Funding: Granular, eCommera, and Quanttus can now expand their engineering and to accelerate global growth.
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Granular (San Francisco-based farming
software and analytics startup), has raised $4.2 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, and Khosla Ventures. Founded (formerly Solum), as a soil science and analytics company, has sold
its soil science business to Monsanto in order to focus on building out its cloud business software and
analytics platform for farmers. Granular will use the funds to
expand its engineering, sales and customer service teams.
expand its engineering, sales and customer service teams.
eCommera (Founded in 2007, London-based e-commerce analytics company), has
raised $41 million in a Series C round led by Dawn Capital with participation from ePlanet Capital, Frog Capital, West Coast Capital, WPP, and WTI. eCommera's data analytics software uses retail data to help retailers
make better decisions around customer service to drive online sales and growth.
eCommera will use the new capital to
accelerate global growth, specifically in the North American market.
Quanttus (Founded in 2012, Cambridge, MA-based stealthy wearable device
startup), has raised $19 million in funding from Khosla Ventures and Matrix Partners. This company is developing wearable vital sign monitoring technology that
can capture and analyze more than half a million vital sign data points per
day. Quanttus will use the funds to continue testing and improving its wearable
devices.