New York-based customer engagement platform Appboy has closed a $7.6 million Series A round led by Icon Venture Partners with participation from new investors IDG Ventures and Mike Lazerow, and existing investors Blumberg Capital, Accelerator Ventures, Bullpen Capital, and T5 Capital. Appboy helps companies retain users by offering tools that enable a better understanding of user demographics and engage users through in-app messages, push notifications, and email. Founded in 2011, Appboy will use the new funding to grow sales and marketing teams and look into international expansion.

Mountain View-based e-commerce gifting platform Loop Commerce has raised $7 million in Series A funding from a list of investors including eBay CTO Mark Carges, Don Katz of Audible and Amazon, Magento CEO Roy Rubin, former Toys "R" Us SVP Michael Scharff, Oren Zeev, Chegg CTO Chuck Geiger, and Novel TMT Ventures. Loop Commerce is launching its product today that offers a separate checkout process for gifting on e-commerce sites, sending notifications upon purchase to gift recipients to ask them for their size, shipping address, and preferred color. Founded last year, Loop has already raised $8 million in funding.

Oakland-based environment control software startup Building Robotics has raised $1.14 million in seed funding from Claremont Creek Ventures, Google Ventures, Formation 8, Navitas Capital, Red Swan, and others. Building Robotics' main product, Comfy, is software that aims to provide a comfortable workplace for all employees, delivering instant streams of warm or cool air to people while also using machine learning to reduce energy use. Comfy will launch today after successful test-runs in a number of large Bay Area tech company offices.

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