Today’s funding news includes big data for business intelligence, medium-sized data for getting pregnant, and small data for telling you more about that song you’re listening to. It’s a big, Thursday-sized pile of funding data, y’all.
GoodData gets $25.7M to grow, grow, grow in business intelligence
GoodData, a startup that sells cloud-based business-intelligence software, said today that it has closed a $25.7 million round of funding, placing it in a better position to compete with the largest enterprise software companies, not to mention a bunch of startups.
“This place is getting serious, so we need to have some real cash to actually be a player,” Roman Stanek, the startup’s founder and chief executive, told VentureBeat in an interview.
Intel Capital led the round for the San Francisco-based company.
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Glow brings in $17M in new funding, puts big data to work for women’s health
When Max Levchin first started telling the world about Glow last summer, it sounded like little more than an app to help women get pregnant. But today, the company has added features to its app to help it also cater to women seeking to avoid pregnancy. And it has a new app, Glow Nurture, that caters to pregnant women. It has also raised $17 million in a second round of institutional funding.
Formation 8 led this round. Glow is based in Shanghai, China.
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Shawn Fanning’s connected hardware platform Helium raises nearly $16M
Helium Systems, an Internet of things-inspired platform that aims to connect low-power devices without Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, today announced a $15.98 million funding round in a public company filing.
The filing’s date of first sale aligns with a previously announced $13.4 million raise from FirstMark Capital and Khosla Ventures, suggesting that this is an expansion of that round. Helium is based in San Francisco.
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Looking to fix hiring, Lever launches platform while nabbing $10M
Companies that need to recruit top-quality people have another toolset today. San Francisco-based Lever is launching its new platform for hiring and talent management, along with announcing that it has landed $10 million.
“Hiring is pretty broken but more important than ever,” CEO and co-founder Sarah Nahm told VentureBeat. The platform is emerging from a private beta phase and has “about 200 customers,” including Box, Foursquare, GitHub, Lyft, Quora, and Reddit.
The funding comes from Matrix Partners.
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Navdy gets $6.5M for its in-car display for your phone, might show up in rental cars soon
Navdy, a company that recently revealed the head-up display for cars that it’s been working on, wants to harness all of a smartphone’s magic in a safe way. And today, the company is revealing that a few months ago, it raised $6.5 million in seed funding from a collection of investors.
Navdy is based in San Francisco. Upfront Ventures led this round.
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Stratos raises $5.8M for its Bluetooth-powered payments platform
Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Stratos is apparently trying to put all of your payment, loyalty, and rewards cards on a single Bluetooth-enabled card and then put a layer of intelligence around it. The project sounds quite a bit like Coin.
Stratos today announced it has raised a $5.8 million funding round. The funding comes from Toba Capital Partners, Western Technology Investment, Resonant Venture Partners, and Hyde Park Venture Partners.
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Locqus grabs $2M to help employees in the field skip the trip to the office
Locqus, a company based in Detroit, Mich., is releasing a product today that can bring Uber-like driver tracking to any small business.Locqus’s product is made for businesses whose employees are mostly out in the field serving customers, such as plumbers, delivery folks, and the like.
The company is also announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding from Moneris Solutions.
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Olio’s wearables might not be as fugly as the rest
Olio, a San Francisco-based company coming out of the shadows today and announcing that it has bagged about $4 million in seed funding, is making some bold claims about finally creating wearables — “premium connected devices” — that look damn gorgeous.
Led by Steve Jacobs, a former iPod/iPhone engineer who’s also worked for Google, Amazon, Ammunition (Beats’ design agency) and who most recently left HP, the company is largely keeping mum about its future products.
NEA led the round.
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Musikki scores $419K
Musikki, a company that aims to aggregate knowledge about music from around the Web, has raised a €330,000 ($419,000) second round of funding. The company pulls in data in real time from a variety of APIs in order to pull in content about artists, albums, and songs. “The company is in advanced discussions with a number of major music businesses and will shortly be announcing new partnerships,” it said in a statement about the funding. Previous funding rounds totaled €462,000 ($748,000) although the company insists, somewhat amusingly, that it has been “bootstrapped” so far. Bootstrapped, that is, except for that sizeable pile of money.
London-based Musikki delivers its service via a web site and an iPhone app.
