The impact of these companies is increasingly powerful within the digital
economy where the competition is very aggressive in terms of technologies, services
and offerings.
With the new funding, it is obvious that, respectively these tech
companies are on an encouraging curve to streamline their growth.
For this week, one can then recall:
$12M
/ Series A for
Oro that provides an
open source CRM with built-in marketing tools for e-commerce businesses.
Founders: Yoav Kutner, Jary Carter, Dima Soroka
Investors: [Highland Capital Partners Europe]
$7.5M / Series
A for
Zaloni that helps
enterprise companies manage repositories of raw data held in its native format.
The company operates two software platforms known as Bedrock and Mica.
Founders: Anirban Sharma, Bijoy Bora, Ben
Sharma
Investors: [Sierra Ventures, Baird Capital]
$33M / Venture for
AlphaSense; a search tool
for public and licensed financial data such as broker research, SEC filings and
press releases. Founded in 2011, the company announces more than 400 customers
in the financial services sector.
Founders: Jack Kokko, Raj Neervannan
Investors:
[Tom Glocer, Tribeca Venture Partners, Triangle
Peak Partners]
$80M / Series
B for
Lasergen , a developer
in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology, and focuses on commercializing
and the advancement of nucleotide chemistries.
Founders: Michael L.
Metzker
Investors: [Agilent Technologies]
$31M
/ Private Equity for
Attivio that provides data
analytics tools to enterprise companies in the financial services, energy, and
life sciences sectors.
Founders: Ali Riaz, Sid
Probstein, Per-Olof Söderberg, Will Johnson
Investors: [Tenth Avenue Holdings, Per-Olof Söderberg, General
Electric Pension Trust, + 1 more]
$15M / Series
B for
Icertis , a cloud-based
contract management service that helps companies manage procurement, sales,
corporate contracts, and non-disclosure agreements.
Founders: Samir Bodas, Monish Darda
Investors: [Ignition Partners, Fidelity Growth Partners India, Greycroft
Partners]