Start Garden has spun off its venture fund to launch Wakestream Ventures. Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Wakestream Ventures will continue to focus on making early-stage investments in high-growth tech, hardware-software convergence and e-commerce enablement. Rick DeVos is serving as Wakestream's CEO.
2 min read · 30 August 2016
Los Angeles-based connected pet device company Petnet has raised $10 million in Series A funding. Petco led the round. Petnet's previous backers included Black River Ventures, Aspiration Growth, iRobot and Amazon Alexa Fund.
1 min read · 30 August 2016
Miami-based fantasy sports startup Synkt Games has secured an undisclosed amount of funding. New World Angels was the investor.
1 min read · 30 August 2016
Boston-based Tank Utility, a provider of remote monitoring services for truck-delivered fuels, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding. Energy Foundry and Blue Fog Capitalled the round with participation from other investors that included Generac Power Systems and Bolt.
1 min read · 30 August 2016
Waltham, Massachusetts-based SHYFT Analytics, a provider of cloud analytic solutions for the global life sciences sector, has raised $12.5 million in Series B funding. The investors included McKesson Ventures, Medidata Solutions, Health Enterprise Partners and Milestone Venture Partners.
1 min read · 30 August 2016
Palo Alto, California-based Jumio, a digital ID verification company, has raised $15 million in financing from Centana Growth Partners LP and Millennium Technology Value Partners.
1 min read · 30 August 2016
Cloud Technology Partners, a cloud services company, has raised an undisclosed amount of Series C funding. The investors were Rackspace, State Street Bank and Pritzker Group Venture Capital. In conjunction with the funding, Scott Crenshaw of Rackspace and Antoine Shagoury of State Street Bank have been appointed to Cloud Technology Partners' board of directors.
3 min read · 30 August 2016
New York-based tech startup One More Company has secured undisclosed funding from AXA Strategic Ventures and Aurinvest. Also, One More Company has acquired Paris-based email software startup Evercontact. No financial terms were disclosed.
4 min read · 30 August 2016
Boulder, Colorado-based LogRhythm, a security intelligence company, has raised $50 million in funding. Riverwood Capital led the round with participation from other investors that included Adams Street Partners, Siemens Venture Capital, Delta-v Capital, EDBI and Silver Lake Waterman.
3 min read · 30 August 2016
Digital health company Zillion Group has secured $28 million in Series C funding. TwinFocus Capital Partners led the round. In addition to the funding, Paul Karger, TwinFocus' co-founder and managing partner, has been added to Zillion's board of directors.
4 min read · 30 August 2016
