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Baffle snaps up $3 mlnSanta Clara, California-based Baffle Inc, a data encryption security company, has raised $3 million in funding. True Ventures led the round with participation from Engineering Capital.
- Cloverpop nabs $6.2 mln Series A
San Francisco-based Cloverpop, a provider of behavioral economics, has secured $6.2 million in Series A funding. TDF Ventures and True Ventures led the round with participation from other backers that included Next Coast Ventures.
- Atipica takes in $2 mln seed
Atipica, a talent discovery engine startup, has secured $2 million in seed funding. True Ventures led the round with participation from other investors that included Kapor Capital, Precursor Ventures and former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao.
- Atipica raises $2 mln
Atipica said Oct. 20 that it raised $2 million in a seed round led by True Ventures. Kapor Capital and Charles Hudson's new firm, Precursor Ventures, participated in the round along with a number of angel investors, including industry veteran and former Yahoo! CHRO David Windley, early Twitter engineer Matt Sanford, and former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao. Atipica is a talent discovery engine startup.
Wellington Financial leads $14.25 mln funding of MetamarketsMetamarkets, a U.S. provider of interactive analytics for programmatic marketing, has secured a credit facility of US$14.25 million. The deal was led by Canadian specialty finance firm Wellington Financial and joined by City National Bank. Metamarkets said the funds raised will help expand its engineering team and facilitate additional investment in its real-time data processing infrastructure. Founded in 2010, San Francisco-based Metamarkets is backed by several U.S. venture capital firms, including Khosla Ventures, Data Collective, IA Ventures, Village Ventures, True Ventures and Founder Collective.
- Zymergen pulls in $130 mln Series B
Emeryville, California-based Zymergen, a tech company that is "unlocking the power of biology," has secured $130 million in Series B funding. SoftBank Group led the round with participation from Data Collective, True Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, DFJ, Innovation Endeavors, Obvious Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, Iconiq Capital, Prelude Ventures and Tao Capital Partners. Also, the company has named former U.S. Secretary of Energy and Nobel laureate Dr. Steven Chu and SoftBank Group International Managing Director Deep Nishar to its board of directors.
- Madefire picks up $6.5 mln Series B
Madefire, a motion book tool provider for content creators, has raised $6.5 million in Series B funding. The investors included Plus Capital, Kevin Spacey, Drake, True Ventures, Big Loud Capital, Anthem Ventures and Framestore Ventures.
- ProsperWorks rallies $24 mln Series B
San Francisco-based ProsperWorks, a provider of CRM solutions for Google Apps, has secured $24 million in Series B funding. Next World Capital led the round with participation from other investors that included Storm Ventures, True Ventures, Industry Ventures and Devoteam.
- True Ventures leads seed round for LiveStories
Seattle-based online data platform LiveStories has raised $3 million in seed funding. True Ventures led the round with participation from other investors that included Founders' Co-op and Social Leverage.