Biogen Drug Shows Early Promise in Slowing Alzheimer’s Decline

Drug maker Biogen Idec is one step closer to a breakthrough in the Alzheimer’s disease field. For the first time, an experimental treatment seems to both clear out the telltale clumps of protein called beta amyloid from the brains of Alzheimer’s patients and—more important—slow down those patients’ cognitive decline. At a medical conference in Nice, … Continue reading “Biogen Drug Shows Early Promise in Slowing Alzheimer’s Decline”

Lessons From Building a Global Engineering Team

It used to be that if you referenced a “global engineering team” you had contracted with a few freelance developers in a remote location to do a few hours of work per week. There’s a good reason for that: historically, recruiting, retaining, and growing global engineering teams has been a significant challenge. At HubSpot, we … Continue reading “Lessons From Building a Global Engineering Team”

zSpace Obtains $26,604,639 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=051c4730-cd96-4a3b-b086-6b237179cde6 Date 3/20/2015 Company Name zSpace Mailing Address 490 De Guigne Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94085 USA Company Description zSpace revolutionizes the way people learn, play and create – bringing realness and life to applications. Website http://www.zspace.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $26,604,639 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not … Continue reading “zSpace Obtains $26,604,639 New Round”

Vidder Obtains $12,000,000 Series B Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6ab78b67-69e6-43e1-bebc-8e62898e3722 Date 3/20/2015 Company Name Vidder Mailing Address 910 E. Hamilton Ave. Campbell, CA 95008 USA Company Description Vidder is dedicated to providing secure communications solutions to our customers. Unlike most security companies who focus on a product, Vidder works with customers to identify the best security technologies for their needs and … Continue reading “Vidder Obtains $12,000,000 Series B Financing”

Colovore Receives New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=be54bbf6-28a4-4530-9604-b106a8cf2f7d Date 3/20/2015 Company Name Colovore Mailing Address 1101 Space Park Drive Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA Company Description Colovore future-proofs your business with 20 kW / rack ultra high-density retail colocation solutions. Website http://www.colovore.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. … Continue reading “Colovore Receives New Financing Round”

Pear Therapeutics Garners New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b5aba10b-012c-4c57-8cf5-28bd934ca384 Date 3/20/2015 Company Name Pear Therapeutics Mailing Address 200 Saginaw Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 USA Company Description Pear Therapeutics’ patented eFormulation approach combines mobile health apps with supplements, medical foods, and pharmaceuticals, to create more efficacious treatment solutions. eFormulations are simple to use. A software access code on the product … Continue reading “Pear Therapeutics Garners New Funding Round”

Fundbox Clinches $40M Series B for Short-Term Lending Product

[Updated 3/19/15, 6:20 pm. See below.] Fundbox, a short-term lender for small businesses that charges a fee during repayment, is focused on an issue businesses of every size have: cash flow. The San Francisco-based company helps business owners manage finances, like bills and invoices that customers haven’t yet paid. An owner can sign up for … Continue reading “Fundbox Clinches $40M Series B for Short-Term Lending Product”

West Coast Biotech Roundup: Juno, Nektar, Kite, Glooko & More

Out west this week, Bay Area clinical data carried the day. Nektar got bad news from a Phase 3 breast cancer trial, but Pharmacyclics, about to become (a very expensive) part of AbbVie, kept rolling with lymphoma/leukemia data so good that reviewers voted to release it early. Vancouver was also abuzz, as Bill Gates spoke … Continue reading “West Coast Biotech Roundup: Juno, Nektar, Kite, Glooko & More”

Milestones of Innovation 4: The Letter That Led to the Atomic Bomb

Crisp statements of a case to a prepared, if skeptical, mind have often changed the history of innovation. Perhaps the most critical example of this in the 20th Century is the memorandum that reached Sir Henry Tizard, chief scientific advisor to Britain’s Air Ministry, 75 years ago today, on the 19th of March, 1940. This … Continue reading “Milestones of Innovation 4: The Letter That Led to the Atomic Bomb”

Pley Lands $143,500 New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d5fc7f92-f932-4744-b1e9-069e9ab6ccda Date 3/19/2015 Company Name Pley Mailing Address 1580 Oakland Rd. San Jose, CA 95131 USA Company Description Pley makes it possible for kids of all ages to rent LEGO sets, saving hundreds of dollars per year in toys that are enjoyed and then often neglected. Through creating a sharing economy that … Continue reading “Pley Lands $143,500 New Funding Round”

Quid Receives $39,000,000 Series D Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ba296b4c-cb01-461e-b222-127194887742 Date 3/19/2015 Company Name Quid Mailing Address 733 Front Street San Francisco, CA 94111 USA Company Description Quid software is used by decision-makers running companies, NGOs, banks, and funds. It captures data, structures it, andenables people to visualize and interact with the information,to understand the global technology landscape. Website http://www.quid.com Transaction … Continue reading “Quid Receives $39,000,000 Series D Funding Round”

Auxogyn Garners $34,324,111 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b8fcbb17-120e-4895-95c0-4ecc9057c890 Date 3/19/2015 Company Name Auxogyn Mailing Address 1490 O’Brien Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA Company Description Auxogyn – Advancing women’s reproductive health through novel scientific and clinical knowledge of early human developmental biology. Website http://www.auxogyn.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $34,324,111 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were … Continue reading “Auxogyn Garners $34,324,111 New Financing”

Eyegroove Lands $2,205,418 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0fc10ecb-87a4-4473-8d3f-65dd5bf7a324 Date 3/19/2015 Company Name Eyegroove Mailing Address 3945 Freedom Circle Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA Company Description Eyegroove is a small, close-knit, deeply experienced team looking for someone to fit in with our culture of equality, trust, mutual respect, and rabid confidence in the face of gigantic obstacles. Website http://www.eyegroove.com Transaction … Continue reading “Eyegroove Lands $2,205,418 New Round”

Collective Health Lands $38,000,000 Series B Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f9b96280-998f-4759-9b48-897505ca99f1 Date 3/19/2015 Company Name Collective Health Mailing Address 60 E 3rd Ave. San Mateo, CA 94401 USA Company Description Great minds working together to raise your expectations of what a health plan can do. Website http://www.collectivehealth.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $38,000,000 Transaction Round Series B Proceeds Purposes This investment … Continue reading “Collective Health Lands $38,000,000 Series B Round”

Joyable Obtains $2,100,000 Seed Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=14c58276-34a1-4688-bf49-c0f2bbc0c2aa Date 3/19/2015 Company Name Joyable Mailing Address P.O. Box 420057 San Francisco, CA 94142 USA Company Description Joyable provides evidence-based, affordable mental health services to the millions who can’t access them today. We believe everyone deserves great mental health. This means access to timely, effective, and affordable solutions. Our mission is … Continue reading “Joyable Obtains $2,100,000 Seed Financing Round”

BioPharmX Lands $1,750,000 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6d7f3701-b6ec-4939-b70a-e7ef860691d8 Date 3/19/2015 Company Name BioPharmX Mailing Address 1098 Hamilton Court Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA Company Description BioPharmX, Inc. provides innovative drug-delivery products through its unique, patented platform technologies for pharmaceutical and OTC applications. Website http://www.biopharmx.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $1,750,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not … Continue reading “BioPharmX Lands $1,750,000 New Financing”

Fundbox Garners $40,000,000 Series B Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=074e1543-2f19-4327-80f7-f665cf1cc931 Date 3/19/2015 Company Name Fundbox Mailing Address 785 Market St. San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description Our mission is to deliver business owners and freelancers the peace of mind they need to focus on their work instead of worrying about gaps in their cash flow. Our company’s headquarters is located … Continue reading “Fundbox Garners $40,000,000 Series B Financing Round”

SteadyMed Therapeutics Secures $39,950,000 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9682ea89-bafb-4121-8775-a5f75f272c00 Date 3/19/2015 Company Name SteadyMed Therapeutics Mailing Address 2410 Camino Ramon San Ramon, CA 94583 USA Company Description SteadyMed Therapeutics (NASDAQ: STDY) is a drug delivery therapeutics company. We are leaders in the development and commercialization of prefilled, size efficient and disposable patch pump technology. Website http://www.steadymed.com Transaction Type IPO Transaction … Continue reading “SteadyMed Therapeutics Secures $39,950,000 New Financing”

Ginkgo Bioworks Grabs $9M Series A For Building Organisms

Ginkgo Bioworks, a synthetic biology company that designs and builds organisms, has received $9 million in Series A funding and is opening an 18,000-square foot “foundry” to make its organism engineering scalable, the company said Wednesday. The company engineers microbes for customers to produce anything from probiotics to cultured ingredients, such as flavors, fragrances, cosmetics, … Continue reading “Ginkgo Bioworks Grabs $9M Series A For Building Organisms”

Meerkat and the Live Streaming Phenomenon at SXSW: A Tech Timestamp

[Updated, 2:59 p.m.] What better place than South by Southwest to encounter technology that distracts you from the world around you? At Capital Factory’s A-List pitch event on March 13, a young woman in the middle of the audience seemed engrossed—not in what the speaker was saying, but in what her phone was recording and the … Continue reading “Meerkat and the Live Streaming Phenomenon at SXSW: A Tech Timestamp”

With $43M, Nimbus Sheds “Discovery” Tag, Heads to First Clinical Test

It’s always a big moment when a biotech makes the turn from lab experiments to real clinical testing. A startup from Cambridge, MA, is celebrating that turn with a name change, a shift in strategy, and a $43 million round of financing from three pharmaceutical companies. That startup is Nimbus Discovery, formed to use computer … Continue reading “With $43M, Nimbus Sheds “Discovery” Tag, Heads to First Clinical Test”

Consumption Rules, E-mail Thrives, Enterprise Agreements are Dead

Microsoft opened its Office suite to play with other cloud services, Box debuted on Wall Street, and Google reinvented the inbox. Not even three months into 2015, and we’ve already had several interesting developments in the online collaboration software market. Here’s how these announcements fit into trends we’re seeing at Smartsheet. Consumption-Based Pricing Eats Per-User … Continue reading “Consumption Rules, E-mail Thrives, Enterprise Agreements are Dead”

As FAA OKs Commercial Drones, 3D Robotics Aims for Blue Sky Market

The largest U.S. maker of lightweight, multi-rotor drones and unmanned aerial systems is looking to substantially expand its commercial business—targeting companies that want to use drones to inspect railways, monitor construction sites, and for all sorts of other things. After raising $50 million late last month, 3D Robotics is at a watershed moment made possible … Continue reading “As FAA OKs Commercial Drones, 3D Robotics Aims for Blue Sky Market”

Conversa Health Obtains $2,500,000 Seed Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5521e301-589b-4e9c-b85d-0e31bf47ec76 Date 3/18/2015 Company Name Conversa Health Mailing Address 26 Wimbledon Way San Rafael, CA 94901 USA Company Description Conversa Health’s Digital Checkups automate clinical outreach, collecting Patient Generated Health Data (PGHD) that is analyzed, prioritized, and integrated into clinical workflow. Website http://www.conversahealth.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,500,000 Transaction Round … Continue reading “Conversa Health Obtains $2,500,000 Seed Round”

Audvisor Receives $1,400,000 Seed Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=16e41a1c-c16c-4c81-bad8-177ce1d2e5ae Date 3/18/2015 Company Name Audvisor Mailing Address 20045 Stevens Creek Blvd. Cupertino, CA 95014 USA Company Description Audvisor has teamed up with some of the world’s top Experts and thought leaders across dozens of fields to bring you some of the most valued and respected advice – in their own voices. … Continue reading “Audvisor Receives $1,400,000 Seed Financing”

Studypool Obtains $1,200,000 Seed Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=16a20b81-5194-4b2b-a4ee-39f85708a4cc Date 3/18/2015 Company Name Studypool Mailing Address 444 Castro St. Mountain View, CA 94041 USA Company Description Studypool is an online marketplace that connects students with questions with tutors that can help them. Basically, Studypool is like having thousands of friends who are expert tutors that can help you with any … Continue reading “Studypool Obtains $1,200,000 Seed Financing”

IdentityMind Global Garners New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e6f4388f-f81c-44a9-b847-438b421b4a05 Date 3/18/2015 Company Name IdentityMind Global Mailing Address 575 High St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 USA Company Description IdentityMind is an on-demand platform providing next generation risk management and anti-fraud services for the e-commerce ecosystem: Acquiring Banks, Payment Processors and Gateways, Payment Service Providers (PSP/ISO/MSP,IPSP), and Online Merchants. Website http://www.identitymindglobal.com Transaction … Continue reading “IdentityMind Global Garners New Funding Round”

Shuddle Secures $9,600,000 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=48e1a455-7a3a-400c-a53e-695f392f80f2 Date 3/18/2015 Company Name Shuddle Mailing Address 345 Henry Street Oakland, CA 94607 USA Company Description Shuddle, Inc. provides software for coordinating transportation services. We are building the most trusted community of drivers. Teachers, parents, and childcare specialists provide parents with peace of mind while their kids enjoy a fun, safe … Continue reading “Shuddle Secures $9,600,000 New Financing”

Altocloud Lands $2,000,000 Seed Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8650d400-c10f-4a86-9e2d-75cf0f36496a Date 3/18/2015 Company Name Altocloud Mailing Address 800 W El Camino Real Mountain View, CA 94040 USA Company Description Altocloud is a cloud platform that combines predictive analytics with voice, video, and chat interactions to identify the right website and mobile visitors and best moments for communications. Website http://www.altocloud.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “Altocloud Lands $2,000,000 Seed Financing Round”

Qeexo Receives $600,000 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=08935d86-90f9-4d97-ae51-bcf30194b5c5 Date 3/18/2015 Company Name Qeexo Mailing Address 3003 North 1st Street San Jose, CA 95134 USA Company Description We at Qeexo believe we’re entering a new age of touch interaction called Rich-Touch, where touch devices will embrace the richness of the human hand. Our goal is to build innovative solutions to … Continue reading “Qeexo Receives $600,000 New Funding”

Twin Prime Garners $9,500,000 Series A Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2c3e90f5-d981-49e2-965e-c2dc021d8573 Date 3/18/2015 Company Name Twin Prime Mailing Address 805 Veterans Blvd. Redwood City, CA 94104 USA Company Description Twin Prime is a venture backed startup based in Silicon Valley founded by a team of network engineers dedicated to delivering superior mobile experiences for its customers. Website http://www.twinprime.com Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “Twin Prime Garners $9,500,000 Series A Funding Round”

Tachyon Receives $7,500,000 Series A Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=936b8d1f-d81c-454a-8760-e2bb269170c6 Date 3/18/2015 Company Name Tachyon Mailing Address Undisclosed Berkeley, CA 94026 USA Company Description Our team consists of the creators and top committers of Tachyon from UC Berkeley AMPLab. For the past three years, we’ve been working to revolutionize the way data is stored, accessed, and managed by focusing on a … Continue reading “Tachyon Receives $7,500,000 Series A Funding Round”

Glooko Gets $16M Injection to Upgrade Digital Diabetes Product

Digital health firm Glooko has a new round of cash to expand its diabetes management product, but it’s not ready to say how much the product is actually helping diabetics. The Palo Alto, CA-based company has raised a $16.5 million Series B round, led by Canaan Partners. With the cash, Glooko will add more ways … Continue reading “Glooko Gets $16M Injection to Upgrade Digital Diabetes Product”

Business Analytics Firm Birst Brings In $65M Series F

Birst, a San Francisco-based business analytics company, has received $65 million from Wellington Management and existing investors including Sequoia Capital, Hummer Winblad, DAG Ventures, and Northgate Capital. Birst, which touts the speed of its cloud-based software, plans to use the funding to add new international customers in Asia, Europe, and North America, as well as to … Continue reading “Business Analytics Firm Birst Brings In $65M Series F”

In Mental Health Therapy, Cautious Steps Toward the Pharmacodigital

[Corrected 3/17/15, 7:55 pm. See below.] The phrase “better living through chemistry,” derived from an old DuPont corporate slogan, has accumulated all kinds of ironic and wink-wink connotations over the decades. But there’s a fascinating revival and upgrade underway. For people with debilitating mental health problems, many researchers, doctors, and businesspeople think the new phrase … Continue reading “In Mental Health Therapy, Cautious Steps Toward the Pharmacodigital”

Glooko Garners $16,500,000 New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c54c604f-f1d6-4195-946a-00c1c523f8df Date 3/17/2015 Company Name Glooko Mailing Address 420 Florence Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 USA Company Description Glooko is an innovative Silicon Valley startup with a unique solution for people with diabetes. Our products enable users with smartphones to easily collect and view the information needed to help them successfully control … Continue reading “Glooko Garners $16,500,000 New Funding Round”

Orbital Insight Obtains $8,700,000 Series A Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4f9e9df3-2bb0-40dc-b61c-21e3799c7a52 Date 3/17/2015 Company Name Orbital Insight Mailing Address Undisclosed Mountain View, CA 94035 USA Company Description Orbital Insight is a Geospatial Big Data company leveraging the rapidly growing availability of satellite, UAV, and other geospatial data sources, to understand and characterize socio-economic trends at global, regional, and hyper-local scales. Website http://www.orbitalinsight.com … Continue reading “Orbital Insight Obtains $8,700,000 Series A Round”

DoorDash Receives $35,000,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=210142c6-a840-47a3-98cc-4593b96d89e7 Date 3/17/2015 Company Name DoorDash Mailing Address 565 Stanford Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA Company Description DoorDash enables delivery in areas where it was not available. Our mission is to empower small business owners to offer delivery in an affordable and convenient way. We are achieving this mission first by … Continue reading “DoorDash Receives $35,000,000 New Financing Round”

Birst Receives $65,000,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f7066481-9057-45c2-b449-8044b4ed24d2 Date 3/17/2015 Company Name Birst Mailing Address 45 Fremont St. 18th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Birst brings the benefits of fact-based decision making to a much broader range of organizations by providing analysis and reporting solutions that are quick to deploy, easy to use, and affordable. Website … Continue reading “Birst Receives $65,000,000 New Financing Round”

Selectica Obtains $3,000,000 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e3079c5e-ab96-49ef-a7c7-a67e2a533e55 Date 3/17/2015 Company Name Selectica Mailing Address 2121 South El Camino Real 10th Floor San Mateo, CA 94403 USA Company Description Selectica helps growing companies sell complex deals with ease. Selectica solutions simplify complex processes and provide access to the information your team needs to get deals done efficiently. Selectica Guided … Continue reading “Selectica Obtains $3,000,000 New Financing”

Reltio Lands $10,000,000 Series A Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=44c40d8c-6b2b-4f6b-8875-dc63d94d14cf Date 3/17/2015 Company Name Reltio Mailing Address 2225 E. Bayshore Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA Company Description Reltio’s mission is to help both business and IT teams be right faster. Reltio Cloud delivers enterprise data-driven applications and modern data management, guiding customers to take the right actions, based on the … Continue reading “Reltio Lands $10,000,000 Series A Funding Round”

Admetsys Wins Top Prize at SXSW Hatch Pitch, Astroprint and Plum Follow

Part of the value pitching in a competition at South by Southwest is getting to speak to a room packed with potential investors and users. But winning, and the prizes that come with it, never hurts. At the Hatch pitch competition Monday, five companies came away victorious, including a few big winners. Here they are, as … Continue reading “Admetsys Wins Top Prize at SXSW Hatch Pitch, Astroprint and Plum Follow”

Cuff Flashes Smart Jewelry, BMW Gets Electric in a Night of Luxury Tech

A plug-in hybrid BMW sports coupe, gold-plated encrypted iPhones, and another player in smart jewelry vied for the attention of the well-to-do last week at The Luxury Technology Show, hosted by New York-based events company Rand Luxury. These gatherings bring out typically pricier examples of consumer technology, aimed at folks who might be interested in … Continue reading “Cuff Flashes Smart Jewelry, BMW Gets Electric in a Night of Luxury Tech”

Innovation Hub: Wadhwa’s Dystopian Future

Vivek Wadhwa is a big-picture guy. A guy whose vision of the future includes printing meat, banning humans from the road, and sidelining Wall Street. Wadhwa currently juggles appointments at Stanford, Duke, and Singularity Universities, and he says that massive technological advances will reroute our lives, a shift that may lead to massive dislocation, perhaps … Continue reading “Innovation Hub: Wadhwa’s Dystopian Future”

Eko Devices Obtains $2,000,000 New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3b7eb753-d7ca-49de-8645-5890bb853523 Date 3/16/2015 Company Name Eko Devices Mailing Address 2600 10th St. Berkeley, CA 94710 USA Company Description Detect Sound. Visualize Rhythm. Record and Playback. Computer-generated Diagnosis. Our product is an application that records, visualizes, and analyzes patient’s heart sounds combined with a stethoscope attachment that transmits the heartbeat from any acoustic … Continue reading “Eko Devices Obtains $2,000,000 New Funding Round”

Socratic Receives $5,999,996 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=52733371-4bea-43ec-9e43-839844b6eb4e Date 3/16/2015 Company Name Socratic Mailing Address 2505 Mariposa Street San Francisco, CA 94110 USA Company Description We’re a small start-up located in New York City. We care about making education accessible and believe in the power of great teaching. With your help, we believe we can create the world’s best … Continue reading “Socratic Receives $5,999,996 New Funding”

Pinterest Lands $367,099,927 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=60de3c7d-37c5-4e98-818b-ebecf6afe8f5 Date 3/16/2015 Company Name Pinterest Mailing Address 635 High St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 USA Company Description Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes. Website http://www.pinterest.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “Pinterest Lands $367,099,927 New Financing Round”

Asseta Secures $1,000,000 Seed Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3277632f-92a1-40a6-8e5a-f1bd09428a64 Date 3/16/2015 Company Name Asseta Mailing Address 370 7th St. San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description Asseta provides your company with 100% visibility and control of its capital equipment, allowing your company to ramp rapidly, improve flexibility and reduce costs! The Asseta Marketplace and our Persistent Search technology will ensure … Continue reading “Asseta Secures $1,000,000 Seed Financing”

TheFind Secures New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6a81cf23-210d-42e9-83fc-743beae7f1e5 Date 3/16/2015 Company Name TheFind Mailing Address 2301 Leghorn Street Mountain View, CA 94043 USA Company Description TheFind.com is a shopping search engine that is dedicated to delivering the most satisfying online search experience for you – the time-crunched, savvy shopper Website http://www.thefind.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round … Continue reading “TheFind Secures New Round”