Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has pumped $90 million of funding into Tanium, an enterprise security and systems management company.It was the second largest single investment by the venture capitalist firm and the latest…
Kreditech secures $40m – Investment Round Up
Series A Crowdfunding platform Patreon has raised $15 million in Series A funding. Backers included Index Ventures, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and David Marcus, former president of PayPal. Patreon was founded in…
Financial Information Provider Markit, Ltd. raises $1.3 billion–Week of June 16th IPO Watch
Keeping an Eye On MobileIron, Inc. began trading on Nasdaq under the MOBL symbol last Thursday after raising around $100 million in its IPO. The stock has sustained its climb since that…
HelloFresh Raises $50 Million – Investment Round-Up
Series B San Francisco-based ClearCare has secured $11 million to build out its software platform for home care agencies. The Series B round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, but also included…
ThoughtSpot secures $30m funding round – Investment Round Up
Series B ThoughtSpot, a business intelligence platform, has raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Khosla Ventures. Existing investor Lightspeed Ventures also participated the round, which brings ThoughtSpot’s total…
Facebook’s messaging mission leads to Snapchat competitor Slingshot
Facebook’s pursuit, rejection, and subsequent mission to bury Snapchat is starting to resemble a teenage courtship gone bad. After Snapchat declined Facebook’s offer to buy the company last year for $3 billion,…
Mesosphere raises $10.5m – Investment Round Up
Series A Mesosphere, which provides data center systems, has raised a $10.5 million Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Data Collective and Fuel Capital also participated. The San Francisco-based company…
Google’s Top 5 moonshot projects
Google[x], the search giant’s secret research and development lab for ideas that ostensibly have nothing to do with search, has been a source of intrigue since its creation in 2010. The outfit…
Yieldbot secures $18m Series B – Investment Round Up
Series A Inbilin, a social networking voice call app that allows users to call strangers, has raised $15 million in Series A funding from Qiming Venture Partners and Morningside Ventures. The company,…
Cloud storage market braces for impact as Apple revamps iCloud offering
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) began this week, and while consumers hoping for hardware like the iWatch or an Apple-designed TV were left disappointed, there were enough software announcements to make certain…