Startup fundings: Espresso Logic, Jut, Project Frog, Building Robotics, Loop Commerce have raised + $50 million.



Espresso Logic (Santa Clara-based reactive database backend service ), has raised $1.6 million in a seed funding round led by Inventus Capital Partners with participation from angels including Raju Reddy, Lee Nackman, Anurag Jain, and Gokul Rajaram. Espresso Logic's backend as a service connects web and mobile applications to external databases including MySQL, Oracle Server and Microsoft SQL Server, seeking to close the gap between database administrators and developers. The $1.6 million will be
used for product development and increasing marketing and sales efforts.

Jut (San Francisco-based big data startup ), has raised $20 million in a Series B round led by Accel Partners with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners. Still in stealth mode, Jut will use the funds to expand its engineering team and bring the first version of its product to market.

Project Frog (sFounded in 2006, an Francisco-based energy Efficiency Company), has raised $20 million from CCM US and McNally Capital. Project Frog develops building components that arrive at the construction site ready for assembly, giving architects and builders a fast and cost-effective way to create energy-efficient buildings. The company is expanding rapidly, already developing seven times last year's square footage so far this year. Project Frog has raised $50 million in funding to date.

Building (Oakland-based environment control software startup ), Robotics has raised $1.14 million in seed funding from Claremont Creek Ventures, Google Ventures, Formation 8, Navitas Capital, Red Swan, and others. Building Robotics' main product, Comfy, is software that aims to provide a comfortable workplace for all employees, delivering instant streams of warm or cool air to people while also using machine learning to reduce energy use.

Loop Commerce, (Founded in 2012, Mountain View-based e-commerce gifting platform) as raised $7 million in Series A funding from a list of investors including eBay CTO Mark Carges, Don Katz of Audible and Amazon, Magento CEO Roy Rubin, former Toys "R" Us SVP Michael Scharff, Oren Zeev, Chegg CTO Chuck Geiger, and Novel TMT Ventures. Loop Commerce is launched its product that offers a separate checkout process for gifting on e-commerce sites, sending notifications upon purchase to gift recipients to ask them for their size, shipping address, and preferred color.  Loop has already raised $8 million in funding.

Appboy (Founded in 2011, New York-based customer engagement platform ),has closed a $7.6 million Series A round led by Icon Venture Partners with participation from new investors IDG Ventures and Mike Lazerow, and existing investors Blumberg Capital, Accelerator Ventures, Bullpen Capital, and T5 Capital. Appboy helps companies retain users by offering tools that enable a better understanding of user demographics and engage users through in-app messages, push notifications, and email. Appboy will use the new funding to grow sales and marketing teams and look into international expansion.

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