Blue Rooster, Soylent and CoolaData have raised $ 12.1 million to improve operations, work on further product and more.
Blue Rooster (founded in 2000, Seattle-based tech consulting and experience
design firm), has raised $3 million in funding from PFU Limited, a subsidiary of Fujitsu. For those who unfamiliar, Blue Rooster provides a combination of
technical and design expertise and also offers its own enterprise collaboration
software, Madison, to improve document sharing within a company. This company
will use this capital to improve operations in the Asia-Pacific region through its
new Hong Kong office and
eventually plans to expand into Europe.
Soylent (San
Francisco-based nutritional drink maker ),has raised $1.5 million in seed
funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Lerer Ventures, Initialized Capital, and Hydrazine Capital. Connectikpeople may recall that, Soylent is a meal replacement drink that
claims to contain all of the medically necessary nutrients and vitamins to
sustain life. With the funding raised, Soylent will bring manufacturing
in-house and work on further product development.
CoolaData( founded in 2011 ,Tel Aviv-based data analytics startup), has raised $7.4 million in a
Series A round led by Greylock IL and Carmel Ventures. Powered by Google's cloud services, CoolaData's platform allows companies
to analyze online user behavior and convert it to usable business data. CoolaData
will use the funding to officially launch its platform, currently in beta, and
to add connections to additional third-party sources.