CRM startup Intercom snags a $6M first round of funding

"Web businesses have the potential to re-create the old pub experience, where businesses know every customer by name, their interests, and what makes them happiest in order to better serve them," said Intercom.

NYC’s next billion-dollar startup: Fab raises $150M at $1B valuation

After pivoting away from flash sales and toward its own products, New York City-based Fab has just raised a huge amount of funding to help drive its transformation and support its fast-growing audience.

CloudByte cooks up $4M for software-defined storage

Showing VCs are more than willing to throw money at buzzword-filled startups, software-defined storage startup CloudByte has raised $4 million in new funds.

‘Big data’ startup SpaceCurve raises $10M

This startup is trying to organize and make useful just about every kind of data imaginable -- not only large volumes of data but also data that appears at high velocities.

Following 243 percent growth, cloud-backup startup Zetta.net grabs $8M

Enterprise cloud-backup provider Zetta.net has raised $8 million in new funding to help it bolster its backup, disaster recovery, and archiving services.

Privacy is hot: Antitracking startup Disconnect nabs $3.5M from FirstMark

With privacy concerns at a new high following PRISM revelations, VCs want to invest more in security and privacy. Antitracking startup Disconnect fits the bill.

Location API service Locaid secures $4.05M

Locaid, a Location-as-a-Service (LaaS) startup, has closed $4.05 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing released today.

Samwer Brothers-backed e-commerce biz Lamoda nabs a staggering $130M

Hot Russian e-commerce startup Lamoda has raised an insane $130 million in funding.

Custom marketplace CustomMade grabs $18M from Google Ventures, Atlas

Custom-made goods marketplace CustomMade has raised $18 million in new funding with an aim to grow further and connect more makers and buyers who crave one-of-a-kind items.

Funding Daily: Weaponized robot vehicle edition

A $50 million investment into Anki, which debuted at Apple's developer conference today, leads the day's funding news.

Twilio’s disappearing-hardware act gets it a huge $70M funding round

As Twilio CE Jeff Lawson said, "Telecommunications is one of the biggest industries that there is, and it's transitioning from a world of hardware and carriers into the future, which is a world of software." Seventy million dollars' worth of Twilio software.

Panzura raises $25M to make cloud storage faster, nears profitability

Panzura, the cloud storage company, has closed a $25 million funding round. The San Jose Calif.-based company provides faster web-based services for its corporate customers than the alternative: storage devices attached to locally-hosted servers.