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2 min read · 10 March 2018
San Mateo, California-based Aikon, which has unveiled a blockchain protocol called the Open Rights Exchang, announced it has raised $2 million in funding from OVO Fund and angel investors from the United States, Japan and Europe. The company was founded in 2017 by encryption software pioneer Stefan Roever, former political campaign manager and tech entrepreneur Marc Blinder and banking and fintech executive Betsabe Botaitis.
1 min read · 08 March 2018
Austin, Texas-based M.io, a Y Combinator-backed startup that is developing a universal messaging network, announced it has raised $5.75 million in funding led by previous investors Goldcrest Capital, Eniac Ventures and Two Sigma Ventures. The company was founded by Tom Hadfield and James Cundle in 2016. M.io has now raised $8.25 million from investors, including Goldcrest, Eniac, Two Sigma, Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator and Capital Factory.
1 min read · 07 March 2018
San Francisco-based Artis Ventures, an investor in Nimble Storage, Quid and Stemcentrx, announced it has named Vasudev "Vas" Bailey partner. Bailey, who helped found the enterprise sales and the healthcare business for Quid, has served as an adviser to Artis for the past two years. He will focus on investments in such healthcare sectors as therapeutic, diagnostic, device and digital. In addition, the firm promoted Austin Walne a partner. He has served the firm as a venture partner for the past three years.
1 min read · 07 March 2018
San Francisco-based Grabr, provider of an international peer-to-peer community marketplace and delivery network, announced it has raised $8 million in a Series A round led by Foundation Capital. Javier Olivan, VP of growth with Facebook; Geoff Donaker, Former COO of Yelp; Matt Wyndowe, previously head of product partnerships with Uber; and Gokul Rajaram, product engineering lead at Square, also participated in the funding. Grabr, founded in 2015 by co-founders Artem Fedyaev and CEO Daria Rebenok, has now raised more than $14 million in venture funding. As part of the latest round, Charles Moldow, general partner at Foundation Capital, has joined the board. Prior investors include Founders Fund and SignalFire.
1 min read · 06 March 2018
London-based Seraphim Capital, which focuses on space tech, announced it has added Frédéric Rombaut as a general partner. Rombaut is former managing director of Cisco Investment International and founder of Qualcomm Ventures Europe. Seraphim last year raised a $95 million fund to invest in space tech, which includes Earth-observation technologies, data-driven applications and satellite and drone technologies including.
1 min read · 06 March 2018
Berkeley, California-based Eko, a maker of an acoustic cardiac monitoring, announced it has raised $5 million in Series A funding. Artis Ventures led the round, which included Strategic Partners, Dreamlt Ventures, 1812 Ventures and Founder.org. As part of the financing, Vasudev Bailey, partner at Artis Ventures, has joined the board.
1 min read · 28 February 2018
Cupertino, California-based Mist, maker of a self-learning wireless network powered by artificial intelligence, announced it has raised an over-subscribed $46 million Series C round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins. Other investors included Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, GV, NTT Docomo Ventures and Dimension Data. The company has now raised about $88 million in total financing. As part of the funding round, Mamoon Hamid, general partner at Kleiner Perkins, and Rob Lopez, group executive of networking at Dimension Data, have joined the board.
1 min read · 28 February 2018
