Communications startup Zipwhip completed $22.5 million in Series C financing. OpenView Venture Partners led the round, with participation from Voyager Capital and Microsoft Ventures. Zipwhip, a Seattle-based cloud texting provider, pioneered the concept of using the cloud to enable mobile, landline, and toll free numbers to
iZooto is a growth hacking product that provides marketing automation using web push notifications. Its mission is to engage audiences and drive higher conversions, order fulfillments, and user callbacks. With iZooto, marketers can segment their customers by interest, clickstream, and behavior; automatically send notifications; and
Bynder is a design productivity tool that keeps users’ digital files organized and shared in one place for free. With Bynder Orbit, users can collaborate and share with as many people as they like using a custom branded portal. The product also features AI-powered search
RegTek Solutions announced it has secured $5 million in financing, led by Deutsche Boerse and Illuminate Financial Management. RegTek offers regulatory infrastructure solutions that can be retrofitted to pre-existing reporting infrastructures or used to create new, strategic platforms for regulatory control, transparency and quality assurance. RegTek’s
Axonius completed $4 million in seed financing. YL Ventures led the round, with participation from Vertex Ventures and Emerge.be. Axonius delivers a unified and open platform that integrates information from networked devices and existing device-specific standalone management solutions, creating single visibility and control environments. Its aim
Heavy equipment manufacturer Deere & Company announced that it will acquire Sunnyvale, CA-based Blue River Technology, an innovator in bringing machine learning to agricultural spraying equipment, for $305 million. The transaction is expected to close this month. Blue River Technology, which was founded in 2011
Enpose is a web app that allows users to create screenshots simply by entering a URL. Users have complete control over the size and positioning of their screenshots, and they can also set the exact number of seconds they want to wait until the screenshot
BetterView closed $2 million in financing. The round was led by Compound Ventures, with participation from 645 Ventures, Arab Angel, Winklevoss Capital, Chestnut Street Ventures, Haystack Fund, and MetaProp NYC. Betterview is a leading platform for drone-based property inspections, and it is quickly becoming a
Robotics startup Measure closed a new round of funding from PSP Capital. Measure was founded to help customers avoid the capital expense and operating risks of establishing their own drone programs. The company offers purchased drone support to fit customers’ operations and cost profiles. In a
Internet and IoT startup Keepe announced it has secured $1.5 million in financing. Ascend Venture Group, Alliance of Angels, Seattle Angel Fund, and Santa Barbara Angel Alliance participated in the funding. Keepe’s goal is to improve the way property managers find contractors, obtain estimates, get