Latest round: $236,000
Total raised: $100,000
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Total raised: $100,000
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CrowdFlower, the company that uses crowdsourcing for data scrubbing, announced yesterday it raised some cash to help it bloom.
The newest installment, which was led by Canvas Ventures, brings the San Francisco company’s total funding to $28 million. Other investors in this round include Bessemer Venture Partners and Trinity Ventures.
CrowdFlower, which does data work for companies such as Home Depot and Cisco, pays more than 5 million people to contribute to the data scrubbing. Some of the applications include:
CrowdFlower plans to use the new funds to grow its product and customer base.
To see CrowdFlower demo its newest technology live, come see them at FinovateFall next week in New York. We still have a few tickets left.
Source: Crunchbase
In a week when Moven and Braintreehave both announced international expansion efforts, Germany-based ayondo announced funding that helps deepen its international roots.
Ayondo, which specializes in a social trading technology that enables users to follow and copy the moves of top traders, brought in $4 million ($5 million Singapore Dollars) from Singapore-based Luminor Capital.
Prior to this newest round, ayondo has held four rounds of funding, all of undisclosed amounts.
This new installment comes just a month after ayondo opened its Singapore offices, and six months after Luminor became a stakeholder in the company.
Last week, in an extension of its latest seed round, BlueVine raised an additional $1.5 million. This, along with the $4 million round in March, brings its total funding to $5.5 million.
While the specific investor was not stated, investors in previous installments include:
BlueVine’s platform frees up cash flow for small businesses by providing expedited payment to bridge the gap between outstanding invoice payments and working capital for business operations. After the small business connects their invoicing software to BlueVine, here’s what happens:
BlueVine will demo live on stage at FinovateFall this September 23 and 24 in NYC.
It’s mid-August. Who is even working now? Evidently, the folks cranking out new fintech (and their investors) are not letting up. So far this month, 24 startups have received a total of $102 million in new capital.