Nearly $1.154B injected last week in the digital industry: the Private Equity continues its momentum.
Established business models continue to drive
excitements among investors who foster more and more , established e-commerce
services; bringing a new breathe for expansion.
The Private Equity contributed for
almost $242M to finance online food
ordering sites; listing site, and more.
Commercial music streaming service, mobile game apps,
cloud services, security technologies and the sharing economy have also driven
huge amount of funding.
25M EUR / Venture for
Jimdo that enables users to create a website on a computer, smart phone or
tablet using a simple intuitive interface.
Investors include: Spectrum
Equity.
$25M / Series B for Menlo Security, a stealth cyber security startup, that aims to eliminating the threat of advanced malware by introducing a new security model. Investors include: General Catalyst Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures, Osage University Partners and others.
$110M / Private Equity for Delivery Hero, a network of online food ordering sites with over 73,000 restaurant partners worldwide.
$16M / Series B for Swiggy, a curated takeout delivery service based in Bangalore. Launched last year, Swiggy will use the funding to expand to additional Indian cities and scale its network.
Investors include: Accel
Partners, Norwest
Venture Partners - NVP, and SAIF Partners.
$135M / Series D for Blue Apron, a New York-based meal service that delivers perfectly portioned ingredients and recipes to your home. Founded in 2012, Blue Apron is currently delivery 3 million meals per month.
Investors include: Bessemer
Venture Partners, BoxGroup, Stripes Group and others.
$129M / Private Equity
PropertyGuru is a
Singapore-based property listing site for the real estate market in Singapore,
Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia. The funding will go toward marketing and
further expansion across Southeast Asia.
$20M / Series B for Brit+Co , a lifestyle media company founded by Brit Morin in 2011. The company has raised $27.5M to date.
Investors include: Intel Capital, Liberty Media, Oak Capital and more.
$35M / Venture
High Alpha is a
venture studio, based in Indianapolis that will create and fund enterprise
cloud companies in-house.
Investors include: Emergence
Capital Partners, Hyde Park
Venture Partners, Greenspring Associates and more.
$526M / Series G for Spotify is a commercial music streaming service, founded in 2006 in Stockholm. Henceforth valued at $8.53B.
Investors include: Goldman Sachs, Northzone, and
Technology Crossover Ventures and
others.
$2.5M / Equity Crowdfunding
Green Zebra Grocery
aims to increase access to fresh and healthy foods through convenient
neighborhood stores. It has closed a $2.5M funding round through Circle Up, an
equity crowdfunding site.
Investors include: CircleUp.
$10M / Series B for Gogovan , a Hong Kong-based on-demand cargo transportation service for urban areas. Founded in 2013, this startup serves over 70,000 users in multiple parts of Asia, including Korea and mainland China.
Investors include: Zhemin Hu and Joe (Yi-Zhou)
Chen.
