Private Equity
Salt Lake City-based Neighbor, a self-storage company, has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. The investors were Peak Ventures and Pelion Ventures.
1 min read · 28 March 2018
Atidot, a Israel-based provider of big data and predictive analytics tools for the life insurance industry, has raised $5 million in Series A funding. Vertex Ventures led the round with participation from return backers The D.E. Shaw Group, Moneta Seeds and Bank Hapoalim.
1 min read · 28 March 2018
Dublin and New York-based LetsGetChecked, a medical health testing platform, has raised $12 million in Series A funding. Optum Ventures and Qiming Venture Partners led the round.
4 min read · 28 March 2018
Valohai, a machine learning platform-as-a-service company, has secured $1.8 million in funding. Superhero Capital led the round with participation from Reaktor Ventures and Business Finland, the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation.
3 min read · 28 March 2018
Singapore-based Bluzelle, a blockchain-based database provider, has secured $1 million in funding. The investor was NEO Global Capital.
2 min read · 28 March 2018
San Francisco-based Moogsoft, a provider of artificial intelligence for IT operations, has named Ranvir Wadera as vice president of engineering and Udi Gotlieb as vice president of product marketing. Wadera and Gotlieb were formerly with Splunk and ServiceNow, respectively. Moogsoft's backers include Goldman Sachs, HCL, Northgate Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Singtel Innov8, STTelemedia and Wing VC.
2 min read · 28 March 2018
San Francisco-based BetterUp, a leadership development platform, has raised $26 million in Series B funding. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round with participation from return backers DFJ, Freetyle Capital and Crosslink Capital.
3 min read · 28 March 2018
Austin, Texas-based SpyCloud, a cybersecurity company, has raised $5 million in Series A funding. The investors were Silverton Partners and March Capital Partners.
4 min read · 28 March 2018
Boston-based Flipside Crypto, which uses algorithms to analyze liquid cryptocurrencies, announced it has raised $3.4 million in venture funding. True Ventures led the round, which included The Chernin Group, Resolute Ventures, Boston Seed Capital, Converge and Founder Collective. As part of the funding, True Ventures Partner Adam D’Augelli has joined the board. The company was founded in mid-2017 and is led by CEO Dave Balter, CTO Jim Myers and Eric Stone, head of data science.
1 min read · 28 March 2018
LendingCrowd said March 28 that it secured another 2 million pounds ($2.8 million) in funding led by Equity Gap. Also participating were a number of private investors from Scotland’s entrepreneurial and finance scene and the Scottish Investment Bank. LendingCrowd, of Edinburgh, Scotland provides a peer to peer lending platform.
4 min read · 28 March 2018
