Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share.
Gogobot raises $20M
Gogobot, a startup that helps travelers plan their trips and provides reviews, announced it has closed $20 million in new funding led by Homeaway, a vacation-rental company. The investment is strategic as both companies are in the travel business, and have also signed a deal through which Homeaway will start to use reviews and content from Gogobot and sell advertising on Gogobot's behalf.
Read more: Re/code
Echo360 raises $18M
Echo360, a company that provides a variety of online tools for learning and education, announced today that it has raised $18 million in new funding. Duchossois Capital Management and a private family office co-led the investment, with additional funding from SWaN & Legend, Clarke Enterprises-CNF, Kiddar/Metz, and existing investor Revolution Growth. The company will put the funding toward its recently released Echo360 Active Learning Platform.
Read more: Press release
Full Circle CRM’s new $3.8M will help connect tops & bottoms of more funnels
Full Circle CRM has landed $3.8 million to continue its mission of making Salesforce data better. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company, founded in 2010 by Salesforce veterans, offers a Marketing Performance Management solution that runs on the Salesforce1 Platform. The Series A funding round, led by Aligned Partners, included Salesforce Ventures as well as WI Harper Group.
Wannabiz scores $2.2M to help you market your small business
Five minutes a day. That’s the time Tel Aviv-based Wannabiz says is needed to utilize its social marketing app for small businesses. Today, the company is announcing it has scored an investment of $2.2 million led by Firstime Ventures and released an Android version.
Y Combinator-backed Lawn Love grabs $1.9M to help you get some TLC for your grass
Finding a good gardener might not sound like a huge challenge, but one startup is working on making it as painless as possible. Y Combinator-backed Lawn Love is part of an increasing number of companies building specialized marketplaces that look and feel like a single service provider to the customer. And today, Lawn Love is announcing that it raised $1.9 million in seed funding.
500 Startups-backed CareLuLu raises $1.7M to grow its daycare search engine
Why should you pore over dozens of Yelp reviews to find a daycare provider you can trust with your most precious possession, your child? Well, you shouldn’t have to, according to Washington, D.C.-based CareLuLu. The company recently graduated from 500 Startups’ accelerator program, and today it’s announcing that it has raised $1.7 million in seed funding.
Khosla Ventures led this round, with Crunchfund, The Startup Factory, 500 Startups, and others also chipping in.
Know’N’act scores $500k in race to create the happiest customers
It’s good to be a customer these days, as tech companies keep devising new ways to keep us happy. The latest: a real-time customer engagement platform called know’N’act. Today, the Bellevue, Washington-based company is emerging from beta, officially launching its cloud-based service and announcing it has landed half a million dollars in angel funding.
This list will be updated with breaking funding news all day. Check back for more.