Alastair Goldfisher

Haiku Deck, which makes an iPad app to make it simple to create and share presentations,announced it has raised $3 million in a Series A round. Trilogy Partnership led the round, which included participation from Madrona Venture Group, Founders Co-op and individual investors, including Sarah Leary (co-founder of Nextdoor). Haiku Deck had previously raised less than $1 million in seed funding.

MuleSoft, which provides enterprises with a cloud-based platform to integrate its mobile and on-premise data and applications, has raised $37 million in new funding. New Enterprise Associates lead the round, with participation from Salesforce.com, as well as returning investors Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, SAP Ventures and Bay Partners. The company has now raised about $81 million in capital since 2006.

It’s time to get excited about IPOs again. That might sound counter-intuitive. After all, there were only three venture-backed IPOs in the first two months of the year. Even with Marin Software’s debut in late March, the Q1 IPO total for VC-backed companies is hardly a bonanza. In comparison, there were 19 venture-backed offerings through […]

In the past month, Intel Capital has announced two investments in Brazilian big data and analytics companies. The latest investment came today when Intel Capital announced it backed Geofusion, a Brazilian company providing “geomarketing” data analytics and intelligence to enterprise customers. The amount of the funding is undisclosed. The announcement follows an undisclosed investment it made a few weeks ago in WebRadar,

Italian-based startup iCoolhunt announced today the launch of its photo-sharing app in the Apple Store. And the company announced it has previously raised $670,000 in seed funding from early stage backer Atlante Ventures Mezzogiorno.

Rent the Runway, which rents designer clothes, shoes and accessories to users, has raised $4.4 million in additional Series C funding from American Express and Novel TMT Ventures. The company previously raised $20 million in Series C funding from Advance Publications, parent company of Condé Nast, Bain Capital Ventures, Highland Capital Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Pertino, which develops software for managing wide area networks over the cloud, has raised $20 million in a Series B round led by new investor Jafco Ventures, with Norwest Venture Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners also participating. Pertino raised nearly $9 million in a Series A deal from Norwest and Lightspeed in April 2012.

App security provider MyPermissions announced today it has raised $1 million in a round by lool Ventures, 500 Startups and 2B Angels, with participation by Plus Ventures and Israeli tech investor Robby Hilkowitz. Dave McClure says this is the first investment by 500 Startups in an Israeli startup.