Funding: Renaissance Learning, Postmates, and ZenPayroll can now accelerate their expansion.

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Renaissance Learning (founded in 1984, Wisconsin learning analytics company), has raised $40 million from Google Capital. Renaissance offers a variety of cloud-based learning and assessment tools designed to provide a data-driven approach to teachers and students. Renaissance Learning currently serves 18 million student users and will use the new fund to build out products in its pipeline and explore acquisition

opportunities.

Postmates (Founded in 2011, San Francisco-based urban delivery platform), has raised a Series B round of $16 million led by Spark Capital with participation from existing investors including Crosslink Capital, Matrix Partners, and SoftTech VC. Connectikpeople.co recalls that, Postmates provides local delivery service within an hour through its mobile app and network of couriers and is currently available in San Francisco, Seattle, NYC, and Washington, D.C. Postmates has raised $23 million to date and will use the new funds to continue expanding to new cities.

ZenPayroll (Founded in 2011, San Francisco-based payroll service), has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by General Catalyst Partners with participation from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. This company offers a cloud-based payroll application that automates all payroll tax calculations and payments, providing direct deposit to employees. ZenPayroll is currently processing $400 million in annual payroll and plans to use the new funds to expand its team and accelerate product growth.