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ReplyYes picks up $6.5 mlnSeattle-based ReplyYes, an e-commerce over mobile messaging platform for brands to engage with their customers, has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding. Madrona Venture Group, Cross Culture Ventures, Lowercase Capital, Muse Capital and Arnold Venture Group led the round.
- Mobile fiction startup Radish takes in $3 mln seed
Los Angeles-based Radish, a mobile fiction startup, has raised $3 million in seed financing. Greylock, Lowercase Capital, Softbank Next Media Innovation Fund, UTA, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments and Sherpa Capital led the round with participation from other backers that included bestselling author Amy Tan and ITV Chairman Sir Peter Bazalgette. In addition to the funding, Larry Kirshbaum, an ex-CEO of Time Warner Book Group, will become a senior adviser to Radish while Ankur Jain, vice president of product at Tinder, has been appointed to the Radish board.
- Waggle picks up $2.3 mln seed
New York and San Francisco-based Waggle, a pet-focused media brand, has raised $2.3 million in seed funding. Raine Ventures led the round with participation from other investors that included Lowercase Capital, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, United Talent Agency, Broadway Video Ventures, Ore Ventures and Allen Debevoise.
- LA startup Joymode scores $3 mln
Homebrew has led a $3 million funding round for Los Angeles-based Joymode, which lets users "access everything you need but don’t own or want to own for great experiences," according to a spokesperson for the firm. Other participants in the round were Lowercase Capital, Founders Collective, Collaborative Fund, TenOneTen, Slow Ventures, Sherpa Ventures, Scott Belsky and Emil Michael.
- Mux raises $2.8 mln in seed funding
San Francisco-based Mux, a provider of performance analytics for video developers and media publishers, announced it has raised $2.8 million in seed-stage funding. Investors include SV Angel, Lowercase Capital, Susa Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, Advancit Capital, Y Combinator and individual investors, including Stripe co-founders John and Patrick Collison, Parse founder Ilya Sukhar, and Heroku founder James Lindenbaum.
- DigitalGenius raises $4.1 mln from multiple investors
Artificial intelligence (AI) company DigitalGenius, which has offices in New York and London, has raised $4.1 million in additional seed funding. The financing came from existing investors Lerer-Hippeau Ventures, Lowercase Capital, Metamorphic Ventures, RRE Ventures and new investors BloombergBeta, NovelTmT, Salesforce Ventures, Singularity Investments and Spider Capital. The company, which focuses on using AI to enhance customer service operations, has now raised $7.35 million in total funding.
- Comparably launches with $6.5 mln investment led by Crosslink
Santa Monica, California-based Comparably raised $6.5 million in a funding round led by Crosslink Capital with participation from Upfront Ventures, Lowercase Capital, Alpha Edison, Crosscut Ventures, Pritzker Group, Rincon Venture Partners and others. Comparably also launched its platform, which provides compensation and culture data for employees and companies.
- Kleiner Perkins leads $10.5 mln Series A for Handshake
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led a $10.5 million Series A round of financing for Handshake, a college career network. Returning investors True Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners participated in the funding along with new backer Lowercase Capital. As part of the funding, Eric Feng, general partner at Kleiner Perkins, will join Handshake’s board of directors.
Reading the venture tea leaves for 2016Here are the trends we at Sapphire Ventures have been closely watching and what we think they imply for 2016.