Online language program Best Teacher has raised $530,000 in a round of funding from GMO Venture Partners and SMBC Venture Capital.
Month: April 2013
AnyPerk vendors $1.4m
Discount perks platform AnyPerk has raised $1.4m in series A funding from Digital Garage, Ben Lewis, Michael Liou, CyberAgentVenture and Shogo Kawada.
Hertz drives off with Car
Hertz has acquired a 20% stake in Car and a seat on its board in return for the acquisition of all of Hertz’s business in China.
EBay bids on SnapDeal
E-commerce marketplace SnapDeal brings its total round of funding to $102m after raising $50m in a C round of funding led by eBay.
Apps Foundry finds direction
News provider TechCrunch said Apps Foundry had in aggregate raised S$4.3m since its launch in 2010.
Curetis takes funding towards €50m
Curetis, a Germany-based medical device company, has raised €12.5m ($15m) in its series B round from a consortium including Switzerland-based drugs company Roche’s corporate venturing unit. Alongside Roche Venture Fund in the B round, were investment firm HBM Partners (founded by Henri B Meier, a former member of the Roche Group executive committee for more than… Continue reading Curetis takes funding towards €50m
Dynamic Yield adds up $2m
Venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners led the A round, which also included Google chairman Eric Schmidt’s investment fund Innovation Endeavors and media group New York Times Company.
Treato blows with Reed Elsevier
Treato has aggregated and analyzed more than 1.3 billion patient conversations about 24,000 drugs and conditions from thousands of sites.
Gen9 moves quickly to Agilent
Gen9’s previous investors include food maker Kraft Group, venture capital firms Draper Fisher Jurvetson and PBM Capital Group and angel investors, including Scott Schoen, former co-president of buyout firm Thomas H lee, and Weili Dai, co-founder of Marvell Technology Group.
Avalon apple of GSK’s eye
GSK will provide company seed funding, research and development support and success-based preclinical and clinical milestones up to a total of $465m for 10 companies.
Two join Docomo’s incubator
Tech news media company Lid and customer relationship solution developer Repica are two of the first companies to join Docomo’s incubator programme.
Perfect World commits again
Perfect World, an online game developer and operator based in China, is making another commitment to a venture capital fund to help it back later-stage deals. The additional RMB396m ($63.75m) commitment follows the limited partner’s 2011 investment of RMB643.5m ($100m) in the same unnamed general sector fund. However, according to Perfect World, the targeted VC… Continue reading Perfect World commits again
Star Publications accelerates fund
The Star Accelerator Fund is offering up to RM300,000 to pre-seed and up to RM1m to seed stage entrepreneurs in return for an undisclosed equity stake.
Upstart invests in its future
Upstart, a US-based crowdfunding platform to invest in graduates’ future careeer-earning potential, has raised $5.9m in its series A round. In August, Upstart raised $1.75m in a seed round including search engine Google’s corporate venturing unit. Alongside Google Ventures in the seed round were venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and angel investor… Continue reading Upstart invests in its future