US-based app personalisation technology startup LiftIgniter has raised $6.4m in a series A round that included NTT Docomo Ventures, a corporate venturing subsidiary of telecommunications firm NTT.
Venture capital firm Storm Ventures led the round, which also featured VC firm Rincon Venture Partners, enterprise software and digital technology-focused VC fund Revel Partners, and angel investors Tom Chavez, KV Rao, Gordon McLeod, Raghu Raghavan and Bruce Falck.
LiftIgniter has created a personalisation and recommendation engine for apps that uses real-time machine learning. The series A proceeds will be used to help commercialise the technology.
The company has now raised $8.25m in total, it said. Khosla Ventures, YCombinator, SV Angel, Initialized Capital and Data Collective were among the investors in a seed round it had not previously disclosed.