Startups landscape and capital risk ecosystem: BlockScore, Tastemade, Couchbase, Schoology, mCube, and Vessel can now focus on products development and sales expansion.
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BlockScore,( launched this week, a Palo Alto-based identity verification startup), has
raised $2 million in funding from Battery Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, New Atlantic Ventures, Boost VC, Y Combinator, and several angels. BlockScore helps companies reduce compliance burdens
for consumer identity theft and fraud protection. BlockScore plans to use the new funding for product development and
sales expansion.
Tastemade, ( Founded in 2012, an online food network), has raised $25 million in
Series C funding from Scripps Interactive Media and Liberty Media along with return backers Comcast Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Raine Ventures. Tastemade provides food-centric video content, producing a variety of its
own cooking shows. Tastemade has
raised over $40 million to date and will use the latest cash to ramp up hiring
and produce more content.
Couchbase, (Founded in 2009 a NoSQL database company based in Mountain View), has
raised $60 million in a Series E round led by WestSummit Capital and Accel Growth Fund with participation from existing investors Adams Street Partners, Ignition Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, and DoCoMo Capital. Couchbase offers Couchbase Server, an open-source, NoSQL database, as
well as a mobile database. Couchbase
has raised $116 million to date and will invest the latest funding in growth in
China and mobile product development.
Schoology,(Founded in 2009, a learning management company based in New York), has
raised $15 million in a Series C round led by Intel Capital with participation from Great Oaks Venture Capital and Great Road Holdings as well as previous investors FirstMark Capital and Meakem Becker Venture Capital. Schoology helps users create,
manage and share academic content. The startup has raised $25 million to date
and currently serves 5 million users in over 50,000 K-12 schools and
universities worldwide.
mCube, (Founded in 2009 provider of the world's smallest MEMS motion sensors),
has raised $37 million in Series C funding from existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, MediaTek, iD Ventures, and DAG Ventures, joined by new investors Keytone Ventures, SK Telecom Ventures, and Korea Investment Partners. mCube's motion sensors can be embedded in smartphones, wearable devices,
automobiles, and sensor tags to serve a variety of industries. mCube has shipped over 60 million chips
and will use the new funding to further accelerate
production.
Vessel, (Launched in 2013, and still in furtive mode, a San Francisco-based
startup founded by former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar), has raised $75 million in funding from Benchmark, Bezos Expeditions, and Greylock Partners. According to its founders Vessel will be a media tech startup focused on
original video content and plan to reveal more about the company later this
year.