CrunchBase Daily: Genius, Bark & Co., Rocketrip, iZettle, Xagenic, Hupu, Amplitude, 24tidy, Curazy, Teleborder - July 14, 2014

July 14, 2014 Genius, formerly known as Rap Genius, has raised $40 million in a Series B round led by Dan Gilbert and Andreessen Horowitz. Genius provides lyrics and explanations for thousands of rap songs, and recently launched embeddable annotations to make sharing easier. Founded in 2009 and based in Brooklyn, NY, Genius has raised over $56 million to date and plans to use the latest cash to hire engineers, designers, and community leaders.   Bark & Co., the company behind subscription-based dog product delivery service BarkBox, has raised $15 million in Series B funding, with $10 million coming from Resolute.vc, RRE, BoxGroup, Lerer Ventures, and other previous investors, and the remaining in debt financing from City National Bank. BarkBox sends out a monthly box of dog treats and toys to over 200,000 paying customers, seeing a customer retention rate of over 90%. Founded in 2011, Bark & Co. also offers a vet care service and a content portal for pet owners, and plans to use the new funding to build out current services and launch additional products.   Rocketrip, a travel management startup based in New York, has raised $3 million in a second Series A round led by Canaan Partners and Genacast Ventures with participation from new investors CrunchFund and Paul Buchheit. Rocketrip provides a travel search and booking platform for enterprise that rewards employees in gift cards or cash when they save corporate money by booking cheaper travel plans. Founded in 2013, Rocketrip has raised $6.2 million to date and saved customers $200,000 in travel expenses across more than 1,000 business trips.   Since the last email, CrunchBase captured more than 38 rounds and $341 million in fundings... and the data keeps rolling in. Share With:   Top Funding Rounds Genius.com Genius.com is a website dedicated to the annotation and ... $40MM / Series B Founders — Ilan Zechory Mahbod Moghadam Tom Lehman Investors — Andreessen Horowitz Dan Gilbert BarkBox Barkbox is a subscription-based e-commerce and content ... $15MM / Series B Founders — Henrik Werdelin Matt Meeker Investors — RRE Ventures Lerer Ventures BoxGroup Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments Slow Ventures CAA Ventures Resolute.vc Daher Capital Vast Ventures Rocketrip Rocketrip owns and operates a travel management platform ... $3.0MM / Series A Founders — Gillian Tee Investors — Canaan Partners CrunchFund Genacast Ventures Paul Buchheit iZettle iZettle, a mobile payments company, offers services for ... 5.0MM EUR / Series C Founders — Jacob De Geer Investors — Intel Capital Hasso Plattner Ventures Dawn Capital Zouk Capital Xagenic Xagenic is a molecular diagnostics company developing ... $26MM / Series B Founders — Shana Kelley Investors — Domain Associates Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund CTI Capital BDC Capital Dion Madsen Hupu Hupu is a Sports commentary and news platform $16MM / Series C Investors — Greenwoods Asset Management Amplitude Mobile analytics $2.0MM / Seed Founders — Curtis Liu Spenser Skates Investors — SV Angel BoxGroup Data Collective Quest Venture Partners Merus Capital Charlie Cheever 24tidy 24tidy, a 24-hour O2O laundry site $1.7MM / Series A Investors — Oriza Holdings Curazy Curazy has been focused on curating funny news topics from ... $1.0MM / Venture Founders — Shinnosuke Ito Investors — DeNA Skyland Ventures CyberAgent Ventures Teleborder Teleborder offers HR management systems to manage the ... unknown / Seed Founders — James Richards Michael Smith Investors — Khosla Ventures East Ventures More Fundings (28)   Top Acquisitions RelateIQ acquired by Salesforce for $390MM PowerCloud Systems acquired by Comcast RayV acquired by Yahoo! InMage Systems acquired by Microsoft More Acquisitions (3)   Did we miss anything? Since our last email, 1375 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