Oracle Forges Plan To Acquire Virtual Iron, MA Gets $25M For Wind Turbine Testing Facility, NBC’s Peacock Equity Fund Crows Over EveryZing, & More Boston-Area Deals News

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—Hartford, CT-based financial software maker Geezeo found a client to inaugurate its new institutional service. Members of Palo Alto’s Stanford Federal Credit Union will now be able to use Geezeo’s financial planning tools on the credit union’s website.

—Avedro, a Waltham, MA-based company testing a new technique in for laser vision correction, raked in $10 million in equity financing. This round included all of the startup’s previous backers, including De Novo Ventures, Borealis Ventures, Prism VentureWorks, Echelon Ventures, with the addition of Cambridge’s Flagship Ventures.

—Peacock Equity Fund, the investment wing of NBC Universal, laid a $3 million egg for EveryZing as part of a $8.25 million Series C financing round for the Cambridge, MA-based software company. Additionally, NBC Universal will use EveryZing’s media search platform across its online properties, which include websites for NBC, CNBC, Bravo, SyFy (formerly SciFi), and Telemundo.

Author: Roxanne Palmer

Roxanne Palmer is interning at Xconomy's Boston office this summer. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in science and medical Journalism at Boston University after graduating from Brown in 2008 with a degree in English. Her thesis was on Herman Melville's Civil War poetry. When not chronicling the ups and downs of Boston's tech industry, Roxanne enjoys drawing, swimming, and birdwatching. Follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/roxannedpalmer, or email her at [email protected].