Sunday January 12, 2025

Weaveworks grabs $15 million Series B from GV to bring order to containerization

 Weaveworks announced a $15 million Series B round today led by GV (the artist formerly known as Google Ventures). Accel, which invested in its earlier $5 million Series A also participated. The company has raised $20 million so far with this round. Weaveworks has created a set of open source tools for managing, monitoring and securing […]

Rancher Labs raises $20M Series B round for its container management platform

 Rancher Labs, a container management platform that supports both Kubernetes and Docker Swarm, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series B round. This new funding round was led by new investor GRC SinoGreen, a Chinese private equity and venture capital fund, with participation from existing investors Mayfield and Nexus Venture Partners. This round […]

Pivotal scores $253 million Series C led by Ford on hefty $2.8 billion valuation

 Pivotal has a couple of new friends with big wallets. Today it announced that Ford and Microsoft were joining EMC, VMware and GE as investment partners on a massive $253 million Series C investment with a whopping $2.8 billion valuation. It’s not a coincidence that Pivotal has been working closely with Ford over the last […]

Stealthy startup Preempt Security scores $8 million Series A

 Preempt Security, a startup still in stealth, came out of hiding today enough to announce an $8 million Series A round. Beyond that we know only a limited amount about what makes them worth such an investment. The round was led by General Catalyst with participation from Mickey Boodaei and Rakesh Loonkar, the founders of Trusteer, and Paul […]

Alooma scores $11.2 million Series A to solve data science pain points

 Alooma, an Israeli startup that helps companies process and work with big data in real time delivered as a cloud service, announced an $11.2 million Series A round today led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital. The product focuses on the people working with data like data scientists and end users with advanced degrees in mathematics and machine learning, rather […]

Wholesale order app Handshake raises $14M Series B for international growth

 Handshake, a maker of wholesale order apps for mobile, will target new overseas markets after raising a $14 million Series B. The round was led by Sozo Ventures and includes returning investors Emergence Capital, SoftTech VC, BOLDstart Ventures, MHS Capital, Point Nine, and Primary Venture Partners. Read More Tweet This Post

Contract management software maker Icertis raises $15M Series B

 Icertis, which develops cloud-based software that helps large companies manage contracts, has raised a $15 million Series B led by Ignition Partners. Read More Tweet This Post

Team8 Cyber Security Group Grabs $23 Million Series B

 Team8, the unique Israeli cyber security company that is part venture capitalist, part think tank and part startup incubator announced a $23 Million Series B round today from a variety of investors. Last year’s $18 million Series A round included Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Investments, Marker LLC, Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) and Innovation Endeavors. BVP brought industry security… Read More Tweet […]

Vera Lands $17 Million Series B Led By Sutter Hill Ventures

 Vera, the cloud service that wants to protect data regardless of where it’s stored or used, announced a $17 million Series B today led by Sutter Hill Ventures. That may not seem unusual, but companies are at least anecdotally finding those B and C rounds increasingly difficult to come by, especially from traditional venture capitalist like Sutter […]

Naritiv, The Ad Network For Snapchat, Raises $3 Million Series A

 Naritiv, the platform that connects brands and advertisers with influencers on Snapchat, has today announced the close of a $3 million Series A led by Third Wave Digital. Investors in the round Disney, Luminari apital, Deluxe Entertainment, Wavemaker Partners, and Matthew Anderson (CMO of Roku. Naritiv launched out of the Disney Accelerator, powered by TechStars, […]