Private Equity
Black Dog Venture Partners has acquired a 10 percent stake in San Francisco-based 6 Days Productions, a maker of the hangover prevention drink Hangnever. No financial terms were disclosed.
2 min read · 20 February 2018
InFocus Capital Partners has raised $1.1 million toward a targeted $50 million venture fund, according to a regulatory filing. The firm is based in Jericho, New York, and serves as a finance strategy advisor, according to its website. It is led by Robert Rothman, Ronald Weiss, and George Marinopoulos, according to the filing. The fund, InFocus Fund I, has 17 investors.
1 min read · 20 February 2018
Redwood City, California-based Kidaptive, an edtech company, has secured $19.1 million in Series C funding. Formation 8 and Woongjin ThinkBig led the round.
3 min read · 20 February 2018
New York City-based Even Financial, a platform powering financial services online, has raised $3 million in funding. The investors included American Express Ventures.
2 min read · 20 February 2018
Fonds de solidarité FTQ has invested $5.75 million in Immunovaccine Inc (TSX: IMV), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with offices and labs in Halifax and Québec City. The investment was made through a $14.4 million bought deal offering closed last week. Founded in 2000, Immunovaccine develops cancer immunotherapies and infectious disease vaccines using DepoVax, a proprietary drug release platform. Led by President and CEO Frédéric Ors, the company will use the funds raised for R&D to further advance its product pipeline. Immunovaccine's other Canadian investors include CTI Life Sciences Fund.
3 min read · 20 February 2018
UK-based Homie, a home search platform for renters, has raised $4 million in seed funding. Connect Ventures led the round.
3 min read · 20 February 2018
Tunity, which allows users to hear live audio from muted televisions directly on their mobile device, has secured $12 million in Series A funding. The investors included John Mack, former Morgan Stanley CEO, and Adam Neumann, founder and CEO of WeWork.
3 min read · 20 February 2018
Small Giant Games, a Finnish mobile game developer, has closed $41 million in funding. EQT Ventures led the round with participation from return backers Creandum, Spintop Ventures and PROfounders.
3 min read · 20 February 2018
San Bruno, California-based Dynamic Signal, a employee communication and engagement platform, has raised $36.5 million in financing. The investors included Adams Street Partners, Akkadian Ventures, Cisco Investments, Focus Opportunity Fund, Founders Circle Capital, Microsoft Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, Time Warner Investments, Trinity Ventures and Venrock.
1 min read · 20 February 2018
Austin, Texas-based SparkCognition, an artificial intelligence company, has closed its Series B funding round at $56.5 million. The investors included Verizon Ventures, The Boeing Company, CME Ventures, Brevan Howard Investment Holdings Limited and Invenergy Future Fund.
1 min read · 20 February 2018
