Sectors
Cosmetics brand Glossier has followed up a $2m seed round raised in September with an $8.4m series A backed by talent agency William Morris Endeavor.
Online learning platform Speakaboos has now secured $12.7m in total funding, after Al Sayegh joined education company Kyowon among its backers.
Online educational content aggregator Curiosity.com has raised $6m in a round led by Discovery Communications, the media company where it was incubated.
Game Accelerator Execution Labs has raised $5.3m in a round led by Corus Entertainment to launch two accelerator programmes for gaming studios.
Semiconductor maker Cavendish Kinetics has raised $7m in a round featuring Qualcomm Ventures, bringing the total raised by the company up to $32.5m.
Healthcare company Spirometrix has raised $8.6m in a series B round that included $5m from manufacturing partner NGK Spark Plug as an strategic investment.
Big data messaging technology Confluent has launched with a $6.9m investment by LinkedIn, Benchmark and Data Collective.
Minus has raised $8m from investors including IDG-Accel, in order to develop and improve its chatroom messaging app, which has 12 million users.
Details of the unit's investments in Inrix, PrecisionHawk, Avegant, Reno Sub-Systems and Prelert have emerged over the past two days.
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