Sales platform Highspot has closed a $9.6 million Series A financing round led by Madrona Venture Group.


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Sales platform Highspot has closed a $9.6 million Series A financing round led by Madrona Venture Group.
New mobile banking and rewards platform Chime has raised $8 million in its first round of financing from Crosslink Capital, Homebrew, Forerunner Ventures, and PivotNorth Capital.
Stratoscale, a Tel Aviv-based enterprise data center solutions company still operating in stealth mode, has raised an additional $32 million, to bring total funding to $42 million.
Nitro, which provides businesses with the tools to share documents, has raised $15 million in funding from Battery Ventures.
Butterfly Network has raised $100 million to manufacture handheld medical imaging devices. The company’s device aims to make ultrasounds and MRIs easier and cheaper to conduct.
A week after disclosing $25 million in new funding, the streaming device company Roku is apparently working with BofA Merrill Lynch and Citigroup on its IPO.
Enterprise communication tool Slack has raised $120 million at a post-funding valuation of $1.12 billion. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Google Ventures led the investment into the company, which only launched its platform to the public eight months ago.
Strava, platform connecting athletes, has secured $18.5 million in a Series D round led by Sequoia Capital. Sigma West and Madrone Capital Partners also participated in the round.
Personal Capital, a digital wealth management company, has raised $50 million Series D funding led by Corsair Capital. BBVA Ventures and USAA also participated in the round, as did existing investors IVP, Venrock and Crosslink.
Facebook beat analyst expectations when it revealed its quarterly earnings report on Tuesday, reporting $3.2 billion in quarterly revenue at $0.43 earnings per share. The social media giant also reported a 7%…