Docke has raised $40 million in a series C funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Existing investors Benchmark, Greylock Partners, Insight Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and Jerry Yang also participated. Bill Coughran, who joined Sequoia after eight years as a senior vice president of engineering at Google, will represent Sequoia on the Docker board. Launched in March 2013, Docker is an open platform for building, shipping and running distributed applications.

Twitter has acquired payments infrastructure company CardSpring for an undisclosed sum. CardSpring helps merchants work with publishers to create online-to-offline promotions. In a blog post,...

Computer vision and 3D computational photography company Matterport has raised $16 million in a Series B round of financing. The investment was led by...

Data analysis platform Trifacta has closed a $25 million Series C financing round. The investment was led by new investor Ignition Partners and includes existing investors Greylock Partners and Accel Partners. As part of the investment, Frank Artale, Ignition Partners managing director also joins the Trifacta board. The company raised a $12 million Series B round in July last year.

Sumo Logic, a company that provides machine data analytics at a petabyte scale, has raised  $30 million in funding. The investment was led by Sequoia...