Funding roundup - week ending 12/19/14

Serviz, SurveyMonkey, Clever, Quikkly, First Opinion, Boxbee, Geenio, Adyen, Redfin, Mixpanel, Dots

Seed stage

Quikkly, which creates personalized action tags, received $1 million in seed funding in a round led by Initial Capital, along with a number of angel investors.

Geenio, a cloud-based full cycle learning system for the enterprise, raised a $2 million seed round from several individual private investors.

Estonian taxi company Taxify raised €1.4 million in funding from Adcash, Rubylight and TMT Investments.

Hampton Creek, a food technology company, raised $90 million from Marc Benioff, Eduardo Saverin, Bryan Johnson, Tao Capital Partners, Bryan Meehan, Jean Pigozzi, WP Global, Far East Organization and Uni-President Enterprises Corporation.

Skytap, a provider of on-demand Environments as a Service, raised a $35 million round led by Insight Venture Partners with participation from all existing investors, including OpenView Venture Partners, Ignition Partners, Madrona Venture Group, and Washington Research Foundation.

Code Kingdoms, a game that teaches children how to code, raised $420,000 in seed funding from SparkLabs Global Ventures . 

MangoPlate, a restaurant search and discovery mobile app, raised $600,000 in seed funding from SparkLabs Global Ventures . 

Inbox Messenger, a design-centric messaging app, raised $3.9 million in seed funding from unnamed investors. 

Business voice platform Truly Wireless raised $1.4 million in seed funding from Index Ventures, Greylock Partners, Boldstart Ventures and Eniac Ventures.

Lendable, a peer-to-peer lending platform for personal loans, raised a £2.5 million seed round from Eileen Burbidge, Robert Dighero, Stefan Glaenzer, Will Kirby and Adam Knight.

Lift, a self improvement app, raised a $1.1 million funding round from Obvious and Spark Capital.

Digit, a service that automates people’s savings, raised $2.5 million in seed funding led by Baseline Ventures, with participation from Freestyle Capital, Upside Partnership, Google Ventures, Operative Capital, Garry Tan and Alexis Ohanian.

Infinity Levels Studio, a Thailand-based gaming start-up, received $500,000 in funding from InVent.

Hubba, a Product Information Network, raised a $3.1 million seed round from Brightspark and The Social + Capital Partnership, as well as angels who serve or have served in leadership positions at Facebook, Instagram, Uber, Airbnb, Baidu, PayPal and EMC.

Early stage

First Opinion, an app for users to get personal health consultations from doctors, raised $6 million in Series A funding led by Polaris Partners, with participation from True Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Scrum Ventures and Monashees Capital.

Boxbee, an on-demand valet storage solution, raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Metamorphic Ventures, with participation from Floodgate, Northgate and a home improvement giant, in addition to previous investors.

Expect Labs, the company behind the MindMeld platform for building intelligent voice interfaces, raised a $13 million Series A round led by IDG Ventures and a subsidiary of USAA, along with Intel Capital, Samsung Ventures, Telefonica Digital, Liberty Global Ventures, Fenox Ventures, Westcott LLC, and Quest Venture Partners. 

Open Garden, a startup that connects mobile devices with peer-to-peer connections, raised a $10.8 million round led by August Capital, along with Firebolt Ventures, Future Perfect Ventures, Kima Ventures, Tseung Kwan Ventures and Sherpalo.

GameAnalytics, a free analytics platform for games developers, raised a $5.5 million Series A round from Sunstone Capital, CrunchFund, Jimmy Maymann, René Rechmann, Beta Angels, and the company’s newly-recruited management team.

Piccing, a social-shopping platform, raised $3.6 million in Series A funding from a group of undisclosed investors.

Chatous, a social messaging app that matches people in one-on-one conversations, raised $2.1 million in funding from General Catalyst, XSeed Capital, and Slow Ventures.

Mattermark, a data platform used by investors to track private companies, raised a $6.5 million Series A round led by Foundry Group. 500 Startups, Andreessen Horowitz, Data Collective, Sherpa Ventures, Felicis Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Version One Ventures and individuals, including Jeff Lawson, Carter Rabasa, Damien Tanner, Daniel Clark, Eileen Burbidge, Elliot Loh, Enrico Pandian, Eric Ries, Ullas Naik and others also participated. 

Swap.com, an online consignment shop for kids, raised $4 million from Marc Onetto, Cleantech Invest Plc., Ari Hypponen, Ahti Heinla and Jaan Tallinn.

Talkspace, an app that lets people connect and communicate with licensed therapists, raised $1 million from Metamorphic Ventures.

Venture capital firm Upfront Ventures raised a new $280 million fund early stage, called Upfront V.

Game developer Playdots raised $10 million from Northzone and CrunchFund, along with an Alphaworks syndicate that includes Slow Ventures, Li Ruigang, Susan Lyne, and other notable investors and game industry executives.

Scandinavian venture capital firm Northzone closed its new fund, called Northzone VII, at $325 million.

iFit, an online fitness and weight loss community, raised a $3 million Series A led by Cherubic Ventures, along with Yuan-jin Capital, Sino Strategy Group, Alan Chien, and Ming-zhe Ou.

Carwow, a UK-based online platform for buying new cars, has secured £4.6 million in Series A funding led by Balderton Capital, with participation from Episode 1 Ventures and Samos Investments.

P97 Networks, developers of mobile commerce and behavioral marketing platform PetroZone, raised $8 million Series A funding round led by Emerald Technology Ventures, with American Trading and Production Corporation also participating.

EdgeWave, a cyber security firm, raised a $2 million round from TVC Capital, Northgate, and Bill Baumel and RWI Ventures’ partners.

Mavrck,  a social influence marketing platform provider, raised a $2.5 million Series A financing round from GrandBanks Capital

CardCash.com, a secondary gift card marketplace, raised $6 million in debt financing from Sterling National Bank.

Late stage

Serviz, an on-demand home services provider, raised a $12.5 million Series B round of funding led by PointGuard Ventures, with Andy Sheehan, Jeff Stibel, Zorik Gordon and Michael Kline also participating. 

Educational app platform provider Clever raised $30 million in funding came from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GSV Capital and  Peter Thiel.

Online survey development company SurveyMonkey raised a $250 million round from institutional funds and accounts managed by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Inc., and Baillie Gifford & Co, as well as from Tiger Global Management, Dave Goldberg, ICONIQ Capital, Google Capital, Social+Capital Partnership, Ryan and Chris Finley, and Laurel Crown Partners.

Adyen, a global payments technology company, raised $250 million in funding led by General Atlantic, with additional participation from Temasek, Index Ventures and Felicis Ventures.

Customer-first real estate brokerage Redfin raised $70.9 million, led Wellington Management Company, LLP, as well as Glynn Capital Management. Brothers Brook and Annox Capital Management, as well as dunds and accounts managed by T. Rowe Price Associates and Tiger Global Management participated.

Mixpanel, an analytics platform for the mobile and web, raised $65 million from Andreessen Horowitz.

Bustle, a news website catered toward women, raised $15.5 million in a round led by General Catalyst. Time Warner Investments, Rothenberg Ventures, 500 Startups and The Social+Capital Fund also participated.

Ridibooks, a South Korean e-book vendor, raised $8 million in Series B funding led by NeoPlux, along with Company K, Mirae Asset Venture Investment, and Atinum Investment.

Agricultural tech start-up FarmLogs, raised $10 million in Series B funding from Drive Capital, Huron River Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners, SV Angel and Sam Altman.

NowThis Media, a news videos website, raised $6 million in a Series C funding round led by Oak Investment Partners, with participation from NBC Universal, SoftBank Capital, and Lerer Hippeau.

House hunting platform Housing.com raised $90 million in a round led by SoftBank Group, along with Falcon Edge and other investors.

Miyabaobei, a Chinese website for baby items, raised a $60 million Series C round from H Capital, with participation from Sequoia Capital and ZhenFund.

Healthcare information technology company Predilytics raised $10 million in additional funding in a round led by Qualcomm Ventures. Flybridge Capital Partners, Foundation Medical, and Highland Capital also participated.

Midea, a home appliance firm, raised over $200 in a million funding round from Xiaomi.