Self-storage alternative MakeSpace raised $17.5 million in Series B funding, bringing the company’s total funding to $30.5 million. Harmony Venture Partners and Upfront Ventures led the round with participation from existing Series A and seed investors. Mark Lotke, founder and managing partner of Harmony, will join MakeSpace’s board.
2 min read · 25 February 2016
Signifyd, which offers fraud prevention and chargeback prevention for eCommerce merchants, raised $20 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures, with additional participation from Allegis Capital, IA Ventures, QED Investors and others. Pravin Vazirani, a general partner at Menlo Ventures, will join Signifyd's board of directors. The new round brings the company's total funding to $31 million to date.
4 min read · 25 February 2016
Los Angeles-based Overnight closed a $2.5 million seed round led by Accomplice and CrossCut Ventures. Additional strategic investors include Paul Bricault of Greycroft Partners and Amplify.LA and Elliott Bisnow of Summit Action Fund. Overnight is an app connecting last-minute travelers with local hosts who have space for same-day stays
4 min read · 25 February 2016
Signal Sciences said Thursday it raised $9.7 million in a 2015 Series A funding round led by Index Ventures. The company also unveiled a firewall for web applications. The Signal Sciences founding team comes from Etsy.
3 min read · 25 February 2016
Cyber-security startup enSilo closed the second tranche of its Series A financing, raising a total of $19 million for the round. The second tranche of $9 million was led by Rembrandt Venture Partners. Previous investors Carmel Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners also participated. To date enSilo has raised $21 million in total funding.
3 min read · 25 February 2016
McKesson Corp agreed to buy Biologics Inc, an oncology pharmacy services company based in Cary, North Carolina. In a separate deal, McKesson agreed to buy Vantage Oncology LLC, a cancer-care company based in Manhattan Beach, California. The combined transactions are valued at $1.2 billion. Vantage Oncology has raised money from New Enterprise Associates, Conning Capital Partners and others.
4 min read · 25 February 2016
ThousandEyes, a network intelligence company based in San Francisco, raised $35 million in a Series C funding round led by Tenaya Capital. New investor GV (formerly Google Ventures) and existing investors, including Sequoia Capital and Sutter Hill Ventures, also participated in the round. ThousandEyes’ total investment now stands at more than $60 million.
4 min read · 25 February 2016
Martin Casado is joining Andreesen Horowitz as a general partner, the firm announced in a blog post. Casado co-founded Nicira, a software-defined networking company, which was acquired by VMware for $1.26 billion in 2012. Andreesen Horowitz was Nicira’s first institutional investor.
1 min read · 24 February 2016
User Replay, a developer of customer experience management software, raised $4.7 million from Longwall Ventures and existing investors Episode 1 Ventures, EC1 Capital and FSE. The round brings User Replay’s total funding to over $10 million.
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