It is a worldwide disruptive mixed basket of mobile robots, money transfers , emotion recognition, wireless routing, password management, heavy duty equipment share, Indians clear your income tax online, Singaporeans predict your sportshero, Spanish language assistant, develop reactive applications, manage content without tech knowhow, Korean beauty products online, getting your archived photos online, Japanese handmade products online, share your skills, get an online deal for your car, tour worldwide, get a crowd fund for your real estate , cloud connect your home devices, learn online any time any where, and of course Snapchat at wink of your eye.
With Snapchat.com leading the bandwagon having raised $ 1.8 billion in Series F funding and the rest following suit at a cumulative of $470 million as follows:
Udemy.com – Online course anytime anywhere has raised $60 million in series D funding round.Over 7 million students enrolled in more than 30,000 courses taught by 19,000 instructors..
Glassdoor.com a personalized job portal has raised $40 million in series H funding valued around $1 billion
Afero.io is a comprehensive and secure platform for cloud connected devices of any industry raises $20.3 million which it plans to invest in product development. Now on the Afero cloud you can connect your home as well as outdoor devices to talk to each other . Your car can talk to your fridge as well as your music system , your home air conditioning or heating devices virtually …Internet of things is on the speed track – By 2020 it is expected there will be 50 to 100 billion connected devices !
Realtymogul.com first US Commercial Real Estate crowdfunding platform to fund $200 million.
TourRadar.com with more than 20,000 tours over 1 million departures worldwide raises $6 million to grow partnership business and scale its team
Driveindealer.com that uses data to find vehicles for clients and purchase on their behalf has raised $7.5 million in new funding
Skillshare.com learning community for creators has raised $12 million in Series B funding
A Japanese handmade marketplace creem.jp has raised $10 million in new funding
Photomyne.com has raised 42.6 million in new funding to bring your old photos online.
My.althea.kr Korean beauty, cosmetics has raised $3.5 million in new funding to sell beauty products online in Southeast Asia.
Contentful.com, a content delivery platform via API anytime and anywhere, has raised $13 million in Series B funding. Build custom content instead of fixed predefined templates.Content delivers content and you design around it. Content comes with a web interface – an environment in which non-technical , content –focused users can work, making sure that the content looks and reads great.
Lightbend.com dedicated to helping developers build reactive applications on the JVM has raised $20 million in Series C funding.
Spanish language personal assistant Sherpa.pa has raised $6.5 million in a series A round of funding.
Sportshero.mobi, a Singapore based sports prediction mobile app has raised $2.4 million.
Cleartax.in that wants to make tax filing online in India has raised $2 million in funding.
Equipmentshare.com has raised $5.5 million in venture funding for peer to peer marketplace for heavy equipment.
Dashlane.com a New York based password management startup has raised $22.5 million in new funding led by TransUnion.
Eero.com a smart wireless routing system startup company has raised $50 million in growth funding from Menlo Ventures
Affectiva.com a startup developing emotion recognition technology has raised $14 million in Series D funding by Fenox Venture Capital.
Transferwise.com clever way to send money abroad has raised further $26 million investment at 1.18 million valuation.
Nutonomy.com that build self-driving cars and autonomos mobile robots has raised $16 million in Series A funding.
Guest Author
Yash Chavan comes from a distinguished career spanning over twenty-two years in entertainment, communication, and content development industries. He has been Chief Technology Officer at Annapurna Studios and founding team member of Annapurna International School of Film + Media, Hyderabad, Chief Operating Officer at Maverick Productions.Currently he is the CTO at Innocast Media.
