Apperian, Exinda, Adelphic, & More Boston-Area Dealmakers

Here’s a mix of New England tech and life sciences fundings we’ve tracked down over the last week.

—Apperian, a Boston-based company focused on enterprise mobile app management, has added $12.4 million in financing to its pot. The money comes from return investors North Bridge Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ iFund, Bessemer Venture Partners, and CommonAngels.

—Adelphic Mobile announced its $2 million seed funding round from Matrix Partners today. The Lexington, MA-based startup has a team of 10, including founders Changfeng Wang and Jennifer Lum, and is working on improving the process for buying and selling mobile ads.

—SavingStar, a Waltham, MA-based digital grocery coupon startup nabbed $9 million in Series C funding. DCM led the deal, joined by previous SavingStar investors Flybridge Capital Partners, First Round Capital, and IA Ventures.

—Boston-based Exinda, a maker of network optimization technology, pulled in $12 million in Series B funding from return backer OpenView Venture Partners and new investor Greenspring Associates.

—Cambridge, MA-based Alzheimer’s drug developer NeuroPhage Pharmaceuticals expanded its second funding round to $21.4 million, with a fresh $9 million from existing investors, including Merieux Developpement and Shire.

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.