Seed stage
Marinanow, an online platform for people who want to book berths for their boats, raised €370,000 in a round led by United Ventures.
Gaming studio JuiceBox Games raised $2.5 million from Initial Capital, General Catalyst, Index Ventures, and Mavron, and individual investors includes Scott Dale and John Riccitiello.
mxHero, which brings the App Store to e-mail systems, raised $500,000 in a round by led White Star Capital, with GW Holdings, Esther Dyson, Ari Kushner, Actinic Ventures and an unamed strategic Miami-based investor group.
Voyat, a CRM platform for hotels, launched with $1.8 million in seed funding from Metamorphic Ventures, Eniac Ventures, BoxGroup and Brett Crosby.
Thinknum, a builder of financial analysis products, raised a $1 million seed round led by Pejman Mar Ventures.
Pogoseat, a service for fans who attend sporting events to upgrade their seats, raised $2.3 million from Structure Capital, SK Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, KDDI and Global Brain Open Innovation Fund, Broad Strategy Fund, Tylt Lab, Universal Music Group, Jeff Clarke, Joshua Schacter, Kima Ventures, XG Ventures, the owners of the Sacramento Kings, and the minority owner of the Golden State Warriors.
Viral video platform ViralGains raised $2.8 million led by Hub Angels, with participation from 45 investors, including 500 Startups' Dave McClure, Pallasite Ventures, Launch Capital and angels Ty Danco, Joe Caruso, Jay Batson and Semyon Dukach.
Restaurant reservations app Resy raised $2 million in a round led by Vayner/RSE and Lerer Ventures, with participation from TomsCapital/Panarea Capital, A-Grade Holdings, Slow Ventures, Ken Austin, and a few others.
Privlo, a public marketplace for private real estate loans, raised $3.8 million in seed funding from Spark Capital and QED Investors.
Stellar, a decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money in any pair of currencies, raised $3 million from Stripe.
Wevorce, provider of an innovative technology platform and process to make every divorce amicable, raised $1.7 million from from several investors including Foundation Capital and Sam Altman.
BIGWORDS.com, an online shopping service that automatically integrates crowdsourced coupons, raised $300,000 from Lighter Capital.
ZipZap, a global payment network, raised $1.1 million from AngelList Syndicate, 500 Startups and Blumberg Capital.
Smart smoke alarm company Birdo raised $700,000 in seed funding from Jason Calacanis and Eric Ries.
Restaurant payment app Settle raised a $1.5 million round of funding from Life.SREDA.
Early stage
Leanplum, a mobile app analytics and optimization company, raised a $4.8 million Series A funding round from Shasta Ventures.
Hyperlocal online rental marketplace ABODO raised $1.25 million in Series A financing, led by American Family Ventures. 4490 Ventures and Lakewest Venture Partners also participated.
SportsManias, a web platform and mobile app that allows sports fans to follow their favorite teams, raised $3.5 million from Mas Equity Partners and a private investor.
Geekatoo, a door-to-door tech support company, raised $1.7 million in a round funding round that included 500 Startups, Eric Ries, DeNA, China Rock, Microventures, and Wefunder.
Digital health start-up Kurbo Health raised $5.8 million in Series A funding, led by Signia Venture Partners. Other investors include Data Collective, Bessemer Venture Partners and Promus Ventures.
Coub, a Russian startup for creating Gif-like short looped music videos, raised $2.5 million from Vaizra Investments and Vyacheslav Mirilashvili.
Kontakt.io, a solution to help the visually impaired navigate public spaces, raised $2 million from Sunstone Capital,
GetYourGuide, a platform for tours and activities, raised a $4.5 million in a round led by Kees Koolen and Fritz Demopoulos. Sunstone Capital also participated.
Stealth e-commerce company Jet raised a $55 million round led by NEA with participation from Accel Partners, Bain Capital Ventures and MentorTech Ventures.
ExCo, builder of financial service platforms, raised $3.3 million in round led bu Arbor Ventures, with participation from CyberAgent Ventures, Recruit Strategic Partners, 500 Startups andCherubic Ventures.
Late stage
Indian e-commerce company Flipkart raised a $1 billion funding round led by Tiger Global and Naspers, with Accel Partners, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Sofina and GIC also participating.
ChoiceStream, a full-service media-buying company that focuses on programmatic ad buying, raised a $7.5 million in Series B funding round led by Fred Alger Management, with participation from Steve Johnson Family Trust.
Dstillery, provider of cross-device audience targeting for brands, raised a $24 million Series C round led by NewSpring Capital, with participation from U.S. Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures and Venrock.
Easy Taxi, a e-hailing service based in Brazil, raised $40 million in Series funding led by Phenomen Ventures with participation from Tengelmann Ventures,.
Green Charge Networks, an intelligent energy storage company, raised $56 million from K Road DG.
BaubleBar, an online jewelry retailer, raised $10 million in Series B funding. Burch Creative Capital led the round with participation from Aspect Ventures, Triplepoint Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Accel Partnersand Greycroft Partners.
RockYou, a cross-platform advertising network for games, raised $10 million from FastPay.
Interactive entertainment company Kabam raised a $120 million funding round from Alibaba Group.
Venture capital firm Venrock Associates closed a new fund, its seventh, with $450 million of capital.
PagerDuty, an alarm dispatching service for system administrators and support teams, raised a $27.2 million Series B funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Andreessen Horowitz, Baseline Ventures, and Harrison Metal also participated.
Moogsoft, a collaborative situation management for web-scale IT operations, raised $11.3 million in a round led by Wing Venture Capital. Existing investors, including Redpoint Ventures, also participated.
Personal genetics company 23andMe received a $1,367,504 grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Eagle Eye Networks, a cloud video surveillance solution, raised an undisclosed amount of Series B funding from MSD Capital.
Proteus Digital Health, a digital medicines company, raised $52 million from undisclosed investors.
ThetaRay, a provider of big data analytics solutions, raised a $10 million round from General Electric, Jerusalem Venture Partners and Poalim Capital Marketsparticipated, as well as new financial and strategic investors.
Bright Computing, a provider of cluster management software, raised a $14.5 million Series B financing co-led by DFJ and DFJ Esprit with participation from Prime Ventures and ING Corporate Investments.
Airbnb, the company that turned residences into temporary hotel rooms, raised a $475 million round of funding from Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.
Financial management platform 8 Securities raised a $9 million Series B fromVelocity Capital and Leitmotiv Private Equity.
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Geekatoo is tech support to your door. We have a network of 4,000 vetted geeks across the country that do on-site computer repair, tv mounting, home theater setup, phones / tablets, and more. Geeks are vetted through background checks, certifications, yelp ratings, skill tests, social media, so they are both knowledgeable and trustworthy.
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Leanplum is a fully integrated optimization solution for mobile apps. The company enables developers, product managers and marketers to unleash the value of customer data by easily optimizing mobile content and messaging via flexible A/B testing, marketing automation and powerful analytics.
Leanplum was founded in 2012 by ex-Google engineers with years of experience in video ad optimization. Leanplum graduated from the TechStars Seattle program and is now based in San Francisco. Visit us at http:///www.leanplum.com.
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Kabam is an interactive entertainment company leading the next wave in social gaming, developing and publishing massively multiplayer social games (MMSG’s), including the popular and critically praised title Kingdoms of Camelot and Dragons of Atlantis. Our studios focus on combining the best elements of traditional and social gaming to appeal to a growing audience of players looking for deeper, more engaging social games. The first wave of Kabam’s new games for Facebook and leading media sites have been widely recognized for their depth of play and social interaction.
Kabam started out as Watercooler, whose aim was to make connecting with your friends, family, and other fans of your favorite TV shows or Sports teams more compelling than ever before. By bringing fan communities into the context of your social network, Watercooler enables more engaging sports and TV fan experiences. Fans are able to access Watercooler's FanSection and TVLoop communities no matter where they are on the web: Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, Hi5, MyYahoo, and TVLoop.com. Over 35 million sports and TV fans have joined Watercooler's fan applications making it the largest online fan community.
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Kabam was founded by a team of social networking and community software professionals in Mountain View, CA, in 2006. The company has raised a Series A round of financing from Canaan Partners of Menlo Park, CA.
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We are currently the world's largest aggregated cash payment network for digital currency purchases, e-wallet top ups, and online commerce transactions. Please find some more information about ZipZap below. ZipZap's proprietary 'CashCloud' platform enables online merchants to work with consumers who prefer cash and are not tied to a bank providing them with a free and easy to use API registration code. Merchants can increase sales and reduce transaction costs while expanding market share to reach consumers who don't have credit cards (e.g. teens) and consumers who have credit cards, but won't use them online for privacy or fraud concerns. Consumers online can pay cash offline at any one of 700K+ payment centre locations worldwide including retail, banks, post offices, grocery stores, lottery houses, and self-service kiosks.
Our innovative 'CashCade' solution helps merchants reduce abandonment rates and capture lost revenue by offering a cash payment option to customers who experience 'declined' credit card transactions. As a result, merchants earn incremental revenue while providing an enhanced customer experience.
Using 'CashTab' customers can now top-up their e-wallets on the go by visiting any of our participating payment centres and simply deposit cash only using their assigned ZipZap account number. The e-wallet processor is informed in real time and funds are available before the consumers leave the store.
Our unique "API for Cash" solution provides Payment Service Providers and FinTech clients the ability to seamlessly and easily add a cash payment option to their platform. We also the cash payment network behind many Bitcoin exchanges in the world including BitInstant, Bitstamp, Tradehill, CoinX, and others. As consumers around the world gain more affluence, ZipZap is ideally positioned to meet the needs of cash-centric communities. We partner with commerce merchants, ewallets, prepaid card providers, currency exchanges, rental payment agencies and many others, allowing people to digitise their cash in a variety of different ways. For further information about ZipZap and our services please take a look at the links below.
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Pogoseat is an enterprise seat upgrade solution. We give sports teams and concert venues the ability to enable their fans to upgrade seats and purchase unique experiences during events.
Current partners and clients include Ticketmaster, Live Nation, the Golden State Warriors, Detroit Pistons and Stanford University.
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Proteus is a leading provider of mobile marketing products and solutions with deep carrier connectivity around the globe. From SMS messaging campaigns to informational mobile sites to entertainment content storefronts, our products help companies create innovative marketing initiatives, drive additional revenue and build their brands.
Founded in 1996, Proteus has been playing in the mobile sandbox for a long time. As a pioneer in this space, we are proud of the many firsts we can claim: the first interactive TV event in the United States using live-to-air SMS, the first working demo of a WAP site in the U.S. market and the first Web-to-SMS gateway in the world.
Our proprietary mobile development platform enables media companies and content owners to quickly and cost-effectively take advantage of the numerous mobile distribution opportunities available including premium and advertiser-supported SMS, MMS and WAP, as well as Web storefronts for ringtones, graphics and games. In addition to our proven easy-to-use products, what sets Proteus apart is our extensive carrier connectivity. We are trusted to deliver to all the major mobile operators in the United States, and we lead the market in Latin America, reaching more than 100 million subscribers in that region. Through our relationship with 2ergo in the U.K., our reach is extended into Europe and beyond.
Our client list is long and impressive. We've worked with some of the biggest names in media and entertainment, including FOX, HBO, Disney, Universal Studios, ABC, National Geographic, Scripps Networks and The Washington Post, as well as large corporations such as AT&T, MasterCard, Motorola, Volvo and Hasbro. Some of the popular programming brands that have been extended to a mobile audience through Proteus' services include HBO's The Sopranos and Sex and the City; NFL, MLB and NASCAR on FOX Sports; TLC's Trading Spaces: Home Free; and ABC's The View: His & Her Body Test, which was nominated for two interactive television Emmy Awards. Our strong client relationships and frequency of repeat customers are indicative of our commitment to excellence and execution.
At Proteus, we pride ourselves on providing quality mobile marketing applications. Whatever your promotional or revenue-generating need, Proteus' expert team can help you utilize wireless technologies to implement creative strategies and engage consumers. Through our suite of out-of-the-box products, customizable platforms and carrier services, building a brand through mobile has never been easier.
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Airbnb.com is the “Ebay of space.” The online marketplace allows anyone from private residents to commercial properties to rent out their extra space. The reputation-based site allows for user reviews, verification, and online transactions, for which Airbnb takes a commission. As of June, 2009, the San Francisco-based company has listings in over 1062 cities in 76 countries.
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RockYou is a leading provider of applications and widgets on the web. RockYou widgets include photo slideshows, glitter text, customized Facebook applications and voicemail accessories that are simple to use and enable people to frequently refresh their online style. Founded in 2006, RockYou has over 35 million users, serving over 180 million widget views per day in more than 200 countries. RockYou applications are customized for easy integration across all social networks including Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, Tagged and hi5.Startup/Business
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23andMe is a web-based service that helps you read and understand your DNA. After providing a saliva sample using an at-home kit, you can use our interactive tools to shed new light on your distant ancestors, your close family and most of all, yourself.
