Bullhorn, Seaside, Sand 9, & More in the Boston Deals Roundup

This week’s New England deals news featured some more grown up companies in hardware, life sciences, and networking.

—Bullhorn, a Boston-based maker of human resources and recruiting software, was acquired by Vista Equity Partners, a firm with offices in Chicago, San Francisco, and Austin. The dollar value of the transaction was not disclosed, but a post from Bullhorn CEO Art Papas notes that the company will remain independent.

—Cambridge, MA-based Seaside Therapeutics inked an agreement to license some of its technology to Roche for the development of treatments for fragile X syndrome and autism spectrum disorders. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

—A slew of deal news came in yesterday, from companies like Heartland Robotics, which changed its name to Rethink Robotics and raised $30 million in Series C funding, bringing its financing pot to $57 million.

—Cambridge-based Sand 9, whose micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technology could have applications in consumer electronics, raised $23 million in a Series C round from Intel Capital, Vulcan Capital, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, General Catalyst Partners, Khosla Ventures, and CSR.

—And Westford, MA-based communications and networking firm Sonus (NASDAQ: [[ticker:SONS]]) acquired Fremont, CA-based Network Equipment Technologies (NASDAQ: [[ticker:NWK]]) for $42 million in cash.

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.