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Scentbird raises $2.8 million so you can try luxury perfumes before buying them
Kuvee raises $6 million for smart wine bottles, sells out preorders in 3 hours
OneRent raises $4M as it expands to disrupt online real estate biz
Israeli marketing startup CiValue raises $2.4 million backed by Deutsche Telekom
LifeBeam scores $16 million to help you track your workout
BetterWorks raises $20 million for its progress-tracking tool
Everything Apple announced today: iPhone SE, smaller iPad Pro, cheaper Apple Watch, and more
Defying the gig economy, Managed by Q offers equity to on-demand staff
Geoblink raises $1.1 million for its location-based marketing technology
Handshake snags $14 million to simplify B2B commerce
Terminus closes $7.5 million round for its B2B marketing tool
Striim raises another $10 million to expand its ‘streaming integration and intelligence’ technology to Europe
CrowdStreet raises $3.5 million to help real estate investors
Next Insurance secures $13 million to sell insurance to small businesses
Propel raises $4.2 million for product lifecycle management built on Salesforce
Attivio raises $31 million to help companies make sense of big data
Citi leads $4.2 million round for content recommendation startup Selerity
Cloud optimization platform Spotinst closes $2 million round
Financing startup Wunder raises $3.6 million to fund solar projects
Funding Daily: Data management startup Zaloni raises $7.5 million
Funding Daily: GoTenna catches $7.5 million to connect phones when they’re off the grid
Terbium Labs snags $6.4 million to prevent data theft
Funding Daily: Security startup ThousandEyes raises $35 million, aims to expand in North America
TodayTix raises $9 million to help you buy theater tickets, um, today
Marketing automation startup SalesManago snags $6 million
Aria Systems snags $50 million to power recurring payments for enterprises
Reflektion raises $18 million round for its ecommerce platform, led by Battery Ventures
MasterClass scores $15 million for its celebrity-led online classes
How Target evolved from selling items to selling experiences
Real raises $6 million for its online real estate broker service
Sprout Social digs up $42M, led by Goldman Sachs, for its social media engagement solution
Funding Daily: Elderly care startup Hometeam snags $5 million from Kaiser Permanente Ventures
Funding Daily: Giphy, a GIF search engine, is now valued at $300 million
Funding Daily: IT analytics startup Wavefront raises $11.5 million, emerges from stealth
Funding Daily: Canada’s Mobify takes $10 million for its mobile shopping platform
I tried binge-watching YouTube Red’s first 3 original movies — and failed
Funding Daily: Cybersecurity startup Cynet raises $7M from Lazarus
Funding Daily: Machine learning startup DataRobot takes in $33 million
