In the past month, Intel Capital has announced two investments in Brazilian big data and analytics companies. The latest investment came today when Intel Capital announced it backed Geofusion, a Brazilian company providing “geomarketing” data analytics and intelligence to enterprise customers. The amount of the funding is undisclosed. The announcement follows an undisclosed investment it made a few weeks ago in WebRadar,
4 min read · 19 March 2013
Italian-based startup iCoolhunt announced today the launch of its photo-sharing app in the Apple Store. And the company announced it has previously raised $670,000 in seed funding from early stage backer Atlante Ventures Mezzogiorno.
4 min read · 12 March 2013
Rent the Runway, which rents designer clothes, shoes and accessories to users, has raised $4.4 million in additional Series C funding from American Express and Novel TMT Ventures. The company previously raised $20 million in Series C funding from Advance Publications, parent company of Condé Nast, Bain Capital Ventures, Highland Capital Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
2 min read · 11 March 2013
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1 min read · 11 March 2013
Pertino, which develops software for managing wide area networks over the cloud, has raised $20 million in a Series B round led by new investor Jafco Ventures, with Norwest Venture Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners also participating. Pertino raised nearly $9 million in a Series A deal from Norwest and Lightspeed in April 2012.
5 min read · 07 March 2013
App security provider MyPermissions announced today it has raised $1 million in a round by lool Ventures, 500 Startups and 2B Angels, with participation by Plus Ventures and Israeli tech investor Robby Hilkowitz. Dave McClure says this is the first investment by 500 Startups in an Israeli startup.
3 min read · 06 March 2013
2 min read · 06 March 2013
The file sharing and collaboration software developer Bloomfire has raised $8 million from return investors Austin Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. The two firms invested $10 million in the company in March 2012.
3 min read · 06 March 2013
Wide Open Spaces emerged from stealth mode and launched today. The venture-backed company, which raised $1.75 million in a previously unannounced seed round from Mercury Fund, RPM Ventures and Dundee Venture Capital last year, operates an online site called openseason to sell hunting and fishing items.
4 min read · 05 March 2013
Taskbox, which previously raised $600,000 in seed funding from the Central Texas Angel Network, has come out of partial stealth mode and launched publicly. The company is behind the mail app Taskbox that has been for sale in the Apple Store since October.
3 min read · 05 March 2013
