Motorola Solutions and AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah both invested as emergency assistance technology developer RapidSOS closed a $14m series A round.
Month: April 2017
Accenture goes to WorkMarket for $25m round
Freelance staff management platform WorkMarket has taken its total funding to $66m in a round that added Accenture to its shareholder list.
Tmon bags $115m with $44m from Simone
Handbag maker Simone’s fund management arm has invested $44m as part of a $115m down round that valued mobile commerce platform Tmon at $1.2bn.
EverFi gets Advanced help to raise $190m
Advance Publications has returned to invest in a Rise Fund-led series D round for digital education provider EverFi, less than a year after backing its $40m series C.
Didi Chuxing closes in on $6bn
The ride hailing company is in talks to raise up to $6bn at a $50bn valuation, with existing backer SoftBank set to be among the investors.
Cisco helps SeedPlus grow to $18m
Jungle Ventures offshoot SeedPlus has exceeded its hard cap with funding from limited partners including corporate venturing unit Cisco Investments.
Orange logs into Facebook for accelerator scheme
The corporates, both members of the Telecom Infra Project initiative, are collaborating on an accelerator program for network infrastructure technology startups.
OP makes Token investment in series A round
Payment technology developer Token has raised $15.7m in a round featuring OP Financial Group, with which it formed a partnership agreement earlier this month.
Yik Yak gets Square deal in $3m acqui-hire
Square has reportedly paid $3m for the engineering team of microblogging platform Yik Yak, likely signalling the Renren-backed company is nearing the end of the line.
Forge hammers out $15m series A
Red Apple Group, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation and Alexandria Real Estate Equities have all invested in the antibiotics developer.
AltheaDx passes series D test with $27m
The WuXi PharmaTech-backed molecular diagnostics technology developer has raised $27m that will go to commercialising its IDgenetix product.
Science 37 discovers $29m in series C round
The clinical trials technology provider has now raised more than $66m in the space of 18 months, attracting GV, Sanofi Ventures, Amgen Ventures and DRx Capital for its latest round.
Mail.Ru inserts $100m into game fund
The internet company’s newly formed Games Investment Division will invest up to $100m in game developers and publishers in the form of equity, acquisitions and royalty deals.
TeleSign signals Telstra exit through $230m acquisition
Bics has agreed to acquire TeleSign, which raised $49m in a 2014 Telstra-backed series B round, to form the world’s first end-to-end communications-platform-as-a-service provider.