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- Kindly Care reels in $3.1 mln
Kindly Care, a newly launched self-service care management platform, has raised $3.1 million in funding. MHS Capital led the round with participation from Floodgate and Jackson Square Ventures.
- Driver's ed app creator Aceable picks up $4 mln Series A
Austin Texas-based Aceable, a driver's education app provider, has raised $4 million in Series A funding. Silverton Partners and FloodGate led the round with participation from other investors that included NextGen Angels and Capital Factory.
- Signia and Floodgate back Galactic Exchange
Big data software developer Galactic Exchange has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding. The investors were Signia Venture Partners and Floodgate. In conjunction with the funding, Rick Thompson, a founding partner at Signia, has been added to Galactic Exchange's board.
- Personal storage startup Upthere grabs $77 mln
Redwood City, California-based Upthere, a personal storage startup, has $77 million in funding. KPCB and Western Digital led the round with participation from Elevation Partners, Floodgate, GV, NTT Docomo Ventures and Square 1 Bank.
- Data.world nabs $14 mln Series A
Austin, Texas-based data startup Data.world has launched with $14 million in Series A funding. Shasta Ventures led the round with participation from other investors that included Capital Factory, Chicago Ventures, Floodgate, FYRFLY Venture Partners, Homebrew, Lead Edge Capital, LiveOak Venture Partners and Rothenberg Ventures.
Beyond the lean startup: Mike Maples on what comes nextFloodgate's Maples says startups should turn their attention to design and category creation
- MathCrunch raises $4 million in seed funding and rebrands as Yup
MathCrunch said it raised $4 million in seed funding from new and existing investors, including Stanford University's StartX Fund and SOMA Capital. The company also said it changed its name to Yup. Yup has now raised $7.5 million. Its mobile app provides on-demand tutoring for students.
Throwback Thursday: Moving to self-storage startupsThe number of companies focused on storage-on-demand is small, but VCs say the potential is huge