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Tastemade garners $40 mln Series DDigital media company Tastemade Inc has raised $40 million in Series D funding. Goldman Sachs' merchant banking division led the round with participation from return backers Redpoint Ventures, Raine Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Liberty Media, Scripps Networks Interactive and Tohokushinsha Film Corporation.
- Formation 8 leads $30.5 mln round for NextVR
NextVR said Thursday that it raised $30.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Formation 8. Investors include Time Warner Investments, Comcast Ventures, RSE Ventures, The Madison Square Garden Company and dick clark productions. Laguna Beach, California-based NextVR provides live-action virtual reality broadcast technology.
- DocuSign discloses individual investors from tech and celebrity worlds
San Francisco-based DocuSign Inc, which earlier this month announced Deutsche Telekom has joined the company’s Series F round as a strategic investor, disclosed a list of its individual investors. They include Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang; former Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen; actor/musician Jared Leto; and skateboarding celebrity Tony Hawk, among others. DocuSign, which provides legally compliant electronic signature technology, did not raise any new funding, but it said collectively the individuals have invested more than $30 million in the company. Terms of each individual investor were not disclosed. DocuSign was founded in 2003 and has now raised $525 million from individuals, financial institutions and strategic investors.
- Deutsche Telekom joins DocuSign’s Series F funding round
San Francisco-based DocuSign Inc, a provider of digital signature technology, announced that the German telecom company Deutsche Telekom has joined the company's Series F round as a strategic investor. The round was at $278 million in May. The latest funding brings the total amount raised to $525 million. Prior to the latest funding, DocuSign had a $3 billion valuation, making it one of the so-called unicorns
- Live social network YouNow picks up $15 mln
New York City-based live social network YouNow has raised $15 million in funding. The investors were Venrock, Oren Zeev and Comcast Ventures.
- Madison Reed pulls in $16.1 mln Series C
Online hair company Madison Reed has raised $16.1 million in Series C funding. The investors were Comcast Ventures, Shea Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and True Ventures.
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- NBCUniversal to invest $200 mln in Vox Media
NBCUniversal said Wednesday it has agreed to invest $200 million in Vox Media. New York-based Vox, a digital media company, is backed by Accel Partners, Comcast Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and General Atlantic. NBCUniversal is a unit of Comcast Corp.
- Virtual reality startup AltspaceVR raises $10 mln
AltspaceVR, a Redwood City, Calif.-based provider of a social platform for virtual reality, announced it has raised $10.3 million in funding from returning investors Tencent, Dolby Family Ventures, Raine Ventures, Lux Capital, Western Technology Investments, Maven Ventures, Promus Ventures, Streamlined Ventures and Rothenberg Ventures, along with new investor Comcast Ventures. The company last raised a $5.2 million seed round and said it has now raised $15.7 million in total funding.
- VC-backed FanDuel buys Kotikan
Fantasy sports company FanDuel has acquired Scottish mobile app development agency Kotikan. No financial terms were disclosed. The acquisition comes on the heels of FanDuel raising $275 million /2015/07/fantasy-sports-company-fanduel-rakes-in-275-mln-series-e/ in Series E funding. KKR led the round with participation from other investors that included Google Capital, Time Warner Investments, Turner Sports, Shamrock Capital, NBC Sports Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Bullpen Capital, Pentech Ventures and Piton Capital.