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Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Udacity raises $105M at $1B valuation to fuel international growth Online education startup Udacity, whose students have gone on to join the likes of Google and Facebook, is now a $1 billion company. Today the education […]... →

Swrve’s marketing automation platform is seeing some strong uptake with mobile app makers, and the company has picked up a new $30 million funding round to keep the good times rolling. Swrve says mobile developers have now installed its software development kit (SDK) a billion times. The round was led by Evolution Media Partners (EMP), TPG […]... →

Online education startup Udacity, whose students have gone on to join the likes of Google and Facebook, is now a $1 billion company. Today the education company shared that it talked its way into a $105 million investment from Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, media company Bartelsmann, and others in order to expand internationally. Udacity’s international plans aren’t exactly new […]... →

Udacity, the coding education service, has sprouted a magical horn. The company announced on Wednesday it had raised a $105 million Series D round. With a total valuation of $1 billion, the company has now joined the growing ranks of unicorns.  The round was led by international media, services and education company Bertelsmann with Scotland’s Baillie Gifford, Emerson Collective… Read More... →

Eyefluence has an eye-popping technology straight out of science fiction. The Silicon Valley company is announcing it has raised $14 million for its eye-tracking technology that lets you use the gaze of your eyes to control augmented reality and virtual reality devices. The company hopes to position itself as an essential user-interface tool for controlling […]... →

CircleUp, an AngelList-style crowdfunding platform that consumer retail businesses like food companies use to raise money from outside investors, is announcing some funding of its own today. The company has raised a Series C round of $30 million — growth money that it intends to use to continue building its platform and product teams. Specifically, the company is working on new… Read More... →

Bango, a mobile payments company based in the UK that provides tech to app stores and carriers so that consumers can charge app store purchases directly to their phone bills, has raised another £11 million ($17 million) in funding, the company said in a market statement today, with a post-money valuation of £60 million ($91 million). Bango says the funding will be used to improve… Read More... →

EXCLUSIVE: ClassPass is getting a significant vote of confidence from Google Ventures in the form of cash. The fitness platform has raised $30 million in venture capital with Google Ventures participating, sources familiar with the matter tell VentureBeat. The new funding follows a $40 million raise announced in January. ClassPass has risen to prominence since it got its start […]... →

PeerSpace, a short-term meeting space reservations marketplace, has announced a $5 million Series A round of financing led by Foundation Capital to propel growth. Existing investor Structure Capital also participated in the round. The startup is a bit like Airbnb but for empty meeting spaces. The idea is to utilize creative spaces in the cities the platform operates instead of the same old… Read More... →

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When Craig Shapiro and his team at Collaborative Fund are making investments, they don’t exactly ignore the devil on their shoulders. They look for companies that fall somewhere in the nexus between companies that will address the broader interests of the world around them — but also generate a return on their investment, Shapiro says. “At our core we really believe that… Read More... →

В России начала работать инвестиционная платформа Startup.Network, которая выступает посредником между предпринимателями и инвесторами при поиске финансирования и заключению сделки. Об этом Firrma сообщил представитель компании. До выхода в Россию платформа Startup.Network работала на венчурном рынке Украины, где была более известна под названием Startup.ua. По собственным данным, за 5 лет существования сервиса, через него проектам удалось привлечь около $10 млн. Средний размер инвестиций сейчас составляет ... →

Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. H2O.ai raises $30M round led by Paxion Capital Partners Machine learning developer H2O announced today that it took in a $20 million series B funding round.  Paxion Capital Partners and Nexus Venture Partners led […]... →

Atlassian, the company behind collaboration software like HipChat and JIRA, has filed paperwork with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to go public. The company is seeking to raise $250 million from the public market through its Initial Public Offering (IPO) and will trade on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol “TEAM”. The […]... →

Another enterprise software company has filed to go public: Atlassian, the company that owns services like Slack competitor HipChat, JIRA, and Confluence, has filed an F-1 form with the SEC to go public on NASDAQ under the ticker “TEAM”, with the initial public offering expected to raise around $250 million. A draft registration was originally submitted confidentially to the SEC… Read More... →

H2O is an open source platform for data scientists and developers who need a fast machine learning engine for their applications. H2O.ai, the company behind the service, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series B funding round led by Paxion Capital Partners (the new firm of GoPro board member Michael Marks) and existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and Transamerica. New… Read More... →

The iPad helped introduce the concept of interactive books, where stories are accompanied by games and other tappable animations to complement their tales. But a company called Hullabalu offers a twist. Instead of digital stories with interactive bits, kids advance the story’s progress by interacting with the world and playing with the characters. Now the company has raised an… Read More... →

Шотландская тревел-компания Skyscanner, специализирующаяся на поиске авиабилетов, отелей и проката автомобилей, планирует привлечь инвестиции по суммарной оценке, превышающей $1 млрд. В октябре 2015 года компания также объявила об открытии трёх новых офисов и значительно обновила мобильные приложения.Главный редактор vc.ru побывал в штаб-квартире Skyscanner и взял интервью у её представителей — Дмитрия Хаванского и Илариона Копалейшвили, отвечающих за пиар и маркетинг на российском рынке, а также Карлоса Го... →

CB Insights, a company that offers access to reports and data on privately held companies and venture capital investments, is announcing today some funding of its own — an initial $10 million round of institutional funding. Public companies, investors, and even media outlets pay for CB Insights’ work — the company counts 325 customers, including […]... →

Six months after departing from Yahoo, Mike Kail has reemerged as the cofounder and CIO of a security startup called Cybric. His new company, cofounded by Ernesto DiGiambattista, Andrew Gilman, and Sean Walter, is launching today with $1.3 million in seed funding behind it. Kail left Yahoo nearly six months ago after a lawsuit revealed that he may have been receiving kickbacks […]... →