Seed Open-source machine learning startup PredictionIO has raised $2.5 million in seed funding in a round led by Quest Venture Partners. Azure Capital Partners, CrunchFund, the StartX Fund and Kima Ventures all…
Plastiq, the Buy-Side Square, Raises $10m – Investment Round Up
Series A The Palo Alto, Calif.-based Internet Exchange solutions providerIIX, Inc. has secured $10.4 million in Series A funding from New Enterprise Associates, bringing total funding to over $15 million. IIX provides…
Secret secures $25m Series B – Investment Round Up
Series B Anonymous sharing app Secret has raised $25 million in Series B funding. Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Gary Tan and Alexis Ohanian, SV Angel, Fuel Capital and Ceyuan Ventures all participated…
Rap Genius raises $40m, changes name to Genius – Investment Round Up
Series A Rocketrip, a travel management company, has raised $3 million in a Series A round led by Canaan Partners and Genacast Ventures. CrunchFund and Paul Bucheit also participated. Rocketrip was founded…
IPO Watch: Box, TubeMogul, Yodlee
Keep an Eye On Anticipation for the Box IPO will continue to mount, after it was announced this week that the company has instead raised $150 million from private investors TPG and Coatue…
Video conferencing platform Vidyo raises $20m – Investment Round Up
Seed Button, a New York-based customer acquisition and engagement startup, has raised a $2.25 million seed round led by Atlas Ventures. DCM, Greycroft Partners, MESA+ and VaynerRSE all participated, as did a…
Online residential real estate company Opendoor raises $10 Million – Investment Round-Up
Series A Eric Wu, the ex-head of Geoat Trulia, and Keith Rabois, a member of the “PayPal Mafia,” announced that their new company, Opendoor, has raised nearly $10 million in Series A…
Startups face age-old battle to enforce change in established industries
In 19th century England, during the Industrial Revolution, a group of textile artisans labelled Luddites protested against new technology in their industry by smashing the new machines to pieces. This led to…
Bonobos raises $55m in Series D round – Investment Round Up
Series A In the modern digital age, increasing numbers of people are concerned about their web persona. Savvy internet users are wary of the long-term effects of their web activity, and worry…
MapR Technologies secures $110m in mix of equity and debt financing — Investment Round-Up
Seed A data platform for venture investing, Mattermark, has secured $2 million in seed funding from returning investor Andreessen Horowitz, among others. Launched in 2013, Mattermark aggregates data from Twitter, LinkedIn, SEC…