New York City-based Sprinklr, an enterprise social tech company, has secured $105 million in funding, putting it an $1.8 billion valuation. Temasek led the round with participation from other investors that included Wellington Management Company LLP and EDBI, the corporate investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board.
1 min read · 20 July 2016
Accounting software startup ZipBooks has raised $2 million in seed funding. Peak Ventures led the round with participation from other backers that included Pelion Venture Partners and Liquid 2 Ventures. In addition to the funding, ZipBooks has hired Jaren Nichols as chief revenue officer.
1 min read · 20 July 2016
La Jolla, California-based Synthorx Inc, which uses synthetic biology to discover and develop new protein therapeutics, has closed $10 million in Series B financing. RA Capital Management led the round with participation from return backers Avalon Ventures and Correlation Ventures. Also, Dr. Andrew Levin, managing director at RA Capital, has been added to Synthorx's board of directors.
1 min read · 20 July 2016
Akili Interactive Labs Inc, which is developing treatments and diagnostics for cognitive disorders, has raised an addition $11.9 million in its recent Series B financing, bringing the total tally to $42.4 million. The investors included M Ventures and Amgen Ventures.
1 min read · 20 July 2016
MenschDanke Group has acquired Berlin-based product comparison platform Versus.com. No financial terms were disclosed. Versus.com's backers included Earlybird Venture Capital, Dave McClure of 500 Startups and High-Tech Gründerfonds.
2 min read · 20 July 2016
San Francisco-based Pantheon, a website management platform, has secured $29 million in Series C funding. The investors were Foundry Group, Industry Ventures, OpenView Investment Partners and Scale Venture Partners. In addition to the funding, the company has named Chris Moody, vice president of data strategy at Twitter, to its board and Niall Hayes as vice president of engineering.
3 min read · 20 July 2016
Sift Science, a provider of fraud detection solutions for online businesses, has raised $30 million in Series C funding. Insight Venture Partners led the round with participation from return backers Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital.
1 min read · 19 July 2016
Doppler Labs, a wireless listening system provider, has secured $24 million in funding. Peter Chernin of The Chernin Group led the round with participation from other investors that included David Geffen, Dan Gilbert, Henry Kravis and Anton Levy.
1 min read · 19 July 2016
UK-based Precision Ocular, a retinal therapeutics company, has closed its Series A funding at 15.5 million pounds (over $20 million). The firm's investors include Imperial Innovations, Consort Medical plc, NeoMed, V-Bio Ventures and Hovione Scientia Ltd.
1 min read · 19 July 2016
Palo Alto, California-based BlueVine, a provider of financing to small businesses, has hired Eric Sager as chief revenue officer. Previously, Sager was the sales head at Square. BlueVine's backers include Lightspeed Venture Partners, 83North, Correlation Ventures, Menlo Ventures and Rakuten.
2 min read · 19 July 2016
