Luisa Beltran
Pebble has received $15 million in Series A funding from Charles River Ventures. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Pebble makes an e-paper smart watch that connects to iPhone and Android smartphones.
Scarosso raised a Series A funding round led by DN Capital. Scarosso said other investors include IBB Venture Capital Co. managed ‘Kreativwirtschaft Berlin’, Perikles Ventures and other local angel investors. Scarosso has previously attracted angel funding from Berlin Ventures, Martin Sinner and Michael Brehm. Berlin-based Scarosso is an online luxury shoe brand.
SimpleTuition said Thursday it has closed a $4 million Series D funding round. The round was led by previous investors Atlas Venture, Flybridge Capital Partners and North Hill Ventures. Boston-based SimpleTuition provides tips, advice, and interactive tools to help students pay less for college-related expenses.
Active Life Scientific has raised a $500,000 Follow On Series A round of financing. New and existing investors, including follow on investment by members of Tech Coast Angels, filled the round. Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Active Life Scientific is a life science research and diagnostic tools company.
PrivateCore said Tuesday it named Todd Thiemann to the position of vice president of marketing. Most recently, Thiemann was a senior director for product marketing at Vormetric. PrivateCore received VC funding from Foundation Capital in 2012.
Cloudant closed a $12 million Series B funding round from Devonshire Investors, Rackspace Hosting and Toba Capital. Current investors including Avalon Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Samsung Venture Investment Corp. also purchased additional shares. Boston-based Cloudant is a provider of distributed database-as-a-service.
AbilTo said Tuesday it closed a $3 million round of Series A financing led by .406 Ventures. New York-based AbilTo provides behavioral health programs to help adults overcome mild and moderate depression associated with major medical events.
Rightware closed a $5.2 million series B round with participation by Inventure, Nexit Ventures and Finnish Industry Investment. Rightware, of Espoo, Finland, provides user interface technology for the mobile, automotive and other embedded industries.
GraphLab said Tuesday it raised $6.75 million Series A funding led by Madrona Venture Group and NEA. Seattle-based GraphLab provides a machine learning analytics engine for graph datasets.
Ubitus said Monday it had raised more than $15 million cash from multiple leading investors including Samsung Venture Investment Corp. Ubitus, of Taipei, Taiwan, provides cloud gaming solutions.