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  • Israeli automated drone startup Airobotics flies off with $30 mln Series D
    Iris Dorbian- 30 October 2018

    Israeli automated drone startup Airobotics has raised $30 million in Series D funding. Pavilion Capital led the round with participation from other investors that included BlueRun Ventures, Charles River Ventures and OurCrowd.

  • Tiny raises $4 mln led by BlueRun
    Alastair Goldfisher- 3 October 2018

    Palo Alto, California-based Tiny, provider of a rich-text editing platform, announced that it raised $4 million in Series A funding led by BlueRun Ventures. Additionally, the company introduced a cloud file management system, Tiny Drive, and a preview of a new user interface in the upcoming version 5 of TinyMCE. BlueRun Partner Jeff Tannenbaum wrote more about why the firm invested in a Medium blog post https://medium.com/brv-signals/how-to-find-and-invest-in-sleeping-giants-a2a3f2e7b3d3

  • VC-backed B2B marketing analytics startups Radius and Leadspace merge
    Iris Dorbian- 1 May 2018

    B2B marketing analytics companies Radius and Leadspace are merging. No financial terms were disclosed. Both companies will unite under the Radius brand. Also, Doug Bewsher, CEO of Leadspace, will become CEO of the combined company while Darian Shirazi, founder of Radius, has been named executive chairman. Radius is backed by 8VC, BlueRun Ventures, Founders Fund and Salesforce Ventures while Leadspace is backed by Jerusalem Venture Partners and Arrowroot Capital.

  • E-mail manager Sendwithus nets $6.4 mln in Series A round
    Kirk Falconer- 21 November 2017

    Sendwithus has raised about $6.4 million (US$5 million) in a Series A financing. The round was led by BlueRun Ventures and joined by Initialized Capital and acequía capital. Existing investors Baseline Ventures, SV Angel, Maiden Lane, Y Combinator and Scott Banister also participated. Based in Victoria, British Columbia and San Francisco, Sendwithus provides a communications platform that helps organizations streamline their e-mail creation. It has supported over 10 billion e-mails sent since its 2013 founding by CEO Matt Harris and Brad Van Vugt. The company will use the funds raised to grow sales, marketing and engineering teams.

  • Sendwithus inks $5 mln Series A
    Iris Dorbian- 21 November 2017

    San Francisco and British Columbia-based Sendwithus, a communications management platform that helps company streamline their emails, has raised $5 million in Series A funding. BlueRun Ventures led the round with participation from other investors that included Initialized Capital, Acequía Capital, Baseline Ventures, SV Angel, Maiden Lane, Y Combinator and Scott Banister. In conjunction with the funding, Cheryl Cheng, a general partner at BlueRun Ventures, has been added to the Sendwithus board.

  • B2B payment platform PayStand fetches $6 mln Series A
    Iris Dorbian- 16 November 2017

    PayStand, a B2B payment platform, has raised $6 million in Series A funding. BlueRun Ventures led the round with participation from Cervin Ventures, Serra Ventures, TiE and Capital for Founders.

  • UC drops some VC funds as part of cost-saving measures
    Kaitlyn Landgraf Bartley- 23 October 2017