Semprus, Nara, UberSense, & More Names from the Boston Deal Roundup

Palo Alto, CA-based Freshplum, a newly de-stealthed company working on analytics technology to help guide company pricing decisions.

—On the East Coast, Web startup Nara Logics also came out of stealth mode and announced a $4 million funding round from Peter de Roetth and other angel investors. The Cambridge-based company also launched the public beta version of its online personalized consumer search engine.

—A couple of Boston-area companies are set to make their debut on the public markets this week: Waltham-based cancer drug developer Tesaro, looking to sell 6 million shares at $12 to $15 apiece, and Exa, a Burlington, MA-based maker of software for vehicle simulations. Exa hopes to sell 6.25 million shares at $11 to $13 each.

—An SEC filing from earlier this week shows that Cambridge-based UberSense, a TechStars Boston 2012 graduate that uses mobile and video tech to connect athletes and coaches, has raised $1.15 million in an equity round from 15 investors.

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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.