Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding stories, from on-demand painting to cognitive computing

Here’s a list of today’s biggest funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share and remember to check back for updates!

Digital Reasoning raises $24M

Digital Reasoning, calling itself “a leader in cognitive computing,” today announced $24 million in funding led by Goldman Sachs. The New York company says it will use the new capital to expand its financial services and “accelerate cognitive computing innovation.”

Mobile payments company Boku raises $13.5M

Today San Francisco-based Boku, a mobile payments company that specializes in carrier billing, announced a $13.5 million raise in a public filing today. The filing names Index Ventures partner Danny Rimer, suggesting that Index Ventures may have participated in the round.

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Waterline Data Science swallows up $7M

Waterline Data Science, a startup with software for indexing all of the data stored in companies’ Hadoop repositories for holding, processing, and analyzing lots of different kinds of information, announced $7 million in funding today. Menlo Ventures led the round. Sigma West also participated.

Word-parsing wizard Idibon picks up $5.5M

Idibon, a San Francisco-based startup that has developed applications that make sense of text in scores of languages, has raised $5.5 million in new funding. Altpoint Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and Morningside Ventures led the new round.

Eventbrite competitor KweekWeek raises $3.25M

London-based KweekWeek today announced a $3.25 million raise to expand its event discovery service. The round was led by “private angel investors with backgrounds in the banking, entertainment and technology industry,” according to the official company release.

On-demand painting service Paintzen raises $1.81M

Paintzen today announced its New York and San Francisco debut after testing its on-demand painting service in “over 4,000 rooms.” The New York-based company’s $1.81 million round was led by Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Nextview Ventures, Quotidian Ventures, Angelpad, and Barbara Corcoran.