Cyber security solutions provider Invincea Inc said it was able to close its Series C round with $16 million. The equity round was led by new investors Aeris Capital and Dell Ventures.
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Sailthru nabs $20M in Series C funding to expand its personalized marketing platform reach
Marketing personalization startup Sailthru announced the conclusion of its $20 million Series C funding round led by Scale Venture Partners and participated by Benchmark, RRE, DFJ Gotham, AOL Ventures and other existing backers.
Crescendo Biologics Limited scores £17.5m in its Series A round
Crescendo Biologics was able to gather £17.5 million or $28 million from lead investor Imperial Innovations for its Series A round. Astellas Venture Management and Sofinnova Partners also participated in the financing.
Chicago's WyzAnt lands $21.5M to beef up tutoring services
Chicago-based tutoring services provider WyzAnt has received $21.5 million in a Series A funding round from Accel Partners to expand its services and develop new digital tools for student-tutor interaction.
San Francisco motivational startup Pact secures $1.55M to help people achieve health goals
San Francisco-based motivational startup Pact has raised $1.55 million in a recent funding round to develop its mobile apps that help users hit health goals through monetary stakes.
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Greenwich, Connecticut-based Atlas Holdings raised $900 million for the first and final close of its second private equity fund known as Atlas Capital Resources II.
General Motors Co announced its plans on Monday to invest about $1.3 billion in its five plants across the US to improve its output and create a new transmission, according to a Reuters report.
Deck, a cloud-based presentation app based in Bangalore, India, announced that it has raised $600,000 in a seed funding round led by Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia.
Entitle announced today its launch of its ebook subscription service with a subscription pricing model based on Netflix's business and its successful $5.3 million Series A funding round this year.
McRock Capital, an investment firm in Toronto, has initially closed its Industrial Internet venture capital fund with $50 million in a round led by BDC Venture Capital.
Crowdtilt, a San Francisco, California-based crowdfunding platform, secured $23 million for its Series B funding in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz and was participated by venture capitalists and angel investors.
PassportParking, a provider of cloud-based parking management solutions, raised $6 million for its Series A funding. The round was led by Grotech Ventures and Relevance Capital.
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will pour in $2 million in three projects aimed at reviving the degraded Anzali lagoon in Iran, according to an environment official cited by IRNA new agency.
A report by Grant Thornton, an American accounting and advisory firm, said that Indian corporations closed as many as 393 private equity deals totaling $9.67 billion in the past 11 months of the year.
