Bainbridge Island, Washington-based Avalara, which provides software for sales tax and other transactional tax compliance, has named Michael J. Turner as chief marketing officer. Previously, Turner was CEO and president at 1-800-DENTIST. Avalara’s backers include Sageview Capital, Battery Ventures, Warburg Pincus, Technology Crossover Ventures and Arthur Ventures.
3 min read · 10 April 2015
Autodesk Spark Investment Fund has made a $10 million investment in Carbon3D. Based in Silicon Valley, Carbon3D is a provider of 3D printing solutions. Last year Autodesk announced it was launching a $100 million 3D printing fund to back startups in this space.
3 min read · 10 April 2015
Portland, Oregon-based Crowd Supply, a crowdfunding and product development platform for hardware engineers and product designers, has secured $585,000 in seed funding. Portland Seed Fund led the round with participation from other investors that included SOSVentures and Inspiration Ventures.
3 min read · 10 April 2015
Boston-based solar sharing network Yeloha Inc has secured $3.5 million in Series A funding. Carmel Ventures led the round. In addition to the funding, Ronen Nir, a general partner at Carmel, has been added to Yeloha's board of directors.
4 min read · 09 April 2015
Calendar startup Stanza (formerly known as SpotOn.it) has raised $4.3 million in seed funding. The investors included Metamorphic Ventures, Founder Collective, Tekton Ventures, Western Technology Investment, Stanford-StartX Fund and two ex-NFL players, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton.
4 min read · 09 April 2015
Boston-based programmatic TV startup Clypd has raised $19.4 million in Series B funding. RTL Group led the round with participation from Atlas Venture, Data Point Capital, Duke University, TiVo Inc, Transmedia Capital and Western Technology Investment.
5 min read · 09 April 2015
Austin, Texas-based Seismos Inc, a provider of real-time subsurface fluid flow monitoring for oil and gas production optimization, has received about $4 million in funding. Javelin Venture Partners led the round with participation from other investors that included Osage University Partners. Also, Noah Doyle, a general partner at Javelin Venture Partners, has been added to the Seismos board of directors.
4 min read · 09 April 2015
Biotech company Nabriva Therapeutics AG has closed $120 million in Series B funding. Vivo Capital and OrbiMed led the round with participation from EcoR1 Capital, Boxer Capital of Tavistock Life Sciences, HBM, Phase4 Partners, Wellcome Trust, GLSV and Novartis Venture Fund. In addition to the funding, representatives of Vivo Capital and OrbiMed will join Nabriva's supervisory board.
4 min read · 09 April 2015
San Francisco-based ApplePie Capital, a marketplace lender for franchise entrepreneurs, has raised $6 million in Series A funding. Signia Venture Partners led the round with participation from other investors that included Freestyle Capital and QED Investors. Also, the company has secured more than $28 million in debt capital commitments from unnamed investors.
3 min read · 09 April 2015
Helsinki, Finland-based Asqella, a provider of submillimetre-wave imaging systems for security screening applications, has raised 1.8 million euros in funding. Shenzhen Lietou Fund under Shenzhen Leaguer Venture Capital and VTT Ventures Oy led the round.
2 min read · 09 April 2015
