Startups fundings: Infinio, Plumbee, and Crowdtilt share their dreams.
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this rubric is intended to help organizations, and investors to live in
real-time what happens in the startups world; in terms of fundings,
acquisitions, strategic alliances and more. Regarding the emerging countries, and startups, this is an
instrument for them to discover which Venture Capital or Business angel can
fund their projects.
Henceforth, (Infinio, Founded in 2011, Cambridge-based storage performance software), has raised $12 million in
Series B funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, Highland Capital Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Osage University Partners. This company produces software that can dramatically improves data storage
performance in virtualization environments and plans to use the new funding to
expand its product. Infinio has raised $24 million in funding to date.
Plumbee (Founded in 2011, London-based
social casino gaming startup), has raised $13 million in funding from
Netherlands-based TV production house Endemol with participation from previous investor IDInvest Partners. Endemol will work with
Plumbee to build on its existing digital gaming
projects.
Crowdtilt ( Founded in 2012, San Francisco-based crowdfunding
platform), has raised $23 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from SV Angel, DCM, Felicis Ventures, and a number of angels including Sean Parker, Naval Ravikant, Matt Mullenweg, and Alexis Ohanian. Similar to Kickstarter or Indiegogo, Crowdtilt helps everyday users crowdfund smaller, more community-oriented
projects. Crowdtilt has raised $37
million in funding to date and will put the latest capital toward building out
enterprise tools and planning for international expansion.