Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news:
Business intelligence startup RJ Metrics has raised $6.5 million in its first venture round of funding. Investors include Trinity Ventures and SoftTech, according to TechCrunch. The Philadelphia-based company offers enterprises advanced ecommerce analytics via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. The startup was founded in 2008 and previously raised $1.2 million in debt financing in early 2012.
Berlin-based VersusIO has landed $2.8 million in what appears to be Series A funding. The round was led by EarlyBird VC and included investment from Dave McClure of 500Startups. VersusIO is comparison engine that utilizes natural language processing to cull results from across the web for just about anything. The company previously raised nearly $880,000 in Seed funding in 2012. Here’s more on the funding, from VentureBeat.
Travel news and business information site Skift has closed on $1.1 million in additional Seed funding in round led by Lerer Ventures and including a number of Angel investors. The site was founded last summer by PaidContent founder Rafat Ali and Jason Clampet. The startup previously raised $400,000 in initial Seed funding. More on the new funding, from Skift.
More funding and acquisitions news…
Auvik, Started By A Sandvine Co-Founder And An Ex-BlackBerry CTO, Gets $6M To Take Enterprise Network Control To The Cloud (via TechCrunch)
Airware, which puts the brains in drones, nets $10.7M in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (via GigaOm)
Singapore’s SingTel Wants To Pump Another $1.6B Into Startup Investments (via TechCrunch)
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Compiled by StartUp Beat editor Brian Kovalesky.
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