Startups fundings: WyzAnt, Sojern, and Sailthru can now scale their activities and innovate.

If unfamiliar, Connectikpeople recalls that, 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. 

In this momentum, WyzAnt (founded in 2005, Chicago-based online tutoring portal), has raised $21.5 million in funding from Accel Partners. WyzAnt is the online marketplace for private tutoring, with over 500,000 tutors and 1 million students. WyzAnt will the new capital to drive product innovation and scale the company's technology platform. This is the first outside funding that WyzAnt has raised.

Sojern (Founded in 2007, San Francisco-based travel data & media company) has raised $10 million in a Series C round led by Triangle Peak Partners with participation from existing investors Norwest Venture Partners, Trident Capital, Focus Ventures, and Industry Ventures. If unfamiliar, Connectikpeople.co recalls that, Sojern offers a data-oriented advertising platform for travel clients and plans to use the latest funds to improve its platform and expand its engineering and data science

teams. Sojern has raised over $40 million in funding to date.

Sailthru (Founded in 2008, New York-based marketing and customer communication platform), has raised $20 million in a Series C round led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from previous backers Benchmark, RRE, DFJ Gotham, AOL Ventures, and Occam Partners. This company provides technology for customer engagement and will use the new funds to focus on growth and international expansion in the upcoming year. Sailthru has raised $48 million in funding to date.