Seed Stage
Pursuit Vascular, the maker of a preventive medical device for catheter-related bloodstream infections, raised $1.6 million in debt funding from undisclosed investors.
Soothe, a service for booking same-day massage appointments, raised $1.7 million AngelList syndicate, along with IDG Ventures and Walter Loewenstern, as well as angel investors Scott & Cyan Bannister, Joshua Schachter, Aaron Hirschhorn, Jeff Bonforte, and Aaron Lee.
TrueFacet, an onlline marketplace for secondhand jewelry, raised $1.7 million from Maveron (Jason Stoffer), Trilogy, Howard Lindzon at Social Leverage, Founder's Co-Op and several top angel investors.
Thirty Labs, a company that is "building next-generation digital video businesses," raised $2 million from Elisabeth Murdoch, David Karp, BDMI, Bloomberg Beta, MTG, Broadway Video, Matthew Anderson, Jed Simmons, Gil Fuchsberg, Luminari Capital, Anthony Orsten and Matti Leshem.
Locket, the makers of ScreenPop, an app that brings personalized news and other stories to an Android lockscreen, raised $3.2 million seed round from Tyra Banks, Turner Broadcasting, Great Oaks and various angel investors.
Quality Assurance-as-a-service company Rainforest raised $4 million in seed funding from Storm Ventures, Rincon, Andreessen Horowitz, Morado, and Crosslink.
Sortlist, a platform for companies to find marketing and communication agencies, raised a €550,000 seed round from a number of private individuals and Lean Fund.
NodeSource, a maker of enterprise-grade software products, raised $3 million in seed funding from Crosslink Capital and Resolute Ventures.
ALICE, a mobile platform for guests to engage with hotel services and staff, raised $3 million in seed funding led by Principals of Tishman Realty and Founders of NeueHouse. Other investors in the round include 645 Ventures, Jason Finger, Todd Arky and Paul Appelbaum.
Shopline, a DIY ecommerce platform, raised $1.2 million in seed funding from 500 Startups, Ardent Capital, SXE Ventures, East Ventures and COENT Venture Partners.
ActionSprout, a provider of tools for nonprofits to use Facebook to reach more people, raised $1.7 million led by the Oregon Angel Fund, with participation from the Bellingham Angel Fund, Portland Seed Fund and other west coast investors.
TuneGO, a music discovery platform, raised $1.2 million from Chris Murray and Kenny Kam.
InterviewJet, a members-only hiring platform, raised a $750,000 seed funding round from Mitchell Martin.
Grapevine, a YouTube native marketing expert, raised $1.1 million in seed funding from Boston Seed, Atlas Venture via Boston Syndicates, Diane Hessan, Joe Caruso, Jere Doyle and TJ Mahony.
Early Stage
Online interior design company Laurel & Wolf raised $4.4 million led by Charles River Ventures, along with Karlin Ventures, Upside Partnership and Draper & Associates.
Dining app Reserve raised $15 million in a round led by Human Ventures Capital, along with First Round, Lowercase Capital, Advancit Capital, Sherpa Ventures, SV Angel, Venture51, Visionnaire Ventures, Jared Leto, Jon Favreau and Will.i.am..
Capital Float, a provider of business loans for SMEs in India, raised a $13 million Series A led by SAIF Partners and Sequoia Capital, with Aspada also participating.
Mexican price comparison site ComparaGuru raised a $4 million funding round from Seaya Ventures.
Team8, a cyber “think tank” focused on cybersecurity companies, raised $18 million in a Series A transaction backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Innovation Endeavors, Cisco Investments, Marker LLC and Alcatel-Lucent.
Cinemacraft, the company behind video consumption tool Videogram, raised 3.9 million in a Series A round led by 500startups, with NTT DoCoMo Ventures, Samsung Ventures, Turner, and Fierce Capital participating.
Move Loot, a full-service online marketplace for pre-owned home goods, raised $9 million from Metamorphic Ventures.
New Matter, a consumer 3D printing company, raised a $6.5 million round led by Alsop Louie Partners led the round, with Arden Road Investments, Biotechonomy, Dolby Family Ventures, First Round Capital, Idealab and frogVentures.
Late Stage
Cloud service commerce company AppDirect raised $50 million in a Series D round led by Mithril Capital Management, along with Foundry Group, iNovia Capital, StarVest Partners, Henry Kravis and Paul Fribourg.
E-commerce site Jet raised $140 million in a round led Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from Accel Partners, Coatue, General Catalyst, Goldman Sachs, Google Ventures, MentorTech Ventures, NEA, Norwest Venture Partners, Silicon Valley Bank, Temasek, Thrive Capital and other investors.
WedPics, a platform for sharing wedding photos, raised $6.5 million in Series B funding from Barbara Corcoran and Phil Nadel, along with Middleland Capital, WTI and several Bay Area angels.
Sigfox, a French Internet of Things network, raised a $115 million round from strategic and financial investors in Europe, the U.S. and Asia.
Humanity.com, a cloud-based workforce management platform, raised $9 million in a Series B round led by MHS Capital, with participation from Point Nine Capital, Klever Internet Investments, Team Builder Ventures and Mark Britto.
Curated shopping site Fancy raised an undisclosed amount of Series D round of funding led by Carlos Slim Domit, Culture Convenience Club and others.
Borro, an online platform for luxury asset-backed lending, raised $19.5 million in funding led by OurCrowd and Rocket Internet.
Real-estate classifieds platform Lamudi raised $18 million from Asia Pacific Internet Group, Holtzbrinck Ventures and Tengelmann Ventures.
Bottlenose, a web platform to organize social media streams, raised $13.4 in a round led by KPMG Capital, along with Origin Ventures, Lerer Ventures, Transmedia Capital, ff Venture Capital, and others.
Meizu, a Chinese smartphone manufacturer, raised a $590 million round from Alibaba Group.
Conductor, aleading provider of Web Presence Management technology, raised $27 million in a Series D round led by Catalyst Investors, along FirstMark Capital,Matrix Partners, Investor Growth Capital and Blue Cloud Ventures. T
Miovision, a traffic systems technology company, raised a $30 million CAD ($24 million USD) Series B round led by MacKinnon, Bennett & Co. with participation from Investeco Capital, Renewal Funds, Plaza Ventures and Comerica.
Practo, a doctor search engine, raised $30 million in Series B funding from Sequoia Capital and Matrix Partners.
Metaps, an app monetization platform, raised a $36 million Series C round from pre-existing and multiple new stakeholders in Japan and with the participation of a Silicon Valley venture capital firm.
(Updated to include investors in TrueFacet)
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Humanity is cloud-based workforce management software. Manage the entire life-cycle of your employees with Humanity’s comprehensive business management platform. Our platform brings together usability, beautiful design, and custom features in order to help managers and employees better organize and stay connected through our evolving suite of apps. Create conflict-free schedules in minutes and ensure that your staff are always up to date with the latest schedule through shift-reminders and our mobile applications. Streamline leave management and introduce employee self-service with a customizable module that can keep track of all leave types and ensure that everyone knows who is on leave. Try our service free for 30 days.
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Where business can find, buy and manage web-based applications.
Our Business Application Network allows businesses to easily find the perfect software solution for their needs through our application marketplaces. Businesses can now benefit from one bill for all their applications and one portal to manage and use them. This allows greater integration, ease of use and security for application management.
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We founded AppDirect in the summer of 2009 with a simple mission: improve the web-based enterprise experience. Our mission and enthusiasm attracted a leading team with over 55 years of collective on-demand e-commerce and software experience from HP, Oracle, Google, VMware, and Salesforce. In our first year, AppDirect grew into one of the largest independent software distribution channels through channel partners that share our vision and passion for web-based products.
Web-based software is better.
Web-based technology overcomes the barriers to entry that software companies face in the traditional packaged software market. This makes the software industry more competitive and businesses can now benefit from a greater range of products and services. It liberalizes software by allowing small businesses to access and afford enterprise grade solutions.
We make web-based software even better.
AppDirect promotes the ease of use, security and reach of web-based applications. Despite the growth in web-based applications over the past few years it remains difficult to find solutions and integrate them for unified management and use. We address this problem with our Application Marketplace, which makes it much easier for businesses to find and compare solutions. We also allow businesses to manage and use web-based software applications in a unified environment through our Business Application Manager.
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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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How many times have you panned & zoomed an email just to see content that's not relevant to you?
Iterable is an enterprise e-mail platform enabling marketers to send highly personalized emails optimzied for desktop & mobile. We're technical founders who worked at Twitter & Google on User Growth and AdSense.
Over 43% of all email opens happen on mobile, up 400% from 2011. Companies aren't prepared and are losing money. That's where Iterable comes in.
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Founded in early 2014 by Tirath Kamdar and Chris Chan, TrueFacet is a leading jewelry marketplace featuring certified, authentic pre-owned designer jewelry and watches. The company differentiates itself by offering buyers and sellers a trusted authentication process and best value guarantee with its real-time pricing engine and refurbishment process. The site features over 70 top luxury brands such as Cartier, Tiffany, David Yurman, Rolex, Chanel, Michael Kors and Ippolita.
