Boston Tech Roundup: NetProspex, Lucidity Lights, Ubiquitous Energy

We’ve got financing deals across business software, consumer products, cleantech, and transportation to report in this weekly collection of innovation tidbits:

—NetProspex, a provider of data software for marketing customers, has raised another $13 million. The Series C round was led by Spring Lake Equity Partners, and ups the company’s total fundraising to $27 million. Edison Ventures and other previous backers returned for the new round, Waltham-based NetProspex said in a press release.

—Lucidity Lights, a Cambridge-based developer of next-generation lightbulbs, has filed paperwork for a new $10.8 million equity financing. The company is headed by IdeaPaint founder John Goscha, but it’s staying under the radar—it doesn’t have a website, and a spokesman declined comment. One investor is New York-based New Legacy Capital. There’s some more detail in this Boston Globe story from 2012.

—Ubiquitous Energy, a Cambridge-based solar-energy materials startup, has filed SEC paperwork for a $5.2 million equity investment. The company, which has deep MIT ties, is developing coatings that it says could generate electricity from everyday surfaces, including windows. Much more detail in this story from Technology Review.

—GroupZOOM, a Cambridge-based startup that has previously tested group bus service for college students heading out on spring break, reports that it’s raised $3 million from various private investors. The announcement comes in a Boston Globe story profiling the company’s upcoming service, Bridj, which it says will attempt to create private bus service around Boston by coordinating riders via a smartphone app.

Author: Curt Woodward

Curt covered technology and innovation in the Boston area for Xconomy. He previously worked in Xconomy’s Seattle bureau and continued some coverage of Seattle-area tech companies, including Amazon and Microsoft. Curt joined Xconomy in February 2011 after nearly nine years with The Associated Press, the world's largest news organization. He worked in three states and covered a wide variety of beats for the AP, including business, law, politics, government, and general mayhem. A native Washingtonian, Curt earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. As a past president of the state's Capitol Correspondents Association, he led efforts to expand statehouse press credentialing to online news outlets for the first time.