by Ron Miller

Battlefield Vet Staffly Snags $1.25 Million Seed Round

I wrote about a small online retail staffing startup called Staffly for the September TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield competition. Today that little company got $1.25 million in a second seed round. http://tcrn.ch/1N5TE8e

PlanGrid Lands $40 Million Investment To Expand Product

I interviewed PlanGrid CEO Tracy Young at TechCrunch Disrupt in September. Today the company announced a $40 million round meant to drive product expansion. http://tcrn.ch/1HYZ8iU

APX Labs Grabs $13 Million For Enterprise Smart Glasses Platform

Google Glass might have failed as a consumer device, but there is a growth industry around industrial smart glasses, that feed people information to a computer on their faces while keeping their hands free. APX Labs got $13 million today to continue building the platform for that interface.http://tcrn.ch/1NbBoQh

Eyefluence Eye Interaction System Emerges From Stealth With $14 Million Investment

Eyefluence is working on an eye-controlled user interface for head-mounted virtual and augmented reality hardware like Google Glass and Occulus Rift. Today it got $14 million to keep it going. Just love the picture I found for this one. http://tcrn.ch/1SITK9O