Performance management biz Adaptive Planning nets $45M from BVP & others

Leading corporate performance management (CPM) company Adaptive Planning has raised a massive $45 million in its fourth and final round of funding with a goal to further dominate the CPM space.

Attention digital health startups: VCs say now is a ‘great’ time to raise money

Partners at Sequoia, Norwest Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers discuss health industry trends and what they look for in potential investments.

With $3.2M in funding, Dekko unveils a clever tech to insert animations into the real world

The startup says its "real-world operating system" lets you insert your animated content into reality, as viewed on your mobile devices.

Funding Daily: Personalized web, ‘big data,’ Yahoo Japan, and marketing automation

Wednesday was a fairly busy day for deals, with old-industry blue chipper GE investing big into a new platform as a service company, Yahoo Japan investing in U.S. startups, and API management company 3scale announcing new funding to grow faster.

Funding daily: beer, real estate, data optimization, payments, and health

There was a lot of money placed today, not least on health-tech. Here's a quick round-up of funding stories for April 10.

Vasona Networks raises $12M to fix our mobile data congestion issues

Vasona Networks has raised $12 million in fresh funding to help it continue to fix bandwidth problems plaguing mobile networks and smartphone owners.

Pinterest raises $200M at $2.5B valuation, reportedly

Pinterest has reportedly raised $200 million funding round that values the company at $2.5 billion. In other words, the rumors appear to be true.

Silicon Valley’s under-the-radar VC firm sees record-breaking year (exclusive)

Bessemer Venture Parters ("BVP") has made do with having the reputation as the "down to earth" venture capital firm. But 2012 was a record year, and BVP is ready to shout it from the rooftops.

Forget Facebook! Meet 12 investors on the hunt for the next Microsoft

While consumer-focused companies like Facebook and Zynga exploded, business software startups have been quietly scoring household-name customers with multi-million dollar budgets, kicking legacy players off their pedestal, and filing for higher-than-expected IPOs.

Oracle acquires SelectMinds, underscoring importance of cloud-based HR

Oracle has snapped up SelectMinds, a provider of recruiting automation tools, to bolster its portfolio of cloud-based employee and HR services.

ClearSlide nets $28M to give sales teams better presentation tools

Sales communications startup Clearslide has raised $28 million in its second round of funding aimed at opening a New York City office, developing new products, and increasing marketing efforts.

Vancouver: Hollywood North’s tech scene is growing, growing, not yet grown

Hollywood North? L.A. with rain? The city that riots whenever its hockey team doesn't win the Stanley Cup?

Americans might think of Vancouver in many ways, but typically not as a tech startup mecca.

Build-your-own-website service Wix.com adds HTML5 support

Monday, drag and drop website builder Wix.com launched its HTML5 website builder, which builds websites with video and animation for devices that don’t support Flash.

Creating a website these days is extremely easy. Drag and drop website builders for the …

Apperian raises $12.4M to put your company’s apps on your iPad

A startup called Apperian just raised $12.4 million to help businesses build their own apps and access them on tablets and smartphones.

The company developed its Enterprise App Services Environment (EASE) platform to let companies create and deploy apps for …

Semiconductor startup Avalanche closes $11.5M funding round

A startup is hard at work making a new type of high-speed memory that stores data even when the power is turned off. Avalanche Technology, a company focused on Spin Programmable Memory (SPMEM) non-volatile memory class storage solutions (not pictured), …

SendGrid raises $21M from Bessemer, Foundry, others to make automated e-mails painless

E-mail infrastructure startup SendGrid has raised $21 million in its second round of funding and created a partnership with Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform to convince more enterprises to use its e-mail delivery solutions, the company announced today.

SendGrid helps more …

Twilio is going international, has $17M to spend on souvenirs (and new hires)

Cloud-based phone service provider Twilio is ready to get some new stamps on its passport. The company is rapidly expanding internationally as it takes on a $17 million third round of funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Union Square …

Smule to make beautiful music with $12M in funding

Music app maker Smule today announced a new funding round of $12 million to support future expansion plans, and to hire more employees.

Smule is the company behind the I am T-Pain autotune app, Ocarina, a very early hit on …

Soluto raises $10.5 million for anti-frustration crusade

Soluto, winner of TechCrunch Disrupt New York 2010, has raised $10.5 million in a second round funding from Index Ventures. The company’s software specializes in the tangibly intangible: anti-frustration.

The free software detects the nerve pumping in your forehead by …