Sausalito, California-based merchandise sales management platform atVenu secured seed stage funds of $1.1 million from Canadian venture capital firm Real Ventures, PE HUB Canada reported.
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Regulators strips off accreditation of private equity-backed university in Chile
Chilean regulators have removed the accreditation of Universidad de las Americas, a university owned by Laureate Education where the honorary chancellor is former President Bill Clinton, Bloomberg reported.
Colorado-based startup TeamSnap scores $7.5M in Series B round for to develop app to manage the schedule of sports teams
Boulder, Colorado-based startup TeamSnap scored $7.5 million in a Series B funding round to develop its app that helps sports coaches and league officials manage the schedule of their sports teams.
CORRECTED-California's Elementum bags $44M in Series B round to track supply chain in the cloud
California, US-based enterprise software startup Elementum, a spinoff from Singaporean firm Flextronics International Inc, bagged $44 million in a Series A funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners for a cloud-based supply chain tracking software.
San Francisco-based gourmet meals provider Munchery to raise $20M in new funding round- sources
Munchery, a San Francisco-based startup that provides gourmet meals on demand, is gearing up to raise $20 million in a new financing round, according to sources interviewed by TechCrunch.
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TechCrunch looked more closely into the compensation package of Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella submitted by the company in a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Tech giant Microsoft invested $15 million in location-based social networking app Foursquare and inked a licensing deal to use the latter's places database in their products and services.
Primus Power, a provider of low-cost grid-scale energy storage solutions, bagged $20 million for the first close of its Series C round led by South Africa-based Anglo American Platinum Ltd.
In a bid to show that their participation in the surveillance efforts of the government was limited, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google started to publish details on the number of government requests for data, Reuters reported.
New York, US-based social intelligence startup 4C snagged $4 million in funding from venture capital firm Jump Capital for its expansion, and sales and product development.
University of North Carolina Professor Gregg D. Polsky wrote in the February 3 edition of Tax Notes that payments given by companies to their private equity owners are not characterized properly for tax purposes, The New York Times The Dealbook reported.
California, US-based optical communications network product designer and manufacturer JDS Uniphase Corp (JDSU) bought Boulder, Colorado-based real-time intelligence software solutions provider Trendium for an undisclosed amount.
The hearing held by New York State banking regulator Benjamin M. Lawsky points to more regulation in Bitcoin's future, The New York Times The Dealbook reported.
New York, US-based education solutions provider McGraw-Hill Education purchased Los Angeles, California-based online curriculum tool developer Engrade for an undisclosed amount to meet the increasing demand for digital educational content.
