CrunchBase Daily: Easy Taxi, Knowlarity, Leanplum, ChoiceStream, Snapeee, Peel-Works, kontakt.io - July 28, 2014

July 28, 2014 Easy Taxi, a Rocket Internet-backed taxi calling app popular in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, has raised $40 million in a Series D round led by Phenomenon Ventures with participation from Tengelmann Ventures. Easy Taxi has 185,000 taxi drivers available on demand via mobile app in 160 cities and 30 countries. Founded in 2011, Easy Taxi has raised $77 million to date and will use the latest funds to advance its technology and continue growth into new countries.   Knowlarity Communications, a cloud telephony startup headquartered in Singapore, has raised $16 million in a Series B round led by Mayfield Fund with participation from existing investor Sequoia Capital. Knowlarity provides voice and data communication services to companies and individuals primarily in India and Indonesia and serves over 6,500 clients in 66 countries. Founded in 2009 in India, Knowlarity has raised over $22 million to date and will use the new cash to fund R&D and international expansion.   Leanplum, an A/B testing service for iOS and Android apps, has raised a $4.8 million Series A round from Shasta Ventures. Leanplum helps developers, product managers and marketers optimize mobile content with its A/B testing service and recently-launched marketing automation feature. Founded in 2012, Leanplum will use the funding to expand its engineering and marketing headcount as well as improve customer service.   Since the last email, CrunchBase captured more than 43 rounds and $288 million in fundings... and the data keeps rolling in. Share With:   Top Funding Rounds Easy Taxi Easy Taxi, a mobile taxi app designed for all major mobile ... $40MM / Series D Founders — Daniel Cohen Tallis Gomes Investors — Tengelmann Ventures Phenomen Ventures Knowlarity Communications Knowlarity Communications, based in Gurgaon, India, ... $16MM / Series B Founders — Ambarish Gupta Pallav Pandey Investors — Sequoia Capital Mayfield Fund Leanplum Leanplum is a fully integrated optimization solution for ... $4.8MM / Series A Founders — Andrew First Momchil Kyurkchiev Investors — Shasta Ventures ChoiceStream ChoiceStream improves ad relevance and campaigns by ... $7.5MM / Series B Founders — Steve Johnson Investors — Fred Alger Management Snapeee Snapeee is the photo sharing app. $4.0MM / Series C Investors — Global Brain Corporation Kodansha Ltd Peel-Works Peel-Works is a Mumbai-based big data analysis company. $2.0MM / Series A Investors — IDG Ventures India Inventus Capital Partners kontakt.io Powering the Beacon-enabled future. Making positive change ... $2.0MM / Venture Founders — Szymon Niemczura Investors — Sunstone Capital marinanow boat berth booking 370K EUR / Seed Investors — United Ventures CrowdCurity Modern Web Security $1.0MM / Seed Founders — Christian Hansen Esben Friis-Jensen Jacob Hansen Jakob Storm Investors — Kima Ventures Tim Draper Sidestage Sidestage is a community marketplace for listing, ... $100K / Angel Founders — Schuyler Deerman Investors — Christian Reber Robin Haak More Fundings (36)   Top Acquisitions Trulia acquired by Zillow for $3.5B Booklamp acquired by Apple Genieo Innovation acquired by Somoto for $34MM   Did we miss anything? Since our last email, 2778 CrunchBase profiles were updated. Sometimes that isn't enough to catch everything that goes on, so please add your contributions and help us make CrunchBase more awesome! Contribute to CrunchBase   If you would no longer like to receive email from CrunchBase, you can unsubscribe with one click here.   410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2014 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy Terms of Service