Santa Monica, Calif.-based Pose has raised $3 million in Series A financing from GRP Partners, True Ventures and Mousse Partners. The company – which makes a mobile social platform for fashion and shopping – will use the infusion for development and engineering. The Pose app is available on the iPhone and Andoid operating systems.
2 min read · 24 October 2011
HipWay Ltd., the creator of an online, invitation only club for Russian travel, has added $2 million in financing, bringing its total raised to $2.75 million. The company said that its investors included Chamath Palihapitiya, formerly of Facebook; Michael van Swaaij, formerly of Skype; Fabrice Grinda, co-founder of Zingy; and Mark Gerson of the Gerson Lehrman Group.
3 min read · 21 October 2011
Video site Viki has closed on $20 million in Series B financing from investors including SK Planet, BBC Worldwide, Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures and Neoteny Labs. The money will go toward product development and expanding the company’s staff. Viki provides online video, including TV series, movies and premium content, translated into over 150 languages by a community of fans.
4 min read · 21 October 2011
CouponCabin.com has raised $54 million in growth financing led by JMI Equity, the company announced Thursday. JMI is taking a minority stake in the online coupon company.
3 min read · 21 October 2011
4 min read · 20 October 2011
Rogers Ventures, the venture capital arm of Canada’s Rogers Communications Inc., has put $5 million into Zoove. The infusion is in addition to the $15 million in Series D financing Zoove closed last month. The company is also backed by Cardinal Venture Capital, Worldview Technology Partners and Highland Capital Partners.
4 min read · 20 October 2011
Sustainable Energy Technologies Ltd. has sealed $1.5 million in new equity financing from Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures. Sustainable Energy is a Canadian solar inverter company.
4 min read · 20 October 2011
GramercyOne, a maker of cloud-based business and marketing software, has sealed $14.5 million in Series A financing, the company announced Wednesday. Revolution Ventures led the investment round, with Grotech Ventures, TDF, and Jubilee Investments providing the remainder of the funding. GramercyOne launched in 2010 and is based in New York.
4 min read · 20 October 2011
Venture firm DCM is announcing the first seven investments made with its Android-focused fund, dubbed the A-Fund. Since the fund was formed in April, DCM has backed mobile app developer Appia, mobile payments startup Billing Revolution, social gaming company PapayaMobile, game developer Happy Elements, cloud storage startup Kanbox, gaming company Loki Studios and mobile messaging company Kakao Corp.
4 min read · 20 October 2011
Visual.ly, the startup that connects infographics creators with publishers, has closed on $2 million in seed funding from Crosslink Capital, SoftTech and 500 Startups. Other investors, including Kapor Capital and Giza Ventures, also joined the round. The company will use the new capital to add staff, and continue development of its self-serve data visualization tools.
3 min read · 20 October 2011
