Palo Alto, US-based late-stage investment firm Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) raised $2.23 billion for its eighth growth equity fund from European and Asian private and public pension funds, financial institutions and other investors.
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German app crowdtesting startup Testbirds picks up €2.1M in Series A funding
Munich, Germany-based app crowdtesting startup Testbirds picked up €2.1 million in its Series A funding round led by Seventure Partners for its expansion across Europe.
NinePoint Medical Inc secures $34M in Series B funding round
Corning Inc led the $34 million Series B funding round for Cambridge, Massachusetts-based medical device maker NinePoint Medical Inc, a statement about the funding said.
YouNoodle secures $1.1M in new funding round
San Francisco-based YouNoodle obtained $1.1 million in its latest funding round. The financing came from VegasTechFund, Lars-Henrik Friis Molin and the Amicus Group, TechCrunch reported.
Indian mobile payment startup Ezetap raising additional capital from American Express
Bangalore, India-based mobile payment startup Ezetap Mobile Solutions is raising an unknown amount of additional capital from credit card giant American Express just a month after it had closed $8 million in its Series B round.
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Alibaba invested $215 million in the newest round for Tango while previous investors poured $65 million in the latest $280 million round for mobile messaging network Tango, VentureBeat reported.
Accel Partners was able to raise a combined total of $1.475 billion for the Accel XII and the Accel Growth III funds while Jim Breyer will be reducing the role he plays in the venture capital firm, Forbes reported.
Investment management firm Blue Ocean invested $5 million in Fort Collins, Colorado-based dental firm St Renatus for the latter's drug application for its needle-free anesthetic.
Digital health company Augmedix announced that it was able to secure venture funding amounting to $3.2 million from DCM and Emergence Capital Partners, a statement about the financing said.
Platfora, a big data analytics software platform, has secured $38 million for its latest funding round led by Tenaya Capital and participated in by other investors, TechCrunch reported.
New venture capital fund Amplify Partners raises $49.1M to back IT infrastructure startups in the US
Cambridge, US-based venture capital firm Amplify Partners raised $49.1 million for its new fund to back early-stage firms in the storage, networking, and Internet hardware industries.
Cloudera, the company that provides enterprises with the first unified big data platform, secured $160 million from T. Rowe price, Google Ventures and MSD Capital, TechCrunch reported.
New York, US-based remote behavioral intervention startup AbilTo bagged $6 million in a Series B funding round led by Blue Cross Blue Shield to help maintain people's mental health from afar.
The recent drawbacks faced by Bitcoin has not deterred investors from continuing to support and make investments in ventures related to the crypto-currency, TechCrunch reported.
