VENTURE CAPITAL POST

Detroit, US-based charity fundraising platform CrowdRise bagged $23 million in a funding round with Union Square Ventures as the lead investor to back its growth campaigns and platform expansion initiatives.

Airbnb’s Storefront has received additional USD7.3 million funding led by Spark Capital, reported TechCrunch.

Kitchensurfing has secured a $15 million investment for its Series B round led by Tiger Global Management and participated in by Union Square ventures and Spark Capital.

The Chennai Labs (TCA) and Spark Capital backed Bangalore, India-based engineering education startup Skyfi Labs with an undisclosed amount for its expansion and product development.

Newly-launched San Francisco, California-based human-powered discovery and search parsing app Jelly raised an undisclosed amount in a Series B funding round led by Greylock Partners.

New York-based online eyeglasses company Warby Parker has scored $60 million in a Series C funding round from its existing investors to beef up its customer support team.

Irvine, California-based firm Oculus VR has raised $75 million in a funding round led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz to launch a consumer version of the tech firm's virtual reality goggles.

Algorithmic trading platform Quantopian raised USD 6.7 million from Khosla Ventures and Spark Capital.

Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital both invest in Zazma for USD10 million.