Incentive, a Venice, Calif.-based provider of a social collaboration platform for the enterprise, has raised $1.7 million in seed funding. A group of undisclosed institutional and private investors led the seed round, which brings the company's total funding to $3.5 million.
3 min read · 05 May 2015
Boston-based Longwood Founders Management has set out to raise a $90 million third fund, and Shoreline Venture Management is targeting $100 million for its third fund, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
1 min read · 01 May 2015
Slow Ventures, a San Francisco-based seed investor, has raised $65 million from 120 investors for its fourth fund, according to a regulatory filing. The firm, an investor in Meerkat, Postmates, Campus Job and other startups, has backed more than 180 companies across its previous three funds.
1 min read · 01 May 2015
The Index of venture-backed stocks sees modest gains and reaches highest point in a year
2 min read · 01 May 2015
Kiana Analytics, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider of location-based marketing technology, announced it has raised more than $1 million in financing from Plug and Play Ventures, Sand Hill Angels, Hawaii Angels and several individual investors. The company says that it works with more than 70 retail chains and venues worldwide to convert visitors to buyers by analyzing showrooming behavior and targeting marketing campaigns via SMS, email, social WiFi login and digital signage.
3 min read · 30 April 2015
Last year saw a spike in VC-backed M&A activity, but the latest quarter ranks as the slowest for disclosed deal valuations since the beginning of 2013
2 min read · 30 April 2015
Circle, a bitcoin startup led by serial tech entrepreneur Jeremy Allaire and which offers a digital wallet meant for everyday consumers, announced in a blog post that it has raised $50 million in a strategic Series C round. Goldman Sachs and IDG Capital Partners co-led the round.
1 min read · 30 April 2015
Rocana Inc, a provider of IT operations analytics software, announced it has raised a $15 million Series B round of funding led by Google Ventures. General Catalyst Partners, which led the previous round, also participated, along with Toba Capital and Paul Sagan. The company, which was previously called Scaling Data, has now raised $19.4 million in total funding. As part of the Series B round of funding, Donald Fischer, venture partner at General Catalyst, will join the Rocana board of directors.
3 min read · 30 April 2015
The rise of billion-dollar startups is happening up north, too. Some Canadians just call them something different.
3 min read · 29 April 2015
SkyWard, a Portland, Ore.-based company that has developed a software management system for the dispatching, tracking and logging of commercial drone flights, announced it has raised a $4.1 million round in expansion seed from Draper Associates, Founders Co-Op, Norwest Venture Partners, Techstars Ventures, Verizon Ventures, and Voyager Capital. Voyager prevously led a $1.5 million seed round in July 2014, according to Thomson Reuters. David Famolari of Verizon Ventures and Ari Newman of Techstars Ventures were named observers on Skyward’s board of directors.
3 min read · 28 April 2015
