5 Cloud Computing Funding Stories You Might Have Missed, Nov. 14

Each week Talkin’ Cloud compiles a list of cloud computing financing stories for readers who might have missed the news earlier in the week. This week’s column features funding news from Jandi, Evident.io, Peak, Evernote and Avalara.

These stories have been gathered from Talkin’ Cloud’s article database and other media sources. If we missed something, feel free to leave a comment below. We might just add it into the mix.

Here’s this week’s list of 5 Cloud Computing Funding Stories You Might Have Missed, November 14.

Jandi Secures $2M in Funding for Business Collaboration Software Platform. The Korea-based company is diving headfirst into the business collaboration services space with $2 million in venture capital financing from several investors. The company expects to leverage the additional funds to hire new employees in product and development, and customer success.

Evident.io Raises $9.85M in Funding for Cloud-based Security. The Dublin, California-based company, which has raised a total of $11.35 million in financing to date since 2013, said it will leverage the funding to expand the capabilities of the Evident Security Platform and build international support for security-focused regions. The company’s platform aims to assist IT admins with reducing the time spent on finding and fixing AWS security risks by enabling them to identify vulnerabilities across AWS accounts.

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Peak Raises $9M in Funding for Cloud-based IaaS Platform. The Denver-based companysaid it has raised $9 million in funding to assist channel partners with leveraging cloud-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Peak enables resellers and agents to white-label Peak’s cloud services as their own. It delivers on-demand computing, network and storage resources to customers offering services.

Evernote Raises $20M From Japanese Media Giant Nikkei, Forms Content Partnership For Evernote Context. Evernote has raised $20 million from Nikkei and will partner with the Japanese media conglomerate on Evernote Context, which brings additional news and insights from third-party sources into the Evernote dashboard.

Avalara raises $100 Million in new financing round. The cloud-based sales tax and compliance automation services provider has raised $100 million in financing from private equity firm Warburg Pincus. Avalara said the investment will help the company’s growth initiatives that include international expansion and strategic acquisitions.

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