More than $329M / in Private Equity last week meant to the digital economy
Excellent news that
demonstrates that, the Private Equity has henceforth strong-feet within the
industry.
More than $10M / in Venture for a global funding that surpassed
635M.
Connectikpeople.co can
recall:
$8.0M / Venture for
Clip that provides a mobile payment service for small merchants in Mexico to accept
credit cards and online payments.
Investors
include: Alta
Ventures Mexico (Lead), Endeavor
Catalyst, Sierra
Ventures, American
Express Ventures and more.
$16M
/ Series D
for
NowThis News, that
makes short form digital videos for mobile devices and social platforms.
The company plans to expand its channel strategy with the launch of
NowThisElection.
Investors
include: Axel
Springer (Lead) and more.
$30M
/ Series D
for
Platfora , that offers a big data analytics service for companies that works with a variety
of platforms including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Hadoop.
Investors
include: Sutter
Hill Ventures, HSBC,
Citi
Ventures, Harmony
Partners and more.
$11M
/ Series A
for
Swift Navigation provides GPS technology for agriculture, drones, and construction. Today's
round brings the company's total raised to $13.6M.
Investors
include : Eclipse
Ventures (Lead), Promus
Ventures, New
Enterprise Associates.
$45M
/ Series B
for
GoEuro , a travel
search engine for Europe that compares and combines air, rail, bus and car
rental options.
Investors
include: Goldman
Sachs (Lead), Yuri
Milner, Atomico,
Ilkka
Paananen.
$200M
/ Private
Equity for
Vice is a print magazine and website focused on arts, culture, and news topics. To date, the
company has raised $770M in total funding.
Investors
include: Disney
Interactive and more.
$25M / Series B for
BlackBuck, an online
marketplace for freight booking, based in Bangalore, that helps corporate
and other businesses move full truck loads between cities.
$38M
/ Series E
for
SnapLogic; an integration
platform that allows companies to connect any number of applications in the
cloud and on-premise. Founded in 2006, SnapLogic has raised $96M to date.
Investors include: Microsoft
Corporation - Strategic Investments
(Lead); Silver
Lake Waterman (Lead).
$129M
/ Private Equity for
Palantir , a Palo Alto-based data analytics firm that provides tools for a wide variety of use
cases, including cybersecurity, crisis response, and military intelligence.
$20M
/ Series B
for
AeroFarms , a New York-based urban agricultural
company that provides aeroponic growing
systems to grow and produce regardless of soil or sun, in any location.
Investors
include: Wheatsheaf
Group (Lead), GSR
Ventures, Middleland
Capital, MissionPoint
Capital Partners.
$22M
/ Series A
for
DataScience, that combines human intellect with machine-powered analysis to create actionable
insights from complex data for enterprises. The Los Angeles-based startup has
raised $28M in funding since it was founded in 2014.
Investors
include: Whitehart
Ventures (Lead), Greycroft
Partners.
$35M
/ Series B
for
Factual is a Los Angeles-based neutral data company that aims to make data accessible to everyone.
Factual will use the new funding to scale its technology and fuel international
expansion.
Investors
include: Tom
Unterman, Thomas
Lehrman, Heritage
Group, Altpoint
Ventures and more.
$10M / Series A for
Gigster is an on-demand
software development company that finds freelance developers and designers
to build an app. Today's round brings the company's funding total to $12.5M.
Investors
include : Y
Combinator, Jason
Calacanis, Andreessen
Horowitz, Ashton
Kutcher and more.
$16M / Series B for
Shoes of Prey, an Australian e-commerce company that lets customers purchase customized shoes.
With the new funding, the company plans to add new products to its line of
footwear.
Investors
include: Blue
Sky Venture Capital (Lead), Nordstrom,
Greycroft
Partners.
$30M / Series C for
FAASOS is an on-demand
food delivery startup based in India. The company has raised $50M in total
funding to date.
Investors include: ru-Net
(Lead), Lightbox
Ventures, Sequoia
Capital.
