San Francisco-based Memebox, a provider of Asian beauty products, has secured $60 million in funding. The investors included Goodwater Capital, Altos Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Mousse Partners, Formation Group, Funders Club, Pear Ventures, Cota Capital and Janet Gurwitch.
4 min read · 16 December 2016
SJF Ventures has raised $125 million for its fourth oversubscribed fund. SJV Ventures IV LP will focus on economically and socially responsible companies. The fund's limited partners include two dozen foundation endowments, family offices, funds-of-funds and pensions.
2 min read · 16 December 2016
NETGEAR Arlo has acquired New York City-based urban intelligence platform Placemeter, the latter announced in a blog post on its site. No financial terms were disclosed. Placemeter's backers included New Enterprise Associates, Kima Ventures, FundersClub and Correlation Ventures.
1 min read · 16 December 2016
Unilever has agreed to buy Living Proof, a hair care brand. No financial terms were disclosed. Living Proof's backers included Polaris Partners and Leerink Partners. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2017.
2 min read · 16 December 2016
Somerville, Massachusetts-based BrainCo, a wearables startup, has secured $5.5 million in funding. Boston Angel Club, Han Tan Capital and Wandai Capital led the round.
1 min read · 16 December 2016
Oncorus Inc, a new immuno-oncology company, has raised its Series A funding to $61 million as a result of an investment made by Astellas Pharma Venture Management LLC, the corporate venture unit of Astellas Pharma. The company's other investors include Deerfield Management, Arkin Bio Ventures and MPM.
1 min read · 16 December 2016
Personal Capital, a digital wealth management firm, has secured an additional $25 million in Series E funding. The investor was IGM Financial Inc.
1 min read · 16 December 2016
Databricks, a data platform provider, has raised $60 million in Series C funding. New Enterprise Associates led the round with participation from Andreessen Horowitz.
1 min read · 16 December 2016
Insect-breeding company Ynsect has secured $15.2 million in Series B funding. Future Positive Capital, Quadia SA and Bpifrance Ecotechnologies led the round with participation from return backers Emertec, Demeter, Vis Vires New Protein Capital and Business Angels. Alantra advised Ynsect on the transaction.
8 min read · 16 December 2016
Boulder, Colorado-based VictorOps, a real-time incident management platform, has closed its Series B funding round at $15 million. VictorOps is backed by Shea Ventures, Foundry Group and Costanoa Ventures.
1 min read · 16 December 2016
