Private Equity
San Mateo, California-based PacketZoom, a mobile networking platform provider, has secured $5 million in Series A funding. Baseline Ventures led the round with participation from First Round Capital, Tandem Capital and Arafura Ventures.
3 min read · 22 November 2017
Buildup said Nov. 22 that it raised $7 million in a Series A round. Investors include TLV Partners, UpWest Labs, 01Ventures, Abstract Ventures, as well as Check founders Guy Goldstein and Ahikam Kaufman. Buildup, of Palo Alto, California, provides a mobile collaboration and task management platform for construction jobsites.
4 min read · 22 November 2017
Divergent 3D said Nov. 21 that it raised $65 million in a Series B round led by O Luxe Holdings Ltd. Other investors include Horizons Ventures, Shanghai Alliance Investment Limited and Altran Technologies. The round includes an investor option to add $40 million. Divergent 3D is a technology development and licensing platform.
4 min read · 22 November 2017
Seedcamp, a pan-European seed investor, has raised 41 million pounds for its fourth fund that will focus on European startups. The investors of SeedCamp Fund IV include Investec, Unilever Ventures, Thomas Cook Money, MassMutual Ventures, ADV, Index Ventures, Atomico, Idinvest Partners, Underscore Ventures, Speedinvest and British Business Bank.
3 min read · 22 November 2017
Overclock Labs, a newly launched developer of tools for automating distributed cloud infrastructure, has secured $1.3 million in seed funding. The investors included CrunchFund.
2 min read · 21 November 2017
Hawaii-based Kona Deep Corporation, a bottled water company, has secured $5.5 million in financing. The investors include Danone Manifesto Ventures, the venture arm of Danone, and Grand Crossing Capital.
1 min read · 21 November 2017
Scale Up Venture Capital has set out to raise a second venture-capital fund, according to a filing with the SEC.
1 min read · 21 November 2017
London-based Peanut, an app for mothers, has secured an undisclosed amount of seed funding. Sweet Capital Investment and the Female Founders Fund led the round with participation from other investors that included Greycroft, Sound Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Felix and Partech.
3 min read · 21 November 2017
San Francisco and British Columbia-based Sendwithus, a communications management platform that helps company streamline their emails, has raised $5 million in Series A funding. BlueRun Ventures led the round with participation from other investors that included Initialized Capital, Acequía Capital, Baseline Ventures, SV Angel, Maiden Lane, Y Combinator and Scott Banister. In conjunction with the funding, Cheryl Cheng, a general partner at BlueRun Ventures, has been added to the Sendwithus board.
1 min read · 21 November 2017
HopSkipDrive, a ride service for children, has secured $7.4 million in funding, according to a blog post on its site. The investors included FirstMark Capital, Upfront Ventures, Skyview Capital and Halogen Ventures.
1 min read · 21 November 2017