Jay Kidd has joined Wing Venture Capital as a partner of market acceleration. Previously, Kidd worked at NetApp and Brocade.
2 min read · 14 July 2015
Shopping app Scratch has raised $3.6 million in seed funding. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round with participation from other investors that included NextView Ventures, Red Swan Ventures and Blue Apron CEO Matt Salzberg.
4 min read · 14 July 2015
Singapore-based social payments platform Fastacash has secured $15 million in Series B funding. Rising Dragon Singapore led the round with participation from other investors that included Life.SREDA and UVM 2 Venture Investments LP.
4 min read · 14 July 2015
Palo Alto, California-based AeroFS, a provider of private cloud collaboration solutions, has raised $10 million in Series B funding. Avalon Ventures and NHN Investment led the round. In addition to the funding, Woo Kim of NHN Investment has been added to AeroFS board of directors.
2 min read · 14 July 2015
Miami-based school funds disbursement and tracking platform ClassWallet has raised $1.9 million in seed funding. The investors included NewSchools Venture Seed Fund, Kaplan Ventures and Accelerated Growth Partners.
3 min read · 13 July 2015
San Jose, California-based Signifyd, a provider of fraud protection solutions for the e-commerce sector, has secured $7 million in Series A funding. Allegis Capital led the round with participation from Resolute Ventures, IA Ventures, QED Investors, Lucas Ventures and Tekton Ventures. In addition to the funding, Pete Bodine, managing director at Allegis Capital, has been appointed to Signifyd's board of directors.
3 min read · 13 July 2015
RedOwl, a provider of insider risk management and security analytics, has secured $17 million in Series B funding. Allegis Capital led the round. In conjunction with the funding, Robert Ackerman, founder and managing director of Allegis Capital, has been added to RedOwl's board of direcdtors.
5 min read · 13 July 2015
Fidelity Management and Research Company has led a $75 million funding round for Delphix, a Data as a Service provider. Other investors included Credit Suisse NEXT Investors LLC, The Kraft Group, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Icon Ventures.
3 min read · 13 July 2015
India-based contact center software provider Ameyo has raised about $5 million in Series A funding. The investor was Forum Synergies. Zanskar Advisors provided financial advice to Ameyo.com creator Drishti on the transaction.
2 min read · 13 July 2015
Clarus Ventures and Novo A/S have provided an undisclosed investment in Nuvelution Pharma Inc. In addition to the funding, Nuvelution has named Dr. Barry Gertz and Dr. James Cornwall as chief physician scientist and chief business officer, respectively. Based in South San Francisco, Nuvelution is a solutions provider for R&D companies in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries to improve their productivity.
9 min read · 13 July 2015
