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Automattic, the San Francisco firm behind the popular WordPress blogging services and software, said that Tiger Global has purchased $50M in a secondary transaction. The investment move was announced by Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPr...

San Francisco-based Jennerex Biotherapeutics has raised $21.6M in funding, the firm announced Thursday. Source of the private placement was not disclosed. Jennerex is developing oncolytic immunotherapies for solid tumors. The company said t...

San Francisco-based ridesharing marketplace Lyft said Thursday that it has raised $60M in a third round of funding. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz. Lyft helps connect pre-screened drivers willing to give users a ride around town w...

San Francisco-based WibiData has raised $15M in a funding round for the firm's enterprise, big data software. The startup, founded by Christophe Bisciglia and Aaron Kimball, said the Series B round was led by Canaan Partners, and also inclu...

Sunnyvale-based AlephCloud has raised $7.5M in a Series B funding, for its software for managing content privacy on the public cloud. The firm said the funding was led by Handbag, LLC, headed by Seth Neiman. AlephCloud says its technology i...

Cupertino-based Skyhigh Networks announced Wednesday that it has raised $20M in a Series B financing round. The round was led by Sequoia Capital, and also included Greylock Partners. Aaref Hilaly of Sequoia joins the company's board. Skyhig...

San Francisco-based Cloudscaling, a provider of Openstack-based elastic cloud services, has raised $10M in a new funding, the company announced today. The funding came from Trinity Ventures, Juniper Networks, and Seagate. The Juniper invest...

Can you get pain relief from a can? Burlingame-based First Aid Shot Therapy thinks you should be able to, and has raised funding to get its "medication in a can" to market. Size of the Series A funding was not announced. According to the co...

San Francisco-based Popexpert, which operates an online marketplace focused on video learning about a wide range of topics, has raised $2M in a funding round, the firm said Tuesday. Popexpert said the funding was led by Learn Capital, and a...

San Francisco-based Brightpearl, a developer of software which integrates orders, inventory, and customer data from multiple, e-commerce engines and marketplaces for companies, has raised $8M in a funding round. The Series B financing was c...

San Francisco-based MessageMe, which develops iOS and Android instant messaging apps, has raised $10M in a funding round, the company said today. The funding came from Greylock Partners, with the investment led by John Lilly. The company's ...

Mountain View-based Adaptive Planning, a developer of cloud-based, business analytics software, said today that it has raised $45M in a funding round. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, and also included ONSET Ventures, Norwest...

Palo Alto-based Gamgee, a stealth mode, mobile healthcare company, has raised $2M in a funding round from Khosla Ventures. Gamgee is led by Bob Quinn. The firm said it is developing a platform that takes patient handouts and makets it avail...

San Francisco-based news discovery software developer Newsle has raised $1.65M in a funding round. The funding came from Advance Publications Inc., Maveron, DFJ,Transmedia Capital, Launny Steffens, and pRockwell Schnabel. Whitney Shaw, pres...

Redwood Shores-based Zyme Solutions said this morning that it has raised a new equity funding round, to help scale the company's software platforms. The firm said the funding came from Susquehanna Growth Equity. Financial details of the fun...

San Francisco-based Vend, a developer of point-of-sale software which runs on tablet PCs, has raised $8M more in funding, the firm said this week. The investment came from Craig Winkler (MYOB), Paul Bassett and Matt Rockman (Seek.com.au), t...

Emeryville-based Marqeta, a developer of online commerce and payments software, said Thursday that it has raised $14M in a Series B funding. The funding came from Greylock IL (an affiliate fund of Greylock Partners), Granite Ventures, Comme...

Bonitasoft, a developer of business process management software, has added $13M more in a Series C funding, the firm said Thursday. The funding was led by the FSN PME (the French National Fund for Digital Society), and also included Vente...

Sunnyvale-based Funding Profiles, a developer of software aimed at translating financial metrics into business dashboards, said Wednesday that it has received a seed funding investment. Size of the investment and name of the inevsotr was no...

Mountain View-based Atlantis Computing announced today that it has raised $20M in a Series D funding round. The funding was led by Adams Street Partners, and also included Cisco Systems, El Dorado Ventures and Partech International. Atlanti...

QuoteRoller, which develops software to automate sales proposals, has raised $655,000 in a funding round, and set up its headquarters in San Francisco. Source of the funding round was not announced. QuoteRoller offers up its services on a m...

Palo Alto-based Zoove, which operates the star-star (**) mobile phone information numbers, said today that it has raised $15M in a new funding round. The firm said the funding came from its existing, Series D investors, Rogers Venture Partn...

San Francisco-based Rocket Lawyer disclosed Monday that it has raised $15M in a funding round. Source of the new funding was not announced. Rocket Lawyer offers up an online legal documents and referral service. Rocket Lawyer was founded by...

San Francisco-based Radius, a developer of technology to help small businesses with lead scoring and sales and marketing, has raised a round of funding from BBVA Ventures. BBVA Ventures is the venture arm of BBVA Group, the Spanish banking ...

Palo Alto-based venture investor Matrix Partners said this week that it has closed on a new, $450M fund, Matrix X, its tenth early-stage technology venture fund. The company said the fund is its third, $450M early stage fund for the investo...

Palo Alto-based LiquidSpace, a startup which operates a marketplace for empty desks and meeting space (think "Airbnb for office space"), has raised $1.3M in new, Series B funding, the firm said today. The funding came from Steelcase and CBR...

San Francisco-based Coinbase disclosed yesterday that it has raised $5M in a venture capital funding round. The round was led by Union Square Ventures. Coinbase operates an online Bitcoin exchange, which allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin...

Mountain View-based YouEye, which operates a facial recognition-driven, user testing service for web designers, disclosed today that it has raised $3M in a funding round. The round came from Bobby Yzdani, Brian McClendon, and Beth McClendon...

Venture capita investor Menlo Ventures said today that it has added two people to its team. The firm said Avery More has joined as Venture Partner, and Alex Gorelik as Entrepreneur in Residence. More joins from Aeroscout, and also sits on t...

San Francisco-based Chute, a developer of software to power the photo sharing and social infrastructure for mobile app developers, has raised $7M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Foundry Group, and also included Freestyle C...

San Francisco-based CircleUp, which operates an online, crowdsourcing site aimed at consumer companies, has raised $7.5M in a Series A funding. The firm said the funding was led by Union Square Ventures, and also included Google Ventures, R...

Google Ventures, the venture capital arm of Internet giant Google, has snagged away MG Siegler from CrunchFund, naming Siegler a General Partner at the firm. According to Google Ventures, Siegler will focus on seed and early stage investmen...

San Francisco-based medical device developer Channel Medsystems said last week that it has raised $9.7M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Boston Scientific, and also included InCube Ventures, Aperture Ventures, Scientific ...

San Francisco-based Clustrix, which develops cloud-based SQL databases, announced this morning that it has raised $16.5M in a Series C funding round. The funding came from Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, ATA Ventures, and Don Listwi...

San Jose-based FastBack Networks, a startup developing small cell network backhaul services technology, said today that it has raised $15M in a Series B funding. The funding was led by Matrix Partners, and also included Juniper Networks thr...

Palo Alto-based MetricStream, a developer of risk and compliance software, said this week that it has scored a strategic round of funding from Goldman Sachs. Size of that investment was not disclosed. MetricStream's enterprise software is u...

Redwood City-based Proteus Digital Health has raised $62.5M in a Series F financing, the firm said Wednesday. The funding came from Oracle, Otsuka, Novartis, Sino Portfolio and the company's other investors. Proteus Health is developing "d...

Palo Alto-based Lex Machina said Wednesday that it has raised $4.8M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Cue Ball Capital, and also included prior investors XSeed Capital, Costanoa Venture Capital, and Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Y...

Mountain View-based Google is taking a $125M, secondary stake in online peer-to-peer lending marketplace Lending Club. Google is purchasing the shares from Lending Club's existing investors. David Lawee of Google joins LendingClub's board a...

The Dorm Room Fund, the University-driven, venture capital fund backed by First Round Capital, has expanded its efforts into the San Francisco Bay area and the greater Silicon Valley region, the fund said Wednesday. Dorm Room launched its e...

Menlo Park-based startup Curious.com launched a new, online marketplace for learning and lessons today, saying that it is backed by $7.5M in funding from Redpoint Ventures and angels Bill Campbell, Jesse Rogers and Justin Kitch. Curious.com...

Menlo Park-based Workspot disclosed today that it has raised $1.9M in a seed funding round, for its software which allows users to access their critical work related applications and files from their tablets and mobile devices. The funding ...

Mountain View-based Pelican Imaging, a developer of camera array technology for mobile devices, said today that it has raised $20M in a Series C funding round. The funding included strategic investor Qualcomm Ventures, along with Nokia Grow...

Online payment infrastructure developer Dwolla said today that it has raised $16.5M in a funding round, and opened up operations in San Francisco. The firm said the Series C funding came from Andreessen Horowitz, and also included Village V...

San Francisco-based Expect Labs, which is developing intelligent "digital assistants" which predict what a user wants to do and helps them accomplish tasks, has scored a strategic investment from a trio of companies. Expect Labs said that I...

San Jose-based RetailNext said this morning that it has raised $15M in a Series C financing round. The round was led by StarVest Partners, and also included August Capital, Nokia Growth Partners, and Commerce Ventures. StarVest's Laura B. S...

Jim Breyer, who is a Partner at Accel Partners, is further simplifying his board seats today, and will not stand for re-election to the board of Dell Computer. The move is the second major board departure for Breyer in the last few days; he...

San Francisco-based Madison Color said today that it has raised $4M in a venture funding round, which was led by True Ventures, and also included Maveron, the venture firm founded by Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks. The firm said t...

Dynamic Yield, a developer of yield optimization products based in Tel Aviv, Israel, has scored backing from Palo Alto-based investor Bessemer Venture Partners. According to Dynamic Yield it raised $2m in its Series A funding, with the New ...

Santa Clara-based Apigee, which develops technology to help developers and companies with their application programming interfaces (APIs), has scored backing from In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the U.S. intelligence community. Financi...

San Francisco-based PresenceLearning said Thursday that it has raised $8M in a Series B funding, for the firm's online speech and occupational therapy services for K-12 students. The funding was led by New Markets Venture Partners and Blue ...

Mountain View-based drchrono, which develops iPad applications for viewing electronic health records (EHR), said Thursday that it has received an investment from cloud storage provider Box. Financial details of the investment were not discl...

San Francisco-based PICT, a developer of tools which lets companies insert information into photos being shared on such sites as Facebook and elsewhere across the web, said today that it has raised $1.4M in a funding round. The funding came...

San Francisco-based 3Scale announced Wednesday that it has raised $4.2M in a funding round, which will go towards its software API management and distribution service. The funding came from Javelin Venture Partners and Costanoa Venture Capi...

Pivotal Labs, the developer of agile software development tools which is co-owned by EMC and VMware, and headed by Paul Maritz, has a new warchest of funding today. PIvotal said that GE plans to make a strategic investment in the firm of ap...

San Mateo-based Gengo, the operator of an online, human-powered language translation service, said today that it has raised $12M in a Series B investment round. The roudn was led by Intel Capital, and also included Aotmico, Iris Capital, In...

San Mateo-based Cervel Neurotech, a developer of medical devices which use magnetic coils to treat psychiatric and neurologic illnesses, said today that it has raised $14.1M in a new funding round. The funding came from D. E. Shaw Ventures ...

Palo Alto-based Infer, which is developing predictive customer analytics software, has raised $10M in a Series A funding, the firm said today. The funding came from Redpoint Ventures, along with Andreessen Horowitz, Social+Capital Partnersh...

Battery Ventures is bolstering its presence in Menlo Park, with the hiring of a Facebook veteran as its newest Entrepreneur in Residence. The firm said that it has hired Charles Jolley as its newest EIR in Menlo Park. Jolley was most recent...

San Francisco-based Skimlinks disclosed Monday that it has raised more funding for its software, which automatically inserts affiliate marketing links for web publishers on their site. Size of the funding was not disclosed. The funding came...

San Francisco-based Upstart, the startup which is letting prospective entrepreneurs raise capital by trading away a portion of their future income for 10 years, said today that it has raised $5.9M in a Series A funding round. The firm said ...

San Francisco-based Eventbrite, which operates an online service to let people promote their events and sell tickets, said today that it has raised $60M in a financing round. The round brings the company's total raised to $140M. The new fun...

Sunnyvale-based mBlox, a provider of SMS messaging and text messaging products, has raised $14M in venture debt, from NXT Capital Finance. Terms of the loan were not announced. mBlox is backed by Norwest Venture Partners, Scale Ventures, N...

Menlo Park-based Silver Lake, the private equity firm which specializes in technology investments, said Thursday that it has closed on Silver Lake Partners IV, a $10.3 billion fund focused on large-cap technology investment. Silver Lake sai...

Sunnyvale-based Enlighted, which provides sensors and software to reduce the power consumed by commercial lighting, has raised $20M in a Series C funding, the firm said Thursday. The funding was led by RockPort Capital, and also included DF...

Yodo1, which helps game publishers mobilize their games in the Chinese market, said Wednesday that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding round. The firm--which has a presence in San Francisco, but is based in Beijin--said the funding was ...

In a funding that brings the firm's total raised to $87M, San Mateo-based Guavus said today that it has raised $9M more in a new funding round. The round came from Goldman Sachs and TransLink Capital. Guavus develops big data analytics soft...

San Francisco-based Kaazing, which develops the HTML5 communications software WebSocket, has raised $15M in a new funding round, the firm said today. The funding came from New Enterprise Associates Inc. (NEA) and Columbus Nova Technology Pa...

San Francisco-based Idibon, which develops natural language processing software used for understanding and decoding unstructured data like emails, instant messages and social media, has raised $1.4M in a seed funding round. The firm said th...

Pleasanton-based PowerbyProxi, a developer of wireless power systems, announced yesterday that it has raised $5M in a Series C funding round. The funding came from TE and Movac, a New Zealand venture capital firm. PowerbyProxi is developing...

Mountain View-based Gainsight, a developer of software which uses Big Data techniques to analyze sales data and usage, announced this morning that it has raised $9M in a funding round. The round was led by Battery Ventures. Along with the f...

Mountain View-based Instart Logic has raised $17M in a funding round, the firm announced today, from Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures and Tenaya Capital, as well as others. The firm develops a cloud-based service...

San Francisco-based The Hunt, an online, visual, social site focused on finding products, said today that it has scored a second close of seed financing from a suite of Hollywood insiders. The company said the new investment came from Ashto...

San Francisco-based The RealReal, an online marketplace for the resale of luxury items, has raised $14M in a Series B funding round, the firm announced today. The funding was led by InterWest Partners, and also included Canaan Partners, e....

San Francisco-based OpenCoin said today that it has raised angel funding for its development of the Ripple protocol, the open source payment system behind Bitcoin. Size of the funding was not disclosed. The funding came from Andreessen Horo...

Are you a frequent traveler, who would love to make money--rather than pay money--when you've parked your car at the airport? San Mateo-based FlightCar disclosed today that it has raised $5.5M in a Series A funding, which included General C...

San Mateo-based Motif Investing, which develops an automated, one-click way for individuals to invest in "themed" investments, has raised $25M in a Series C funding, the firm disclosed today. The funding came from Goldman Sachs, and also in...

A new, joint venture capital partnership--backed by Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is looking to fund startups spawned out of Google's Glass platform, the three said Wednesday. The companies said...

San Francisco-based venture capital investor Azure Capital has turned its eyes north of the border, saying today that it has opened up a brand new office in Calgary, Alberta, to scope out investments across Canada. Azure pointed to an "impr...

San Mateo-based 4G/LTE power amplifier (PA) maker Quantance said this morning that it has raised $12M more, in a Series D funding round. The funding came from TD Fund, Granite Ventures, InterWest Partners and DoCoMo Capital. Quantance said ...

San Francisco-based iRhythm Technologies, a developer of patch-based, cardiac monitoring products, said today that it has raised $16M in a Series D funding round. The funding was led by Norwest Venture Partners, and also included New Leaf V...

San Francisco- and London-based mobile data compression software developer Wandera has raised $7M in a funding round, the firm announced this morning. Wandera offers up a service which helps companies reduce their mobile data usage and spen...

San Francisco-based Optimizely, which develops website A/B testing software, said this morning that it has raised $28M in a funding round. The funding was led by Benchmark Capital, and also included Bain Capital Ventures, Battery Ventures,...

San Carlos-based MarkLogic, a developer of enterprise, NoSQL database software, announced this morning that it has raised $25M in a new funding round. The firm said the round was led by Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital, and also included ...

San Francisco-based Plain Villa Corp., which develops a series of quiz-based mobile games, has raised $2.4M in a Series A funding, the firm said today. The funding was led by Greycroft Partners, Tencent, IDG ventures and BOLDStart Ventures,...

San Francisco-based ForgeRock, a developer of open source software for identity and access management, announced a $15M funding round today. The Series B funding was led by Foundation Capital, and also included Accel Partners. The firm said...

Burlingame-based biopharmaceuticals developer Cleave Biosciences has raised another $10M in its Series A funding round, the firm announced today. According to Cleave, the new funding came from New Enterprise Associates. The funding brings i...

San Ramon-based SteadyMed Therapeutics, a developer of biopharmaceuticals to treat Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH), has raised $3M in a term loan from Square 1 Bank. Square 1 Bank said the loan will go towards working capital, to help...

San Francisco-based Clean power Finance, which provides residential solar financing to consumers, said this morning that it has raised $37M in a new round of financing. The firm said the growth equity came from strategic and existing invest...

Ignition Partners, a venture capital firm which is based in Seattle, said this week that it has raised a new fund, and opened up a new office in Palo Alto. The venture capital firm said that its new, $150M fund will be run by Frank Artale, ...

Sunnyvale-based EAT Club, which operates a lunch delivery service which lets professionals select a lunch and automatically have it delivered each day, has raised $5M in a Series A funding round. The round came from August Capital, First Ro...

San Francisco-based MuleSoft, a developer of middleware software for integrating different enterprise applications, has raised another big round of funding today. The company said it raised $37M in a new round of funding, led by New Enterpr...

San Francisco-based Balanced, a provider of electronic payment services for e-commerce businesses, has raised $2M in a new seed funding, the firm said today. The funding came from Andreessen Horowitz and Collaborative Fund. Balanced said th...

Mountain View-based Revance Therapeutics, a developer of specialty biopharmaceuticals, said today that it has raised $33M in a Series E financing. The funding came from its existing investors, including Essex Woodlands, NovaQuest Pharma Opp...

San Francisco-based Midokura, a developer of network virtualization products, said this morning that it has raised $17.3M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ), and also included ...

Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft Corp., is opening up a new investment office in Silicon Valley, according to reporta. Allen's personal investment firm, Vulcan Capital, apparently is opening up a new office to specificall...

Palo Alto-based Deliv, which is creating a same-day delivery service which taps into independent drivers to provide same-day delivery of products for retailers, said this week that it has raised $1M in a funding round. The round came from G...

San Leandro-based Pasteurization Technology Group, which is developing wastewater disinfection technology, said Thursday that it has raised $5M in a funding round. The Series A funding was led by EIC Ventures, and also included Kennington. ...

San Francisco-based Stitch Labs, which develops cloud-based, small business inventory management software, has scored $1.4M in funding, via a term loan. The funding came from Square 1 Bank, which announced the funding. Terms of the loan wer...

San Francisco-based Demandbase, which develops marketing software to help companies understand their B2B customers and what they are browsing on their web site, said this morning that it has raised $15M in a venture funding round. The round...

Are you looking for a freelancer who can help you translate your business documents or transcribe your audio? Rev.com, a new, San Francisco startup, is creating a marketplace for just that, saying Tuesday that it has raised $4.5M in a fundi...

San Francisco-based Moovweb said today that it has raised $16M in a funding round, which came from Jafco Ventures and Trinity Ventures. The startup, which is led by Ajay Kapur, develops software which helps web developers automatically adap...

San Francisco- and Boston-based Third Rock Ventures, which invests in healthcare companies, said Monday that it has raised $516M in its third fund, Third Rock Fund III. The firm said the fund was oversubscribed. The new fund brings its tota...

Palo Alto-based Pluribus Networks, which develops network virtualization and acceleration hardware, said today that it has now raised $44M in its Series C funding round, after an injection from China Broadband Capital (CBC). The firm--which...

Mountain View-base AgreeYa Mobility, a developer of enterprise software which helps companies connect via Android, iOS, and Windows Mobile to MIcrosoft products such as Office 365, SharePoint, and Lync, has raised a round of new funding. Th...

Postmates, which develops a smartphone driven, urban delivery service which lets consumers order lunch, groceries, or office supplies in San Francisco and Seattle, has raised $5M in a funding round, the firm revealed this week. The funding ...

San Franciso Bay Area-based Namo Media, a stealth mode, native mobile advertising startup, revealed this week that it has raised $1.9M in a seed funding round. The round was led by Google Ventures, and also included Andreessen Horowitz, Tri...

Palo Alto-based Sharethis announced today that it has raised $23M in a Series C funding round, and acquired Socialize, a developer of social application software. The new funding came from T-Venture, the venture arm of Deutsche Telekom, and...

San Francisco-based online, peer-to-peer boat rental marketplace GetMyBoat said today that it has raised $500,000, via an angel financing round. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. GetMyBoat operates an online marketplace which all...

San Jose-based Hadoop software developer MapR Technologies said today that it has raised $30M in a Series C funding. The new funding was led by Mayfield, and also included prior investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, NEA and Redpoint Ventur...

Santa Clara-based Vasona Networks, which develops technology for managing mobile capacity in cell phone networks, has raised $12M in a Series B funding, the firm announced this morning. The funding was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, and ...

San Mateo-based venture capital firm Emergence Capital Partners said Monday that it has named Alison Berkley Wagonfeld as its Operating Partner, helping the firm's portfolio companies work on go-to-market strategies, recruiting and talent m...

San Jose-based solid state disk drive maker OCZ Technology Group has scored a $30M loan and security agreement with venture lender Hercules Technology Growth Capital. The two firms said the agreement includes both a $15M term loan, and a $1...

San Francisco-based DeveloperAuction, which operates an online site which lets software developers auction themselves off to the highest bidder, said today that it has raised $2.7M in a first round investment. The round was led by New Enter...

San Francisco-based Crushpath, a new startup developing a service to help people pitch their products, ideas, events, service, and more, said Tuesday that it has raised $6M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Chamath Palihapit...

Evolv On-Demand, a San Francisco software developer focused on talent and job applicant management, said this morning that it has raised $15M in a Series D financing round. The round was led by VantagePoint, and also included GGV Capital, K...

Crittercism, the San Francisco-based developer of software for monitoring the performance of mobile web applications, said today that it has raised $12M in a funding round. The round was led by existing investor Google Ventures, and also in...

San Francisco-based SwiftStack said this morning that it has raised $6.1M in a Series A funding round. The firm, which develops object-based storage software based on the open OpenStack standard, said the funding will go towards employes an...

San Jose-based solid state storage developer Skyera has added disk drive maker Western Digital has a strategic investor. According to Western Digital, it participate in the recent $51M funding round that had been announced by SKyera, which ...

creativeLIVE, an online, live video education and class site, said Monday that it has raised $8M in a funding round. The San Francisco and Seattle company announced that the round came from Creative Artists Agency (CAA), William Morris End...

San Francisco-based Trulia announced this morning that it has launched its follow on offering of 5.25 million shares of its common stock. The offering, which is being run by Deutsche Bank Securities, J.P. Morgan Securities and RBC Capital, ...

San Francisco-based TastemakerX, which develops a mobile, music discovery application which uses gamification to let bands promote their music and find fans, said Thursday that it has raised $1.25M in a funding round. The round came from Ba...

Los Gatos-based Pertino said today thta it has raised $20M in a Series B funding round, for the firm's cloud-based networking software. Pertino develops software which allows small businesses to more easily connect their employees via wide-...

Matterport, a Mountain View-based developer of 3D scanning technology which takes and scans, in detail, interior spaces into 3D data, has raised $5.6M in a Series A funding round. The firm said the funding came from Lux Capital, along with ...

San Francisco-based Life360, a developer of an Android and iPhone app for tracking a family's location, has scored a strategic investment from BMW i Ventures, the venture capital arm of German car manufacturer BMW. Size of the investment wa...

Santa Cruz-based Looker Data Sciences, a developer of business intelligence query software, said Thursday that it has raised $2M in a funding round. The funding was led by First Round Capital and PivotNorth Capital. The firm said it is look...

San Francisco-based Discoverly, a stealth mode developer of enterprise social networking and data tools, said this week that it has raised $750,000 in a seed funding round. The funding came from Salesforce.com, Bessemer Venture partners, At...

Can a wristwatch be the key to unlocking a healthier lifestyle? San Francisco-based BASIS Science thinks so, and just raised $11.5M in a Series B funding to move towards its goal of helping people to adopt health habits. The firm said the n...

Santa Clara-based Kilopass, a developer and licensor of intellectual property for the non-volatile memory semiconductor market, said it has raised $8M in a funding round. The firm said it came from a major, consumer electronics licensee of ...

San Bruno-based SharesPost, which operates an online marketplace to trade stock in privately held, venture backed companies, has inked a joint venture deal with NASDAQ OMX, the two said this morning. Financial details of the deal were not d...

San Francisco-based Pathjoy, the Y-Combinator startup which connects people with home cleaners ala Uber, disclosed today that it has raised $1.7m in a seed funding round. The round came from Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Resolu...

Redwood City-based Retailigence, a developer of marketing software to convert online browsers to offline customers, has raised $6.3M in a new funding round, the firm announced today. Retailigence said the Series B funding came from Draper F...

San Francisco-based Anaplan, which develops cloud-based financial modeling and planning software, said today that it has raised $30M in a new financing round. The round was led by Meritech Capital, and also included prior investors Granite ...

San Jose-based Quorum, which develops backup, recovery, and business contunity appliances aimed at the small and mid-sized business market, has raised $11M in a Series B funding, the firm announced this morning. Quorum said the new funding ...

San Francisco-based real estate site Trulia has filed for a follow on offering saying it is looking to raised up to $100M in another common stock offering for the company. The firm--which is currenlty listed as TRLA on the New York Stock Ex...

Roundcorner, a developer of enterprise, nonprofit donor management software which connects into Salesforce.com, said today that it has raised a round of growth stage funding. Financial details of the funding, and investors names, were not d...

San Francisco-based PivotLink, a develper of software-as-a-service for helping retailers analyze their business performance, has raised $2.0M in a debt funding round, according to a regulatory filing. Details on the funding have not been an...

San Jose-based Sophia Search has snagged $3.7M in a Series A round, the company announced this morning. The firm said the investment round was led by Atlantic Bridge Ventures. Sophia Search develops semantic analysis software used to unders...

San Francisco-based Pathbrite, which develops an online site to help students create an "educational portfolio", said today that it has raised $4M in a Series A2 financing round. The funding was led by testing firm ACT, and also included R...

Menlo Park-based CardioKinetix said Thursday that it has raised $48M in a Series E financing, for its catheter-based heart failure therapies. The new funding round came from Panorama Capital, along with prior investors U.S. Venture Partners...

San Francisco-based Gild, which is developing technology to help recruiters assess the skills of software developers, said Wednesday that it has raised $8M in a series A funding round. The round was led by Baseline Ventures, and also includ...

Mountain View-based Nexenta Systems, which is developing software defined storage products, said today that it has raised $24M in a Series D funding round. The round was led by Four Rivers Group, and also included Menlo Ventures, TransLink ...

San Francisco-based Playnomics, which develops predictive analytics software for mobile, social, and browser-based games, said last week that it raised $5M in a Series B funding round. The funding was led by VanEdge Capital, and also includ...

Menlo Park-based Intersect ENT, which develops sinus implants used to treat ear, nose and throat patients, said today that it has raised $30M in a Series D round of funding. The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners, and also included ...

San Jose-based solid state storage developer Skyera said this morning that it has raised $51M in a Series B financing round. The funding came from Dell Ventures, the venture capital arm of Dell Computer. Skyera is developing solid state sto...

Palo Alto-based Pinterest has raised $200M more in venture capital funding, the firm confirmed this week. The funding was led by Valiant Capital Management, and also included Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners and FirstMark Capi...

Palo Alto-based Mindflash, which develops online training software for companies, has raised $3.5M in a funding round, the firm said Wednesday. The funding came from the Investment Group of Santa Barbara, and occurred sometime in 2012. Mind...

San Mateo-based Drawbridge, a developer of advertising technology for tracking users across different devices, said Thursday that it has raised $14M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Northgate Capital, and also included Sequ...

Menlo Park-based venture investor Battery Ventures has a stack of new bills in its pocket today, announcing that it has raised $900M across two funds. Battery said it closed Battery Ventures X at $650M, and Battery Ventures X Side Fund (BV ...

Cmune, which develops the popular, 3D shooter game UberStrike on Facebook and other platforms, said this week that it has raised a new round of funding. Size of the investment was not disclosed. The funding came from DCM. Cmune says it has ...

Mountain View-based TVU Networks, which develops mobile broadcasting hardware for television transmissions, said today that it has landed a new round of funding. Size of the round was not disclosed. According to TVU Networks, the new fundin...

Redwood City-based Gynesonics, a developer of minimally invasive products for treating uterine fibroids in women, said today that it has raised $21M in a Series F funding round. The round was led by HBM Partners, and also included Correlati...

San Mateo-based StormPath, the developer of user authentication and management software for app developers, said tihs morning that it has raised $8.2M in a Series A financing round. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates and Pelion ...

San Francisco-based HStreaming, which develops big data analytics software, has raised a funding round from Atlas Venture, the firm said Thursday. Financial details of the funding was not disclosed. HStreaming said it is working on low late...

San Ramon-based Odyssey Thera, a developer of technology which measures disease pathways in human cells, said Thursday that it has raised $2.8M in funding. The funding came from HBM Partners, Burrill & Company, and Lonza. According to Odyss...

Palo Alto-based Morta Security said Wednesday that it has raised a new round of funding. The stealth mode, security software company said the funding came from Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, and Norwest Venture Partners along with ...

Menlo Park-based InVisage, a developer of image sensors, said Wednesday that it has raised a Series D round of funding. Size of the funding was not announced. According to InVisage, the new funding round was led by GGV Capital, and also inc...

San Francisco-based Storenvy, which operates an online social marketplace focused on photos of products from merchants, said this week that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Intel Capital and Spark Capital,...

San Francisco-based Leanplum, a developer of mobile analytics and A/B testing tools, has raised $825,000 in a angel funding round, the firm disclosed today. THe funding came from TechStars, Kima Ventures, VoiVoda Ventures, along with other ...

San Francisco-based neighborhood social networking site Nextdoor said this morning that it has raised $21.6M in a funding round. The round was led by Greylock Partners, and also included Benchmark Capital, Shasta Ventures, DAG Ventures, All...

San Francisco-based RepairPal, an online site providing information on auto repairs, including helping consumers to estimate repair prices on their cars, said Monday that it has raised $13M in a funding round. The round came from Cars.com a...

San Francisco-based MyTime, a startup developing a combination appointment scheduling and online personal services deals site, has raised $3M in a funding round, the firm disclosed Thursday. The company lets users book appointments for hair...

When Ron Bodkin, the founder of Think Big Analytics, was VP of Engineering at Quantcast, he started tapping into Hadoop and NoSQL--two of the core of the move towards big data analysis--in that firm's operations. That led to starting Think ...

San Francisco-based Livefyre, which develops social commenting and real-time chat applications, said today that it has raised $15M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by US Venture Partners, and also included Greycroft Partners, ...

Ribbon, a San Francisco startup developing an social commerce platform which lets users sell products and accept payments from the web, Facebook, and other social sites, said today that it has raised $1.6M in a seed funding round. The round...

Palo Alto-based Ravello Systems, which develops its own cloud application environment allowing virtual applications to run across multiple, different cloud providers, has raised $26M in a funding round. The round came from Sequoia Capital, ...

Palo Alto-based WSO2, a developer of enterprise middleware software, reported yesterday that it has raised $10M in a new round of funding. The funding round was led by Toba Capital, and also included both Cisco and Intel Capital. WSO2 devel...

Santa Clara-based WhiteHat Security, a developer of website security and related tools, said today that it has raised $31M in a new funding round. The round came from Investor Growth Capital and JMI Equity, and brings the company's total ra...

San Francisco-based software-as-a-service provider New Relic said today that it has raised $80M in a mezzanine financing round, to help the firm expand into the mobile market, extend in Europe, and prep for a public offering. The financing ...

San Francisco-based Piston Cloud announced today that it has raised $8M, in a Series B funding round, for the firm's OpenStack distribution. According to Piston Cloud, the funding came from Cisco Systems, Data Collective, Swisscom Ventures,...

San Francisco-based PagerDuty, which develops software-as-a-service for managing IT scheduling, schedule management, and alerting, said Thursday that it has raised $10.7M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz...

San Francisco-based Tomfoolery, a startup developing mobile software for the enterprise, said today that it has raised $1.7M in a seed funding round. The startup--which say sit is developing "consumer-quality, mobile focused software for wo...

San Francisco-based Ringadoc said Tuesday that it has raised $1.2M in a seed funding round, led by Founders Fund's FF Angel. Ringadoc is developing a service to help doctors manage patient calls with their smartphone, letting doctors respon...

Palo Alto-based Houzz, which operates an online marketing service aimed at home remodeling and design projects, announced today that it has raised $35M in a Series C funding round. The round came from Sequoia Capital, Comcast Ventures, Klei...

Palo Alto-based document sharing service WatchDox announced today that it has raised $12M in a new funding round, which came from Millennium Technology Value Partners, Blackstone, Gemini Israel Funds, Shasta Ventures and Shlomo Kramer (Chec...

Cupertino-based Seagate has invested $40M in Virident Systems, the developer of flash-based, solid state storage products. The investment came as part of a strategic agreement, where Seagate will also offer up a line of line of flash-based ...

ChaCha, the human-powered, real-time question and answer site which is based in Carmel, Indiana, but also has offices in San Francisco, has raised $14M in a round of funding, the firm said today. ChaCha said the new round was led by Vantage...

Venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners said last week that it has named a number of new partners. According to Bessemer, it has promoted Kent Bennett, Brian Feinstein, Ethan Kurzweil and Trevor Oelschig to partner, has hired Alex Fe...

Santa Clara-based Zoom Video Communications said this morning that it has raised a Series A financing round, and launched its cloud-based HD video meeting and mobile screen sharing service. The firm said the Series A funding came from Qualc...

San Francisco-based Extole, a provider of social media and marketing services and software, said today that it has raised an additional $7.6M in a funding round. The round came from current investors Shasta Ventures, Norwest Venture Partne...

CircuitHub, an online library of electronic parts and information for hardware designers, has raised a round of funding from Google Ventures, Y Combinator, and angels Paul Buchheit, Matt Cutts, Garry Tan, Alexis Ohanian, Harj Taggar, and ot...

Fremont-based battery developer Leyden Energy said today that it has raised $10M in a Series C funding round for its lithium ion batteries. The firm said the round came from New Enterprise Associates, Lightspeed Ventures, Sigma Partners and...

Intel Capital, the venture investment arm of Intel, has made an investment in enterprise mobile application management firm Apperian, in a strategic investment. Apperian is based in Boston, and is also backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, K...

San Francisco-based peer-to-peer lending marketplace Prosper said Tuesday that it has raised $20M in a funding round from Sequoia Capital, and also named a new CEO. Prosper said it has named Pat Grady of Sequoia Capital to its board of dire...

San Francisco-based AppDynamics, the developer of application performance management software, said today that it has raised $50M in a Series D round. The growth funding was led by new investor Institutional Venture Partners, and also inclu...

San Francisco-based BuildingIQ, a developer of commercial building energy management software, said this morning it has garnered $9M in a venture funding round. The round came from Aster Capital, the Venture Capital unit of Siemens Financia...

Mountain View-based PayNearMe, which operates a network of locations where consumers can pay for goods or services remotely with cash, said Tuesday that it has raised $10M in a new funding round, and also launched its service, PayNearMe Exp...

San Francisco-based Optimal announced this morning that it has raised $7M in a Series B funding round. The round came from DoubleRock, The Social Internet Fund, Siemer Ventures, Signal Ventures, John Pappajohn, Warren Adelman (former CEO of...

Palo Alto-based Syapse, which operates an online repository of human genome and clinical data, said this morning that it has raised a round of funding from The Social+Capital Partnership. Size of the funding round was not disclosed. Syapse ...

Menlo Park-based Ceterix Orthopaedics, a developer of surgical tools used for arthroscopic surgery, has raised $19.5M in a Series B funding, the company said today. The round was led by Novo Ventures, and also included Versant Ventures and ...

San Francisco-based 15Five, a firm developing software to help companies gain feedback from their employees and improve the communications and management of those companies, has raised $1M in a seed funding, the firm said this week. The fun...

Palo Alto-based SurveyMonkey, the developer of web-based surveying software, said today that it has raised $800M in funding, split between $444M in private equity, and $350M in debt. The equity funding came from CEO Dave Goldberg and Tiger ...

Santa Cruz-based NextSpace, the developer and operator of coworking spaces, said this morning that it has raised $825,000 in a funding round. The firm said the funding will go towards expansion in Northern California. The company, which is ...

Oakland-based residential solar power firm Sungevity, which offers up a service to help residential customers specify and install their own solar power systems, said Wednesday that it has raised $125M more in funding. The funding included $...

San Francisco-based InternMatch, an online service which helps connect college students with employers, said Wednesday that it has raised $1.2M in a funding round. The round came from angels, including Dave McClure, Mitch Kapor, Vishal Makh...

Palo Alto-based Fanplayr, a developer of software to which helps analyze site and visitor traffic to optimize purchase incentive timing, said today that it has raised $2M in a seed investment round. The round was led by Denali Venture Partn...

Mountain View-based Zettaset, the developer of big data automation and cluster management software for Hadoop, said Tuesday that it has raised $10M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by HighBar Partners, and also included Brocad...

Palo Alto-based Ayasdi said today that it has raised $10.25M in a Series A funding, for its big data platform for helping organizations parse through their large and complex datasets. The funding was led by Khosla Ventures and FLOODGATE. Th...

Menlo Park-based Redpoint Ventures said today that it has closed a new, $400M early stage venture capital fund, Redpoint V. The venture investor said the funding will go towards early stage investing. Redpoint said it had more than 14 exits...

Google Ventures, along with a long list of local Silicon Valley angels, has put its funding behind a developer of data mining and cloud-based software aimed at improving cancer treatment. Flatiron Health, based in New York, said it has rais...

Persimmon Technologies, a developer of vacuum robotics and other technology aimed at the semiconductor, LED, solar, and other manufacturing markets, said it raised $5.8M in a Series B funding. The round came from Intel Capital, The Bernard ...

Santa Clara-based vArmour Networks, a developer of security software specifically aimed at virtualized infrastructure and data centers, has raised $6M in a Series A funding. The firm said the round was led by Highland Capital Partners. Core...

San Francisco-based Kwarter, a developer of "second screen" applications which provide social gaming and other features linked with television broadcasts, said today that it has raised $4M in a funding round. The Series A round was led by T...

Menlo Park-based Desti has raised $1M in additional, seed funding for the firm's iPad travel guide. The funding came from Carmel, SRI International, and Horizon Ventures, and brings its total raised to $2.55M. Desti's app is free on the iTu...

San Francisco-based ConnectSolutions, a provider of private cloud management services for enterprise and government organizations, has scored $10M in a round of funding from Frontier Capital. According to the firms, the minority equity inve...

Santa Clara-based ScaleArc, which develops software which delivers analytics and improved caching for database environments, said Thursday that it has raised $12.3M in a new, Series C funding round. The round was led by Accel Partners, and ...

Mountain View-based Mirantis said Thursday that it has raised $10M in a growth capital financing, for its OpenStack software tools. The firm said the funding came from Intel Capital, WestSummit Capital, and Dell Ventures. Mirantis provides ...

Foster City-based Streetline said Thursday that it has raised $25M in a Series C funding round, which was led by True Ventures, and also included Citi and Qualcomm Ventures, along with Sutter Hill Ventures, RockPort Capital Partners, and Fo...

San Mateo-based Big Data software analytics developer Guavus said today that it has raised $30M in a new round of funding. The funding was led by Investor Growth Capital (IGC), and also included QuestMark Partners, Artiman Ventures, Sofinn...

Redwood City-based Host Analytics said this week that it has raised $17M in a Series D financing round. The funding came from existing investors, which include Advanced Technology Ventures, Trident Capital, StarVest Partners and Next World ...

Menlo Park-based early stage venture capital investor U.S. Venture Partners said Tuesday that it has added Emily Melton as Venture Partner at the firm, to bolster its efforts in the mobile services, social media, and consumer services area....

Santa Clara-based Mobiplex, a developer of wireless sensors being used for sports and golf swing analysis, said Tuesday that it has raised $1.3M more in additional funding. The firm said the new funding came from both current and new privat...

San Francisco-based Chartboost, which develops software tools for mobile game developers to help them promote their games and applications, has raised $19M in a Series B funding, the firm said Tuesday. The round was led by Sequoia Capital, ...

Palo Alto- and Boulder, Colorado-based publishing software tools provider Graphicly is in the midst of raising $1.0M in a convertible debt round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. The filing indicates the company has...

San Francisco-based Soltice Biologics said Friday that it has raised $18M in a Series A funding round. The firm, which is developing technology that enables the delivery of RNA-based therapeutics across membranes, said the funding was led b...

Shape Security, a startup based in Mountain View developing advanced security tools, has raised $20M in a Series B funding. The firm said the round was led by Venrock, and also included Caufield & Byers, Allegis Capital, Google Ventures, To...

San Francisco-based HeyZap has raised $4.3M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing. The funding came from new investor Qualcomm, along with existing investor Union Square Ventures. HeyZap develops mobile, social gaming apps wh...

Mountain View-based hotel room search engine Room 77 has raised $30.3M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the company. Details on the funding have not yet been announced by the company. Room 77 is venture backed by Su...

San Francisco-based Globant, a developer of software products for big brands, has received $70M in an investment from WPP. WPP said it acquired a 20%, minority stake in Globant, to help strengthen its digital capabilities. WPP said Globalnd...

San Francisco-based Leap Motion, a developer of motion control software and hardware, said today that it has raised $30M in a funding round. The funding came from Highland Capital and its other existing investors. The firm, headed by Micha...

San Francisco-based Labrys Biologics, a biopharmaceuticals firm focused on treatments for chronic migraine, said this morning that it has raised $31M in a Series A financing round. The round came from venBio, Canaan Partners, InterWest Part...

Livermore-based Halt Medical has raised $15M in a funding round, which will go toward commercialization of its medical devices for treating uterine fibroids, the firm said this morning. Halt Medical said its system was recently cleared by t...

San Francisco-based CrowdOptic, a developer of mobile video applications being aimed at crowd-sourcing of smartphone videos at events, said Monday that it has closed on an additional debt financing round. The funding came from Silicon Valle...

San Francisco-based IFTTT, a startup which lets people connect together different web services, said Thursday that it has raised $7M in a funding round. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, and also included New Enterprise Associates a...

Intel said today that it invested over $300M in over fifty new companies during 2012, plus had seventy follow on investments. Intel revealed the details in a year end bulletin. The semiconductor giant, which is among the most active strate...

Palo Alto-based Puribus Networks, a developer of network virtualization hardware aimed at private and public cloud infrastructure, has raised $23M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Menlo ventures, and also included New Enter...

Consumer electronics manufacturer FoxConn (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.) has made an investment of $200M in San Mateo-based GoPro, the maker of the popular line of action sports cameras, GoPro said this morning. GoPro said the inve...

Palo Alto-based Signifyd said Wednesday that it has raised $2M in a seed funding round, for developing a risk and fraud prevention platform for online e-commerce customers. The funding came from Andreessen Horowitz, Data Collective, IA Vent...

San Francisco-based Fitstar said Wednesday that it has raised $5M in a seed funding round, to build a digital health and fitness platform. The funding was led by Google Venturs, and also included Advancit Capital, and FLOODGATE Fund. The fi...

San Francisco-based Grockit, an online site which helps students with test prepration for such tests as the GMAT, SAT, ACT, LSE, and GRE, has raised a strategic funding round, according to the company today. The investment was led by Discov...

Santa Clara-based Nor1, a developer of pricing and merchandising software used to help upsell hotel and resort amenities, has raised $9M in a Series B funding, the company said today. The funding was led by Concur, the developer of travel a...

Mountain View-based storage technology developer Exablox announced this morning that it has now raised $22M in two rounds of funding. The firm said the funds came after completing oversubscribed Series A and Series B funding rounds. The fun...

San Francisco-based Duetto Research, which develops forecasting software for the travel and hospitality industry, has raised $10M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Battery Ventures and Altimeter Capital, and also included Thayer...

San Mateo-based Allakos said today that it has raised $32M in a Series A financing round, which will go towards its antibody therapeutics for treating allergic and inflammatory diseases. The funding was led by Novo Ventures, and also includ...

San Francisco-based Influitive announced today that it has raised $7.3M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Hummer Winblad and Relay Ventures, along with Lightspeed Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Illuminate Ventur...

San Francisco-based Easilydo, which develops mobile productivity applications to help users make their life simpler, said Thursday that it has raised $4.3M in a funding round. The round came from US Venture Partners and Mayfield Fund, along...

San Ramon-based Green Plug, a company developing programmable, mixed-signal controllers for the power controller market, said this week that it has raised a Series C funding round. Size of the round was not announced. GreenPlug said the fun...

San Francisco-based Stipple, a firm that develops image-based advertising and e-commerce tools, said Thursday that it has raised $3M in funding. The funding came from Sands Capital. Stipple develops a service which tags images, and makes th...

San Francisco-based online video discovery service Plizy announced Wednesday that it has raised $4M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Atlas Venture. Plizy, headed by Jonathan Benassaya, said the funding comes on top of an ear...

Santa Clara-based CloudVelocity, a developer of cloud automation tools aimed at high availability failover and migration, said Wednesday that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding. The funding came from Mayfield Fund. The company, which i...

San Francisco-based KooZoo, a startup which is developing a service which allows users to share live video feeds of local placess and things, has raised $2.5M in a funding round. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates and Tugboat Ve...

Mountain View-based 23andMe, the personalized genetics company led by Anne Wojcicki, said yesterday that it has received more than $50M in a new financing round. The round came from new investor Yuri Milner, and also included Sergey Brin, N...

Mountain View-based Jibe Mobile, a provider of cloud-based telephony service, software, and APIs, said today that it has raised $8.3M in a funding round. The funding came from Vodafone Ventures, Tokyo-based MTI, and other investors. Jibe Mo...

Palo Alto-based Costanoa Venture Capital, a new venture capital fund founded by Greg Sands, said today that it has raised a $100M, early stage venture capital fund. The firm said it will invest in early stage, cloud-based services for busin...

Redwood City-based Propel Fuels, a retailer of alternative fuel, said Tuesday that it has raised $11M in a Series D funding round. The operator of a network of stations providing bio-based fuels to automobile drivers said that the funding c...

San Francisco-based ZenPayroll, a startup developing cloud-based, payroll management services, has raised $6.1M in a funding round, the firm disclosed today. The firm--part of Y-Combinator--said the funding came from such investors as Googl...

Palo Alto-based NatureBox, which operates a monthly, healthy snack delivery service, said Tuesday that it has raised $2M in a seed funding round. The round was led by General Catalyst Partners and Redpoint Ventures, and also included angels...

Fremont-based GlassPoint Solar, which develops technology used for solar steam generators used to facilitate the recovery of oil in pumping operations, said today that it has raised $26M in a Series B funding. The funding came from Royal Du...

Farmigo, a startup trying to make it easier for people to connect to local farmers for their food, said today that it has raised $8M in a Series B round, and has launched a new "food community" in San Francisco and New York. The Palo Alto s...

San Francisco-based One King's Lane, the operator of an online, flash-sales site for home furnishings, said today that it has raised $50M in a new funding. The funding brings its total raised to $117M. The round was led Institutional Ventur...

Palo Alto-based Mine, a newly launched developer of applications for helping users discover new products and stores, said today that it has raised $600,000 in a seed funding round, and launched its iPhone app. The funding round came from Mi...

San Francisco-based CARDFREE, a developer of mobile commerce products that integrate with point-of-sale systems, has raised $10M in a Series A, the company said today. The company said the funding came last month. Source of the new funding ...

San Francisco-based Delivery Agent, the developer of e-commerce applications which tie into television and entertainment content, said today that it has raised $5M in a strategic investment round. The round came from Samsung Venture Investm...

San Jose-based Validity Sensors said this week that it has added Intel Capital, World Fair, and DDS to its latest funding round, which had an initial close in October, bringing its total raised in that round to $22M. The funding was led by ...

Campbell-based Centric Software, a developer of product lifecycle management (PLM) software, said this week that it has raised $19M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Oak Investment Partners, and also included Masthead Ventur...

Redwood City-based MetroMile, a new startup launching a pay-per-mile auto insurance service, said it has raised $4M in a funding round. The round came from NEA, Index Ventures, First Round Capital and SV Angel. MetroMile is launching an aut...

Palo Alto-based Cloudera said late Thursday that it has raised $65M in a funding round. The round was led by Accel Partners, and also include Greylock Partners, Ignition Partners, In-Q-Tel, and Meritech Capital Partners. Cloudera develops ...

San Francisco-based Prismatic revealed Wednesday that it has raised $15M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Accel Partners, Jim Breyer and Yuri Milner, among others. Prismatic (aka Woven) develops software which looks to under...

Palo Alto-based ClearStory has raised $9M in a Series A round, led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the firm said this morning. The firm also said its prior, seed backers, which include Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures, participa...

Larkspur-based BioCision, which develops tools for the life sciences research and clinical research market, said today that it has raised $2.5M in a growth financing round. The round came from BroadOak Capital Partners, along with Research ...

San Jose-based CipherCloud said this moring that it has raised $30M in a funding round, from Andreessen Horowitz, which will go towards expand its sales and marketing, including expanding in Europe. CipherCloud develops cloud-based, securit...

Menlo Park-based Poshmark has added $12M in a Series B funding, to help bolster its mobile marketplace for fashion. The firm, which is led by Manish Chandra, said the new funding was led by Menlo Ventures, and laso included Mayfield Fund, I...

Palo Alto-based ScaleIO, a developer of software-only, virtual storage area network (SAN) products, said today that it has raised $12M in a funding round. The round came from Greylock Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, and others. ScaleIO ...

Santa Clara-based Green Throttle Games said today that it has raised $6M in a Series A funding. The firm said the round was led by Trinity Ventures, and also included DCM. Green Throttle Games is a developer of video games, and also makes a...

TrueLens, a developer of social data and marketing analysis tools, said monday that it has raised $1.2M in a funding round. The funding round was led by Google Ventures, and also included Charles River Ventures, Common Angels, 500 Startups ...

San Francisco-based Plivo, a developer of telephony APIs, said today that it has raised $1.75M in a seed funding round. The round came from Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Qualcomm Incorporated and SV Angel. Plivo operates a platform...

San Francisco-based Wikia, the developer of online collaboration and wiki software, said Friday that it has raised $10M in a Series C funding round. The firm said the round was led by Institutional Venture Partners, and also included Bessem...

Mountain View-based Evernote, which operates software that lets users keep notes both online and offline, said it has raised $85M in a new funding round. The round was led by AGC Equity Partners/m8 Capital and also included Valiant Capital ...

Triggit, a developer of Facebook ad targeting tools, has raised $7.4M in a Series B funding round, the company said Thursday. The round came from Spark Capital and Foundry Group, among others. Triggit, which is led by Zach Coelius, develops...

Mountain View-based BitYota has raised $12M in funding, from Globespan Capital Partners, Social+Capital Partnership, Dawn Capital, Crosslink Capital, Morado Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Jerry Yang, as well as others, the firm announced th...

Mountain View-based BitYota has raised $12M in funding, from Globespan Capital Partners, Social+Capital Partnership, Dawn Capital, Crosslink Capital, Morado Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Jerry Yang, as well as others, the firm announced th...

San Francisco- and Cambridge, Mass-based Ginger.io said this week that it has raised $6.5M in a Series A funding round, for its mobile health apps. The firm uses "big data" and smartphones to help monitor a person's health. The new funding ...

Emeryville-based TranscribeMe, a developer of speech-to-text services, has raised $900,000 in funding from a syndicate of angel groups. The firm said the funding was led by the Keiretsu Forum, and which also included the Ice Angels, Maveric...

Mobile application platform developer Everything.me said today that it has raised $25M in a Series C funding, from Telefonica Digital. The round also included SingTel Innov8, Mozilla, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), DFJTF, BRM Group and Hori...

Mountain View-based AgilOne, which develops predictive marketing software, has raised $10M in a Series B, in a new funding round led by Mayfield. The funding also included Sequoia Capital. AgilOne said the funding brings its total raised to...

Mountain View-based Sumo Logic, a developer of log management and analytics tools, said today that it has raised $30M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Accel Partners, and also included prior investors Greylock Partners and ...

Lift, the mobile goals-tracking application developer incubated out of Obvious Corp., has raised $2.5M in a Series A funding, the firm said today. The San Francisco startup said the Series A was led by Spark Capital (Bijan Sabet), and also ...

Mountain View-based Edison Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceuticals firm developing treatments for mitochondrial diseases, has raised $20M in a Series F funding. The round was led by Mitsui & Co. Edison said the funding will go to advance clin...

Pleasanton-based TriReme Medical, a developer of medical devices for treating peripheral arterial disease, said today that it has raised $18M in a funding round. The round was led by Luminor Capital of Singapore, and also included other, un...

San Mateo-based Lattice Engines, which develops big data analytics software, said Monday that it has raised $20M in a Series C funding. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates, and also included Sequoia Capital. The firm, led by Shas...

Palo Alto-based Nanosys, a developer of advanced materials used in liquid crystal displays, said today that it has raised $15M in a sixth round of fudning. Source of the funding was not disclosed. The firm said the round will go towards exp...

San Francisco-based Socialbakers, a developer of social media analytics software and services, said today that it has raised $6M in a funding round. The round was led by Index Ventures, and also included Earlybird Venture Capital. Socialbak...

Hayward-based Intarcia Therapeutics announced Thursday that it has raised $210M in a combination of equity and debt. The developer of diabetes treatment said it raised $160M in a preferred stock private placement, and $50M in private debt. ...

San Mateo-based InboundWriter, a developer of software which helps writers optimize their text, announced Thursday that it has raised $2.5M in a funding round. The round came from Crosslink Capital, Castile Ventures, Rho Canada Ventures, Fo...

San Francisco-based HomeLight, an online service which helps homebuyers find a real estate agent that matches their needs, has raised $1.5M in a funding round. The round came from Google Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Crosslink Capital, an...

San Francisco-based Spruce Media, a provider which provides marketing technology for placing Facebook Ads, said yesterday that it has raised $15M in a debt financing round. The round came from Square 1 Bank. The firm said the financing will...

Milpitas-based Vuclip, which serves up videos to users over mobile phones, has raised $13M in a Series D funding round. The round was led by SingTel Innov8, and also included NEA and Jafco Ventures. The firm said the funds will go towards g...

Mill Valley-based Urban Remedy, which provides healthy juices, meal replacements, and gluten-free snacks, has raised $1M in a funding from technology incubator Science Inc. and angels. The company, headed by neka Pasquale, delivers "cleansi...

Palo Alto-based NoSQL database developer 10Gen said Wednesday that it has scored a strategic investment from both Intel and Red Hat, for its MongoDB product. Size of the funding round was not disclosed. The firm will use the funding to furt...

Walnut Creek-based Beyond Lucid, a firm which helps provide tracking of documentation for the emergency response industry, said today that it has raised a "six figure" convertible note from Dalmore Investments. Exact amount of the funding w...

San Francisco-based PlayHaven has raised $8M in funding. The firm, which provides monetization products aimed at mobile game developers, said the round was led by GGV Capital, and also included e.ventures, Tandem Entrepreneurs and individua...

Palo Alto-based Continuuity, a developer of software which helps in the development and deployment of "big data" applications, said today that it has raised $10M in a funding round. The round came from Battery Ventures, Ignition Partners, A...

Menlo Park-based Origami Logic said today that it has raised $9.3M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Accel Partners' Big Data Fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and others. Origami Logic is developing a self-service, big data...

Sunnyvale-based Akros Silicon said Tuesday that it has raised a new round of funding, bring its total raised in 2012 to $11M. Size of the new funding was not disclosed. The round was led by Technology Partners, and also included USVP, Leven...

Remedy Informatics, a developer of clinical registries, medical research software, and research informatics for the life sciences industry, has raised $6M. The firm, which has offices in Menlo Park, said the funding came from the Merck Glob...

San Franscisco-based SocialWire has raised $2M in a seed funding, for its products which help companies engage users on Facebook. The seed funding came from First Round Capital, Dave McClure, Joi Ito, Ariel Poler and Brian Sugar, according ...

San Francisco-based Engine Yard, a developer of cloud software used for deploying and configuring apps built on Ruby, PHP, and Node.js, has scored funding from Oracle, the two said today. Size of the investment was not disclosed. Oracle sai...

San Francisco-based DataSift, a developer of software which helps users join social data with private, internal information about customers, has raised $15M in a Series B round. The firm said the round was led by Scale Venture Partners, and...

Redwood City-based Pearl Therapeutics said today that it has raised $65M in a Series D funding round. The round came from its existing investors, which include 5AM Ventures, Clarus Ventures, New Leaf Venture Partners, and Vatera Healthcare ...

San Mateo-based Platfora, a developer of software used for big data and business intelligence, said it has raised $20M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Battery Ventures, and also included Andreessen Horowitz and Sutter Hill...

San Francisco-based DoubleDutch, which develops enterprise mobile and CRM applications designed for events, sales teams, and enterprise workgroups--including Hive, Pride, and Flock--said it has raised $4M with a Series B funding round today...

Google is boosting the amount of funding for its venture capital arm to $300M a year, according to the firm, which says its plans to invest $1.5 billion into startups over the next five years. Google--which has been dedicating $200M to inve...

San Francisco-based Munchery said today that it has raised $4M in a Series A funding. The round was led by e.ventures. Munchery offers up a service which provides personalized meals from local chefs, which are delivered to users for prepara...

Los Altos-based SnapVolumes said it has emerged from stealth mode, and raised $2.3M in a seed funding round. The firm said it has developed software to manage and deploy applications on virtual desktops, servers, and the cloud, and was foun...

San Francisco-based Drip Drop, a developer of medically forumlated, oral rehydration solutions used to treat dehydration and other issues, said today that it has raised a round of equity funding. Size of the funding round was not disclosed....

San Francisco-based Betabrand, a startup looking to tap the wisdom of the crowds to design and produce clothing, has raised $6.5M in a Series B funding. The firm, founded by Chris Landland (Cordarounds), said the funding was led by Foundry ...

Pleasanton-based ServiceMax, which develops cloud-based, mobile field service applications, said today that it has raised $27M in a Series D investment. The round was led by Crosslink Capital, and also included Emergence Capital Partners, M...

Kenshoo, which develops search engine marketing automation software, said this morning that it has raised $12M in a new round of funding. The firm--which has North American headquarters in San Francisco, but is based in Israel--said the rou...

A report issued this week from the University of San Francisco, the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index, find that the confidence of venture capitalist ticked up a bit in the third quarter. The index--based on a September sur...

San Mateo-based Neo Technology, which develops open source database tool Neo4j, said Friday that it has raised $11M in a Series B funding round. The firm said the funding came from its existing investors, which include Fidelity Growth Partn...

San Francisco-based Flurry, the mobile analytics and advertising firm headed by Simon Khalaf, disclosed this morning that it has raised $25M in a funding round. The round was led by Crosslink Capital and also included former investors Menlo...

Private equity firm Mainsail Partners, which is based in San Francisco, said Thursday that it has expanded its operating team, adding Kathryn Cavanaugh as Vice President of Talent, Amy Corrieo as Controller, and Chris Cassidy as Operating P...

Y Combinator graduate Zapier said Thursday that it has raised a $1.2M, seed funding round, which came from Bessemer Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvesten, along with angels. The company, which is based in Columbia, Mo., recently wrap...

Venture capital firm First Round Capital has bolstered its presence in San Francisco, saying that it has added Bill Trenchard as a partner in the location. Trenchard founded Jump Networks (acquired by Microsoft), had served at idealab, foun...

Hayward-based Advanced Cell Diagnostics said this morning that it has raised $12M in a Series B funding round. The firm, which is developing automated tools for detecting and quantifying RNA biomarkers, said the round was led by New Leaf Ve...

Palo Alto-based Big Switch Networks, a startup providing virtual infrastructure which lets customers define their networks using software, has raised $25M in a Series B funding, the company said today. The funding was led by Redpoint Ventur...

San Francisco-based LocBox, a developer of email marketing software for small businesses, has raised $5.1M in a Series A funding round, the firm said today. The round was led by InterWest Partners, and also included Google Ventures, Accel P...

Burlingame-based iSocket has raised $8M in a Series A funding round, the firm said today. The round was led by Foundry Group, and also included Costanoa, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, SoftTech VC, Accelerator, Quest, and Blumberg Capital. iSocke...

Sausalito-based Glassdoor, which operates an online service that lets people browse and anonymously provide information about salaries and benefits at companies, has raised $20M in a funding round, the firm said today. The firm said the new...

Redwood City-based ItsOn, a developer of mobile technology whose team helped developed the LTE and WiFi 802.11N standards, said today that it has raised $15.5M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, and also ...

San Francisco-based Helpshift, a new startup focused on mobile customer support, has raised $3.2M in a funding round, the company said this morning. The firm said its seed financing round was led by True Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners....

Santa Clara-based Mobiplex, a developer of golf motion analysis software and accessories, said this morning that it has raised $3.1M in a Series A funding round. Name of its investors were not announced. Mobiplex uses wireless sensors and a...

ZeaChem, a developer of cellulosic ethanol processes which has its research and development operations in San Mateo, said Monday that it has raised $25M in a Series C funding round. The round was let by ITOCHU Corporation, and laos included...

San Francisco-based Principia Biopharma, a pharmaceuticals firm developing small molecule drugs aimed at treating inflammatory, autoimmune diseases, and cancer, has raised $12.5M in a second tranche of funding. The funding came from New Lea...

WalkMe, a developer of software to develop online, on-screen walkthrough guides for websites, said Friday that it has raised $5.5M in a funding round. The Israeli firm, which has operations in San Francisco, said the round was led by Gemini...

Palo Alto-based AutoGrid, a developer of software for analyzing smart meter and energy usage information for utilities, has raised $9M in a funding round. The round came from Foundation Capital, Voyager Capital, and Stanford University. Aut...

Udacity, which offers free, online university courses, said Thursday that it had raised $15M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, and also included Charles River Ventures and Stev eblank. Udacity offers up ...

Oakland-based BrightSource Energy has banked a big round of funding, adding another $80M in equity funding, the firm said Wednesday. The new round was led by Alstom and VantagePoint Capital Partners, and also included DFJ, CalSTRS, DBL Inve...

Rewarder, which operates an online marketplace which rewards people for helping to solve the issues of other users, has raised $7M in a Series A funding round. The firm said the round was led by Granite Ventures and Radar Partners, and also...

A regulatory filing today says that San Francisco-based Airbnb has raised $118M in a combinaton of equity and debt. Source of the new funding was not disclosed, however, multiple reports say the round was led by Peter Thiel. Airbnb operates...

San Mateo-based InfoArmy, which provides competitive intelligence reports on companies, crowdsourced from its users, has raised $17.3M in a Series B funding. The round came from Norwest Venture partners and Trinity Ventures. InfoArmy is hea...

Menlo Park-based Tely Labs, a developer of Skype-compatible, high definition videoconferencing equipment for the consumer and business market, has raised $15M in a funding round. The funding came from Comcast Ventures and Rogers Venture Par...

San Ramon-based Intelli-Touch Apps said Monday that it has raised a second round of funding. Size of the funding was not disclosed, and the firm did not disclose the name of its backers. The firm said it is developing smartphone application...

Clever, a developer of software and APIs for the education market, which helps schools and software developers manage and access student data, has raised $3M in a seed funding. The funding came from Y Combinator, SV Angel, Mike Maples, Jeff...

San Francisco-based Gigwalk, a startup which develops mobile phone apps which let people do tasks to earn money--such as taking photos and collecting information--via their phone, has raised $6M in a funding round. The Series A round came f...

MongoHQ, a provider of hosted MongoDB database service, has scored $6M for funding, the firm disclosed earlier this week. The firm--which has offices in Mountain View, and was part of Y Combinator's Summer 2011 class--said the round was led...

San Francisco-based FundersClub, which operates an online site which streamlines and automates the process of making angel investments, disclosed today that it has raised $6M in a seed funding round. The funding came from Y Combinator, Firs...

San Jose-based Intacct, the developer of cloud-based accounting and financial management software, said yesterday that it has raised $13.5M in a new funding round. The financing include both equity and debt. The equity funding was worth $7....

The latest venture capital numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report, based on data from Thomson Reuters, shows that venture capital activity declined both in dollars and deals in Q3. The ...

Validity Sensors, a developer of fingerprint sensors and technology, said Thursday that it has raised $20M in a Series E funding round. The round was led by TeleSoft Partners, and also included prior investors Crosslink Capital, Panorama Ca...

Mountain View-based BloomReach, which develops "big data" marketing applications, announced today that it has raised $25M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates, and also included Lightspeed Venture Part...

San Francisco-based Splice Machine, which develops SQL-compatible database aimed at the big data market, said today that it has raised $4M in a Series A round. The round came from Mohr Davidow Ventures. Splice Machine, which is headed by Mo...

Sunnyvale-based Marinexplore, a developer of software used for analyzing and collaborating on ocean data and information, said this morning that it has scored a seed round of funding. Size of the round was not announced. The round was led b...

San Mateo-based 4INFO, a provider of mobile advertising products, has scored a $5M line of credit, according to Avidbank Corporate Finance. Terms of the financing were not announced. Avidbank said the loan will be used for working capital. ...

Mountain View-based Gridstore said this morning that it has raised $12.5M in a Series A funding round, for its storage technology. The funding was led by GGV Capital and ONSET Ventures, and also included its existing investors. Gridstore sa...

San Francisco-based Referly, which operates a site which pays users affiliate fees for linking to and referring others to products, has scored $1M in a seed funding, the firm disclosed Monday. The funding came from New Enterprise Associates...

UrbanSitter, a startup which is hoping to make it easier for parents to find a babysitter, said today that it has raised $6M in a Series A funding round. The San Francisco firm said that the round was led by Canaan Partners, and also includ...

Message Bus, a provider of cloud-based messaging APIs and software for sending email and mobile messages, said today that it has raised $11M in a funding round. The round was led by North Bridge Venture Partners, and also included True Vent...

San Francisco-based Switchfly, a provider of software for managing travel loyalty programs, has topped off its Series C funding round at $17.8M, the firm said this week, adding $2.8M on top of an earlier $15M in the round close in March. Th...

Redwood City-based EcoFactor, a provider of residential energy management services, said Thursday that it has raised $8M in a venture funding round. The round came from new investor Aster Capital, and also included its prior investors, Clar...

TerraSky, a provider of cloud computing and system integration services with operations in San Jose, said Wednesday that it received additional capital from one of its business partners, NTT Software. Financial details of the investment wer...

Mountain View-based Skyfire has added $10M more to its warchest, through a Series D funding today, the company said. Skyfire develops software used to optimize the delivery of video to mobile phones. The new funding was led by Panorama Capi...

San Jose-based SunPower has made an investment in an Australian producer of renewable energy, the company said this week, Diamon Energy Pty Ltd. SunPower said it has acquired a minority stake in Diamond Energy, giving it an ownership of 42 ...

San Francisco-based Sharethrough announced today that it has raised $5M in a Series B funding round. The round included North Bridge Venture Partners and Floodgate, both existing investors in the company. Sharethrough is a distributor of vi...

A number of Silicon Valley angels are among the backers of a new startup, looking to transform the business of airport car rentals. Silvercar said it has raised $11.5M in a Series A round, with investors Austin Ventures, as well as Sillicon...

Menlo Park-based venture capital investor Longitude Capital said today that it has raised $385M for its second, life sciences fund, Longitude Venture Partners II. The firm said it had targeted the fund at $325M. Longitude invests in growth ...

San Francisco-based SideCar, which develops mobile apps to help users find a ride, has raised $10M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Google Ventures. SideCar is headed by Sunil Paul. The firm s...

Foster City-based Funambol, a provider of cloud synchronization and sharing applications for mobile phones, devices, and computers, said today that it has raised $5.75M in a new funding round. the round came from HIG Growth Capital, Nexit V...

San Francisco-based getTalent, which is developing software to help companies recruit employees, has raised $2.6M in a funding round, the firm disclosed Tuesday. The round came from SuccessFactors, and also included Krutal Desai (Automattti...

San Francisco-based Pearl.com, which connects users with experts on a wide range of topics to help them get answers to their questions, has raised another $25.7M in funding. The Series B round was led by Glynn Capital Management, Charles Sc...

Menlo Park-based GraphDive, which develops software which integrates data from Facebook, Google+, and Twitter to provide in-depth demographic information to websites, has raised $1M in funding. The round came from Correlation Ventures and C...

Campbell-based Barracuda Networks has raised $130M in a funding round, according to reports this week, from Sequoia Capital and Francisco Partners. According to Bloomberg, the funds will go to cash out the firm's founders and early employee...

San Francisco-based Trifacta, a developer of visual software for the big data market, has raised $4.3M in a funding round. The round came from Accel Partners, X/Seed Capital, Data Collective, and such angels as Dave Goldberg, Venky Harinara...

San Francisco-based Rainstor, a developer of database technology for the big data market, said today that it has raised $12M in a Series C funding round. The round came from Credit Suisse and Rogers Partners, along with Doughty Hanson Techn...

San Mateo-based Jelli said today that it has raised $9M in a new funding. The round was led by new investors Intel Capital and Relay Ventures, and also included prior investors First Round Capital and angel Roger Ames (EMI Music). Jelli ope...

Santa Clara-based Citrix, via its Citrix Startup Accelerator, has made an investment of $100,000 in AppEnsure, a developer of software for managing the performance of enterprise applications running on virtual infrastructure. The funding ca...

San Francisco-based thredUP.com, which operates an online service which helps parents resell their kids outgrown clothing, said today that it has raised $14.5M in a Series C financing round. The round was led by Highland Capital Partners, a...

NGDATA, a developer of big data analysis software, said today that it has raised $2.5M to open up new offices in San Francisco and New York. The firm said the funding came from ING, Sniper Investments, Plug and Play Ventures and angels. NGD...

Buuteeq, a developer of digital marketing software for boutique hotels, said today that it has raised $10M in an investment round. The firm, which is based in Seattle but also has offices in Palo Alto, said the funding came from Madrona Ven...

Dyn, a provider of domain name service (DNS) and email services, said Tuesday that it has raised $38M in a funding round. The round was led by North Bridge, and also included Borealis Ventures. The firm, which has offices in San Francisco b...

San Francisco-based Insightly, a developer of customer relationship software for small businesses, said today that it has raised $3M in a financing round. The round came from Emergence Capital Partners. The firm said the funds will go to ex...

Newark, California-based SST, the developer of the ShotSpotter products used by police for locating gunfire, has scored an investment from Motorola Solutions, Motorola said Monday. The round was worth $12M, and also included prior investors...

San Mateo-based DataStax, a developer of enterprise, "big data" software, said today that it has raised $25M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Meritech Capital Partners, and also included prior investors Lightspeed Venture P...

San Francisco-based Klout, the startup measuring social influence of users based on their Twitter, Facebook, and other social followers, has scored a funding round from Microsoft, the company said today. The investment came as part of a str...

Zumper, a San Francisco startup which helps people find apartments for rent, has raised $1M in a seed funding round. The firm said the funding came from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, CrunchFund, NEA, Dawn ...

San Jose-based Virtual Instruments, a developer of software for managing and monitoring performance in physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments, has raised $27.5M. The Series D funding round was co-led by Next World Capital and G...

Duck Duck Moose, the educational apps developer for iOS and Android, has just gotten a chunk of funding for its efforts. The firm said it has just raised $7M in a Series A funding round, from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and...

Redwood City-based V-Key said yesterday that it has raised $4M in a Series A funding round .The round came from IPV Capital, a Chinese venture capital firm. The firm said the funding will go towards research and development, as well as sale...

Palo Alto-based Medallia, a developer of software used to survey customers and collect customer feedback, has raised $35M in a funding round. The funding was led by Sequoia Capital. According to Medallia, Sequoia's Doug Leone has joine dthe...

San Francisco-based Kiip, which develops software and services for managing mobile rewards and loyalty, has added funding from Japanese strategic investor Digital Garage. Kiip said that Digital Garage was an investor in its recent, $11M Ser...

San Francisco-based Desmos, which develops free, graphical calculator software for students, has just raised a round of funding from Google Ventures. The firm did not disclose financial details of the round. Desmos is led by Eli Luberoff....

Santa Clara-based SwiftTest, a developer of high performance, software for data center testing, said it has raised $7.25M in a Series B funding round. The firm said the round was led by Azure Capital Partners, and also included Kinetic Vent...

SimpliVity, a Massachusetts-based developer of unified computing, storage, and network boxes, said Monday that it raised a $25M funding round from Menlo Park-based Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. KCPB led the round, which also included A...

A new, venture capital fund--backed by the same folks behind First Round Capital--said today that they have launched a new fund specifically targeted at student entrepreneurs. First Round--which is very active in Silicon Valley--said the ne...

San Francisco-based Myokardia, a newly formed developer of small molecule therapeutics, said today that it is targeting genetic heart disease with $38M in funding. The Series A funding came from Third Rock Ventures. MyoKardia is developing ...

San Francisco-bsaed SnapLogic, a developer of enterprise, cloud integration software, said today that it has raised $20M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Ignition Partners, and also included Triangle Peak Partners and Andre...

San Francisco-based Twitch, which operates an online site focused on videos for gamers, has raised $15M in a Series B funding, the company said today. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, and also included Alsop Louie Partners an...

Santa Clara-based Appnomic Systems said Tuesday that it has raised $5M in a Series C funding round. The round came from Norwest Venture Partners. According to Appnomic, the round brings its total raised to $12.5M. The funding will go toward...

Flash storage provider Virident, which is based in Milpitas, disclosed today that it has raised $26M in a new funding round. The round was led by Mitsui Global investments, and also included Globespan Capital Partners, Sequoia Capital, and ...

Redwood City-based Silver Spring Networks is raising $12M more in a funding round, according to an updated S-1 from the company. The firm, which is in IPO registration, said that Foundation Capital, its largest shareholder, will buy the sha...

Los Altos based mobile publishing software firm GENWI has raised $2M in new funding, the firm said today, from investors Elevation Partners and Floodgate. GENWI has now raised $7.1M in funding. GENWI develops software which makes it easier ...

Palo Alto- and New York-based 10gen, the developer of the MongoDB NOSQL database software, reported today that it has received a strategic investment from In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the U.S. intelligence community. Financial details of...

Redwood City-based Station X, a developer of software used for analyzing and visualizing genome data, has raised $5M in a second round of funding, the firm said today. The funding was led by Runa Capital, and also included Genomic Health. T...

San Francisco-based Square, the developer of mobile credit card readers and related payment services, reported today that it has closed its Series D funding round. The firm did not announced the size of the funding, which is widely reported...

Sunnyvale-based Aerohive Networks,which develops enterprise Wi-fi networking products, said yesterday that it has raised $22.5M in a mezzanine equity financing round. The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners, and also included Kl...

San Francisco-based Sosh, the developer of a mobile app for iPhone which helps users find fun things to do on weekends, has raised $4M in a funding. The firm's app--which currently only works in San Francisco--is aiming at the "hip" demogra...

San Francisco-based Open Garden, which is developing mesh networking technology aimed at mobile connectivity, has raised $2M in a seed funding round. The funding came from Allan Green, David Ulevitch (OpenDNS), Derek Parham (Google), and Di...

Blu Homes, a manufacturer of green, pre-built homes, said Wednesday that it has raised $60M in its first, institutional round of investment. The round was led by Netherlands-based Skagen Group. Blue Homes is developing green and energy-sav...

San Francisco-based YourMechanic announced Tuesday that it has raised $1.8M in funding, for a service which connects users with auto mechanics, who will provide auto repair services at a user's home or workplace. The funding came from Y Com...

Redwood City-based Amplidata, a developer of object-based storage, announced today that it raised $6M in funding. The funding came from Quantum Corp., as well as Intel Capital, Swisscom Ventures, Hummingbird Ventures and Endeavour Vision. T...

San Francisco-based Zendesk, the provider of cloud-based customer service software, has scored $60M in new financing, the company said today. The round included both equity and debt, with the $45M equity funding led by Redpoint Ventures. Ot...

San Francisco-based Social Finance, which operates a student lending program which ties school alumni with new students, said last night that it has raised $77.2M in a Series B funding. The funding was led by Baseline Ventures, and also inc...

Venture capital firm Founder Collective said Tuesday that it has raised a second fund, Founder Collective II, worth $70M. The fund--started in Cambridge and New York--mentioned that it will be continuing to invest in Silicon Valley with the...

Inktank, the developer of the open source, distributed storage system Ceph, said this morning that it has raised $1M in funding from Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth. The firm recently opened up development offices in Sunnyvale. Canonica...

Cupertino-based CumuLogic, a developer of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) tools for helping developers to deploy, scale, and manage their cloud applications, has scored a seed funding. The funding came from the Citrix Startup Accelerator. Fina...

San Francisco-based Gyft, a new startup looking to make it easier for users to use their gift cards, launched today, with the backing of Google Ventures, Founder Collective, and 500 Startups. As part of the round, the firm disclosed it had ...

Palo Alto-based DisplayLink, which develops hardware and software which lets users connect to monitors over Ethernet, wireless, and USB, has raised $10.4M in a financing round, the firm said Monday. The funding came from Clydesdale Bank, an...

San Francisco-based RidePal, a firm which runs private, employee commuter buses, revealed Monday that it has received $500,000 in a seed funding round. The round came from 500 Startups, Aimcus Capital, and angel Jeff Clarke (Orbitz). The fi...

San Jose-based Nimble Storage said today that it has raised $40.7M in a new funding round, led by Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners. The company, which develops flash-based, hybrid storage systems, said the mezzanine round also included al...

Palo Alto-based Seyyer, a provider of video avatar technology, has disclosed that it raised $1.5M in a funding round. Source of the angel funding was not disclosed. Seyyer is targeting online commercial producers, advertising agencies, and ...

A Canadian provider of venture debt, Wellington Financial, said yesterday that it has closed a $177.5M fund, and plans to open up a new office in Palo Alto. The company--which provides venture debt to venture backed startups--said its fourt...

San Mateo-based Doximity, developer of a mobile app driven, social networking platform for doctors, has raised $17M in funding. The funding was led by Morgenthaler Ventures. The new funding brings its total raised to $27.8M. Doximity is led...

Snappli, a developer of application software for the iPhone which shrinks mobile data transmission to reduce data bills, has raised a first round of funding, the firm said today. The round came from Greylock Partners and Index Ventures, alo...

Palo Alto-based Nebula, a developer of cloud computing deployment software aimed at private cloud infrastructure, said today that it has raised $25M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Comcast Ventures, and also included Highl...

Menlo Park-based QBotix, a developer of robotics technology used to align and move solar panels to maximize the power output from photovoltaic panels, has raised $6.5M in a Series A funding, the firm disclosed this week. The funding was led...

San Jose-based Zscaler, which develops cloud security products, said today that it has raised $38M in an investment round. The round came from Lightspeed Ventures and other, un-named strategic investors. Zscaler said the funding will go tow...

Santa Clara-based semiconductor maker Zenverge, which is developing a transcoding engine aimed at processing HD streams for IP connected devices, said Tuesday that it has raised a strategic round of funding from Verizon Investments. Financi...

San Francisco-based ClearSlide, a developer of an online platform to communicate with customers, announced this morning that it has raised $28M in a Series B funding, to help it expand its business. The funding was led by Bessemer Venture P...

San Francisco-based tenXer, an online service which helps people track their progress towards personal goals, has raised $3M in a Series B funding, the company said Tuesday. The round was led by True Ventures, and also included Radar Partne...

NoWait, a developer of an Apple iOS tool which helps restaurants manage their waiting lists, has raised $2M in a Series A round, the firm said today. The round included local angel investment group Sand Hill Angels, and was led by Birchmere...

Mountain View-based Aerospike, which develops NoSQL database software, said today that it has raised a Series B funding round, led by New Enterprise Associates. Financial terms of the new investment were not disclosed. Prior investors Drape...

Campbell-based AOptix, a developer of biometrics identity verification technology, announced today that it has raised $42M in a Series E funding round. The round came from existing investors Clearstone Venture Partners, DAG Ventures, Kleine...

San Francisco-based Mocana, a developer device security software for the enterprise, said this morning that it has raised $25M in a new funding round. The Series D round was led by Trident Capital, and also included Intel Capital, Shasta, S...

San Francisco-based AbsolutData, a firm applying big data to the business analytics market, has raised $20M in a new funding. The funding came from Fidelity Growth Partners India. According to the firm, the new funding will go to scale up i...

San Francisco-based Lumosity, a developer of online brain training software, said Wednesday that it has raised $31.5M in a Series D funding round. The round was led by Discovery Communications, and also included prior investors FirstMark Ca...

Twice, the San Francisco-based marketplace for second-hand fashion and clothing, has raised $4M in a Series A funding, the company said today. The funding came from IA Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Lerer Ventures, SV Angel, CrunchFund, High L...

CouchSurfing, the San Francisco-based service which helps connect travelers with people willing to let them crash on their couch, has pulled in another big funding round, saying today that it has raised $15M. The firm said the round comes f...

San Jose-based Nutanix, a developer of storage devices for virtual datacenters, has significantly bolstered its wallet today, saying that it has raised $33M in a Series C funding. The funding came from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ve...

Los Altos-based Revel Touch, a developer of touch-optimized, mobile software for tablets aimed at e-commerce providers, said today that it has raised $10M in a Series A funding round. The round was co-led by Foundation Capital and Lightspee...

Ness, the maker of an iPhone app which helps users search for and find restaurants and food, has raised $15M in a funding round, the firm disclosed today. The round was led by SingTel Innov8. The firm's software helps match users to restaur...

Palo Alto-based Magnet Systems, which develops enterprise middleware software for enabling mobile applications, has raised $35.4M from mobile phone maker HTC. HTC announced the acquisition in filings in Taiwan. The deal gives HTC 17.1 perce...

San Francisco-based Breakout Labs, the funding program run by Peter Thiel's nonprofit Thiel Foundation, said this week that it has awarded three grants--including one to a firm developing 3D, printed meat products. The awards went to Modern...

San Francisco-based ClassDojo, a developer of online tools to help reward students for positive behavior, said this week that it has raised $1.6M in a funding round. The round came from a long list of investors, including Paul Graham (Y Com...

Santa Clara-based Relypsa, a biopharmaceuticals firm focused on polymeric drugs for treating hyperkalemia, said today that it has raised $80M in a Series C funding round. The funding came from OrbiMed Advisors, 5AM Ventures, New Leaf Ventu...

Intel Capital, the investment arm of semiconductor giant Intel, has backed Elike, the developer of social commerce software in Brazil. Size of the funding was not disclosed. Elike's Facebook app, My Shopping, provides "virtual stores" for ...

San Francisco-based RichRelevance, which provides personalization software for retailers and brands, said Tuesday that it has raised 8M in a follow up funding round. The round came from RTP Ventures, Shea Ventures and Gray Ventures and Tugb...

San Francisco-based SocialPandas, which develops software to help convert relationships on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter into sales leads, has raised $1.5M in a seed funding round. The round was led by True Ventures, as ...

Petaluma-based Radiance, a developer of femtosecond laser technology, has raised $20M in a growth round, the firm said today. The round was led by Samsung Venture Investment Corporation. Other investors in the round included Draper Fisher ...

San Francisco-based MyHealthTeams, which develops online, social networks specifically geared towards patients with individual, chronic health conditions, said today that it has raised $1.75M in a seed funding round. The round was led by Ad...

Mountain View-based HealthLoop, a developer of tools to help physicians track their patients outside the traditional office, has raised seed funding for its efforts. Size of the round was not announced. The funding came from Founders Fund, ...

Palo Alto-based SolFocus, which develops concentrating photovoltaic solar power systems, has raised $15M in a Series E funding, according to VentureWire today. Details on the funding have not been announced by the company. SolFocus is ventu...

Mountain View-based Pure Storage, a developer of enterprise, flash-based storage arrays, revealed Wednesday that it has raised $40M in a Series D funding round. The round was led by Index Ventures, and also included Greylock Partners, Redpo...

Palo Alto-based Upstart, a new startup which helps college graduates and entrepreneurs raise capital for a share of their income over a 10 year period, said today that it has launched, with backing form Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, NEA...

Sunnyvale-based PLUMgrid, a developer of network virtualization technology, said this morning that it has raised $10.7M in a Series A funding. The funding came from Hummer Winblad and US Venture Partners. PLUMgrid, which is headed by Awais ...

San Francisco-based Square, the mobile payments firm headed by Jack Dorsey, has scored a major partnership deal with coffee chain Starbucks. The two said today that Starbucks will invest $25M in Square's Series D funding round, and will als...

A new, online service to help investors take a stake in startups, FundersClub, has just gotten funding itself, according to backer First Round Capital. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. FundersClub allows companies to ra...

San Mateo-based FreeMonee Network, an which provides gift incentives to visitors of stores and restaurants, said today that it has raised $34M in an investment funding round. The round was led by Charles E. Ryan, current Chairman of UFG Ass...

San Francisco- and Seattle-based electronic signature software developer DocuSign said this morning that it has added Google Ventures as an investor, bringing its Series D funding to a total of $55.7M. Google joins Kleiner Perkins Caufield ...

Palo Alto-based TuneIn, an online music, news, and sports streaming service, said today that it has raised $16M in a funding round. The round was led by General Catalyst Partners, and also included Jafco Ventures, Google Ventures, and Sequo...

Mountain View-based FiveStars, which is developing a unified, loyalty card which can be swiped at multiple retailers, has raised $13.9M in a Series A funding, the company said Thursday. The round came from Lightspeed Venture Partners and DC...

San Francisco-based Gild, a developer of HR and recruiting software, said Thursday that it has raised $2M in a seed funding round. The round was led by Globespan Capital Partners, and also included angel Mark Kvamme. The firm said the funds...

San Francisco-based Personalized Retailing Inc, the firm behind children's personalized ecommerce site FabKids, said today that it has raised $2.6M in a Series A funding round. The company, founded by ShopStyle's Andy Moss and actress Chris...

San Francisco-based Getaround, which operates an online, peer-to-peer marketplace for car rentals and sharing, said today that it has raised $13.9M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Menlo Ventures, and also included Marissa ...

Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of chip giant Intel, has backed a French marker of motion processing and data fusion software for the consumer electronics industry. Grenoble, France-based Movea said last night that it had raised 6.5 ...

San Jose-based Cyphort, a developer of cloud and appliance-based security products, has raised $i7M in a Series A funding round. Funding was led by Matrix Partners, and also included Foundation Capital. Andrew Verhalen of Matrix will join t...

San Francisco-based QuickPay Corp., which develops mobile parking payment products, said this morning that it has raised $3.5M in a seed funding round, and named former PowerSet founder Barney Pell as its CEO. The firm said the funding came...

San Francisco-based CytomX Therapeutics, a developer of antibody therapeutics, said Tuesday that it has raised $41M in an expanded, Series B financing round. The round was led by Canaan Partners, and also included Third Rock Ventures and th...

San Mateo-based Pinfluencer, a developer of analytics software which analyzes the traffic from Pinterest social network, has raised $1.4M in a seed funding. The round was led by Freestyle Capital and Baseline Ventures, and also included ang...

9GAG, an online comedy and humor site, has raised $2.8M in a seed funding round, the company said Monday. The round came from Freestyle Capital, True Ventures, First Round Capital, Greycroft Partners, 500 Startups, Scott Banister, Chris Sac...

Los Altos-based Box, the provider of online data storage and sharing applications, said this morning that it has raised $125M in a funding round. $100M of the round came from General Atlantic. other investors include Bessemer Venture Partne...

Sequoia Capital has led an investment in security products firm Bit9, which develops threat protection and security software. According to Bit9, it raised $34.5M in a Series D funding, led by Sequoia, and also including Atlas Venture, Highl...

San Francisco-based investor Wi Harper Group, which focuses on Chinese venture capital investments, said last week that it has led an investment into Chinese online advertising tracking firm AdMaster. Size of the funding was not disclosed. ...

Sunnyvale-based Contrail Systems has raised $10M in a Series A funding round, the firm disclosed today. The funding was led by Khosla Ventures, and also included an un-named strategic investor. Contrail is headed by Ankur Singla, and is dev...

San Francisco-based Siluria, a developer of technology that converts natural gas (methane) into commodity chemicals and fuel, has raised $30M in a Series C funding, the firm said yesterday. The round was led by Bright Capital and Vulcan Cap...

Saratoga-based Roku, the developer of streaming video and television devices, said this morning that it has raised $45M in a strategic investment round. The round came from News Corp., British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), Menlo Ventures and Gl...

San Francisco-based GoodData, which develops business intelligence software, said Wednesday that it has raised $25M in a Series C funding. The round was led by Tenaya Capital, and also included new investor New World Capital. The firm's pri...

Redwood City-based Booshaka, which operates an online service which helps businesses identify their most active social media fans, has raised $1M in a funding round, the company disclosed today. The firm said its Series A funding came from ...

Palo Alto-based online backup service BackBlaze has raised $5M in its first, institutional investment round, the company announced today. The round, worth $5M, came from TMT Investments. Backblaze--which has been bootstrapped over the last ...

Santa Clara-based Picarro, which develops measurement equipment used for detecting and measuring greenhouse gases like carbon, along with other emissions that affect air quality, has raised $7M in a Series D funding round, the firm said tod...

San Jose-based networking equipment maker Cisco said today that it has backed the new, Redpoint e.Ventures Brazil venture capital fund, with $15M in investment. Redpoint e.ventures Brazil is a new venture capital fund, worth $130M, that was...

San Francisco-based Ticketfly, which operates an online service which lets concert promoters sell their tickets on social networking sites, has raised $22M in a Series C funding, the company said today. The round was led by SAP Ventures, an...

San Francisco-based Meteor, a developer of open source applications which allow users to write Javascript-based web applications, said today that it has raised $11.2M in a funding round. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, and also in...

San Francisco-based TaskRabbit, which provides an online marketplace to help people get tasks done by others, has added another, $13M in a funding, the company said this morning. The firm said its Series C was led by the Founders Fund, and ...

San Francisco-based Chute, the developer of software to help applications and websites capture, manage, and display media files, announced this morning that it has raised a new round of early stage funding. The round was worth $2.7M. The fu...

San Francisco-based Nextdoor. which operates an online social networking site which connects you with your neighbors, has raised $18.6M in a funding round. The round came from Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, Greylock Partners, Shasta Ventu...

Mountain View-based storage appliance provider Tintri has bolstered its funding by $25M, led by Menlo Ventures and also including prior investors NEA and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The firm said the round--which was oversubscribed--will g...

It appears to be a big week for funding API developers, as Santa Clara-based Apigee, which develops API technology for corporations, said it has raised $20M in a round of funding. The company said the round was led by Focus Ventures, and al...

Menlo Park-based Redpoint Ventures has just closed a new, $130M fund to focus on investments in Brazil, the company announced this morning. Redpoint e.ventures will invest in early stage Brazilian startups, the fund said, with a locally bas...

San Francisco-based Mashery, which helps companies provide application programming interfaces (APIs) to their various web services, disclosed today that it has raised $10M more. The firm said the funding comes from its existing investors. M...

San Francisco-based Asana, the startup founded by Facebook's Dustin Moskovitz whic his developing enterprise collaboration software, has raised $28M more in a financing round. The round was led by Founders Fund. Benchmark Capital, Andreess...

Venture capital investment firm Maveron, the consumer focused investor whose founders includes Starbucks' Howard Schultz, said this morning that it has bolstered its presence in San Francisco, with the hire of a new Venture Partner. Maveron...

San Mateo-based Edmodo, the online education focused site for the K-12 market, has raised another $25M in funding, the firm said today. The Series C round was led by New Enterprise Associates, and also included Greylock Partners, Benchmark ...

San Francisco-based SAY Media, the online digital media publisher, said today that it has raised $27M in a funding round. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates, Shea Ventures, and Correlation Ventures. The firm said the funding wil...

Pleasanton-based Firespotter Labs, the developer of the visual audio conferencing service UberConference, said today that it has raised $15M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, and also included Google Ven...

Palo Alto-based m-Via, a provider of money transfer and payment services aimed at the unbanked, has raised $17M in a financing round. The round was led by Digicel Group, and also included RRE Ventures and MATT.org. As part of the funding, t...

San Francisco-based AppDirect, which operates an online marketplace for cloud services, announced this morning that it has raised $8.5M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by iNovia Capital. The firm said the round comes on top of an...

San Francisco-based IntelliBatt, a developer of uninterrupted power supply systems and products, said Tuesday that it has raised $22M in an equity funding round. The round was led by Columbia Capital, and also included CBC Capital and other...

Mountain View-based Openbucks, which operates an online service providing a way to convert regular gift cards to currency usable across multiple online retailers, has raised $4.8M in a Series A funding, the firm said today. The round was le...

San Francisco-based Tapingo, a developer of mobile payment and commerce software, announced today that it has raised $3.5M in a funding round. The round came from Carmel Ventures. The company, which has R&D operations in Israel, allows stud...

San Francisco-based online log management service Loggly said today that it has raised $5.7M in funding. The firm, which helps companies manage and analyze their software logs, said the funding came from True Ventures, Trinity Ventures, an...

San Francisco-based Kiip, the developer of software for powering mobile rewards programs, has raised $11M in a Series B funding. The round was led by Relay Ventures, with Relay's Kevin Talbot joining the company's board with the funding. Hu...

Mountain View-based Egnyte, a developer of cloud-based file sharing software, said today that it has raised $16M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Google Ventures, and also included prior investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield &...

Mountain View-based Coursera, which allows students to take university classes online--for free--has raised $3.7M more, from two universities. Coursera said that the California Institute of TEchnology and University of Pennsylvania have inv...

Milpitas-based Aryaka, the developer of WAN optimization and application acceleration tools, has raised $25M in a Series C funding round, according to VentureWire. Dow Jones reported the valuation of the was in the neighborhood of $100M. Th...

San Francisco- and Seattle-based Docusign confirmed this morning that it has raised $47.5M in a funding round, led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Accel Partners, Comcast Ventures, SAP Ventures, as well as salesforce.com and the Nation...

Menlo Park-based venture capital firm Mayfield announced Thursday that it has closed Mayfield XIV, a new, $365M venture capital fund. Mayfield said the new fund will be invested in early-stage mobile, cloud/SaaS, social, energytech, and big...

San Francisco-based Jetpac, the developer of an iPad app which lets you browse and comment on your friends' travel pictures, has a raised $2.4M in a funding round. The Series A funding came from Khosla Ventures, Morado Venture Partners, Jer...

San Francisco-based FuzeBox, a developer of real time, collaboration tools for the mobile and desktop market, said today that it has raised $20M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Index Ventures, and also included Khosla Vent...

San Francisco-based Pocket Change, which is developing a virtual currency offering focused on Android games, has raised $5M in a Series A funding round, the company said this morning. The round came from Google Ventures, First Round Capital...

Seculert, a developer of threat detection and security software, said Tuesday that it has raised $5.35M in funding, and set up a U.S. presence in Palo Alto. The firm, which develops malware detection tools, said the round was led by Norwest...

Redwood City-based Avinger, a developer of medical devices used for treating peripheral artery disease (PAD), said yesterday that it has raised $33M in a Series D funding round. The firm said its existing major investors participated in the...

San Francisco-based AdRoll, a developer of online advertising retargeting technology, has raised $15M in new funding, the firm said this morning. The round was led by Foundation Capital, and also included Merus Capital and Accel Partners. F...

Palo Alto-based Sonatype, which develops open source components and development software, said today that it has raised $25M in a financing round. The round was led by new Enterprise Associates, and also included prior investors Accel Partn...

London-based Betable, which has offices in San Francisco, said Monday that it has launched with the backing of a large list of Silicon Valley venture capitalists and angels. The firm said it is developing a real-money, gambling platform whi...

San Francisco-based Github, which operates an online source code repository for programmers, has raised $100M in a funding round. The round came from Andreessen Horowitz. The investment is the first outside investment in Github. Peter Levin...

San Francisco-based Real5d, a developer of virtual model and simulation software used for visualizing real estate properties, said over the weekend that it has raised $1.2M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by DoubleRock Ventur...

San Mateo-based AlienVault, a developer of security management tools, said this morning that it has raised $22.4M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sigma, and also included prior investor...

Menlo Park based venture investor Institutional Venture Partners said Thursday that it has raised its largest fund, ever, worth $1 billion. IVP XIV brings the firm's committed capital to $4 billion. IVP said the fund was "significantly over...

San Mateo-based SugarSync, a provider of cloud storage and synchronization services, has raised $10M in a financing round, according to ORIX Venture Finance. According to ORIX, the funding is on top of a recent Series D financing round by S...

Santa Clara-based Benvenue Medical, a developer of minimally invasive products used for spine repair, said yesterday that it has raised $25M in a Series D funding round. The round came from existing investors DeNovo Ventures, Domain Associa...

San Francisco-based Practice Fusion, a developer of web-based, electronic medical records (EMR) software, announced this morning that it has raised $34M in a financing round. The round was led by Artis Ventures, and also included Felicis Ve...

San Francisco-based Gemmus Pharma, a developer of treatments for influenza, said today that it has raised a Series A funding. Size of the round was not disclosed. The round was led by Life Science Angels, and also included BlueTree Allied A...

Redwood Shores-based Rocket Fuel, a provider of online advertising technology, said this morning that it has raised $50M in a funding round. The round was led by Northgate Capital, and also included Summit Partners, Cross Creek Capital, Nok...

Mountain View-based Solum, a developer of technology which helps farmers better measure the nutrients in their soil, has raised $17M in a Series B funding. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz. Solum's technology helps farmers gain bett...

Mountain View-based Traxpay announced this morning that it has raised $4M in a funding round , which was led by Earlybird Venture Capital. Traxpay is providing business-to-business (B2B) payment services, aimed at helping companies send and...

Rally.org, the San Francisco developer of a social fundraising service, said today that it has raised $7.9M in a Series A venture capital round. The round came from Relay Ventures, Mike Maples of Floodgate Fund, Reid Hoffman of Greylock Par...

San Francisco-based Freshplum, a provider of sales analytics tools for e-commerce businesses, has raised $1.4M in a funding round, from New Enterprise Associates, Greylock Partners, Google Ventures, Charles River Ventures and angels. The fi...

San Francisco-based Pantheon, a developer of a Drupal-based content management software product, said this morning that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding. The round was led by Foundry Group, and also included Baseline, First Round, an...

Milpitaas-based Soladigm, the developer of "smart window" products, announced this morning that it has raised $55M in a Series D funding round. The round was co-led by Reinet Investments and NanoDimension. According to the firm, DBL Investo...

Beintoo, which is developing a loyalty rewards platform aimed at mobile games, apps, and websites, said this morning that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding round. The funding came from Italian VC Innogest Capital. Beintoo, which is ba...

Walnut Creek-based Beyond Lucid, a developer of software for managing emergency medical, disaster management, and first response health records, said last week that it has raised a funding round. Size of the round was not disclosed. The rou...

Redwood City-based EndoGastric Solutions, a developer of medical devices for treament of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), said Thursday that it has raised $13M in additional funding, a Series F extension for the company. The round c...

Palo Alto-based ThisLife, a new startup aimed at the photo sharing segment of the world, said that it has raised $2.75M in a funding round this morning, led by Madrona Ventures. Other investors in the round include Morado Ventures, Rogers V...

Palo Alto-based Trident Capital, an investor in health care IT, cloud computing, IT security, and online security firms, said this week that it has named Taimur Shaikh as Vice President. Shaikh has been at Trident since 2010, when he gradua...

San Francisco-based UniversityNow has just raised $17M in a Series B investment, to help its efforts to overhaul the college education and degree system. The startup, led by Gene Wade, is trying to launch a web-based, affordable, charter un...

Palo Alto-based CloudOn said today that it has raised $16M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Social+Capital Partnership, and also included Translink Capital, Foundation Capital, and Remembrandt Venture Partners. CloudOn deve...

Palo Alto-based Swipp, a stealth mode firm which says it wants to challenge the "social media status quo", said it has raised $3.5M in an institutional round. Funding came from Old Willow Partners. The firm, headed by Don Thorson, says it i...

Cupertino-based Bromium said Wednesday that it has raised $26.5M in a Series b funding round, from Highland Capital Partners, Intel Capital, as well as Andreessen Horowitz and Ignition Ventures. The firm, led by Guarav Banga, is using virtu...

San Mateo-based WhiteSky, a developer of online account protection and security services, has raised $7.5M in funding, according to reports. The funding came from Prism VentureWorks, Trinity Ventures, and Intersections. All three are existi...

Mountain View-based Bitcasa, the provider of a cloud-based, storage service, said today that it has raised $7M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Pelion Venture Partners, Horizons Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz, First Round...

Entrepreneur Peter Thiel has launched a new, growth stage technology investment firm called Mithril Capital Management, capitalized with $402M in funding, Thiel said today. The new fund, based in San Francisco, will focus on investing in co...

Mountain View-based Kaazing, the developer of real time, interactive communications applications, said today that it has raised $17M in a new funding round. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. Kaazing said the funding will go to ex...

San Francisco-based Pathbrite said today that it has raised $2.5M in a Series A funding, for the firm's platform to help students showcase their learning and personal achievements. The funding came from Rethink Education, as well as from st...

San Francisco-based Dropcam, which makes a Wi-Fi and mobile enabled camera designed for home monitoring, has raised $12M in a Series B funding round. The funding was led by Menlo Ventures, and also include Accel Partners and Bay Partners. T...

San Francisco-based MemSQL, a developer of an in-memory, SQL database product aimed at the data mining market, has raised $5M in a funding round. The firm announced the round along with the launch of its product Monday. The round came from ...

San Jose-based Panzura, which develops cloud storage services, said today that it has raised $15M in a Series C round. The round was led by Opus Capital, and also included prior investors Matrix Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Chevron Technol...

San Francisco-based Bluebox, a developer of enterprise, mobile security technology, said today that it has raised $9.5M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, and also included Andreas Bechtolsheim (co-founde...

San Francisco-based Snapguide, developer of an iPhone app that allows people to share their own do-it-yourself videos, has raised $5M in a funding round. The round came from Atlas Venture, Index Ventures, and Crunchfund. Snapguide is headed...

Mountain View-based Ooyala, which develops digital video services, reported today that it has raised $35M more in new capital. The funding for the Series E was led by Telstra Applications and Ventures Group, along with prior investors Sierr...

San Francisco-based Global Blood Therapeutics said this week that it has raised $40.7M in a Series A financing, for its efforts to develop oral, small molecule drugs for treating conditions such as sickle cell disease. The funding came from...

San Francisco-based SwitchCam, started by Brett Welch and Chris Hartley, said Thursday that it has raised $1.2M via AngelList. The funding was led by Mark Cuban and included 500 Startups, Turner Media Camp, Vikas Gupta, Niket Desai, Reed Mo...

San Francisco-based SportsStream said Thursday that it has raised $3.5M in a Series A funding, for the firm's social sports platform. The company said the funding came from Vulcan Capital, the venture capital arm of the Microsoft co-founder...

San Francisco-based Invuity, which develops surgical illumination and visualization technology, announced this morning that it has raised $25M in a Series D funding round. The funding was led by Valence Advantage Life Sciences Fund II, and ...

San Francisco-based The Climate Corporation, a provider of weather insurance services, said today that it has raised $50M in a new financing round. The funding was led by new investor Founders Fund, and also included prior investors Khosla...

San Francisco-based Thismoment, a provider of digital marketing software for brands and agencies, has raised $22M in a Series C funding. The round was led by Trident Capital, and also included Sierra Ventures and Fenway Partners. Thismoment...

San Francisco-based CellScope, a developer of software that uses cellphone cameras to help diagnose pediatric ear infections, has raised $1M in a funding round, the firm said Monday. The seed funding came from Khosla Ventures. CellScope's s...

San Francisco-based Gigya said yesterday that it has raised $15.3M in a funding round. The round came from Advance Publications, Mayfield Fund, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures and Adobe. Gigya develops social software aimed at businesses, u...

Burlingame-based Igenica, a developer of biopharmaceuticals focused on the cancer market, has raised $33M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Third Rock Ventures, and also included The Column Group, Orbimed Advisors and 5AM Ve...

San Francisco-based Hipmunk, the online travel site startup out of Y-Combinator, has raised a $15M, Series B round, the firm announced this morning. The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners, and also included Series A investor Ig...

Sunnyvale-based Credit Sesame, a provider of a service which helps consumer monitor their credit and loans, said Monday that it has raised $12M in a funding round. The round was led by Globespan Capital, and also included prior investors Me...

San Francisco-based AliveCor, which develops mobile electrocardiogram (ECG) devices, said today that it has raised $10.5M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Burrill & Company and Khosla Ventures, and also included Qualcomm Ve...

Palo Alto-based Flutter, a startup developing gesture recognition technology for webcams, has raised $1.4M in funding. The round came from Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, Spring Ventures, Start Fund, and others. Flutter is a...

Mountain View-based Google, via its Google Ventures arm, has put more capital into BOston's LevelUp, a developer of mobile phone payment products, which is part of SCVNGR. SCVNGR said the funding came from Highland Capital Partners, Google ...

Palo Alto-based Quixey, which develops an app search engine which helps users find apps for various mobile devices, desktop environment, and other platforms, has raised $21.2M in a Series B funding round, according to investor WI Harper Gro...

San Francisco-based Ringadoc, a provider of service which allows users to call up doctors for medical device using their phone or computer, has raised $750,000 in a seed funding round. The firm said the funding came from FF Angel, Ryan Howa...

Menlo Park-based PrivateCore, a new startup headed by VMware and Google veterans, said Wednesday that it has raised $2.25M in a seed funding round. The round was led by Foundation Capital. PrivateCore is developing a secure, hypervisor whic...

San Francisco-based Threadflip, which operates an online marketplace which helps users to discovery, buy, and sell fashions, has raised $6.5M in a Series A funding round. The roudn was led by Shasta Ventures, and also included Lowercase Cap...

Sunnyvale-based OVIA, a developer of video screening and interviewing technology, said today that it has renamed itself Wowzer, and received a funding from a Tokyo-based recruiting firm, Recruit Co. Ltd. Financial details of the investment ...

Redwood City-based PUbMatic reports today that it has raised $45M in a mezzanine financing round. The round was led by new investor August Capital, and also included all of its existing investors, including Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Nexus Ve...

San Francisco-based Lending Club, which provides a peer-to-peer online lending site, said today that it has raised $15M in a new funding round, from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The firm said the new funding brings its total raised to ...

Menlo Park-based Delphix, a developer of software for managing business databases, announced this morning that it has raised $25M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Jafco Ventures, and also included new investors Summit Par...

San Francisco-based HotelTonight, which develops a last-minute, hotel booking app for mobile phones, said today that it has raised $23M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by U.S. Venture Partners, and also included Accel Partner...

San Mateo-based Clarizen, which develops cloud-based project management and collaboration tools, said today that it has raised $12M in a Series E financing. The round was led by VIntage Partners, and also included Benchmark Capital, Carmel...

Menlo Park-based Auxogyn, a developer of health testing technology to test the viability of embryos during in vitro fertilization (IVF), has raised $18M in a Series B funding round, the company said today. The round was led by SR One, and a...

San Francisco-based Identified.com, the online recruiting service aimed at young professionals, said today that it has raised $21M in a Series B funding round. Th company, which is led by Brendan Wallace, said the funding was co-led by Vant...

Redwod City-based SentreHEART, the develope rof a medical device used for suturing soft tissue, has raised $26M in a Series C financing round, the firm announced. The round was led by Vivo Ventures, and also included US Venture Partners and...

San Jose-based Nanosolar, the developer of thin film solar cell and panel technology, said Friday that it has raised $70M in new capital. The firm said the round came from both current and new investors, and included OnPoint Technologies, I...

One of the companies to come out of the Ycombinator venture accelerator, Grubwithus, has scored more funding, the firm said yesterday. Grubwithus said it has raised $5M in a Series A funding round, out of GRP Partners and entrepreneur Miche...

Palo Alto-based Data Hero, which is developing data analytics and visualization software, has raised $1M in a funding round, which came from Foundry Group, Neu Venture Capital, Dave Kellogg (CEO of Mark Logic), and LinkedIn alumni Mike Gree...

Palo Alto-based Diffbot, a developer of cloud-based, analysis software which analyzes and helps developers parse web pages, has raised $2M in a funding round. The funding came from Matrix Partners as well as angel investors, including SKy D...

San Francisco-based Optimizely, the developer of website optimization and A/B testing tools, has raised a new round of funding the, firm said today. Size of the funding was not disclosed. The company said that the new round came from Batter...

Menlo Park-based Badgeville, the provider of web site gamification software, has scored $25M in a Series C funding, the company said this morning. The round was led by InterWest Partners, and also included its prior investors, the company s...

Mountain View-based MobileIron, which develops mobile IT management and security software, said yesterday that it has raised $40M, in a Series E financing round. The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners, and also included Foundat...

Palo Alto-based Junar, a developer of software-as-a-service for helping companies and organizations to publish their data in an open way, said Tuesday that it has raised $1.2M for the firm. The company, which is led by Diego May, said the f...

Palo Alto-based 10gen, the software firm behind the MongoDB database software, said Tuesday that it has raised $42M in a financing round. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates, and also included Sequoia Capital, Flybridge Capital P...

Intel, via its Intel Capital investment arm, has backed a Canadian developer of mobile authentication software, SecureKey. SecureKey said Friday that it has raised $30M in growth capital in a round led by Intel Capital, along with Visa, Mas...

Mountain View-based Ace Metrics, a developer of televisoin and video analytics tools, announced this morning that it has raised $8M in a financing round. The round came from WPP, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Leapfrog Ventures, and Palo...

Kony Solutions, a provider of mobile application development platforms, said Wednesday that it has raised $15M in a Series C funding round. The company, which is based in Orlando, Florida, but also has an office in San Mateo, said the fundi...

San Francisco-based Sunrun, which provides solar power lease plans and financing to residential homeowners, has raised $60M in an equity fundraising, the firm said this morning. The funding was led by Madrone Capital Partners, and also incl...

Mountain View-based Google is the lead investor in the latest round for Machinima, a developer of videogame-themed videos. Machinima, which is heavily featured on Google's YouTube video sharing site, said Monday that it has raised $35M in a...

Felicis Ventures, the angel investment fund of Aydin Senkut, has raised a third fund, Felicis Ventures III, L.P., according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. The filing says that the funds came from eight investors. Felicis has a w...

Mike Moritz, the venture capitalist who backed Google, Yahoo, PayPal, and countless other successful firms, told his contacts over the weekend that he is stepping back from the firm, due to being diagnosed with what he described as a "rare ...

CrunchFund, the venture capital fund run by former TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, has acquired a stake in New York microblogging site Tumblr. Size of the stake, which apparently was acquired from early stage investors, was not disclo...

San Francisco-based Gen110, which helps place photovoltaic panels on residential rooftops through power-purchase agreements, said today that it has raised a round of funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Size of the round was not a...

Online photo-pinning site Pinterest, which is based in Palo Alto, has raised $100M in a funding round, the firm announced today. The round was led by Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, and also included Andreessen Horowitz, FirstMark Capita...

San Francisco-based Nurix, a stealth mode startup which looks to be headed by Timothy Kutzkey, a venture capitalist at The Column Group, has raised $3.1M in a funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. Details on what the compan...

San Francisco-based ModCloth, an online retailer which sells vintage fashion and decor, said today that it has raised $25M in a funding round. The round was led by Norwest Venture partners, and also included existing investors Accel Partner...

Online question-and-answer site Quora has reportedly raised another $50M in funding, valuing the firm at $400M, according to a report today. The WSJ, quoting people familiar with the deal, said the funding came from Peter Thiel, Northbridge...

Milpitas-based Aquantia, which develops high speed, Ethernet PHY semiconductors for the 10GBASE-T market, has raised $35M in a Series F funding, the firm said today. The round came from RUSNANO, along with current investors. Aquantaia said ...

San Francisco-based Mixpanel, which develops real time, mobile and web analytics software, said this week that it has raised $10M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Andreessen Horowitz, along with Max Levchin, Marc Benioff, an...

San Mateo-based Drawbridge, a developer of mobile advertising targeting software, said Thursday that it has raised $6.5M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Kleiner Perkins Cuafield & Byers and Sequoia Capital. Drawbridge's CEO...

San Francisco-based Leap Motion, which develops motion control software, said today that it has raised $12.75M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Highland Capital Partners, and also included Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund...

Visalia-based EdenIQ, which develops biomaterials aimed at the renewable fuels market, said today that it has raised $30M in an additional capital funding. The funding included Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Cyru...

San Ramon-based Neuvora, a developer of a big data analytics platform, said today that it has raised a first round of institutional funding. Size of the funding round was not disclosed. Nuevora said the funding came from Fortisure Ventures....

South San Francisco-based Sutro Biopharma, which develops a scalable biochemical protein synthesis platform, said today that it has added $16.5M in a second tranche of its Series C funding round. The round was led by Skyline Ventures, and a...

SunSun Lighting, a Chinese devleoper of LED lighting products which has offices in Palo Alto, said today that it has raised $30M in a Series B funding. The round came from GSR Ventures and Oak investment Partners, along with angel investors...

Campbell-based Coulomb Technologies, the developer of electric vehicle charging stations, said Monday that it has raised $47.5M in a new funding. The firm said the Series D was led by Braemar Energy Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & B...

San Francisco-based Pricenomics, an online site which provides an estimated price of products to users, has raised $1.5M in a seed funding round. The funding came from Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital and SV Angel. Pricenomics was founded...

San Francisco-based electronics payments firm Gumroad, which is developing mobile payments software to help users sell items using only a simple link, has raised $8M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield...

San Francisco-based RichRelevance, which develops personalization software used by e-commerce retailers and others to recommend relevant products, said today that it has raised $20M in a new funding round. The round was led by Crosslink Cap...

San Carlos-based LifeStreet Media, which develops in-app advertising optimization software, said this week that it has raised $66M in an equity funding round. The round came from Nautic Partners. The firm said the investment comes for growt...

Palo Alto-based online payments firm WePay has raised $10M in a Series C funding, the firm said Thursday. The round was led by Ignition Partners, and also included Highland Capital Partners and August CApital. Chris Howard of Ignition joins...

In a gigantic round, Mountain View-based Evernote said today that it has raised $70M in a new funding round, led by Meritech Capital and CBC Capital. The firm, which develops software which allows users to keep notes online and offline, abo...

San Francisco-based Code Advisors, an investment banking firm focused on emerging technology and media, said today that it has scored $25M in a minority funding from JPMorgan Chase. Code Advisors was co-founded by Michael Marquez, Fred Davi...

San Francisco-based Visage, which develops enterprise mobility management software, said today that it has raised a Series C funding round from Motorola Solutions. Financial terms of the investment were not announced. Visage said that Palis...

San Francisco-based Vungle, which develosp a aservice that helps mobile developers create video-based promotions for their apps, said yesterday that it has raised $2M in a funding round. The round came from Google Ventures, AOL Ventures, Cr...

San Francisco-based Flingo, which makes smart television applications, said Wednesday that it has raised another $1M in funding from entrepreneur Mark Cuban. The funding brings the company's first round to a total of $8M. Flingo is led by ...

DataSift, a developer of social data analytics software, has raised $7.2M in a Series A follow on investment, the firm said today. The round came from GRP Ventures and IA Ventures. As part of the funding, the UK-based company said it has se...

San Carlos-based Zimbio, which operates a network of fashion, beauty, celebrity, and entertainment websites, said this morning that it has raised $8.9M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Menlo Ventures, and also included Gre...

San Francisco-based Birst, a developer of business analytics tools, said today that it has raised $26M in a new funding round. The round was led by Sequoia Capital, and also included Hummer Winblad and DAG Ventures. Birst's customers inclu...

San Francisco-based Appthority, a developer of software used to manage security of mobile applications, said today that it has raised $6.25M in a Series A financing round. The round was led by Venrock and US Venture Partners, and also inclu...

Newark-based Tegile, a developer of enterprise storage arrays which use deduplication features to reduce the amount of space required for storage, has raised $10M in a Series A funding, according to regulatory filings from the firm. Source ...

Google Ventures-backed Signpost, a provider of local advertising services for local businesses, has raised $3.75M in a Series A funding round. The firm said the round was led by Spark Capital. The firm is backed by Google Ventures, along wi...

San Francisco-based Castlight Health, a developer of a service which helps companies lower the cost of health benefits, said today that it has raised $100M in a Series D funding round. The firm said the new funds came from two major unnamed...

San Francisco-based PlaySay, the developer of an iPhone game to help foreign language learners, said today that it has raised $250,000 in a new funding round. The round came from Kevin Yu, former director of PayPal Japan; Sean Glass, founde...

Google Ventures, the venture arm of Mountain View-based Google, has invested in a startup marketplace, CustomMade which connects shoppers with artists who can custom make anything from jewelry, furniture, to guitars. According to CustomMade...

Publicly held NeoPhotonics, which is based in San Jose, said today that it has raised $39.8M in shares of the firm in a private placement. The funding came from Russian investor RUSNANO. NeoPhotonics is a developer of photonic integrated ci...

Santa Clara-based CrestaTech, a developer of wireless RF tuners and integrated DSPs used for developing televisions, has raised $13M in a funding round, the firm said tdoay. The funding came from Bechtolsheim Ventures, Benhamou Global Ventu...

San Mateo-based AVOS Systems, the startup led by former YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, has raised a Series A funding round. Size of the round was not announced. THe round was led by New Enterprise Associates and Google Venture...

Walnut-based Freshdesk, which develops online help desk software, said Thursday that it has raised $5M in a financing round. The round was led by Tiger Global Mangement, and also included Accel Partners. The second round of funding will go ...

Mountain View-based DITTO, an online e-commerce site focused on designer eyewear, said Thursday that it has raised $3M in a funding round. August Capital led the round, which also included angels and friends and family. DITTO is headed by c...

Mountain View-based SendHub, which develops SMS messaging services, has raised $2M in a seed funding round, the firm announced Thursday. The funding came from Kapor Capital, Menlo Ventures, 500 Startups, Howard Lindzon’s Social Leverage fun...

San Francisco-based Metamarkets said today that it has raised $15M, to help it with development of its big-data analytics service. The firm said the funding was led by Khosla Ventuers, and also included prior investors IA Ventures and True ...

Mountain View-based Shape Security, a developer of web defense and security technology, said this morning that it has raised $6M in a Series A financing round. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and TomorrowVentures, the ...

Los Gatos-based Amalfi Semiconductor, a developer of power amplifiers for the cellular handset market, said this week that it has raised $20M in a new funding round. The funding came from existing investors Battery Ventures, DCM and Globes...

Y Combinator company Ark, which is based in San Francisco, has raised $4.2M in a seed funding round, the firm said today. The round came from Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures, Greylock Partners, Intel Capital, SV Angel, Atlas Ven...

San Francisco-based DoubleDutch, a developer of mobile applications for the enterprise market, said today that it has raised $2M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Bullpen Capital, Floodgate Fund, Mint.com's Aaron Patzer, and ...

Mountain View-based Citrus Lane, which offers up a monthly, subscription service for infant and toddler products, said today that it has raised $5.1M in a Series A funding. The round came from GGV Capital and Greylock Partners. Citrus Lane ...

Intel has backed a maker of It operations and cloud management software, ScienceLogic, via its Intel Capital venture arm, ScienceLogic said Monday. ScienceLogic said that Intel led a $15M, Series B funding round for the firm, which makes so...

Locu, a developer of software being applied to digitize real world content and place that into structured form online, has raised $4M in a Series A funding round. The company, which has operations in both San Francisco and Cambridge, Mass.,...

San Jose-=based LED Engin, a developer of solid state lighting components and optics, reported today that it has completed a Series E funding round. Size of the orund was not disclosed. The round was led by GVT Fund, and also included MSIVC...

San Francisco-based Singly, a developer of a web-based service which allows for the transfer of personal data and information via a software API, has raised $7M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Foundry Group. Singly is deve...

San Jose-based Cisco is spinning out a new startup, Insieme, backed with $100M in funding, according to a memo leaked to the New York Times this week. Cisco apparently has funded the advanced networking startup, with an option to eventually...

Sunnyvale-based software developer Moxie Software has spun out, and funded, a new startup, according to Bellevue, Washington-based ReadyPulse. ReadyPulse said earlier this week that it has raised an initial round of funding for the firm fro...

Sunnyvale-based WeVideo, which develops online, cloud-based video editing tools, has raised $19.1M in a venture funding round. The funding was led by Crest Capital Ventures. WeVideo is headed by Jostein Svendsen, a Norwegian entrepreneur an...

Newark, California-based Neato Robotics, a developer of household cleaning robots, reported Thursday that it has raised $12.2M in a Series D funding round. The lead investor on the round was Vorwerk Ventures, a German investment firm, as we...

San Ramon-based Five9, a developer of cloud-based software for managing contact centers, said today that it has raised $12M in a new round of equity funding. The round was led by Adams Street Partners, and also included Hummer Winblad Ventu...

Redwood City-based NComputing, a developer of virtual desktop and thin client hardware, said today that it has raised $21.8M in a new funding round. The round was led by QuestMark Partners, and also included Menlo Ventures, Scale Venture Pa...

Sacramento-based SynGen, which is developing stem cell harvesting systems for the regenerative medicine market, has raised $5M in a Series A funding. The round came from Bay City Capital. According to the firms, Bay City Capital will add tw...

Palo Alto-based Tango, the provider of a video chat service which works with iPhones and Android, has raised $40M in a Series C funding round, the firm said this morning. The funding round came from Qualcomm Ventures, Access Industries, Dra...

Mountain View-based Coursera, an online education site founded by Stanford Computer Science Professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng, said today that it has raised $16M in a funding round. The company, which offers up free, web-based classes ...

Mountain View-based Skybox Imaging, which provides satellite imagery, video, and data analytics software, said Tuesday that it has raised $70M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Canaan Partners and Norwest Venture Partners, ...

San Francisco-based Alt12 Apps, a developer of social health applications, said today that it has raised $1.26M in a seed funding round, and launched a new social network for parents called Kidfolio. Alt12 said the funding came from Felicis...

Do you have a dirty car? Wish someone would come to your parking spot and wash it? If you have a mobile phone, and are in San Jose, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Cupertino, or Mountain View, that's just what Cherry wants to do. The new startup sa...

Fremont-based Quantenna Communications, the developer of wireless, Wi-Fi video networking technology, said today that it has raised $79M in a massive, funding round. The round was led by RUSNANO, and also included new investor Bright Capita...

San Francisco-based Path, the developer of mobile social networking software, has raised somewhere north of $30M in a funding round, led by Redpoint Ventures, the firm said Monday. The round also included Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins ...

41st Parameter, a developer of fraud prevention and online device recognition technology which has its Silicon Valley operation in San Jose, said Thursday that it has raised $13M in a Series D funding. The funding came from Georgian Partner...

Viadeo, a European startup with U.S. headquarters in San Francisco, said today that it has raised $32M in a funding round for its professional networking service. The round came from French Sovereign Wealth Fund, the Fonds Strategique d'Inv...

San Francisco-based OneID, a developer of digital identity technology, said today that it has raised $7M in a new funding round. The round was led by Khosla Ventures and North Bridge Venture Partners. OneID was founded by Steve Kirsch. Kirs...

San Francisco-based CloudPassage, a developer of cloud security software, announced this morning that it has raised $14M in a Series B funding roudn. The round was led by Tenaya Capital, and also included prior investors Benchmark Capital a...

Mountain View-based Facebook said today that it has agreed to acquire Instagram, in a deal worth $1 billion in cash and stock. Facebok's Mark Suckerberg said that Instagram's team will be joining the social networking site, but will continu...

Mountain View-based 500 Startups, the startup accelerator and seed investment fund, is gearing up to raised $50M in a new fund, 500 Startups II, the group disclosed in a regulatory filing Friday morning. According to the filing, no funds ha...

Pleasanton-based Rolith, a developer of nanostructured coatings and devices, said Thursday that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding round. The round came from DFJ VTB Capital Aurora and AGC America. Rolith develops nanostructured coatin...

Santa Clara-based Spidercloud Wireless has raised $33M in a new funding round, from Charles River Ventures, Matrix Partners, Shasta Ventures, and Opus Capital. All of those companies are existing investors in the company. According to the W...

Santa Clara-based GEO Semiconductor, a developer of graphics processors for the smartphone market, said Wednesday that it has completed a $1M, Series A funding round. Details on the funding were not released. It's unclear if the $1.0M is pa...

Cupertino-based SugarCRM, the developer of customer relationship management software, said Wednesday that it has raised $33M in a combination of equity and debt. The round was led by new Enterprise Associates, as well as Silicon Valley Bank...

San Jose-based Cisco said this morning that it is ramping its efforts to invest in the country of India, via a new investment in venture fund Aavishkaar. Cisco said it will invest in Cisco will invest in Aavishkaar India II Company Ltd., a ...

Mountain View-based MATRIXX Software, the developer of software used by telecommunications providers to better manage their subscribers, has scored a strategic investment from Swisscom Ventures, the venture capital arm of communications pro...

San Francisco-based The Minerva Project, which says it is creating a new, "elite" American University, has raised $25M in a funding round, led by Benchmark Capital. The firm says it is establishing a university relying on the "most demandin...

San Francisco-based Skout, the developer of location-based networking apps which center around flirting with others, has raised $22M in a funding round, the firm said this morning. The funding came from Andreessen Horowitz. The firm said th...

Cupertino-based Pertino, a developer of cloud networking software, said this morning that it has raised $8.85M in a Series A funding. The funding came from Norwest Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, as well as Steve Cambell (Str...

San Francisco-based Nitro, which develops PDF file creation tools which include such features as combining multiple PDF files, batch support, and editing of PDF files, has raised $3.5M in a funding round, the firm announced this morning. Th...

Santa Clara-based PureWave Networks, which develops 4G, wireless base stations, said today that it has raised $5M in a Series C funding round. Source of the funding was not disclosed, however, the firm said the round came from both new and ...

San Francisco-based Dropbox, the developer of the online cloud storage services for documents, said Monday that it has added U2's Bono and The Edge as investors in the firm. The investment is most likely through Elevation Partners, the priv...

San Francisco-based Bizo, a developer of business marketing software, said today that it has raised $10M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Crosslink Capital, and also included prior investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Ve...

San Francisco-based Everything.me, a developer of mobile search applications, has raised $3.5M in a funding oround, the firm said this week. The round came from Horizons Ventures, along with Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DFJ Tamir Fishman Ventur...

Mountain View-based Violin Memory, a developer of flash-based, memory arrays for the solid state storage market, has raised $50M in a Series D funding round. The round came from Toshiba, Juniper Networks, SAP Ventures, and Highland Capital....

Google Ventures is one of the backers of a mobile, social networking app developer, Kibits, Kibits said today. Kibits said it launched its micro-social networking app for the iPhone and iPod touch today, and has raised $1M from Google Ventu...

Santa Clara-based InsightsOne, a developer of cloud-based, data analytics software used for targeting and analyzing consumer behavior and marketing data, said this morning that it has raised $4.3M in a Series A funding round. The round was ...

Palo Alto-based GraphScience, a startup led by Raymound Rouf, has raised $2M in its Series A round, the firm said today. The firm uses social data to help marketers generate revenue and optimize their Facebook marketing efforts. The funding...

El Cerrito-based Vigilent, a developer of energy management systems aimed at the data center, has raised $6.7M in a round, the company said today. The round was led by Accel Partners, out the firm's new Big Data fund. Vigilent said it will ...

San Francisco-based Sojern, a provider of advertising technology and data specifically aimed at the travel industry, said today that it has raised $7.5M in a financing round. The round was led by Industry Ventures, and also included Norwest...

A number of executives from San Francisco-based cloud hosting firm Joyent have backed a startup developing social games for Facebook. According to Mob Science, the social gaming firm behind inFamous Anarchy, Coffee Bar, Snowball Fight, and...

San Jose-based ThreatMetrix, a developer of cybersecurity products, has raised $18M in a Series D funding round, the firm said this morning. The Series D funding was led by August Capital, and also included Tenaya Capital, US Venture Partne...

Santa Clara-based ViVOtech, the developer of near field communications (NFC) mobile payment terminals and technology, said today that it has raised a first close in a Series D funding round. The amount of the funding was not disclosed, howe...

Pleasanton-based Spigit, a developer of enterprise collaboration tools which use game mechanics and social algorithms, said today that it has raised $15.2M in a Series E funding round. The round came from private equity firm Warburg Pincus....

Menlo Park-based freelance marketplace oDesk said this morning that it has raised $15M in a funding round, led by T. Rowe Price. Benchmark Capital, Globespan Capital Partners and Sigma Partners also participated in the funding. oDesk opera...

San Francisco-based PubNub, a developer of real-time messaging software for the mobile and web application market, said Wednesday that it has raised $4.5M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Relay ventures and the Silicon Valle...

Palo Alto-based Yummly.com, the online recipe search site founded by David Feller and Vadim Geshel, said Wednesday that it has raised $6M in a Series A round. The round was led by Physic Ventures, and also included Harrison Metal Capital, F...

Palo Alto-based Buysight, which provides advertising retargeting and performance display advertising services, has raised $8M in a Series B funding round. The round came from existing investors ONSET Ventures and Rembrandt Venture Partners....

Palo Alto-based CTERA Networks, a developer of appliances and software which combine cloud storage with on-premise storage, said today that it has scored a round of funding. The round was led by Venrock Associates, and also included Cisco a...

Integrate, a developer of performance marketing optimization and analytics services, said today that it has raised $11M. The Series B funding round came from Comcast Ventures, Liberty Global, and Foundry Group. The firm has offices in San F...

Redwood City-based Myoscience, a developer of medical devices which use cold to treat wrinkles, pain, and certain dermatologic conditions, said today that it has raised $33M in a Series D funding round. The round came from Accuitive Medica...

San Francisco-based Wantful, a startup developing a service to deliver custom, curated gifts to gift recipients, has raised $5.5M in a funding round, the firm said today. The round was led by Polaris Venture Partners, and also included prio...

nPalo Alto-based ClearStory Data, a developer of big data visualization tools, said yesterday that it has scored a funding round from Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, and angels. Financial terms of the investment were ...

Menlo Park-based Averail, a stealth mode developer of enterprise mobility software, said today that it has raised $6M in a funding round. The round came from Foundation Capital and Storm Ventures, with Paul Holland of Foundation and Tae Hea...

San Francisco-based StyleSeat, a developer of online schedule booking services for hair stylists and salons, said Friday that it has raised $775,000 in a new, seed funding round. The round came from Ashton Kutcher, A-Grade, Founders Fund, a...

San Mateo-based StormPath, a developer of unified identity management software for the enterprise, said last week that it has raised $1.5M in a seed funding round. The round was led by Flybridge Capital and New Enterprise Associates. StormP...

San Mateo-based BrightEdge, a developer of enterprise, search engine optimization (SEO) software and tools, reported yesterday that it has raised $12.6M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Intel Capital, and also included prio...

San Francisco-based mobile payments startup BOKU said Thursday that it has raised $35M in a new funding round. The round came via a strategic investment from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Telefonica Digital, as well as prior investors An...

Newark-based LUMenergi, a developer of network-controlled lighting energy management systems, has raised $6.2M in a extension of its Series-B funding round. The new funding came from existing investors Braemar Energy Ventures, Noventi Ventu...

San Francisco-based Koding, an online, cloud-based development environment for software developers, said today that it has raised $2M in a Series A funding, and launched its platform. The funding came from RTP Ventures and Greycroft Partner...

Menlo Park-based PixyKids, an online digital world focused on kids ages 6-12, said today that it has raised $3M in funding. The round included $2M form ATA Ventures, and $1M from un-named angel investors. PixyKids was co-founded by Rajul Ka...

San Francisco-based 500Friends, a startup developing social loyalty programs for e-commerce retailers, has raised $4.5M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Crosslink Capital, Intel Capital, along with angels. 500 Friends is a Y...

Mountain View-based Adaptive Planning, a developer of enterprise, performance management software, said today that it has raised $22M in a funding round. The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners, and also included Cardinal Venture Capi...

Fremont-based Intematix, which develops phosphors and phosphor components for the LED lighting market, reported today that it has raised $16.2M in funding. The round came from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Crosslink Capital, as well as an un-...

Livermore-based Halt Medical, a medical devices firm which is developing equipment to treat uterine fibroids, has raised $20M in debt and equity funding. The funding came from American capital, Ltd., along with other affiliates. Terms of th...

San Jose-based Chegg, the textbook rental site aimed at students, has raised $25M more, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Friday. Chegg did not announce details of the new funding. Chegg is backed by Ace Investments, Foundation C...

San Francisco-based Virtustream, a provider of cloud software for managing private, virtual private, public and hybrid clouds, said Friday that it has raised $15M more in funding. The funding came from new investor Questmark Partners, in ad...

Palo Alto-based Jiff, which is developing a social networking and digital health product, said this morning that it has raised $7.5M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Aeris Capital, and also included Aberdare Ventures. As pa...

Sunnyvale-based Aarki, a firm developing mobile advertising software, said Thursday that it has raised a Series A round of funding. Size of the round was not disclosed. The round was led by Walden Venture Capital. Aarki's founders are Sid B...

San Francisco-based Switchfly, which operates traveler loyalty programs for airlines and hotels, has raised $15M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by StarVest Partners, and also included existing investors Canaan Partners and A...

UK-based Songkick, a service which helps music fans keep track of concerts, has scored a new investment from Sequoia Capital, the company said today. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. Songkick is a YCombinator company wh...

San Francisco-based Mevio, and online video entertainment site focused on brand-safe video shows, has scored $10M in a venture debt funding, according to ORIX Venture Finance. The two said the $10M is made up of a $7M, term loan and a $3M, ...

Santa Clara-based MiaSole, which manufactures copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic solar panels, said today that it has raised $55M. MiaSole did not name the investors in the new round. The manufacturer of PV panels ...

Menlo Park-based Khosla Ventures is backing the developer of a free, iPad application which allows users to electronically sign documents. SignNow said this morning that it has raised $2M in a Series A funding round along with other, un-nam...

Redwood City-based Virdia, which is developing cellulosic sugars and lignin for use in the renewable chemicals and energy industry, said today that it has raised $100M in a combination of private and public financing. The firm--formerly kno...

Mountain View-based Jumio, a developer of online payments and identification products, said today that it has raised $25.5M in a Series B funding. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, as well as Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, TIB...

San Mateo-baesd SolarCity, which is an installer and funder of solar energy projects for the residential, commercial, and nonprofit market, said Wednesday that it has raised $81M in funding. The round was led by Silver Lake Kraftwerk and Va...

San Francisco-based Yammer, the corporate-focused micro-messaging firm headed by former PayPal founder David Sacks, has raised $85M in a new funding round, its fifth round of funding, the firm said Wednesday. The firm says it has now raised...

Mountain View-based Eye-Fi, the developer of wireless memory cards which synchronize digital photos with cloud photo services, said this morning that it has raised $20M in a Series D funding. The funding was led by NTT DOCOMO, and also incl...

San Mateo-based SugarSync, which operates a file synchronization and online backup service, said today that it has raised $15M in a Series D round. The round was led by Coral Group, and included prior investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Sigm...

Sunnyvale-based Kontiki, which provides video content delivery services to the enterprise, said it has raised $5.1M in a Series C funding round this morning. The firm said the funding came from existing investors MK Capital, New World Ventu...

Redwood City-based Amplidata, a developer of petabyte-scale, object data storage products, said today that it has raised $8M in a Series C round of funding. The funding came from Big Bang Ventures, Endeavour Vision, Intel Capital and Swissc...

Sunnyvale-based Scintera, a developer of systems-on-a-chip products for measuring, monitoring, and modifying RF signals, has raised funding from fellow Sunnyvale firm Maxim Integrated Products. Size of the strategic funding was not disclose...

Palo Alto-based Tello, the developer of mobile applications and software to gather instant customer service feedback from customers using mobile devices, said today that it has raised $2.7M in a funding round. The firm also launched its ser...

Duo Security, a provider of phone-based, two factor authentication software and services, has raised $5M in a funding from Google Ventures, True Ventures, and Resonant Venture Partners, the firm said today. The Michigan-based firm said the ...

Palo Alto-based venture capital firm Accel Partners said today that it has named John Earner as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the firm's London offices. The investor said that Earner was previously VP of Product Management and General Man...

Sunnyvale-based Ruckus Wireless said today that it has raised $21.7M in a funding round. The funding was led by Meritech Capital Partners and SingTel Innov8. The firm said the funding brings the company's total raised to $72.7M. Richard J. ...

Emeryville-based Amyris, the publicly traded renewable chemicals and fuels firm, said this morning that it has completed a $58.7M private placement of its common stock, plus an agreement to place another $25M in senior unsecured notes, as p...

Mountain View-bsaed GameClosure, which develops JavaScript game SDK's which help customers develop HTML5 games, said today that it has raised $12M in a funding round. The round was led by Highland Capital, and also included Greylock, Benchm...

Wayin, an online social polling and entertainment site which was founded by Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealty, said today that it has raised $14M in a Series B funding. The new round came from U.S. Venture Partners, along with TIBCO Software...

Pleasanton-based Milyoni, a developer of social entertainment and games for Facebook, has raised $11M in a Series B funding. The funding was led by Oak Investment Partners, and also included ATA Ventures and Thomvest Ventures. According to ...

San Jose-based Pinger, which develops iOS and Android texting and voice chat applications, has raised $7.5M in a strategic investment, the company said this week. The round came from T-Venture, the venture arm of Deutsche Telekom. Pinger sa...

Mountain View-based Luminate, a developer of applications which help make images and advertising more interactive, said Thursday that it has raised $10.7M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Nokia Growth Partners, and also inc...

San Francisco-based CrowdStrike, a stealth mode, security software firm headed by former McAfee CTO George Kurtz, said today that it has raised $26M in a funding round. Kurtz announced the new company on his blog, saying the firm will help ...

San Jose-based Skytree, a developer of big data analytics and machine learning software, said today that it has launched its product and company, with the backing of a number of venture investor Javelin Venture Partners. Financial details o...

Palo Alto-based Wheelz, the operator of a peer-to-peer car sharing company focused on college campuses, has raised $13.7M in a funding round. The firm said the Series A round was led by Zipcar, and also included Fontinalis Partners. Wheelz ...

San Francisco-based nScaled, a developer of cloud-based, backup and disaster recovery services, said this morning that it has raised $7M in a funding round. The Series A founding was led by Almaz Capital and Doughy Hanson Technology Venture...

San Jose-based Nanosolar, which is developing thin film, solar cell technology based on printing nanoparticle inks and CIGS solar circuits on panels, said last week that it has raised $20M in a funding round. The round came from current inv...

San Francisco-based Stitch Labs, a developer of cloud-based, small business inventory management software, said today that it has raised $1M in a seed funding round. The round was led by True Ventures. Stitch Labs offers an online inventory...

Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of semiconductor giant Intel, said last week that it has invested in two, Brazilian companies, Fashion.me and Coquelux. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. Fashion.me is a provider o...

San Francisco-based Fluid, a developer of design and consulting services for for such brands as The North Face, Quidsi (Diapers.com, Wag.com), Sears, and others, said today that it has raised $24M in a growth equity funding. The funding cam...

San Jose-based Compass Labs, a developer of software for managing social media advertising, said this week that it has raised $6M in a funding round. The round came from New Enterprise Associate sand Presidio Ventures. Compass Labs is led b...

Pinwheel, a new startup headed by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, has launched into private beta, saying that it is looking to let users leave notes and photos to other people around the world. The startup--which is backed by Redpoint, Tru...

San Francisco-based QuickPay Corp., a developer of mobile apps used to pay for parking spaces, has scored an investment from the investment firm of William Clay Ford, Jr. Investment firm Fontinalis Partners, which is headed by Ford, announc...

Palo Alto-based Backplane, a developer of online community software which powers Lady Gaga's #Little Monsters web site, said today that it has raised a Series A round of funding. The round was worth $4.5M. The round included Sequoia Capital...

Hayward-based C3Nano, which is developing transparent electrode materials aimed at use in flexible displays, touch screens, solar cells, and other applications, said today that it has raised $6.7M in a funding round. The Series B funding wa...

San Francisco-based Scripted.com, the online marketplace for freelance writers, said today that it has raised $150,000 more in seed funding. The funding was led by former Redpoint Ventures EIR David Wu, and also included Crosslink Capital, ...

Newark, California-based LUMEnergi, the venture-backed provider of network-controlled, lighting control products, said today that it has named Barry Weinbaum as its President and CEO. Weinbaum was most recently at Acuity Brands, and also se...

Livermore-based Bridgelkux, the developer of LED lighting technology headed by Bill Watkins, said today that it has scored $25M more in funding, via Chinese lighting firm Kaistar Lighting. Bridgelux said the funding will go towards research...

Menlo Park-based Health Fidelity said last week that it has raised a Series A funding round, to apply to its efforts to use natural language processing to mine for clinical healthcare data. The firm did not disclose the size of the funding....

San Francisco-based Marin Software, which develops online advertising management software, said today that it has raised $30M in a funding round. The round was led by Temasek, and also included SAP Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Crosslink Cap...

Livermore-based HALT Medical, a developer of medical devices for treating uterine fibroids, announced today that it has raised $20M in the first part of an ongoing, $50M funding round.The firm said the debt and equity funding came from Amer...

San Jose-based Solar Junction, which is developing high-efficiency, multi-junction cells for the concentrated photovoltaic panel market, said this morning that it has raised $19.2M in a Series D funding round. The round came from strategic ...

Swiss virtual desktop services firm Nivio said today that it has raised $21M in funding, to expand its engineering efforts in Palo Alto and launch in the U.S. The funding came from Videocon, a conglomerate based in India, along with AEC Pa...

San Mateo-based SchoolFeed, a new startup looking to connect people with their high school classmates via Facebook, said today that it has raised $1.75M in a seed investment round. The round was led by First Round Capital, and also included...

San Francisco-based Extole, a develoepr of social marketing programs and technology, announced today that it has raised $10M in a Series C round. The round was led by Shasta Ventures, and also included Norwest Venture Partners, Redpoint Ven...

San Francisco-based TastemakerX, a developer of social games, said this morning that it has raised $1.8M in funding. The round came from Guggenheim Partners, Baseline Ventures, True Ventures, AOL Ventures, and Tekton Ventures, along with an...

San Leandro-based iHearMedical, a developer of hearing aid technology, said this morning that it has raised $1.8M in a second round of financing. Source of the funding was not announced. As part of the funding, iHearMedical said that Jonath...

San Francisco-based Ignite Game Technologies, the developer of racing games, said today that it has raised $5M in Series C funding, bringing its total raised to $17.5M. The firm--which debuted its first title, Simraceway, in November--said ...

San Francisco-based Flingo, a developer of smart TV applications, said today that it has raised $7M in a Series A funding. The round came from August Capital. both David Marquardt of August and Howard Hartenbaum, a founding investor in Skyp...

San Francisco-based Mobeam, a developer of technology which overcomes issues of scanning mobile barcodes on point-of-sale laser scanners, announced this morning that it has added $1.5M in its Series A funding round. The funding came from DF...

Xero, a developer of online small business accounting software, said Friday that it has raised $16.6M, and set up shop in San Francisco. The firm said the funding came from Peter Thiel, via his NEw Zealand fund, Valar Ventures. Xero said it...

Menlo Park-based Auxogyn, which is developing a system to improve invitro fertilization, said today that it has closed out its Series A round at $20M. According to the firm, the final tranche of its Series A included Kleiner Perkins Caufiel...

Sunnyvale-based Room77, an online hotel shopping service, has scored another investment from travel and expense management software firm Concur. Financial details of the investment have not been announced. The investment was disclosed throu...

San Ramon-based Estech, a developer of medical devices for the cardiac surgery market, has scored a $7M, venture loan package from NXT Capital and Silicon Valley Bank. According to NXT Capital, the loan will go to finance key growth initiat...

Venture capital investor Draper Fisher Jurveston said today that it has added Heidi Roizen to the firm, as a venture partner. Roizen, most recently at Mobius Venture Capital, also is known for her work at Apple Computer and T/Maker Company....

Sunnyvale-based Cambrios, a developer of nanotech materials for the electronics market, said Tuesday that it has raised $5M in a strategic, Series D-3 financing round. The round came from Samsung Venture Investment Corporation. The firm als...

Looking to track into the online, personal finance market, Los Altos-based JemStep said today that it has raised $6M in a funding round. Name of the investors in the round were not disclosed. JemStep said it has now raised $10.5M for the fi...

San Jose-based RiseSmart, a provider of cloud-based tools which helps in employee outplacement, said this morning that it has raised $2M in a financing round. The round came from Norwest Venture Partners. RiseSmart said the funding brings i...

Palo Alto-based CardSpring, a developer of application programming interfaces for credit and debit card payments, said Tuesday that it has raised $10M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Accel Partners and Greylock Partners, along...

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz said today that it has closed its third fund, to the tune of $1.5 billion. The new fund brings the total managed by the fund to $2.7 billion, only three years after the firm was founded. In a blog po...

Campbell-based AlienVault, a developer of security and event management products for the cyber security market, said this morning that it has raised $8M in a Series B financing round. The round was led by Trident Capital, and also included ...

San Francisco-based UrbanSitter, which operates an online service to help connect parents to babysitters via people they know on Facebook, has raised $1.75M in funding, the firm confirmed today. The round was led by First Round Capital, and...

Mountain View-based Sumo Logic, which develops log management and analytics software for the enterprise IT market, disclosed today that it has raised $15M in a Series B funding round. The firm said the funding was led by Sutter Hill Venture...

Mountain View-based TrialPlay, which offers up incentives and payments to consumers to increase sales for online merchants, said today that it has raised $40M in a funding round. The round came from Greylock Partners, Visa, T. Rowe Price, D...

San Francisco-based venture capital firm Alsop Louie Partners is the lead investor in a developer of cyber security software, Lookingglass Cyber Solutions. Lookingglass said it raised $5M in funding Monday, led by Alsop Louie Partners, and ...

Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of semiconductor firm Intel, has backed a developer of network forensics and capture devices. Salt Lake City, Utah-based Solera Networks said today that it has raised $20M in a funding round, led by In...

Mountain View-based drchrono, a developer of mobile healthcare software, including electronic health records, prescription, medical billing, and patient management tools, said last week that it has raised $2.8M in a funding round. The round...

Sunnyvale-based Stretch, a developer of reconfigurable processors for the high speed video and imaging processing market, has raised $5.0M, the first part of an ongoing Series C funding round. The details of the funding were disclosed via a...

San Francisco-based UrbanSitter, an online service which uses Facebook to connect parents with babysitters, has raised $1.75M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. The filing indicates thirteen invest...

San Francisco-based HydroNovation, which develops water purification and conditioning systems aimed at both the residential and food service markets, has scored an investment from 3M New ventures. 3M New Ventures announced the deal on Thurs...

Mountain View-based 955 Dreams, a mobile publishing and application developer, has raised $3.25M in a funding round. The round came from 500 Startups and CrunchFund, along with m8 Capital, Kapor Capital, and Felicis Ventures. 955 Dreams pub...

Mountain View-based Adara Media, which provides e-commerce marketing campaigns for the travel and hospitality market, said this week that it has raised $12.4M in a funding round. The round was led by August Capital, and also included ONSET ...

Palo Alto-based ModeWalk, an online shopping site focused on luxury retail products, said Tuesday that it has raised $1.8M in a funding round. The round was led by Merus Capital, as well as a number of angel investors. ModeWalk offers a hig...

San Francisco-based SquareTrade, a provider of warranties for consumer electronics and computer products, has scored $238M in an investment round. The round came from private equity firm Bain Capital. SquareTrade allows users to buy warrant...

Mountain View-based Skyfire, the developer of mobile video optimization technology for mobile operators, plus the developer of a mobile browser for iPhone and Android, said today that it has raised $8M in a third round of funding. The round...

Mountain View-based Elance, which operates an online marketplace for finding freelancers, said Tuesday that it has raised $16M in an expansion capital round. The round was led by the Stripes Group, and also included New Enterprise Associate...

Moutain View-based Polyvore, an online, social shopping and fashion website, has raised $14M in a new funding round, the firm said Tuesday. The Series C funding was led by DAG Ventures, and also included Goldman Sachs, Vivi Nevo, Benchmark ...

San Francisco-based Recurly said Tuesday that it has raised $6M in a Series A round, for the firm's subscription billing services. The round was led by BV Capital, and also included Polaris Venture Partners, Harrison Metal Capital and FreeS...

San Francisco-based Mykonos Software, a developer of web intrusion prevention software, said yesterday that it has raised $4M in a Series A round. The round was led by Paychex founder Tom Golisano, and also include Scott Banister (Ironport)...

Saratoga-based VisionCare Opthalmic Technologies has closed an expansion of the firm's Series E financing, the company said this week. The funding was led by Agate Medical Investments. Size of the round was not disclosed. As part of the fun...

San Francisco-based Fitbit, the maker of fitness tracking devices, announced today that it has raised $12M more, in a Series C funding round. The round came from its existing ivnestors, including Foundry Group, True Ventures, SoftTech VC an...

San Francisco-based Joyent, which develops cloud computing software, announced today that it has closed an $85M investment round. The round was led by European investment group Weather Investment II, which it says provided the majority of t...

San Francisco-based TRUSTe, which provides privacy management services to businesses, said this morning that it has raised $15M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Baseline Ventures, and also included prior investors Accel Par...

Mountain View-based Kiwi Crate, which operates a subscription service which delivers creative activities for kids every month to families, said today that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding. The round was led by Comcast Ventures, and a...

San Francisco-based Anaplan, which is developing enterprise planning and performance applications, said today that it has raised $11.4M in a Series B investment round. The round came from Granite Ventures, Shasta Ventures, as well as the fi...

San Jose-based Varentec, which is developing smart grid control products, said today that it has raised $7.7M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Khosla Ventures. As part of the funding, the company said it has named Dr. Deepa...

Mountain View-based Nexenta Systems, which develops storage software used for deploying enterprise class, cloud storage, said today that it has raised $21M in a Series C round. The round was led by Menlo Ventures, and also included Sierra V...

Redwood City-based Tidemark, a developer of enterprise performance management software, announce today that it has raised $24M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Redpoint Ventures, and also included Greylock Partners, Andrees...

San Mateo-based Plastic Jungle, which operates an online marketplace for buying and selling gift cards, said this morning that it has scored a strategic investment from Citi Ventures, the investment arm of Citigroup. Financial terms of the ...