Private Equity
New York-based Maven, a digital health startup, has raised $10.8 million in Series A financing. Spring Mountain Capital led the round with participation from other investors that included 14W, DGNL, Colle Capital, 8VC, Great Oaks Venture Capital, The Box Group and Female Founders Fund. In addition to the funding, Spring Mountain Capital's Lauren Breuggen is joining Maven's board of directors.
1 min read · 25 July 2017
ActionStreamer, a wearable technology platform that can live stream point-of-view video off of athletes in action, has secured $1.88 million in seed financing. CincyTech led the round with participation from Vine Street Ventures.
1 min read · 25 July 2017
Naperville, Illinois-based PhysIQ, a provider of proprietary predictive analytics for human physiology, has raised $8 million in Series B funding. The lead investor was 4490 Ventures. Other investors include Quark Venture Inc and LionBird. In conjunction with the funding, Dan Malven, a managing partner at 4490 Ventures, and Dr. Zafrira Avnur, a chief scientific officer at Quark Venture, have joined PhysIQ's board of directors.
1 min read · 25 July 2017
New York-based Aquiline Capital Partners LLC, a private equity firm focuses on financial services, has closed its tech growth fund at about $190 million, beating its $150 million target. The Aquiline Technology Growth Fund will target a number of sectors that include insurance technology, asset management technology, benefits and retirement, security, data and analytics and enterprise software.
3 min read · 25 July 2017
Target Partners has hired Jan Wolter as a venture partner. Previously, Wolter worked at Applause where he served as managing director for Europe.
2 min read · 25 July 2017
San Mateo, California-based PerimeterX, a provider of behavior-based threat protection technology, has raised $23 million in a Series B round of funding led by Canaan Partners. Existing investors Vertex Ventures and Data Collective also participated in the round. As part of the funding, Joydeep Bhattacharrya, a partner at Canaan, has also joined the board. The company previously raised $11.5 million from investors.
1 min read · 25 July 2017
Noticeboard said July 25 that it raised $1.2 million in funding led by Stellaris Venture Partners. Noticeboard, of Bengaluru, India, is a communication platform focused on frontline staff.
3 min read · 25 July 2017
SimilarWeb, a digital market intelligence company, announced that it has raised $47 million in growth equity funding led by Viola Growth in collaboration with Saban Ventures. Additional investors included CE Ventures, among others. The company has now raised $112 million in funding. As part of the funding, Bill Macaitis, former CMO of Slack and Zendesk, has joined the SimilarWeb’s advisory board.
1 min read · 25 July 2017
Circulation said July 25 that it raised $10.5 million in Series A financing co-led by Flare Capital Partners and The Providence Service Corp. Other investors include Boston Children’s Hospital, Echo Health Ventures, Intermountain Healthcare Innovation Fund, Humana, NextGen Venture Partners and a healthcare diagnostics company. Circulation, of Boston, provides a digital platform to coordinate non-emergency transportation for areas of healthcare.
3 min read · 25 July 2017
Goldman Sachs has invested $35 million in beqom. Beqom, of Fribourt, Switzerland, provides compensation management software.
3 min read · 25 July 2017
