VENTURE CAPITAL POST

Visual content marketplace Visually said it closed its Series A funding round with $8.1 million. The round was led by Crosslink Ventures and joined in by other investors.

Italian spin-off AdEspresso raised $500,000 in seed funding from institutional and angel investors, for its Facebook ad optimization service for small and medium businesses (SMBs).

San Francsico-based sales analytics startup ToutApp received $3.35 million in funding from Sigma West Ventures to optimize email communication and add more employees to its team.

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.

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.

500 Startups said in its recent US Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it would raise USD100 million to increase its investment in early-stage startups and put additional investment in startups it had already supported.

Accelerator program and investment firm 500 Startups announced that it was able to close USD 44.1 million for its second fund.