CrunchBase Daily: Edmodo, Adatao, Vurb, Rocket Internet, Movile, SmartNews, Practo, MagForce, Thuzio, Portfolia, Poshly - August 8, 2014

August 08, 2014 Edmodo, an education startup based in San Mateo, has raised a $30 million Series D round led by Index Ventures with participation from Japanese telecom company KDDI. Edmodo began as a free social network for educators but has since expanded into a marketplace for sharing teaching tools as well as creating and scoring quizzes. Founded in 2008, Edmodo has raised $87 million to date and is currently used by 36 million teachers and students across over 220,000 schools.   Adatao, a data analytics startup based in Sunnyvale, has raised $13 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Lightspeed Ventures and Bloomberg Beta. Adatao is an analytics platform that allows data scientists and business users to collaborate and view query results in a user-friendly format. Emerging from stealth last December, Adatao will use the latest cash to continue building out its pInsights and pAnalytics products.   Vurb, a mobile search startup based in San Francisco, has raised $8 million in a Series A round led by Redpoint Ventures with participation from Stanford University and existing investors Charles River Ventures, CrunchFund, Atlas Venture, and angels including Naval Ravikant, Max Levchin, and Drew Houston. Vurb seeks to simplify mobile search through a platform that aggregates factual information from the web and other apps into visual cards. Founded in 2012 and winner of TechCrunch's Disrupt Battlefield 2014, Vurb has raised $10 million to date and will use the latest funding to expand its team, continue product development, and build an Android version of its search platform.   Since the last email, CrunchBase captured more than 28 rounds and $624 million in fundings... and the data keeps rolling in. Share With:   Top Funding Rounds Edmodo Edmodo is a network platform enabling teachers and students ... $30MM / Series D Founders — Crystal Hutter Jeff O'Hara Nicolas Borg Investors — Index Ventures KDDI Adatao Adatao is on a quest to deliver Data Intelligence for All. $13MM / Series A Founders — Christopher Nguyen Investors — Lightspeed Venture Partners Andreessen Horowitz Bloomberg Beta Vurb Contextual search, browsing, and sharing. Vurb is an ... $8.0MM / Series A Founders — Bobby Lo Investors — Redpoint Ventures Atlas Venture CRV CrunchFund Data Collective TenOneTen Ventures Susa Ventures Stanford University Adrian Aoun Christopher Michel Andy Rankin Raymond Tonsing Naval Ravikant Brad Garlinghouse Jim Lanzone Othman Laraki Drew Houston Max Levchin Gil Elbaz Rocket Internet The world's largest internet platform outside of China and ... $445MM / Private Equity Founders — Alexander Samwer Marc Samwer Oliver Samwer Robert Rebholz Investors — PLDT Movile Movile is the leader mobile commerce platform in Latin ... $55MM / Series D Founders — Eduardo Lins Henrique Fabricio Bloisi Leonardo Constantino Oliveira Marcelo Sales Rafael Duton Investors — Naspers Innova Capital (Brazil) Innova Capital SmartNews, Inc. SmartNews is an easy-to-use and addictive smartphone news ... $36MM / Venture Investors — Atomico GREE Practo Technologies Pvt. Ltd Patients use Practo.com to find and book appointments with ... $20MM / Series B Founders — Abhinav Lal Shashank ND Investors — Sequoia Capital MagForce MagForce AG, a medical device company, operates in the ... $15MM / Venture Investors — Mithril Capital Management Thuzio Inc. Thuzio is an online marketplace that connect enthusiasts ... $6.0MM / Series A Founders — Tiki Barber Investors — RSE Ventures Prudence Holdings Portfolia Portfolia connects smart, connected consumers and opinion ... $1.5MM / Series A Investors — Sand Hill Angels Life Science Angels Astia Angels Poshly Poshly is the consumer data company for the beauty industry. $1.5MM / Seed Investors — WI Harper Group Astia Angels Frontier Ventures WikiWand WikiWand builds products that make the human knowledge ... $600K / Angel Founders — Ilan Lewin Lior Grossman Investors — Saar Wilf Frilp Frilp, an online platform that helps users discover a shop ... $500K / Angel Investors — Girish Mathrubootham JamKazam Play live music in real-time sessions with others over the ... $300K / Seed Investors — Trailblazer Capital More Fundings (14)   Top Acquisitions PrivateCore acquired by Facebook Ringadoc acquired by Practice Fusion More Acquisitions (9)   Did we miss anything? Since our last email, 8466 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.   The Business Graph  ·  410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2014 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy Terms of Service