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RECENT NOTABLE ACTIVITY – FASHION TECH

• Farfetch, an online marketplace for luxury brands raised $397M in Series G funding from JD.com. Link 
• James Allen, an online retailer of diamond jewelry raised $140M in Series B funding from Francisco Partners. Link
• Spring, an online fashion product discovery platform from brands and designers raised $65M in Series C funding from Fidelity Investments, LVMH, BoxGroup, Thrive Capital, and Yuri Milner. Link
• The RealReal, an online consignment platform for luxury fashion products raised $50M in Series F funding from Great Hill Partners. Link
• Away, an online direct-to-consumer luggage brand raised $20M in Series B funding from Global Founders Capital, Forerunner Ventures, Comcast Ventures, and Accel Partners. Link
• M.Gemi, an online brand of handcrafted Italian shoes raised $16M in Series C funding from Accel Partners, General Catalyst Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Hubert Burda Media, Burda Principal Investments, and Etsy. Link
• Greats, an online brand of men’s sneakers raised $10M in Series B funding from JH Partners, Resolute Ventures, Adrian Wilson, Eric Zinterhoffer and others. Link
• Videdressing, an online social marketplace for used fashion products raised $6M in Series C funding from DN Capital, Piton Capital, Earlybird Venture Capital, and Generis Capital Partners. Link
• Charmboard, an in-video discovery platform for fashion products raised $5M in Series A funding from undisclosed investors. Link
• Bonobos, an internet-first apparel brand was acquired by Walmart for $310M. Link
• Namshi, an online fashion retailer in the Middle East was acquired by Emaar for $151M. Link
• eBags, an online retailer of bags and travel accessories was acquired by Samsonite for $105M. Link
• LXR&CO, an online shopping platform for vintage luxury fashion products was acquired by Gibraltar Ventures for $82M. Link
• Suitcase, an online personal shopper for men’s fashion was acquired by FNG for an undisclosed amount. Link
• Shoppist, a mobile app only product discovery platform for fashion products was acquired by Roofpik for an undisclosed amount. Link
• Candere, an online private label brand for jewelry was acquired by Kalyan Jewellers for an undisclosed amount. Link
• Out of Print, an online brand of printed apparel and fashion accessories was acquired by Penguin Random House for an undisclosed amount. Link

SOME INTERESTING STARTUPS FOUND

Bonsai (2016, Toronto, $3.3M) – Online content-driven discovery and retail platform for men’s fashion products.
Summersalt (2017, St. Louis, $1.25M) – Online private label brand of designer swimwear for women.
Dress Code (2016, NYC, $130k) – 3D scanning-based apparel recommendation application.

LEADER BOARD – FASHION TECH

B2C Commerce – Horizontal
Farfetch (2008, London, $709M) – Online curated marketplace of fashion boutiques and designers. Backed by Index Ventures, Greycroft Partners, JD.Com, and others.
Vancl (2007, Beijing, $580M) – Online retailer and private label brand for fashion products. Backed by SAIF Partners, Tiger Global Management, IDG Capital, Temasek, and others.
Yepme (2010, Gurgaon, $87M) – Internet-first private label brand of fashion apparel and accessories. Backed by Helion Venture Partners, Capricorn, and Khazanah Nasional.
Lyst (2010, London, $60.5M) – Online aggregator of fashion products. Backed by Accel Partners, Balderton Capital, and others.

B2C Commerce – Apparel
Bonobos (2007, NYC, $128M, Acq.) – Internet-first private label clothing brand. Backed by Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Felicis Ventures, and others.
Outfittery (2012, Berlin, $60M) – Online subscription-based personalized shopping platform. Backed by Highland Capital Partners, Northzone, Holtzbrinck Ventures, and others.
Teespring (2012, SF, $56M) – Online pre-order crowdfunding portal for custom clothing. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, FundersClub, and others.

B2C Commerce – Innerwear
La Miu (2008, Beijing, $55M) – Internet-first lingerie brand. Backed by Rakuten, DCM Ventures, and Daiwa Securities Group.
Zivame (2011, Bangalore, $47M) – Online lingerie store for women. Backed by Kalaari, IndoUS Venture Partners, IDG Ventures India, and others.

B2C Commerce – Footwear
Yougou (2011, Guangdong, $200M) – Online marketplace for footwear. Backed by BeLLE International.
Zappos (1999, Henderson, Acq.) – Online retailer of footwear. Backed by Sequoia Capital, SV Angel, Glynn Capital, and others.

B2C Commerce – Accessories
JustFab (2010, El Segundo, $300M) – Online fashion retailer and monthly subscription service provider for fashion accessories. Backed by Matrix Partners, Technology Crossover Ventures, Passport Capital, and others.
Warby Parker (2010, NYC, $215M) – Internet-first brand for designer eyewear. Backed by First Round Capital, American Express, SV Angel, and others.

Secondhand
TheRealReal (2011, Tiburon, $173M) – Online full-service consignment platform for designer goods. Backed by Industry Ventures, Canaan Partners, InterWest Partners, and others.
Vestiaire Collective (2009, Paris, $131M) – Online marketplace for luxury fashion products. Backed by Ventech, Idinvest Partners, and Balderton Capital.
ThredUp (2009, SF, $127M) – Consignment based secondhand clothing platform. Backed by Goldman Sachs, Trinity Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and others.

Rental
Rent the Runway (2009, NYC, $190M) – Online platform to rent designer dresses and accessories. Backed by Bain Capital Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, and others.
Generation Tux (2014, Oakland, $42.5M) – Online platform to rent the tuxedo for men. Backed by undisclosed investors.
The Black Tux (2012, Santa Monica, $41M) – Online tuxedo and suits renting platform. Backed by Menlo Ventures, First Round Capital, and others.

B2B Platforms
Joor (2010, NYC, $20M) – Online B2B marketplace connecting retailers and brands. Backed by Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Battery Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, and others.
MOKO (2007, Beijing, $8M) – Online marketplace connecting fashion models with agencies. Backed by Holch Group.

Enablers
Me-Ality (1994, Santa Clara, $48M) – Virtual fitting solution provider to fashion retailers. Backed by Northwater Capital and Nova Scotia Business.
True Fit (2005, Woburn, $46.5M) – Fit personalization software provider for retailers and brands. Backed by Guggenheim Partners, Jump Capital, Founder Collective, and others.
WGSN (1998, London, $35M, Acq.) – Trend spotting and forecasting service for brands and retailers. Backed by Nomura Holdings. Acquired by Ascential in 2005.

Content Platforms
StyleHaul (2010, LA, Acq.) – Online video network that maintains a community for fashion, beauty, and lifestyle content.Backed by BDMI, Rezwan Partners. Acquired by RTL Group in 2014 for $107M.
Livingly Media (2006, San Carlos, $16M, Acq.) – Online magazine that publishes content on fashion and lifestyle. Backed by Menlo Ventures, Draper Associates, Great Oaks Venture Capital, and others.

Innovative Materials
Bolt Threads (2009, Emeryville, $90M) – Manufactures fibres for textile industry using artificial silk proteins. Backed by Founders Fund, Foundation Capital, Formation 8, and others.
Modern Meadow (2011, Brooklyn, $53.5M) – Produces cultured leather and related biomaterials to be used as alternatives in fashion & food industry. Backed by Horizon Ventures, Iconiq Capital, Breakout Ventures, and others.

Leaderboard includes all the top funded, IPO and successfully running bootstrapped companies along with their location, founding year and funding amount.

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A daily newsletter summarizing recent activity & interesting start-ups globally

RECENT NOTABLE ACTIVITY – ONLINE VIDEO

• Roku streaming devices banned in Mexico due to piracy. Link
• YouTube is bringing in-app messaging, better display for all video formats. Link
• Tagos Design Innovations raises $5M in Series-A funding. Link
• Make.TV, a live video streaming infrastructure provider raises $8.5M in Funding. Link
• YouTube’s domination continues, now has over 1.5B monthly actives. Link
• Scripps Networks joins live streaming platform fuboTV. Link
• Verimatrix acquires MiriMON from Genius Digital. Link
• Uptime, an app that makes your YouTube videos interactive, is now available to the public. Link
• Vodafone offers Netflix subscription on select Vodafone postpaid plans. Link
• YouTube Developing 180-Degree VR Format. Link
• Netflix launches ‘Interactive Storytelling’ for children to engage them over summer. Link
• Streaming sports startup FuboTV raises $55M. Link
• ALT Balaji beefs up payments partnerships with JioMoney. Link
• Twitch nabs exclusive streaming deal with Blizzard for 20+ major e-sports events. Link
• Conviva nabs $40M for AI-based video analytics, now valued around $300M. Link
• Awesomeness TV partners with Viaplay for Nordic launch. Link
• Netflix Is now bigger than Cable TV with over 50M subscribers in the US. Link
• iQiyi is developing AI technology to add to its video streaming service. Link
• Egyptian startup Mintrics scores an investment from a Dubai-based fund. Link
• Twitch Prime goes global with a 200-country launch. Link

SOME INTERESTING STARTUPS FOUND

Flyrtv (2016, Santa Monica) –  A video creation application that has an AI-based capability of automatically creating content based on a users video library.
Paladin Software (2016, Los Angeles) – Offers tools to major multi-channel networks like Studio71, AwesomnessTV etc. for managing its operations.

LEADER BOARD – ONLINE VIDEO

Content Creation
Animoto (2006, NYC, $30M) – Cloud-based video creation app. Runs a freemium service that lets users create short video slideshows from collections of pictures and videos. Backed by Amazon, SoftTech VC, Madrona Venture Group, Spectrum Equity.
StudioNow (2007, Nashville, $21M) – Global marketplace of services and technology tools designed to match video content producers with enterprises. Backed by Claritas Capital, FCA Venture Partners, Clayton Associates, Launch Tennessee.

Video Content Management
Brightcove (2004, Boston, IPO) – Online video platform suites. Offers product to distribute and publish digital media. Went IPO in 2012.
Qumu (2002, San Bruno, IPO, Acq.) – Enterprise video platform. Provides tools to create, manage, secure, deliver and measure the success of videos. Acquired by Rimage Corporation in October 2011. Went public in 2011.

Video distribution- On demand
Netflix (1997, Los Gatos, IPO) – Subscription-based online and offline video rental portal. Went public in 2002.
Hulu (2007, LA, $100M) – Subscription-based online movies and TV streaming. Backed by Time Warner, 21st Century Fox, The Walt Disney Company and Providence Equity Partners.
iQIYI (2010, Beijing, $350M) – Ad-supported television and movie portal. Provides fully-licensed, high-definition, professionally produced content. Part of Baidu. Backed by Baidu, Providence Equity Partners, Xiaomi, Shunwei.

Video distribution- Infrastructure
Ustream (2007, SF, $49M, Acq.) – Provider of live and on-demand video solutions.  Backed by  DCM, Band of Angels, Western Technology Investment, SoftBank, Fenwick & West, KT Corp. Acquired by IBM in 2016.
Elemental Technologies (2006, Portland, $43M, Acq.) – Provider of software-based video solutions for content delivery to any device. Acquired by Amazon in 2015.

Multi-Channel Networks
Tastemade (2012. Santa Monica, $80M) – YouTube Multi-Channel Food Network. Backed by Goldman Sachs, Comcast Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Liberty Media, Raine Ventures, Scripps Network Interactive and Third Wave Digital.Provides gamer content across multiple video platforms. Backed by MK Capital, Google, Redpoint Ventures, Warner Bros.
Machinima (2000, West Hollywood $99M, Acq.) – Provides gamer content across multiple video platforms. Backed by MK Capital, Google, Redpoint Ventures, Warner Bros. Acquired by Warner Bros. in 2016.

Social Videos – Live Streaming
Azubu (2011, Sherman Oaks, $94M) – Offers live streaming eSports videos, news, and analysis from tournaments, teams, and players across multiple devices. Backed by Sapinda, Sallfort Privatbank AG.
Twitch (2011, SF, $35M, Acq.) – Live and On-demand eSports streaming website. A website for gamers to stream and watch live and recorded video games. Acquired by Amazon in 2014.
Periscope (2014, SF, Acq.) – Live video streaming and broadcasting mobile app. Acquired by Twitter in 2015.

Social Platforms – Social Sharing
YouTube (2005, San Bruno, $11.5M, Acq.) – Video sharing website. Acquired by Google in 2006 for $1.65B.
Keek (2011, Toronto, IPO) – Web and mobile short video sharing platform. Allows users to create 36-second videos (“keeks”) using webcam, iPhone or Android devices and share them with others around the world. Went IPO in 2014.
Vine (2012, NYC, Acq.) – Video taking and sharing platform. Lets users record and edit up to six-second-long looping video clips and revine, (share other’s posts) with followers. Acquired by Twitter in 2012.

Video Marketing and Syndication
SundaySky (2007, Tel Aviv, $67M) – Offers personalized video marketing platform. Helps to create, manage and optimize real-time personalized video programs throughout the customer lifecycle. Backed by Norwest Venture Partners, Viola Group, Globespan Capital Partners, Carmel Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Vintage Investment Partners, NTT Docomo Ventures and Liberty Global.
Vidyard (2011, Kitchener, $61M) -Video marketing and analytics platform. Backed by Y Combinator, SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, SoftTech VC, Battery Ventures, Salesforce, Inovia Capital and OMERS Ventures.

Video Advertising – DSP
TubeMogul (2006, Emeryville, IPO, Acq.) – Video Demand Side Platform. Programmatic (desktop only) video advertising platform used by brands and agencies. Went IPO in 2014. Acquired by Adobe in 2016.
Extreme Reach (2007, Needham, $196M) – Enables advertisers and agencies to manage, execute, and track advertising campaigns across all video mediums (broadcast, cable, website, mobile, VOD). Backed by Village Ventures, Long River Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Spectrum Equity, TD Bank.

Video Advertising – SSP
Liverail (2008, SF, $12.5M, Acq.) – Supply-side video advertising platform. Provides premium publishers with RTB-based video ad targeting technology to serve better ads in the videos that appear on their websites and apps. Acquired by Facebook in 2014.
Altitude Digital (2009, Denver, $54M) – Independent video Supply-side platform. Backed by Cypress Growth Capital, Mercato Partners, Silicon Valley Bank, FastPay.

Video Advertising – Ad Networks
YuMe (2004, Redwood City, IPO) – Develops video advertising technology for both the supply side and the demand side of the digital video ecosystem. Went IPO in 2013.
SpotX (2006, Denver, $12M, Acq.) – Programmatic video advertising platform. Connects thousands of publishers with trusted demand sources, running top brand campaigns through its marketplace. Acquired by RTL Group in 2014.

Video Advertising – Ad Exchanges
Tremor Video (2005, NYC, IPO) – Provides online video advertising services for advertisers, agencies, and publisher partners. Went IPO in 2013.
Brightroll (2006, SF, $46M, Acq.) – Delivers, manages and measures the performance of digital video ad campaigns across web, mobile, and connected TV. Acquired by Yahoo in 2014.

Video Advertising – Interactive Video
Innovid (2007, NYC, $53M) – Interactive Video Ad delivery platform. Provides advertisers with the tools to create, deliver, and measure video campaigns in any format on any screen, publisher, and ad network. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Cisco Investments, NewSpring Capital, Silicon Valley Bank.
Interlude (2010, NYC, $37M) – Designs, develops and markets interactive video technology. Backed by MGM, Warner Music, Samsung, Sequoia Capital and Intel Capital and Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Video Analytics
Visible Measures (2005, Boston, $80M, Acq.) – Analyzes the performance of video advertising for publishers and advertisers. Backed by Advance Publication, Commonfund, Northgate Capital, DAG Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, General Catalyst Partners.

Leaderboard includes all the top funded, IPO and successfully running bootstrapped companies along with their location, founding year and funding amount.

A daily newsletter summarizing recent activity & interesting startups globally

RECENT NOTABLE ACTIVITY – LIFE SCIENCE – SOFTWARE

• ImageIQ, an imaging CRO offering its services for preclinical R&D, clinical trials, product development and process automation was acquired ERT, a global data and technology company that minimizes uncertainty and risk in clinical trials. Link
• BC Platforms which develops software platforms for next-gen sequencing has raised $10M round led by Debiopharm Innovation Fund and Tesi, a Finnish venture capital and private equity company. Link
• MedAvante which provides technology-enabled signal detection solutions in clinical trials of treatments for central nervous system (CNS) disorders was acquired by WCG. Link
• Edico Genome develops bioinformatics processor chip that helps in DNA analysis has raised $22M in Series B funding from Qualcomm Ventures, Axon Ventures and Dell Technologies Capital. Link
• VerAvanti is developing Scanning Fiber Endoscope (SFE) which may help interventional cardiologists to diagnose individuals at-risk for stroke and cardiovascular events has raised $540K in a seed funding round. Link
• Scientist (formerly Assay Depot) which operates a network of online markets for outsourcing biomedical research services and supplies has raised $24M in Series C funding from Bootstrap Ventures, 5AM Ventures and Heritage Provider Network. Link
• Castorwhich is a web-based system that enables researchers to build electronic Case Report Forms (eCRFs) for safe and valid data collection for medical research has raised $1.3M from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 fund. Link
• Ovation.io which offers products for knowledge capture and collaboration for scientists to manage data, analyses, notes, protocols, insights and the relationships between each of these items has raised $1.5M in Series A from StageDotO, and existing investor Longfellow Ventures. Link
• Medrio which offers an integrated eClinical Software as a Service (SaaS) platform with a fully hosted Electronic Data Capture (EDC) system has raised $30 million equity investment from Questa Capital Management. Link.
• Aces Health, a healthcare tech startup focusing on pharmaceutical and biotech companies, has developed a flagship BYOD app platform that saves critical time and money in the clinical research phase of drug development has raised $75K in Series. Link
• A US firm MedSource has acquire the data services division of Datatrial, a UK based international biometrics and technology company that supports clinical trials. Link
• Pine Biotech which has developed a platform named “T-Bio Platform” which integrates all of the omics data types that can be viewed through an interface has raised $1M in seed funding. Link
• Mytrus, a clinical trials technology company that provides the web and mobile applications that enable patients to participate in clinical trials directly from their own homes has been acquired by Medidata in April 2017. Link
• Life sciences consulting firm Parexel is teaming up with Sanofi to research the role of wearables in clinical trials. Link

SOME INTERESTING STARTUPS FOUND

iChemdesign (2016, SFO) – An application for generation of virtual 3D chemical libraries.
Patientiq (2016, Chicago) – An HIPAA compliant analytics application that integrates clinical data from EHR and patient-reported outcomes.
In Silico Laboratory (2016, Ljubljana) – Tool for prediction of protein binding sites and protein-ligand interactions.

LEADER BOARD – LIFE SCIENCE – SOFTWARE

Bioinformatics
Metabolon (2000, Durham, $92.42M) provides platforms and informatics systems for biomarker discoveries and diagnostic tests and also offers metabolomics research services. Backed by Aurora Funds, Sevin Rosen Funds, Camden Partners Holdings, Essex Woodlands, HHVC, Sumitomo Corp, Syngenta, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, ATEL Capital Group, Fletcher Spaght, The Trelys Funds, Fulcrum Financial Group, Crossroads Capital.
BioNano Genomics (2003, San Diego, $101.4M) has developed a platform for imaging single molecules of DNA at megabase lengths, allowing the mapping of large chunks of the genome at great resolution.Backed by   National Institutes of Health, Ben Franklin Technology Partners, Legend Capital, KT Venture, 21Ventures, Domain Associates, Innovation Valley Partners, Battelle Ventures, NCI, NHGRI, Novartis Venture Fund, and Monashee Investment.
Pacific Biosciences (2004, Menlo Park, Public) has developed a Single Molecule Real Time (SMRT) sequencing platform that utilizes the company’s two proprietary technologies – Zero-Mode Waveguides (ZMW) and phospholinked nucleotides for single molecule sequencing.Backed by Morgan Stanley, Mohr Davidow Ventures, KPCB, DAG Ventures, Maverick Capital, AllianceBernstein, Sutter Hill Ventures, Alloy Ventures, Deerfield Capital Management, Deerfield, and Gen-Probe.
Simulations Plus (1996, Lancaster, Public) develops absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and toxicity (ADMET) modeling & simulation software for cheminformatics and drug discovery and provides consulting services.
Benevolent AI (2013, London, $87.7M) is an Artificial Intelligence company focussed on pharmaceutical R&D and drug discovery. The company has organised itself into two wholly owned, integrated and complementary subsidiaries: ‘BenevolentBio’ (formerly Stratified Medical) – will continue to focus on applying BenevolentAI’s technology in human health and the exploration of further bioscience applications such as veterinary medicine, and ‘BenevolentTech’ – will continue to refine and develop the AI engine that is driving the discoveries in bioscience and in future will look to replicate this success across wider applications and industries.
Inpharmatica (1998, Saffron Walden, $75M, Acq) offers predictive informatics solutions and services for medicinal chemistry and ADME to help improve the speed and productivity of drug discovery. It is also involved in research of drugs and biomarkers. Backed by Vertex Ventures, Advent Venture Partners, Gimv, Gilde, 3i Group, Abingworth, Unibio, and REV. Acquired by Galapagos in Dec 2006.
Schrodinger (1990, New York, $52M) develops software solutions for computational chemistry, research and drug discovery. Backed by Cascade Investment.

Imaging Solutions
Aperio Technologies (1999, California, $47.6M, Acq) offers digital pathology solutions including image management, sharing and analysis solutions. Backed by BlackRock, Advanced Technology Ventures, HLM Venture Partners, and Galen Partners. Acquired by Leica Microsystems in Aug 2012.
inviCRO (2008, Boston, $45.8M) provides advanced data analysis services and software in the field of preclinical imaging research.
Median Technologies (2002, Valbonne, $53.66M, Public) offers medical imaging software and services for oncology clinical trials, cancer screening, and clinical practice. Backed by NEA, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Auriga Partners, Abingworth, Omega Funds, Idinvest Partners, National Technology Enterprises Company, Kuwait Life Sciences Company (KLSC), and AGF Private Equity.

Clinical Trial Solutions
Medidata (1999, New York, $66.18 M, Public) provides cloud based solutions for clinical trial management and analytics. Backed by Insight Venture Partners, Milestone Venture Partners, Stonehenge Growth Equity, Silicon Alley Venture Partners, The Lambda Funds, State Street, and Alpha Venture Partners and went public in June, 2009.
Parexel (1983, Massachusetts, Public) is a clinical research organization which offers clinical trial management solutions and services. Backed by Capvis.
Datatrak International (1991, Cleveland, Public) offers clinical enterprise solutions which include tools for electronic data capture, trial design, trial supply management and project management.
Comprehend (2010, Palo Alto, $.8M) provides clinical data reporting and  visualization tools for clinical trials. Backed by Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, SV Angel, Menlo Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Quotidian Ventures, Ulu Ventures, Life Sciences Angel Network, and Easton Capital.
Go Balto (2008, San Fransisco, $38.1M) provides cloud-based electronic solutions for clinical trial design, data capture analysis. Backed by Qualcomm, Aberdare Ventures, Mitsui Global Investment, EDBI, West Health, and Dolby Family Ventures.

GRC Solutions
Metric Stream (1999, Palo Alto, $150M) provides solutions for quality management, regulatory compliance, risk management, and corporate governance. Backed by Goldman Sachs, KPCB, Integral Capital Partners, Gold Hill Capital, Sageview Capital, Saints Capital, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Blade Ventures, Montage Capital, and The Camelot Group.
Virtify (2004, Lexington, $23.5M) provides enterprise content and compliance management solutions for the life sciences industry. Backed by Tudor Growth Equity, Blue Cloud Ventures, and Spring Lake Equity Partners.
Qumas (1994, Cork, $10M, Acq) provides Compliance and Quality Management Software for Life Sciences including solutions for document management, process management and submission management. Backed by  General Catalyst Partners, Fidelity Ventures, Delta Partners, ACT Venture Capital, Fidelity Growth Partners Europe, Kernel Capital, and Eight Roads Ventures. Acquired by Accelrys in Dec, 2013.

Automation Solutions
Emerald Therapeutics (2010, San Francisco, $34M) has developed Emerald Cloud Laboratory that scientists can remotely access via the internet and can perform experiments using automated robotics. Backed by Founders Fund, Western Technology Investment, and Schooner Capital.
Quartzy (2009, Palo Alto, $28.8M) offers web-based platform for lab management and supports collaboration, inventory and order management. It also hosts catalogs from vendors for lab consumables. Backed by  Y Combinator, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, SV Angel, Khosla Ventures, Washington U., Silicon Badia, Reinmkr Satsang, A Capital, Life Science Angels, Science House, Accelerator Tech, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, and Eminence Capital.

Market Intelligence
IMS Health (1954, Danbury, Merged) offers a suite of market intelligence products and services which are aimed at improving productivity and healthcare delivery of healthcare organizations.
CitiusTech (2005, Princeton, $112 M) offers Business Intelligence and healthcare analytics platform. Backed by General Atlantic.
SHYFT Analytics (2005, Waltham, $39M), formerly Trinity Pharma Solutions, provides cloud-based analytics and data management platform for customer engagement and revenue analytics. Backed by Milestone Venture Partners, Health Enterprise Partners, Medidata, and McKesson Ventures.
Zephyr Health (2011, San Francisco, $33.5 M) offers Zephyr Illuminate, an Insights-as-a-Service platform designed to help companies improve product life cycle performance with customer and market insights and can be used for collaboration, targeting and segmentation, and planning. Backed by KPCB, Jafco Ventures, and Icon Ventures.

Sales and Marketing
Veeva Systems (2007, San Francisco, $ 4 M, Public) offers Content Management, Customer Relationship Management, Customer Master data management and related software and services to the life sciences industry. Backed by  Lead Edge Capital, and Emergence Capital. Went public in October 2013.
Aktana (2008, San Francisco, $25 M) offers sales force solutions and customer relationship management solutions for life sciences industry. Backed by Safeguard Scientifics, and Starfish Ventures.

Operations Management and Supply Chain
Tracelink (2009, Woburn, $77 M) offers an online platform for global distribution, visibility and traceability of pharmaceuticals to limit the sale of counterfeit drugs. Backed by FirstMark Capital, Goldman Sachs, Volition Capital, and F-Prime Capital Partners.
Bluechiip (2003, Scoresby, Public) provides wireless tracking solutions for bio samples and other products. Went public in Oct, 2010 via a reverse takeover by Sofcom Limited.

Leaderboard includes all the top funded, IPO and successfully running bootstrapped companies along with their location, founding year and funding amount.

For latest updates, visit Life Sciences – Software feed.

A daily newsletter summarizing interesting Indian startups and recent activity both in India & globally.

INTERESTING STARTUPS

Simple Datalabs (2015, Gurgaon), cloud-hosted business intelligence suite. Founder is ex-Viome, Hortonworks, Clustrix and is an alumnus of University of California. Local comparable is TookiTaki (2014, Bangalore, $1.22M). Global comparables are DataRobot (2012, Boston, $111M) & GoodData (2007, SF, $101M).

INDIA INTERESTING NEWS

Moglix, (2015, Noida), online marketplace for global supplies of industrial goods, raises  $12M in Series B round of funding from IFC, Rocketship.vc and others. Link

Jumbotail (2015, Bangalore), online B2B grocery platform, raises $8.5M in Series A round of funding from Kalaari Capital & Nexus Venture Partners. Link

Navigant (2003, Gurgaon), BPO, KPO and IT services provider, acquires Quick Call (2014, Delhi), business research and customer services provider, for an undisclosed amount. Link

Plintron (2008, Chennai), solutions and network provider for MVNO & M2M market, partners with BSNL (2000, Delhi), telecom operator offering telephony and broadband, to offer MVNO services in India. Link

Appily Ever (2015, Hyderabad), online platform to book vendors and service providers for weddings, pivots to Estrolo (2017, Hyderabad), online fashion discovery portal. Link

WeWork (2010, NYC), coworking space community, launches India operations with its 1st collaborative work space in Bengaluru. Link

Amazon (1994, Seattle), international e-commerce marketplace, crosses $2B mark in India investments as per filing reports. Link

Team Indus (2010, Bangalore), developer and manufacturer of space rovers, plans $40M fund raise for Moon mission through a mix of corporate sponsorship and crowdfunding. Link

Ola (2011, Bangalore), app-based asset-light cab operator, plans to start operations in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan. Link

Pi ventures, Bangalore-based early stage venture firm, appoints Myntra’s Shamik Sharma as venture advisor. Link

GLOBAL ROUNDUP

Nightstar (2013, London), clinical-stage company developing sight restoring therapy, raises $45M in Series C round of funding. Link

Diasome Pharmaceuticals (2004, Cleveland), developer of insulin-based therapies for the treatment of diabetes, raises $30M in undisclosed round of funding led by Medicxi, with participation from the JDRF T1D Fund, Black Beret Life Sciences, LLC and others. Link

SanBio (2001, Tokyo), developer of cell medicines for neurological disorders such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, raises $20M in Grant prize from CIRM. Link

Floadia (2011, Kodaira), developer of low cost, easily embedded non-volatile memory IP products, raises $14.5M in Series B round of funding led by Fortune Venture Capital Corporation, Chih-Hung Investment Corporation, Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, Golden Asia Fund Ventures Ltd and others. Link

Anaeropharma Science (2004, Tokyo), developer of hypoxic environment targeted bacterial therapies for cancer, raises $13.2M in undisclosed round of funding from Seventure Partners, Novartis Pharma and a number of Japanese investors. Link

InstaReM (2015, Gold Coast), business and personal purpose remittance service provider, raises $13M in Series B round of funding led by GSR Ventures, with participation from SBI-FMO Emerging Asia Financial Sector Fund, Vertex Ventures, Fullerton Financial Holdings and Global Founders Capital. Link

Cathay Innovation, Paris-based venture capital & private equity firm, raises $320M in First Venture Capital Fund led by Bpifrance, CDB Capital, BNP Paribas Cardif, Groupe ADP, Groupe Artemis, and others. Link

Unigestion, Geneva-based boutique asset manager with the scale to deliver global tailor-made investment solutions, raises Private Equity Fund, at $289.5M. Link

Cipio Partners, Munich-based secondary direct and growth capital investment firm, raises Latest Fund, at $197.5M. Link

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RECENT NOTABLE ACTIVITY – INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS

• Momentum Machines, developer of robot that makes hamburgers, raised $18.4M in a Series B round, participated in by Khosla Ventures, K5 Ventures, GV and Lemnos Labs. Link
• Dobot, developer of robot arm targeted towards consumers, raised $10.3M in a Series A round  from Shenzhen Capital Group. Link
• Qingdao Ke Lude Robot, developer of various types of service robots, raised $8.7M in a Series A round from China Equity Group. Link
• Wei Jing Intelligent technology, developer of a stereo vision camera module for robots, raised $7.3M in a Series A round from Undisclosed Investors. Link
• TMiRob, developer of a generic robot platform, raised $5.8M in a Series A round, participated in by IDG, Cash Capital and Cobos. Link
• Robocath, developer of robotic surgical arms to conduct remote surgery, raised $5.2M in a Series A round participated in by NCI, Gocapital and Midi Capital. Link
• SoftWear Automation, developer of robotic sewing machine, raised $4.5M in a Series B round from CTW Venture Partners. Link
• Stanley Robotics, developer a valet parking robot, raised $4.0M in a Series A round, participated in by Elaia Partners, Idinvest Partners, and Bpifrance. Link
• Sea Machines, developer of Unmanned Surface Vehicles for industrial purposes, raised $1.5M in a Seed round, participated in by LaunchCapital and Accomplice. Link
• Knightscope, developer of autonomous crime prevention technology robots, raised $1.0M in a Seed round from Konica Minolta. Link
• Mech-Mind, a company involved in the development of robot intelligence, raised an Undisclosed amount in a Series A round from China Growth Capital. Link
• Fastbrick Robotics, developer of Brick laying robots, raised $2.0M in a Post IPO round from Caterpillar. Link
• OC Robotics, developer of flexible snake-arm robots, got acquired by GE Aviation, in a deal with undisclosed terms. Link
• Alphabet’s Boston Dynamics, maker of biomorphic robots, was acquired by SoftBank Group in a deal with undisclosed terms. Link

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RECENT NOTABLE ACTIVITY – WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY

• ivWatch, a company that develops a wearable solution for detecting intravenous infiltration has raised $14.8M. Link
• Matrix Industries, a company that develops smart watches that charges using body heat has raised around $12.3M. Link
• Rythm, a company that develops a sleep-tracking headband has raised $11M. Link
• Spry Health, a company that develops wearables for remote patient monitoring application has raised $5.5M. Link
• HUG Innovations, a company that develops smartwatches has raised $5M in Series A funding. Link
• Motiv, a company that develops fitness tracking ring has raised $4.1M. Link
• Lynq, a company that develops wearable devices for location tracking applications has raised $1.9M. Link
• Footfalls and Heartbeats, a company that develops smart textile technologies has raised $1.6M. Link
• Gait Up, a company that develops wearable solutions for body motion analysis has been acquired by MindMaze. Link
• IMeasureU, a company that developed a wearable inertial sensor for monitoring body movements has been acquired by Vicon. Link

SOME INTERESTING STARTUPS FOUND

ParaShoot (2013, New York City) – Develops a wearable connected camera with live streaming and auto edit features.
GoX Studio (2014, Tempe) – Develops connected shoe insoles that can track propulsive power, velocity, metabolic efficiency, stride symmetry etc.

LEADER BOARD – WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY

Fitness
Jawbone (1999, SF, $1B) – Fitness wristbands with an algorithm for tracking steps, logging runs and measure sleep. Backed by Khosla Ventures, JP Morgan, Andreessen Horowitz.
Codoon (2011, Chengdu, $90M) – Smart Wearables and fitness social network for users. Backed by Fountain Investment, Focus Media, SB China Capital, Susquehanna International Group, Shenzhen Capital Group & Citic Capital.
Fitbit (2007, SF, IPO) – Wireless wearable fitness trackers to track person’s activities. Went public in 2015. Backed by True Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Softban.
Athos (2012, Redwood City, $51M) – Developer of smart fitness apparel. Backed by Social Capital, True Ventures, DCM, MAS Holdings.

Smart Watches
Basis (2010, SF, $32M, Acq.) – Fitness wristbands with an algorithm for tracking steps, logging runs and measure sleep. Acquired by Intel in March 2014.
Pebble (2009, Palo Alto, $15M, Acq.) – Smart internet-connected watch with apps. Acquired by Fitbit in Dec 2016.
Olio Devices (2013, SF, $14M) – Smart connected luxury watches. Backed by NEA, CrunchFund, Serra Ventures, PCH International, BoxGroup.

Wellness Devices
Chrono Therapeutics (2004, Waltham, $80M) – Providing trans-dermal drug delivery by adjusting the amount of nicotine. Backed by Canaan Partners, Mayo Clinic, Rock Health, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Endeavour Vision, 5AM Ventures, Emergent Medical Partners, NCI, Fountain Healthcare Partners, Mission Bay Capital, GE Ventures, Labuan IBFC, Cota Capital, Xeraya Capital, Mayo Clinic Ventures, Hikma Ventures.
MUSE (2009, Toronto, $18M) – Headband developed by Interaxon that helps in relaxing the brain. Backed by  Felicis Ventures, ff Venture Capital, Horizons Ventures, A-Grade Investments, OMERS Ventures, Build Ventures, Mindfull Investors.
Dreem (2014, Paris, $17M) – Develops sleep tracking wearable device. Backed by  MAIF, Innovation 2030

Healthcare
Senseonics (1996, Germantown, $124M) – Making Continuous Glucose Monitoring devices using proprietary technology. Backed by Delphi Ventures.
iRhythm Technologies (2006,; SF, $107M) – Providing solutions for Cardiac arrhythmias with a huge database for heartbeat analysis. Backed by Mohr Davidow Ventures.
MC10 (2008, Cambridge, $66M) – Miniaturised embedded sensors for remote patient monitoring, wellness, cosmetics, industrial and defence purposes. Backed by North Bridge Venture Partners, Medtronic.
VitalConnect (2011, Campbell,$66M) – Develops connected biosensor patches for monitoring body vitals of a patient remotely. Backed by Baxter, MVM Life Science Partners, Perceptive Advisors.
Scanadu (2011, Mountain View, $54M) – All-in-one device measuring temperature, B.P., Heart Rate, HRV, ECG, Oximetry, protein, leukocytes, nitrates concentration. Backed by Tencent, Relay Ventures.

Safety and Tracking
Tile (2012, San Mateo, $59M) – Tags to locate and track items. Backed by  Bessemer Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, GGV Capital, Rothenberg Ventures, Tandem, Tencent.
Pixie Technology (2011, Herzliya, $26M) – Connected tags for locating and tracking objects. Backed by OurCrowd, Spark Capital, Cedar Fund. 

Sports
Whoop (2012, Boston, $24M) – Wearable activity tracker for athletes and trainers. Backed by  Infosys, Founder Collective, Promus Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Resolute Ventures, Next View Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, Valley Oak Investments, Accomplice, Atlas Venture.
Zepp Labs (2011, San Jose, $20M) – Devices with sensors to track and analyse the hand or body movement while training for various sports. Backed by  GGV Capital, Legend Capital, Unity Ventures, Bertelsmann Asia Investment Fund, The Arena Capital.

Controller
Nod (2013, Mountain View, $16M) – Makes gesture recognition and motion tracking hardware.Backed by Nautilus Ventures, PointGuard Ventures and Atlantic Bridge Capital.

Petcare
Whistle (2012, SF, $21M, Acq.) – Intelligent monitoring system for dogs. Acquired by Mars in Feb 2016.

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RECENT NOTABLE ACTIVITY – REAL ESTATE TECH

• Cadre, a real estate investment platform, raises $65M in Series C from Andreessen Horowitz, Ford Foundation, General Catalyst Partners, Goldman Sachs, Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital, and Jim Breyer. Read more
• UrWork, co-working space and community, raises $58M in Series B from Prometheus Capital. Read more
• CreditPeers, P2B secured property lending platform, raises $57M in debt funding from undisclosed investors. Read more
• Patch of Land, a P2P real estate crowdfunding platform, raises $30M in Debt funding from SF Capital. Read more
• Agentology, lead optimization services for real estate agents, raises $4.5M in Series A from Freestyle Capital, OurCrowd and Entry Ventures. Read more
• Landed, a P2P lending platform for first time home buyers raises $5M in Series A from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Read more
• The Edge Property Singapore, a real estate property listing platform, raises $4M in Seed round from Peter Goh. Read more
• HomeBay, a San Diego, CA-based technology-driven real estate startup, raises $5M in Series A from Foundation Capital and Serra Ventures. Read more
• Centriq, the free digital user guide for your home, raises $4.8M in Series A from rlv.vc. Read more

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While multi-function, retail, and e-commerce emerged large, upcoming sectors in the business intelligence space in 2016, top investments in this sector till date include Innovaccer’s Series A round of $16M and Flutura’s Series A round of $8M.

Total funding dollars fell by a whopping 75% in 2016 from the previous year as funding rounds too fell by 13%.

By stage, funding round count plunged across the board with the dip being most pronounced for late (66%) and early (29%). Funding dollars took a hit across late (77%), early (35%) and seed (63%).

Average ticket soared only for Series A (50%) among early stages as seed and Series B registered a dip.

By stage of entry, TLabs emerged top investor for seed, IDG Ventures for Series A and B and DMG Information for later stage.

Seven acquisitions dotted the space with L&T Infotech buying augmentIQ for $1.1M being the only disclosed deal value.

As BI verticals came out on top as the most funded business model ($283M) followed by Data analytics ($13M), dollars to the tune of $47.5M have been invested in this sector between 2016-17. Under BI Verticals, retail accounted for 35% of dollars invested in BI Verticals.

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With total investments soaring by 96% in 2016 from the previous year in the agriculture market linkages space and funding rounds climbing by 26%, farm produce and horizontal farm produce emerged most funded, large upcoming sectors in this sector.

Stage wise fundraising rounds surged across the board-late by 100%, early by 16% and seed by 14%.

Average ticket size picked up by 100% for seed while it fell for both Series A and Series B with Series B showing the most dip (53%).

Meicai’s Series D round of $200M and KesuCorp’s Series A round of $23M constituted the top investments in this sector as only four acquisitions dotted the space with Foresight Group buying Euxton Group for $3.6M being the only disclosed deal value.

Supply chain has historically been the most funded ($579M) business model in the market linkages sector with ZhenFund, Y Combinator, TechStar emerging as most active investors for market linkages and Middleland Capital, Monsanto Growth Ventures and Cultivian Sandbox emerging as most active for agritech.

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Total funding dollars rose by 26% in the consumer healthtech sector in 2016 as telemedicine, appointment booking and online pharmacy store emerged large upcoming sectors.

By stage, the number of rounds surged only for early as it dipped for seed and late with late showing the most dip (13%).

Funding dollars soared for late (50%) and early (22%) as seed dollars took a fall.

Average ticket size climbed for seed (18%) and Series A (21%) with Series B dipping by 18%.

As Y Combinator emerged as the top investor for seed, Sequoia led the tally for Series A and beyond. 16 acquisitions have taken place in this sector till date with Ziff Davis picking up Everyday Health for $465M being the biggest disclosed deal value.

Healthcare Services have historically been the most funded ($8.4B) business model with dollars north of $5.9B being invested in the Consumer Healthtech sector between 2016-17.

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Top investments in the Internet-first media landscape till date include Toutiao’s Series D round of $1B and Buzzfeed’s Series F round of $200M as the space saw news aggregators and curated news aggregators emerge as large upcoming sectors.

The number of rounds stage wise saw a dip overall with late and early showing the maximum dip of 33% and 29% respectively.

Funding dollars took a hit across the board too-late by 44%, early by 34% and seed by 47%.

Average ticket size climbed only for Series B investments with a 25% dip for Series A and 43% for seed.

By stage of entry, 500 Startups emerged top investor for both seed and Series A, Greycroft Partners for Series B and Axel Springer SE for later stage. 16 acquisitions have dotted the space till date with Megafon picking up Mail.Ru for $640M being the highest disclosed deal value.

As publishers emerged the most funded ($2.5B) business model in this sector followed by aggregators ($2.1B), 338 companies have received funding till date in this sector with $2.06B invested in this sector between 2016-17.

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INTERESTING STARTUPS

Surbo (2016, Gurgoan), AI-enabled chatbot development platform. Founders are ex-Telcon, Siemens, Bionics and are alumni of MIT & BITS – Pilani. Local comparables are ChatterOn(2015, Gurgaon, undisclosed). Global comparables are Automat (2015, Montreal, $11M) and Botworx (2016, Los Altos, $3M).

INDIA INTERESTING NEWS

Epigamia (2015, Mumbai), private label brand for Greek yogurt, raises $13.8M in Series A round of funding from Anheuser-Busch In-Bev founders and others. Link

ClipApp (2017, Bangalore), mobile-based social platform in regional languages, raises $1M in undisclosed round of funding from India Quotient & Shunwei Capital. Link

Upwardly (2016, Bangalore), personalized wealth management & advisory platform, raises an undisclosed amount in Seed round of funding from Sreeram Iyer, Suvo Sarkar and Anita Gupta. Link

Avenue Growth (2017, Gurgaon), online platform connecting brands to sales freelancers, raises an undisclosed amount in Angel round of funding led by Aditya Malik, BCGSV & Others. Link

Minjar (2012, Bangalore), hosted infrastructure tools and services for AWS, raises an undisclosed amount in Series A round of funding led by Blume Ventures with participation from Contrarian Capital and Emergent Ventures. Link

IDFC Bank (2015, Mumbai), private sector full stack bank, and Shriram Capital (1974, Chennai), financing arm of Shriram Group, talks to plan a merger Link

Numaligarh Refinery (1999, Golaghat), public sector oil refinery company, launches $1.5M fund for Startups in Northeast India. Link

Flipkart (2007, Bangalore), online horizontal marketplace, plans to start offline business to sell foreign brands. Link

Paytm Mall (2007, Noida), online horizontal e-commerce marketplace, launches learning programme for college students. Link

Srei (1989, Kolkata), infrastructure and construction equipment finance company, teams up with Russian Development Bank to create $200M IT Fund. Link

GLOBAL ROUNDUP

FunFair (2017, London), ethereum-based casino platform, raises $26M in undisclosed round of funding from undisclosed investors. Link

Sol Voltaics (2007, Lund), develops solar films made up of GaAs nanowires, raises $21.3M in Series D round of funding from Watrium AS, Kagra Gruppen AS, Industrifonden, FAM AB, Nano Future Invest, Blue Marlin AB and Teknoinvest AS. Link

Axonics (2013, Irvine), miniaturized implantable neurostimulator platform, raises $20.5M in Series C round of funding Gilde Healthcare, CICA, Cormorant Asset Management and a select group of private individuals. Link

PayFit (2015, Paris), payroll automation tool for SMEs, raises $15.9M in Series B round of funding led by Accel with participation from Xavier Niel and Otium Venture. Link

Dune Medical (2002, Caesarea), intraoperative cancer detection device, raises $12.3M in undisclosed round of funding led by Canepa Healthcare, ATON Partners, and the Kraft Group. Link

OnboardIQ (2014, SF), workforce management platform, raises $9.1M Series A round of funding led by Origin Ventures with additional investments from SoftTech VC, Crosslink Capital, and Y Combinator. Link

MobileODT (2012, Tel Aviv), smartphone-based diagnostic tool for the screening of cervical cancer, raises $6.825M in Series B round of funding led by OrbiMed Advisors with participation from Tristel plc. Link

Miso Robotics (2016, Pasadena), developer of robotic technology for assisting chefs, raises $3.1M in Series A round of funding Acacia Research Corporation, Match Robotics VC, and undisclosed strategic investors. Link

Felix Capital, UK-based venture capital firm, raises Second Venture Capital Fund, at $150M. Link

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DEALS OF THE WEEK

Auto parts platform Baturu raises $100M led by Warburg Pincus
Baturu (2013, Guangzhou), an online B2B trading platform for auto parts, raises $100M in series C round of funding led by Warburg Pincus and Eastern Bell Venture Capital.

INTERESTING FUNDRAISING ACTIVITY IN CHINA

DG Joins $73M Funding Round In Chinese IoT Platform Terminus
Terminus Technologies, a “smart cities” Internet of Things solution provider, raises $73M in Series A round of funding from China Everbright, IDG Capital, CITIC Private Equity and other investors.

China Renaissance PE Co-Leads $71M Round In Zhaogang
Zhaogang (2012, Beijing), an e-commerce platform covering the whole steel industry chain, raises $73M in funding led by China Renaissance Private Equity Fund and West Fund with participation from Russia-China Investment Fund.

CICC Joins $50M Round In Auto Parts E-commerce Platform Carzone
Carzone (1995, Jiangsu), an e-commerce platform for auto parts, raises $50M in Series B+ round from from CICC Alpha.

China Harmony New Energy Auto’s After-Sales Unit Raises $41M
China Harmony New Energy Auto (2015, Hong Kong), an automotive company, raises $40M in funding from a few strategic investors.

Qiming Leads $29M Round In Chinese Antibody Drug Developer Sino Biological
Sino Biological (2007, Beijing), a recombinant protein and antibody developer, raises $29M in Series A round of funding led by Qiming Venture Partners.

BAI Leads $20M Round In Chinese Modern Furniture Brand Zaozuo
Zaozuo (2014, Beijing), a marketplace for furniture designers and independent agencies, raises $20M in Series B round of funding led by Bertelsmann Asia Investments with participation from Morningside Venture Capital, IDG Capital, Vision Plus Capital, Zhen Fund and Tiger Cub Funds.

Yunfeng Capital Co-Leads $17M Round In Online Drug Store Yao123.Com
Yao123.com (2015), an online drug store, raises $17M in Series A round of funding from Lang Sheng Investment, Yunfeng Capital, and Chinese entrepreneur David Yu.

GGV Capital Leads $14M In Fully Automated Convenience Store Start-up Bingobox
Bingobox (2016), a start-up developing fully-automated convenience stores that operate similarly to Amazon Go, raises $14M in Series A round of funding led by GGV Capital with participation from Qiming Venture Partners, Source Code Capital and Ventech China.

Hellobike Raises Series B+ Round From EV Start-Up WM Motor
Hellobike (2016, Shanghai), an online platform for renting bicycles, raises an undisclosed amount in Series B+ round from WM Motor.

Tencent Joins New Funding Round In Event Ticketing Platform Huodongxing.Com
Huodongxing (2012, Beijing), an Event ticketing platform where organizers can plan, promote and sell tickets for their events online, raises an undisclosed amount in Series A+ round from Tencent Holdings and Recruit Holdings.

INVESTMENTS BY CHINESE INVESTORS AND COMPANIES

NEA, Chinese funds invest $50m in US autonomous driving tech startup
Drive.ai (2015, Santa Clara), an artificial intelligence for self-driving cars, raises $50M in series B from NEA, GGV Capital and Northern Light Venture Capital.

Tencent Leads $27M In U.S. Satellite Data Solutions Provider Satellogic
Satellogic (2010, Buenos Aires), a satellite based real time Earth imagery provider, raises $27M in series B round of funding led by Tencent Holdings and CrunchFund.

iCarbonX Joins Series B Round In US Doctor-Patient Data Firm HealthLoop
HealthLoop (2009, Mountain View), a healthcare company, raises $8.4M in series B round of funding from iCarbonX with participation of NextEquity, Lafayette General Hospital, Canvas Ventures and Summation Health Ventures.

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RECENT NOTABLE ACTIVITY – PAAS

• Perspectium Corporation, a developer of enterprise integration, replication and monitoring as a service tools for ServiceNow, has raised $8M in a Series A funding. Link
• NEC announced the launch of a “Center of Excellence for Analytics Platform & Solutions” (COE-APS) with an overall investment of $10M. Link
• Polybit, the company behind the Standard Library of the Internet, has secured $2M in seed funding led by BlueYard Capital. Link
• Mobile software maker Catavolt has been acquired by Hexagon. Link
• GraphStory that provides easy-to-read data graphs as a service raises more than $1M. Link

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RECENT NOTABLE ACTIVITY – BLOCKCHAIN APPLICATIONS

• ntellectEU, a financial middleware and solutions provider, has  raised a seed stage funding of $2M from Pamica. Link
• Loyyal, a blockchain based rewards & loyalty platform, has raised an undisclosed sum in seed stage funding from INET, UAE Exchange, Hayaat Group and Day One Capital. Link
• Coindash, a social trading platform for cryptocurrencies, has raised an undisclosed sum in series A funding from Hyperchain Capital. Link
• Openledger, a decentralised exchange built on the Bitshares blockchain, has  raised $1.6M from a group of Chinese investors. Link
• Stratum, a platform that enables developers to build their own blockchain applications, has raised $8M in Series A funding from  CNP Assurances, Otium Capital, Nasdaq and Digital Currency Group. Link
• Stem Disintermedia, a blockchain based digital rights management platform, has raised $8M in Series A funding from  Evolution Media, Aspect Ventures, Red Light Management, ROAR, WndrCo Link
• Tenx, a start-up working on blockchain interoperability has raised $80M  in 7 minutes through an initial coin offering. Link
• Bancor, a smart contract based decentralised exchange, has raised $153M from over 10,000 investors through an initial coin offering. Link

SOME INTERESTING STARTUPS FOUND

Polybius (2017, Talinn) – Combines IoT, AI, E-signatures and blockchains to offer banking solutions.
Dharma  (2017, San Francisco) – Open source credit checks with the help of a blockchain.

LEADER BOARD – BLOCKCHAIN APPLICATIONS

Financial Services
Circle (2013, Boston, $136M) – Digital currency wallet and international money transfer service provider. Backed by Accel Partners, Goldman Sachs, Baidu, General Catalyst Partners, IDG Capital Partners, Oak Investment Partners, CICC, CreditEase, China Everbright, Fenway Summer, Breyer Capital, Pantera Capital, Wanxiang America, Digital Currency Group.
Ripple (2012, SF, $90.5M) – Open source payment protocol. Backed by Standard Chartered, AME Cloud Ventures, Seagate, CME Group, IDG Capital Partners, RRE Ventures, Venture 51, Core VC, ChinaRock Capital Management, SBI Holdings, Route 66 Ventures, Camp One Ventures,Blockchain Capital, Santander InnoVentures, Digital Currency Group, Tusk Ventures, CRCM Venture Capital, SCB Digital Ventures.
Digital Asset Holdings (2014, NYC, $67M) – Blockchain-based trade settlement solution provider. Backed Accenture, IBM, Goldman Sachs, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, CME Group, BNP Paribas, ABN AMRO Bank, Australian Securities Exchange, PNC Financial Services Group, Deutsche, DTCC, ICAP, FinTech Innovation Lab, Santander InnoVentures.

Enterprise
Filament Networks (2012, Reno, $36M) – A decentralized Internet of Things stack. Backed by Intel Capital, CME Group, Techstars, Crosslink Capital, Bullpen Capital, Resonant Venture Partners, Amherst Fund, Samsung Venture Investment, Pantera Capital, Detroit Innovate, Bullpen Capital, Verizon Ventures, Flex technology accelerator program Lab IX, Digital Currency Group, Working Lab Capital, Zenstone Venture Capital, VTF Capital, JetBlue Technology Ventures, Backstage Capital, Tappan Hill Ventures, Samsung NEXT.
Stem Disintermedia (2015, Los Angeles, $12.5M) – A digital media rights platform.  Upfront Ventures, Ludlow Ventures, Three Six Zero Group, Red Light Management, ROAR, Third Wave Digital, Aspect Ventures, Evolution Media, Vayner RSE, Blockchain Capital, Third Wave Digital, WndrCo.

Technology
R3 (2013, New York, $107M) – Consortium of financial enterprises aiming to create digital ledger technology.  HSBC Group, UBS, Wells Fargo, Intel Capital, Barclays, Itau BBA, Natixis, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, SBI Group, Banco Bradesco, Temasek Holdings.
Bitfury (2012, San Francisco, $95M) – Provider for Bitcoin mining hardware.   Credit China Holdings, DRW Trading Group, Investment Fund, Crypto Currency Partners, Binary Financial, ZAD, Blockchain Capital, QueensBridge Venture Partners, iTech Capital.
Blockstream (2014, SF, $76M) – Provides sidechain solutions to improve blockchain. Backed by Khosla Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Data Collective, Horizons Ventures, Ribbit Capital, Real Ventures, Digital Garage, DG Incubation, SK Ventures, Future Perfect Ventures, Maiden Lane, Mosaic Ventures, Blockchain Capital, Digital Currency Group, AXA Strategic Ventures, Seven Seas Partners.

Consumer
FirstBlood Technologies (2016, Boston, $5.5M) – Blockchain-based eSports platform.
Augur Project (2014, SF, $5M) – Decentralized prediction market based on Blockchain.

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RECENT NOTABLE ACTIVITY – BIG DATA INFRASTRUCTURE

• Atavium, a data management platform, raised $8.65M in series A funding led by Rally Ventures and Grotech Ventures, with participation from Origin Ventures, Correlation Ventures, Brightstone Venture Capital and G-Bar Ventures. Link
• Spotinst, a cloud cost management platform, raises $15M in series A led by Intel Capital and with the participation of Vertex Venture Capital. Link
• Xcalar, a data discovery platform raised $21M in series A led by Khosla Ventures, Andy Bechtolsheim & Diane Greene, and Merus Capital. Link
•  Arangodb, a multi-model NoSQL database, raised $4.8M led by Target Partners. Link
• MarkLogic, a NoSQL database provider, raised funding from NTT Data.Link
• Cockroachlabs, an opensource New SQL company, raised $27M in series B led by Redpoint with participation from Benchmark, GV, Index Ventures and FirstMark. Link

SOME INTERESTING STARTUPS FOUND

SnappyData (2016, Portland)- In-memory OLAP and OLTP on Streaming Data fusing Apache Spark and GemFire.

LEADER BOARD – BIG DATA INFRASTRUCTURE

Big Data Suites
Cloudera (2008, Palo Alto, $1.05B) – Cloudera Distribution of Hadoop with Apache Technologies and Proprietary Products. Backed by Accel, GV, Intel, T. Rowe Price, In-Q-Tel and others.
Hortonworks (2011, Palo Alto, IPO) – Hortonworks Data Platform built with 100% open source Apache Technologies. Went public in 2014.
MapR (2009, San Jose, $194M) – Commercial distribution of Hadoop, Backed by Google Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Redpoint, NEA, Lightspeed, MayField.

Operational Processing
Key-Value Store
Basho (2007, Cambridge, $52M) – Distributed NoSQL Database. Backed by Trifork, Harbor Island Partners, Wilmington Investor and IDC.
Redis Labs (2011, Mountain View, $41M) – Redis and Memcache in cloud. Backed by Bain Capital Ventures, Carmel Ventures and others.

Document Store
MongoDB (2007, NYC, $318M) – Creators of Document Store Database MongoDB. Backed by NEA, EMC, RedHat, Sequoia, SalesForce, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, Intel, In-Q-Tel and others.
MarkLogic (2003, San Carlos, $173M) – Enterprise NoSQL Database. Backed by Sequoia Capital and others.
Couchbase (2009, Mountain View, $146M) – Enterprise Distribution of CouchDB. Backed by Mayfield, Accel, North Bridge VP, Ignition Partners, Adams Street Partners and others.

Wide Column Family Store
Datastax (2010, Santa Clara, $190M) – Enterprise Distribution of Apache Cassandra. Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia and others.

NewSQL
MemSQL (2011, SF, $85M) – In-Memory NewSQL Database. Backed by NEA, SV Angel, Y Combinator, Data Collective, Khosla Ventures, Accel Partners and others.
NuoDB (2010, Cambridge, $53M) – In-Memory NewSQL Database. Backed by Dassault Systems, Longworth and Morgenthaler.

Analytical Processing – MPP
Greenplum (2003, San Mateo, $93M, Acq.) – Open source MPP Data Warehouse. Backed by Dawntreader Ventures, EDF Ventures, Mission Ventures and others. Acquired by EMC2 in 2010.

Hadoop
Qubole (2011, Mountain View, $50M) – Hosted Hadoop as a service. Backed by Charles River VC, Milliways Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and IVP.
Altiscale (2012, Palo Alto, $42M) – Hosted Hadoop as a service. Backed by Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst Partners, AME Cloud Ventures.

SQL on Hadoop
Splice Machine (2012, SF, $31M) – Open-Source SQL RDBMS on Hadoop & Spark. Backed by Correlation Ventures, InterWest Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and InterWest Partners.
Vertica (2005, Billerica, $23.5M) – Data management solutions for storing and querying Databases. Backed by New Enterprise Associates, Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners and Highland Capital Partners.

Spark
Databricks (2013, SF, $108M) – Platform to Ingest, analyze and visualize data on a spark cluster. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA.

Search
Elastic (2012, Mountain View, $104M) – Search based on lucene, logstash to analyze and kibana to visualize enterprise data. Backed by Index Ventures, NEA, Benchmark, SV Angel, Data Collective.

Graph
Neo4j (2007, SF, $80M) – Neo4j graph database. Backed by Sunstone Capital, Conor Venture Partners, Fidelity Growth Partners Europe and others.

Realtime Processing
StreamBase (2003, Lexington, $37M, Acq.) – Event processing platform that analyze and act on real-time streaming datafor instantaneous decision-making. Backed by Accel Partners, BVP, Battery and Highland Capital Partners. Acquired by Tibco Software in 2013.
GigaSpaces (2000, New York, $36M) – Application Platform for Java. Backed by Intel Capital, FTV Capital, BRM Capital, Viola Group, and Formula Vision Technologies.
Confluent (2014, Palo Alto, $31M) – Enterprise Distribution of Apache Kafka by creators of Kafka. Backed by Index Ventures, Benchmark, Data Collective, LinkedIn.
Striim (2012, Palo Alto, $31M) – Streaming Data integration and Operational Intelligence Platform. Backed by Summit Partners, Intel Capital and Panorama Point.
TerraCotta (2003, SF, $29M, Acq.) – In-Memory data management solutions for real-time applications. Backed by Accel Partners, Goldman Sachs, Benchmark and others. Acquired by Software AG in 2011.

Management Tools
Alteryx (2010, Irvine, $163M) – SaaS Analytics Business Suite. Backed by Iconiq Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Meritech, Toba Capital, Insight Partners and Sapphire Ventures.
WANdisco (2005, San Ramon, IPO) – Data Replication and downtime recovery in Hadoop. Went public in 2012.
Trifacta (2012, SF, $76M) – Platform for discovery, cleaning and shaping of Big Data. Backed by Ignition Partners, Accel Partners, Milliways Ventures, Greylock, Infosys and others.

Framework
Dataguise (2007, Fremont, $32.5M) – Security and governance for Big Data. Backed by Toba Capital.

Leader board includes all the top funded, IPO and successfully running bootstrapped companies along with their location, founding year and funding amount.

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A daily newsletter summarizing interesting Indian startups and recent activity both in India & globally.

INTERESTING STARTUPS

6FIGR (2015, Bangalore), online platform for employee salary comparison. Founders are ex-Oracle & Souq and are alumni of NIT – Rourkela & NIT – Surat. No local comparables. Global comparables are Comparably (2015, Santa Monica, $13.75M) and Paysa (2015, SF, $4.25M).

INDIA INTERESTING NEWS

Smart Auto Systems (2015, Hyderabad), cloud-hosted auto workshop management platform, raises $3M in Series A round of funding from Mitsui & Co. Link

ZanDeal (2017, Bangalore), marketing analytics & research platform, raises $150k from Sean Chan. Link

Gati (2012, Hyderabad), express distribution and supply chain solutions, to acquire Vulcan Express (2013, Gurgaon), end to end eCommerce logistics solution provider, for an undisclosed amount. Link

Airtel (1995, Delhi), telecommunication service provider and Axis Bank (1994, Mumbai), financial Services provider, are in talks to acquire Freecharge (2010, Mumbai), prepaid wallet and bill payment app.  Link

Uber (2009, SF), mobile app that connects passengers with vehicle drivers for hire, invests $7.99M into Uber India as per filings with the Registrar of Companies. Link

TPG Growth, a California-based growth-capital fund, set to sell 20% stake in Sutures India(1992, Bangalore), a medical consumables firm, in a $100M deal. Link

Ola’s (2011, Bangalore), app-based asset-light cab operator, connected car platform, Ola Play grows by 200%, launches services in 3 more cities. Link

WhatsApp (2009, Santa Clara), cross platform Instant messaging platform, launches business chat, payment sectors in its sights. Link

Paytm (2010, Noida), mobile wallet and payments bank, transfers 800 staff to Paytm Mall(2017, Noida), online horizontal e-commerce marketplace. Link

Cleartrip (2005, Mumbai), online travel website that offers flights, hotels and train bookings, hires Indroneel Dutt as chief financial officer of TCS (1968, Mumbai), IT Services, business solutions and consulting company. Link

GLOBAL ROUNDUP

Hudl (2006, Lincoln), video analytics based training tool for athletes and coaches, raises $30M in Series C round of funding from Accel Partners, Nelnet, and Jeff and Tricia Raikes. Link

Stiletto Manufacturing (2015, Columbia), manufacturer of luxury yachts, raises $12.5M in debt round of funding from Capital Nexus LLC and BlueDoor Capital Partners. Link

Recycle Track Systems (2015, NYC), smart waste collection company, raises $11.7M in Series A round of funding led by Volition Capital. Link

TeamSnap (2009, Boulder), platform for managing sports teams and other groups, acquires FanAppEvents (2014, Jefferson City), tournaments and sports-league solutions provider, for an undisclosed amount. Link

Wind Point Partners, Chicago-based private equity firm, raises Eighth Private Equity Fund, at $985M. Link

Stellex Capital Management, New York-based middle-market private equity firm, raises Maiden Private Equity Fund, at $870M. Link

Main Capital Partners, Netherland-based private equity and mezzanine capital investor, raises First Closing of Fifth Fund, at $113.9M. Link

Dubin Clark & Company, Boston-based middle market private equity firm, raises $100M for Second Private Equity Fund. Link

Axeleo, France-based specialist enterprise technology acceleration platform, holds initial closing of Accelerator Fund, at $28.4M. Link

A weekly newsletter summarizing recent activity and interesting startups in South East Asia.

INTERESTING COMPANIES FOUND

MyFinB (2016, Singapore) – NLP-powered analytics and risk assessment tool for financial institutions. Global comparable include Ximu Credit (2014, Shanghai, $14.78M) and CRiskCo (2015, Tel Aviv).
Ednarrator (2016, Kuala Lumpur) – Analytics based evaluation platform for the education sector. Global comparable include Wheebox (2011, Gurgaon, $1.5M) and Naiku (2010, Minneapolis, $1.33M).

SEA – FUNDING UPDATES

Instarem raises funding
Instarem (2015, Gold Coast), a business and personal purpose remittance service provider, raises $13M in Series B from GSR Ventures, SBI Ven Capital, Vertex Ventures, Fullerton Financial, and Global Founders Capital.

Mighty Bear Games raises funding
Mighty Bear Games (2016, Singapore), an online massive multiplayer mobile game developer, raises $775K in Seed round from Global Founders Capital.

Funfair Technologies raises funding
Funfair Technologies (2017, Singapore), a digital platform to enable Ethereum based games and casinos, raises $26M in funding Pantera Capital Kryptonite1, and BlockTower Capital.

BuzzCommerce raising $1M to make private label products
BuzzCommerce (2014, Singapore), a cross-border beauty care e-commerce startup, raises $1M in its latest funding round to create its own cosmetics and supplement products to serve demand in China and Japan.

Ruangguru raises funding
Ruangguru (2014, Jakarta), a marketplace for private tutors, raises an undisclosed amount in Series B from UOB Venture Management, East Ventures, and Venturra Capital.

Tencent invests up to $150M in Indonesia’s Go-Jek
Tencent invests up to $150M in Indonesia’s Go-Jek amid SE Asia push.

Local startups Chate Sat bag six-digit funding
Local startups Chate Sat, a marketplace for freelancers, bag six-digit funding.

ESP Capital invests in Canavi
ESP Capital invests in women-focused careers platform Canavi.

SEA – RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

IIX closes $8M Women’s Livelihood Bond for SEA
IIX closes $8M Women’s Livelihood Bond for SEA, to seek listing on SGX.

Singtel’s NetLink sets IPO price
Singtel’s NetLink sets IPO price, to raise $1.7B.

Jukir acquires Wallezz Finansial
Jukir, Jakarta-headquartered startup, acquires Wallezz Finansial Teknologi, local fintech firm, for an undisclosed sum.

Local VCs deployed $463.5M in Indonesia for the first quarter
Local VCs deployed $463.5M in Indonesia for the first quarter according to Financial Services Authority.

Omise acquires Paysbuy
Omise, a Bangkok-based online payment platform with a focus on Southeast Asia, acquires Paysbuy, a Thai e-money service provider,  for an undisclosed sum.

CommGate is working with SPRING Singapore to help retailers go online
CommGate is working with SPRING Singapore to help retailers go online.

A daily newsletter summarizing recent activity & interesting start-ups globally

RECENT NOTABLE ACTIVITY – DATA AS A SERVICE

• Synthio, the provider of B2B contact database solutions, secures $10.5M in Series B. Link
• HAT Data Exchange, a personal data store and multi-sided marketplace for attribute exchange, secures funding from Amadeus Capital Partners. Link
• Satellogic, a satellite based real time earth imagery provider, raises $27 million in a Series B. Link
• Centogene, the biochemical and genetic tests provider for mutations and rare diseases, raises €25M in Series A. Link
• Accern, an intelligence detection platform for institutional investors, raises $1.25M in Seed funding. Link
• Reveal Mobile, an insight provider on the mobile audience, raises $0.6M in private offering. Link
• Kompany, a provider of official international business register information, raises an undisclosed amount of funding. Link
• Orbital Insight, provider of global trends through image processing and deep learning, raises $50M in Series C. Link
• Traverse Data, a provider of deterministic match data, raises $1M in funding. Link
• Oddup, the platform with a data-driven approach to assess the investability of startups, raises $6M in Series A.Link
• Equifax, the consumer credit reporting agency, acquires ID Watchdog, theft protection company for $63.3M. Link
• Stagwell Media, acquires mobile research assets from Nielsen. Link
• LexisNexis, an enterprise legal management solution provider, Ravel Law for an undisclosed amount. Link
• Placed, the location analytics and targeting platform was acquired for $200M by Snap.Link
• Callcredit, the provider of consumer credit data solutions software and analytics, Confirma Group of companies comprising Confirma Sistemas and Soluciones Confirma for an undisclosed amount. Link
• CoreLogic, a provider of real-estate sales software, to acquire Mercury Network. Link
• Bregal Sagemount acquires Lux Research, a research and advisory firm on emerging technologies. Link
• Bureau van Dijk, a provider of company information & business intelligence, was acquired by Moody’s Corporation for €3B. Link
• Thermo Fisher Scientific, the provider of suite of products (reagents, kits) and instruments for life science, acquires Patheon for $7.2B. Link
• Seaham’s BE Group acquires AI business Synoptica. Link

A daily newsletter summarizing recent activity & interesting start-ups globally

RECENT NOTABLE ACTIVITY – ADTECH

• Charmboard, a shoppable video advertising platform has raised $5M in Series A funding from an undisclosed VC firm and two global corporations. Link
• Fyber, a mobile supply-side and ad monetization platform has raised $7.9M in Series B funding from BillFront. Link
• Xineoh Technologies, a machine learning based ad campaign optimization platform has raised $2M in Series A funding King and Bay West. Link
• Celtra, a distribution and optimization platform of the display, video, and native ads has raised $15M in Series C funding from Unilever Ventures and WPP. Link
• MediaAlpha, a demand side platform for insurance advertising vertical has raised $20M Debt funding from Bridge Bank. Link
• YieldMo, a mobile supply-side platform has raised $8.9M in Series C funding from Time Warner, GV, Vast Ventures, and Unicorn Square Ventures. Link
• RhythmOne, a cross-device video ad exchange platform has acquired RadiumOne, a cross-device demand side platform. Link
• Singular, a unified mobile marketing platform has acquired Apsalar, a mobile ad attribution and ad analytics platform. Link