BlueRun Ventures

BlueRun Ventures, an early-stage venture firm, has closed its sixth fund at $130 million. The fund will focus on mobile software and services, financial technology and digital health.

San Diego-based AlwaysAI, which provides deep learning computer vision to embedded devices, has secured $4 million in Series A funding. BRV led the round.

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

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.

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.

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.

BlueRun Ventures, an investor in small business lender Kabbage and social discovery company Banjo, has filed to raise $200 million for its sixth fund, according to a regulatory filing https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1697161/000169716117000001/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml The Menlo Park, California-based firm raised $150 million for its previous fund in 2014.

Left Lane Capital led the Series D, which included Kevin Hart, Whitney Cummings, Mark Cuban and Manny Machado, among other individuals and firms.

Hello Heart of Menlo Park completes the round of funding with investors IVP, Khosla Ventures, BlueRun Ventures, Maven Ventures and Resolute Ventures.

Human API, which empowers "consumers to connect and share electronic health data with companies they trust," has raised over $20 million in Series C funding.

American Express is in advanced talks to buy Kabbage, an online small business lender, reported Bloomberg.

VC-backed Banjo was rocked when Medium OneZero reported that co-founder and CEO Damien Patton had “participated in white supremacist groups in his youth and was involved in the shooting of a synagogue.”

Telemedicine valuations will rise following substantial adoption growth, and investors see a compelling thesis around these services even after coronavirus fears abate.

OrbiMed, Summit Partners and Shasta Ventures lead CalSTRS' 2012 to 2017 vintage portfolio, according to the pension plan's recent performance report.

Scotts Valley, California-based Paystand, a blockchain-enabled commercial payments platform, has secured $20 million in Series B funding.