With nearly $1.5B captured last week, the Private Equity continues boosting the digital economy.
The kitty was consequent taking into account the
quality of investors and companies involved in this dynamic.
Nearly $1.861B raised by the digital economy last
week with a great focus on: online
community marketplace; online marketplace; cloud-based services to finance and
satellite-powered data.
Overall,
$10M / Series A for
UrbanClap , a mobile-based service
marketplace in India that matches users with service providers based on
specific requests. UrbanClap is currently processing 1,000 customer requests
per day and will use the funding to grow this number by 10 and expand across
India.
Investors include: Accel
Partners and SAIF Partners.
$40M / Series D for
Onefinestay , a
company that offers upscale city
accommodation for visitors while the homeowner is out of town. Founded in
2009 and based in London, Onefinestay has raised $80M to date.
Investors include: Intel Capital, Index
Ventures and others.
$1.5B / Private Equity for
Airbnb, an online community marketplace with 1.4
million listings of rooms, apartments, and houses for rent. Founded in 2008,
Airbnb has raised $2.3B to date and is currently valued at $25.5B.
Investors include: Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers, GGV Capital, Tiger Global
Management and others.
$30M / Series D for
Shapeways , a
company that lets users print anything in 3D, on-demand. The company will
invest the new capital in new features and materials for its printing platform.
Investors include: Andreessen
Horowitz, Union Square
Ventures, Presidio
Ventures and others.
$30M / Series C for
ZOZI, a discovery,
reservation and payments platform for
tours, activities and events. ZOZI raised $15M in previous rounds, bringing
its total venture funding to $45M.
Investors include: 500 Startups, Dolby Family
Ventures, Bridge Bank and others.
$60M / Series C for
BankBazaar.com , an online marketplace that gives
instant customized rate quotes on loans and insurance products. With the new
funding, BankBazaar intends to invest heavily in its mobile app, as well as in
marketing and branding initiatives.
Investors include: Sequoia
Capital, Walden
International , Amazon and others major investors.
$20M / Series A for
HomeHero, a startup
that connects home care workers with the families that need them. The company
has helped deliver a million hours of home
care since January of 2014.
Investors include: The
Social+Capital Partnership, Tencent
Holdings, Launch Fund and others major investors.
$20M / Series C for
PubNub , a data network focused on messaging for
apps, IoT hardware and other low-latency services. Founded in 2010 and based in
San Francisco, PubNub has raised $35M to date.
Investors include: Scale Venture
Partners , Sapphire Ventures and Relay
Ventures.
$35M / Series C for
Sweetgreen, a trendy salad shop headquartered in
Washington D.C. The casual chain has raised a total of $95M in venture funding.
The company will use the new fund to build out its mobile app and open new
locations across the U.S.
$21M
/ Series
B for
Distil that offers bot detection and mitigation services,
working to stop automated attacks in order to make the web more secure. Distil
plans to use the new funding to expand sales, marketing, and engineering.
Investors include: Techstars, Bessemer
Venture Partners , ff Venture
Capital and others.
$40M / Series B for
Spire, a satellite-powered data company that
tackles business challenges with data solutions for organizations. The
financing brings the company's total funding to roughly $80M.
Investors include: Bessemer
Venture Partners, RRE Ventures , Promus
Ventures and others investors.
$75M / Series G for
Adaptive Insights
that sells cloud-based services to
finance and other management teams to model a company's performance and
other business intelligence. Founded in 2003, Adaptive Insights has raised
$176M to date.
Major Investors include: Bessemer
Venture Partners , Norwest Venture
Partners - NVP ONSET
Ventures
and others.
