为企业提供Uber式按需服务，Bringg获500万美元A轮投资
为企业提供按需服务的创企Bringg目前A轮融资500万美元。
这家创企计划用这笔资金推动其网页和移动平台进入按需领域，提供企业类似于实时驾驶追踪、派件、警报、移动信息等服务。
截至目前，Bringg已共计获得了750万美元的投资。这家办公场所设立在特拉维夫和纽约的创企已将业务扩张到了50多个国家（包括欧洲、亚洲和非洲），共拥有数百位客户。
Bringg创办于2013年，由首席执行官Raanan Cohen和首席技术官Lior Sion联合创办。前者是通信企业MobileMax的前创始人兼首席执行官；后者是以色列叫车服务GetTaxi和在线项目管理软件Clarizen.com的前首席技术官。
Bringg可以为企业提供当今顾客所需的Uber类配送服务的操作技术，例如司机可以在行驶的同时提供配送服务、接收短信提醒和追踪快件等等。
从商业层面讲，Bringg整合了现有系统的功能，例如网络和移动派件、快件追踪、司机和客户间的交流应用、收集签名等。
这家创企还和一些更小规模的公司展开了合作，例如食品配送服务Lish和Zuppler。此外，Bringg发现企业市场——即已拥有1000名以上配送司机的企业更有市场发展潜力，其中包括想和亚马逊一较高下的大型零售商、服务提供商和家庭配送企业。
联合创始人表示Bringg的目标受众正是这些已具备配送服务但仍想扩大市场份额的大企业。
如今Bringg已拥有近24个大企业级用户，本轮融资将用于扩大企业在美国和以色列的18人团队以及提升服务内容（包括整合按需订购系统功能在内），进一步扩大市场份额，吸引更多大型机构进行合作。
Bringg Lets Any Business Offer Uber-Like Experiences To Their Customers
Uber has set the standard for mobile transportation apps, allowing customers to order, pay for and view their driver’s location right from their mobile device. Now, a new startup called Bringg wants to offer a similar level of visibility for any delivery-based service or those with drivers en route – whether that’s a mom-and-pop dry cleaner making their daily runs, restaurants making deliveries, or even service technicians heading out on calls.
The company was founded in 2013 by Raanan Cohen (CEO), the former founder and CEO of MobileMax; and Lion Sion (CTO), previously the CTO of GetTaxi and Clarizen.com. Bringg has been operating in a beta period over the past six months, testing the service with a handful of customers representing different types of businesses, including food-delivery services Lish and Zuppler, for example. It’s now launching to the public.
Explains Sion, the two co-founders had discussed the idea for Bringg as far back as two years ago while lamenting over the fact that the revolution that came about with transportation apps, like Uber or GetTaxi, hadn’t yet translated itself into other areas.
“Why is it that when I’m ordering pizza for my kids, we don’t know when the delivery person is coming, exactly?,” Raanan complained to his friend.
Recalls Sion, “he said, why is it that the same solution you have with taxis – why is it not yet out there for others?”
So the two began working to develop a way for any company to integrate an on-demand service offering an Uber-like user experience into their own products – web, mobile or otherwise. With Bringg, the idea is not to create consumer-facing mobile applications similar to Uber’s, but instead to allow a business to communicate with customers about the status of their driver’s whereabouts however they see fit.
Businesses can opt to use Bringg’s web-based interface, its APIs and mobile SDKs for iOS, Android and JavaScript, or any combination they like. For example, a company could choose to send out an email or SMS containing a link that popped open an HTML5 web page that showed the driver en route in real time. Or the company could choose to integrate Bringg’s SDK into its own native mobile app, if one already existed.
Bringg’s technology stops short of handling order processing and payments. However, it’s able to integrate with a number of point-of-sale solutions, as well as online and offline ordering solutions, notes Sion. The service is sold on a software-as-a-service basis to customers starting at $10 per month per driver. A $20 per month per driver option is also available, which allows businesses to further customize the service – for example, branding it with their own logos or customizing the SMS messages customers receive.
Meanwhile, on the business owners’ side, Bringg offers reporting features that help them gain insight into their deliveries, as they’re able to see things like how long deliveries take, or distances traveled, and more. Businesses can also manage and dispatch drivers, and track them in real time.
During the company’s beta period, Bringg found that they didn’t have to sell businesses on the concept of what they were offering, which is something that surprised them, says Sion.
“We thought we’d still be trying to convince people that on-demand is happening and it’s something you need to do,” he says. “But it turns out, everybody gets it…it was very easy to get people to join.” The company hasn’t yet done much PR or marketing, but already has 100 developers working with its products.
“People just heard about us and came,” Sion says.
Headquartered in Israel, but now expanding to New York, Bringg is a 13-person team and is backed by $2.5 million in funding from strategic partner ITURAN, a fleet-management company.
Source:TC
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企业沟通协作工具 Slack 获得8000 万美元融资用于的应用开发基金Slack Raises $80 Million Fund to Support Platform Strategy
据华尔街时报消息，企业沟通协作工具 Slack 透露已获得 8000 万美元新一轮融资，此轮融资将用于应用商店的投资基金。另外，Slack 还宣布将更新手机端App，这次更新将整合一些功能，如将支持亚马逊的网页服务。
Slack 的创始人兼 CEO Stewart Butterfield表示，希望这次融资能为投资者带来回报，但这并不是融资的目的，而是希望融资能激发大家更好地开发 App。
据悉，Slack 曾在 11月被华尔街日报评为 2015年的技术创新者（Technology Innovator），Slack 去年客户规模增长了 10 倍，达到了 125 万，其中 50% 为海外客户。
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2015年12月16日
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以色列大数据公司 Anodot 获 300 万美元 A 轮融资
Anodot日前在 A 轮系列融资中获得 300 万美元，投资方为 Disrupt-ive，融资总额已达 450 万美元。
Anodot 是一家提供实时分析和异常检测的大数据创业公司，成立于 2014年6月，总部位于以色列，还在森尼维尔市、加利福尼亚、以色列的瑞安那等多地成立了办事处。
Anodot 通过已获得专利的机器学习算法，实时在大量的数据中发现异常的数据并把他们转为有价值的商业信息，以消除商业观察中的延迟，支持快速的商业决策，目前主要应用在广告技术、电子商务和物联网行业。
值得一提的是创始团队成员都是连续创业者，Anodot 的 CEO David Drai 曾是 Cotendo 公司的联合创始人兼 CTO，这家公司最后被 AKamai 以两亿六千八百万美元收购。而 Anodot 的首席数据分析专家 Dr.Lra Cohen 是惠普软件的前 CTO。研发副总裁 Shay Lang 同样有多年相关经验。此外，董事会的成员还包括 Impreva CEO 兼总裁 Anthony Bettencourt，O’ Reilly Media 的首席数据分析师 Ben Lorica。
今年早些时候就有行业分析称，BI 将会在未来快速发展，到 2018年 之前，有望以每年8.3%的增率、两百亿美金的市值增长。正如很多 BI 公司已在 2015年 拿到了融资，例如以色列创业公司 Pyramid Analytics 和 Sisence 都在今年获得了 3000 万美元的投资，Looker 也在今年3月 份融到了 3000 万美元，Adaptive Insights 则在 6月 份获得了 7500 万美元。
Disrupt-ive 的合伙人兼 Anodot 董事会成员 Tal Barnoach 此前曾发表声明：“通过自动化、实时的对大数据指标和关键信息进行提取分析，来变革商业智能，这有着巨大的市场潜力。”
Anodot 的 CEO David Drai 也表示：“拿打车 APP 来说，订单都是基于短信系统，若出现问题则至少需要 3 天来进行修复，动则会损失上万美元。这就是我创立 Anodot 的初衷，希望利用机器学习和自动监测来进行实时分析，降低由延迟发现问题造成的损失。”
据悉，知名科技公司 WIX 和 Avantis 都已是 Anodot 的客户，本轮融资将用于在物联网、电子商务、广告技术等的市场扩张。
Israeli business intel startup Anodot scores $3 million in Series A
Anodot, a business intelligence startup that specializes in anomaly detection, exited stealth on Wednesday and announced a $3 million Series A funding round led by Tel Aviv- and New York-based Disrupt-ive Fund. Its total funding to date is $4.5 million.
They use machine learning algorithms to identify system anomalies. Already counting prominent tech companies Wix and Avantis among their clientele, the new round will help them expand their sales strategy toward IoT, e-commerce, and adtech companies abroad.
“There is a huge opportunity to disrupt the BI market by enabling automated and real-time insights into big data pools of metrics and KPIs,” said Disrupt-ive Fund general partner and Anodot board member Tal Barnoach in statement to the press.
Its co-founders have impressive resumes: CEO David Drai is also the co-founder and former CTO of Cotendo, which was acquired by Akamai for $268 million, and the former CTO of Gett. Chief Data Scientist Dr. Ira Cohen is the former CTO of HP Software and VP of R&D Shay Lang has experience at several tech companies. Their board includes the likes of Imperva CEO and President Anthony Bettencourt and O’Reilly Media chief data scientist Ben Lorica.
“As a mobile taxi app, SMS text orders were dropped by the carrier, but it could take up to three days to spot critical issues and fix them, costing tens of thousands of dollars per incident,” Drai said. “That’s where I got the idea for Anodot—to employ the latest advances in machine learning to detect performance problems automatically and in real-time, eliminating the latency.”
BI is flying high
The business intelligence market is expected to grow 8.3% per year to a value of $20.8 billion in 2018, according to an industry analysis by MarketsandMarkets published earlier this year. Consequently, BI companies have raised a lot of money in 2015. Fellow Israeli startups Pyramid Analytics and Sisense both raised $30 million rounds this year. Other companies include Looker, which also received $30 million in March, and Adaptive Insights, which brought in $75 million back in June.
The company was founded in June 2014 by co-founders CEO David Drai, Chief Data Scientist Dr. Ira Cohen, and VP of R&D Shay Lang. They maintain offices in Sunnyvale, California and Ra’anana, Israel.
本文来源：geektime.com
在线教育网站Jigsaw Academy获得300万美元A轮融资
Jigsaw Academy 成立于 2011 年，总部位于印度。公司为一家在线教育网站，致力于为用户提供关于大数据处理，数据挖掘以及数据分析等课程。据公司负责人称， Jigsaw Academy 已经为全球 30多个国家，超过40000 名学生提供课程服务，课程主要包括零售，电商，人力资源。
本轮领投的公司为同样为用户提供课程测试和教育的Manipal Global Education Service (MaGE)公司，此外Mohandas Pai，MaGE CEO以及数位投资人也加入此次的融资。本轮融资的金额将会用于更多的课程开发，同时也将会利用 领投公司MaGE 在全球市场的优势拓展市场。
来源：vccircle.com
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2015年12月14日
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印度版58同城UrbanClap获今年第四轮融资
12月11日，印度服务类平台UrbanClap 获 Ratan Tata 投资，融资金额尚未公布。该创业公司本次融资距上次融资不到一个月的时间（11月19日），上次融资金额为 16 亿卢比（约 1.54 亿元），投资方为 Bessemer Venture Partners、Accel Partners 和 SAIF。本次投资方为之前参与投资的 Accel Partners 和 SAIF。
UrbanClap 发表声明称会将这些资金用于市场扩张和服务种类扩展，预计下一年发展到 25 座城市，种类达到 100 种。同时，UrbanClap 还准备将员工数量扩大到现在的 2 倍，并且有收购其他公司的打算。本年4月 份，UrbanClap 种子轮融资金额为 150 万美元，6月 份，获 1000 万美元融资。
UrbanClap 声称现在每天大约有 5000 名用户，专业人员超过 25,000 名。目前服务地区有班加罗尔、孟买、海德拉巴、金奈、普纳和德里首都区，正在招聘产品人员、市场营销人员、工程师和业务拓展人员。2014年10月Varun Khaitan、Raghav Chandra 和 Abhiraj Bhal 创办了 UrbanClap，服务种类高达 75 种，包括管道维修、婚礼摄像、音乐课程、瑜伽课程和室内设计。
UrbanClap raises an undisclosed amount from Ratan Tata
Services marketplace UrbanClap has raised an undisclosed amount in funding from Ratan Tata in his personal capacity. This comes less than a month after the startup raised Rs 165 crore from Bessemer Venture Partners and existing investors Accel Partners and SAIF.
At the time UrbanClap had said it would use the funds for geographical and category expansion; 25 cities and 100 categories in the next one year. It said it would also double its employee count and acquire other companies. Note that UrbanClap had also raised $10 million in a round of funding from existing investors in June and raised seed funding of around $1.5 million (Rs 10 crore) in April.
UrbanClap claims to serve 5,000 customer requests daily, and has a seller base of over 25,000 professionals. It is currently operational in Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune and Delhi NCR and is hiring across product, marketing, engineering and business development. Founded by Varun Khaitan, Raghav Chandra and Abhiraj Bhal in October 2014, UrbanClap provides professionals for over 75 services, including plumbing, wedding photography, music lessons, yoga classes and interior designing.
本文编译自：medianama.com
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