Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.-based Picwell, a recommendation engine for health plan selection, has raised $3 million in Series A funding. The investors were BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners and the Sandbox Advantage Fund.
2 min read · 12 January 2016
New York-based education tech startup Noodle Markets has secured $3 million in funding. Rethink Education led the round with participation from Palm Ventures. In addition to the funding, Rick Segal, a co-founder and managing partners at Rethink, has been added to Noodle Markets' board.
3 min read · 12 January 2016
Import.io has secured $13 million in Series A funding, the company announced in a blog post on its site. Imperial Innovations led the round with participation from Wellington Partners, Oxford Capital, Open Ocean, Delin Capital and AME Cloud Ventures. Import.io is a provider of intelligent technology that translates the web into data.
1 min read · 12 January 2016
Global travel search engine Skyscanner has raised $192 million in funding. The company's investors include Sequoia, Artemis, Baillie Gifford, Khazanah, Vitruvian Partners and Yahoo! JAPAN. Goldman Sachs International and Numis Securities Ltd advised Skyscanner on the transaction.
2 min read · 12 January 2016
Wine app Vivino has secured $25 million in Series B funding. SCP Neptune International led the round with participation from Balderton Capital, Creandum, SEED Capital and Iconical.
3 min read · 12 January 2016
New York City-based Boom Fantasy, an in-game fantasy sports company, has closed $1.4 million in seed funding. The investors included Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, the Stanford-StartX Fund and Rubicon Venture Capital.
3 min read · 12 January 2016
San Francisco and Paris-based Scalr, an enterprise cloud management platform, has raised $7.35 million in Series A funding. OpenView Venture Partners led the round. In addition to the funding, Mackey Craven, a partner at OpenView, has been added to Scalr's board of directors while Jim Baum, a venture partner at OpenView, has become an advisor.
3 min read · 12 January 2016
Ottawa, Ontario and San Jose, California-based Diablo Technologies, a memory solutions provider, has raised $19 million in Series C funding. ICV led the round with participation from Battery Ventures, BDC Capital, Celtic House and Hasso Plattner Ventures. In addition to the funding, Diablo has appointed Mark Stibitz as chairman and CEO.
3 min read · 12 January 2016
Iconic Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company focused on serious eye disorders, has raised $40 million in Series C funding. The investors included HBM Healthcare Investments, Cormorant Asset Management, Osage University Partners, MPM Capital, H.I.G. Capital and Lundbeckfund Ventures.
3 min read · 11 January 2016
Alpharetta, Georgia-based Clearside Biomedical Inc, which focuses on treating blinding diseases of the eye, has filed for an IPO. The number of shares that will be sold as well as the stock's pricing terms have yet to be set. However, the company plans on trading the stock on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "CLSD." RBC Capital Markets and Stifel will serve as the lead underwriters. Clearside's backers include Aju IB Investment, Cormorant Asset Management, Perceptive Advisors and Rock Springs Capital Management.
2 min read · 11 January 2016
