Private Equity
New York City-based Current, a financial tech company, has raised $5 million in Series A funding. QED Investors led the round with participation from Cota Capital. In conjunction with the funding, Frank Rotman, a founding partner at QED, will join Current's board of directors.
1 min read · 25 October 2017
Edison Software has acquired Return Path's consumer insights business, which provides ecommerce receipt data. No financial terms were disclosed. Edison Software is backed by Mayfield, USVP, Nautilus Venture Partners and Emerillon Capital.
3 min read · 25 October 2017
RiverVest Venture Partners has named Dr. Ronald T. Borchardt. and Dr. Jared Rutter to its scientific advisory board. Borchardt is a professor emeritus of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Kansas-Lawrence while Rutter is a researcher and professor in the biochemistry department at the University of Utah and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
3 min read · 25 October 2017
Ithaca, New York-based Ursa Space Systems Inc, a space 3.0 analytics-as-a-service company, has secured $7 million in Series A financing. Paladin Capital Group led the round with participation from other investors that included New Enterprise Associates, RRE Ventures and S&P Global.
1 min read · 25 October 2017
Harry’s Holdings, the parent company of Harry's Pizzeria and Genuine Pizza, has raised $2.5 million in funding. The investor was the Florida Opportunity Fund.
1 min read · 25 October 2017
French software startup Pollen Metrology has secured $2.4 million in funding. The investors included XAnge and KREAXI.
1 min read · 25 October 2017
New York City-based Brainly, a learning platform for students, has raised $14 million in funding. Kulczyk Investments led the round with participation from previous backers Naspers, General Catalyst, Point Nine Capital and Runa Capital.
4 min read · 25 October 2017
San Francisco-based Credit Sesame, a personalized credit service and financial wellness company, has raised over $42 million in funding. The investors include Menlo Ventures, Inventus Capital, Globespan Capital, IA Capital and SF Capital.
3 min read · 25 October 2017
Klook said Oct. 24 that it raised $60 million in Series C funding led by Sequoia China. Also participating in the round were Goldman Sachs, existing investor Matrix Partners, and various Asia-based family funds through global VC fund, OurCrowd. Klook, of Hong Kong, is a travel startup that provides an in-destination services booking platform.
5 min read · 25 October 2017
San Mateo, California and Chicago-based Reflektion, a developer of a personalization platform for the retail industry, has secured $12 million in funding. Hasso Plattner led the round with participation from other backers that included Battery Ventures and Clear Ventures.
3 min read · 25 October 2017
