Rotunda Capital Partners has made an undisclosed investment in Munch's Supply Co Inc. Livingstone provided financial advice to Munch’s Supply on the transaction. Based in Chicago and Northwest Indiana, Munch's Supply is an HVAC distributor.
3 min read · 02 April 2015
Bridge Capital Holdings has provided $20 million in funding to HotSchedules (formerly Red Book Connect). Based in Austin, Texas, HotSchedules is a provider of restaurant technology.
3 min read · 02 April 2015
Boulder, Colorado-based Trada, a paid search crowdsourced marketplace, has shut down its operations, CEO Matt Harada confirmed in a post on the company's site. The reason cited for the closure was the company's inability to pay its creditors. Trada, which launched in 2008, was backed by Foundry Group and Google Ventures. To read the announcement, visit here.
1 min read · 01 April 2015
Los Angeles-based InstaBrand, a mobile influencer marketing platform, has raised $2.5 million in Series A funding. TI Capital led the round. In addition to the funding, InstaBrand has named Randall Cox, president of Relativity Digital and Brian Norgard, vice president of advertising products at Tinder, to its advisory board.
3 min read · 01 April 2015
Rubicon Project has agreed to acquire Chango Inc for a total consideration of about $122 million. Headquartered in Toronto, Chango is an online marketing company. Chango's backers include Metamorphic Ventures, iNovia Capital, Extreme Venture Partners and Rho Canada.
4 min read · 01 April 2015
Mountain View, California-based cloud security automation company HyTrust Inc has raised $33 million in funding. Accelerate-IT Ventures led the round with participation from other investors that included Vanedge Capital, Epic Ventures, Granite Ventures, Trident Capital, Cisco, Fortinet, Intel Corp and VMware. In addition to the funding, HyTrust has added Brian Nugent, a general partner at AITV, to its board of directors while AITV co-founder and General Partner Bill Malloy III, and Moe Kermani, a partner at Vanedge Capital, have been named as board observers.
4 min read · 01 April 2015
Paris-based StarOfService, a marketplace for services, has secured 1.1 million euros in Series A funding. Point Nine Capital led the round.
3 min read · 01 April 2015
Mobile health company Noom Inc has secured $16.15 million in Series B funding. InterVest Co. Ltd led the round with participation from LB Investment, Hanmi IT, RRE Ventures, TransLink Capital and Qualcomm Ventures.
3 min read · 01 April 2015
HomeAway Inc, a Austin, Texas-based online marketplace for vacation rentals, has made an undisclosed investment in CanadaStays, a Canadian vacation rental website. HomeAway is backed by Austin Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, Trident Capital, American Capital, Technology Crossover Ventures and Google Ventures.
3 min read · 01 April 2015
London-based Signal, a market intelligence and information discovery platform, has raised $1.8 million in seed funding. Frontline Ventures led the round with participation from other investors that included Samos Investments and Reed Ventures.
3 min read · 01 April 2015
