Lightspeed Venture Partners announced on its blog that Aaron Batalion. a co-founder and the first CTO of LivingSocial, has joined the firm's consumer practice as a partner. Lightspeed was an investor in LivingSocial, which raised more than $900 million in funding, according to the Thomson Reuters database.
1 min read · 12 November 2015
2 min read · 11 November 2015
Salt Lake City, Utah-based EventBoard announced it has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding. Greycroft Partners led the round, which included Zetta Venture Partners and Origin Ventures. The company, which previously raised $1.5 million in seed-stage funding, develops technology to help schedule meetings and book rooms from any device. The company also provides data about meeting space use and effectiveness. As part of the Series A funding, Mark Terbeek of Greycroft joined as a full board member and Brent Hill of Origin joined as an observer.
4 min read · 11 November 2015
1 min read · 10 November 2015
Irvine, Calif.-based POP, a mobile app that provides a crowd-solving platform for business, has raised $6 million in a Series A round of funding. Nexus Venture Partners led the round, which included Greylock Partners. As a result of the funding, the company has added to the board Naren Gupta, co-founder and managing director of Nexus, Asheem Chandna, partner with Greylock, and Adriel Lares, former CFO of Lookout.
3 min read · 09 November 2015
Mountain View, Calif.-based H2O.ai, which provides an open source machine learning platform, announced it has raised a $20 million Series B round of funding led by Paxion Capital Partners. Existing backers Nexus Venture Partners and Transamerica Corporation and new investor Capital One Growth Ventures also joined the round. The company has now raised $34 million in total funding. Michael Marks, founding partner of Paxion, has joined the board as part of the company's latest funding round.
4 min read · 09 November 2015
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3 min read · 06 November 2015
3 min read · 04 November 2015
Luhi, Utah-based Weave, a provider of a unified communication platform for small and medium businesses, announced it has raised $15.5 million in a Series B round of funding led by Crosslink Capital. Also participating in the round are Pelion Ventures, Peak Capital, A Capital, Y Combinator, Initialized Capital and individual investors Geoff Ralston and Joe Montana. The company has now raised $22 million in total funding. As part of the latest round, David Silverman, partner at Crosslink Capital, and Blake Modersitzki, managing director at Pelion Capital, have joined the board.
1 min read · 03 November 2015
