Regardless of how much venture capital Boston tech may end up having raised this year overall, a number of up-and-comers locally did pull off major funding rounds to support their development and expansion efforts. To give a sense of some of the most interesting Boston companies who raised millions this year, we've whittled down the list of hundreds of deals to these 25.
I've included five at each of five different stages: Seed; Series A, B and C; and Late-stage/Growth equity. (I'm excluding deals for companies that were acquired or went public within this same year, such as Wayfair).
Seed
Dispatch
- Mobile tech for the enabling new offerings in the on-demand economy
- $3.1 million (November)
- GrandBanks, Promus, Ray Lane, Salesforce Ventures, LaunchCapital, Kima Ventures
Drizly
- On-demand alcohol delivery app
- $4.8 million ($2.3 million in Jan. and $2.5 million in May)
- Gary Vaynerchuk, Suffolk Equity Partners, Continental Investors
- Easy-to-use indoor food-growing system
- $2 million (May)
- Timothy Ferriss, Galvanize Ventures, Vayner/RSE, Felicis Ventures, Upfront Ventures
Tablelist
- App to book VIP table/bottle service at nightclubs/lounges; aims to become the “after-dark OpenTable”
- $2 million ($1.5 million in July and $500,000 in August)
- Jason Carroll (Hudson River Trading), Wayne Chang (Crashlytics founder/Twitter executive), Atlas/Boston Syndicates
Transatomic Power
- Nuclear reactor technology startup
- $2 million (August)
- Founders Fund (FF Science)
Series A
DataRobot
- Leverages big data to produce predictive models in the cloud for various industries
- $21 million (August)
- New York Life Insurance Co, IA Ventures, Atlas Venture
Disruptor Beam
- Pop-culture-themed online games, including “Star Trek Timelines”
- $3.2 million (Nov.)
- CommonAngels, GrandBanks, Harmonix founders
PillPack
- Next-gen online pharmacy; service delivers prescriptions in individualized packets to patients’ doors
- $8.8 million (October)
- Accel, Atlas
Quanttus
- Wearable device to provide continuous health monitoring and analysis to consumers
- $19 million (Feb.)
- Matrix Partners, Kholsa Ventures
Wanderu
- Kayak-esque site for ground travel booking; aims to help users easily find the cheapest fares and most-ideal itineraries for bus travel (and some train travel)
- $5.6 million (Nov.)
- 500 Startups, Barbara Corcoran Venture Partners, Brad Feld
Series B
- Easy-to-use bitcoin accounts for consumers
- $17 million (March)
- Breyer Capital, Accel, General Catalyst, Oak Investment Partners
Evertrue
- Donor management platform used by universities and nonprofits
- $8 million (Oct.)
- Bain Capital Ventures
Kensho
- Artificially intelligent software for answering finance industry questions
- $15 million (Nov.)
- Goldman Sachs
Kinvey
- Service for easier setup of mobile app backend, used by large companies as well as developers
- $10.8 million (Sept.)
- Atlas, Avalon, Verizon Ventures
Quantopian
- Software to allow any finance-minded individual to become a stock trading “quant"; now developing a new type of hedge fund that crowdsources investment decisions from users of its system
- $15 million (Oct.)
- Spark, Khosla Ventures, Bessemer
Series C
Ambri
- Energy storage technology that aims to solve a number of electrical grid issues
- $35 million (April)
- Bill Gates, Khosla Ventures, energy firm Total
DraftKings
- Daily fantasy sports competitions site; users are able to play against each other for cash prizes
- $41 million (Aug.)
- Redpoint, GGV Capital, Atlas
InsightSquared
- Salesforce analytics software
- $13.5 million (Nov.)
- Atlas, DFJ, NextView
Localytics
- Analytics and marketing platform for mobile and Web apps
- $16 million (Feb.)
- Foundation Capital, Polaris
SilverRail
- Standardized system for booking plane tickets that is used by airlines and travel services; enables travelers to book train tickets the same way for every rail line
- $40 million (April)
- Mithril Capital Management, Canaan Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures, Brook Venture
Late-stage/Growth equity
Acquia
- Products, services and technical support for Drupal
- $50 million (May)
- New Enterprise Associates, North Bridge, Sigma Partners
Actifio
- Software for managing and reducing data copies
- $100 million (March)
- North Bridge, Greylock, Andreessen Horowitz, ATV, Technology Crossover Ventures
Applause (formerly uTest)
- Crowdsourced app testing service and quality assurance software for app stores
- $43 million (Jan.)
- Goldman Sachs, Longworth, Scale Venture Partners
SimpliSafe
- Affordable, easy-to-install next-gen home security system
- $57 million (May)
- Sequoia
Veracode
- Cybersecurity software used by large companies to ensure that applications are free of vulnerabilities
- $40 million (Sept.)
- Wellington Management, Atlas, .406 Ventures
