Logistics service provider Delhivery has led a $5m series A round for India-based on-demand delivery startup Parcelled, Times of India reported on Monday. The round also included seed fund Tracxn Labs, which is backed by financial data provider Tracxn Technologies, and followed an undisclosed amount of seed funding from the same two investors in July this year.
US-based pet food supplier Petnet secured $4m on Monday from e-commerce firm Amazon’s Alexa Fund, robotics technology producer iRobot, Black River Ventures and Aspiration Growth. Petnet raised seed funding from venture capital fund Bolt in 2013 before Grishin Robotics, Kima Ventures, SparkLabs Global Ventures and Launch Capital added another $1.1m in January 2014.
DirectScale, the US-based creator of a software platform for direct and social sales businesses, raised $4m on Tuesday in a series A round co-led by business management software provider NetSuite and Kickstart Seed Fund. NetSuite has also formed a partnership with the startup that will allow it to build its platform on top of NetSuite’s.
UK-based bioprocessing purification technology developer Puridify has closed a £2.2m ($3.4m) series A round backed by SR One, which acts as pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline’s corporate venturing arm, Imperial Innovations, and UCL Business. Including grant funding, Puridify has now raised £8m in total, including £850,000 in a May 2014 seed round co-led by SR One and Imperial Innovations.
Vivid Technologies, the Pakistan-founded, UK-based developer of a voice platform for smartphones and other mobile devices, secured an undisclosed sum yesterday in a seed round featuring telecommunications company Telefónica. Sunbridge Ventures, Conrad Labs and Rosemont Group Capital Partners also took part in the round, which followed $350,000 of seed funding from the same investors in May this year.
US-based enterprise data technology developer OpsDataStore launched on Tuesday with $3m in series A capital from software providers Persistent Systems and Citrix Systems, VC firm Forte Ventures, which led the round, Osage Venture Partners, Frank Swain and Mike Phelan. The startup, founded earlier this year, is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Omise, the Thailand-based online payment platform backed by conglomerate Sinar Mas, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from VC firm Golden Gate Ventures, DealStreetAsia reported on Tuesday. The investment follows $300,000 in funding from East Ventures in August 2014 and a $2.6m series A round featuring Sinar Mas subsidiary Sinar Mas Digital Ventures, East Ventures, mobile network True and 500 Tuktuks.
Internet and technology provider NetEase invested $2.5m in Finland-based mobile game studio Reforged Studios on Tuesday through its NetEase Capital unit. Founded by ex-employees of game companies including Riot Games, Electronic Arts, Blizzard Entertainment, Ubisoft and LucasArts, Reforged plans to release its first title, an epic fantasy army battle game, in 2016.
Virtuagym, a Netherlands-based personal fitness software developer backed by media company Sanoma, received €2.1m ($2.3m) in funding from investment firm Saffelberg Investments on Wednesday. Sanoma invested $900,000 in Virtuagym, which has so far attracted over seven million users and 1,800 businesses to its service, in 2013 through its SanomaVentures subsidiary.
Hutchison Water, a subsidiary of conglomerate CK Hutchison, provided $2.2m of series A funding for Aquarius Spectrum, an Israel-based developer of monitoring and leak detection technology for urban water networks, on Monday. Founded in 2009, Aquarius is a graduate of CK Hutchison’s Hutchison-Kinrot Technology Incubator.
Corporate-backed VC fund High-Tech Gruenderfonds provided an undisclosed amount of funding on Tuesday for Computomics, a Germany-based provider of bioinformatics analysis services for DNA sequencing research. Founded in 2012, Computomics will put the money towards international expansion.
Educational textbook publisher S. Chand and Co has invested $200,000 in India-based learning technology developer Smartivity Labs, Techcircle reported on Tuesday. Founded in January this year, Smartivity leverages technologies such as robotics and augmented reality technology in its products, and will use the capital to expand its product range and move into new cities.