Las Vegas-based PillDrill, which makes a tracking system to remind users when pill doses are due, announced it has raised $3 million in total funding from undisclosed angel investors. The company was founded last year by Peter Havas.
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Tom Gonser, the DocuSign founder who earlier this year stepped down as chief strategy officer at the company he launched in 2003, has joined Seven Peaks Ventures in Bend, Oregon, as a partner. Gonser said he will focus on entrepreneurs in the following sectors: enterprise workflow apps, smart contracts and blockchain, and identity and identity proofing. Gonser is the fourth operator to join Seven Peaks Ventures as a partner, alongside Matt Abrams and Steve Barham, who each joined last year from Oracle and LinkedIn, respectively; and Corey Schmid, who has a background in digital health and was most recently at Philips.
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London-based Felix Capital, which launched last year, announced it has added three new members to its team. Carmen Alfonso Rico (formerly at Morgan Stanley) has joined as an associate, while Stephanie Phair (formerly The Outnet) and Chloe Macintosh (formerly Made.com) were named to the firm's group of advisers. Felix is investing from its $120 million fund it raised last year and was a backer of Olapic, which Monotype agreed to buy in July for about $130 million.
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San Francisco chatbot company, Octane AI, which provides a platform that enables business owners to set up chatbots to engage with customers, announced it raised $1.5 million in seed-stage funding led by General Catalyst Partners. Other investors include Boost VC, Dimension 6, Ustream founder Brad Hunstable, Hired and Talkable founder Allan Grant, and angel investor Lawrence Braitman.
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