginning to end. Viewers can start – and share – the video from their point of greatest interest, thus eliminating the pain points of streaming / buffering a large video on congested mobile networks.
Videogram is compatible with any video server / player and leaves the original video undisturbed (along with any existing copyright or advertising). And the technology is completely embeddable. Videogram can live on publisher / brand web pages, within apps, or on social networks.
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Salesforce.com is the worldwide leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) services. More companies trust their vital customer and sales data to salesforce.com than any other on-demand CRM company in the world.
Salesforce.com was founded in 1999 by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff, who pioneered the concept of delivering enterprise applications via a simple Web site. Salesforce.com is constantly building on that legacy by improving and expanding our award-winning suite of on-demand applications, our Force.com platform for extending Salesforce, and our one-of-a-kind AppExchange directory of on-demand applications.
Salesforce.com has received considerable recognition in the industry, including:
• Technology of the Year (InfoWorld, 2004, 2005, 2006)
• Editors' Choice Award (PC Magazine, 2002, 2003, 2004)
• Visionary Award (SDForum, 2004)
• Best of the Web (Forbes, 2003)
• CRM Excellence Award (Customer Inter@ction Solutions, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
• Top 100 Innovators Award (BusinessWeek, 2006)
• Innovation Award (AMR Research, 2005)
• CODIE Award for Best CRM (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
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Pipedrive is a CRM-replacing deal management tool. It is built for active deal makers, not only salespeople. It helps people be super organized and close their deals in less time.
Pipedrive is most useful for small teams up to 15 members. Half of our customers are greenfield, not knowing they needed Pipedrive until they used it. The other half of our customers abandon their existing CRM or sales management tool for a better product.
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Gigya’s mission is to socialize the rest of the web. We provide websites with a complete social infrastructure that creates immersive social experiences for users and provides unparalleled customer insights for businesses.
Gigya equips businesses like ABC, Pepsi and Verizon with a comprehensive solution to socialize their online properties. Our technology enables seamless registration with Social Login, increases traffic and time spent on-site via Social Plugins and Social Gamification and transforms marketing by leveraging permission-based social identity data.
Gigya works with more than 500 enterprises and touches more than one billion users per month. Our platform extracts the real value from social networks, empowering online businesses to attract, engage and understand users like never before.
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Company description: Deliv is a crowdsourced same-day delivery service for large national multichannel retailers. Deliv partners directly with retailers and prices same-day delivery the same, or lower, than standard delivery. In partnering directly with retailers, the Deliv “same-day delivery” button becomes a native part of the checkout experience.
Deliv drivers are made up of highly educated, experienced customer service and sales personnel. They are rated by customers and by Deliv’s operations team so the platform is able to prioritize the allocation of jobs to those with the highest ratings.
Business model: By partnering directly with retailers, Deliv allows the retailer to retain their direct relationship with the customer. Deliv believes in giving the customer, and retailer, the ultimate experience with easier purchase, superior delivery personnel and low prices. The Deliv “same-day delivery” button is integrated into the retailer’s checkout screen. The Deliv platform incorporates smart routing and full transparency including the ability for shoppers to watch their delivery on a map real time from pick up to their doorstep.
Competitive advantage: Deliv differs from other same-day delivery services by partnering directly with retailers and pricing same-day delivery the same, or lower, than standard delivery. This makes the traditionally premium service significantly more attractive to both consumers and retailers, driving significant volume and scale.
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Unmetric is a social media benchmarking company headquartered in Chicago with clients and operations in North America and other geographies. We work with Fortune 500 companies to help them establish benchmarks for their social media teams and social media campaigns. The data provided by the Unmetric platform can be instrumental in facilitating understanding and driving down costs by creating more efficient social media teams.
We recognized early on that while large corporations have always been accustomed to sector specific benchmark data in every area of their business operations, this data simply wasn't available for their social media efforts. We found that too many businesses are 'flying blind' when it comes to social media which is why we developed a platform to answer the basic business question: "Is this good?".
Our aim is to provide businesses with insightful, useful and above all benchmarkable social media data upon which strategic business decisions can be made. This makes Unmetric particularly valuable for social media teams, marketing managers and CMOs who want to understand their social media position compared to the competition.
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Bugsnag is an error monitoring platform for mobile apps and websites, we automatically detect crashes in live applications and report issues back to the developers. Thousands of top technology companies rely on Bugsnag to improve the reliability and quality of their applications.
