CrunchBase Daily: Lookout, Electric Imp, AdStage, GetTaxi, Axial, RelayRides, Validic, Saavn, Acupera, PayRange - August 13, 2014

August 13, 2014 Lookout, a mobile security company based in San Francisco, has raised $150 million in a Series F round led by T. Rowe Price with participation from new investors Morgan Stanley, Wellington Management, Goldman Sachs and Bezos Expeditions, as well as existing investors Mithril Capital Management, Khosla Ventures, Accel Partners, Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. Lookout uses algorithms and back-end monitoring to protect mobile devices, and currently serves 50 million users worldwide. Founded in 2007, Lookout has raised over $280 million to date and will use the latest funding to increase its user base to 100 million and bring its technology into the enterprise market.   Electric Imp, an Internet connectivity startup, has raised $15 million in Series B funding from Foxconn along with PTI Ventures and Rampart Capital. Electric Imp has created a wireless module and cloud-based platform to provide connectivity for all electric devices. Founded in 2011 by Hugo Fiennes, an early team member at Nest who also contributed to the round, Electric Imp has raised $23 million to date and its chips are currently embedded in half a million devices worldwide.   AdStage, an advertising technology startup based in San Francisco, has raised $6.25 million in a Series A round led by Verizon Ventures and Digital Garage with participation from Newbury Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Chris Noble and Neal Dempsey. AdStage provides customers an easy way to manage ad campaigns that run across multiple platforms such as Google, Bing, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Debuting at last year's Launch conference, AdStage has since signed up more than 10,000 businesses and will take the product out of beta in the next few months.   Since the last email, CrunchBase captured more than 48 rounds and $435 million in fundings... and the data keeps rolling in. Share With:   Top Funding Rounds Lookout Lookout is a security technology company providing mobile ... $150MM / Series F Founders — James Burgess John Hering Kevin Mahaffey Investors — Accel Partners Index Ventures Andreessen Horowitz Khosla Ventures Goldman Sachs T. Rowe Price Morgan Stanley Bezos Expeditions Mithril Capital Management Wellington Management Group Electric Imp Electric Imp develops Imp, a chip providing WiFi and ... $15MM / Series B Founders — Hugo Fiennes Kevin Fox Peter Hartley Investors — Redpoint Ventures Foxconn Technology Group PTI Ventures Rampart Capital Corp Hugo Fiennes AdStage AdStage Inc. is an advertising technology startup building ... $6.2MM / Series A Founders — Jason Wu Sahil Jain Investors — Freestyle Capital Digital Garage Verizon Ventures Newbury Ventures Neal Dempsey Chris Noble GetTaxi GetTaxi is a mobile app for booking taxis, black cars, and ... $25MM / Series D Founders — Roi More Shahar Waiser (Smirin) Investors — Vostok Nafta Investment Ltd Axial Axialis an online network connecting owners, advisors and ... $11MM / Series B Investors — First Round Redpoint Ventures Comcast Ventures RelayRides RealtyRides is a peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace ... $10MM / Series B Founders — Shelby Thomas Clark Investors — Trinity Ventures Validic Validic offers a mobile health API connection that enables ... $5.0MM / Series A Investors — Greycroft Partners SJF Ventures Push Technology Intelligent data distribution middleware. $5.0MM / Series A Investors — Leopard Rock Capital Saavn Saavn is a digital distributor of Bollywood and Tamil ... $4.0MM / Venture Founders — Anurag Gupta Paramdeep Singh Rishi Malhotra Vin Bhat Vinodh Bhat Investors — Steadview Capital Acupera Healthcare Technology $4.0MM / Series A Investors — Lightspeed Venture Partners The Whittemore Collection PayRange World's simplest mobile payment system for machines $2.8MM / Venture Founders — Paresh Patel Investors — Max Levchin Osama Bedier Groupize.com Groupize.com helps the hotel industry attract group ... $2.0MM / Series A Investors — Golden Seeds Thayer Ventures Adello Inc Real Time Analytics DSP $2.0MM / Series A Investors — Swisscom Ventures Beautified Beauty Services App $1.2MM / Seed Investors — New Enterprise Associates Manzanita Capital Carmen Busquets 4meee 4meee is an e-commerce and curated fashion site $500K / Seed Investors — Global Brain Corporation Commonplace Digital Commonplace collects opinions of people living in a ... 243K GBP / Seed Investors — Clearly Social Angels Big Venture Challenge Angels in the City More Fundings (33)   Top Acquisitions Zofari acquired by Yahoo! 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