Venture capital-backed InVision, a collaborative platform for product designers, acquired Silver Flows, a prototyping tool for developers, according to a blogpost on the company's website. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Last year, InVision raised $45 million in a Series C financing round led by Accel.
1 min read · 15 March 2016
Square has acquired the team behind venture capital-backed Framed Data, according to a blogpost. The new hires will build models for Square Capital. Framed Data, which offered a machine learning product, raised $2 million in seed funding from GV, Innovation Works and others.
1 min read · 15 March 2016
Forge Inc, a San Francisco-based company that lets PC gamers connect and share gaming clips, raised $4.5 million in a seed financing round led by True Ventures and Resolute Ventures with participation from WME Ventures.
3 min read · 15 March 2016
Venture capital-backed App Annie, a data and insights platform for the app market, acquired AppScotch, an app marketing data company based in San Francisco. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. App Annie, also based in San Francisco, has raised over $94 million from investors including Institutional Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Greycroft Partners, IDG Capital Partners and others.
2 min read · 15 March 2016
LendInvest, an online marketplace for property finance in the UK, completed a 17 million pound ($25 million) Series B equity investment from Atomico. The investment brings the company's total equity funding to 39 million pounds ($56 million). In June, LendInvest secured a 22 million pound ($33 million) Series A investment from Beijing Kunlun, a listed Chinese technology company.
4 min read · 14 March 2016
Future Finance Loan Corp, which makes student loans across the UK, raised 119 million pounds ($170.19 million) in growth and lending capital from QED Investors, Blackstone Strategic Opportunity Fund, Colchis Capital, Invus Opportunities, KCK, DW Partners, Fenway Summer Ventures, Ridge Road Partners, 1/0 Capital and others. Of the recent funds raised, 100 million pounds is for lending capital, supplementing Future Finance's existing credit facility with Goldman Sachs.
4 min read · 14 March 2016
Venture capital firm Data Collective, which invests in big data companies, has set out to raise its fourth early-stage fund and its second opportunity fund to back growth-stage companies. Data Collective IV LP and DCVC Opportunity Fund II LP are sized at $155 million and $125 million, respectively. The firm has not yet raised any capital for the funds, according to the filings.
1 min read · 14 March 2016
Marley Spoon, a recipe kit delivery service, raised $17 million in Series B funding from QD Ventures, Kreos Capital, returning investor Lakestar and others. To date, Marley Spoon has raised a total of $32 million in funding.
3 min read · 14 March 2016
UK-based Cambridge Epigenetix (CEGX), a developer of epigenetic sequencing technologies, closed a $21 million Series B financing round led by GV with signification participation from Sequoia Capital. Current investors New Science Ventures, Syncona Partners and Cambridge University also joined the round.
3 min read · 14 March 2016
Navitas Capital, a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, has set out to raise $50 million for its second venture fund, Navitas Capital II LP, according to a filing with the SEC. The firm is also targeting $2 million for Navitas Capital II SG LP, according to a separate filing. The funds have yet to report a first close.
1 min read · 12 March 2016
