Funding: Clio, RelateIQ, and Hortonworks, can now scale engineering efforts and global operations.

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Clio (Founded in 2007, Vancouver-based legal practice management software),  has raised $18 million in Series C funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Acton Capital Partners, Point Nine Capital, and new investor Version One Ventures. This startup helps law firms get organized, save time, and run their offices online and via mobile apps. Clio will use the new funds to continue international expansion, and invest aggressively in mobile.

RelateIQ  ( launched in 2013, Palo Alto-based big-data startup), has raised a $40 million Series C round led by Redpoint Ventures with participation from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Felicis Ventures, and News Corp. With RelateIQ businesses and employees can track client relationships by analyzing multiple communication streams in real-time. Valued at $245 million, RelateIQ will use the latest funding toward hiring and build out its mobile software products.

Hortonworks ( founded in 2011, Sunnyvale-based Hadoop vender), has raised $100 million in a Series D funding led by BlackRock and Passport Capital with participation from existing investors Dragoneer, Tenaya Capital, Benchmark, Index Ventures, and Yahoo. Connectikpeople.co recalls that, Hortonworks provides an open source data platform powered by Apache Hadoop for storing, managing, and analyzing big data. Hortonworks will use the new funds toward scaling engineering efforts and global operations.