Startups Fundings: Axtria, Ifbyphone, Glooko, Zephyr Health and CAN Capital can now increase their growth.
If unfamiliar, Connectikpeople.co 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.
Axtria (Founded in 2009, New Jersey-based data analytics software company), has
raised $4.8 million in a new funding from angels Richard Braddock and Amarpreet
Sawhney. Connectikpeople.co recalls that, Axtria builds sales, marketing,
and customer management data analytics tools to help companies drive
performance through a better understanding of their customer base. Axtria raised
$7.3 million to
date.
Ifbyphone ( Founded in 2005, Chicago-based marketing automation company ), has
raised $9 million in Series D funding led by new investor River Cities Capital Funds with participation from previous backers
Apex Venture Partners, Origin Ventures,
and SSM Partners. This company offers
products for marketing, sales, and customer support teams to track and automate
their calls. Ifbyphone currently has nearly 4,000 paying customers and plans to
use the latest funds to hire over 25 new team members in the next six months.
Glooko ( Founded in 2010, Palo Alto-based diabetes management platform), has
raised $7 million in a Series A-1 round from Samsung Ventures, The Social+Capital Partnership, Lifeforce Ventures, and founders Sundeep Madra and Yogen Dalal. Glooko's
products enable smartphone users to easily collect and view the information
necessary to control blood glucose levels, helping people to more easily manage
diabetes. Glooko has raised over $11 million to date and plans to use the
latest funds to increase growth with health providers and payer groups.
Zephyr Health (Founded in 2011, San Francisco-based data analysis
startup has raised $15 million in a Series B round led by Kleiner Perkins and Jafco Ventures. Zephyr Health brings Big Data tools to life sciences, combining NoSQL
databases, machine-learning algorithms and data visualization to help companies
gain insight to a diverse set of data sources. Connectikpeople.co recalls that,
founded in 2011 with the goal of reducing the time it takes life science
companies to bring therapies to market, Zephyr now counts many of the largest
pharmaceutical and medical device companies as customers and will use the new
funds to being more actively marketing its solution.
CAN Capital (founded in 1998, New York-based alternative capital provider), has raised
$33 million in a funding led by Meritech Capital and existing investor Accel Partners with participation from Ribbit and QED Investors.
This company uses a real-time
platform and risk-scoring model to provide capital to small and medium-sized
businesses in the U.S. and Latin America with typical investments ranging from
$2,500 and $250,000. Currently the largest non-bank alternative capital
provider to SMBs, CAN Capital has provided access to $3.6 billion in capital to
date.