Alastair Goldfisher

Cohesity emerges with $70 mln in backing from ARTIS, Google, Sequoia and others

Storage provider Cohesity has come out of stealth mode and announced it has raised $70 million in two rounds of venture funding.

Foundation Capital to raise $325 mln

Foundation Capital, an investor in Lending Club, Mobile Iron and Chegg, is seeking to raise $325 million for its eighth venture fund, according to a regulatory filing.

True Ventures leads funding of Connectifier

Costa Mesa, Calif.-based Connectifier announced it has raised a $6 million Series A round of funding led by True Ventures. Galeo Ventures, Okapi Ventures and individual investors Sean Ellis, Andrew Chen, Jonathan Downey and James Hong also participated in the round. The company, founded in 2012 by a team of former Google engineers, develops recruiting software for use by in-house and contract recruiters to find job candidates.

NEA pitches in for Derek Jeter's company The Players' Tribune

New Enterprise Associates has led a $9.5 million Series B funding round for The Players’ Tribune, a New York-based media company founded by Derek Jeter and which posts content from athletes. Jeter launched the site last October. Joining NEA in the Series B round are existing investors, including Thomas Tull of Legendary Entertainment. As part of the funding, Jon Sakoda, general partner of NEA, has joined the board.

Sarah Tavel, who had early conviction about Pinterest, to join Greylock

Greylock Partners announced that Sarah Tavel will join the firm as an investment partner beginning Aug. 31.

Former Eloqua chief architect joins Bessemer

Umair Akeel, the onetime chief architect of Eloqua during its IPO and subsequent acquisition by Oracle, has joined Bessemer Venture Partners as CTO in residence (CTO-IR) and operating partner. Akeel will serve as a tech resource for all Bessemer portfolio companies and help the firm analyze trends and products worldwide. Bessemer was an investor in Eloqua and Trigo Technologies, Akeel's previous company in which he was a software engineer and then a senior architect at IBM following its acquisition of Trigo. Bessemer in February wrapped up its ninth fund with $1.6 billion in commitments.

Child safety seat maker Carfoldio gets boost from investors

Israeli-based Carfoldio Ltd, maker of a child booster seat sold under the mifold brand, announced it has raised $1.8 million in total funding. The funding includes a $600,000 seed-stage round in August 2013 from Scott Tobin, general partner at Battery Ventures; Yair Geller, founder and owner of advertising agency Geller Nessis Leo Burnett Ltd; Howard Socol, former CEO of Barneys, New York and JCREW; and additional individual investors. More recently, the company raised $1.2 million in a Series AA round in January led by London-based JamJar Investments, the venture fund managed by the Innocent Drinks co-founders. Many of the seed investors returned for the follow-on round, along with new investor The Missri Group, an Israel investor.

Tile extends Series A with backing from Khosla Ventures

San Mateo, Calif.-based Tile, maker of a bluetooth-powered wearable device to keep track of items, announced it has raised a $3 million Series A extension from Khosla Ventures. Tile previoulsy raised $13 million in funding, including a $9.5 million Series A round led by GGV Capital and $3.5 million in seed-stage funding led by the large Chinese company Tencent. Other investors include Tandem Capital, Rothenberg Ventures and individuals. Tile said it has shipped 2 million of its tracking devices. The company raised $2.6 million via its Selfstarter campaign in 2013.

DCM Ventures seeds roommate finder Roomi

New York-based Roomi, maker of an iPhone app that helps in roommate and housing searches, announced it has raised $2 million in seed funding led by DCM Ventures. Roomi said it plans to use the funding to launch new features and expand to the Android operating system. Currently, the app is focused only on helping search for roommates in New York City.

Cyber security company illusive raises $5 mln

Security company illusive networks announced it has raised $5 million in Series A funding from Team8, a cyber security foundry in Tel Aviv, Israel. Illusive, founded by Check Point veteran Ofer Israeli, focuses on targeted cyber attacks. The only investor in the round is Team8, which incubated the company and which itself is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent and others. As part of the funding, Nadav Zafrir, CEO and co-founder of Team8, has joined the board.