London-based Property Partner, a property crowdfunding platform, raised 15.9 million pounds ($22.4 million) in Series B funding, bringing the total amount invested in the company to 22.5 million pounds ($31.7 million). Octopus Ventures led the round with participation from Index Ventures and Dawn Capital.
6 min read · 07 March 2016
LightSail, a literacy solution for K-12 education, raised $11 million in a Series B round of funding led by Scott Cook, the co-founder and chairman of the executive committee of Intuit, with participation form the Bezos Family Foundation as well as new and existing investors.
3 min read · 04 March 2016
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners has set out to raise $125 million for its seventh venture fund, according to an SEC filing. No first close has been reported. The filing lists Lars Leckie, Mitchell Kertzman and Steve Kishi as the fund’s partners. The previous Fund VI raised $198.4 million and closed in 2007, according to Thomson Reuters.
1 min read · 04 March 2016
ICX Media, which is building an on-demand platform for content creators, raised $2.5 million in a seed financing round led by Phil Herget, chairman at media services company Vubiquity. ICX is based in Washington, DC.
4 min read · 04 March 2016
Docker, a platform for developers to build, ship and run distributed applications, acquired orchestration startup Conductant Inc, the company announced in a blog post. Financial terms were not disclosed. In April, Docker raised $95 million in a Series D funding round led by Insight Venture Partners with participation from Coatue, Goldman Sachs and Northern Trust.
1 min read · 04 March 2016
Santa Monica, California-based Comparably raised $6.5 million in a funding round led by Crosslink Capital with participation from Upfront Ventures, Lowercase Capital, Alpha Edison, Crosscut Ventures, Pritzker Group, Rincon Venture Partners and others. Comparably also launched its platform, which provides compensation and culture data for employees and companies.
2 min read · 04 March 2016
Phenom People, a talent relationship marketing company based in Philadelphia, raised an additional $2.7 million in Series A funding, bringing total funding for the round to $7.6 million. Sigma Prime Ventures joined the round. In conjunction with the investment, John Simon, Sigma Prime managing director, will join the Phenom People’s group of senior advisors.
3 min read · 03 March 2016
Lucro, an enterprise founded by Martin Ventures, secured funding from investors including Health Insight Capital, a subsidiary of HCA that invests in early stage companies, and Heritage Group. Lucro offers a research platform to support healthcare leaders in making strategic purchasing decisions.
3 min read · 03 March 2016
Mapillary, a Swedish startup aiming to map the world using crowdsourced photos, raised $8 million in a Series A funding round led by Atomico with participation from Sequoia Capital, LDV Capital, and PlayFair.
3 min read · 03 March 2016
Santa Monica, California-based Pathmatics, an intelligence platform to the online advertising industry, raised $3 million in Series A funding. Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments led the round. Additional funding came from existing investors Upfront Ventures, Karlin Ventures, Baroda Ventures, Double M Partners, Daher Capital and two new investors, Wavemaker Partners and Manatt Venture Fund.
3 min read · 03 March 2016
