VENTURE CAPITAL POST

Dymon Asia Ventures is the newly born capital arm of Singapore-based, Dymon Asia Capital, has spring the process to raise a $50-million debut fund, and is solely dedicated to Fintech Space, DEALSTREETASIA has acquired.

Trifacta, a San Francisco-based startup focused on making platforms for data analysis, raised USD12 million in new funding in an investment round led by Greylock Partners and Accel Partners.

Clarity Health Services, a Seattle, Washington-based care coordination solutions provider for the healthcare industry, received USD 6.6 million funding from Columbia Pacific Advisors' Opportunity Fund.

Hardware startup Misfit Wearables raised USD15.2 million in fresh capital in a funding round led by Li Ka-shing's Horizons Ventures and also participated by its existing investors.

German startup accelerator Rocket Internet raised USD112 million in new funding for online fashion retailers Zalora and The Iconic, making it the biggest single investment made for an e-commerce company in the Asian Pacific region.

Spotify, a popular music-streaming service, confirmed its receipt of a USD250 million investment in a recent funding and also said it paid around USD500 million in royalties to artists this year.

German startup navabi, which sells designer brand clothing online, drew EUR10 million in new Series C funding from institutional investors led by private equity firm Index Ventures.

Peer-to-peer financial lending platform Ppdai received a significant investment worth USD35 million from the financial arm of Alibaba Group, said sources who were familiar with the transaction.

New and old investors joined together to provide investment funding for Funding Circle in continuing its objectives of providing loan access to UK entrepreneurs.

In its second investment funding round, ERMS Corp raised USD3.5 million.