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Impartner, the fastest-growing and most award-winning pure-play channel management platform, announced that it has received $30 million in growth financing from Golub Capital, a market-leading, award-winning direct lender and credit asset manager with over $30 billion of capital under management. Impartner will focus the financing on further capturing momentum in the fast-growing channel management technology market, which analysts estimate could be as large as $5 Billion, including advancing customer success systems and…

AppDirect, the leading subscription commerce platform, announced investments of US$185 million from global institutional investor Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) and existing investors. The $185 million in funding brought the total equity raised by AppDirect to approximately $465 million. Since its funding round in 2015, AppDirect has experienced tremendous growth across all indicators – increasing Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) more than 1500 percent since 2015 to over US$1 billion, expanding its global…

ShoppingGives, the Social Impact Commerce platform that offers turn-key social impact and donation processing for retailers announced that Caffeinated Capital has led a $5.5M Series Seed for the company to expand its growth. Other investors include Tuesday Capital, SciFi VC, Background Capital, Red Dog Capital, 20VC, Global Founders Capital, Big Future Fund, Rogue Capital, Night Capital, Manresa Ventures, Sugar Capital, among other strategic investors in the eCommerce and fintech space to round out the $5.5M Series Seed…

INcapital Ventures Leads Latest Funding BrandTotal, the brand marketing analytics company providing social media competitive intelligence to brands and organizations, announced that it has raised $12 million in its Series B investment round. The Series B round was led by INcapital Ventures, in participation with Maor Investments, Glilot Capital Partners, Flint Capital, KDC Media Fund, and FJ Labs. Today's announcement brings the total capital raised by BrandTotal to $20 million to date The company plans on…

Just in time for small and midsize businesses that are adapting their strategies after a rough first-half of 2020, Tally Street announces a $750,000 Series Seed investment to expand its customer analytics and revenue operations offerings. Tally Street’s solution is built for B2B companies who want to retain customers, grow repeat business, and minimize customer credit risk. CEO Brian Suthoff was inspired to start Tally Street after building both a VC-backed, mobile analytics and marketing company, which was recently…

David Sacks' Craft Ventures Leads Round; Cisco, SAP, Shopify, and Over a Hundred More Sign On Klue, the AI-powered competitive enablement platform, announced a $15 million Series A funding round led by Craft Ventures with participation from HWVP, existing investors OMERS Ventures, Rhino Ventures, and BDC Ventures, and several notable angel investors including Frederic Kerrest (co-founder of Okta) and Zach Coelius (top Angelist syndicate). The investment, which brings the company's total funding to $19 million, will…

Replicant, the world’s first autonomous contact center announced the closing of $27 million Series A financing led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from returning investors Bloomberg Beta, Costanoa Ventures, and founding investor Atomic. Also joining this round is State Farm Ventures. The investment, which brings the company’s total funding to $36 million, will be used to triple Replicant’s R&D and scale its go-to-market teams. Norwest partner Scott Beechuk will join the Replicant board. Replicant is…

GenNext Media, dba Surefire Local, a seven-consecutive year Inc. 5000 company that brings the online marketing power typically yielded by large dot-coms into the hands of local, small businesses, announced that the company has raised $3 million from TIMIA Capital Corporation. TIMIA Capital Corporation is a specialty finance company that provides growth capital to high growth technology companies.  TIMIA's singular focus is the fast-growing, global, business-to-business Software-as-a-Service (or SaaS) segment. Marketing…

Based in the North of France, with US headquarters in New York, the Sarbacane Group, a publisher of applications for corporate communications,  is a reference in its market through its strong position among email marketing software in Europe. The group built a range of products around its expertise in email marketing, text messaging campaigns, and marketing automation such as Layout, Sarbacane Chat, and Touchdown, introduced in late 2019, and Datananas, a Paris-based startup acquired in April 2020. IDI, one of the leading…

Live, one-to-one video platform VIDSIG (Video Signature) announced it had closed an initial seed funding round and targeted October 20, 2020 for the release of its new consumer app. VIDSIG connects athletes, artists, and performers with fans and followers around the world via its proprietary, live one-to-one video platform. Hall of Fame greats Joe Montana, Jerry Rice and Chris Mullin were the initial stars to join VIDSIG, which was built originally as a way for baseball Hall of Famer Willie McCovey to generate income from…

Growth Equity Round Led by Hollyport Capital Brings Total Amount Raised to $89 Million Conversica, Inc., the leader in Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVAs) helping organizations attract, acquire and grow customers at scale, announced it has raised a $20 million Series D funding round led by Hollyport Capital, an existing investor of Kennet Partners, Conversica’s lead Private Equity investor. This growth equity round brings Conversica’s total amount of institutional capital raised to $89 million since the company first…

InfoSum, the world’s leading provider of decentralized marketing infrastructure, announces the completion of its Series A funding round, raising $15.1 million. InfoSum has built the world’s first decentralized marketing infrastructure that enables companies of every size and industry to collaborate across first and second-party data sets, to create a superior experience for consumers. Powered by this privacy-first solution, leading broadcasters, brands, and enterprise companies are working seamlessly on first-party…

The ​customer support automation platform competes with global players like IBM Watson and Amazon's AWS Chatbot Customer support automation platform, Verloop.io, has raised $5 million in its Series A funding round led by Alpha Wave Incubation (AWI), along with existing investors IDFC Parampara and Infosys cofounder Kris Gopalakrishnan. This is AWI’s first investment in India. It was launched in May this year by Abu Dhabi’s sovereign fund, ADQ, to invest $300 million in startups across India and Southeast Asia. AWI is…

The fund injection will propel iKala’s R&D investment, drive innovation in AI technologies to propel digital transformation and build integrated solutions for new retail in Southeast Asia and beyond. iKala, Asia’s leading AI company headquartered in Taiwan, has raised US$17 Million in a Series B round of funding led by Wistron Digital Technology Holding Company, a Wistron Corporation’s wholly-owned subsidiary which focuses on digital technology industries and software application related investments. Previous investors…

Chili Piper, the leader in Inbound Revenue Acceleration, announced that it has raised $18 Million in Series A funding led by Base10 Partners with participation from Gradient Ventures, Google's AI-focused venture fund, and Flashpoint Venture Capital. TJ Nahigian, General Partner at Base10, will join the company's Board of Directors. With this new capital, Chili Piper plans to invest in product capabilities to enable remote sales teams to work more effectively and respond to buyer behavior instantly. The company also plans to…

SupportLogic, the world's first intelligent support platform for customer support/success teams, announced that it has raised $12 million of seed and Series A funding, led by Sorenson Ventures. This latest series A round will help the company drive it's a market expansion and fuel customer acquisition efforts. SupportLogic was founded in 2016 by Krishna Raj Raja. Krishna established VMware's office in India in 2004 and scaled that company's support functions across the globe. That experience exposed him to collaboration…

Movable Ink, the leading software company powering creative personalization for the world’s largest brands, announced it has raised $30 million in a Series C funding round with capital from Contour Venture Partners, Intel Capital, and Silver Lake Waterman. Movable Ink has raised $39 million in funding to date. Since its founding in 2010, Movable Ink has empowered more than 700 of the world’s most innovative brands to generate creative that is data-activated and contextually relevant at the time of engagement across email,…

Empowering B2B marketers to optimize pipeline and revenue growth through better analytics CaliberMind, a B2B Marketing Intelligence Software, announced a $2.0M seed round extension led by Newark Venture Partners and Falmouth Ventures. CaliberMind empowers B2B marketers to optimize pipeline and revenue growth through their customer data solution. Their platform eliminates reporting silos and provides customers clean data to fuel their buyer journey insights, discover real return on marketing investment, and measure marketing…

On the heels of Series B funding, Lund leads customer delivery, operational execution and financial performance as Decibel scales and continues to innovate Decibel, the leader in digital experience analytics, announced that Jason Lund joined the company as Chief Operating Officer (COO) as of July 1st. Lund brings more than 20 years of Silicon Valley expertise in emerging, rapid growth technologies, including customer experience and AI Software as a Service (SaaS), to Decibel. As COO, Lund’s goal is to continue building…

Clowder, the #1 provider of private social networks for membership groups, announced a new round in seed funding. The round is led by Active Capital, a top tier seed firm for B2B SaaS companies outside of Silicon Valley. The recent financing highlights the growing need for mobile connectivity within the association space. "Clowder has quickly become a leader in modern member communication. Our apps are able to take organizations who've long relied on web and email-based engagement strategies and place them in the 21st…