Private Equity
Druva, a provider of cloud data protection and management solutions, has secured $80 million in funding, bringing the company's total tally to about $200 million. Riverwood Capital led the round with participation from other investors that included Sequoia Capital India, Nexus Venture Partners and Tenaya Capital.
1 min read · 22 August 2017
Houston-based Innowatts, an energy tech startup, has raised $6 million in Series A funding. Royal Dutch Shell's venture arm Shell Technology Ventures led the round with participation from Iberdrola Ventures - Perseo and Energy & Environment Investment Inc.
1 min read · 22 August 2017
Tulip, a mobile application platform built for retail stores and sales associates, has raised $40 million in Series B funding. Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers led the round with participation from other investors that included Jump Capital. In addition to the funding, Mood Rowghani, a general partner at KPCB, will join Tulip's board of directors.
1 min read · 22 August 2017
Sunnyvale, California-based Matterport, an immersive media technology company, has raised $5 million in funding. The backer was Ericsson Ventures.
1 min read · 22 August 2017
Vervoe, a newly launched online hiring assistant for startups and small to medium-sized businesses, has raised $1 million in funding. The investors were not named.
1 min read · 22 August 2017
UK-based StoryStream, a content acceleration platform provider, has secured 1.2 million pounds in funding. MMC Ventures led the round.
1 min read · 22 August 2017
San Francisco-based Stride Health, a benefits provider for independent workers, has raised $23.5 million in Series B financing. F-Prime Capital Partners led the round with participation from other investors that included Venrock, New Enterprise Associates and Portag3 Ventures.
1 min read · 22 August 2017
Databricks, a unifed analytics platform provider, has raised $140 million in Series D funding. Andreessen Horowitz led the round with participation from New Enterprise Associates and Battery Ventures.
2 min read · 22 August 2017
Indianapolis-based Sigstr, a cloud platform for employee email personalization, has raised $5 million in Series A funding. Hyde Park Venture Partners led the round with participation from other investors that included Battery Ventures, HubSpot, Grand Ventures and High Alpha Capital.
3 min read · 22 August 2017
Mountain View, California-based Redis Labs, home of open source Redis and Redis Enterprise and provider of an in-memory database that powers apps and services, announced today it has raised $44 million in Series D funding led by new investor Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing. Also participating in the new round are existing investors Bain Capital Ventures and Carmel Ventures, along with Dell Technologies Capital. The company, founded in 2011, has now raised $86 million in total funding to date.
1 min read · 21 August 2017
