Edtech startup Kano completed $28 million in Series B financing led by Thames Trust and Breyer Capital. Index Ventures, LocalGlobe, Collaborative Fund, TriplePoint Capital, Barclays, and Stanford University also participated in the offering. Kano is a London-based company that empowers people of all ages to make
AppZen completed $13 million in Series A financing led by Redpoint Ventures. Resolute Ventures also participated in the round. AppZen's AI-powered solution automates expense report creation, compliance, and audit. Its patent pending technology automatically detects accidental as well as intentional fraud, and provides real-time compliance
Botcheck is a tool that detects, tracks, and exposes Twitter propaganda bot accounts. The company claims that, according to data crunched from a simple random sample of 1500 political propaganda bots on Twitter, the top three propaganda hashtags are #maga, #nycterroristattack, and #iamhillary, while top
Warden.Co is a developer tool that alerts users when they're being hacked by monitoring their app accounts for suspicious activity. After users integrate the Warden snippet, the product starts to learn about the users, and it automatically alerts them when it thinks a hack has
GroHawk is a free customer engagement platform that allows users to hear what their customers are saying and react immediately. Its customer control panel includes customer satisfaction measurement, automated customer feedback technology, and customer loyalty monitoring.
LabVantage Solutions, a provider of laboratory informatics solutions and services, has promoted Robert T. Voelkner to vice president, sales and marketing. Prior to joining LabVantage in 2009, Voelkner was America’s sales manager for the laboratory information management system (LIMS) division of Applied Biosystems. Previously, he
Globality completed $35 million in financing from THK Equities and Raine Ventures. Globality is on a mission to create the first global business-to-business services marketplace. The AI-enabled technology platform uses machine learning to help provide the best matches for a client’s project, and provide workspaces for
Cinematique completed $1.4 million in financing led by Pumori Capital. Cinematique claims to have created the “world's first touchable video platform,” allowing users to shop, share, and learn more about the people, places, and things on screen – simply with a touch or click. Everything touched
InVision completed $100 million in Series E financing led by Battery Ventures, with participation from Accel Partners, Tiger Global Management, FirstMark Capital, ICONIQ Capital, Spark Capital, and Geodesic Capital. InVision is a product design platform that allows users to prototype, review, refine, manage, and user test
Ceres Imaging, which specializes in spectral imaging technology to help farmers increase yields by more efficiently applying water and fertilizer, announced it has raised $2.5 million in Series A financing from Romulus Capital. Ceres Imaging uses aerial imagery and spectral image processing to monitor crop variables