Tag: Venture Capital

Deals That Closed

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Arrayent, a San Francisco-based provider of virtualization technology for the Internet of Things, has raised $11.9 million in Series B funding. DCM led the round, and was joined by Intel Capital.www.arrayent.com

CustomInk, a Tyson’s Corner, Va.-based custom apparel company founded 14 years ago, has raised $40 million in VC funding from Revolution Growth. www.customink.com

FoundationDB, a Vienna, Va.-based developer of transactional NoSQL database software, has raised $17 million in Series A funding. Sutter Hill Ventures led the round, and was joined by CrunchFund and individual angels. The company was founded in 2009. www.foundationdb.com

Futurelytics Inc., a Czech Republic-based prescriptive analytics platform for businesses, has raised $800,000 in seed funding. Index Ventures and Credo Ventures c-led the round, and were joined by Kima Ventures and Rob Keve (ex-CEO of FizzBack). www.futurelytics.com

itBit, a Singapore-based global platform for trading Bitcoin with U.S. dollars, Singapore dollars and euros, has raised $3.25 million in VC funding. Canaan Partners and RRE Ventures co-led the round, and were joined by Liberty City Ventures and individual angels. www.itBit.com

LendUp, a San Francisco-based developer of an online alternative to traditional payday loans, has raised $14 million in Series A funding. Google Ventures led the round, and was joined by Data Collective and QED Investors. www.lendup.com 

Maxta, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based developer of a virtualization-centric storage platform, has raised $10 million in VC funding from Andreessen Horowitz. www.maxta.com

Quroum, a San Jose, Calif.-based provider of one-click backup, recovery and continuity solutions for the midmarket, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. Toba Capital led the round, and was joined by Airtek Capital Group and individual angels. www.quorum.net

Ripple Labs, a San Francisco-based developer of an open-source, distributed payment protocol, has raised $3.5 million in new VC funding from Core Innovation Capital, Venture 51, Camp One Ventures and IDG Capital Partners. www.ripple.com

SmartThings, a Washington, D.C.-based developer of a platform for connecting the Internet to everyday items, has raised $12.5 million in Series A funding. Greylock Partners and Highland Capital Partners co-led the round, and were joined by seed backers like First Round Capital, SV Angel and Lerer Ventures. www.smartthings.com

Servergy Inc., a McKinney, Texas-based maker of “green” servers for datacenters, has raised $20 million in Series C funding from firms like The Williams Financial Group. www.servergy.com

Scanadu, a personalized health electronics company, has raised $10.5 million in Series A funding.Relay Ventures led the round, and was joined by VegasTechFund and Ame Cloud Ventures.www.scanadu.com\

Happy Investing and Networking,

JD Morris

Trolls Accidentally Helps Fund Company! Plus Deals that closed!

JUST ADDED DEAL: Decide.com Raises $8 million 

JUST FOR FUN KICKSTARER DEAL:

But in the midst of the melee, while her anti-fans plotted her demise and the press picked up on it, a nation of supporters rallied to Sarkeesian’s aid. Through Kickstarter, her feminist web series raised almost $160,000—that’s over 26 times more than her original goal. Read More: http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/03/17/online-trolls-fund-kickstarter-aimed-wiping-them-out

DEALS THAT CLOSED:

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Deals Updated 3/20/2013 ( 20130320 )

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JD Morris

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Money Tree is great resource about VC market! Plus 10+ Deals get funded!

Great Resource PWC Money Tree: https://www.pwcmoneytree.com/MTPublic/ns/index.jsp

From their website:

The MoneyTree Report is a quarterly study of venture capital investment activity in the United States. As a collaboration between PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based upon data from Thomson Reuters, it is the only industry-endorsed research of its kind. The MoneyTree Report is the definitive source of information on emerging companies that receive financing and the venture capital firms that provide it. The study is a staple of the financial community, entrepreneurs, government policymakers and the business press worldwide.

For Information about VC funding contact jdm.networking@gmail.com anytime.

Here are few recently funded deals:

NAME; INDUSTRY; FUNDING INFO

  • Nantero Inc; Hardware Industry; $10M;Multiple
  • Applied DNA Sciences; Services Indystry; $16.5M;Advantage of Recent Development
  • ArmaGen Technologies, Inc.; Bio/Health Industry; $17M;Multiple
  • EverNote Corporation; Software Industry; $85M;Undisclosed
  • Wikia; Services Inustry; $10M;Multiple
  • Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc;  Energy Industry; $175M;Fund for Program Development
  • Xero; Other; $49M;Undisclosed
  • Rent The Runway Inc; Retail Industry; $20M;Undisclosed
  • Tangent Medical Technologies, Inc; Bio/Health Industry; $8.6M;Undisclosed
  • Nomorerack.com Inc; Services Industry; $12M;
  • ClickFuel; Software Indsutry; $4M;Development of New Products

E-Mail for more information at jdm.networking@gmail.com anytime. For Example, ClickFuel funding:

a Boston-based marketing startup, has added an additional $4 million to its coffers from existing investor Baird Venture Partners. The firm previously invested $2.5 million in 2010 and another$2.5 million into the marketing services company in 2009. Clickfuel’s new funding round has room to go up to $5 million, according to an SEC filing.

The search marketing company was started in 2009 by vets of Monster Worldwide, the parent company of Monster.com and Colby West, founder of the “sell your stuff on eBay” utility site AuctionPal. The company’s goal is to bring online marketing tools to small and medium sized businesses.

Adam Symson, Chief Digital Officer at E. W. Scripps Company, is listed as a director at the company; James Pavlik of Baird is also on the board.

The funding comes at a time when most small and medium-sized businesses realize they need to spend money on online marketing, but are overwhelmed at how to approach it. Local ad dollars are basically the last frontier of digital media, which explains why companies from Groupon to Yelp to Foursquare to Patch are fighting to be the service provider of choice for these companies.

But aside from the dashboard wars, plenty of mom and pop operators spend a few thousand dollars a month on a basic Google Adwords campaign. The problem is that Google’s typical advice to them is “buy more.” There’s not a lot of help in the “is this working?” department.

Companies like Pricing Engine have sprung up to simplify search and display marketing efforts for small and medium businesses. Clickfuel’s “Fuel Station” dashboard includes an elaborate set of marketing tools such as site design, SEO optimization, email marketing and social. There’s also a white label option for larger companies.