企业营销服务商时趣获联想控股5850万美元战略投资
联想控股今日正式对外宣布5850万美元战略投资时趣Social Touch（以下简称时趣），但并未透露具体占股比例。这也是时趣的D轮融资，借助本轮融资将更强力推进上下游资源的整合、投资产品与技术创新、吸引业内优秀人才。
时趣成立于2011年，是移动社交时代企业数字营销解决方案提供商。创始人为张锐，曾在摩根士丹利工作多年，2005年回国创业创办同城活动社交魔时网，2011年又创办如今的时趣，专注于移动数字营销领域，主要通过一整套包含了战略-软件-大数据-广告投放为一体的营销解决方案帮助客户实现数字营销的价值，进行移动互联网的转型。2013年10月，公司宣布完成规模超过千万美元的 C 轮融资，本轮融资由 Sierra Ventures 领投，在 A、B 轮融资时进入的君联资本、纪源资本跟投。
据了解，时趣客户主要分为两类：一类是传统企业的移动社交转型，代表客户涉及快消、线下零售、电子产品、金融服务等品牌；另一类是数字化的创新企业，代表客户是一些互联网应用、电子商务平台、在线服务等类型的企业。
目前，时趣Social Touch拥有四大业务组合，分别是营销策略和执行服务、移动原生广告采购和投放服务、企业移动营销管理软件和实施服务、企业移动营销数据管理和数据分析服务。
联想控股表示，互联网，特别是移动互联网是联想控股战略投资的重要方向之一，此次投资时趣主要基于两方面原因：
第一，看好时趣所在行业。万众创业的浪潮下，中国涌现出大批中小企业，而传统企业的商业模式也在重塑，各行业都在面对互联网化的趋势，企业服务市场，特别是营销领域有很大的成长空间和投资空间，未来有机会走出新的行业巨头；第二，看好时趣及其团队。
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2015年08月31日
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客户管理工具Intercom完成C轮3500万美元融资
Intercom 成立于 2011 年，总部位于旧金山。
Intercom 为企业提供一个同时集成销售、市场、产品和售后服务的客户沟通系统，让多部门的人员能基于网页、手机应用、E-mail 为客户提供支持。
本轮投资由 coniq Capital 领投，Bessemer Venture Partners，The Social+Capital Partnership 跟投。
消息来源：techeu
Irish-founded business-to-consumer communication software startup Intercom raises $35m to scale globally
Intercom, which has developed a platform that businesses can use to communicate with customers directly online and via apps, has raised $35 million in Series C funding.
The company is based in San Francisco, but was founded by four Irish entrepreneurs and has its entire R&D and product management team based in Dublin. All in all, 50% of Intercom's 140 staff is based in Dublin today (and half of its 7,000 paying customers are outside the United States).
The funding round brings Intercom's total funding to $66 million. ICONIQ Capital took the lead, with Series A lead investor The Social + Capital Partnership and Series B lead investor Bessemer Venture Partners chipping in.
Intercom says its customers communicate 3 million times per day, with over 250 million of their end users on the platform today. The company also says it nearly tripled headcount in 2014, and plans to double again both in Dublin and San Francisco in the next 12 months.
That's the kind of growth investors obviously love to see.
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2015年08月28日
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云服务企业Velostrata完成A轮1400万美元融资
Velostrata 是一家成立于 2014 年公司，总部位于美国加州。Velostrata 为客户提供混合云解决方案，降低企业服务器的计算压力，将数据存储部署在本地，在云上运营虚拟的计算器。本轮投资由 83 North 领投，Norwest Venture Partners 跟投。
消息来源：Xconomy
Velostrata Lifts Veil On New Hybrid Cloud Model, Raises $14M
San Jose, CA-based startup Velostrata emerged from stealth mode today with $14 million in hand and a new option for businesses that are wary of storing their data in the Web-based servers of the “public cloud.’’
Velostrata’s software makes it possible for companies to tap into the computing power available from that shared Web-based infrastructure, without also being required to store their data in the public cloud. Customers can quickly switch some of their processing workload to an outside company such as Amazon Web Services, but continue to store their data in their own in-house IT centers, according to Velostrata. Dozens of businesses have been using the software in beta testing.
The tactic of “decoupling compute from storage” allows companies to use Web-based computing as needed, and avoid the expense of overbuilding their own infrastructure to handle periods of peak demand, says Velostrata founder and CEO Issy Ben-Shaul (pictured above.) The startup, which Ben-Shaul founded in 2014 with Velostrata chief product officer Ady Degany, claims its technology is the first of its kind.
“The most consistent feedback we have heard from customers, analysts and press, is that they have not heard (of) any company that does this, so there are no competitor(s) that offer decoupling compute from storage,” Ben-Shaul said in an e-mail exchange with Xconomy.
Ben-Shaul was previously a co-founder of Actona, a wide area networks optimization company that was acquired by Cisco in 2004, and Wanova, a desktop virtualization company bought by VMware in 2012.
Velostrata announced today that it has closed a $14 million Series A funding led by Norwest Venture Partners and 83North, formerly named Greylock IL Partners.
Norwest Venture Partners general partner Dror Nahumi, in a statement about the funding announcement, said Velostrata’s technology addresses a bottleneck in the adoption by businesses of the “hybrid cloud”—the combined use of public and private computing and storage infrastructure as needed.
“Every CIO is being asked by the management team and board to migrate enterprise infrastructure to the cloud, yet a mere fraction of IT spending goes toward cloud services,” Nahumi said. “Adoption is low because current cloud migration technologies are plagued by challenges like security and compliance risks, cost, migration time, complexity and vendor lock-in. Velostrata provides an innovative hybrid cloud approach that eliminates all these challenges and empowers CIOs to accelerate the migration quest using an evolutionary, secure, and highly cost effective platform.”
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