Among these venture capital funding and founders, startups and companies that have disrupted the digital economy this week
Nearly
$20B ingested this week to make acquisitions; expand products, services and more. Below
we have a set of investors, founders, startups
and companies that focus henceforth on new challenges and stakes.
DigitalEcono talks about:
$145M / Venture for
CarTrade,
that aggregates new and used car listings for consumers in India. With over
$175M in total funding to date, the company plans to use the new capital to
make acquisitions and expand its products.
Founders:
[Vinay
Sanghi]
Investors: [Temasek Holdings
(Lead), Warburg Pincus, March Capital Partners].
$50M / Series
E for
Zerto,
that provides business continuity and disaster recovery solutions for
virtualized infrastructure and cloud.
Founders:[ Ziv Kedem, Oded
Kedem, IVP (Lead), Access Industries, ClalTech].
$15M / Venture for
Savioke,
which is a consumer robotics company that makes Relay, a robot that delivers
food, towels and other items for hotel guests.
Founders:
[Steve
Cousins]
Investors include:[ Intel Capital] (Lead)
$90M / Series
E for
Anaplan,
that sells financial planning as a service to large organizations. Founded in
2006 and is based in San Francisco.
Founders:
Michael Gould, Guy
Haddleton
Investors include: [PremjiInvest (Lead),
Granite Ventures, Meritech
Capital Partners, Founders Circle Capital] and
others.
$48M / Series
C for
Looker that
provides software that makes business intelligence data accessible to
organizations and data analysts. Henceforth Looker plans to expand into Asia
and the EU and double its current staff of around 200.
Founders:
Marc Randolph, Ben Porterfield, Lloyd Tabb
Investors: [Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (Lead),
Redpoint Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners].
$25M / Series
D for
Shape Security; a Mountain View-based startup that creates
technology to defend websites against attacks from malware, botnets, and
scripts.
Founders:
Derek Smith, Sumit
Agarwal, Justin Call
Investors: [Baseline Ventures (Lead), GV, Norwest
Venture Partners - NVP, Northern Light Venture Capital].
$50M / Series
E for
MUBI; a
subscription-based video on demand service that allows users to choose from a
rolling selection of 30 movies at a time.
Founders:
Gabe
da Silveira, Efe
Cakarel
Investors: [Huanxi Media] (Lead).
$45M / Series
E for
Foursquare that offers a location-based mobile app that helps
people discover new places to visit based on peer reviews. The company has
raised $162M in total equity funding to date and will use the new capital to
build out Place Insights, its enterprise service.
Founders:
Dennis Crowley, Naveen
Selvadurai
Investors: [Union Square Ventures (Lead), Morgan Stanley,
Andreessen Horowitz, DFJ Growth] and more.
$20M / Series
C for
Euclid Analytics; a location analytics tool that helps companies track
consumer behavior in retail stores.
Founders:
[Sateesh
Andra, Ken Leung, Steve
Wilhelm, Will Smith].
Investors: [Groupe
Arnault, New Enterprise
Associates, Cox Enterprises, Benchmark] and more.