Zonoff, a Malvern, Pa.-based startup whose software strives to act as the “brains” of the connected home, has raised a $3.8 million series A round from Valhalla Partners and Grotech Ventures.

Handshakez has closed $3.6 million in venture capital financing. The Series A round was led by Austin Ventures with additional investment by First Round Capital, FLOODGATE, CrunchFund, Valhalla Partners and Thinktiv.

Qumulo, an enterprise data storage company, has raised $24.5 million in a Series A round of financing led by Highland Capital Partners, with participation from Madrona Venture Group and Valhalla Partners. The business was founded in March 2012 with seed funding from Valhalla Partners. As part of the investment, Peter Bell, general partner at Highland Capital Partners, joins the board of directors.

Valhalla Partners has appointed Randy Jacops as a venture partner and Josh Resnik as a venture advisor. Jacops is a process-improvement operations expert based in Austin, TX, and Resnik is a DC-based digital media executive and angel investor. PRESS RELEASE Valhalla Partners today announced that it has appointed Randy Jacops as a Venture Partner and [...]

Cambridge, Mass.-based Jumptap, a startup focused on mobile advertising has appointed Frank Weishaupt as chief operating officer. The company recently raised $27.5 million in venture financing. Existing investors included General Catalyst Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Summerhill Ventures, Valhalla Partners, and WPP. New investor Keating Capital also participated in the round. PRESS RELEASE On the heels of [...]

App47, a provider of enterprise mobile application management services, has completed a $750,000 second-round funding. Investors include Valhalla Partners, which previously invested $1 million in first-round funding in January 2011, Clarabridge co-founder and CEO Sid Banerjee, Braun Jones, Thermopylae Sciences & Technology president Abraham J. “AJ” Clark, as well as additional investment from App47 co-founders, [...]

Social advertising technology company Adaptly has raised $10.5 million in Series B funding, led by Valhalla Partners, with participation from new investors Time Warner Investments and Vivi Nevo. All existing investors, including First Round Capital, also participated in the round. PRESS RELEASE Social advertising technology company Adaptly today announced Evergreen, a new solution that utilizes [...]

Virginia-based startup timeRAZOR has added $3.4 million in funding. The company has been in stealth mode since June 2011. The online startup’s mission is to bring “a sense of serendipity back to our highly-scheduled world.” The company’s board of advisors includes Linda Abraham, co-founder of comScore; Eddie Amos, former Microsoft executive; and Gene Riechers, former [...]

PlaceIQ said it raised $4.2 million of Series A funding in a round with new investors U.S. Venture Partners and Valhalla Partners, and existing investors IA Ventures, kbs+p ventures, and angel investor Jerry Neumann. The ad targeting company moved from Boulder, Colo., to New York City. The company confirmed the news by tweeting the following [...]

Boulder, Colo.-based SolidFire, a maker of all-solid-state primary storage systems for cloud service providers, has raised $25 million in a second financing round, bringing its total raised to $37 million. New Enterprise Associates, Valhalla Partners and Novak Biddle participated in the round. The company also received individual investments from Frank Slootman, former C.E.O. of Data Domain; David Schneider, former vice president of worldwide sales at Data Domain; and Greg Papadopoulos, former C.T.O. of Sun Microsystems.