EdCast, a Stanford StartX company that creates knowledge cloud platforms for organizations to collaborate upon, has completed a $6 million Series A round of financing led by SoftBank Capital. Mitch Kapor (Kapor Capital), Menlo Ventures, Novel TMT Ventures, Cervin Ventures, Aarin Capital, NewSchools Venture Fund/ CoLab, and the Stanford StartX Fund.

Punchh, a Cupertino, California-based startup that provides mobile solutions for the restaurant industry, has raised $3 million in funding. Investors in the round include...

Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire Involver, a provider of SML (Social Markup Language), Visual ML, and a social marketing platform. The...