Passionflix closed $4.8 million in seed financing. Passionflix is a streaming service that turns people’s favorite romance novels into movies and TV series. It is available on smartphones, tablets, laptops and smart TV and costs $5.99 per month. The company says its goal is to release
Startup Lunar Wireless completed $4.1 million in financing led by 8VC. Other participants included Betaworks, Fontinalis Partners, Detroit Venture Partners, Core Innovation Capital, Abstract Ventures, Expansion Venture Capital, Social Starts, BLU Products, 1517 Fund, and WndrCo. [bg_collapse view="link" color="#4a4949" icon="arrow" expand_text="Continue reading" collapse_text="Show less” ] Lunar
IoT startup Ayla Networks completed $60 million in Series D financing led by Run Liang Tai Fund and Sunsea Telecommunications. Ayla Networks offers cloud-based connectivity solutions for manufacturers to turn appliances, HVAC, and more into intelligent devices. The company’s goal is to help manufacturers turn their
YugaByte announced it has raised $8 million in Series A financing led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. YugaByte is an open source, cloud-native database for mission-critical applications. It helps to break barriers between SQL and NoSQL by offering both in a unified platform. Its database infrastructure is
According to a recent SEC filing, CleverTap has raised $6 million in financing from an undisclosed investor. CleverTap offers marketers app- and website-user analytics, real-time segmentation, multi-channel messaging, A/B testing, and personalization in a unified platform. It also allows businesses to engage users via personalized push
Digital Pi, a marketing technology agency focused on the Marketo Engagement Platform, has appointed Ari S. Milstein as chief operating officer and chief financial officer. [bg_collapse view="link" color="#4a4949" expand_text="Continue reading" collapse_text="Show less" ] Milstein brings more than 20 years of executive finance and operations expertise to Digital
According to a recent SEC filing, ClaimKit has acquired $2.9 million in financing from an undisclosed investor. ClaimKit provides the on- or off-site collection, organization, and delivery of claim files through a web application called Privity. The app collects and digitizes emails, project records, accounting information,
Inspired by Montessori principles, Yoto is an audio player that works with physical cards to give children control over what they play. The device offers a wide range of content, from nursery rhymes and songs to get the kids dancing, to stories, podcasts, and radio
Thrive, a provider of next-generation managed services, announced that John Panzica has joined the company as its new head of sales. Panzica will be based in New York City, working with Chief Strategy Officer Marc Pantoni, after the company’s acquisition of Precision IT. Prior to joining
According to a recent SEC filing, NuoDB raised $4.8 million in financing from an undisclosed investor. NuoDB’s elastic SQL database for cloud applications strives to help software vendors and ecommerce companies get applications to market faster and reduce their total cost of ownership.