Ranker had earlier secured $1.8 million in two seed funding rounds, with participation from numerous angels as well as Ranker founder and CEO Clark Benson.
It's ready to go all the way, having just closed a funding round of more than $30 million led by Institutional Venture Partners, Intel Capital and numerous angels including SV Angel, CrunchFund, Chris Dixon and Roger McNamee, I've heard from multiple sources.
Gas Money is about growing up under segregation and then desegregation in a dysfunctional family, but encountering numerous "angels" along the way who provide him with "gas money," lessons learned that took him further in life than he ever expected to go.
The funding was led by Lerer Hippeau Ventures, with participation from Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Founder Collective and numerous angel investors.
He's also disclosing that SVAcademy recently raised $2 million in funding from Bloomberg Beta, Rethink Education, Precursor Ventures, Uprising Ventures, 500 Startups and WTI, along with numerous angel investors.
This morning, the company is announcing $6 million in Series A funding led by IDG Ventures, with participation from Bloomberg Beta and numerous angel investors, including Alexis Ohanian, and Garry Tan.
(The latter had chipped into the $6.5 million that Outdoorsy raised previously — much of it from Cavins, who'd also taken earlier checks from NFX, Tekton Ventures and numerous angel investors).
Dundee Venture Capital led this newest round; other investors in the company include MATH Venture Partners, Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Firebrand Ventures, Blue Note Ventures and numerous angel investors.
Finrise, a year-old, Burlingame, Ca.-based startup with a new approach to online lending, has raised $5.4 million in debt and seed equity funding, including from Mayfield, NFX Guild, WTI, and numerous angel investors, including Funding Circle cofounder Sam Hodges and LendingHome CEO Matt Humphrey.
As such, he's had a front row seat to a number of changes in the way startups are funded, including the evolution of numerous angel investors into so-called micro VCs into fund managers who are now responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Such is the thinking of Christine Tao and Lori Mazan, co-founders of Sounding Board, a two-year-old, San Francisco-based marketplace focused on leadership coaching that has so far raised $1 million in seed funding led by Bloomberg Beta, with participation from Precursor Ventures and numerous angel investors.
