Venture Capital in Australia: Stuff happenning in VC in September according to Crunchbase

Recent Investments

CTERA Networks is a cloud storage services platform provider. The Israel and NYC-based company claims to have 25K customers, including Santander, T-Mobile, and The Carlyle Group.

Categories:

New York · Cloud Data Services · Enterprise Software · Data Storage · File Sharing

Founders:

Liran Eshel, Zohar Kaufman

Investors:

Bessemer Venture Partners (Lead), Venrock, + 1 more

GitLab

$20M/Series B

GitLab is an open-source code collaboration platform. The SF-based company announced its $4M Series A round about one year ago.

Categories:

San Francisco · Information Technology · Open Source · Software

Founders:

Dmitriy Zaporozhets, Sytse Sijbrandij

Investors:

August Capital (Lead), Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures

Quandl

$12M/Series B

Quandl is a search engine portal for numerical data. The Toronto-based company’s platform is used by over 100K people including analysts from hedge funds, asset managers, and investment banks.

Categories:

Toronto · Internet · Search Engine · Developer APIs · Cloud Data Services · FinTech · Analytics

Founders:

Tammer Kamel, Abraham Thomas

Investors:

Nexus Venture Partners (Lead), August Capital

More Investments

Company	Amount / Round	Lead Investor
Viking Cruises	$500M / Private Equity	–
SolarCity	$305M / Post IPO Equity	Quantum Strategic Partners
Guazi.com	$250M / Private Equity	–
Defy Media	$70M / Series B	Wellington Management
GreenSky	$50M / Venture	Fifth Third Bancorp
Datorama	$32M / Series C	Lightspeed Venture Partners
Phononic Devices	$30M / Series E	GGV Capital
oTMS	$25M / Series B	Chen Weixing
Praetura Asset Finance	18M GBP / Venture	British Business Bank Investments
project44	$10M / Series A	Emergence Capital Partners, Chicago Ventures
Sarcos	$10M /	–
ZCOOL	$10M / Series B	EMC Ventures
RackWare	$10M / Series B	Signal Peak Ventures
Point	$8.4M / Series A	Andreessen Horowitz
Business Talent Group	$8.0M / Series B	NextEquity Partners
TVTY	$6.7M / Series B	Serena Capital
Portfolium	$6.6M / Series A	SJF Ventures
Arbor	$6.5M / Series A	Canaan Partners
Fusebill	$6.0M / Series A	–
PubNub	$6.0M /	Ericsson, Cisco Investments
Sourcery Technologies	$5.0M / Series A	Marker
Visit Philadelphia	$2.0M / Venture	–
InstaVR	$2.0M / Series A	The Venture Reality Fund
Trade Machines FI GmbH	1.0M EUR / Venture	–
Check I'm Here	$1.0M / Series A	Jeffrey Vinik
EpiVax	$600K / Grant	National Institutes of Health
UCHANGE	$500K / Seed	–
Purple Style Labs	30M INR / Seed	–
DashTag	250K EUR / Seed	–
Meadow Foods	unknown /	Paine & Partners
Eyewitness Surveillance	unknown / Venture	–
Lucideus	unknown / Seed	Amit Choudhary
Meetrics	unknown / Series C	–
Paperclip	unknown / Seed	Finance Wales
Glory kick boxing	unknown / Series B	Yao Capital
TradeCloud.nl	unknown / Venture	–
All Recent Funding Activity