More than $316M pour in the powerful internet-based services last week.
From fantasy sports and social media, and social media monitoring system, and marketplace for collectors to Cybersecurity, these kind of services are and more profitable and receive lot of funding from traditional ventures.
Overall,
Connectikpeople.co can recall:
$32M / Series A for
IronNet Cybersecurity; that enables real-time
visualization of a company's entire cyber infrastructure, using behavioral
models and analytics, to detect anomalous activity.
Investors include: Trident
Capital Cybersecurity, Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers.
$16M / Series B for
Knip ; a Zurich-based digital insurance broker that lets
users manage policies on mobile and makes it easy to understand existing
insurance policies, tariffs and services.
Investors include: Route
66 Ventures (Lead), QED
Investors
(Lead), Creathor
Venture, Orange
Growth Capital (OGC), and more.
$10M / Series A for
Zebit; a fully automated payment system that provides
zero-interest credit to the 68 million Americans currnetly underserved by
traditional financial services.
Investors include: Crosslink
Capital
(Lead), Correlation
Ventures, Wildcat
Venture Partners, Leapfrog
Ventures.
$85M / Series
C for
Alteryx is a data analytics software company that
allows businesses to organize data sources for insights by providing a visual
interface to produce graphical representations.
Investors include: Iconiq
Capital
(Lead), Insight
Venture Partners, Meritech
Capital Partners.
$34M / Series C for
Paddle8; a marketplace for collectors, presenting
auctions of art, design, jewelry, watches, and other objects.
Investors include: Eric
Fellner, Stavros
Niarchos, Edgar
Berger, Damien
Hirst and
more.
$11M / Series A for
Pendo is a data platform that provides insights
into customers' product usage to assist in product engagement.
Investors include: Battery
Ventures
(Lead), IDEA
Fund Partners, Core
Capital Partners, Contour
Venture Partners and more !
$33M / Series C for
Brandwatch ; a social media monitoring system that
summarizes content on the web so brands and agencies can make data-driven
business decisions.
Investors include: Partech
Ventures
(Lead), Nauta
Capital, Highland
Capital Partners Europe.
$11M / Series A for
Gobble ; a weekly dinner kit delivery service that
helps busy people cook dinner in 10 minutes with 1 pan.
Investors include: Trinity
Ventures
(Lead), Andreessen
Horowitz, Fenox
Venture Capital, Initialized
Capital and
more.
$8.0M / Series A for
KeepTruckin is a San
Francisco-based startup that helps trucking companies manage their fleets and drivers legally log their
hours.
Investors include: Index
Ventures
(Lead) and more.
$8.0M / Series B for
Qraved; an
Indonesia-based startup that provides users with restaurant information, reviews, recommendations and an instant
booking platform.
Investors include: Richmond
Global
(Lead), Gobi
Partners
(Lead), Convergence
Ventures, M
& Y Growth Partners and more.
$2.0M / Seed
for
Sochat; a messenger app that uses Bluetooth to
quickly connect with people it recognizes in the the vicinity of the user's
phone.
Investors include: Eniac
Ventures
(Lead), Steven
Sinofsky, Maiden
Lane, Greylock
Partners and
more.
$500K / Seed
for
Apptuto; an edtech
startup that provides a gamified social
learning solution to students prepping for standardized exams.
Investors include: 500
Startups
(Lead), Delta
Partners Capital Limited, Google, HSBC and more.
$44M / Venture
for
Sportradar that provides
real-time scores, player statistics and play-by-play data for sports brands
like the NFL, NASCAR and the NHL. The company will use the funding to continue
its U.S. expansion and build products geared toward fantasy sports and social media.
Investors include: Michael
Jordan, Revolution
Growth, Mark
Cuban.
$9.0M / Series A for
Razorpay ; an online payments service for Indian
startups and small businesses. The company launched March 2015 and has raised
$11.5M in funding to date.
Investors include : Tiger
Global Management (Lead) ; Matrix
Partners.
$6.6M / Series A for
Fieldwire ; a
construction management and field collaboration
app for contractors. Founded in 2013 the company has raised $7.7M to date.
Investors include: Formation
8 (Lead), Bloomberg
Beta, AngelPad, Trinity
Ventures and
more.
