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Magic Leap raises $542 mln from Google, KKR, KPCB, Andreessen Horowitz and othersGoogle has led a $542 million round for Magic Leap, a Florida-based cinematic reality startup.
Atomico, KPCB and Sequoia back Swedish phone directory app TruecallerSwedish phone directory app Truecaller has raised $60 million in Series C funding in a round led by Atomico, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital.
KPCB leads Series C round for RemindRemind said Tuesday that it has raised $40 million in Series C funding. Return backer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led the round with participation from The Social+Capital Partnership and First Round Capital. Remind is a mobile communication product for teachers, students and parents.
- Mayfield Fund leads $6.5 mln round for Massdrop
Massdrop has secured $6.5 million in a Series A funding. Mayfield Fund led the round with participation from other investors that include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, First Round Capital and Cowboy Ventures. Based in San Francisco, Massdrop is an online community for enthusiasts.
- BetterWorks snaps up $15.1 mln Series A
BetterWorks has received $15.5 million Series A funding. John Doerr and Bing Gordon of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led the round with participation from other investors that included Joe Lonsdale from Formation 8. In conjunction with the funding, Doerr, Gordon and Lonsdale have been added to the company’s board of directors. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., Betterworks is an enterprise goals platform.
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VC stories trending this week on peHUB: Salesforce targets mobile enterprise startups with new $100 million VC fund, investors bet big on smart homes, and Kleiner Perkins leads huge round for DataStax.
Kleiner Perkins leads $106 mln round in big data company DataStaxDataStax, which provides a big data platform built on Apache Cassandra, has raised a $106 million Series E round of funding in what is likely a pre-IPO round. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Joining the round are ClearBridge Investments, Cross Creek Advisors, Wasatch Funds, PremjiInvest and Comcast Ventures. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has now raised $190 million in total funding, including a $45 million Series D round in July 2013 /2013/07/big-data-company-datastax-raises-45m-series-d/
People page: Robbed! Computer theft at Kleiner PerkinsKP gets robbed; and at a recent healthcare dinner in San Francisco, VCs lament losing out on backing Veeva and others
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Trending in venture news this week: LPs swamped by fundraisers, big data companies are still hot and Jessica Alba's startup nabs $70 million.
Google misses out on Twitch, but remains acquisitive: VCJGoogle’s attempts to acquire VC-backed Twitch may have fallen through, but the corporate giant remains an active acquirer of companies, affiliate magazine Venture Capital Journal reports.