Iris Dorbian
San Francisco-based Fundbox, a provider of small business credit and payment solutions, has named Rose Zhong as vice president of finance, Sebastian Rymarz as chief business officer and Prashant Fuloria as chief operations officer. Zhong is a former finance executive at Uber. Rymarz initially joined Fundbox to help set corporate strategy and build out the finance, risk and analytics teams while Fuloria first came on board as the firm's chief product officer. Fundbox's backers include Spark Capital Growth, Bezos Expeditions, General Catalyst Partners, Khosla Ventures, SV Angel and former CitiGroup CEO Vikram Pandit.
White Mountains has agreed to provide growth funding to Boston and New York-based Easterly Partners Group, an asset management holding company that owns stakes in third-party asset management businesses. No financial terms were disclosed.
Salt Lake City-based TaskEasy, a provider of lawn maintenance services, has secured $22 million in Series C funding. River Cities Capital led the round with participation from Camber Creek, Moderne Ventures, Grotech Ventures, Access Venture Partners and Delta Electronics Capital.
PayStand, a B2B payment platform, has raised $6 million in Series A funding. BlueRun Ventures led the round with participation from Cervin Ventures, Serra Ventures, TiE and Capital for Founders.
One Thousand & One Voices, a private family capital fund, has agreed to provide funding to San Francisco-based TRUE Jerky, a healthy snack foods company. No financial terms were disclosed.
San Francisco-based Atomist, a newly launched platform for developers, has raised $22 million in Series A funding. The investors were Accel and Matrix Partners.
New York City-based Meural, a creator of a digital art frame, has secured $5 million in Series A funding. Corigin Ventures led the round with participation from other investors that included NETGEAR and Resolute Venture Partners.
Boston-based Goji, an online personal lines insurance agency, has secured $15 million in funding. Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd led the round.
Austin, Texas-based Tiff’s Treats, a warm cookie chain, has raised $25 million in funding. Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital led the round. In conjunction with the funding, Lincoln Isetta, a managing director at Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, will join Tiff’s Treats’ board of directors.
Phoenix-based Allbound, a next generation partner relationship management platform, has secured an undisclosed amount of venture funding. Canal Partners led the round with participation from Tallwave Capital and the Arizona Founders Fund. Also, Allbound has named Mike Chadwick as CEO. Current CEO and founder Scott Salkin will remain on the board of directors and serve as chief innovation officer. Salkin's work background includes stints at GoDaddy and Acronis.