Private journal app JRNL has received an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Las Vegas-based venture firm Varkain. JRNL will publicly launch in late 2015.
1 min read · 26 February 2015
San Francisco Bay area-based Trov, which helps people organize and protect their possessions, has secured $6.5 million in funding. Anthemis Group led the round. In addition to the funding, Ken Rudin, director of analytics at Facebook and Sean Park, founder of the Anthemis Group, have been named to Trov's board of directors.
2 min read · 26 February 2015
Illumina Accelerator Boost Capital has received $40 million from Viking Global Investors. Illumina Accelerator is a genomics-focused business accelerator.
2 min read · 26 February 2015
Sterling, Virginia-based Virtacore Systems, a cloud services provider focusing on virtual infrastructure, has received "multi-million dollar" financing. The backer was Silicon Valley Bank.
3 min read · 26 February 2015
San Francisco-based Zimperium, a provider of mobile threat defense solutions, has raised $12 million in Series B funding. Telstra led the round with participation from TOYO Corp, Sierra Ventures, Lazarus Israel Opportunities Fund and Samsung.
3 min read · 26 February 2015
Comcast Ventures Catalyst Fund, which backs early-stage startups led by minority entrepreneurs, has named Laurence "Lo" Toney as a partner. In his new role, Toney will lead the fund's West Coast investments. Prior to joining Catalyst Fund West, Toney was CEO of LearnStreet. He is also a former general manager at Zynga.
3 min read · 26 February 2015
CENX, a provider of service orchestration solutions for software-defined networks, has secured an undisclosed amount of funding. The investors were return backers Highland Capital Partners, Mesirow Financial Private Equity Inc, Verizon Ventures, Ericsson, DCM Ventures and Cross Creek Advisors.
2 min read · 25 February 2015
San Francisco-based spreadsheet startup Airtable, which publicly launched on Wednesday, has secured $3 million in funding, said a source at the company. The backers included Caffeinated Capital, Freestyle Capital, Data Collective, Crunchfund, Box Group, Ashton Kutcher, Aaron Harris, a partner at Y Combinator and Othman Laraki, former vice president of product at Twitter.
1 min read · 25 February 2015
San Francisco and Helsinki-based game developer Shark Punch has raised $1.2 million in seed funding. London Venture Partners led the round with participation from other investors that included DN Capital and Reaktor Polte. In addition to the funding, Paul Heydon, a partner at LVP, has been added to Shark Punch's board of directors.
4 min read · 25 February 2015
San Francisco-based Getable, an app for ordering and tracking construction equipment, has secured $5 million in Series A funding. The Social+Capital Partnership led the round. In addition to the financing, Ted Maidenberg, a general partner at The Social+Capital Partnership, has been added to Getable's board of directors.
4 min read · 25 February 2015
