Rib-X, Skyhook, Michael J. Fox Foundation & More Boston-Area Deals News

The holiday weekend didn’t seem to slow New England deals making down.

—MedicalRecords, a Cambridge, MA-based startup connecting doctors with sellers of health record software, is working on raising its first outside funding round. It’s got about 60 percent of a targeted $500,000 round committed, from investors like Ty Danco and Peter Bordes.

—New Haven, CT-based antibiotics developer Rib-X Pharmaceuticals filed federal documents that reveal its plans to go public. The company has raised $208.4 million in venture funding and recently inked a partnership with Sanofi that could be worth as much as $772 million.

—Mundipharma will provide more than $50 million in funding in 2013 to Cambridge-based Infinity Pharmaceuticals as an expansion of a drug development partnership first inked in 2008. The money will go to developing drug candidates from Infinity (NASDAQ: [[ticker:INFI]]) such as IPI-145, which is being designed to target blood cancers and inflammatory conditions.

—VMTurbo, a Waltham, MA-based virtualization management software developer, announced that it had wrapped up a $10 million Series B investment led by its return backers Bain Capital Ventures and Highland Capital Partners. The new funding will go to product development, customer support, sales, and marketing.

Skyhook Wireless has inked a deal to get its location-finding technology into the new Norton Anti-Theft Web service, from Mountain View, CA-based Symantec (NASDAQ: [[ticker:SYMC]]). The Norton service enables people to lock, locate, and, ideally, recover a lost or stolen Windows-based laptop, and Android smartphone or tablet, with Skyhook’s technology that use GPS, WiFi and cellular signals to track a device.

—ChoiceStream, a Cambridge-based developer of software for personalizing e-commerce shopping experiences for consumers, raised $8.7 million of a targeted $12.3 million equity and options offering, an SEC filing showed.

—Boston-based Summit Partners led a $10 million investment LogiXML, a maker of Web-based business intelligence software. Other LogiXML investors include Grotech Ventures and Updata Partners.

—Civitas, a Chelsea, MA-based spinout of the biotech Alkermes (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ALKS]]), will get an undisclosed grant award from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Reseach to put towards development of an inhaled form of the Parkinson’s treatment levodopa (L-dopa).

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.