COMPANY NEWS: Uniphore, the leader in conversational automation, today announced its Series E funding round of $400 million. The round, which brings Uniphore’s total funding to more than half a billion ($610 million) is led by NEA and raises the company’s valuation to $2.5 billion. March Capital and other existing Uniphore investors along with new entities are also participating in this funding round.
Telstra-backed open source software developer NGINX has raised $43 million in a Series C funding led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, a platform within Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division.
Hadoop specialist MapR Technologies has closed a $110 million fund raising, with an $80 million equity financing led by Google Capital and a debt facility of $30 million led by Silicon Valley Bank.