Workday, cloud-based HR services company, raised $85M in a funding round led by T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley, Janus Capital and Bezos Expeditions.

Workday
Website: http://www.workday.com/
Blog: http://blogs.workday.com/
Twitter: @Workday
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/workday

David Duffield, co-founder and co-CEO
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-duffield/8/695/601

Aneel Bhusri, co-founder and co-CEO
Twitter: @aneelb
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/aneel-bhusri/0/45/b40

T. Rowe Price
Website: http://corporate.troweprice.com/ccw/home.do

Morgan Stanley
Website: http://www.morganstanley.com/

Janus Capital
Website: http://janus.com
Twitter: @JanusCapital
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JanusCapital

Bezos Expeditions
Website: http://www.bezosexpeditions.com/

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Kanbox, the Chinese cloud storage platform like Dropbox, raised $20M in Series B funding led by DCM with SIG China.

Kanbox
Website: https://www.kanbox.com/

DCM
Website: http://www.dcm.com/

SIG China
Website: http://www.sig-china.com/

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Sencha, the company that helps businesses add touchscreen type guestures to their websites for tablet devices and recently announced a suite of HTML 5 cloud services, has raised $15M in Series B funding led by Jafco Venture.

Sencha
Website: http://www.sencha.com/
Blog: http://www.sencha.com/blog/
Twitter: @sencha

Michael Mullany, Interim CEO
Twitter: @mmullany
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mmullany

Jafco Venture
Website: http://www.jafco.com/index.php
Twitter: @JafcoVentures
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jafcoventures?ref=ts

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GumGum, the in-image ad platform, raised $7M in new funding led by NEA, GRP and First Round Capital.

GumGum
Website: http://gumgum.com/
Blog: http://blog.gumgum.com/
Twitter: @gumgum

Ophir Tanz, co-founder and CEO
Twitter: @ophirtanz
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ophirtanz

Ari Mir, co-founder and CPO
Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/102172752925170535447
Twitter: @ari_mir
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arimir

NEA
Website: http://www.nea.com/
Twitter: @neavc
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NEAvc

GRP Partners
Website: http://www.grppartners.com/
Twitter: @GRP_ Partners

First Round Capital
Website: http://www.firstround.com/
Blog: http://www.firstround.com/blog/
Twitter: @FirstRound
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/firstroundcapital

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OptiMine, the keyword bid optimization company, raised $3.6M in a Series B round led by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.

OptiMine
Website: http://www.optimine.com/
Blog: http://www.optimine.com/newsroom/
Twitter: @optimineinc
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/OptiMine-Software/116044088484447

Rob Cooley, co-founder and CTO
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rwcooley

Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Website: http://www.humwin.com/index.cfm

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SmarTots, a mobile apps recommendation platform for kids, raised $750K in seed funding led by Xu Xiaoping’s Zhen Fund.

SmarTots
Website: http://www.smartots.com/
Twitter: @SmarTots
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/smartots

Jesper Lodahl, co-founder and CEO
Twitter: @SmarTots
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jesperlodah l

Victor Wong, co-founder and CTO
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=3079669&authType=OUT_OF_NETWORK&authToken=7DIK&trk=hb_upphoto

Zhen Fund
Website: http://zhenfund.com/en.php

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