3 min read · 01 November 2012
Health Essentials, a provider of post-acute care management services, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from SV Life Sciences and Bessemer Venture Partners. Health Essentials, which provides care to the frail and elderly population in California, Nevada and Arizona, aims to use the growth funding to expand into new geographies. As part of the funding, Stephen Kraus from Bessemer and Tom Flynn from SV Life Sciences, have joined the board.
4 min read · 24 October 2012
Jim Fowler, who founded Jigsaw to create crowdsourced business contacts and then sold the company to Salesforce for $175 million in 2010, has raised $17.3 million for his lates startup called InfoArmy. The funding came from Norwest Venture Partners, which was an investor in Jogsaw, and Trinity Ventures. InfoArmy has now raised $19.3 million in funding, following a $2 million Series from Fowler when the company was founded in 2011. Jeff Crowe of Norwest (and a former Jogsaw board member) and Patricia Nakache of Trinity have joined the InfoArmy board.
3 min read · 23 October 2012
Marinexplore, which operates a big data platform to catalog data on the world's oceans, has raised a seed funding round led by Intertrust Technologies Corp.and several individual investors. The company tells peHUB that the amount of the seed round is $1.4 million.
3 min read · 17 October 2012
2 min read · 11 October 2012
North Bridge Venture Partners and Floodgate have invested $5 million in Sharethrough, a provider of video advertising services. The San Francisco-based company raised a $5 million Series A round from the same two venture firms two years ago.
5 min read · 11 October 2012
Borro, which operates a secured asset lending site, has raised $26 million in a funding round led by Canaan Partners and including Ribbit Capital. The company, which was launched in London four years ago and has operated out of New York since January, previously raised about $20 million from European investors. As part of the funding, Canaan General Partner Dan Ciporin has joined the board.
3 min read · 11 October 2012
Lightspeed Venture Partners and Google Ventures have pooled together to invest a $10 million Series A round in the ridesharing company SideCar, which operates a peer-to-peer ridesharing network. The San Francisco-based company had previously raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from numerous investors, including Spring Ventures, Huron River Ventures, SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, First Step Fund, Jeff Clarke, Lisa Gansky, Robert Goldberg, Jared Kopf, Konstantin Othmer, Mark Pincus, Martin Roscheisen, Josh Silverman and Thomas Varghese.
4 min read · 10 October 2012
Data center provider IO has raised $90 million in equity from a group of investors led by Chicago-based venture firm New World Ventures.
3 min read · 10 October 2012
Expect Labs, which recently came out of stealth to announce a voice and video calling app for the iPad that understands conversations in real-time, has raised $2.4 million in funding from KPG Ventures, IDG Ventures, Google Ventures, Greylock Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Quest Venture Partners. Several individual investors, including Naval Ravikant, Gil Elbaz and Don Hutchison, also invested. The San Francisco-based company expects to release its app, called MindMeld, in late October.
4 min read · 04 October 2012
