Venture Capital Update

Artspace B Round: $8,500,000 Founded: Industry: Community More Here New York, New York – Artspace.com, aan ecommerce platform that acts as an online marketplace for high-end art has raised $8.5 million in seed funding from Canaan Partners. “Paying that huge sum without seeing the art can be scary for some people, but we’ve seen in [...]

BrightBytes Seed: $750,000 Founded: 03/2012 Industry: More Here San Francisco, California – BrightBytes, the first SaaS-based data analytics platform that measures and links technology use in education to learning outcomes has raised $750 K of seed funding from Learn Capital Venture Partners and NewSchools Venture Fund with some unnamed investors. The new funding will be [...]

Smarkets Seed: $2,300,000 Founded: 01/2008 Industry: Mobile More Here London, UK – Smarkets, a prediction market website that makes punting on your favourite events simple and social has raised $2.3 million of seed funding from T-Venture and Passion Capital. As part of the funding deal, Randeep Wilkhu, Senior Investment Manager at T-Venture, and Robert Dighero, [...]

Fortumo Seed: $10,000,000 Founded: 10/2007 Industry: Mobile More Here San Francisco, California – Fortumo, a developer-friendly mobile payments provider has raised $10 million of funding from Intel Capital and Greycroft Partners. “The opportunity in the mobile payments segment is enormous, and we believe that Fortumo is well positioned to capitalize on the trend of operator [...]

Blottr Seed: $612,000 Founded: 08/2010 Industry: Content Management More Here London, UK – Blottr, a people powered news service that enables anyone to capture, report and collaborate on news as it happens around them, from mobile to web instantly has raised $612 K of seed funding from Kima Ventures Fund and Playfair Capital. The new [...]

Sokikom Seed: $2,000,000 Founded: 2012 Industry: Education More Here Washington, D.C. Sokikom, an online program that uses positive reinforcement, social learning, and personalization to help solve these problems has raised $2 million of seed funding from Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and top corporate and angel investors including ntel Chairman and CEO Dr. Craig Barrett [...]

Graduway Seed: $1,100,000 Founded: 08/2009 Industry: More Here London, UK – Graduway, a professional and tailored alumni platform that combines the trust and exclusiveness of a school brand whilst being layered and integrated with existing social networks has raised $1.1 M of seed funding from BTG Pactual and Gigi Levy and RSL Venture Partners. “Time [...]

AirWatch A Round: $0 Founded: 2003 Industry: Mobile More Here Atlanta, Georgia – AirWatch, a leading provider of enterprise-wide Mobile Device and WLAN Management solutions has raised $200 million of series A funding from Insight Venture Partners. The new round of funds will be used in strategic acquisitions, accelerate global growth and drive innovation and [...]

Skyera B Round: $51,000,000 Founded: 2010 Industry: Data Management More Here San Jose, California – Skyera, an affordable flash memory to enterprise solid-state storage systems has raised $51 million of series b funding from Dell Ventures. “We view the investment in Skyera as a validation of the disruptiveness of the technology we are bringing to [...]

uBank A Round: $8,000,000 Founded: Industry: Mobile More Here Moscow, Russia – uBank, a mobile payment service that currently targets Russia and the wider CIS region has raised $8 million of series A funding from Runa Capital. The new investment will be used to accelerate the product development, venturing into the global market and for [...]