Florida-based Boatsetter, a boat-sharing platform, has closed $13 million in Series A funding. The investors included Great Oaks Venture Capital, Stanford University DAPER Fund, ZG Ventures and Peninsula Ventures.
1 min read · 13 December 2016
Natick, Massachusetts-based Nasuni, a data storage company, has raised a total of $25 million in financing. The investors included Sigma Prime Ventures, Eastward Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.
1 min read · 13 December 2016
Lygos, a specialty chemicals company, has raised $13 million in Series A financing. IA Ventures and OS Fund led the round with participation from other backers that included First Round Capital, Y Combinator and Vast Ventures.
1 min read · 13 December 2016
Socure, a provider of digital identity verification solutions, has secured $13 million in funding. Flint Capital led the round with participation from the other investors that included ff Venture Capital, Santander and Two Sigma Ventures.
4 min read · 13 December 2016
Privacy, a provider of digital rights protection software, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding. Index Ventures led the round with participation from other investors that included Rocketship.vc.
3 min read · 13 December 2016
Breakthrough Energy Ventures has raised more than $1 billion for its clean energy fund. Bill Gates is serving as the chairman of BEV while the board of directors include John Doerr, chairman of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures and Jack Ma, executive chairman of the Alibaba Group.
5 min read · 12 December 2016
Semiconductor test startup Translarity has named Laura Oliphant as CEO and a member of its board of directors. Previously, she was an investment director at Intel Capital.
2 min read · 12 December 2016
San Jose, California-based gaming app Plato has raised $3 million in seed funding. The backers in this round were not named; however, according to an announcement on the funding, they were angel investors from WhatsApp.
2 min read · 12 December 2016
Palo Alto, California-based Solvvy, a machine learning startup, has secured $4.5 million in seed funding. True Ventures led the round with participation from other investors that included Pear Ventures, Carnegie Mellon University, Signatures Capital and Investment Group of Santa Barbara.
4 min read · 12 December 2016
Accelerator Corp-based ApoGen Biotechnologies Inc, which develops drugs that treat cancer, has raised $7 million in Series A financing. The investors included AbbVie Ventures, Alexandria Venture Investments, ARCH Venture Partners, Eli Lilly and Company, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc, Watson Fund LP, WRF Capital and WuXi PharmaTech.
1 min read · 12 December 2016
