Private Equity
Seattle-based Amperity, an intelligent customer data platform, has raised $28 million in Series B financing. Tiger Global Management LLC led the round with participation from return backer Madrona Venture Group.
1 min read · 26 October 2017
Hercules Capital has appointed Brad Koenig and Jorge Titinger to its board of directors. Koenig is the former head of global technology investment banking at Goldman Sachs while Titinger is the former president and CEO of Silicon Graphics International Corp.
4 min read · 26 October 2017
Bethesda, Maryland and UK-based Epidarex Capital, an early-stage life science venture firm, has named Dr. William R Sellers, William Burns and Dr. Frank M Armstrong to its advisory board. Sellers is the former vice president and global head of oncology at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research; Burns was the CEO of Roche Pharmaceuticals; and Armstrong has led development improvement programs at Merck Serono, Zeneca and Bayer.
5 min read · 26 October 2017
China Everbright Limited and venture capital firm Walden International are launching a $500 million fund to invest in the semiconductor and industrial information technology, amid Beijing’s ambition to be a global leader in the sector, Reuters reported.
1 min read · 26 October 2017
North Andover, Massachusetts-based Amastan Technologies, a producer of materials using microwave-plasma production systems, has secured $13.85 million in Series B funding. Anzu Partners led the round with participation from other backers that included Material Impact, RKS Ventures, KLP Ventures and LaunchCapital. In addition to the funding, Dr. Mark Little, a venture partner at Material Impact and former GE chief technology officer, has joined Amastan's board of directors.
4 min read · 26 October 2017
Ankeny, Iowa-based MākuSafe, a maker of a wearable workplace safety device and software platform, has raised $1.25 million in funding. The investors were not named.
2 min read · 25 October 2017
San Francisco-based TuneIn, a live streaming and on-demand audio service, has named Holly Lim as chief financial officer. Prior to joining TuneIn, Lim was CFO at Soundcloud. TuneIn is backed by Comcast Ventures, IVP, Sequoia Capital, Causeway, General Catalyst Partners, Icon Ventures and Marker LLC.
2 min read · 25 October 2017
Homelyfe said it raised about $2.8 million of seed capital in a round led by Talis Capital and Peterson Ventures.
1 min read · 25 October 2017
Scoutible, a gaming platform for discovering talent, has raised $5 million in seed funding. Learn Capital and Mark Cuban led the round with participation from other investors that included Great Oaks, New Enterprise Associates, Stanford StartX Fund and Mindset Ventures.
3 min read · 25 October 2017
GSR Ventures is seeking to raise $325 million for its sixth fund, according to an SEC filing. Based in Silicon Valley and Beijing, GSR invests in early-stage tech companies that are either located in China or have a connection to the country.
1 min read · 25 October 2017
