French private equity firm PAI Partners confirmed on Thursday it has sold a 9 percent stake in IT services firm Atos for 545 million euros ($732 million).
Funding
Quarri scores USD2.35 million funding for browser protection
Texas-based browser security company Quarri raised USD2.35 million in its first funding round today to improve its products, expand internationally, and add more people to its workforce.
Wevorce raises USD1.7 million to help streamline divorce through technology
Wevorce has announced that it has received USD1.7 million in new seed funding from investors such as Foundation Capital and Sam Altman. This brings the startup's total funding, which launched out of Y Combinator last March 2013, to USD2 million.
The Hunt raises USD5.5 million for strange shopping app
The Hunt, an online community where you can track down items you covet, raised USD5.5 million in its first round of institutional funding to create an iPhone app for the site.
Multichannel bags USD3 million to track marketing spend
Hong Kong-based tech startup Multichannel raised USD3 million in a seed round from angel investors in Asia and Europe to be used for the improvement of the company's marketing spend tracker.
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iSTAR Medical SA, a privately held ophthalmic device company and first spinout of Healionics Corporation, today announced it has raised EUR 4.0 million from institutional investors in a Series A financing.
Branded mobile content company TextPride secured USD1 million in seed funding which will be used to launch the company's mobile stickers and emojis to mobile messaging apps.
US-based private equity fund Exhilway Global has closed USD200 million for its mines and minerals private equity fund that will operate in Indonesia, Turkey, and Kazakhstan.
Billionaire and IAC/InterActiveCorp Chairman Barry Diller said Aereo Inc may get as much as 35% of US households to use its service once it overcomes the lawsuits filed against it by broadcasters.
California-based live online English school Colingo raised USD2.4 million in a seed funding round led by Atlas Ventures, according to the company's founder, Ben Lowenstein.
Sequoia Capital is backing GirnarSoftware with USD 15 million in investment for a 20% stake in the firm. GirnarSoftware owns Internet websites Cardekho, Bikedekho and Pricedekho.
Women-led venture capital firm Illuminate Ventures closed USD20 million as its first fund to invest in cloud data, big data, analytics, software-as-a-service, and enterprise mobility startups in North America.
Subtraction Capital, FF Angel, 500 Startups and other investors supported CapLinked, a cloud-based platform for business, with a USD 1 million investment in its expansion round.
Cloud storage provider Box, a rival of Dropbox, is raising USD100 million in new funding through a share sale that would value the company at around USD2 billion.
