DataFox, a San Francisco-based online research platform provider, has secured $5 million in funding, the company announced in a blog post on its site. The investors included Goldman Sachs and Green Visor Capital. In addition to the funding, Simon Yoo of Green Visor has joined DataFox's board of directors while Rana Yared of Goldman Sachs has been named an observer.
1 min read · 22 July 2015
UK-based personalized shopping app Mallzee has raised 2.5 million pounds in funding. The Royal Mail Group led the round with participation from other investors that included the Scottish Investment Bank and Par Equity.
2 min read · 22 July 2015
San Francisco-based Granular, a provider of farm management software and analytics tools, has secured $18.7 million in Series B funding. Tao Capital Partners led the round with participation from Emory Investment Management, Fall Line Capital, H. Barton Asset Management, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures and Khosla Ventures.
3 min read · 22 July 2015
Beacon, a subscription-based all-you-can-fly private plane service, has closed $7.5 million in funding. Romulus Capital led the round with participation from other investors that included MiVentures and Western Technologies Investment.
4 min read · 22 July 2015
San Francisco-based online education marketplace Udemy has appointed Robert Wong as vice president of product and Grégory Boutté as vice president of content. Previously, Wong worked at Sidecar where he served as vice president of product while Boutté most recently worked as vice president of eBay Motors & Electronics for eBay North America. Udemy's backers include Stripes Group, Norwest Venture Partners, Insight Venture Partners, Lightbank, MHS Capital and Learn Capital.
3 min read · 22 July 2015
Pritzker Group Venture Capital has named Rishi Shah as a senior advisor. Shah is the founder and CEO of ContextMedia. He is also the co-founder of Jumpstart Ventures.
3 min read · 22 July 2015
Singapore and Mountain View, California-based Zimplistic, a kitchen robotics company, has closed $11.5 million in Series B funding. The investors were NSI Ventures and Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH. In addition to the funding, Hian Goh of NSI Ventures and Jan Westerhues of RBVC have been added to Zimplistic's board of directors.
3 min read · 22 July 2015
San Francisco-based consumer research startup Survata has secured $6 million in Series A funding, the company announced in a blog post on its site. IDG Ventures led the round with participation from other investors that included Bloomberg Beta, Alexis Ohanian and Garry Tan. In conjunction with the funding, Phil Sanderson of IDG Ventures has been added to Survata's board.
1 min read · 22 July 2015
Talent hiring software Job Market Maker has raised $1 million in seed funding. The investors were not named.
2 min read · 21 July 2015
Asia Pacific-based fitness sharing platform KFit has secured $3.25 million in funding. The backers included Sequoia Capital.
3 min read · 21 July 2015
