Meal kit delivery service Chef'd announced this week they have hired Jemie Sae Koo as their new vice president of marketing. With more than fifteen years of digital and marketing experience, Sae Koo is adept at digitally driven customer engagement, experience creation, driving demand, business development, sales strategies, partnerships, and
Lily, an online personal stylist service that uses emotional intelligence to help women discover clothes that flatter their bodies and make them feel their best, completed $2 million in seed financing. Seven investors contributed to the round, among them New Enterprise Associates, Global Founders Capital,
Paddle, a UK-based developer that offers software companies a single platform for the entire software sales process, closed $12.5 million in Series B financing, led by Notion Capital, with participation from BGF Ventures, MacPaw, and Kindred. Developers and software companies use Paddle’s checkout and licensing
Security startup Proficio acquired $20 million in financing, led by Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors. Proficio is a managed security service provider of security monitoring and advanced data breach prevention services for mid- to large-sized enterprises. According to the company, it has developed proprietary security content and
Software startup TempoQuest secured $2.5 million in seed financing. Three investors participated in the round, including S-Cubed Capital. Established to meet the need for faster, more accurate weather forecasts, the company’s software solutions are designed to run on graphic processor unit accelerators instead of CPUs with
Symphony Ventures, a global services firm specializing in robotic process automation (RPA) and intelligent automation (IA), announced that A.J. Hanna joined the team as vice president of client advocacy. Hanna joins Symphony from Ascension Health, one of the earliest RPA pioneers in the U.S. As
Skillz, a mobile eSports platform, completed $25 million in Series C financing, led by Telstra and Liberty Global, with participation from Bridge Bank, Accomplice, and Wildcat Capital Management. According to the company, as the eSports provider for 3,000 game studios, Skillz accounted for 30 percent of
Media company Heyou Media raised a new round of financing from an undisclosed investor. Founded in late 2016 by Tom Skerritt, Heyou Media, Inc., is an aggregator of new media visual entertainment content, including music, theatrical long-form, short-form video, web series, virtual reality and special interest
Robotics startup Virtual Incision completed $18 million in Series B financing, led by SinoPharm Capital and Bluestem Capital, with participation from PrairieGold Venture Partners. Virtual Incision’s in vivo mini-robot surgery is used for minimally-invasive colon resection and other abdominal procedures. A mini-robot is inserted into the
Aeronyde, an autonomous aerial systems company, brought in $4.7 million in seed financing, led by JASTech. Aeronyde builds unmanned traffic management systems for small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS). The company’s customized, long-range, fixed-wing platforms and heavy-lift sUAS are capable of carrying a variety of imaging and