With so much going on in the city’s thriving ecosystem, it is easy to miss some of the happenings in the space. We keep you abreast of a few of things that you may have missed in NYC Tech this week including the fundings, exits, and events.
CompStak, real estate data firm that uses a crowdsourced model to gather commercial real estate information for investors, brokers, asset managers and appraisers, has raised $4.4 million in Series A funding led by Canaan Partners. Other investors in the funding round include investment firm dmgi, Expansion VC, and real estate investment firm Rubenstein Partners.
BETTER, a company that enables enterprises to secure any mobile application on iOS and Android, while monitoring and stopping threats in real-time, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding. Investors in the round include Harvard Business School Angels and the .
Always BETTER to be safe!
Olympian, world record holder and founder packed the room at the New York eHealth Collaborative this past week as he discussed ‘Data over Doping,’ and how he helped the US women’s cycling team win silver at the London Olympics – the first medal in 20 years for women track cyclists from the US. Personal Gold: The Underdog Story of London, 2012, his documentary about the underdog team’s path to glory, comes out next year. All we’ll say is that it was a long road with a short window.
, a live auctions marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of art, antiques, jewelry, and collectibles across the globe, has raised $47.6 million from Bessemer Venture Partners in its first round of institutional funding.
Alfred, a concierge service that charges users $100 per month for an assistant (or “Alfred”) to visit their homes twice weekly to handle everything from groceries to shoe repair, has raised $2 million in seed funding. The round was led by , with participation from SV Angel and CrunchFund.
Managed by Q, who provide office cleaning and other services, all managed via an iPad that’s installed in the office for free, has raised $1.65 million in seed funding from Homebrew, , Semil Shah of Haywire VC, among others.
Onename, a Summer 2014 Y Combinator graduate, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding from , with participation from , Naval Ravikant, Cyan and Scott Banister, SV Angel, , and others.
Onename is the white pages directory for Bitcoin.
Quotidian Ventures founder was the guest investor at the monthly breakfast this past week, which was held at . Among the things the Venezuelan discussed was why he chose NY over Silicon Valley (“I thought I could make a difference here. In Silicon Valley, I thought I’d get lost”) and lessons learned, including that “you can’t tell a founder what to do.”
Quotidian has invested in 61 companies and is currently raising their next fund.
Eyeview, a company that provides marketers with a personalized video advertising platform to help increase sales, has raised $15 million in Series D funding from earlier backer Marker.
, a woman-founded beauty site and maker of its own line of skin and beauty products that ship directly to consumers, has raised $8.4 million in Series A funding from
It was Global Entrepreneurship Week and we took to the streets to check out the buzzing entrepreneurship scenes all over the world. Here we caught up with the CEO of GrameenPhone, Vivek Sood for an informative discussion on the opportunities in the mobile space in the developing world at Innovation Xtreme, the largest one day conference focused on startups and innovation in Bangladesh, hosted by Startup Dhaka.