Alongside WPP in the round are venture capital firms New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Shea Ventures, Correlation Ventures, August Capital, First Round Capital, Maveron, Focus Ventures and Neoteny.
Month: July 2012
Pocket saves $5m for later
Alongside Google Ventures (led by its partner Joe Kraus) in the B round are venture capital firms Foundation Capital, which led the new round), and Baseline Ventures.
Harvest Power gathers $15m C crop
Investment bank Piper Jaffray led the C round extension, and was joined by venture capital firms Tur Partners and Industry Ventures.
Agile moves for $40m
Alongside Kaiser Permanente in the C round are venture capital firms Aisling Capital, which led the round, Care Capital, Investor Growth Capital, ProQuest Investments and Novitas Capital.
Sparkle Roll pumps up the volume at B&O
Sparkle Roll, a China-based luxury goods dealership, has taken a 7.71% stake in Denmark-based audio and video company Bang & Olufsen along with A Capital, a Euro-China growth capital fund, for Dkr182m ($30m). Andre Loesekrug-Pietri, chairman and managing partner of A Capital, has joined Bang & Olufsen’s (B&O) board. Loesekrug-Pietri said: “B&O is an iconic… Continue reading Sparkle Roll pumps up the volume at B&O
DLA Piper backs Consensus Point
Consensus provides Huunu, a research and media prediction market platform.
Digicel blasts off with Boom
Mobile operator Digicel backs the latest round raised by the provider of banking for the un-banked, alongside venture firm RRE Ventures and Mexicans and Americans Thinking Together [MATT.org], a US-based non-profit organisation.
Rusnano launches $150m fund
Venture firm I2BF Global Ventures is managing the resources, water, and agriculture nanotech fund.
Samsung puts chips down on CSR
The Korea-based conglomerate took a 4.9% stake in the UK-based chip company, as it acquired its mobile business.
Digital Science crunches BioData to B round
The Series B round comes after BioData has grown its subscriber base to more than 40,000 researchers.
Presidio takes Aryaka to $25m
Presidio Ventures, a Sumitomo Corporation Company, joins venture firms InterWest Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures and Mohr Davidow Ventures, backing the US-based cloud computing company.
TRA sells for $20m to Tivo
The Intel Capital, WPP, and Arbitron-backed database and marketing company sells, after raising an $18.2m C round two years ago.
Crunchfund thrusts cash to Openbucks
The venture firm set up with the backing of technology company AOL is joined venture firms including BV Capital, the former corporate venturing unit of media company Bertelsmann, in the A round backing the online gift card business.
Google Ventures helps Egnyte raise $16m
US-based search engine Google’s corporate venturing unit has helped Egnyte, a US-based file sharing company, raise $16m. Google Ventures was joined in the series C round by venture firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Polaris Venture Partners. Karim Faris, a partner at Google Ventures will join the baord of Egnyte. Karim Faris, Partner at… Continue reading Google Ventures helps Egnyte raise $16m