Guavus, a US-based big data services company, has extended its series D round by $9m by adding investment bank Goldman Sachs and venture capital firm TransLink Capital as investors in its syndicate.
In January, Guavus raised $30m in its series D round from a consortium including Intel Capital, the corporate venturing unit of the eponymous chip maker.
Alongside Intel Capital in the D round were Sweden-listed venture group Investor Growth Capital, which led the round, and peers QuestMark Partners, Artiman Ventures and Sofinnova Ventures.
QuestMark, Artiman and Sofinnova previously invested in Guavus’ $15m C round in July and $25m B round to enable the real-time analytics firm to further its work with sensor-based technologies.
Toshi Otani, managing director of TransLink, which said it leverages its 20 “corporate relationships with the world’s most significant Asian multinational companies”, said: “Guavus has shown tremendous growth and innovation with [telecom] carriers. With 40% of the world’s mobile data traffic due to be carried over Asia-based networks by 2016 we expect [the region] to be a strong market for Guavus.”