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.
DigitalOcean just raised $83M and you don’t even know what it is. Allow me to explain
There is a very interesting company in New York called DigitalOcean. Today it announced that it has raised $83 million in new funding.
DigitalOcean maintains and provides cloud infrastructure that applications run on. Instead of making available a long and dizzying list of instance types and storage services for developers to choose from and tie together — like top cloud providers Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Engine, and Microsoft Azure — DigitalOcean offers convenient “droplets” of compute and storage power for rent by the hour.
Access Industries led the new round in New York-based DigitalOcean, with existing investor Andreessen Horowitz also participating. The startup employs 150 people, and Uretsky wants to double that number.
Toronto-based Influitive nabs $30.5M to evolve more brand fans into advocates
The customer is not only king these days. He’s also Paul Revere.
One vehicle helping the customer spread the word to every village about your business is the advocate marketing platform Influitive. Today, the Toronto-based company — led by the founding CEO of marketing automation platform Eloqua, now owned by Oracle — announced it has landed $30.5 million so it can help enlist more messengers.
This series B round, which brings the total raised for the 2010-founded company to $41.5 million, was led by Georgian Partners, with participation from OurCrowd, Atlas Venture, Docomo Capital, BDC Capital IT Venture Fund, and previous investors Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Illuminate Ventures, Resolute Ventures, Relay Ventures, and First Round Capital.
Dating app Once finds $3.5M to help you find ‘the one’
New York-based app Once told VentureBeat that it received a $3.5 million seed round from Partech Ventures and some private investors to help you find your soulmate by getting away from having multiple dating options.
Once recently opened offices in Paris, and it is soon opening offices in London. The funds from the round will be used to fuel the company’s growth as well as “very edgy and very different” app features coming by the end of the year. Once’s CEO declined to be more specific.
Y Combinator-backed GitHub competitor GitLab raises $1.5M
GitLab, the startup behind the eponymous open-source Git repository management software for storing and collaborating on source code, announced today that it has raised a $1.5 million seed round.
The company GitLab B.V. was established in the Netherlands last year and is opening an office in San Francisco. GitLab participated in the winter 2015 batch of prominent Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator.
Khosla Ventures, 500 Startups, CrunchFund, Sound Ventures, and Liquid 2 Ventures all participated in GitLab’s seed round.
This list will be updated with breaking funding news all day. Check back for more.