Distil Networks, a provider of bot detection and mitigation solutions, has raised $21 million in Series B funding. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round with participation from Foundry, TechStars, ff Venture Capital, Idea Fund and Correlation Ventures. In addition to the funding, David Cowan, partner at BVP and co-founder of VeriSign, Good Technology and Defense.net, has been added to Distil's board of directors.
4 min read · 30 June 2015
Online music recording studio Soundtrap has secured $1 million in funding. Angel investor Lars Bergstrom led the round.
3 min read · 30 June 2015
San Francisco-based Kentik (formerly CloudHelix), a network visibility and analytics solutions provider that has launched from stealth, has raised $12.1 million in Series A funding. August Capital led the round with participation from return backers First Round Capital and Data Collective.
6 min read · 30 June 2015
Data solutions provider Spire has secured $40 million in Series B funding. Promus Ventures led the round with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Jump Capital, RRE Ventures and Lemnos Labs. In addition to the funding, Mike Collett, founder and managing director of Promus Ventures, has been appointed to Spire's board of directors.
3 min read · 30 June 2015
Seattle-based SkyKick, a provider of cloud management software for IT solution providers, has raised $10 million in funding. The investors included former Qwiki COO Navin Thukkaram and Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the former German Federal Minister of Defense and former German Federal Minister of Economics and Technology.
4 min read · 30 June 2015
Fairfax, Virginia-based Invincea Inc, a provider of advanced endpoint threat protection solutions, has expanded its advisory board with a number of new additions. They are Dr. Ed Amoroso, senior vice president and chief security officer of AT&T; Rand Beers, former acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and deputy assistant to the President for Homeland Security; and retired Lieutenant General Rhett Hernandez, former Commander of U.S. Army Cyber Command and current West Point cyber chair of Army Cyber Institute. Its backers included Aeris Capital, Dell Ventures, Grotech Ventures, Harbert Ventures and New Atlantic Ventures.
4 min read · 29 June 2015
Tel Aviv-based Drippler, which provides personalized recommendations on apps, features, and accessories, has raised $4.5 million in Series A funding. Titanium Investments led the round with participation from other investors that included TMT Investments, iAngels, Reuven Agassi, Yanki Margalit, David Assia and Christian Gaiser.
2 min read · 29 June 2015
Database provider Airtable has secured $7.6 million in funding, the company announced in a blog post on its site. CRV led the round with participation from Caffeinated Capital, Crunchfund, Data Collective, Founder Collective and Freestyle Capital. Other investors included Brennan O'Donnell, vice president of sales and customer success at SurveyMonkey; Ilya Sukhar, founder of Parse and director of product management at Facebook; Othman Laraki, co-founder of Color Genommics; and Joshua Reeves, CEO and co-founder of ZenPayroll. In addition to the funding, Francis Larkin has been named vice president of growth.
1 min read · 29 June 2015
Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Blue Medora, a provider of cloud systems management solutions, has secured $4.6 million in Series A funding. Michigan eLab led the round with participation from other investors that included Start Garden and Grand Angels. In conjunction with the funding, Michigan eLab's Doug Neal has been added to Blue Medora's board of directors.
3 min read · 29 June 2015
Luxury home hospitality business onefinestay has closed $40 million in Series D funding. The investors included Intel Capital, Quadrant Capital Advisors, Index Ventures and Canaan Partners. Also, the company has made a number of appointments, among them are Tom Singer as chief financial officer, Nick Ruotolo as chief commercial officer and Petros Demetriades as chief technology officer.
4 min read · 29 June 2015
