Progate is an education web service where everyone can learn to code. It offers a fully equipped coding environment to get users started, along with a total of nine courses and 36 lessons, including HTML & CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Ruby, and Python. The Tokyo-based company
Fintech startup Credit Sesame announced it has raised $42 million in financing. Six investors participated in the round, among them Menlo Ventures, Inventus Capital Partners, Globespan Capital Partners, IA Capital Group, and SF Capital Group. Credit Sesame is a free online personal finance tool that provides
Homelyfe closed $2.8 million in seed financing led by Talis Capital and Peterson Partners. London-based Homelyfe created an app for buying and managing insurance. Users view multiple insurance policies all in one place in real time, making it easy for them to compare and purchase the
Ursa Space Systems Inc. (Ursa) announced the completion of $7 million in Series A financing led by Paladin Capital Group, with participation from New Enterprise Associates, RRE Ventures, and S&P Global. Ursa is a Space 3.0 analytics-as-a-service company that brings transparency to global markets to help
Scoutible completed $5 million in seed financing led by Learn Capital. Great Oaks Venture Capital, New Enterprise Associates, StartX, and Mindset Ventures also participated. Scoutible is a game-based hiring platform that uses immersive mobile games and sophisticated machine learning to pinpoint perfect-fit candidates for jobs. Its
Klook announced it has raised $60 million in Series C financing led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Goldman Sachs, Matrix Partners, and OurCrowd. Klook is headquartered in Hong Kong with offices located in more than 13 major cities across Asia, where its in-destination services booking
Enterprise IT startup JazzHR announced the completion of $6.6 million in financing led by Volition Capital, with participation from Birchmere Ventures and Rincon Venture Partners. JazzHR’s recruiting software replaces antiquated hiring tools such as email and spreadsheets with an intuitive applicant tracking system, thus helping recruiters
Civil announced the close of $5 million in financing from ConsenSys. By using the latest technology in artificial intelligence and blockchain, Civil’s self-governing marketplace aims to solve the current “Fake News” problem by allowing citizens to directly sponsor newsrooms, and journalists to collaboratively run their own
Cloud computing company ServiceNow announced that it has acquired enterprise mobility platform SkyGiraffe. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. ServiceNow expects SkyGiraffe technology to be embedded in the Now Platform in 2018, offering all packaged applications in a native mobile format, including its flagship
Security startup Umbo Computer Vision announced it has raised $6.8 million in Series A led by CDIB Bioscience, with participation from AppWorks Ventures, Mesh Ventures, and Substance Capital. Umbo CV is an artificial intelligence company developing cloud-first smart security cameras for enterprises. The company’s newest product,