Friday, August 8, 2014

Funding daily: Brazil’s got a hot on-demand economy startup, too

Funding daily: Brazil’s got a hot on-demand economy startup, too
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The big lesson from today’s batch of funding stories: Instant-delivery startups have the potential to be successful just about everywhere.


Brazil’s Movile grabs $55M as it grows its e-commerce and instant delivery businesses



The on-demand economy is not just a thing in the U.S. Brazil has apparently been really getting into the trend with various apps and services becoming available online.


Read more on VentureBeat: Brazil’s Movile grabs $55M as it grows its e-commerce and instant delivery businesses



Adatao wants to let data scientists work together, so it gets $13M



Here’s a startup that wants to make a service for letting people collaborate on data analysis.


Read more on VentureBeat: Adatao wants to let data scientists work together, so it gets $13M



Two Tap raises $2.7M to push its universal shopping cart



Two Tap wants to be a quick and easy shopping cart for e-commerce sites, and it just raised $2.7 million to expand its client base.


Read more on VentureBeat: Two Tap raises $2.7M to push its universal shopping cart



Caredox raises $2.5M


Caredox, a platform for parents and schools to share medical information about students, has raised an additional $2.5 million from an intended $3.1 million round, according to an SEC filing. The company has so far received around $1.5 million in debt financing.


Poshly dolls up with $1.5 million in seed funding


Everybody’s jumping on the consumer intelligence bandwagon these days — including the beauty industry. Poshly, which has developed a platform to collect consumer intelligence around beauty products, announced today that it has raised $1.5 million in a seed round led by Frontier Equities VC, with participation by Astia Angels, CPEG Ventures, and others. The company has now raised more than $2 million, and it says it will use the new funding to grow its design and engineering teams in San Francisco.




Adatao’s vision is Data Intelligence for All. Our near-term mission is to make it easy for business users, data scientists & engineers to collaborate on data analytics. We see Big Data driving a clear convergence between Business Int... read more »



With more than 10 years of industry experience, Movile has become a major mobile services and mobile entertainment company in Latin America. Its product portfolio includes Mobile Entertainment (applications, games, music, videos and im... read more »



Funding daily: Brazil’s got a hot on-demand economy startup, too

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