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  • Orreco lands $2 mln Series A
    Iris Dorbian- 15 February 2017

    Orreco, a sports and data science company, has raised $2 million in Series A funding. The investor was True Ventures.

  • GV leads Series C round for Evident.io
    Iris Dorbian- 9 February 2017

    Pleasanton, California-based Evident.io, a provider of cloud infrastructure security services for Amazon Web Services, has secured $22 million in Series C funding. GV led the round with participation from return backers Bain Capital, True Ventures and Venrock.

  • Ring rakes in $109 mln
    Iris Dorbian- 25 January 2017

    Ring, a provider of smart home security products, has secured $109 million in funding. The investors included DFJ Growth, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, Qualcomm Ventures, Sir Richard Branson, American Family Insurance, Shea Ventures and True Ventures.

  • HR platform Namely books $50 mln
    Iris Dorbian- 5 January 2017

    New York-based Namely, an HR platform, has secured $50 million in funding, according to a blog post http://blog.namely.com/blog/2017/1/5/namely-raises-50-million-to-deepen-investment-in-mid-market-companies on its site. Altimeter Capital and Scale Venture Partners led the round with participation from Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners, True Ventures, Greenspring and Four Rivers.

  • Year in Review: A tale of two halves for VC in 2016
    Alastair Goldfisher- 2 January 2017
  • Xplenty takes in $4 mln, also acquires Driven
    Iris Dorbian- 22 December 2016

    San Francisco and Israel-based Xplenty, a data integration service, has raised $4 million in funding. The investors were Bain Capital Ventures, True Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, Magma Venture Partners and Waarde Capital. In addition to the funding, Bill Lehmann of Bain Capital Ventures has been added to Xplenty's board of directors. Also, Xplenty has acquired Driven Inc, a provider of big data application development and performance management solutions. No financial terms were disclosed.

  • Machine learning startup Solvvy pulls in $4.5 mln seed
    Iris Dorbian- 12 December 2016

    Palo Alto, California-based Solvvy, a machine learning startup, has secured $4.5 million in seed funding. True Ventures led the round with participation from other investors that included Pear Ventures, Carnegie Mellon University, Signatures Capital and Investment Group of Santa Barbara.

  • Cisco Investments backs customer support app Helpshift
    Iris Dorbian- 22 November 2016

    Cisco Investments has joined the Series B funding round for customer support app Helpshift. No financial terms were disclosed. Helpshift's previous backers include Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures and Salesforce Ventures.

  • AI startup Tend.ai nabs $2 mln seed
    Iris Dorbian- 8 November 2016

    Oregon-based Tend.ai, an artificial intelligence startup, has raised $2 million in seed funding, according to company CEO Mark Silliman. True Ventures was the investor. In addition to the funding, Toni Schneider, the former CEO of Automattic, parent company of WordPress, has been added to Tend.ai's board.