CrunchBase Daily: Funding Circle, Pond5, PredictionIO, Capillary Technologies, eSKY.pl, Shyp, Relcy, Crowdcube, Singular - July 17, 2014

July 17, 2014 Funding Circle, a London-based peer-to-peer lender, has raised $65 million in a Series D round led by Index Ventures with participation from existing investors Accel Partners, Union Square Ventures and Ribbit Capital. Funding Circle is an online marketplace that connects small business with individuals and institutions that will lend them money. Founded in 2009, Funding Circle has raised over $123 million to date and has seen over $600 million in loans completed on its platform.   Pond5, a stock media marketplace headquartered in New York, has raised $61 million in its second round of funding led by Accel Partners and Stripes Group. Pond5 is a user-driven marketplace for stock video, music, photos, and special effects, in which users upload media and set their own prices. Founded in 2006, Pond5 has a collection of 15 million media clips from 30,000 artists across 127 countries, and plans to use the latest funding to build out its product and double its staff of 70.   PredictionIO, an open-source machine learning startup based in Palo Alto, has raised $2.5 million in a seed round led by Quest Venture Partners with participation from Azure Capital Partners, CrunchFund, the Stanford StartX Fund, and Kima Ventures. PredictionIO has created an open-source program for developers to add predictive features into their applications, such as personalization, recommendation and content discovery. Founded last year, PredictionIO is currently a team of 5 and will use the new cash to support continued product development.   Since the last email, CrunchBase captured more than 37 rounds and $196 million in fundings... and the data keeps rolling in. Share With:   Top Funding Rounds Funding Circle Funding Circle is an online marketplace allowing ... $65MM / Series D Founders — Andrew Mullinger James Meekings Samir Desai Investors — Accel Partners Index Ventures Union Square Ventures Ribbit Capital Pond5 Pond5 is a hub to buy and sell video footage, stock photos, ... $61MM / Series A Founders — Marcus Engene Tom Bennett Investors — Accel Partners Stripes Group PredictionIO Open source machine learning server $2.5MM / Seed Founders — Donald Szeto Kenneth Chan Simon Chan Thomas Stone Investors — Kima Ventures CrunchFund Azure Capital Partners XG Ventures Quest Venture Partners Ironfire Capital Stanford StartX Sood Ventures Capillary Technologies Capillary Technologies offers a cloud-based intelligent ... $14MM / Series B Founders — Ajay Modani Aneesh Reddy Krishna Mehra Investors — Sequoia Capital Norwest Venture Partners Prodigo Solutions Healthcare Supply Chain solutiions $12MM / Venture Investors — Alliance Healthcare Partners eSKY.pl eSKY.pl is the leading agency selling airline tickets ... 12MM EUR / Venture Investors — Syntaxis Capital Shyp Shyp provides shipping services that ranges from picking-up ... $10MM / Series A Founders — Jack Smith Joshua Scott Kevin Gibbon Investors — SherpaVentures Shervin Pishevar Relcy A new startup called Relcy is A Mobile app development ... $9.0MM / Venture Founders — Rohit Satapathy Investors — Sequoia Capital Khosla Ventures Crowdcube Crowdcube is a crowdfunding service that allows anyone to ... $6.5MM / Series B Founders — Darren Westlake Luke Lang Investors — Balderton Capital Singular Singular is re-inventing the way companies manage their ... $5.0MM / Seed Investors — General Catalyst Partners Screenz Screenz is a cross-media company $5.0MM / Venture Investors — Marker Sport Ngin Sport Ngin, and the NGIN platform, delivers world-class ... $4.0MM / Series D Founders — Carson Kipfer Justin Kaufenberg Investors — Univision Taylor Corporation TradeBlock Digital currency data and analysis $2.8MM / Seed Founders — Greg Schvey Jeff Schvey Investors — Y Combinator Andreessen Horowitz Data Collective Devonshire Investors Bitcoin Opportunity Fund FinTech Collective Chris Fischer TravelTriangle TravelTriangle enables travel enthusiasts to reserve a ... $1.7MM / Venture Founders — Prabhat Gupta Sanchit Garg Sankalp Agarwal Investors — SAIF Partners Bad Seed Entertainment Bad Seed Entertainment is a game development studio ... 250K EUR / Seed Founders — Clara Parona Jacopo Musso Roberto Mangiafico Investors — United Ventures More Fundings (23)   Top Acquisitions Retsly acquired by Zillow InnoPharma acquired by Pfizer for $225MM More Acquisitions (4)   Did we miss anything? Since our last email, 3131 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