VENTURE CAPITAL POST

Forge Inc. received a total of $4.5 million in seed fund rounded by Resolute Ventures, True Ventures and WME Ventures. The venture capitalist funded the platform for PC gamers to have no difficulty in sharing short video clips of their favorite games. The Forge app is free to download and is only available on PC.

Madison, US-based weather forecasting and analytics startup Understory bagged $1.9 million in a seed funding round led by True Ventures to build software and a forecasting model that will be able to generate weather data through ground-level observation.

San Francisco, US-based application programming interfaces (APIs) debugging and testing tool provider Runscope nabbed $6 million in its first funding round led by General Catalyst Partners to start selling its products.

Smarterer, a startup based in Boston that provides jobseekers with a way to measure their skills in different subjects through online tests, has landed an additional capital of $1.6 million in a round led by Rethink Education, TechCrunch reported.

Spree Commerce, a maker of open source software that enables online retailers to build their own online storefronts, grabbed $5 million in its Series B round, VentureBeat reported.

PayNearMe, a company based in Sunnyvale, California that allows cash lovers to pay for their online transactions in cash, has raised $20 million for its fifth financing round, VentureBeat reported.

Blue Bottle Coffee was able to raise a $25.7 million investment in a financing round led by Morgan Stanley Investment Management, a source told TechCrunch.

CEO of Socrative reveals that his company had collected US$750,000 in a seed funding round from investors including True Ventures, NewSchools Venture Fund, Eileen Rudden and Jean Hammond.

Viktor Vekselberg continues expanding by initiating a bid to buy Schmolz+Bickenbach.

TerraEchos Inc. has closed on additional seed financing from True Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm.