GoodData and Box have launched the GoodBox Bash™, a cloud-based app that allows Box customers to process data about the effectiveness of highly-collaborative teams.

WellTok, Inc. said it closed an $18.7 million Series B funding with  Emergence Capital Partners and InterWest Partners co-leading the round and New Enterprise Associates joining the funding. The company also appointed Executive Chairman Jeff Margolis to chief executive officer. Margolis founded TriZetto.

Quasar Ventures said it has begun operations with $5.4 million in investment capital from a group of investors led by Emergence Capital Partners. The firm will follow a strategy that varies dramatically from an incubator. It plans to use its capital to develop 10 new technology companies globally in the coming four years. The firm is led by former Officenet executives Andy Freire, Santiago Bilinkis and Pablo Simón Casarino.

First it was Model N. Then Marin Software. Suddenly 2013 is looking promising for venture-backed enterprise IPOs. This is a good thing for the venture industry’s bottom line.

Emergence Capital Partners said it appointment Alison Berkley Wagonfeld operating partner. She will work with portfolio companies and help them with recruiting and talent management. Wagonfeld previously was executive director of Harvard Business School’s California Research Center in Menlo Park and before that co-founded QuickenLoans at Intuit.

Venture capital returns creep ahead in fits and starts. Distributions to LPs, however, have gone through the roof. In the third quarter of 2012, they hit their highest level since 2001, and they look poised to go higher in the fourth quarter and beyond.

More U.S.-based VCs and acquirers came up to Canada in 2012, looking for good deal flow, rational valuations and inexpensive buys.

ServiceMax, a provider of cloud-based, mobile and social field service applications has secured $27 million series D investment led by Crosslink Capital. Also participating in the round were Emergence Capital Partners, Mayfield Fund and Trinity Ventures. ServiceMax has raised $52 million to date.

Emergence Capital Partners, a venture capital firm focused on SaaS and technology-enabled services, has appointed Sean Jacobsohn as venture partner. Jacobsohn is an experienced angel investor and advisor to startup companies, including Emergence Capital portfolio company Doximity. Jacobsohn is also co-founder and co-resident of the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels. PRESS RELEASE Emergence Capital Partners, [...]

Top Hat Monocle has raised $8 million in Series A funding in a round led by Emergence Capital Partners and iNovia Capital, along with SoftTech VC, Version One Ventures (the new fund of Boris Wertz) and Golden Venture Partners. The Toronto-based education company, which has an office in San Francisco, raised $1.5 million in seed stage [...]