Harvest Power Gets $52M, Zynga Buys Floodgate, Synageva Snaps Up $25M, & More Boston-Area Deals News

funding total to $6.5 million.

—San Francisco-based social gaming firm Zynga made its 10th acqusition in as many months by scooping up the team at Waltham, MA-based gaming studio Floodgate Entertainment. Financial details weren’t disclosed. Last year Zynga bought Cambridge-based Conduit Labs, which is now Zynga Boston.

Synageva BioPharma of Lexington, MA, pinned down $25 million in private equity money to put toward its pipeline of treatments for rare diseases.

—Cloud Technology Partners, a Boston-based firm focused on helping companies move their IT infrastructures to private clouds, said it acquired Global Green Consulting Group for an undisclosed sum.

—In other cloud news, stealthy cloud computing startup CloudFloor said it raised more than $3 million in Series A financing. That news came alongside other startup fundings: $3.15 million in an equity and rights offering for Holliston, MA-based Rypos, $11.5 million for Still River Systems of Littleton, MA, and a $5 million debt deal for Marlborough, MA-based CardioFocus.

—JitterJam, a Bedford, NH-based maker of social customer relationship management software, was bought by The Meltwater Group, a social media and news monitoring firm headquartered in San Francisco, for $6 million.

Author: Erin Kutz

Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.