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Homejoy Raises $38M to Bring $20/Hour Home Cleaning to the Masses
Venture capitalists like Homejoy. They really like it.
During Drones’ Big Week, Drone-Maker 3D Robotics Discloses Some More Funding
3D Robotics and one of its VCs are piggybacking on the Amazon Prime Air news, but it appears that the flying drone delivery scheme may be reciprocally piggybacked on their technology.
Misfit Wearables Raises $15.2M on Back of Shine, Even as Founder Dismisses Activity Trackers
“Activity trackers will go the way of MP3 players and GPS units,” said Sonny Vu, whose company still sees a good business there, for now.
Profitable for Three Years, Apartment List Raises $15M Series A Round
Unlike some other up-and-comers in the space, Apartment List never scraped Craigslist to boost its inventory.
Former Googlers’ Would-Be WebEx Killer Highfive Gets $13.5M Before Even Launching
Highfive CEO Shan Sinha wants to “reimagine the way we communicate at work.” Details to come.
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Lookout Gets $55M More for Mobile Security
Mobile security startup Lookout raised $55 million in a round led by Deutsche Telekom and including Qualcomm Ventures, Greylock Partners, Mithril Capital Management, Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures. The company has raised $131.5 million to date, and said it plans to add security products for businesses later this year.Narrative — Formerly Known as Memoto — Launches Life-Logging Camera, Raises $3M
“It’s fun to explore your life in hindsight,” says the maker of a tiny camera that takes a picture every 30 seconds.
Wrike Raises $10M From Bain Capital for Project Management Tools
What’s Wrike’s special secret twist? There is none, says the CEO. It’s more about doing collaboration right.![wrike-graphite-perspective[1]](http://i0.wp.com/allthingsd.com/files/2013/09/wrike-graphite-perspective1.jpg?fit=140%2C105)
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Academia.edu Raises $11.1M for Open Research Portal
Academia.edu has raised $11.1 million in Series B funding from Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital and True Ventures, as part of its ongoing efforts to make scientific research more open and networked. The San Francisco-based company now has 4.5 million registered researchers and eight million monthly visitors. It’s a more modest deal than that of Berlin-based competitor ResearchGate, which recently raised a $35 million Series C round.Uber Finally Confirms $258 Million Fundraising
Uber has raised $258 million, CEO Travis Kalanick wrote today.
