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August 13, 2014
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Lookout, a mobile security company based in San Francisco, has raised $150 million in a Series F round led by T. Rowe Price with participation from new investors Morgan Stanley, Wellington Management, Goldman Sachs and Bezos Expeditions, as well as existing investors Mithril Capital Management, Khosla Ventures, Accel Partners, Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. Lookout uses algorithms and back-end monitoring to protect mobile devices, and currently serves 50 million users worldwide. Founded in 2007, Lookout has raised over $280 million to date and will use the latest funding to increase its user base to 100 million and bring its technology into the enterprise market.
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Electric Imp, an Internet connectivity startup, has raised $15 million in Series B funding from Foxconn along with PTI Ventures and Rampart Capital. Electric Imp has created a wireless module and cloud-based platform to provide connectivity for all electric devices. Founded in 2011 by Hugo Fiennes, an early team member at Nest who also contributed to the round, Electric Imp has raised $23 million to date and its chips are currently embedded in half a million devices worldwide.
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AdStage, an advertising technology startup based in San Francisco, has raised $6.25 million in a Series A round led by Verizon Ventures and Digital Garage with participation from Newbury Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Chris Noble and Neal Dempsey. AdStage provides customers an easy way to manage ad campaigns that run across multiple platforms such as Google, Bing, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Debuting at last year's Launch conference, AdStage has since signed up more than 10,000 businesses and will take the product out of beta in the next few months.
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Since the last email, CrunchBase captured more than 48 rounds and $435 million in fundings... and the data keeps rolling in.
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Lookout
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Lookout is a security technology company providing mobile ...
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Electric Imp
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Electric Imp develops Imp, a chip providing WiFi and ...
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AdStage
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AdStage Inc. is an advertising technology startup building ...
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GetTaxi
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GetTaxi is a mobile app for booking taxis, black cars, and ...
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Axial
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Axialis an online network connecting owners, advisors and ...
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Validic
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Validic offers a mobile health API connection that enables ...
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Saavn is a digital distributor of Bollywood and Tamil ...
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PayRange
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World's simplest mobile payment system for machines
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Groupize.com
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Groupize.com helps the hotel industry attract group ...
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4meee
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4meee is an e-commerce and curated fashion site
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