fundraising

Smart Thermostat Ecobee Raises 62M$ in Funding

2018.03.09

Amazon, too, appears to be committing to the smart home concept one step deeper. Ecobee, a Toronto, Canada-based smart thermostat company, announced on April 7 that it has received $62 million from the Alexa Fund, an investment fund led by Amazon...

MedHerant raises £3.8M (¥570M) in funding

2017.12.13

Medherant, a medical startup based in Copentry, UK, has raised 3.8 million pounds (570 million Japanese yen) in new funding. UK medtech startup Medherant raises ...

Children's outdoor education platform Tinkergarten

2017.11.21

This is a bit old (article from August 2017), but it describes how Tinkergarten, an online site for educational activities for children, has raised $5.4M in funding. Tinkergarten Raises $5.4...

GPS kids tracker "Jiobit" raises $3 million in funding

2017.08.24

From an article on TechCrunch.jp, the media outlet of your dreams. Jiobit Raises $3 Million to Watch Over Children Indoors and Out with GPS - Jiobit's own child got lost in Chicago's Millennium Park and he spent 20 minutes frantically searching for his child...

Smart baby monitor "Cocoon Cam" raises $4 million in funding

2017.08.21

A BabyTech-related fundraising release appeared on PRWeb, which is similar to the @PRESS service in Japan. Cocoon Cam Raises $4MM To Modernize Baby Tech With...

Fully Automatic Clothes Folding Machine Startup Raises ¥2.5 Billion in Funding

2017.07.03

From Founders' Notebook. AI, Robotics, and Healthcare Venture Seven Dreamers Raises ¥2.5 Billion! On June 15, 2017, seven dreamers laboratories, Inc. raised 2.5 billion yen through a third-party allotment of new shares and a research and development grant...

GRAIL, a startup for early cancer detection, raises huge amount of funding

2017.06.21

How much is $900 million in Japanese yen? GRAIL, a cancer detection startup funded by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, raises $900 million from Dentsu Ventures and others to enter the Japanese market...

Twiggle, the "AI search engine," raises $15M

2017.06.06

In slightly older news (about a month ago), Twiggle, which is developing a search engine specifically in e-commerce with machine learning, has raised $15M in funding. The money will be used to pay for hiring personnel and sales promotion...

BEFORE Brands, which raised a total of $48 million in baby tech

2017.06.04

Check out the following article on TechCrunch, BabyTech is also starting to see an increase in funding. Baby tech draws seed funding and a few big rounds...

Dutch medical startup Castor EDC raises €1.1 million in funding

2017.05.28

From Tech.eu, Castor EDC, which aims to handle medical data and research across diagnostic information, has successfully raised approximately €1.1 million in funding. So the medical data collected is the road to AI. Dutch medical ...

Berlin startup Move24 raises €13 million in funding

2017.05.18

From Tech.eu, news of funding for a startup focused on relocation in Berlin. German relocation startup Move24 brings in €13 million in Seri...

Actility, an IoT-focused LPWAN provider, raises $75 million in funding

2017.04.26

This is a bit old news, but I'm clipping it because it's an interesting funding information. French IoT solutions company Actility raises a $75 million Series D roun...

Healthcare App SidekickHealth Raises $1.5 Million in Funding

2017.03.20

According to Tech.eu, the healthcare app SidekickHealth has successfully raised $1.5 million in funding. What is SidekickHealth An app that provides personalized exercise programs. Although...

Swell," an app embedded in Facebook Messenger, reaches 2 million users.

2017.03.13

It was interesting to see how this could happen, so here it is. The original story is here. http://theheureka.com/startup-swell-replaced-app-chatbot-20170123 Start in Austria...