Tech and Finance: since yesterday afternoon, Connectikpeople has captured more than 41 rounds and $142 million in fundings.
Branding Brand (Pittsburgh-based mobile commerce platform), has raised a
series B round of $9.5 million from repeat investors Insight Venture Partners, CrunchFund, and Lead Edge Capital, along with new investor eBay Enterprise. Connectikpeople may recall that, Branding Brand launched a platform in
2009 to optimize branding experiences on mobile devices and is now the largest
m-commerce provider to top Internet retailers. The company has raised $17
million in funding to date
Plaid (San
Francisco-based banking data startup), has raised $2.8 million in funding led
by Spark Capital with participation from Google Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Felicis Ventures, Homebrew Capital, and a number of angel investors. In private beta, Plaid
aims to make it
easier for developers to build financial applications by providing a modern API
for banking data.
Bugsnag (San
Francisco-based app error tracking service), has raised $1.4 million in seed
funding from Matrix Partners with participation from top cloud and SaaS angels Jason Seats and Andy McLoughlin. For those who unfamiliar, launched late last year, Bugsnag captures
errors, crashes, and exceptions in real-time from web, mobile, and desktop
applications, and helping app developers to understand and resolve them as fast
as possible.