Catamount Ventures

Salt Lake City-based educational technology company MasteryConnect has secured $3.425 million in funding. Previous investor Catamount Ventures led the round with participation from Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Deborah Quazzo of GSV Advisors, Learn Capital and various unnamed Silicon Valley angel investors.

Catamount Ventures and Birchmere Ventures have sold TenMarks, an educational product that provides personalized instruction around mathematics, to Amazon.com. The firms first invested in TenMarks in late 2011.

Catamount Ventures said Thursday that it agreed to sell Plum Organics to Campbell Soup Co. Financial terms weren't announced. Earlier, Catterton Partners said it also agreed to sell its stake in Plum, a provider of organic baby food.

San Francisco-based Catamount Ventures has added James Joaquin as a partner focusing on the consumer internet and consumer packaged goods sectors. Joaquin has a long track record for starting consumer companies. He co-founded Clearview Software while studying at Brown University. He later formed When.com, which was acquired by AOL. He also served as president and chief executive of Ofoto, later bought by Kodak.

Blazent Inc., a San Mateo, Calif.-based provider of IT intelligence for IT outsourcers, has raised $10 million in new VC funding. HighBAR Ventures led the round, and was joined by KeyNote Ventures, Walden Venture Capital and Catamount Ventures. The company previously raised over $28 million from Keynote, Bain Capital Ventures, Benchmark Capital, FirstMark Capital, Brookside Management, SV Life Sciences and StarVest Partners.

Real Time Genomics Inc., a San Francisco-based developer of genomic dataset analysis software, has secured $3 million of a $4 million Series A round from Catamount Ventures, according to a regulatory filing. The company is a U.S. unit of New Zealand-based software maker NetValue.

DriverSide, a San Francisco-based operator of a website for automobile owners, has raised $5.3 million in Series B funding. Allegis Capital led the round, and was joined by return backer Catamount Ventures and the company’s founders.

PresenceLearning, a provider of live online special education related services for K-12 schools, has raised $27 million in Series D funding.

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Burlingame, California-based EdSurge, an educational tech company, has secured $2.8 million in funding. The investors included Catamount Ventures, GSV Capital, Reach Capital, LearnCapital, Women's Venture Capital Fund, 1776.vc and the Omidyar Network.

San Francisco-based PresenceLearning Inc, a provider of of live online speech therapy, occupational therapy, and behavior and mental health services for K-12 students, has raised $25 million in Series C funding. The investors were Birchmere Ventures, Blue Heron Capital, Catamount Ventures and New Markets Venture Partners. In addition to the funding, Ryan McNally, a partner and co-founder of Catalyst Investors, has joined the company’s board of directors.

PresenceLearning Inc. has raised $25 million in Series C funding led by Catalyst Investors. Existing investors Birchmere Ventures, Blue Heron Capital, Catamount Ventures and New Markets Venture Partners also participated in the round. Catalyst Partner & Co-Founder Ryan McNally has joined the company’s board of directors. San Francisco-based PresenceLearning provides live online speech therapy.

Salt Lake City-based educational tech company MasteryConnect has raised $5 million in funding. The investors were Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan.