Nick Tippmann
This Week In Funding we have seen over $78 million dollars in investments go to Startups. They have raised it in all different ways, some going after big name Hollywood types like Ashton Kutcher. Or the more traditional rout with rounds Andreessen Horowitz leading the way. Everything from a Series A round to an E round happened. Bellow are a list of some of those that brought in investments this week.
Stormpath
Website: http://www.stormpath.com
Funding: $1.5m by Flybridge Capital and New Enterprise Associates
Stormpath is a cloud service that developers can use to manage users and simplify authentication and access control in your applications. We contribute to and support Apache Shiro, a powerful and easy-to-use Java security framework that abstracts authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session management within an application. Together, Stormpath and Shiro power user security from your smallest mobile apps to your largest enterprise applications.
StyleSeat
Website: http://www.styleseat.com
Funding: $770,000 by Ashton Kutcher, A-Grade, Founders Fund, Sophia Bush
StyleSeat is your source for discovering and booking top beauty and wellness professionals near you, from hair stylists to massage therapists to personal trainers.
Averial
Website: http://www.averail.com/
Funding: $6m by Foundation Capital and Storm Ventures
Averail is building a breakthrough solution for securely accessing and managing business documents on mobile tablets and smartphones.
ClearStory Data
Website: http://www.averail.com/
Funding: Undisclosed Amount by Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, Andy Rachleff, Anand Rajaraman, Venky Harinarayan, Tim Howes, Nitin Donde
ClearStory Data, is a Northern California based company that is developing a new tool for users to conduct self-driven big data exploration.
Wantful
Website: https://wantful.com/
Funding: $5.5m by Polaris Venture Partners, Harrison Metal Capital, Greylock Partners, Forerunner Ventures
Wantful, a San Francisco, CA- and NYC-based gift-giving service that delivers custom, curated gifts to gift recipients
Integrate
Website: http://integrate.com/
Funding: $11m Series B by Comcast Ventures, Liberty Global, Foundry Group
Integrate is a performance-marketing technology and solutions provider that enables any B2B or B2C advertiser to plan, execute, track, analyze and optimize their multi-channel marketing strategy
Red Robot Labs
Website: http://redrobot.com/
Funding: $5m Venture Round Next Media
Red Robot Labs was founded in January 2011 by a team of industry veterans who are passionate about creating innovative, highly-polished social, mobile, location based games.
Buysight
Website: http://www.buysight.com/
Funding: $8m Series B ONSET Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners
Buy display ads like paid search: in a market where you find buyers in real time and pay for performance. Dynamic ads drive them to your site – and your checkout. All with an amazing ROI.
Yummly
Website: http://www.Yummly.com
Funding: $6m Series A Physic Ventures, Unilever Corporate Ventures, Harrison Metal Capital, First Round Capital, Intel Capital
Yummly is the world’s largest and most powerfulrecipe search site. We bring together recipes from all over the web – making your life easier.
PubNub
Website: http://www.pubnub.com
Funding: $4.5m Series A from Relay Ventures, Silicon Valley TiE Angels
PubNub is the leading cloud service delivering real-time communications for mobile, web, and server.
oDesk
Website: https://www.odesk.com
Funding: $15m Series D from T. Rowe Price Associates, Benchmark Capital, Globespan Capital Partners, Sigma Partners
oDesk enables both employers and contractors of technical, business and creative services to build successful work relationships across the globe
Spigit
Website: http://www.spigit.com/
Funding: $15.2m Series E from Warburg Pincus
Spigit is a platform that enables organizations to tap into the collective intelligence of employees, customers, partners and fans to help tackle business objectives.
