iUNU announced the close of $6 million in financing. Five investors participated in the round, including Initialized Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures, Second Avenue Partners, and FUEL Capital. iUNU is a Seattle-based lighting company that improves indoor horticulture by using energy-efficient technology designed to increase plant growth
Security startup ShoCard announced the close of $4 million in financing. Seven investors participated in the round: Morado Venture Partners, AME Cloud Ventures, Storm Ventures, Danhua Capital, Correlation Ventures, Recruit Strategic Partners, and Robert Tinker. ShoCard is a digital identity and authentication platform built on a
Software company Databricks announced the close of $140 million in Series D financing. Three investors participated in the round: Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, and Battery Ventures. Databricks’ mission is to accelerate innovation for its customers by unifying data science, engineering and business. Founded by the
Internet and IoT startup Stride Health closed $23.5 million in Series B financing. Four investors contributed to the round: F-Prime Capital, Venrock, New Enterprise Associates, and Portag3 Ventures. Stride Health is a healthcare insurance platform that helps users minimize their taxes and follow effective health plans.
Internet and IoT startup Skytap announced the close of $45 million in Series E financing. Goldman Sachs, Insight Venture Partners, Madrona Venture Group, Ignition Partners, and OpenView Venture Partners participated in the funding. Skytap provides cloud-based development and testing environments to the enterprise. Skytap Cloud
Tulip completed $40 million in Series B financing. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Jump Capital participated in the round. Tulip Retail is a cloud-based retail platform built exclusively for store associates. It was founded in 2013 by a team of mobile and ecommerce experts
Software startup Druva completed $80 million in financing. Four investors contributed to the round: Riverwood Capital, Sequoia India, Nexus Venture Partners, and Tenaya Capital. As the industry’s fastest growing cloud-based data protection provider, Druva is trusted by more than 4,000 global organizations, with in excess of
Today, online publishing platform Medium launched Medium 3.0, a new Medium Partner Program. Medium’s team believes that quality content needs to be paid for by consumers — not advertisers — so creators can do their best work with their interests aligned to those of consumers. Accordingly, creators in the
VR and AR startup Immersv announced it has closed $10.5 million in Series A financing. The round was led by Rogers Venture Partners, with participation from Foundation Capital, The Venture Reality Fund, Initial Capital, East Ventures, HTC Vive, MCJ Co. Ltd., GREE, i-mobile, Metaps, and
According to a recent SEC filing, Internet and IoT startup Union Station raised $850,000 in financing from an undisclosed investor. Union Station is an online marketplace for bridesmaids’ dresses. The company provides a wide range of dresses in 18 colors. Brides can search through the