Sports video analysis platform Hudl grabs $72.5m funding round

Hudl, a sports video analysis platform, has raised $72.5 million in funding. Accel and Nelnet led the round, with participation from Jeff Raikes. The company’s video platform aims to make it easier and cheaper to capture sports footage and apply editing and coaching tools to it, making the video sharable across multiple devices. “From day one, we’ve built Hudl to meet the massive demand for a platform that makes it simple to record, share and analyze video. The funding allows us to continue investing aggressively in our product, pursue acquisitions to offer new tools and enhancements to our users, and further bolster our team,” said David Graff, CEO of Hudl. “We are a proud Nebraska company, and we are excited to grow our teams in Lincoln, Omaha, Boston, London and several more cities to come.”

Via, a ridesharing app, has closed a $27 million Series B funding round led by Pitango Venture Capital, with participation from Hearst Ventures, Ervington Investments, and previous backer 83North. The company will use the new funds to launch its service in new markets. “Our goal is to transform public transit from a regulated system of rigid routes and schedules to a fully dynamic, on-demand network,” said Daniel Ramot and Oren Shoval, co-founders of Via. “We believe the future of urban transit systems will rely on dynamic technology like ours to make it easier and more efficient to get around town, and after operating a very successful service in New York City, we are excited to use this infusion of capital to provide new services and roll out to new markets very rapidly.”

Honor, which aims to improve the care the elderly receive, has launched today and announced $20 million in funding. Investors included Andreessen Horowitz, Max Levchin, Jessica Alba and Jeremy Stoppelman. The service links elderly people with careworkers along with feedback and transparency tools. The service is being launched first in Contra Costa County, California. “We have an incredible team of folks working in our office every day to deliver seniors and their families access to amazing care. And we have a fantastic group of folks who believed in us enough to invest their time and money, starting with Marc Andreessen, who invested $15M and joined our board of directors,” Co-founder Seth Sternberg wrote in a blog post.

Fyusion, which develops surround-view digital technology, has raised $13 million in Series B funding led by New Enterprise Associates and The University of Tokyo Edge Capital. The company’s app produces photos that can be navigated beyond the one angle usually offered by photography. “Photography hasn’t seen any fundamental advancements since the 1980s when photographs were first digitized,” said Dr. Radu B. Rusu, CEO and co-founder of Fyusion. “We are helping build the next generation of the web by introducing a new approach for capturing and storing visual data, allowing the user to have a 3D view of any scene, person or product. There are endless applications for our technology and rapidly increasing adoption in the fashion and consumer goods industries. This investment provides Fyusion with resources to continue to develop our user experience to drive further adoption of our product.”