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.
Salesforce Ventures plans to invest $100M in European enterprise startups
Salesforce announced today that its venture capital arm will pump $100 million into European startups over the next five years, the latest vote of confidence in the continent’s surging startup economy.
Salesforce Ventures will primarily be focused on enterprise applications that have elements of cloud, mobile, and social.
The announcement by Salesforce comes just a few days after Cisco Systems pledged to increase its planned investments in France from $113 million to $226 million.
From VentureBeat
Optimizely raises a fresh $58M to expand content testing platform amid rapid growth
Online testing platform Optimizely said today it has raised a new $58 million funding round, which it will use to support its rapid growth in the web and mobile content optimization space.
The new Series C funding round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures, Battery Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Citi Ventures, Correlation Ventures, Danhua Capital, Pharus Capital Management, Salesforce Ventures, and Tenaya Capital.
Judging by that list, it appears that lots of investors wanted to get in on the round, which may have influenced the final amount. The round brings the company’s funding total to $146 million. Index Ventures partner Ilya Fushman joins Optimizely’s board.
France’s Doctolib raises $20.5M from Accel and BlaBlaCar founder to fuel European expansion
Doctolib, the Paris-based startup that helps patients find doctors and schedule appointments, has raised $20.5 million to help it expand into six new European countries.
In addition to fueling new growth, the latest investment demonstrates the kind of maturity that France’s boosters hope to see more of from its growing startup economy.
Big data security startup DataVisor takes on $14.5M
DataVisor, a startup whose founders spent years working on computer security at Microsoft Research, is announcing today that it has raised $14.5 million in new funding.
Based on Apache Spark, DataVisor’s technology can analyze great quantities of activity logs — billions of events per hour — to identify fake or stolen accounts and prevent fraud, abuse, and spam.
DataVisor started in December 2013 and is based in Mountain View, California. The startup employs 13 people. Customers include Momo and Yelp.
GSR and New Enterprise Associates both led the new round, which follows a seed round of an undisclosed size.
This list will be updated with breaking funding news all day. Check back for more.
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